Rax E. Dillon ([personal profile] rax) wrote2007-09-22 09:55 pm

Rachel, Cassandra, & Coffee (note the Oxford comma!)

So Cassandra and I are sitting in the 1369 Coffeehouse on Mass Ave drinking coffee. The coffee is delicious (and mine is full of espresso, it's not actually coffee, it's some sort of froofy mocha latte soy yuppie-drip thing). Almost but not quite two years ago, we were sitting here at a different table and I was drinking some sort of iced yuppie thing while Cassandra was drinking chai. We had just gone on an absolutely terrible first date --- her hair stuck up like Yomiko Readman, the waitress playing with my hair, Cassandra off to the bathroom every five minutes, my lipstick coming off on the tea-cup... so when it was over, both of us being unwilling to give up on the evening, we went out for coffee.

I think we spent most of our two hours talking about Mongolia, which I now think of as "place Cassandra is most likely to get marmot plague." Honestly, we spent most of our time laughing, which is why we called each other up a few days later and decided to get coffee --- hold the dinner --- next time. But maybe after or before coffee we could catch a movie? And so it went (we eventually became capable of eating in each other's presence, which is a good thing because Cassandra is a brilliant cook). After a few months of this, we accidentally-on-purpose held hands and then finally admitted what might be going on here.

A few months ago, Cassandra and I moved in together, which has been nothing short of wonderful. (Well, assuming that assembling Cassandra's godforsaken 6'x6' square Ikea bookshelf is long of wonderful. The damn thing is, if nothing else, long. Too long for the car, too long for the stairs, &c.) This means that every Saturday morning that we don't have other plans, Cassandra and I are able to take the morning to ourselves. This morning was one of these; we talked about matters inconsequential and of earth-shaking import. In our bathrobes. Our _fuzzy_ bathrobes.

Anyway, one thing got to another, and I poked her in the nose. (Salacious, I know.) She said "Toaster!" I twisted her nose to see if changing the channel would get me anything different; her statement of "Ding!" was a little better but not perfect. Well, I guess I did poke her in the nose long enough to queue a few score Ding!s. But that's just because I was being difficult. After the last Ding! I twisted again and got a "Sploit!," which I think was supposed to be some sort of Mac Classic error noise or something. (Cassandra insists that I have the ordering of the Sploit and the Ding wrong. Wait, now she's corroborating. Muahaha!) Anyway, that was a little troubling, so I twisted her nose again, and then poked it, and then she said "Will you marry me?"

I fell down. Then I said yes.

[identity profile] calamarain.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats!

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] foleyartist1.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] shahnasa.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for sharing the moment so well. All proposals should happen this way (okay, not really, but still!)

Congrats!

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for reading it!

We had decided that Cassandra would be the one to propose (for various reasons) and I had expected a big fancy give-the-ring-on-bended-knee-in-front-of-a-hundred-people kinda thing, so this took me totally by surprise. I really liked it though, it felt right. Cassandra said that she just wanted to ask, and so she did, and I think that's way more fun than making it a huge obligation.

There will be enough formality later :)

[identity profile] rabidfangurl.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
*giggles* Fall down, say yes! I approve of this (not-so-)silliness.

[identity profile] iankeith.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
(breathe.)

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[identity profile] prisminawindow.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yay! That's fabulous! Congratulations!

(Also, I could totally hear you narrating this as I read it).

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
:) Thank you. "It will get its own couple of minutes in the Life Story Narration now"

[identity profile] kayunderscore.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! That's awesome!!!

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It is, thank you! :)

Can you email me your address?

[identity profile] q10.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
squee and mazel tov.

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Squindeed! :)
kiya: (marriage)

[personal profile] kiya 2007-09-23 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my. Hooray!

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Hooray!

Why are apples a marriage icon, out of curiosity?

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[identity profile] probabilistic.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
That's adorable :-)

Congrats!

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :)
weirdquark: Stack of books (whee!)

[personal profile] weirdquark 2007-09-23 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
That is an excellent proposal story. Yay.

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I _totally_ didn't see it coming. :)

[identity profile] maekern.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Mazel tov! When is your date?

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
We don't have a date yet; we don't even have engagement rings yet, though apparently mine is "being made." :) We're currently thinking spring or summer of 2009? You will hear more about this, I'm sure; my mother is already calling me up to start making plans.

[identity profile] rathdei.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
You two...

Are so cute. Best proposal EVER.

I will call you tomorrow, Rachel!

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[identity profile] silussa.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations. Lock down the channel. :)

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I think Cassandra handled that; I pushed her nose again recently and just got a glare :)

[identity profile] friode.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
That is such a cool way to propose. Congratulations!

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I really liked it :) Thank you!
sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)

[personal profile] sovay 2007-09-23 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! "oh dear, we have to pick a movie now" :)

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[identity profile] ebenezer.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations, again! Keep us posted on the developments...

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I will. Probably not all of them, but enough :) (possibly "many more than enough" for some people...) Thank you!

[identity profile] danaeris.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwwwwwwww! Congratulations, hon! I'm super duper happy for you!

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I am super duper happy, so we match! :)

[identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice one. Try to get more married than I did.

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a story _there_ for _sure_. :)

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[identity profile] androidqueen.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
HOLY SHITS HAPPY!!!

Also, I have that bookshelf, and Sam and I experienced similar difficulties.

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously, is it not the most annoying bookshelf in the universe? It took four of us two hours to assemble.

[identity profile] jessiehl.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats! :)

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :)

[identity profile] iankeith.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm calling hax on this. This is obviously shopped.

Congratulfuckinglations.

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! That actually makes me think that we should take pictures, hmmm...

[identity profile] perbac.livejournal.com 2007-09-23 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
keshwyn: Keshwyn with the darkness swirling around her (Default)

[personal profile] keshwyn 2007-09-23 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
EEEE! Yay! *makes the happy dance* So cute!

([livejournal.com profile] lilairen and [livejournal.com profile] autumnesquirrel told me this story was here at another wedding today, and that I should go look. They were right!)

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

And now I have your LiveJournal account! :)

[identity profile] badoingdoing.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Wheee!
Wonderful news!

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I certainly think so :) Thanks!

[identity profile] twitch124.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!

[identity profile] rax.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :)

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