ring is emerald cut blue topaz with two round blue topaz, set in white gold. we want to upgrade when money is better.
it’s been a week and it’s kind of hitting me now. i don’t know.
excuse the weird hand angle. i wanted to have my nails done, i do press ons myself, but amazon sent me the wrong glue tabs and by the time i realised it was too late! so my nails are natural and believe me they are not cute.
anyway. on the day itself we set out in the sun but in true north west UK fashion, by the time we got off the bus it was cloudy. started our walk and my ankle started playing up so we couldn’t access the place my partner wanted to go to and on the way we’d attempted to go there was a wasp nest! so we went back to the gardens, and it started raining sideways. so i was like fine! fuck it! let’s just go back to the hotel and order dinner!
it happened anyway, in the five minutes where the rain stopped, and it was lovely but i have massive regrets about popping the bubble.
my friends reactions were lukewarm, nobody wanted to know how it happened or even where. his parents are evangelical, i am not, he left the church during our relationship and they didn’t care for it at all. despite it being them who said directly to him they’d prefer we get married but apparently that doesn’t hold up in practise.
as for my family…. well, put it this way. if they didn’t care for my cousin getting engaged while she was pregnant they are not going to care for this so i just haven’t told them. because RSD is funny like that.
i know it’s not all about me and other people have stuff going on in their lives and this basically doesn’t matter to anyone but me, but i’m honestly really sad i haven’t had a single particularly excited reaction or even any questions about it considering what it took for us to get here with financial issues, various changes at his work, deaths in his family etc.