Day Three Hundred and Five.

    Today was a very special day and I'll explain why. When I woke up my boyfriend had gotten up to go downstairs and put my dog outside. Now, this is normal when he gets up before me, so I didn't think anything of it. When he returned to the bedroom he asked me what was on my dogs collar and I wasn't sure what he was getting at until I looked and saw a ring on it! I was so surprised that he was really proposing to me that I started shaking. He asked me if I would marry him and after I asked him if he was sure, I said yes without hesitation:) He took the ring off of my dogs collar, gave me my glasses and put it on my finger. I was so happy and it took me half of the day to calm down!
    I spent most of the morning calling my family to let them know the good news! I told a select number of my close friends but didn't say anything on Fbook because I want to tell my closest work friends in person. We have already set a tentative date for December and I have emailed three venues to see if they would be available. When we first started talking about getting engaged we both agreed that we didn't want a long engagement. I also think that a December wedding would be beautiful because most places would be already decorated for Christmas.
    Due to the fact I was so excited today it took me a while to get into doing anything productive, but I finally did. After we finished watching a movie we didn't finish last night, my boyfriend helped me with my laundry and he spent some time outside with weed killer. We also spent some time on the back porch relaxing a bit. He also cleaned the grill so we could use it. For dinner we had chicken sausage, which we had bought from Trader Joe's, with a stir fry mix. Even though I didn't have any instant bad reaction after eating beef last night I did have a crampy stomach this morning. I'm actually blaming it more on the large amount of guacamole I ate then the beef. At any rate, we decided not to make burgers tonight like originally planned, just to be on the safe side.
    Tomorrow starts an 8 day in a row stretch of work which sounds intimidating, but after the good news today, I'm too happy to let anything get me down. Also, in just two weeks I will be on my second summer vacation and hopefully even more on the road to recovery. I actually had to remind myself today that I'm still healing because after I did too much my stomach ached a bit. I ended up sitting down with the heating pad for a while and then I felt much better. Hopefully in a few more weeks I will be back to normal. Alright, I've blabbed enough for one night.