Dave and I have been OFFICIALLY engaged for just over a week now!!! On our 1 year anniversary I came home from seeing my mom in Grand Rapids to Dave acting strange. I had an inkling that he was going to propose on our anniversary, just woman's intuition I guess. Then as I was putting things away he asked me if he could hang up a jacket of mine, I didn't care, he didn't have to ask in the first place. But, I just shook it off. Then I was sitting on the couch as he was out on the porch finishing smoking a cigarette, complaining about how hot my feet were, when he asked if I wanted to come out there. Well, sure, seeing as I did have hot feet, what better way to kill the gross sweat, then stand barefoot on a balcony in the middle of December in Michigan? Then as I was leaning on the rail talking (which I do a lot) I saw something out of the corner of my eye, it was Dave kneeling down!!!! AHH!!!! With him having a broken rib and 3 cracked ones, he was in a little pain!
Then being the smart ass that he is, he asked me to marry him and put his class ring on my finger, I squeaked out a laugh and asked if he was serious. I could see that he was, so I felt a little bad. Then he looked at my finger and said, "Oh damn, wrong pocket, hold on." Then he pulled out my ENGAGEMENT RING AND REALLY FOR REAL ASKED ME TO MARRY HIM!!!! AHHH!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!
It is SO pretty!!! It is a sterling silver custom made band, with 2 clear, conflict free diamonds on either side of a clear conflict free blue diamond. The blue diamond was one that his late uncle gave to his aunt when he got back from Vietnam. The sentimental value that it has makes it the biggest ring that I ever could dream of having!!! I am astounded by it. When he first put it on my finger and looking at it in the light of the decorations on the balcony, I thought it was an emerald, but then when I got in the apartment and looked at it, it is as blue as day! I love it SO much!!!
What better way to celebrate our 1 year anniversary AND his 26 birthday?! Now we have the task of picking the wedding. I thought that we wanted to have it in Vegas, but I REALLY would like one back here, to have my family all together and not have to worry about his elderly great-grandparents and grandparents and my Nan getting on a plane and flying anywhere...oh I don't know. There are so many decisions to be made!!!
But for now, all I am going to do is sit back and admire the shine of my new RING!!! LOVE ITT!!!!
<3
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
*sigh*
I don't know what is going on. It's too early in the season to be getting the "winter blas".
We got home from the Island about a week ago. Yes the house is still a mess from moving back and what not. Boomer has been being a royal pain in the ass since we got home. He won't pee outside. In fact he isn't peeing at all. He may squirt a little dabble all over the carpet if he gets too excited or if you have him over by the door and you are hooking him up to his leash to take him out. But if you take him outside he will not pee. I don't understand what it is. He is drinking a lot of water, but he won't pee. He poops just fine. And whenever Dave takes him out he completely forgets how to walk on his leash. He will throw himself into the air and make a complete spectacle of it. He throws the biggest temper tantrums E.V.E.R. When he is in the apartment, he will cower and tuck his tail in between his legs and sulk in his room if you even look at him in the wrong way. I don't know if he is scared of his new surroundings or what it is, he was here before and didn't have this problem at all. He was around LaVerne and didn't have a problem with her. Maybe he's jealous of the attention that the cat is getting...I don't know what it is, but what I do know is that Dave and I don't have the money to call in the Dog Whisperer or take him to Obedience Classes.
That is all for tonight. I have a throbbing headache and I can't stand the internet right now, more is to come tomorrow.
<3
We got home from the Island about a week ago. Yes the house is still a mess from moving back and what not. Boomer has been being a royal pain in the ass since we got home. He won't pee outside. In fact he isn't peeing at all. He may squirt a little dabble all over the carpet if he gets too excited or if you have him over by the door and you are hooking him up to his leash to take him out. But if you take him outside he will not pee. I don't understand what it is. He is drinking a lot of water, but he won't pee. He poops just fine. And whenever Dave takes him out he completely forgets how to walk on his leash. He will throw himself into the air and make a complete spectacle of it. He throws the biggest temper tantrums E.V.E.R. When he is in the apartment, he will cower and tuck his tail in between his legs and sulk in his room if you even look at him in the wrong way. I don't know if he is scared of his new surroundings or what it is, he was here before and didn't have this problem at all. He was around LaVerne and didn't have a problem with her. Maybe he's jealous of the attention that the cat is getting...I don't know what it is, but what I do know is that Dave and I don't have the money to call in the Dog Whisperer or take him to Obedience Classes.
