oh brother

There is a lot to talk about.

I went to Seattle and had a sort of crash course in business sales. It was very interesting and I was surprised how much gossip is involved. I mostly took pictures of walls. It was fine. I got to wear business clothes. And I got to spend time with my dad! After Seattle I flew back to Chicago and Casey Best was in town! Yay! And Halloween happened. I was this girl named Ashley Todd and she was the girl who faked being attacked by some Obama supporter. We went to a show with King Kahn and the BBQ show. Which was great even though I didn’t know any of the songs. I don’t know when we did Saturday. But it was a great weekend.  

Then Tuesday Barack Obama was elected the next president of the united states. Pretty goddamn exciting. Matt had gotten tickets to the celebration in Grant Park. So we went and it was awe inspiring because of the amount of people and just everything was nice. And then after the screaming and the clapping and listening to Barack it was time to go. Getting out of the park took forever and while we were barely moving to get out of there Matt said that he loved me very much and I said the same back. Then he said that he didn’t want to make a scene because of all the people but “I want you to have this” and in his hand was an engagement ring. I was SOO surprised with matt’s proposal that all I could say was “what?” “what is this?” “what are you doing?” then he said you will marry me right? and I said YES! Of course. And he gave me this ring from his great grand mother, from Philadelphia. It’s beautiful but a little too small for my fat fingers. Hehe but Stef’s dad, is gonna take of everything and it’s going to be beautiful. I’m excited to have it back to put on my hand. Sigh. It was amazing. Some great U.S. history and some personal history. Something to tell the grandkids. Hehe.

Then I flew to Dallas on Thursday and flew back on Friday. My parents wanted me there for talking to the new employees, who are sales people. And talk about marketing literature and the new website. It was a great to see dallas and my parents and my brother, even if it was just for one night. I also felt like I had a real job for a while, so cool.  

Then last night, Friday, Jami and Sarah came over and we drank and went out and it was fun. Today, Saturday, matt and I went all the way up to some suburb for shopping fun time. it was silly. And we ended up just ordering what we wanted from online. Oh well. 

So that’s the catch up. The past week has been NUTS! Agree? Yes.

And leaving for Rome in like a week and a half.  Cool.