Thursday, November 14, 2013

Getting Engaged!

On September 22nd, 2013 I got engaged.  Here are the details:

  Highway 9 is special for us.  After our 5 year sabbatical of interacting with the each other, the first thing we did was go for a motorcycle ride on Highway 9.  Vista points are always the perfect place to stop and stretch our legs during a long ride and we have used the very one where Ryan popped the question on many rides.

       So it only made sense that Ryan would ask such an important question on a road we travel together so much.  He had it all planned out, we would camp at Sanborn park for the weekend, on Saturday evening we would picnic at our favorite vista spot and he would ask me a question he already knew the answer to.  

At the Highway 9 vista point, moments before Ryan proposed.


        The weather and my back (recovering from a recent injury) had other ideas and we ended up leaving Sanborn park Saturday morning after an epic night of rainfall.  We packed up just in time to avoid being drenched as the rain started again and Ryan had to scratch his sunset proposal idea, as the rain continued all day long.  

         Sunday morning was beautiful and we went to the Campbell farmers market for picnic foods.  Since the weather was so nice we went for a drive up Highway 9, had our picnic at the vista point and walked out on the trail where I took the picture above.  Then Ryan surprised me more than anyone ever has before, got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.  After I came out of my speechless stupor, I said YES!  And here we are planning our lives together.  

         A long and complicated story, I know, but all good things take time!

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

It's been a long, long time...

Well hello out there!

 It's been ages since I've written a thing and for that, I apologize.  I have been insanely busy though, and life got a bit hectic there for a while.  I am happy to report that I finally have things under control.

By under control, I mean that in the past 2 years I have made enormous changes in myself and the direction of my future.  There was a period of complete unsureness (yes, I am making that a word as of right now).  I feel as though I have gone through a loooong tunnel and come out on the other side to a landscape which I recognize so fully that I am more confident in myself than I ever have been before.  Seeing the future is absolutely grand, and by that I don't mean that I am psychic or something, but rather that I can see a penciled sketch of my future drawn out in front of me.  The vague idea that I know where I am going is the most fantastic feeling and a real adrenaline rush.

So for those of you only slightly aware of me as an actual person instead of a blogger, here are the changes that have occurred since my last post in 2011:
-I moved home to my mom's house and became single.
-I started looking for jobs where I would actually have health insurance and could make enough money to pay off my student  loans.
-I made a habit of walking my dog before my looong drive to Santa Cruz everyday.
-I had several dismal and disappointing interviews.
-I went for a motorcycle ride and found the man that I would, eventually, fall in love with.
-I had a few more promising interviews.
-I landed a job as an administrative assistant for a land developer in Santa Clara.
-My commute went from an hour to half an hour each way.
-I got health benefits!!!!!!
-My boyfriend and I found a house to rent in Sunnyvale with Cooper and BJ. (These pseudonyms will come up over and over as I blog again I am sure, so you will become more familiar with the guys behind the fun names, as I have)
-I floated through several months of financial stability going on camping trips on weekends, riding around on the back of a motorcycle, and generally living life more fully and happily.
-I got a promotion!  Woo Development!
-I pulled my back out again... I was bed-ridden for a week >:-(
-Ryan proposed!

Ok, that was a few too many exclamation points at the end there, but that's how I feel about it all.  It's as though I am manic all the time.  This extreme rush of joy takes over when I think about the state of things and look back at how I got here.  That is the super duper condensed version and I have so very much more to share.  I've been writing a script and taking mapping classes.  I'm going to try not to get ahead of myself here; there is a whole lifetime to share the details of what I'm currently and recently up to.  Things are looking way up like never-ending-elevator-to-the-sky up!

And now I'll just occasionally blog as if you all know everything about me.

<3
Cassiebird
Let me know what you've been up to, life changing, or not, I'd love to hear about it!