That is all for tonight. I have a throbbing headache and I can't stand the internet right now, more is to come tomorrow.
<3
Thursday, October 27, 2011
HOME!!!!!
WE ARE HOME FROM MACKINAC ISLAND!!!!
Oh sweet Lord of Lords was it a long season. You wouldn't think that May to October would be a long 5 months, but when you are trapped on an island with only a ferry to escape, it's a LONG TIME.
But we are home. We got home just in time to spend my Great Grandpas 88th birthday with him, also, we are home just in time to get all settled in and ring in my 24th birthday on 11-4! Dave says that if I am having a hard time with turning 24, then 25 is going to be a FUN year.
So now that we are home, we had planned on taking a few days where we just relax and do nothing until we get settled, well, that really hasn't been the case. We had things that we did yesterday, and today we went to get my medicine and see Grandpa. Tomorrow though, is another story. There isn't anything on the agenda, and Saturday Dave's aunt is going to come over and spend some time with us, then on Sunday we are going down to my moms house for a family dinner. Talk about hitting the ground running.
Dave keeps telling me that he has a road trip planned for us and I have a surprise coming...I wonder what that is? ;) Yes, we are engaged, but he hasn't done the whole get down on one knee with the ring thing yet....sooo, maybe some ring pictures are to come!!!
Well, my roast is smelling amazing, so I need to go check on it!
Until next time!!!
<3
Oh sweet Lord of Lords was it a long season. You wouldn't think that May to October would be a long 5 months, but when you are trapped on an island with only a ferry to escape, it's a LONG TIME.
But we are home. We got home just in time to spend my Great Grandpas 88th birthday with him, also, we are home just in time to get all settled in and ring in my 24th birthday on 11-4! Dave says that if I am having a hard time with turning 24, then 25 is going to be a FUN year.
So now that we are home, we had planned on taking a few days where we just relax and do nothing until we get settled, well, that really hasn't been the case. We had things that we did yesterday, and today we went to get my medicine and see Grandpa. Tomorrow though, is another story. There isn't anything on the agenda, and Saturday Dave's aunt is going to come over and spend some time with us, then on Sunday we are going down to my moms house for a family dinner. Talk about hitting the ground running.
Dave keeps telling me that he has a road trip planned for us and I have a surprise coming...I wonder what that is? ;) Yes, we are engaged, but he hasn't done the whole get down on one knee with the ring thing yet....sooo, maybe some ring pictures are to come!!!
Well, my roast is smelling amazing, so I need to go check on it!
Until next time!!!
<3
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Island Life...
This is my third summer on Mackinac Island. Well, technically it's my forth, but I don't count the first one since I was here for a week and went home. So, it's my third. I am with the same company that I have been with since I got up here. Ryba's Fudge Shops.
In a nut shell, I work for Satan and I live in the bowels of hell. I hate it. So much. After last season I said that I wasn't going to come back. I had no intentions of it whatsoever. Then I got my contract in the mail this past winter and thought "what the hell, it's a job, it's better than doing nothing and my unemployment is going to run out around the time that they want me to come back". So I emailed the HR guy and asked him for better housing, said that I couldn't get it. So, I am in a dorm style house with a bunch of girls who seem to be getting younger and younger year after year. Luckily I have an awesome roommate. I knew her last summer, and when she got asked back she asked me if I was going back and we decided that we wanted to live together and not run the risk of getting a psycho roommate or anything like that.
So I sent my contract back in and waited for May 6 to get here.
It got here and I didn't want to leave. But Dave and I packed my car and we drove up here. And then I had to leave him. Got over here and settled in and got my work schedule for the week and started working. Then Dave came up on the 12...so not even a week after me, and it's is SO nice to have him here...to be able to see him instead of having to Skype him..it's such a relief.
But I think I have out grown this place. I am here for my third summer with this company and I am dealing with drunken girls who don't know how to handle their booze..a house mom who has curfews in place...I'm not 19, I don't need someone telling me what I can and can't do. I got a raise though. It's was .25. Yes, a QUARTER. A quarter after 3 years of being with these people...I hate it. We have too many girls working here, I'm not getting the hours I should be getting, it's just a pain in the ass. I miss home. I miss my apartment, I miss my cat, my dog, my life back in my apartment with Dave. He even misses it too.
