As most of you know, my job is exceptionally boring, so to alleviate boredom I have various DVDs playing in the background. For awhile it was Gilmore Girls. Then it was NCIS. Once I ran out of those it became various films such as the Pirates trilogy, and often times it has been the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I have found LOTR to be a really wonderful film to have in the background, and today was a LOTR day.
When I watch films like LOTR or the Narnia films I am often overwhelmed by a melancholy feeling, or nostalgia, or even wonderment. J.R.R. Tolkein created a phenomenal world, one which it is easy to believe truly existed. It is easy to think that once upon a fairytale Elves were the dominant life force in the world, sided by dwarves and men and the occasional wizard. It is easy to believe in an ancient world based on valor and crowned in glory. A world where the Age of the Elves ends and the Age of Men begins, where there is a City of Kings, where Horse Lords rule the land, with legends and tales and honor and duty... I just can't find the words to explain what it does to me. When I watch The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe's final scene in Narnia where the four royals are crowned and they crown Peter "King Peter, the Magnificent"... Wow. Just... wow. Magnificent. Just. Gentle. Valiant. Words you rarely hear in today's society. True valor is lost. Justice is replaced by little black books and honor by little white lies. Magnificent ancient memories are made into museums or torn down for condos, people care little about the troubles of others. It's a different world we live in. And how sad for us.
How very, very sad.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
I knew it, I KNEW it!
Johnny proposed, just like I thought he would!! He read my last post where I postulated the possibility and proceeded to tell me that he only wanted to dress up because it was Sweetest Day.
So here's how it happened, but to explain I have to go back five years....
Johnny and I met in college, though neither of us remembers a handshake. He ended up taking a break from Muskingum for a short while to go to Kent State, which happened to be around the same time Facebook began to get popular. I joined FB at the request of my then-boyfriend, who was also friends with Johnny, who decided to add me as a friend even though we didn‘t really know each other.
He eventually came back to Muskingum and one day I was walking up the hill through the field across the street from my house just as Johnny was walking up Lakeside Drive to class and he called "Hello Emily Blood!" to me, and I called "Hey Johnny Cross!" back!
So, coming back to the present... We spent the morning getting ready for Muskingum's Homecoming, beginning with the parade. As I am a sorority alumna we met up with the other alumni in front of the president's house to watch.
Every homecoming also includes an alumni/actives sorority meeting, which originally I had intended to skip but as I got to talking to the other alumni I ended up feeling I should probably go. So I did, and Johnny went to the football game against John Carroll, which I joined him for at halftime once the meeting had finished.
I don't understand football, but it was fun just the same.
Afterwards we went right back to my house where my mother decided I needed to do my chores before leaving to go out for dinner. I still needed to shower and put my face on and Johnny needed to fix his hair and I ironed his new dress clothes… Because of this, we didn't leave for dinner until 7:30pm.
Originally we were going to go to a place called Muddy Miser's, but as JC was in dress pants, dress shirt, tie and sweater and I was in a cocktail dress we felt we were just a little overdressed. After driving around looking for somewhere to eat and making a couple illegal U-turns and yelling at each other a little we decided to go to Olive Garden.
Wine, pasta, chicken marsala, salad, breadsticks, and PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE. We both got a piece, and I brought mine home to finish later, and some older man who was sitting at a table down the way told us as he was leaving that it was our fault he had also ordered the Pumpkin Cheesecake. :) You’re welcome!
After all of this we drove back to New Concord for a stroll around the moonlit campus. It was unfortunate that wearing heels and only being two and a half weeks out of surgery had really annoyed my knees, but I brought a pair of casual shoes to wear for the walk. At first I thought he was going to lead me to the spoonholder (a gazebo-like structure that covers the drainage hole in the college's lake) and I was going to roll my eyes at just how cliché that would have been. But instead he kept walking until we were just past it and I began to think we really were just going on a stroll when suddenly he hung back. “What are you doing?” And suddenly he was on one knee, on a random place on the sidewalk, pulled out a box, and said "Emily Diane Blood, I love you. Will you marry me?" It took me a few minutes and his explanation for me to realize he proposed in the exact spot where he said hello to me all of those years ago!
