How I proposed:
At 7:30 AM I gave Alissa a painting I made. She thought it was great. I told her to flip it over. She read it and said, “yeah” assuming I was being cute. When she turned around to thank me for the painting I was holding the ring. See the back.
Here’s what I wrote:
The word gouache comes from the Italian for aguazzo, meaning mud. [1] Gouache is made when a pigment and chalk are combined with water and applied to the paper by the artist in an act of creation.
Like gouache our relationship is a synergy of earth and water into a creative energy. [2] The act is often messy and creates surprising and unintended results.
Want to get married?
1. Upon further investigation it seems there are no reliable references. The word gouache is ~400 years old so aguazzo may be antiquated.
2. You being a taurus and I a cancer.