My fiance

I went for coffee with my fiance today. I'd think you'd all like her. She is lovely, brilliant, witty and kind. She is also white wine, Brie cheese and the symphony classy.

We've had heated arguments about punctuation, and the Oxford comma remains a point of contention. (The Oxford comma: We love semi-colons, regular colons, and the apostrophe. The red comma is optional and we disagree about when it should be used.)

We got engaged last year after a conversation where I used the word "hence" and she said "juxtaposed" in her answer. At that point we realized were both doomed to being single forever. (We have since stopped seeing being single as a bad thing and are glad to be quite selective in those whom we choose to date.)

We aren't getting married unless we are 40 and both of us are still single. If we are, which I am quite certain we will be, we are uncertain about our plans until retirement. But that's one plan we have solidified.

We will be moving to Switzerland and living in a cottage high up in the mountains. Our cottage will have a red water wheel on one side and a small chocolate factory in the basement (that will be for me, as I plan to be delighfully robust when I'm old).

She will knit with wool from our sheep that will frolic in the Alps with golden bells tinkling from around their necks. We haven't decided for certain if we will make our own cheese, but there is a very good possibility.