Syndicate and Hague

Objectively, I know the people around me are awesome. Really, the reason my life is generally amazing is because I have such wonderful people around to have fun with. I know this.

However, sometimes people do things that just floor me.

It’s my birthday next week and there’s nothing I like more than organizing a big outing full of the people who make life interesting and good so that we can go and drink beer and eat bar food - so, birthday happy hour! All I really want is for people to show up and have fun and that plan always seems to work pretty well.

That all went as planned, but…

Before coming to the party tonight, my boss rounded up all my friends who were coming on Facebook and covertly went about organizing a group gift. Which would have been really nice in and of itself. It’s always quite sweet when someone goes and rounds people up to get something for you.

The backstory on this is that Megan and I are having our wedding rings made for us. We’d wanted to have some little diamonds on the rings, but it was just out of our budget. So we compromised and had decided to get just the bands for now and save up for the cost of labor and the small diamonds and do it down the road.

So you should know where this story is going, right? My boss knew that we’d altered the plans for our rings because I’d talked about it at work a couple months ago. He orchestrated all these people together, slyly got the name of my designer from me, and they paid for the labor and diamonds that we’d wanted but couldn’t afford. With money left over, even.

Neither Megan nor I am really processing this right now. It’s incredibly overwhelming to have people do something like this for you. I’m also not very eloquent right now.

I still can’t think of much to say. I’m just fortunate and grateful and if I start forgetting how lucky I am to have this kind of a life with all of you people in it, just smack me upside the head or something.