Great Marriage Proposal

Talk about creative!  This guy and his gal in the states happen to both love photography.  And the guy also happens to wanna marry his gal.  So they take a drive out to a vineyard they love, and he asks her to take a picture of him.  She of course obliges, only to find his marriage proposal attached to the lens of the camera.  From the Huffington Post:

Pruyn popped the question to his girlfriend, Broadway actress Cara Massey, on Sunday by writing “Marry Me” on an iPhone screen protector and then sticking it to a camera, so Massey would see it when she looked through the camera to take a photo of him.

Can you imagine what a cool moment that would be?  Wow.  What a lucky gal too.  Here is the blog where he writes about all the methods he tried before coming up with the winning solution to get his marriage proposal in the right spot

I scoured through my junk drawer and found a pack of iphone screen protectors. I wrote “Marry Me” on the transparent film then carefully cut out a square smaller than the prism in the camera. I peeled the backing off, placed the sticky side to the bottom of the prism inside the camera, I held it up to the light and was amazed.

Sounds like it was not only a happy moment, but one of amazement that will serve as an actual keepsake they can always have on their mantle.  The innovative Pruyn writes:

I knew I wanted something intimate, original / unique and true to who we are. I had the idea to use a vintage camera and tripod as part of the proposal.

I’d say he accomplished that and a whole lot more!  So glad he shared this with the world.  We need nice stories like this to balance out so much of the horrific things we normally get pushed on us in the news these days.

Congratulations on one of the best marriage proposals I’ve seen in a long time!

For more on this (including great pictures), here’s the link: http://fstoppers.com/my-unique-proposal-through-a-lens

New House!

House hunting, like for real! 134476477 300x200 New House!

So the gal and I have been looking around at finally at getting a new house …. as in, our own place.  That we own.  Did I just say that out loud?  lol  We’ve been renting for ages, and it’s just time to set down some roots.  I haven’t been able to travel as much anymore anyway, so might as well settle down and have a little plot of our own on this big globe of life.

Anyway, we’re out looking for a new house, and boy are we picky~!  The misses seems to think a new house means buying a really old house (go figure).  She says it’s the character that matters.  I want it all to be modern and carefree.  Hell I even want a pool if we can ever swing it down the road.  And she loves her gardening.  Plus we both love the ability to make a lot of noise without making enemies of our neighbors… haha  So either way that means we’ll want some space around us.  We’ll see how that works out..

It sure is daunting though, yes?  You find a good looking house online, you plot it on a map, you rush home from work to do a drive-by, and whoops, it turns out it’s much closer to neighboring houses than expected, or in far worse shape than pictures allowed to be evident.  Realtors are good like that!

So we’ve been driving around constantly, and even going to open houses whenever possible.  And I actually highly recommend that btw.  An open house can really show you all the possibilities out there, and even educate you on how big a certain square footage really is, or how much yard you really get with .25 acres .. That sorta thing.  We’ve been going even to the ones that aren’t truly of interest – just to see what’s out there in our price range.  That way we really have our fingers on the pulse and don’t make an uniformed decision when buying a new house.

Anyone else out there trying to buy a new house?  Please clue me in if you have any tips for house hunting!