Open Buddha

So, on Saturday, R had her killer software certification test from Hell. Apparantly, she's appalled, which you can read about on her journal. The whole thing sounds like a certification nightmare to me. Given the amount of time that she worked on it, it's more than a little irritating for her (and by extension, me!).

I ran around doing errands on Saturday and bought Madeline gifts for her birthday on the 22nd. She'll be seven and I wanted to avoid just giving her more crap. The final take was:

• A 9-in-1 Game Chest (including chinese checkers, shoots and ladders, chess, memory matching, etc.)
• A copy of Battleship (which I think we all remember from childhood)
• Some outfits for her barbies
• Some grade appropriate learning games software that actualy looked pretty good to help her read and such
• A Spirograph Studio kit (full of cool spirograph goodies)
• A Powerpuff Girls DVD of a bunch of episodes

All in all, it seems to be money decently spent.

Later on, I took out to dinner at Atlas Foods over by the U Village. Then I surprised her by proposing to her! heh. Apparantly, it turns out that I've made a lot of general anti-marriage remarks over the last couple of years so it was a bit of a surprise. The downside is that the jeweler said that there is a good chance that her ring won't be ready by the time we leave for Greece (and if it is, it will be a day or two before we leave) so I had to use a non-standard proxy ring. (No, I won't discuss what her ring is like until she gets it!!)

She's had this dazed look for the last couple of days now. ;-)