Oh So Much To Tell....

I'm sorry that I have been so lax in keeping my blog up to date. There is one particular detail that I should have mentioned a long time ago, but I wanted to wait until I could send cards to those people who deserve that kind of notification. Since that is going to take longer than I had anticipated, I will go ahead and tell y'all now.

I AM FINALLY ENGAGED TO HELEN!!!!!!!!!

And I'm kinda' excited about it, too, if you hadn't noticed. Here are a couple of pictures of the occasion that you may enjoy...

She was very surprised, which was difficult because we've only been talking about getting married for the past year and a half. We plan to have the wedding either the same weekend as her graduation or the weekend after that. That's 1 year, 7 months and 14 or 21 days (depending on the date) from now. I was so glad that it was as special as I had hoped it would be. I was able to cook her favorite dinner for her, for her roommates and for my best friend and his sister, whom I had brought with me to help celebrate the occasion. It was quite amazing. I love that girl so very much. Anyhow, there is more to my life than this single event, though not much more ;-)

Work continues to be monotonous and boring, though I have applied to enroll in a university and I hope that my pursuit of a degree will help to break up the boredom and sense of uselessness.

My story continues to stagnate, though I have come up with an idea for another issue of my "World of Places." I'm not sure how well that is going to come along; my book is not all that has been stagnating. I have recently picked up several of the books I had been reading and am trying to develop the discipline to read them along with the Bible every day.

More later....