Well now I've done it...
I had planned on taking my sweetheart to a fancy restaurant and the whole bit, but life has a funny way of changing your plans for you. Such was the case last night when her 2 year old daughter, came down with a 103 degree fever. We scrapped all plans for the evening so that I could watch her son while she took the little one to the doctor. The kids' health is certainly more important than any dinner plans I might have made so . She finally returned home with her daughter at around 9. She had dropped off a prescription at Walgreens and came home to get the kids in bed and finally get some dinner. I left about an hour after she got back to go pick up the medicine and some food. Not the fancy dinner out that I had planned on, but Sonic.. burgers, onion rings, and sodas. Only I realized after I was almost there that I had left my wallet at her house so I had to turn around and go back to get my wallet. I finally got back to her house with food and medicine at about 11pm..

After we had mostly finished eating (while we were sitting at our computers, of course), I went over and knelt down by her chair and said
"I got this ring for you" and presented to her a nice shiny golden.... onion ring. She looked at me funny, knowing full well what I was actually doing and just shook her head and said...."noooooo"

I said "no? Well I suppose this one will have to do" and I pulled out the fuzzy red box and opened it up to reveal the ring that I really wanted to give her.

She said "What's this for?" knowing, of course, exactly what it was for.

I did it. I asked her to marry me.

She said yes :)