INNNNTERESTING......

On Saturday night J and I - yet again - had to have the "how I feel about us not being engaged or planning a future together" argument....
Though this was more talk than argument...
And it was mainly brought on my the fact that I'd spent the afternoon with my mother who just wanted to talk about my lack of status and point out every wedding gown we saw in the shops to ask my opinion on them. Not that this hasn't been on my mind, but he always amplifies it....
He's continuing to claim he can't "afford" a ring. (Though he can, apparently, afford to put all new windows into the house and can afford to buy computer shit off of e-bay constantly! And LORD KNOWS it's not like you can put a DOWN PAYMENT on a ring, get it and pay the rest off later ! ! ! ! I mean, MOST people don't buy one outright ! ! ! ! But I digress !)
I'd told him not long ago that it's not about the ring but about the commitment. That I didn't even need a ring - that I just want him. He INSISTS he wants to do this "right" and that he can't commit the rest of his life to me without a ring.
(he is SUCH a girl sometimes !)
I also told him that my mother was probably so antsy seeing as how he ASKED her permission back in FEBRUARY and she, like most normal people would, was EXPECTING him to do it SHORTLY THEREAFTER ! ! ! ! But maybe she's crazy, right? I mean, MOST guys ask a few years in advance, right?!?!?!? (sense the sarcasm dripping off that last statement)

Anyway !
This is what I found so interesting....
I was looking through my e-mail today and found his horoscope from Saturday which reads:

You're just about due to put yourself on a budget -- a serious budget. This doesn't mean you won't be having any fun or that you'll be unable to have something that you really want, but you will have to save your pennies for anything extra, and you'll have to start right now. That said, this would be the perfect time for you to sit down and think about what's really important to you -- and valuable.

And so I e-mailed it to him today with the message:

Considering the conversation we had on Saturday night I thought this was a pretty interesting horoscope for you to have had for that day....

He responded with:

Definitely interesting....

Interesting indeed.....but as per usual....we'll see....I doubt it really makes a difference to him - it never has before - so I'll just have to see it to believe it and in the meantime prepare myself to be let down once again.