Long Overdue
So it's been a crazy two weeks or so. My life has been a whirwind, but in the best possible way. Still dont' have a job, but finally I've had some success. I had an interview last week and I have a phone interview today. I saw the best job ad the other day, it was for a hotel close by looking for an administrative assistant. All it said was : AD MIN DUTIES. Couldn't even spell admin right, then there was another ad from the same place for a secretary and I thought oh this must be it. All it said was : SECRETARIAL DUTIES. I guess they really do need someone to organize stuff like that. Needless to say I passed. I"m hoping for the job I interviewed last week. It's an administrative assistant for a non profit organization called Milestones. They promote education and training for the autism community. I"m keeping my fingers crossed.
That's one of the few negatives of my life right now. My dogs are still adorable and loving as ever. The rest of my family is well, I actually started talking to my dad again, which is weird, but the fact is I've missed him, so I'm happy to see him again. Got to see my cousin Sal yesterday before he leaves for Iraq again. Grandma's knee replacement surgery is over and you can't even tell because she's active again as ever. So to sum it up, my family is happy.
My birthday was this weekend, I'm now 24! Thank you to all who said happy birthday and who celebrated with me! This was definitely the best birthday I've had in a long time and not spent at rehearsal!!! On my actual day, Joe and I went out with my family to eat and then Joe and I went to see Juno. We're a little behind with the movies. The last movie we saw was 1408 in theatres. We're a little better about renting movies. Then the next night we went Laser Tagging. I haven't gone in years and had a blast! I was pretty much the worst everytime. I got hit a lot and even though I got a lot of shots off I never really knew where the targets were. But I had fun. Also got food at El Rodeo which is the brightest color restaurant I've ever seen in my life. And like all Mexican restaurants the food comes out in like 30 seconds.
We came back to our house and Pat brought over Rock Band and we played that for hours. I had no idea how much fun it was. I was better at guitar than drums and singing was hard since I know very few songs that aren't musicals. We stayed up until 2 which is not the norm for Joe and I so we were both exhausted for Easter. But it was such a fun weekend. Joe spoiled me as usual and bought me flowers and a keyboard stand/bench. Then he came in with the big gift.... a gnome! He's currently chilling out on our bumper pool table. we really have nothing to do with him, but Joe just decided we needed one, lol.
And finally the big news. Joe and I are getting married! Last weekend we went to St. Louis for a weekend getaway. We saw the arch, took a tour of the city, went to the anheuser busch brewery, went to see The Wedding Singer and got to relax around our hotel. We were there for 4 days and on the second day, Joe and I spent the evening in taking a bubblebath, drinking the wine we brought and just having a romantic evening. Joe had burned us a St. Louis mix of different songs. After we got out of the bath and dressed Joe said he wanted to sing to me since he knows I like it, but he warned me that it was a tenor song and he's not a tenor (like I care). So he started playing a song and singing to me. I was so moved and really wasn't thinking about the meaning until the lyrics came up I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Then Joe started choking up and he couldn't finish. He said he wanted to continue the family we had started and how he wanted to spend our lives together and then he grabbed the ring. Both of us were crying and somehow I managed to say yes when he asked me to marry him and then we experience what we call the wettest kiss of our life because both of us were crying pretty hard. It was beautiful. Joe told me how he had been trying to figure out when he was going to do it all day. he thought about it when we went up in the arch, but it's so crowded up there and felt too touristy, so he didn't do it then. Then we went for a carriage ride around St. Louis. Again he thought about it doing it, but he could tell I was uncomfortable because lots of people were staring including a large group of asian tourists who were soooo excited to see this horse. Like they were taking pictures and talking excitedly, it was funny, but again a lot of people. So he waited until the hotel because that's me. I don't like big deals to be made about me. It all happened in a blur and I still find myself staring at the ring, not believing it's really true!
The song was from Pippin actually, a musical I do not know at all. I was like oh guess I should see it now and Joe was like well the context it's used in the show would probably ruin it. But the song and lyrics are beautiful. And of course the next day the first thing we did as an engaged couple was the brewery tour, which fits perfectly. It's really exciting and now we're trying to figure out a date and location of the ceremony/reception. We have the reception location down to 2, but if anyone has any ideas of a ceremony location on the west side we would love to hear them! We haven't ruled out a church, but we're trying to find other options than that since we don't belong to a church. We have Mapleside Farms and the garden at the Western Reserve Historical Society.
