So, BF usually tells me details on things.. so when he doesn't, it's usually a clue. BF is horrible at keeping secrets-- if he gets me something while out of town, he's too impatient to keep it a secret and ends up showing it to me on video chat the next chance he gets.
So, it's not like I TRY to guess things (like being right about what he did for my birthday).. in fact, when I start to put clues together, I usually try to stop myself to preserve the surprise, or at least refuse to guess. But then it's just there subconsciously, and then he'll unwittingly say something else, and I figure it out. So, this time, I've basically figured out how he's going to propose. Though I'm trying to keep myself from guessing when/where/etc.
He got to go to an exclusive pool-side Train concert b/c of a work function a couple months ago.. I would have gone too, but couldn't b/c of schedule with my son. After he got back from the trip, he was telling me how he so wished I'd been there with him, especially at the concert. How train played this song, and he loved it, and it just made him think of me, and felt like "our song" to him, and he had wished we could have both heard it for the first time together. But since we couldn't he turned the song on, and then came and sat behind me and just held me while we listened to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV36C3FgA78 cue the "awww".
Anyway, he has a really nice voice-- I love hearing him sing, especially singing along with that song/lyrics.
Then a few weeks ago, he turns it to this song in the car and squeezes my hand while listening. Half way through, he says "I bet this song would be play-able.. it's acoustic." Last week he comes home after picking his daughter up from school, and says, "so I bought a guitar today. I decided i'm going to start taking lessons."
So, today he had his first lesson. I think he's trying not to give stuff away, but in saying anything, it's given a lot away. Like, he comes back and says "So the guy I'm learning from is amazing. I mean, he's teaching me the basics, but said he could teach me specific songs if I wanted, also. So I play him the song I want to learn, and after listening, he picked up his guitar, and was already figuring it out and playing it." And later, starts saying to his daughter, explaining how the song he's learning, it's not just learning chords: Once finding a chord, that it's not just strumming but actually picking specific strings in rhythm.
Think I'm on to something? Well, I'm fairly certain that he's learning the song to play/sing when proposing.. But I keep telling myself not to be so sure because I don't want to ruin it for myself. But I guess it's not ruined if I don't know all the details, like where/when. I'm kind of excited though. When he sings it to me, even just a line here and there, it makes me get teary sometimes. I think it's cute how many clues he doesn't realize he's dropping. lol I love how romantic BF likes to be.
EDITED: Cause MAN I ramble when I'm tired.. Yeah. It actually used to be longer than this.