One of those huge-ass updates!
So, yeah it's been awhile. I don't like the bulleted updates like justzach81 said. So I'm going to just do a paragraph on each big topic.
Last time I was on here I had just moved. We are finally settled. Almost everything is done and decorated and unpacked. We are completely unpacked, but there are some things that still need to be hung and everything. It definitely feels like home now. I love this house and I love living here. We got a wonderful dog too because J really wanted one. He's the sweetest thing ever. (The dog I mean...well J is too of course!) John and I did have some adjusting to do. It's hard to adjust to living with someone else. But it's been really great for us. That leads us into:
Our engagement! The Sunday before I started school back I had gone over to my sister's house to hang out. John had gotten up and gone to work. (Or so I thought). While I was at my sister's he called and told me that he had gotten off of work early, which happens often enough, so I didn't think twice about it. He called again later to see why I hadn't come home yet, but I wasn't in any big hurry. My sister kept urging me to go home and see him, so I finally did. When I walked up to the door going into the house from the house the receipt from our first date was taped to the door. I opened the door and there were red and white rose petals leading me up the stairs. One of our songs was playing on the stereo. There were also candles going up the stairs. The candles and rose petals led me up to the bedroom door. All over the walls were love notes from througout our whole relationship that I collected as I went. When I opened the bedroom door he was on one knee waiting for me. He said so many beautiful and wonderful things. The horrible thing is that I was so ecstatic and shocked that I don't remember all of it. I started crying as soon as I saw him there. He told me how lucky he was to have met his soul mate and the one he wants to spend the rest of his life with. When he said "Katie Bell will you marry me?" I just about fainted. I know no one will believe me, but I didn't even look at the ring. I knelt down with him and kissed him all over and I realized I never said "yes." I did eventually say it, clearly. He told me that we were having dinner with my parents at 5:30 to celebrate. But when I got to my parent's house there were a million cars there. He had thrown me a surprise engagement party! Most of my good friends were there, some friends from work, my whole family, his whole family and his friends. I was in shock. I couldn't believe that everyone close to me knew about me getting engaged and no one let it leak! I did call everyone I knew after he proposed and I noticed that no one would answer the phone. Kimberlina13 did, but I could tell right away she was hiding something. I still had no idea about the party though. I just thought that John had told everyone that he was going to propose. I was also very happy that he had gone to my dad's house to ask permission before asking me. I'm pretty liberal and modern, but I guess when it comes to proposing/weddings/marriage I'm fairly conservative. So when school started on Monday I was on cloud nine all day. I was showing my ring to everyone all day. I didn't tell my class about it because I don't think that 5 year olds would really care. Especially on their first day of school. We are looking at getting married October 28th of next year, but we haven't been able to find a place here yet. It's pretty far off, so I haven't really looked at dresses or cakes or anything. I just want to finalize a place because some of them are already booked up.
Okay, enough engagement stuff. School has been in session for 2 weeks. I'm grade level chair this year, and it is a lot of added stress. I'm working 10,11, and 12 hour days. I know it will ease off as we get more into the school year. I have a great class this year. I have some kids with different disabilities that I am not familiar with, but I will learn a lot this year, I can tell. The parents seem like they will be good to work with too. I'm just looking forward to this year a lot and it's funny because this summer I was thinking about what other jobs I might want to pursue other than teaching, but now I couldn't imagine leaving. I am also becoming more social with some of my coworkers and that makes me happy. I've wanted to be good friends with people I work with since I started there two years ago, but I guess it just takes time. Now we are doing a weekly happy hour at someone's house or a restaurant and I'm getting to know a lot of people pretty well. There are three other women at my school who are engaged right now too, so we talk about wedding stuff a lot. I guess I just feel like everything is coming together.
I miss having a social life outside of work because since I started working again about 4 weeks ago I haven't seen much of anyone. It is also no big surprise that I am already sick. Only 2 weeks into school and I either have the flu or strep. I had a fever last night and this morning. My throat is on fire, my ears feel clogged and my whole body is achy. It only took 2 freakin' weeks for my children to get me sick. Fabulous. Anyway, I think I'm going to go lay back down on the couch. But there is no possible way for me to read my friend's page because it would take me like 4 hours to catch up on everything. So if there is any big news you guys need to let me know!
