News...

I have some important news and some personal thoughts which I can finally reveal on my blog. I few weeks ago my boyfriend Ryan asked me to marry him in about three years time when I finish university. I said yes so now we are engaged. I know that engagements are usually for much shorter time periods and I am aware of some of the perceptions that people have regarding long engagements but given our personal circumstances then this arrangement works. I am still a student and I would like to finish my degree before getting married so I am not in a financial position to proceed in the very near future. I think that relationships are very personal in nature and that there do not have to be any rules regarding time periods or methods of conduct so we have set a tentative year in which we would like to get married but with fllexibility to extend it if necessary. We are very serious about this so I know we have made the right decision and the long engagement is a symbol of being committed.

Here is my PERFECT ring. It is everything I wanted and far beyond what I ever imagined. Its so sparkly.

I was very surprised and I never expected to be engaged for a very very long time but I am happy. I feel like this whole experience has made me grow up and think more to the future. I was so used to the lifestyle of being a student that I never really thought much about life beyond studies and fully moving into the adult world to be self sufficient. I feel like I have more direction and hopes and goals for the future now and it has challenged my perceptions and made me think beyond my current lifestyle. In many ways it makes me excited.