The One With the Engagement

In honor of it being two years since hubs and I got engaged I though I would share with you my foolproof way to get a man to propose! 

Please keep in mind that this is a 6 year plan.

This is a video from the weekend I met Kyle.
Not only did him and his best friends think this was hilarious, but there I am in the background. In other videos you can see multiple other people from our youth group standing around watching this behavior!
Clearly digital cameras had yet to produce videos with sound!

Nerd Night

This is what me and my best friends did that night. We also prank called the boys below us. ALL NIGHT! This is, to this day, my favorite trip ever.

 Obviously we were an immature match made in heaven from the start.

• Sit in front of him on a bus. Shamelessly use his best friend to have an excuse to talk to him the whole drive. 
• Talk to him on AIM whenever you get a chance. 
• Make sure he asks you out and to prom on the same night, in an Arby's parking lot. 



Prom 2005

• After he asks you out, don't hold his hand for two weeks or kiss him for a month and a half. 
• Don't go anywhere with him just the two of you. 
•  Make him go see Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants with you. Because he's late, make him purchase his own ticket and come find you and your friends. 
• Alternate weeks of being out of town for the entire summer. 
• Now that he's wrapped around your finger, break up with him over AIM because "it's just not working since we never see each other." (Bonus points if it's his mom's birthday) 
• Start dating someone else on a trip you convinced him to go on with the youth group. 
• Accidentally go on a date with him when everyone else bails last minute. Kiss him on that same night. 



Before officially dating again, New Years Eve Blowout 2005

• Ask him to come over to help you set up your new iPod.
• Agree to go to his sister's wedding, but only if you're boyfriend/girlfriend again. 

• When he goes to college an hour away, work on all weekends so you can only see each other every few weeks or so. 

• Call him every night, forcing him to stop hanging out with his friends. 
• Go to college 4 hours away from him. 

• Immediately get a job and join a sorority so you're insanely busy. 
• Make him drive the 4 hours every month so he can sleep on your floor for the weekend.
• Drag him to sorority functions. 
• After three years of this start telling him that you want to be engaged. 
• Tell him you want to be engaged by the end of the year.
• Ignore the situation and hope for the best. 
• Visit him at his school and talk him into walking on the beach at night. 

• By the end of the night you WILL have a ring on your finger.   

Kyle, I will forever be grateful that I have such a wonderful man to call my husband.
 I can't wait to see where our love story takes us.

This is the Stuff

 

I like things organized. 

My planner and my iCal are color coded and have my life in them. 

I don't like not having plans.

I like having control.

God has a sense of humor, he gave me Kyle, my complete opposite in this.

He also is constantly trying to teach me to give up control. I constantly struggle against this.

Enter the most unorganized time of my life.

I'm going to be honest, these last few days have been some of my roughest yet. 

We're moving a week from today and currently don't have somewhere to live.

School starts in a month and I haven't had any sort of interview lined up. 

And there's nothing I can physically do to get any of this to happen. 

I wrote before about how we had found a condo and were so excited about it. We're still trying to get the condo, but it seems like one thing after the other keeps getting in our way. I don't doubt that we'll get the condo, it just doesn't look like we'll be in it when we need to be. We filled out the forms, and found out 11 days later that the owner's realtor never sent them to the association. We figured everything out with them and then found out we needed to give them a copy of the lease. We didn't have one because the realtor said the condo had to approve us before the final lease was signed. We found out the association has to meet with us and only meets on Mondays. We have to move Sunday. We get the final lease and are told we have to pay, first, last, and security. All the same price. We had been told first and last. We couldn't afford all three. 

I called my dad sobbing because I had no idea what to do and was so stressed. My dad is not only a minister, but used to work for a company that teaches people about how to handle their money. After helping me figure it all out he says,"I'm glad you're going through this." I'm sorry, what? My dad clarified that he was glad that we were figuring out how to deal with the stress of money and searching for the right solution before doing something dumb in a panic that messed us up even worse. Leave it to my dad to remind me of the blessing in my mess. 

As for a job, I've applied every place that's hiring in my county for my age group. Hopefully someone will call me soon! Jobs were just posted less than two weeks ago, but once again for me, not having a future plan is stressing me out!