So, I guess by the title you can kind of guess where this is going.. I got engaged! And I could not be happier, This has been the most magical and perfect Christmas of my life. Now, I feel like I should give some background here. About eleven years ago I worked at a not so magical place called TGI Friday’s, and shortly after I started I met a guy named Joe. I actually sought him out because we had mutual friends and I was curious. After meeting we became friendly, hanging out from time to time, he was a food runner and I was a host/waitress, so when I would work the silverware station he would get me a brownie obsession, which I would hide and sneak during my shift.
After about a year, I had had enough and quit working at Friday’s. We started hanging out more and suddenly we were dating, three months later we were officially boyfriend and girlfriend. And now here we are. Well, not really we had a 10 year rollercoaster and now here we are. I won’t say it was easy, but we don’t do things the easy way. I will also say, that the waiting process to get to this point was not an easy one for me. I found it very difficult not knowing if this was a step that we were ever going to take, but I knew that I found my person and if I had to keep waiting I would.
But, I should have just listened to my best friend. Every time I would think it was going to happen and it didn’t I would get upset and I would go to her and talk it out. And she would tell me every time, “Christmas, if Joe knows you at all it will happen at Christmas”. And she was right. It happened in Orlando after a perfect trip, on a magical night, of dinner at one of our favorite restaurants and slow dancing on a ferris wheel, followed by a perfectly me and Joe moment on a lit up bridge with a Christmas tree in the background. It wasn’t what I imagined it would be it was better, I didn’t break down crying, I was laughing and purely happy. I am a very emotional person, so crying wouldn’t have been out of the question as I broke down just thinking about this moment, but I didn’t cry I burst out laughing, which made him burst out laughing, and he gave me a little lecture about how he was trying to be serious, I forever look back on that moment and remember how it felt. No moment will compare till our wedding day, and I just can’t wait!