So, what has happened in my life in the seven months I've ceased to update Situations?
A lot, actually.
I ended a long-term relationship in January.
Started my year long externship at DesignWorks.
Turned 22 on February 23.
This is where it gets interesting.
During a birthday outing with some friends at First Avenue's Saturday dance night Too Much Love, I was approached by a boy at the end of the night. I was sitting alone waiting for my friends and he came up to me and said, "Hi, I think you're really cute. Can I give you my number?" We talked for a minute or two and he had to go help a friend bring some stuff out to his car. During our chat he told me there was a party afterwards and I should stop by. I immediately told my friends that I didn't care what they said, but we were going to this party. One of my friend's broke his eyeglasses during some crazy moves and demanded they be fixed before we went anywhere. After an hour of fiddling with tiny eyeglasses screws, I decided to just tape them up and get out of there. We stayed at the party until around 4:30 a.m. dancing and hanging out and when it came time to leave my friend decided to invite the boy I met earlier that night (Nick) back to my apartment. I obliged and we stayed up a bit longer watching videos on YouTube and talking. I set up a bunch of beds on my floor for the boys and we all headed to sleep. Unfortunately (actually, fortunately) I couldn't sleep and went into my room to read. Nick couldn't sleep either and we stayed up talking and eventually went to breakfast and continued talking and hanging out after breakfast. He eventually left at 3 p.m. after making plans to hang out the next day.
The rest is history.
Since then, we've spent majority of our time together and we have so much in common. We did break up for a brief period in May, however. This was due to some issues that are really to irrelevant to anyone other than he and I, but all I will say is things have been fixed.
We got back together and on the night of my graduation from MCAD, Nick proposed to me. I said yes that night, but all in all he ended up proposing to me three times. All of which are quite memorable and ridiculously cute. The first night he did it in the middle of Chino Latino. He didn't have a ring, but got down on one knee and did it anyways. While he did this, he set his drink on a nearby table, where a woman who was standing near us and saw him get on one knee refused to give back his drink until he told her when he'd get a ring.
The next day he did it with a ring he had purchased at a local shop. As we were driving and trying to decide what to do, he pulled over, got out, and said, "Tamara, I'm never going to find the perfect place to do this, but I want you to know this is what I want." The ring he bought was a little too small, so the next day we went to buy a ring from Shane Co. We waited the three days it took to be sized and set. He picked it up and that night in the midst of our move-in mess, he gave it to me and said, "Tamara. This place is a mess and I know I can be too sometimes, but I love you and want to marry you," as he slipped the ring on my finger.
We now live together in a great apartment on the edge of downtown Minneapolis. We have two kitties, Pepper and Mama Kitty and I'm really happy.
On Friday we are heading to San Diego for nine days to soak up the sun, hang out with some Elephants, and galavant in L.A.
Other than that?
I work full-time as the project coordinator intern in MCAD DesignWorks.
I have a beautiful bike and go on a lot of bike rides.
I went to Chicago March 4-6 to see Saves the Day and New Found Glory at the House of Blues.
I decided I'm going to apply to Harvard.
Nick and I have also considered moving to the UK within the next few years and go to school there.
I have a website of my design work up: http://tamaramccoy.com.
It's been a crazy few months, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
And now... for some pictures:
(Blogspot won't upload my photos and I can't get them to resize properly, so you can click on the photo to see the full-size version. My apologies, I will correct this as soon as I can.)
Nick.
Nick and Mama Kitty (aka his princess).
A couple pictures of our living room.
The bike Nick built me.
The ring.
Pepper.
Mama Kitty.
The Dynamic Duo.
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