Gilbert updated his blog today, with the main subject being the news that he got engaged. Like anything Gilbert does, it could be your standard down on one knee proposal. When Gil does it, he does it like this:
I was thinking up ways to do it, you know, maybe I’ll do like an Easter egg hunt for the ring or something. But then it came to me, I was going to kick it back old school with a “Do you like me?” note that you would do in elementary school. Only, I couldn’t write the note, because that would be like me asking her. So I got my friend to write on a piece of paper “WILL YOU MARRY ME?” in big block letters with two boxes to check off, “YES” or “NO.” Then the final step was for him to write “(READ OUT LOUD)” at the top of the note.
I folded it up and had it in my pocket. So there we are at dinner and all her family is there, my dad, her dad, her friends, my friends, Antawn Jamison showed up, Mos Def and a couple people from Mos Def’s crew showed up. At the end of the meal, in front of everybody, I tell her that I have one last gift for her. I told her, “This is my gift” and I handed her the note and I sit down.
She opens the note and she reads it and she says, “Read out loud,” but sort of to herself under her breath because you know, you’re always going to read something to yourself before you blurt it out to the room. Then she reads silently, “Will you marry me?”
Then she flipped the note over to see if there was anything written on the back and then looked at me weird.
I said to her, “You have to read it out loud.”
So she goes, “WILL YOU MARRY ME?” out loud so everybody could hear her.
It worked. It turns out she ended up asking me to marry her.
I was like, “Oh my God!!!” and started screaming like the girl who gets asked normally does.
“I can’t believe you asked me!!!! Of course I will!!! Oh my God, it’s been six long years, what took you so long???!!!??? Oh my God!!! This is unbelievable!!!!”
After getting his dad’s thoughts on the big news, Gilbert talked about when he’s planning on getting married:
The man law has been passed on by men regarding engagement and I just found out about it: You should prolong your engagement as long as you can.
I thought it was because the men were scared to get married. No. That’s not it. It’s because of life in the bedroom disappearing once you get married. Married men don’t have that, so they figure the longer you can stay engaged, there’s more love.
So, I’ll probably set the wedding date for 2027. I figure by then, I’m not going to be focused on the bedroom anymore.
Well, at least that means he won’t be distracted by wedding plans during the season. It also means that we’ll be able to see the same old, same old on the court and the bowling alley:
On Sunday we went bowling at Lucky Strikes. I’m the one that talks trash the most, so I’m sitting there talking away and everybody is like, “You can’t bowl with one leg!”
I go, “Well, with two good legs I bowl at least a 230. So with a bad leg I can bowl 175-190.”
The first game was like a practice game and I was feeling out the lane. I ended up bowling a 110 and everybody else was bowling like 130-140. So I said, we might as well make it a competition. They all saw me just bowl the 110, so they all said I was going to lose.
Once it was a challenge, boom, I come out of the gate with three straight strikes and ended up bowling a 209. They were so mad because I only had one leg. I’m just hopping around on one leg and still beating them all. Don’t mess with the Hibachi.
It’s nice to see that his latest knee surgery hasn’t taken away his swagger. There’s plenty more in his latest entry as well. Thoughts on last names, commenters on his blog, Nick Young’s documentary, and a bad experience with some seafood. As always, it’s worth your time.
