I’m in a Whirlwind of Emotion.
I try not to get too personal around here, but December was long and arduous. Arduous I tell you! I started a new job that is awesome, moved to a new place, took three weekends to clean out the old place, had lots of family visiting, and started looking at properties to buy. In all of this, my boyfriend and I are living apart until we find said property that is equidistant from our jobs. Oh wait, he’s not my boyfriend anymore.
We got engaged!
Haha, I know! I totally tricked you, right? We’re sneaky like that. He tricked me too. We talked before Christmas and he hinted that we would be engaged by the end of 2013…when all along he was planning to propose on the very first day of the year. So I am elated. We both had the biggest smiles on our faces and kept saying, “It feels different!” and I feel lucky to be with him. What else can I say? It’s a time to celebrate and enjoy our engagement, since we’re planning a summer 2014 wedding. The big gap is so that we can buy a place first, because after all, a wedding is a day and our everyday love is way more important than a single day. Which is not to say I won’t be doing some Pinterestin’, bride-to-be-in’, venue scoutin’ and guest listin’ in the meantime! I was always a contrarian girl growing up and would refuse to think about things like a wedding, a ring, a dress. Well, he gave me a beautiful vintage diamond and I get to pick out my own ring. And then all the details of the wedding will follow. The only thing I’ve decided on is that it will be outdoors, preferably in a wide open field.
(I’ll return to business and finance next week!)
Replace that badly-dressed couple with a well-dressed, good-looking pair and you have our future wedding.
OMG CONGRATULATIONS!! I’m so happy for you!
Thank you! I am so happy too!
Congrats! Seems everyone I know is getting engaged or having babies!
Or buying a house! Getting knocked down like dominoes I tell you!
CONGRATULATIONS!! I’m happy for both of you! He’s getting a ‘deal’, or maybe a ‘steal’. Lucky guy!
He’s lucky but so am I!
Oh, congrats! So exciting! So happy for you! Hope you don’t have to live apart for too long. Also, when did you do a site redesign? I get your posts via email so this is the first I’m seeing it, and it’s BEAUTIFUL.
Thanks Kathleen! I finally did the redesign about 2 weeks ago and I love it!
Congratulations! I proposed to my (now) wife in January too. We have been married 44 years.
I love hearing things like that. Beautiful, long relationships make me sentimental and want to read some Garcia Marquez!
Congrats on your engagement! That’s so awesome!
Well, I have to say congratulations on the engagement. you are supposed to be emotional, so that is a good thing.
Congratulations, I am very pleased for you. Yes, this is a lot of change but all of it great!
Congrats on getting engaged! That’s wonderful =)
WOW, girl, congrats! I’m so happy for you! What a nice surprise and a GREAT way to start the year.
Aww thanks Daisy!
Congrats S!
Congrats on the engagement! I REALLY thought he broke up with you (based on the “he’s not my boyfriend anymore.”) Quite an emotional roller coaster. Also, I can’t believe you the word “equidistant.” Incredible..
I really had you going, right? My fiance was doing the same thing to people. And what can I say, I’m a wordsmith who loves good vocabulary!
Congratulations!!! CAn’t wait to hear about your wedding planning
Congrats! Awesome way to start off the New Year!
How exciting – congrats!
Wow! What a great New Year’s surprise! That’s awesome. Congrats on your big news.
Woot woot! Big congrats – and happy new year to you, the happy couple!
Congratulations on the engagement! We are very happy for you! I hope that you have a wonderful 2013!
Congrats!! Building a life together will be fun, exciting and probably challenging as well. The good news is, after a year of living together you’ll be so good at conflict resolution, you could probably qualify as a hostage negotiator
Congratulations! What an awesome way to start off 2013!
Congratulations, that is awesome! Have fun planning your wedding.
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Congrats, best of luck.
Congratulations! What an awesome way to kick off the new year!! This is MUCH more important than money stuff. look forward to hearing more…
Congratulations! My cousin just became engaged a few weeks ago as well!
And, I don’t know about you, but I have had my wedding pretty much planned since I was 14….
Good luck planning! I heard it is a lot more work than people think.
Thank you all so, so much for the kind words!! You people make me happy too