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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Now, I don't usually blog about my personal life...

But this bears announcement:

So my girlfriend Amanda asked a few months ago that I paint for her something similar to the paintings that I've done that hang in my condo. For her painting, I chose a picture of a bridge that I had taken last May when I traveled with her family to Bellville, Ohio. (The place where her parents grew up.)

Now, we've been dating for quite a while now, so I thought that I would use this opportunity to include a hidden message that I've been meaning to ask now for a few months. I hid the message in the painting using a yellow highlighter. It's invisible to look at, but when exposed to a black light, the message glows like this:

So several Fridays ago we had planned a weekend getaway to visit friends outside of Atlanta. Amanda took a half day off from work that day to get ready, I left work early to set the stage. I had to get her out of her house somehow, so I called her and asked her to go run an errand for me, which she happily obliged. I went into her house, put the painting on her mantle. I replaced the lamps in the sconces that are on either side of the mantle with black light bulbs.

She came home surprised to see me there, but amazed to see her new painting on the wall. I told her that there was more to it than just the painting. We turned on the light, and we started to decipher the message:

Because of the light in the room, I had to reveal the message one word at a time. (It's more dramatic that way.) We started reading it... she stopped me when we got through "Amanda, will you..." and said, "WILL I WHAT?!?!." (Needless to say, she was surprised.) I told her we should just keep reading...

We got to the end of the message, I got down on my knees and repeated the question. She said yes!

24 Comments:

Linda said...: What great news! Congratulations and best wishes and all that stuff!; April 18, 2007 10:01 AM
Short and Fat said...: Well, I'm not showing Mrs. Fat this, it's much too clever.

Congratulations.; April 18, 2007 10:26 AM
Lynnster said...: How awesome! Congratulations!; April 18, 2007 10:34 AM
jag said...: That is one of the baddest ass ways to propose that I've ever heard of. Best wishes!; April 18, 2007 10:36 AM
Chris Wage said...: Congrats!; April 18, 2007 10:36 AM
Kevin Barbieux said...: Good for ya!; April 18, 2007 10:37 AM
lcreekmo said...: Tim,
You are one of the coolest people I know. Amanda is insanely lucky and I'm sure she knows it.

CONGRATULATIONS!!; April 18, 2007 10:58 AM
Busy Mom said...: Woo hoo!!!!!!! Best wishes to you both!; April 18, 2007 11:00 AM
Lesley said...: You are the coolest m-f'er in the whole damn town. Congratulations and best wishes!; April 18, 2007 11:03 AM
Blake said...: Holy cow! That's friggin awesome! Congratulations!; April 18, 2007 11:05 AM
Kerry Woo said...: Creative genius - so awesome! Congrats!; April 18, 2007 11:18 AM
Tman said...: Very well done sir! Congratulations to you both.

Note to self: Keep girlfriend away from Tim's blog.; April 18, 2007 11:39 AM
Anonymous said...: How awesome! Congratulations!

There should be Chinese buffet to celebrate!

MMMikey and Mrs. Mixmaster.; April 18, 2007 11:55 AM
Ginger said...: Congratulations!; April 18, 2007 12:20 PM
Ginger said...: Congratulations!; April 18, 2007 12:20 PM
weavermom said...: Congratulations! Not that we would expect any less from you - but great story! (It must be if not one person has asked about the ring yet. :) he he)

I love the other comments about keeping girlfriend's away, etc...

- Michael's sister; April 18, 2007 12:46 PM
ceeelcee said...: Whenever people ever start to tell their proposal stories, you have to go last!

Good on ya'.; April 18, 2007 1:12 PM
BBLogan said...: YOU are SO COOL.

1. Didn't realize you painted so incredibly. I'll think twice about posting about my painting spurts in the future. heh. You're amazingly talented.

2. I knew you were cool... but now I know you're cool... like super hero cool.

CONGRATULATIONS.

Marriage rocks.
You're gonna love it.; April 18, 2007 2:50 PM
olay said...: Fantastic! That is the most original marriage proposal ever, ever, ever. A ring in some pudding just won't cut it any more. Congratulations.; April 18, 2007 7:22 PM
Dianne Greene said...: Congratulations!!!! I'm sure your dad will be pleased.; April 19, 2007 9:04 AM
Joey said...: Awesome news Tim! Congratulations to you both!; April 19, 2007 4:41 PM
mapgirl said...: That's so wonderful! Congratulations! So happy for you and Amanda!!

m.; April 19, 2007 8:24 PM
Grace the Heart Breaker said...: wow.. what a lucky girl! Congrats!!!!; April 20, 2007 12:49 AM
Phoebe said...: You write very well.; October 28, 2008 5:31 PM