So that's been my life, a lot of excitement has happened and more is yet to come. Congrats if you finished reading all of this!
That's one of the few negatives of my life right now. My dogs are still adorable and loving as ever. The rest of my family is well, I actually started talking to my dad again, which is weird, but the fact is I've missed him, so I'm happy to see him again. Got to see my cousin Sal yesterday before he leaves for Iraq again. Grandma's knee replacement surgery is over and you can't even tell because she's active again as ever. So to sum it up, my family is happy.
My birthday was this weekend, I'm now 24! Thank you to all who said happy birthday and who celebrated with me! This was definitely the best birthday I've had in a long time and not spent at rehearsal!!! On my actual day, Joe and I went out with my family to eat and then Joe and I went to see Juno. We're a little behind with the movies. The last movie we saw was 1408 in theatres. We're a little better about renting movies. Then the next night we went Laser Tagging. I haven't gone in years and had a blast! I was pretty much the worst everytime. I got hit a lot and even though I got a lot of shots off I never really knew where the targets were. But I had fun. Also got food at El Rodeo which is the brightest color restaurant I've ever seen in my life. And like all Mexican restaurants the food comes out in like 30 seconds.
We came back to our house and Pat brought over Rock Band and we played that for hours. I had no idea how much fun it was. I was better at guitar than drums and singing was hard since I know very few songs that aren't musicals. We stayed up until 2 which is not the norm for Joe and I so we were both exhausted for Easter. But it was such a fun weekend. Joe spoiled me as usual and bought me flowers and a keyboard stand/bench. Then he came in with the big gift.... a gnome! He's currently chilling out on our bumper pool table. we really have nothing to do with him, but Joe just decided we needed one, lol.
And finally the big news. Joe and I are getting married! Last weekend we went to St. Louis for a weekend getaway. We saw the arch, took a tour of the city, went to the anheuser busch brewery, went to see The Wedding Singer and got to relax around our hotel. We were there for 4 days and on the second day, Joe and I spent the evening in taking a bubblebath, drinking the wine we brought and just having a romantic evening. Joe had burned us a St. Louis mix of different songs. After we got out of the bath and dressed Joe said he wanted to sing to me since he knows I like it, but he warned me that it was a tenor song and he's not a tenor (like I care). So he started playing a song and singing to me. I was so moved and really wasn't thinking about the meaning until the lyrics came up I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Then Joe started choking up and he couldn't finish. He said he wanted to continue the family we had started and how he wanted to spend our lives together and then he grabbed the ring. Both of us were crying and somehow I managed to say yes when he asked me to marry him and then we experience what we call the wettest kiss of our life because both of us were crying pretty hard. It was beautiful. Joe told me how he had been trying to figure out when he was going to do it all day. he thought about it when we went up in the arch, but it's so crowded up there and felt too touristy, so he didn't do it then. Then we went for a carriage ride around St. Louis. Again he thought about it doing it, but he could tell I was uncomfortable because lots of people were staring including a large group of asian tourists who were soooo excited to see this horse. Like they were taking pictures and talking excitedly, it was funny, but again a lot of people. So he waited until the hotel because that's me. I don't like big deals to be made about me. It all happened in a blur and I still find myself staring at the ring, not believing it's really true!
The song was from Pippin actually, a musical I do not know at all. I was like oh guess I should see it now and Joe was like well the context it's used in the show would probably ruin it. But the song and lyrics are beautiful. And of course the next day the first thing we did as an engaged couple was the brewery tour, which fits perfectly. It's really exciting and now we're trying to figure out a date and location of the ceremony/reception. We have the reception location down to 2, but if anyone has any ideas of a ceremony location on the west side we would love to hear them! We haven't ruled out a church, but we're trying to find other options than that since we don't belong to a church. We have Mapleside Farms and the garden at the Western Reserve Historical Society.
So that's been my life, a lot of excitement has happened and more is yet to come. Congrats if you finished reading all of this!