An Indecent Proposal: She said "Yes"

In case you didn't hear the news by now already, Katie said yes.

I'm obviously pretty chuffed at the moment, as I effectively asked her to put up with me for the rest of her life, and by some miracle it was not an entirely unappealing proposition to her. It validates that I absolutely made the right choice in asking her in the first place.


Many of you have been quite surprised by my chosen method; I knew going in that it was a risky approach to the situation, but I think that's the whole point, isn't it? I mean, what is the purpose of the internet if not to communicate on a global scale? Mountain tops are both dangerous and pointlessly exhausting, and getting down on one knee is just so normal.

Who is normal, anyway? We all pretend we are, but in the end we're all just as messed-up, damaged and insecure as each other. The concept of "normal" is just like the myth of the "standard drink". Everyone knows that a drink doesn't get any more standard than a beer in Australia, and yet a beer is supposedly worth 1.3 of a standard drink.

The minutes between publishing the post at 2031 and receiving a call from her at 2045 felt like hours; I was trying to remain calm and aloof, however my palms were sweating and my nerves twitching on the pure adrenaline that was coursing through my veins. I must have hit Refresh on my browser a hundred times. After the confirmation, I was mostly still in shock for the rest of the night... until she surprised me by turning up on my doorstep at 2230. It made it all real.

A few of you might be thinking that it is a relatively early proposal, too. We've only been publicly dating a few months, and it might seem like I'm rushing into things. Well, I can be a spontaneous guy from time to time, however this was a well thought out decision. I could tell you about all of the variables that I had weighed up to come to my decision, but at the end of the day it really all boils down to that old adage, "When you know, you know." As for why I did it so early in the relationship? Hell, I just couldn't wait to tell her. The last 10 or so years of my life I've just "gone with the flow" so to speak, and let everything happen around me. While I enjoyed not really thinking too seriously about the future, I wasn't setting myself up for success.

I now realise that the only way I'm going to get what I want out of life is by reaching out and taking it, this was just the first step in a series of events that will get me to where I want to be.

So, sorry for all of the sappy Tony Robbins-y style content over the last 24 hours, it'll return to normal soon I promise. However, in the meantime.

I love you, Katie.