Later next month comes the aniversary of me asking the most important woman in my life to marry me, so its been on my mind more and more. She and I came into the army at about the same time, and went to AIT (the school after Basic) together, and then after that we were stationed to the same post. Last January, we were both scheduled to come out of field training with our units on the same day. My field training was mostly me just sitting in my cot, so I started thinking about her more and more, and then decided to ask her to marry me. So the day I get off, the first thing I do after taking a shower is go to the PX and find a ring. Next I call her, but she says she's going to sleep because she'd been working constantly all week. So we say our goodnights and go to sleep. The next day she's still tired, so we just order chinese and watch movies in her room all day. And I'm just sitting there for hours, trying to decide on the best time and way to ask. Eventually she starts telling me its time for me to leave, and I briefly think of putting it all off until tomorrow, but I figure I'll just use that as an excuse to postpone indefinatly. So I turn to her and tell her that before I go I have something important and serious to ask her, so she puts on her serious face and tells me to go ahead. At this point we're both sitting on her bed, so I pause a moment to curse at myself because the way we're situated prevents me from taking a knee and that seems important, and then I just lean over and ask her to marry me.
Now, let me tell you ladies out there, durring these kinds of things it is very, very, very important that you don't laugh. Cry, scream, or even stay silent, anything but laugh. Its too ambiguous.
So she laughs for a little bit and then puts on her serious face again. She trys on the ring and through pure luck it fits, I'd been guessing on the size. So then we talk for another hour and I leave, without any commitment from her. A few months after that my unit deployed to S Korea, and she's still very noncommital about it. I've barely spoken to her in the last three months, because her unit went crazy about training, and then about a month ago went to Kuwait. They should be back tomorrow, so I'm really excited and can't stop thinking about her. My unit doesn't go back to the States until may, so I won't see her until then, but just emailing her and talking to her on the phone again will be wonderful.
Andway, I wanted to hear what people thought about the way I proposed, I know its no fancy dinner and fireworks show like the movies tell us are expected, but I think she thought it was touching.