I talked to my mom last night and she said that she was surprised that I even came up here. It's not like I am going to quit tomorrow or anything, I just need to go in and talk to my manager and see if there are going to fire and of the girls...if we are going to get more hours...and explain to her how I am feeling about it all and see where I go from there.
Growing up isn't at all what you would have thought it would be. The decisions you have to make are some of the hardest ever, and not knowing if they are the right ones makes it even worse. Ugh.
<3
In a nut shell, I work for Satan and I live in the bowels of hell. I hate it. So much. After last season I said that I wasn't going to come back. I had no intentions of it whatsoever. Then I got my contract in the mail this past winter and thought "what the hell, it's a job, it's better than doing nothing and my unemployment is going to run out around the time that they want me to come back". So I emailed the HR guy and asked him for better housing, said that I couldn't get it. So, I am in a dorm style house with a bunch of girls who seem to be getting younger and younger year after year. Luckily I have an awesome roommate. I knew her last summer, and when she got asked back she asked me if I was going back and we decided that we wanted to live together and not run the risk of getting a psycho roommate or anything like that.
So I sent my contract back in and waited for May 6 to get here.
It got here and I didn't want to leave. But Dave and I packed my car and we drove up here. And then I had to leave him. Got over here and settled in and got my work schedule for the week and started working. Then Dave came up on the 12...so not even a week after me, and it's is SO nice to have him here...to be able to see him instead of having to Skype him..it's such a relief.
But I think I have out grown this place. I am here for my third summer with this company and I am dealing with drunken girls who don't know how to handle their booze..a house mom who has curfews in place...I'm not 19, I don't need someone telling me what I can and can't do. I got a raise though. It's was .25. Yes, a QUARTER. A quarter after 3 years of being with these people...I hate it. We have too many girls working here, I'm not getting the hours I should be getting, it's just a pain in the ass. I miss home. I miss my apartment, I miss my cat, my dog, my life back in my apartment with Dave. He even misses it too.
I talked to my mom last night and she said that she was surprised that I even came up here. It's not like I am going to quit tomorrow or anything, I just need to go in and talk to my manager and see if there are going to fire and of the girls...if we are going to get more hours...and explain to her how I am feeling about it all and see where I go from there.
Growing up isn't at all what you would have thought it would be. The decisions you have to make are some of the hardest ever, and not knowing if they are the right ones makes it even worse. Ugh.
<3
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
I really need to write more...
There have been so many things that have happened!!! UGH! I don't know where to begin!
Let's see here, Dave came up. Things with him couldn't be better. When he was on his way up I was scared. I didn't know what it was going to be like...but when I saw him and held him in my arms it was just perfect.
He was here for over a month...flew home on Easter Sunday...that was a TERRIBLE experience. It felt like part of me was missing. I couldn't eat or sleep without him here. Then I was talking to him one day and I was like, "Well, if I could get down there, we could get you a UHaul and then move all your stuff up here, we wouldn't have to deal with the goodbyes again" Next thing I knew I was on the phone with his aunt while she bought me a ticket to go down there and DO JUST THAT!!!
This was on Thursday, I was on a flight out of Grand Rapids Friday morning at 6:30 to go down to Fayetteville, NC. I got there and we had a perfect reunion. I can't be without him again. My plane landed at 11:30 and we couldn't get the UHaul until after 2pm...so we hung out and watched some of the coverage of the Royal Wedding (which I was not impressed with her dress at all, I feel like could have been so much better) and then we went and got the UHaul. Then we went back to the hotel, ate something, and then went to his brothers house and blitzkrieg-ed his garage and got all Daves stuff in the UHaul.
I am talking like we took a garage full of a 1 bedroom apartment and organized it, and loaded it in the truck in an hour and a half...we were VERY proud of that. We were thinking that it was going to take a lot longer than it did. Then we went back to the hotel and though about what our plan was going to be for the next day. I HAD to be back in Michigan on Tuesday so I could start packing to leave for Mackinac Island on Friday May 6. So, after we ate dinner and laid out or plans, we decided that we were going to get up in the morning and head out for home. Since we were driving we wanted to get a good start.
We left Fayetteville and started road-tripping home around 10am. It was SUCH a nice drive. We had SO many good laughs and memories. Before we stopped for the first night we drove through a town in Virginia that had been hit by the tornados that went through a few days earlier. The destruction was, in a word, amazing. I don't mean that it was amazing to look at in the beautiful sense. I mean that it was amazing in the sense that I had never seen anything like that, and we didn't know what was going on. So we were driving slow through the traffic, as the highway crews were trying to clean the debris from the road, we just looked around in awe. What the wind can do to trees, houses, buildings, is just, amazing. There were trees snapped in half, clothes, toys, whatever you can think of, just strewn about. Then as we were looking, we noticed that there were people that were sitting outside of where their houses used to be. It was so breathtakingly sad. Yet all we could do was drive.
