one year ago...

It's a little late since I missed my one year anniversary of living in Phoenix.

One year ago was kinda surreal. I wasn't working. I was applying to all kinds of jobs and not hearing anything.

After Thanksgiving, boyfriend and I did all kinds of traveling. It was spending a few days here and a few days there. We stayed on this part of the country.

I didn't have a place of my own to put up lights or decorations. I didn't have a lot of money for giving gifts. So I gave my time since that's what I had a lot of.

In retrospect, boyfriend and I should have done a long car trip to the midwest to see more of his family. We kept the traveling to this part of the country.

Now, I spent the afternoon putting up lights and decorations. Boyfriend was here for Thanksgiving (again).

And boyfriend's not just boyfriend anymore. On our drive back from Wickenburg, he was telling me about how he plans to have his next house, and putting in these things like an Arizona room for cats, and a rose garden, it was obvious "those are my things."

I couldn't help but comment that he was putting the cart before the horse since I'm just his girlfriend.

And that's when he showed me the ring.

Okay, it's not really mine yet. He's a starving student for goodness sakes. But he has it picked it out. And I found out that while I was working Friday, he and my dad had a drive where they had a "talk". And he got my dad's blessing.

This is probably a very good thing. This has never happened to me, and I thought it never would. So I have time to get used to this idea, and start to have some ideas of what I really would like .