> I have this posted up on Facebook because I was tired of retyping it, so I thought why not share it here too? For anyone interested, here are the "details", so to speak. > > > > Being the smooth and suave gentleman that I am, I snuck into Sarah's apartment in the wee hours of the morning. When she discovered me making omelettes for breakfast, she was fairly taken aback for a couple of reasons. > > 1. It was my birthday, so why was I making breakfast? > > 2. I never go over to her place on a workday for breakfast. > > So once Sarah was finished getting ready for work, I told her that I was not over just for breakfast, I was there for my birthday present as well. > > (Now, to put this in perspective, I already knew what Sarah had gotten me. Since I'm the one who picks up the mail (we share a post office box), I had picked it up from the post office two weeks earlier. I had been bugging her since I knew what it was (Heroes Season 1 on DVD) that I should get it early, but she wouldn't bite.) > > Anyway, I said I was over for my birthday present, and she immediately began to protest that I could not have it yet. So while she was off-guard and in mid-tirade (okay, tirade is a bit strong) I galantly dropped to one knee and asked her to marry me. > > Really I could have said that I'd shot a hippo on the way over and had it stuffed in the deep freeze and she would have said "Yes" since Sarah admits she has no idea what I said, but she got the idea. > > I led her on for a couple of weeks now that she would have to wait until November for me to propose. I admit I made a couple of verbal slips beforehand that Sarah said make a lot more sense now (she accepted my excuse that I simply misspoke at the time), but I think the combination of 2 weeks early with first thing in the morning on my birthday threw her for enough of a loop that I caught her completely by surprise. > > So that's the story. Quite the birthday present eh? > > > > ~Hat~

...so see that the flames of romance burneth so brightly within thee.

Congratulations Jay. You put in the effort and now you have the best birthday present you could have wished for...only problem is how can you top this next year? (The correct answer is that you'll have had the love of your life by your side with you for 12 months. Bonus points if she gets you Heroes season II as well.)