Last time I was on here I had just moved. We are finally settled. Almost everything is done and decorated and unpacked. We are completely unpacked, but there are some things that still need to be hung and everything. It definitely feels like home now. I love this house and I love living here. We got a wonderful dog too because J really wanted one. He's the sweetest thing ever. (The dog I mean...well J is too of course!) John and I did have some adjusting to do. It's hard to adjust to living with someone else. But it's been really great for us. That leads us into:
Our engagement! The Sunday before I started school back I had gone over to my sister's house to hang out. John had gotten up and gone to work. (Or so I thought). While I was at my sister's he called and told me that he had gotten off of work early, which happens often enough, so I didn't think twice about it. He called again later to see why I hadn't come home yet, but I wasn't in any big hurry. My sister kept urging me to go home and see him, so I finally did. When I walked up to the door going into the house from the house the receipt from our first date was taped to the door. I opened the door and there were red and white rose petals leading me up the stairs. One of our songs was playing on the stereo. There were also candles going up the stairs. The candles and rose petals led me up to the bedroom door. All over the walls were love notes from througout our whole relationship that I collected as I went. When I opened the bedroom door he was on one knee waiting for me. He said so many beautiful and wonderful things. The horrible thing is that I was so ecstatic and shocked that I don't remember all of it. I started crying as soon as I saw him there. He told me how lucky he was to have met his soul mate and the one he wants to spend the rest of his life with. When he said "Katie Bell will you marry me?" I just about fainted. I know no one will believe me, but I didn't even look at the ring. I knelt down with him and kissed him all over and I realized I never said "yes." I did eventually say it, clearly. He told me that we were having dinner with my parents at 5:30 to celebrate. But when I got to my parent's house there were a million cars there. He had thrown me a surprise engagement party! Most of my good friends were there, some friends from work, my whole family, his whole family and his friends. I was in shock. I couldn't believe that everyone close to me knew about me getting engaged and no one let it leak! I did call everyone I knew after he proposed and I noticed that no one would answer the phone. Kimberlina13 did, but I could tell right away she was hiding something. I still had no idea about the party though. I just thought that John had told everyone that he was going to propose. I was also very happy that he had gone to my dad's house to ask permission before asking me. I'm pretty liberal and modern, but I guess when it comes to proposing/weddings/marriage I'm fairly conservative. So when school started on Monday I was on cloud nine all day. I was showing my ring to everyone all day. I didn't tell my class about it because I don't think that 5 year olds would really care. Especially on their first day of school. We are looking at getting married October 28th of next year, but we haven't been able to find a place here yet. It's pretty far off, so I haven't really looked at dresses or cakes or anything. I just want to finalize a place because some of them are already booked up.
Okay, enough engagement stuff. School has been in session for 2 weeks. I'm grade level chair this year, and it is a lot of added stress. I'm working 10,11, and 12 hour days. I know it will ease off as we get more into the school year. I have a great class this year. I have some kids with different disabilities that I am not familiar with, but I will learn a lot this year, I can tell. The parents seem like they will be good to work with too. I'm just looking forward to this year a lot and it's funny because this summer I was thinking about what other jobs I might want to pursue other than teaching, but now I couldn't imagine leaving. I am also becoming more social with some of my coworkers and that makes me happy. I've wanted to be good friends with people I work with since I started there two years ago, but I guess it just takes time. Now we are doing a weekly happy hour at someone's house or a restaurant and I'm getting to know a lot of people pretty well. There are three other women at my school who are engaged right now too, so we talk about wedding stuff a lot. I guess I just feel like everything is coming together.
I miss having a social life outside of work because since I started working again about 4 weeks ago I haven't seen much of anyone. It is also no big surprise that I am already sick. Only 2 weeks into school and I either have the flu or strep. I had a fever last night and this morning. My throat is on fire, my ears feel clogged and my whole body is achy. It only took 2 freakin' weeks for my children to get me sick. Fabulous. Anyway, I think I'm going to go lay back down on the couch. But there is no possible way for me to read my friend's page because it would take me like 4 hours to catch up on everything. So if there is any big news you guys need to let me know!