Ch-ch-changes

The last time I wrote a blog was February 2009. A lot of things have changed in my life since then. A lot of GREAT things have happened. First, I graduated from college with a B.S. degree in elementary and special education. It poured during the ceremony, but that made it all the more memorable. I was accepted into graduate school, and have just completed my first week of classes. I should have a master's degree in a year and half in elementary education. It's going to be hard work but it's going to be worth it. We've been to a bunch of concerts, including Dave Matthews, Billy Joel and Elton John, and Paul McCartney. We've been to Washington, D.C. where I've never been before. I got a tattoo. We've been to a bunch of baseball games, including the Phillies and Yankees. We've spent a lot of time with friends and family.

The biggest change that's happened is that I'm now happily engaged to my wonderful fiance. He proposed to me on June 11, 2009 in Saratoga, NY. It had been almost 4 years to the day that we had our first date. He took me where we went that day and said the most beautiful things to me, got down on one knee and popped the question. It was absolutely perfect- I couldn't have imagined a better way to do it.

Right now we're in the middle of planning our wedding. I'm so excited to get married and to see what other changes happen in our lives. By this time next year, we will be married. He will be finished grad school and will hopefully have a job in substance abuse counseling. I will be in my last semester of graduate school. Who knows where we'll go from there? I don't, and I like it that way. Change can be a scary thing, but in these cases it's a great thing.

Long Strange Trip

I am not the hugest grateful dead fan, but I do enjoy their music. I went to a concert last night for Valentine's day to see the grateful dead cover band and they played the song Truckin. I really listened to it for the first time, and thought that life really is a long strange trip. Things happen that you might not be aware are happening and the next thing you know your life is totally different. I love my life right now. Looking back I never would have thought that I would have ended up in NC living with the love of my life. I never thought I would meet a guy so great, but then one day who walks in to mangia cafe but the most amazing guy i had ever seen or met. the only reason he was there was because the other place he wanted to work wasn't hiring. who knows, if they were hiring, would we have met? it's a long strange trip. i was never really sure what i wanted to do when i grew up. i always kind of thought of a teacher, my dad always wanted me to go into business, i never knew. then i signed up for a course in child psychology and found it very interesting. i decided that i wanted to be a teacher. this wonderful man that i had just met was going to school in north carolina at a school that had an education program. he asked me to move in with him, i signed up for classes, and now i'm even more sure than ever that teaching is what i want to do. it's a long strange trip. i'm not sure where the trip will go next. i'm applying to graduate school, so hopefully that will work out. we're not sure where we'll move to after that, but wherever it is, as long as we're truckin together, i'll be happy. it's a long strange trip.