Yipeee

i found my real ring (will show and explain later)

I am marrying my Mr Right

mum starting doing the motherly thing of helping me to organise wedding thoughts

plus

Erin's coming home soon

A good weekend

one of the highlights was volunteering to take donations for the tsunami appeal concert on sat night

Apart from the numerous requests to speak to someone famous

every call was great

it was extremely busy

and my hand felt like it would fall off (especially after already working previously in the day)

many of the callers were kids some aged as young as 7 donating their xmas money and/or pocket money

older adults who apologised for donating so little

many who were donating for a second time

and an aussie women calling from Thailand who made changes to her plans at the right time and fortunately wasn't one of phukets many victims

i left early and at 9.30pm only 3 hours after it started our call centre (one of about 6 participating) with only a couple of hundred volunteers has reached the million dollar mark

Eloping sounds good right about now

some of my 'friends' are being a tad too pessimistic for my liking

i know that part of it is because they care about me

but damn this is supposed to be a happy time for me

not me having to justify why i said yes

yes it was just a little over a year since I met Toby but when you know-you just do

and i have known for quite a while now

i also know that nothing lasts forever and nothing is guaranteed (hell my parents are divorced)

but i would still like to spent the rest of my life with him- or as long as possible

the important point though is this:

TRUST ME

that i know what I'm saying yes to, and that this is what i want

and that i couldn't be happier with him

Toby left late Sunday afternoon.

But not before asking me to marry him. I of course said 'YES' and the huge smile on his face told me that was the answer he wanted.

Above is my blue glass temporary engagement ring.

Yesterday