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Grlsbestfrnd

Grlsbestfrnd

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The list doesn't seem to really be moving aside from list cleanings. Does anyone have any updates they'd like to share?

It can be anything not just engagement updates!

I have a small one that's still exciting for me. My BF and I went and looked at rings today! I pretty much knew what I wanted but I just needed to be absolutely sure before I gave him all the info and left it in his hands. I wanted to be sure about my color sensitivity and now I'm very confident in my preferences. I still have no idea when he will propose let alone buy a ring but now I know he has all The info he could need and I'm just excited to be surprised. Even though it doesn't really put me any closer to a proposal it was just a really fun experience. He even seemed to enjoy it :bigsmile:.
 
Nothing terribly new here. SO and I are still in grad school and broke (though since I'm graduating with my Master's this December I technically become a PhD candidate starting in the spring and begin teaching my own undergraduate class so that gives me a wee raise). So, no closer to rings or ceremonies. Although I think I have finally decided on what I want for when we do shop-- just the petite lace band from Michael B, no center stone. Though I may still want a RHR with an oval or AVC someday, I'm just not sure about wearing a rock right now, PLUS if we don't have to diamond shop that will cut our budget in half (though the ring itself is still costly), which is good since we'll be paying for everything ourselves.

In other news, SO and I have been going to couple's counseling for a couple of months now. We'd begun fighting just about every day over all sorts of things, big and small, but our communication skills just went down the drain so even the little fights became huge ones. We got to a pretty rough place and decided to start counseling. It's helped a lot and things are MUCH better, though we still fight every few days. Those fights tend to stay small, though, and we're still working on getting better at communication. We're getting there.
 
Well I had been hoping for a holiday proposal, but I think it probably won't happen until February or March of next year. Really that is perfectly fine with me because we don't plan on getting married until June 2012 anyways. BF had promised to take me ring shopping but we haven't been able to go yet because I have been so busy with school. A new jewelry store opened up near us and so I really want to go soon. We are thinking of going the weekend after Thanksgiving, but I'm worried with how busy it may be. Right now, I really just want to go and check out my size and color preferences as I know I want a simple solitaire setting. This new store has been advertising that they have great prices and that all their diamonds are GIA certified which means I can easily use the HCA to help weed through the diamonds. Who knows how *great* their prices actually are though. But I may find a really great setting there too, so it's always nice to go and look.

In other news, I have finished most of my assignments for this semester. I have a 10 minute presentation to do this Thursday that I'm pretty nervous about because I hate public speaking. But, hopefully it goes by fast. I was placed at the school that I really wanted to have for next semester when I'm student teaching! :) I will be with a 3rd grade class for the first half and Kindergarten for the second half of the semester. I am so excited to start!

We have been looking at houses that we may want to purchase once I graduate, but I think we are going to hold off for a little while and just get an apartment. For what all we want in a house, we simply can't afford it and where we live will depend partly on where I get a teaching job next year anyways.
 
Nothing new here. SO and I have been living together again since late July and things on that front have been great, but no progress towards an engagement. I thought I was doing ok with it, but now that the commercials are starting up with diamond ads every other second, I'm starting to get sad. SO never brings it up, and I feel like I"m over analyzing and second guessing his intentions.
 
soooooo BF is pretty sensitive to my emotions and was getting worried that something was wrong and I wasn't telling him what it was so I had to confess it was waiting for a proposal that was stressing me out since I thought it would come right away after we moved into our new place.

He appoligied for making me wait and said he would have done it right away if he knew I was going to feel that bad about waiting. But now he has a plan and he said it's a good plan and he would like to stick to it. I asked him if it will be this year and he said yes.

So I'm feeling a lot better about it now ::)
 
The only update I have is 1 month until we get on a plane!

Oh and, this is more just a cute thing I have noticed, my SO is the one who turns on the wedding shows! Its not me who puts them on, and often I am doing something else and notice there is one on the TV and he is just sitting there happily watching (though I am the one who did it first, then he got into them too lol) :) Its usually Four Weddings, which is good to watch for the funny narrator too, so it might just be he finds it funny.

