He put a ring on it.

Michael and I are officially ENGAGED! We have been talking about getting married for a long time, and the time has finally come to where we can actually put action to our wishes. To quote Harry Burns from When Harry Met Sally: When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

Or to quote Michael: "You had me a 'Friend Request Accepted'."


We are so happy. Falling in love with Michael was like putting glasses on for the first time and realizing that those green blurs are the trees. He is my light: the sun of my days, and fire of my nights. I'm trying to think of more analogies of how describe how I love him, but words only come close.

There was no 'big proposal', because a proposal isn't warranted. He didn't need to ask. He's been proposing to me in small ways everyday since the day we got together. He makes me feel so loved, so wanted, so appreciated. And he tells me so everyday how much. He makes my heart swell and my eyes well up. The words he said to me before he put the ring on my finger are etched on my heart.

Back to Blogging

Oh man, it's been a busy couple of months, add to that my laptop crashing really derailed my blogging!

Lets catch up... I went back to work in mid-December for Providence Health and Services. I am a "scheduling coordinator" for their new operating system that is being rolled over over 5 states and 20,000 employees. Essentially I write the class schedule for those 20,000 people; one hospital at a time. It's a wonderful company to work for and I actually love what I'm doing. The downside of the job is that it's a 40 minute commute each way (thank goodness for carpool buddies), and the double-edged sword is that I am able to work all the overtime I wish, but it really has been keeping me away from my family and exercise.

I also had unexpectedly wonderful news... I got divorced this week!! Over 2 years in the making, my divorce was finally finalized on the 1st. I am still processing the reality of it all, it's been such a miserable, heart wrenching, infuriating, painstaking process and I'm utterly relieved that it's over. And am ecstatic about the new possibilities for my future now that this obstacle has been cleared!

That is the last 2 months in a nutshell... more catching up as I find more tidbits of time!