And the Excitment Winds Down.... - Sept 14th

...While the fear and frustration kicks in. For those of you who don't know (can't imagine who..nobody reads this thing anymore)...I'm engaged. I have been so for 1 month and 4 days. Jeremiah popped the question while we were vacationing in the Florida Keys. Overall, it was a really nice vacation..very relaxing. Didn't get much of a tan but I got a nice diamond instead. He proposed sea-side, Wednesday, August 10th, right after the sun tucked itself under the waves. He got down on one knee and asked me. It all happened so fast.

Now that the hubbub of the engagement is over, now its time to plan the wedding...which I'm not enjoying. Should I enjoy this? I'm not one for shopping around. I used to have the creative bug but now I just want someone else to do everything. I'm more excited about getting a house and moving in with Jeremiah than I am about actually getting married. Is that wrong?

So far, the only thing we've accomplished in a month is setting the date..which is June 10th of 2006. I've been wedding dress shopping twice and found some pretty ones, but nothing that screamed "THIS IS THE ONE!!" I hope it comes.

I haven't been sleeping well. I've been waking myself up with tossing and turning every morning. Maybe I need to flip my mattress.

I hope that once we decide where we're gonna get married, everything else will fall into place and be fun. We work opposite schedules half the time so its hard to do things together to accomplish wedding tasks.

My mom's exact words were "Are you shittin' me?!" on news of the proposal...

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