Remember me!?

Did I forget to mention that I was going to take a three week-ish break from blogging? No? Well, perhaps it was an unscheduled hiatus. It couldn't be helped though. Things have been busy in that way that starting a whole new chapter of your life is busy. For example, as I type this reclining on our unmade bed, there is a pile of laundry beside me from last Friday that STILL HASN'T BEEN FOLDED! Perhaps such a thing doesn't warrant ALL CAPS in your life, but I am not one to let laundry go unfolded. In fact, I need a certain level of order in my everyday life for optimal functioning. An unmade bed is tolerable on most days, but unfolded laundry suggests chaos.

However, this is happy chaos.

Obviously I can't possibly delve into everything that has happened in the past three weeks, because you all have better things to do with your time than read about the minutiae of my life. So here's the highlight reel:

Tammy and her DP take the Big Apple by storm!
Four gorgeous days are spent eating, snapping pictures and sightseeing. Our feet take an awful, awful beating. Why did I ever think I could break in new shoes - even smart little runners - in NYC?





Learn from my mistakes. There are so many things I could tell you about this trip. Like how our fancy-looking Flatotel room earned the nickname "Flatotel Shithole!" I could wax poetical about the unbelievable French toast we had at Alice's Teacup and the unexpected—and delicious—roasted corn appetizers they brought us during brunch at Cafe Habana.





But only one story can be the best story. And that's probably the one you want to hear.

How the DP became my Fiance!

Total disclosure to begin: I thought it might happen during our sojourn to New York. I hoped it would. However, I am the world's worst guesser, so even though he asked me at the perfect-for-me moment, I thought he would do it during something more obvious, like at the top of the Empire State Building or on the Brooklyn Bridge (which we didn't end up doing - too hot out and our feet were DONE).

Anyway, on our first night we went to see a show,"Guys and Dolls." It was the DP's first ever broadway show and had special significance for me, because Sarah Brown was my first leading role in a show, back when I was a mere baby of 18. I was extra excited, because Lauren Graham was playing Adelaide and I looooved "The Gilmore Girls." Now, the DP doesn't have a single clue what the show is about. He doesn't know that Lauren's character has been engaged to her fiance for 14 years and he won't set a wedding date. He doesn't know that the show ends with a double wedding!

At the end of the show, just as the curtain call starts, the DP leans over, drops something wrapped in tissue in my lap and delivers his perfect line, which he claims he only came up with during the course of the show: "Will you be my doll?"

So I unwrap and open the ring box while the audience is giving the actors a standing ovation around us. And of course I start crying, looking at the beautiful ring I've just been given. And it's so overwhelming, because I'm in a Broadway theatre, which is definitely one of my favourite places on earth, and the man that I adore has just delivered the most perfect proposal.

What can I say? It was magical.



We snapped a few photos and then headed out front where Lauren Graham was signing autographs. I not only got my program signed, but I also got the chance to tell her what had just happened. She totally got tears in her eyes and wished us all the best. It was the perfect cap to the whole thing.

My life as a fiancee

I love to plan things, but two weeks into planning a wedding has nearly derailed me. But I'm not going to go into it all now. Instead I'm going to save some for my next blogging session. I'll try not to stay away so long this time. Besides, now that the topic of my blog is what I CAN do, I need that motivation to convince me that I CAN plan a wedding!