Oh and last night we went out to dinner to our favourite resurant, and he went off to pay the bill and came back and said "They have a slide show of that wedding that they had here, they changed that room around in there, and they had it all set up out here for the ceremony, etc"

And he talks about getting a large screen TV next year, and where its going to sit and we can get it mounted to the wall and jokes about getting a fireplace screen saver for it, or taking a photo of one of my wall hangings and putting it as a background.

So yeah thats about it for me :)
 
Haven't written on the LIW thread in quite some time, but I nonetheless check in daily.
A couple updates:
France plans "fell through," not quite fell, but rather, I need the semester in the US for various scholastic reasons.
Found my absolute dream diamond and setting and emailed them to my wonderful beau who replied, "Its a really exceptional stone, beautiful. I like it too. And that's the setting you'd want?" :D
However, just the other day the stone was put on hold. My heart completely dropped, as I highly doubted it was him. I asked him about it and he said he didn't, but that there will be other stones -- he's right, but as a Crafted by Infinity, it wasn't exactly run-of-the-mill. I badgered him about it a couple times, he said that if he had put it on hold, he wouldn't tell me, but after realizing that that answer would just drive me crazy, he admitted that no, he did not put it on hold.

Silly materialism aside, we'll hopefully be celebrating the holidays together, as well as 2 years in January.

Us aside, his bandmate (a couple years younger than bf) has been with his gf for over 3 years now. Yesterday she sent him a text talking about a coupon to Jared's. Needless to say, I wanted to send her over to LIW/PS, but then she'd know he showed the text to the band.

Hope everyone is doing well!!

ETA: I stopped calling my ring a "promise" ring, even though it nonetheless represents a promise, but now rather, a "passage" ring. This happened after the women in my office took it to mean the OTHER type of promise and now think that my bf gave it to me. Oddly enough, once I changed the name of it (to myself) I no longer wanted to wear it.
Some pictures: https://www.pricescope.com/forum/show-me-the-ring/under-1ct-diamonds-t25028-1320.html
 
No, New updates here, i thought maybe it was gonna happen soon, due to a ring sizer being in the house, and him giving it to me to try on, but i dont know if it really is going to happen during the holiday time, since C will be working and money, but im holding out hope. Other than that, just a month left for school and im busy with my final projects.
 
DUST to everyone! Some of these updates sound pretty promising :appl:

This past weekend at a party 2 girls my SO works with asked me if I wanted to step outside and have a girl talk. They proceeded to tell me how SO is always talking highly about me and that last week he even showed some people a picture of a diamond on his blackberry and said that it's a certain type of diamond that I like (I LOVE old cuts).

Also this weekend I was at a Birthday gathering with SO and his extended family. His uncle was impressed with everything we have going on, he was like "so you got the house, you both have nice cars, you're going on a tropical vacation ... what's next?" and he kept repeating whats next :errrr: ! So I just said "I don't know". At a later point in the evening a friend of his aunts asked how long we have been dating since she heard the news of our house purchase, when I said just over 5 years, she was like :shock: what is this boy waiting for! When we got home I told SO about the comments and he just said that when people see the ring he plans on giving me they'll understand why it took so long.

I'm not sure if he's started the purchase or not at this point. I was originally hoping for a holiday proposal, but now I'm not to sure anymore, it's about a 50/50 chance that it will happen. Ideally I would love a proposal while we're in Mexico this January, but I don't think I'll hold my breath.
 
I wish I could say there were new updates, but sadly NOTHING.


Just the fact that I am getting even more impatient. When we first started looking at rings, he said he wanted to fly to NYC , that way we could maybe find a better deal. We thought about going after Christmas but nothing as been brought up about it in probably 3 months. He makes comments like "I just haven't had the time to fly up there". Something makes me wonder if he will just go alone for the day. Friends of ours have asked us to go back to Las Vegas in February , J says it is probably best if we don't go. He always says " I believe somebody would rather have a ring". He made the comment the other day that if we did go, I wouldn't get a ring until after the trip . Wonder what that means? I have sent him all the pictures of the ones I love and I am pretty sure he knows exactly what I want. Luckily , the boy has pretty good taste and loves the rings I have picked out. I honestly have NO idea when he will propose. He did say he refuses to ask me on Christmas! I just hope it is before valentines day.
 
