Monday

After a busy, busy few days, I feel less that refreshed going back to work. Added to the fact that its still inhumanly hot in London (whatever happened to those brilliant, rubbish 16 degree summers?), I feel like falling asleep on my desk almost instantly. Luckily the expected stack of pointy, ugly emails hasn't quite materialised and it's fun telling the girls in the department that K and I got engaged while we were away. My colleague Susie is also getting married next year, so we get to compare notes on proposals and vague plans; while I'm careful not to appear to be stealing her thunder!

I get home later and start to get a lovely curry on the go in preparation for K getting home with her little brother, who is here to stay while he does work experience at K's record label. After dinner K and I take the biggest step of all - in a very 2010 way - and 'officially' announce our engagement on Facebook. This involves K changing her relationship status, then me getting an email asking me to confirm it. There's no going back at this point - this is as close as you can get to telling the world these days. Almost everyone we know are big Facebook users and it's instantly striking that while you can joke about how much this one website pervades everyone's life, it really does matter nowadays. Scary.

Anyway, the announcement goes through and both our profiles explode almost instantly. I get to use the "hilarious" Facebook status I've had in my head for a while ("Mat Rodger...liked it so he put a ring on it") - which, in a matter of minutes, becomes the most commented-upon status I've ever had; which is probably to be expected given that I haven't really had much more momentous news to post. We spend the rest of the evening checking the lovely comments that our friends and family are posting online - and probably making K's little brother sick with the cloying sickliness of it all. But we don't care!