After we got out of the destruction, we stopped for the night in Bristol, Virginia. We stayed at a VERY nice Motel 6, we were both VERY impressed with the accommodations. After spending the night there, we got up and left for home. Drove the next day and ate breakfast at the Davey Crockett Travel Lodge. It wasn't what we were expecting, but they did have coon skin hats for sale, sadly we didn't buy one because they couldn't fit us. Then we saw a sign for the "Forbidden Caverns", so we thought that, those would be something fun for us to see, since we did have the time. We took the exit that it said and started on quite the adventure through the Smokey Mountains.
*A LITTLE PIECE OF ADVICE* DON'T GO THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS ON THE TWISTY CURVY ROADS IN A LOADED UHAUL!!! IT IS SCARY!!!!
So we started following the signs and although they said that it was only 12 miles, it was the LONGEST 12 miles ever, after we had been driving for a while we were starting to think that we missed them, so we were going to stop and ask for directions. Nope. Not on a Sunday in Tennessee. That is something that will not happen, as NOTHING is open. So we got to a spot where we were starting to see a factory and we thought that it was just going to be a water treatment plant or something, since we were in the middle of no where. Nope. It was the Bush's Baked Beans plant! How random! So we said that we still wanted to find these caverns, once we did, there was a sign that said "Closed Sundays". How sad, but we did have an adventure through some VERY pretty mountains and found something that was totally off the map!!!
So after that, we decided that we were going to head back for home. Drove for the rest of the day and stopped for the night in Kentucky. We were sitting on the bed in the hotel and then all of a sudden there was a "breaking news bulletin" President Obama came on tv and told the world that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. So that was pretty cool. After that, we went to bed and go up the next morning and drove home. After driving for what felt like FOREVER we got home. It was the longest day ever, we were EXHAUSTED. After we got home and go the UHaul unloaded we went straight to bed.
Then the week went on and I started packing for Mackinac. Trying not to think about the fact that in a few days I would be the one that would be leaving. But while I was packing and we were taking about how I was leaving, I told Dave that he needed to apply...so he did. He had a phone interview for Friday morning when we were on our way to the Island...had a Skype interview for later in the week, and then he got the email that said our HR guy wanted him here! He was up here on Thursday the 12...so not even a week of being apart!
So, here we are living and working on Mackinac Island, PLANNING A WEDDING!!! We have the date set for September 29, 2012. This is what kills me though. He asked me one night when we were drunk in the kitchen without a ring..and he has asked me a few times since, but still with no ring. He does not believe in diamonds, so he is looking at emeralds, and that is fine with me. I have a dress picked out and we know where and when, and the "theme" of the reception and what not, but until I get a ring and he has asked my moms permission, I don't feel like making any more plans. Sure I do wear a fake ring, and it does represent what is going to happen, I just, every girl wants that moment where he gets down on one knee and brings out the ring and REALLY asks you to marry him...
oh those dreams we had as little girls...<3
Let's see here, Dave came up. Things with him couldn't be better. When he was on his way up I was scared. I didn't know what it was going to be like...but when I saw him and held him in my arms it was just perfect.
He was here for over a month...flew home on Easter Sunday...that was a TERRIBLE experience. It felt like part of me was missing. I couldn't eat or sleep without him here. Then I was talking to him one day and I was like, "Well, if I could get down there, we could get you a UHaul and then move all your stuff up here, we wouldn't have to deal with the goodbyes again" Next thing I knew I was on the phone with his aunt while she bought me a ticket to go down there and DO JUST THAT!!!
This was on Thursday, I was on a flight out of Grand Rapids Friday morning at 6:30 to go down to Fayetteville, NC. I got there and we had a perfect reunion. I can't be without him again. My plane landed at 11:30 and we couldn't get the UHaul until after 2pm...so we hung out and watched some of the coverage of the Royal Wedding (which I was not impressed with her dress at all, I feel like could have been so much better) and then we went and got the UHaul. Then we went back to the hotel, ate something, and then went to his brothers house and blitzkrieg-ed his garage and got all Daves stuff in the UHaul.
