So maybe I've had a rather diabolical idea...

All of you who think that you want another section of my piece, I have a proposition.
I have a poem here, that I want to workshop for my Creative Writing class. It is decent, but not good. I want to have something really good. Here's my proposition: if you want to get another section of my piece, you must comment on this poem. I won't put up a piece until I get enough comments. So HA.

The middle of nowhere
is a beautiful place,
you know.
Before one angry town starts,
after another ends,
Right in the place where all is quiet
and the ranch exit is the only thing for
miles and miles and miles and miles
of nothing.
Nothing but golden grass, prairie grass,
Sagebrush lending its sweet scent
to the Nowhere wind,
wind that rages through,
Angry enough to rip through the Earth
but finds no one to blame
and so it quiets, its angry screams
become a gentle whisper,
whispering and whistling,
Whistling where only the whistlepigs can hear
or a patch of prairie grass.

I'm staring out the car window,
watching the dust rise through
the grasses
and wondering why I must
always be on the edge
of Somewhere,
Never tucked safely into the middle
of Nowhere.

Okay, fine, it's true. I'm engaged. :D

Yeah, we're definitely engaged. Here's the story:
So, a couple weeks ago we fasted to see whether we should get married in December or April, and my answer was that as long as I was marrying Mike in the temple, it didn't matter when we got married. Mike said that he had gotten the same answer, but didn't know when. Since I just knew it was right, I left the when up to him. So he told me that he needed a few weeks to decide, and that if I wasn't proposed to by the end of three weeks, we'd know we needed to wait until April. So honestly, I secretly wanted to get married in December, because I was tired of waiting. Okay, so not so secretly. Well, Mike kept up this whole "I haven't decided" thing. It was sick.
So I got back to school (which was an adventure in its own right--what with the tow-truck and the freeway and the 15-seater vans) and Sunday night, so did Mike. I made him dinner, and I was wearing my pearls (I know, all domestic, right?) and it was great. And he was still all, like, ya know, being ridiculous. Yeah...
So Monday we had off, because it was Labor Day. It was all cold and rainy all morning, so we ran errands (getting my books, going to Albertsons, etc.). After we had lunch in my apartment, it was all bright and sunshiny, so we decided to have our scripture study on the temple grounds.
So we go up to the temple, and we're sitting by the fountain reading Matthew 6 (we're in the new testament right now) and we get to verse 21 (the bold are where he had marked in his scripture), "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" and there was a reference to Alma 26:16. he was all, "Hey, this is a really good chain, we should follow it." I was like, "okay, sure, let's do it," thinking it was just going to be some spiritual awesomeness (HA!) so we go to Alma 26:16, and the last part of the verse says "Behold I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel." Yeah, all cheesy like. Don't worry, it gets better. The next reference is Doc. & Cov. 49:15, which says, "And again, verily I say unto you, that whoso forbiddeth to marry is not ordained of God, for marriage is ordained of God unto man."
Okay, if you haven't caught on, you're really slow. Those of you who have caught on will understand why it is that I was totally hyperventilating at this point, both laughing and crying at the same time. I went to the next reference for the sake of finishing the question--Phillipians 2...something. Something about joy with the word "me" highlighted. Can you blame me for not remembering? :) So while I was reading it, Mike got down on one knee in front of me, told me that he loved me and that he would for eternity, and asked if I would marry him.
Well, I kind of was crying and laughing all at once, and I threw my arms around his neck, and said yes several times very loudly...I don't know if I waited for him to finish the question or not...so then he pulls out a ring box...
So anyways, I'm engaged. Totally. Here are pics of my ring, you big whiners. Honestly.
Yes. We're getting married December 27 in Boise, then going the next week to Washington to have an open house. Definitely. It's going to be AWESOME.

Sincerely, ALMOST Brittany Morgan.

ps--Mike says it's Phillipians 2:18. I mean, seriously. "For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me." He was going to have 3 Nephi 12:37, "but let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay..." but he didn't think that we would get to that one. Honestly, I don't think I would have been able to see it...:)