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Two or three years ago, if one asked me where I would two or three years from now, I would not have told them I would be engaged. This news is a little less than two days late, as JB proposed on Sunday in the late afternoon. A couple of entries back I explained how I ruined everything. I thought, as a result of my diarrhea of the mouth, a proposal would not be coming for at least another month. I was prepared for that to be the case, and convinced myself to remain patient (well, sort of).
Last Wednesday started out what would be, in my opinion, probably the best week of our relationship. And this doesn't necessarily have to include the proposal, because even if it hadn't happen my opinion about our time together would still remain the same. Nevertheless, I decided to take an extra day off from work on Thursday to make the Independence Day holiday a long weekend. Wednesday night we had dinner in Charlottesville. Thursday we had lunch together and I cooked dinner for us later that evening when he got home from work. Friday we spent the morning being lazy and finally went out for 4th of July festivities in his town which included a car show and a BBQ sandwich (I will blog about BBQ in Virginia at a later date because it is truly disappointing). Also, for the fireworks, we drove up to a ski resort to watch them. It was a nice change of scenery from other fireworks displays (i.e the National Mall where there were well over 500,000 people).
On Saturday JB worked, so I relaxed. We were invited to a post 4th party and were asked to bring a dish. The host was providing BBQ. Once again it was a pulled meat (pork to be exact, on the 4th I had pulled Beef). I opted out of that and chose to much on potato casseroles and pasta salad. My contribution to the party were blackberry and apple cobblers. When we got back to the house, we attempted to watch the Alfred Hitchcock version of psycho which I unintentionally fell asleep on. I was just tired.
And then there was Sunday morning. Early in the morning, it sounded like JB had an alarm that went off. He woke up and told me, in the midst of my deep sleep, that he was out to get something at the dealership (remember, his family owns a car dealership). After I finally woke up I stumbled into the bathroom and on my way out JB was sitting on the bed telling me to "get my ass" back in it. He was making me breakfast and bringing it to me. I couldn't refuse.
His ensemble of waffles, scrambled eggs, chopped strawberries and a big glass of OJ was enough for me. I thought we were going to hang out a bit and then go to Ikea, since that is what we'd discussed the previous weekend. I was looking forward to decorating the townhouse, but he had other things in mind for Sunday.
JB announced that we were going on a picnic but he had to prepare the food for it. Sandwiches perhaps? I was totally fine with that, until I saw the items in the kitchen consisting of steak, pasta and salad. I had not idea what I was in store for and vowed to stay out the kitchen as he continued his masterpiece of a picnic lunch.
Not surprisingly, however, we ended up going to a winery for winetasting and a tour of the winery. It was nice to share this experience with JB as he had never gone wine tasting. So I got to show him how to go about the process. It was a lot of fun. We ended up purchasing six bottles.
At the end, we had our picnic at the winery and it turned out that JB created pasta salad with the aforementioned ingredients. It was amazing. We broke open a bottle of wine and got to soak in the nature around us as we enjoyed our food.
Next up? I wasn't sure, and JB wasn't telling. He said we were going on a long drive home. I ended up falling asleep in the car due to a little bit too much wine bibbing. I snuck a peek at the mile marker sign when I saw that we were approaching Skyline Drive, the road that takes you through Shenandoah National Park. When I finally awoke, I heard the sounds of the Weezer Blue Album in the car (the first CD we listened together...on our first date) as we pulled up to the overlook where we parked on our first hiking trip together a few weeks back.
We stayed in the car talking as a park ranger was facing us. JB was annoyed and I was creeped since his presence there was a complete mystery. We ended up leaving and JB told me to let him know if there was another overlook that seemed interesting, and if so he would stop. I found one and we stopped.
We got out of the car and sat down on the mini stone wall that lined the overlook and we talked and enjoyed the scenery looking over the valley. He told me the wonderful things he always does about me and our relationship and then finally stated...."There is no other way I would want to spend of the rest of my life, than with you." And then he got down in front of me. At that moment I still was not expecting a proposal, though I had asked him earlier if there were any other surprises. He said, no not really, and then I kept it moving.
So as he got down in front of me I was completely oblivious until he asked, "Will you marry me?" My initial response was, "Are you for real!?" Though I knew he was serious, it did take me by surprise, because even though during the past 2 weeks I have been mentally reeling from "messing up" his initialy plans to propose, I was sure he would wait until August or maybe even September to ask me that. But he didn't. And I said yes.
And we were engaged, officially.
We called my parents first, and then my sisters and then told his parents in person. It was a whirlwind of a day as we were spreading the news to all of the initial important parties. At the end we were so exhausted that our own personal celebration consisted of left over apple cobbler from the day before and sitting on the couch to enjoy what was left of the Olympic Trials.
I'm still going through the initial shock, especially since we had less than the rest of the evening to have to ourselves. When I put on my ring this morning before leaving for work, I asked myself, "Is this real?" This is so real I have no other words but to say I am so incredibly happy. JB is the man I've wanted ever since we first met. Though I didn't know anything about him when we initially met last summer, there was something very sweet and kind about him that I wanted to get to know better. At the time I could have counted my losses and never looked back, especially since he hardly ever came to Shabbat services. But when we finally went out on our first date, I was in shock then, because I never thought that moment would happen. I fell in love with soon after we made our relationship official and could not be happier that he has asked me to be his wife.
More than planning a wedding, I'm truly excited about planning our life together, which seems to be something we'll do simultaneously with the wedding. I can't wait to be married to JB. He's truly the man for me.
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