I am talking like we took a garage full of a 1 bedroom apartment and organized it, and loaded it in the truck in an hour and a half...we were VERY proud of that. We were thinking that it was going to take a lot longer than it did. Then we went back to the hotel and though about what our plan was going to be for the next day. I HAD to be back in Michigan on Tuesday so I could start packing to leave for Mackinac Island on Friday May 6. So, after we ate dinner and laid out or plans, we decided that we were going to get up in the morning and head out for home. Since we were driving we wanted to get a good start.
We left Fayetteville and started road-tripping home around 10am. It was SUCH a nice drive. We had SO many good laughs and memories. Before we stopped for the first night we drove through a town in Virginia that had been hit by the tornados that went through a few days earlier. The destruction was, in a word, amazing. I don't mean that it was amazing to look at in the beautiful sense. I mean that it was amazing in the sense that I had never seen anything like that, and we didn't know what was going on. So we were driving slow through the traffic, as the highway crews were trying to clean the debris from the road, we just looked around in awe. What the wind can do to trees, houses, buildings, is just, amazing. There were trees snapped in half, clothes, toys, whatever you can think of, just strewn about. Then as we were looking, we noticed that there were people that were sitting outside of where their houses used to be. It was so breathtakingly sad. Yet all we could do was drive.
After we got out of the destruction, we stopped for the night in Bristol, Virginia. We stayed at a VERY nice Motel 6, we were both VERY impressed with the accommodations. After spending the night there, we got up and left for home. Drove the next day and ate breakfast at the Davey Crockett Travel Lodge. It wasn't what we were expecting, but they did have coon skin hats for sale, sadly we didn't buy one because they couldn't fit us. Then we saw a sign for the "Forbidden Caverns", so we thought that, those would be something fun for us to see, since we did have the time. We took the exit that it said and started on quite the adventure through the Smokey Mountains.
*A LITTLE PIECE OF ADVICE* DON'T GO THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS ON THE TWISTY CURVY ROADS IN A LOADED UHAUL!!! IT IS SCARY!!!!
So we started following the signs and although they said that it was only 12 miles, it was the LONGEST 12 miles ever, after we had been driving for a while we were starting to think that we missed them, so we were going to stop and ask for directions. Nope. Not on a Sunday in Tennessee. That is something that will not happen, as NOTHING is open. So we got to a spot where we were starting to see a factory and we thought that it was just going to be a water treatment plant or something, since we were in the middle of no where. Nope. It was the Bush's Baked Beans plant! How random! So we said that we still wanted to find these caverns, once we did, there was a sign that said "Closed Sundays". How sad, but we did have an adventure through some VERY pretty mountains and found something that was totally off the map!!!
So after that, we decided that we were going to head back for home. Drove for the rest of the day and stopped for the night in Kentucky. We were sitting on the bed in the hotel and then all of a sudden there was a "breaking news bulletin" President Obama came on tv and told the world that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. So that was pretty cool. After that, we went to bed and go up the next morning and drove home. After driving for what felt like FOREVER we got home. It was the longest day ever, we were EXHAUSTED. After we got home and go the UHaul unloaded we went straight to bed.
Then the week went on and I started packing for Mackinac. Trying not to think about the fact that in a few days I would be the one that would be leaving. But while I was packing and we were taking about how I was leaving, I told Dave that he needed to apply...so he did. He had a phone interview for Friday morning when we were on our way to the Island...had a Skype interview for later in the week, and then he got the email that said our HR guy wanted him here! He was up here on Thursday the 12...so not even a week of being apart!
So, here we are living and working on Mackinac Island, PLANNING A WEDDING!!! We have the date set for September 29, 2012. This is what kills me though. He asked me one night when we were drunk in the kitchen without a ring..and he has asked me a few times since, but still with no ring. He does not believe in diamonds, so he is looking at emeralds, and that is fine with me. I have a dress picked out and we know where and when, and the "theme" of the reception and what not, but until I get a ring and he has asked my moms permission, I don't feel like making any more plans. Sure I do wear a fake ring, and it does represent what is going to happen, I just, every girl wants that moment where he gets down on one knee and brings out the ring and REALLY asks you to marry him...
oh those dreams we had as little girls...<3
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
life is good.
*sigh*
Life sure does have its way of working itself out. And when it does, it's oh so sweet.
<3
Life sure does have its way of working itself out. And when it does, it's oh so sweet.
<3
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