Of course I said yes. :)
Johnny and I wanted a picture taken of us in all our glory (and to show off my new bling) so we went over to the house where some of our mutual college friends live to have them help us out. Three of the four girls weren't home and the other was in the shower so we had one of my newest sorority sisters take the picture while we waited for D to be clean. What really stinks is that I thought I looked pretty darn good last night, but every picture taken of me looks terrible! However, I will post one of those pictures anyway.
And there you have it! We have no idea when, where or how but we’re working on it. We’re both very, very happy and it’s a little hard to fathom (someone at church today referred to JC as my fiance and I did a small double take) but we’re positive that we were made and meant for each other and pray that God uses our relationship and our marriage for His glory.
So here's how it happened, but to explain I have to go back five years....
Johnny and I met in college, though neither of us remembers a handshake. He ended up taking a break from Muskingum for a short while to go to Kent State, which happened to be around the same time Facebook began to get popular. I joined FB at the request of my then-boyfriend, who was also friends with Johnny, who decided to add me as a friend even though we didn‘t really know each other.
He eventually came back to Muskingum and one day I was walking up the hill through the field across the street from my house just as Johnny was walking up Lakeside Drive to class and he called "Hello Emily Blood!" to me, and I called "Hey Johnny Cross!" back!
So, coming back to the present... We spent the morning getting ready for Muskingum's Homecoming, beginning with the parade. As I am a sorority alumna we met up with the other alumni in front of the president's house to watch.
Every homecoming also includes an alumni/actives sorority meeting, which originally I had intended to skip but as I got to talking to the other alumni I ended up feeling I should probably go. So I did, and Johnny went to the football game against John Carroll, which I joined him for at halftime once the meeting had finished.
I don't understand football, but it was fun just the same.
Afterwards we went right back to my house where my mother decided I needed to do my chores before leaving to go out for dinner. I still needed to shower and put my face on and Johnny needed to fix his hair and I ironed his new dress clothes… Because of this, we didn't leave for dinner until 7:30pm.
Originally we were going to go to a place called Muddy Miser's, but as JC was in dress pants, dress shirt, tie and sweater and I was in a cocktail dress we felt we were just a little overdressed. After driving around looking for somewhere to eat and making a couple illegal U-turns and yelling at each other a little we decided to go to Olive Garden.
Wine, pasta, chicken marsala, salad, breadsticks, and PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE. We both got a piece, and I brought mine home to finish later, and some older man who was sitting at a table down the way told us as he was leaving that it was our fault he had also ordered the Pumpkin Cheesecake. :) You’re welcome!
After all of this we drove back to New Concord for a stroll around the moonlit campus. It was unfortunate that wearing heels and only being two and a half weeks out of surgery had really annoyed my knees, but I brought a pair of casual shoes to wear for the walk. At first I thought he was going to lead me to the spoonholder (a gazebo-like structure that covers the drainage hole in the college's lake) and I was going to roll my eyes at just how cliché that would have been. But instead he kept walking until we were just past it and I began to think we really were just going on a stroll when suddenly he hung back. “What are you doing?” And suddenly he was on one knee, on a random place on the sidewalk, pulled out a box, and said "Emily Diane Blood, I love you. Will you marry me?" It took me a few minutes and his explanation for me to realize he proposed in the exact spot where he said hello to me all of those years ago!
Of course I said yes. :)
Johnny and I wanted a picture taken of us in all our glory (and to show off my new bling) so we went over to the house where some of our mutual college friends live to have them help us out. Three of the four girls weren't home and the other was in the shower so we had one of my newest sorority sisters take the picture while we waited for D to be clean. What really stinks is that I thought I looked pretty darn good last night, but every picture taken of me looks terrible! However, I will post one of those pictures anyway.
And there you have it! We have no idea when, where or how but we’re working on it. We’re both very, very happy and it’s a little hard to fathom (someone at church today referred to JC as my fiance and I did a small double take) but we’re positive that we were made and meant for each other and pray that God uses our relationship and our marriage for His glory.
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