boofhome: 2008 ending

After getting back from Colorado and settling into a real work schedule I realized something. I still had roomates! yuck. I knew if i was going to get a woman to settle down with me that the buddies who eat random foods and leave dishes everywhere or who had terrible bathroom habbits had to go. I spent 45 days working 13 hour night shifts ( 5:30 - 6:30) doing refueling. It was an experience i will never forget. Nuclear power is: amazing, scary, brilliant, crazy, and an accomplishment for mankind all at the same time. Seeing the reactor internals, removing fuel from the vessel, and putting new fuel assemblies into a pool full of old fuel sums up very very very briefly what i did for a month and a half.

I had saved every penny of my refuel work and bought a ring and got enough for a downpayment on my own house. I started looking for a rustic abode and found one. A nice cabin style home with some acreage. After the home was acquired i took some money over to annie's dad's house and paid.... i mean i asked desi and mark if i could marry their daughter. Surprisingly they said yes!

random camping fire

mah new crib

I proposed to annie on a trip home in December. I had bought the ring before I had her parents consent (brave or stupid?) and had been hiding it in one of my drawers containing two things i knew she would never touch: my pistol and some socks. I hid it in not one but two stained ugly socks.

When the trip came around i had an even harder task of keeping it secret on a fourteen hour drive with an overnight stop in dallas along the way. At one point i even stowed it in her bag! It rode under the driver's seat most of the time, she wondered why i refused to let her drive... that was why.

Contentment

Pictures with the fam. keep in mind this is just one aunt's children/grandchildren. Our family gatherings used to get rediculous on my mother's side of the family.

She said yes!!! On the beach, cold, wet, and raining. how romantic?