New Year, New Love

In a recent love letter I sent to Sandy Metcalf, I wrote:

I've never been a believer in "love at first sight," but I also would have been skeptical if any friend told me they fell in love and knew they had found "the one" after six weeks. I still think "love at first sight" is too shallow, too unthoughtful a way to approach a relationship. But I DO now understand what people mean when they talk about chemistry. And I AM convinced that two people can fall in love in six weeks, and can determine they are destined to be together in not much more time than that. And so here we are, with our relationship 100 days old, and I am absolutely tingling with excitement about our future. You might even say I have "chill bumps."

And so we went to The Loft Steak and Chophouse, the location of our fourth date, for dinner on New Year's Day 2008.

During our performances together in the Reagle Players' 25th Anniversary production of "It's ChristmasTime", I learned that Sandy liked barbershop quartets.

And it was during our trip to New York City (see photos), that I figured out what kind of ring Sandy would like.

So I hired a quartet (friends of my friend Bob Cincotta from the "Sounds of Concord" barbershop chorus), and invited Sandy's dear friends Dana and Ed (who got engaged on New Year's Eve), to record the event for posterity. Here's how it all came together after the dinner plates were cleared and before dessert (click the photo below to open the YouTube video):

See more photos on my Picasaweb site.

Happy New Year, indeed!