Good news and bad. We got an awesome rental house together, much bigger and nicer than we thought we could find in our price range, and we move in December 1st! That's the good news. The place is amazing; beautiful Victorian woodwork and bay windows, a Food Network-worthy kitchen, and more bedrooms than we know what to do with. It was hotly contested, and I still can't believe we were the ones to get it. Can't wait to move in, and finally live together.

The bad news is we're spending so much on move-in costs that the boyfriend informed me last night there will be no purchasing a setting until January at the earliest. I can't really complain, as we are moving in together and he is covering the entire deposit and first month's rent because I have to pay ridiculous fees for breaking my lease (long story, suffice it to say my complex is NOT accomodating). So he's covering the lion's share of the move-in costs, and we're taking this wonderful step together, and I can't very well harrass him now to buy me a ring, can I? But I have to admit I really thought it would be before Christmas this year. I can't help being a little disappointed with that.
 
BS: Your house sounds beautiful! You are going to be so busy moving everything in and the holidays to really think about an engagement hun! He'll probably propose in the spring time, after you guys are all settled and moved in and he's saved the amount you need for your setting (or you could put it in a plain setting for now, for like 200.00 and reset it later :naughty:

The first one I'm linking the seller had a 2nd one that was more vintage (instead of sleek, it had milgrain) that was the same price, same style, scott kay.
http://www.diamondbistro.com/category/196/Rings/listings/17701/LAST-WEEK!-Scott-Kay-Palladium-Mount-Round-Sides.html

http://www.diamondbistro.com/category/196/Rings/listings/17400/New-heavy-knife-edge-Classic-Tiffany-repro.html

Just an idea! :praise:
 
RR- Both of those are very pretty! Let the enabling begin!! :naughty:
 
congrats on updates, ladies! there's some fun times coming up, to be sure!

been lurking a bit since my reunion (very good advice and engagement only came up a few thousand times thankfully SO wasn't there...- sigh...).
we've been talking quite a bit about the future, and what we want to do, and we're both on the same page. BF has been very stressed out at work, and i've been keeping mum on the issue of marriage (uh, for about 5 months now), and he volunteered "we will be talking a lot about the future over the holidays" um, OK! but he's been so focused on work stress, that i've just been listening and cooking, listening and cooking. (ps? works like a charm...just FYI....)

i have a lot to distract me because this weekend is my birthday and we're going away on a really romantic little getaway. also, coming up fast is thanksgiving (my favorite holiday) and then christmas. we vowed to spend it together ALONE this year, and have our own little xmas eve, and then he INVITED MY PARENTS to his condo for christmas day (???). they will be staying a couple of days, and then going to my condo for a day or so. he also invited my nutty uncle for xmas dinner, which we are cooking together. i'm simply trying to distract myself because we've never had a conversation about rings. or proposing, or....really the whole idea of getting engaged... ever. all he knows is that i'm VERY picky about jewelry. we do talk about our future together, where we want to live, how we want to retire, what our values are with regard to religion and kids and money and taking care of aging family...all the stuff that really drives a wedge between couples. we've even talked about where we want to be married, but never have we talked about getting engaged.

so, it's hard to think a proposal is coming up soon. i think we will just end up having a great time over the holidays. his b-day is at the end of january, and then our 2 year anniv. is the end of february. so, i'm really not sure what to think, so i try not to think. i'm aiming to put the whole deal out of my head and enjoy the happy times ahead.
 
Thanks redrose! I ran the idea of using a placeholder setting for now by him and he was NOT having it. I don't get it. I'm the girl here (and by far the more romantic of the two of us) and I'm fine with a placeholder ring or no ring at all for now (or ever, if it came to that!). But he won't have it. He's all about getting the perfect ring, "surprising" me, never needing an upgrade, etc. I'd be thrilled if we just got engaged one morning by mutual agreement while brushing our teeth, but he's dead-set on some grand romantic gesture, so I shall let him do his thing. I know it's a big moment for him too, so I have to be patient and unselfish. Or at least...pretend to be patient and unselfish.

Having Christmas in our new home will be wonderful, so I am very much looking forward to that!
 
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