odd little bean

i feel the need to address the growing cloud of excitement over the fact that i am getting engaged in greece.

here you go: i am NOT getting engaged in greece.

nicholas and i perfectly happy to live out the rest of our lives in sin.
“hmmph,” you might be thinking to yourselves, “you’re in for a surprise when you get to greece and there’s a card catalog and a pie safe waiting for you at baggage claim” (see footnote 1).
wrong. little do you know, that engagement season actually closed out last night.
it closed out, and it won’t be open again until january 15th.

when people at work started bombarding me with engagement excitement (leave it to midwesterners to get excited about crap like settling down), i told nicholas all about it over iChat and he told me i should fill them in on engagement season. engagement season is the season when getting engaged is a distinct possibility. i suppose the season varies from couple to couple, but for nick and i it starts on september 1st (see footnote 2) and flows through january 15th. the explanation i was given from my lovely boy is as follows:
nick’s birthday is in september, as is labor day, back to school specials, and baby safety month.
october brings with it foliage and halloween, and even if it didn’t, i celebrate my birthday from oct 1 - nov 1, so that’s an auto-out.
november is my birthday, thanksgiving, and black friday.
don’t get nick started on december..it’s christmas, festivus, kwanzaa, haunnukah, and all sorts of family drama.
early january is all of the college bowl games and new year’s day.
by january 15th most of the holiday craziness dies down, and engagement season skulks in slowly as january fades away. february 1st is certainly fair game (despite the super bowl), but apparently ground hogs’ day is the best day of the year to get engaged for us since we call each other “twin” and there are all kinds of 2s in that holiday. nicholas hinted to me that i should wear something fancy on 2/2/2022.

every day i’m thankful i have such a special life partner. i have no idea how i coped with schedules and calendars before he came along. it’s a wonder i even managed to remember when to put my white pants away for the season.

godjesuschrist, of COURSE i don’t own white pants, and you’re gross for even thinking for a second that i did.

how are we friends?

seriously.

lucky for you though, friend season runs until easter this year.

footnote 1: i lose rings. if the day ever comes when i’m domestic enough to want to get married, i don’t want a ring. i made it explicitly clear to nick that instead of a ring i would like 2 large objects that are impossible to lose:
1. a pie safe
2. a card catalog, preferably homemade or from a fancy library like the one with chutes and ladders that lavaar burton went to in that epic episode of reading rainbow.
footnote 2: although engagement season was set to begin on september 1st, apple’s decision to release snow leopard on august 28th meant that engagement season had to end early this year…on august 27th. god knows we wouldn’t want our personal life to take any attention away from steve jobs.