okay so i dont know if anyone checks this anymore but here goes
So, I was in the desert for like 4 months which was good and bad. It gave me time away from everything and everyone here so i could think and clear my head, and clear my head i did. I realized that all the girls i have been dating were mostly for a physical reason and nothing else (yes i know that is a typical guy thing but whatever). So i descided to sit back and think about what it was i really wanted out of life and the kinda person i was looking for to spend it with. Everything kept pointing to Ashley {smile}. Like i've always loved her and never really stopped even at our worst point. So i started looking for a ring while i was over there. That was a disaster, lol. I emailed her mom and tiff to see if they could get her ring size cause i had foregot what it was. She ended up figuring it out and asked me the next time i talked to her what i was doing and to tell me that she was dating someone at the time. That one we arent talking about. So i just descided to get her a necklace as a friend. Its really cute and 2 symbols she likes the most on one necklace so it was perfect. That stops right there for now.
So i came home went to myrtle and started working on my truck with my dad. I foregot how fun that was. It was like an Orange County Chopper show out there. We were fighting so bad one day that a lady like 2 doors down came down and said something. After like 2 weeks we had it about 99% done and called it a day. I left in my dad trucks and he left on his bike. I went to Mcd's and he went somewhere to get "food". He ended up going and getting drunk and so food too. On his way home he wrecked his bike 2 houses down from my sisters. He ended up rolling the bike from left to right over top of him. He was breathing when i got to him but he wasnt awake. My pain turned to anger as i knelt down to check his pulse and smelt the alchol. I helped the EMS put in on the board and we left for the hospital. There they told us he broke his clavical, colar bone, 4 ribs, his shoulder blade, and a fractured skull. He also had brain damage from the impact. They ended up taking him to Willmington, NC. He woke up a week later. Meanwhile we got my truck fixed and i was on my way to VA.
In VA
I stayed at Ashley's Mom's house cause my mom is doing AA and i didnt want to be there if i was to drink at all which i really didnt do to much of while i was up there. Anyways, while ashley was off to KY to break up with scott, jay and i were off to Ginger's to look at rings. She started off by showing me like 1/2karot and 1karot dimonds. I was like and how much are those, lady was like 3500 and 4000. I was like uuummm lets go down a lil in size and money so she showed me a ring that was pretty but it was yellow gold and anyone that knows Ashley knows she hates yellow. I told the lady this and she said okay so lets go over here. She ended up taking me all over store. Finally we found one that i like and jay and wj like so we descided to get it. They helped in the money area as long as i could pay them back, which i could. I was supposed to wait until like Tues. or so but once i heard she was back in town i couldnt wait till Tues. So on Saturday, May 28 around 6-7pm i asked the woman i have loved for the last 4 yeaers to marry me and she said yes. I was so happy. Ahh, i was so nervous and just excited and everything. I was the most wonderful feeling to hear her say yes with that big smile on her face. So the next week was awsome, we went around telling everyone and all that good stuff. Then came time for me to leave. I wanted so bad to take her with me and i almost did one or two times. Like im talking i was in her room looking for a bag to pack her stuff in for her. But we descided that we have been mature and responsible with this whole thing so lets just keep to the original plan of her staying there until i get back from the desert and then moving her down. I left and started back toward Myrtle. It was raining and nasty so i was being cautious with the lift on the truck and all when all of a sudden i went around a curve and hydroplaned off the road and look out 2 trees. I pulled out and went to the next exit where i called her to tell her i was on my way back and that i wrecked my truck. I got back and the next 3 days were i lil rocky for us. We were together like 24/7 except for when she was at work so needless to say it was to much for both of us. To make matters worse, i was stessed about my truck and exhausted from the lack of sleep. She was working doubles and stressed and exhausted so we had a couple of disagreements but we worked it out and everything is good.
The wedding is going to be May 20 of next year.
JOE
So i came home went to myrtle and started working on my truck with my dad. I foregot how fun that was. It was like an Orange County Chopper show out there. We were fighting so bad one day that a lady like 2 doors down came down and said something. After like 2 weeks we had it about 99% done and called it a day. I left in my dad trucks and he left on his bike. I went to Mcd's and he went somewhere to get "food". He ended up going and getting drunk and so food too. On his way home he wrecked his bike 2 houses down from my sisters. He ended up rolling the bike from left to right over top of him. He was breathing when i got to him but he wasnt awake. My pain turned to anger as i knelt down to check his pulse and smelt the alchol. I helped the EMS put in on the board and we left for the hospital. There they told us he broke his clavical, colar bone, 4 ribs, his shoulder blade, and a fractured skull. He also had brain damage from the impact. They ended up taking him to Willmington, NC. He woke up a week later. Meanwhile we got my truck fixed and i was on my way to VA.
In VA
I stayed at Ashley's Mom's house cause my mom is doing AA and i didnt want to be there if i was to drink at all which i really didnt do to much of while i was up there. Anyways, while ashley was off to KY to break up with scott, jay and i were off to Ginger's to look at rings. She started off by showing me like 1/2karot and 1karot dimonds. I was like and how much are those, lady was like 3500 and 4000. I was like uuummm lets go down a lil in size and money so she showed me a ring that was pretty but it was yellow gold and anyone that knows Ashley knows she hates yellow. I told the lady this and she said okay so lets go over here. She ended up taking me all over store. Finally we found one that i like and jay and wj like so we descided to get it. They helped in the money area as long as i could pay them back, which i could. I was supposed to wait until like Tues. or so but once i heard she was back in town i couldnt wait till Tues. So on Saturday, May 28 around 6-7pm i asked the woman i have loved for the last 4 yeaers to marry me and she said yes. I was so happy. Ahh, i was so nervous and just excited and everything. I was the most wonderful feeling to hear her say yes with that big smile on her face. So the next week was awsome, we went around telling everyone and all that good stuff. Then came time for me to leave. I wanted so bad to take her with me and i almost did one or two times. Like im talking i was in her room looking for a bag to pack her stuff in for her. But we descided that we have been mature and responsible with this whole thing so lets just keep to the original plan of her staying there until i get back from the desert and then moving her down. I left and started back toward Myrtle. It was raining and nasty so i was being cautious with the lift on the truck and all when all of a sudden i went around a curve and hydroplaned off the road and look out 2 trees. I pulled out and went to the next exit where i called her to tell her i was on my way back and that i wrecked my truck. I got back and the next 3 days were i lil rocky for us. We were together like 24/7 except for when she was at work so needless to say it was to much for both of us. To make matters worse, i was stessed about my truck and exhausted from the lack of sleep. She was working doubles and stressed and exhausted so we had a couple of disagreements but we worked it out and everything is good.
The wedding is going to be May 20 of next year.
JOE