I'm Engaged!

After dating for over 4 years, Tyler finally proposed! We had planned on spending Thanksgiving apart this year, so Wednesday night I drove to Republic by myself. I woke up Thursday morning (Thanksgiving), got ready, and we were about to eat when my grandpa asked me to get the door. Immediately I knew something was up - why would I get the door? Tyler was standing on the doorstep and asked me to come out there with him. I said, "Oh my gosh!" and started crying, of course. He got on one knee and gave his little speech (which later I found out was very long and thoughtful, but he shortened it a bit) and I said, "OK!!!" Ha ha... not "yes!" or "of course!" but, "OK!" So now we're thinking instead of "I do" at our wedding we'll say, "Ok." Ha ha. So the whole time we were on the front step, I could hear clicking coming from his car, and out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a camera poking out of the window, so I asked him, "who's in your car?" and he said, "my whole family!" So out poured Steve (who was taking pictures), Carol and Geoff! It was so fun to have both of our families there - and I never imagined the Fischbacks would be in Republic, WA! So we all went in, I calmed down a bit and gave everyone hugs, and we talked about how they all kept it a secret for so long - he had been planning this for over a month! And I had no idea.

Here's a picture of him putting the ring on my finger. I LOVE it, he did such a great job & it's exactly what I would have picked out myself! Click here to see my Facebook photo album.

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Go Cougs

Apple Cup was amaaaazing! I can't believe it went into double overtime. Obviously both teams are pretty terrible, but it's nice to prove that we're at least a little better than UW! Ha ha... Now I'm just excited for basketball season so we can set good records for WSU rather than being the team worst in history...

This is from the Seattle PI:

"Losing this game meant the Huskies are last in everything: Last in the conference, last in the college football nation, last in all statistics.

Here's the real iron pipe to the head: Relative to competition, the Huskies are the worst in Seattle. Worse than the Mariners, worse than the Seahawks. Worse than the monorail, Starbucks, Washington Mutual and the state budget. They're even worse than the Sonics, who were so bad they were outsourced to Oklahoma City, where they still stink and, in maintaining the local tradition abroad, just fired their coach.

The Huskies are worse because not only did they lose to what was considered the worst team in recent big-time college football history, they already had fired the coach but decided to keep him on the sidelines for reasons that look more dubious with each bewildering play call."

Ha!

What's just as wonderful (in a way) is President Floyd announcing a voluntary pay-cut. Because there's going to be so much cutting back he's volunteered to lower his salary and lead by example, which I think is wonderful. It's not like he's going to bed hungry - it's being lowered from $725,000 to $625,000. I think he'll survive. But it's a nice move compared to UW's president, who only agreed not to get a raise this year (he already makes $905k and is one of the top-paid public university presidents). What would have been most amazing is if Floyd had said, you know what, I'll really stretch my dollar and only make $100,000 next year. That would have saved our school over $600k - think of how many students could go to school free for a year with that money. But at least he's doing something! Go Cougs!

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Thanksgiving here I come...

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Adorable little French girl

Once upon a time... from Capucha on Vimeo.

Jim Jones & the People's Temple

So two days ago Mollie sent me an article from Rolling Stone dated 1979 (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/24344365/in_the_valley_of_the_shadow_of_death/). Things have been pretty slow lately so rather than reading my morning paper I decided to read this through (it's pretty long). As I read about the Jonestown tragedy, I had to looking it up on Wikipedia because I hadn't heard of it. How could I not have heard of it, right? I mean it was 6 years before I was born, not 300. Over 900 people died. I think most if not all of them were Americans. I mean, come on, nothing about this in history class? I took AP American history. I passed the test (with a 3, but still). And nothing about this? Was I sick that day? It's just weird... so now I've read a ton about it and watched the footage and I'm just mezmerized by it.

The following is a video PBS made with interviews from some survivors. It's just so weird..,

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