A lot has happened over the last 5 months!
First of all...
Yay to Dan for finishing his first year of being a Firefigher and making through probation! No more studying, he can take naps now and watch TV. I am so proud of him! Now we can focus on planning the wedding.
By the way we got engaged in August. It was all a huge surprise to me and I was hoping it would happen but I didn't think it would so soon. He called me on a Thursday night and told me to pack because we were driving to San Francisco in the morning. He had came to my work and got the day off for me. So, of course I was thinking it might happen there, why else would he surprise me with a trip right?? So he came home from work Friday morning, we finished getting things together, I was so excited :) He told me he had to drop something off to a guy from work who was surfing down in Huntington Beach. Of course I thought how the heck are we going to find him, and we can't call him if he is in the water. So when we got there, I told him to go ahead I would wait in the car so we didn't have to park. He made me get out. We walked down towards the water, he then took me to the other side of the pier, and was all "What does that say?" There was something written in the sand, but from where we were standing (right in front of it) I couldn't read it at all. As I was trying to see what it said I turned around and he was on one knee! I was like..."right here?" I was sooo surprised!! He had friends come out and write "Natalie will you marry me" in the sand, and another friend come out and stand on the pier and take pictures of the whole thing!! And of course I can't get those up because the pictures are so huge, and they only will upload on an Apple computer. Dan has one and is in the process of making them smaller so we can email them off to family and friends. Oh, then we drove up to San Francisco and had a wonderful weekend just us 2! We drove the cost home and it took us forever, but it was extremely beautiful!
School is going great for me! We finally are on a 2 week break. But I am moving right along. I passed 1 of 3 of my 70s test. That is 70 words per minute on a Stenograph, the machine in my last blog. I must say that it was very difficult, and I was worried I wasn't going to pass. At this point we should at least be at our 50s and I whizzed right to my 70s. I have a feeling I will be stuck there for a couple weeks. But I love school. I love the girls there, we all get a long great. There is a total of 5 of us in our class, and 4 of us are all the same age. And all very very different.
I also got a new position at the bank! My title is now a Fraud Specialist! I love it compared to being a teller. The only bad thing is that it is a little bit further from my house, and I start at 7:00 am. Which means the alarm goes off at like 5:30! Which if you knew me before I started working at the bank, I woke up at noon everyday! So getting up early really really sucks. But I am slightly getting use to it. Plus I get off at 4 which I must say is way better than 5:30. Our bank built a brand new office building in Seal Beach for all of the departments. The best part...Chef Alonso. He makes us breakfast and lunch everyday. We have Carne Asada tacos every Tuesday, my favorite! I now sit on the computer all morning looking for fraudulent checks. It is actually quite interesting. A couple weeks ago I got a small bonus for catching a large fraudulent check. It came at perfect timing, right before the holidays. Who can't use the extra money? The girls at work are awesome too, so that definitly helps when you are changing positions.
I keep telling Dan that I wouldn't mind moving to Corona if I could quit working and just focus on school. Some days he says ya he wouldn't mind but then some days he laughs at me like its a bad idea. I can't really picture myself letting him pay all my bills, like my car payment! I know he makes enough money to do it but I still couldn't do it. Now, if he wants to buy me a new car and put his name on it too, and it will be both of ours, then I wouldn't mind so much haha. I might consider moving there anyway just because you can get a lot of house for not a lot of money, however you are in Corona. Away from most of the family. But I do have a cousin that lives there so I would spend most of my time there when Dan is working, I don't know how I am going to feel sleeping in a huge house by myself. We would need to get a dog. A mini goldendoodle to be exact! And maybe a bigger one that can actually protect me. I know my mom and Kristen really don't want me moving that far. But we have time to think about it because we are getting married first, and that isn't until October 3rd! Vegas! I am so excited, we are doing it at Victoria's Chapel, but not in the Chapel, outside, and the reception is right there too. Its a all in one place. With an open bar, for one set price. It was a pretty awesome deal and me and my whole family are so excited!
Well I couldn't put up any pictures today because I am working. But I will try to put some up soon. I will get pictures of Charlee :) She is getting so big now, and she knows who I am and loves me lots. She is actually 6 months today!! She is soooo cute!
Gotta go, we are closing soon :)
