This past weekend will go down as one of the best ever for me as a person, a professional, and a newly engaged future husband to my love Michelle. For anyone that might not know the “Social Miracle” pre-weekend story the fairy tale came to a beautiful ending and I got my princess to the ball.

The week before Podcamp Toronto was filled with woodturning, blogging, tweeting over twitter, and posting photos of finished art to my “Social Miracle” page where pieces were being bought before I could even get them online! I am not only amazed at the community that helped, but I am also eternally grateful….for my dream of getting married to the one I love most will be coming true!

So the story continues with Friday evening when Michelle and I arrived in Toronto for Podcamp Toronto and a bit of R & R. Michelle and I arrived at the Hotel, the Comfort Suites City Center at about 5:30PM and we were very hungry so I proceeded down to the desk to ask for a quaint romantic place to eat. The attendant suggested the Keg Mansion at 515 Jarvis street, Toronto. If I could have hand picked a place, this would have been it. The food was amazing, the service was astounding, and of course the company was perfect!

Just after dinner I pulled out a gift bag filled with tissue paper at the top all taped together with some rocks in the bottom. I told her that I had gotten her something special for the trip and that she should open it.

When Michelle opened the package she tore through the tissue saying “There is nothing in here” I said “Look further” Michelle pulled out a couple of rocks and looked at them in quite a weird way in somewhat disbelief …I guess not wanting to hurt my feelings. She must have thought these rocks had some significant meaning….little did she know. After she looked at the rocks I pulled a box from my hand and asked her “Is this the rock you were really looking for?” and the tears started flowing. I wasn’t sure if she was crying tears of happiness or tears of sadness! Thank God they were tears of happiness. I asked Michelle to “Marry me” and she said, “Yes!”

Within a few moments she was on the phone with her mother, still in tears, while the waitress was bringing a desert with sparklers. Quite overwhelming, but very excited Michelle and I had a great time!

With the help of some skilled woodturning, some very special podcasters, bloggers, and social media mavens I was able to pull of the miracle of my life and Michelle and I are happily engaged. In my next blog post I am going to thank personally every person involved that I can drum up from memory and emails.

 

 

 

 

 

Pic 1 - Michelle Glowing with ring on.

Pic 2 - Michelle with Whitney Hoffman

Pic 3 - Michelle in the City

 

Sorry no close up of the ring yet….Soon.

Thanks to all who played a part in my Miracle!

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