The beginning...

Thought I would start a blog because apparently it's the "cool" thing to do these days. Or maybe I just want a place to write random stuff so that people who are interested in what I have to say (if there are any) can read about my life. Or maybe it just looks fun. In whatever way, it's happening, and, yes,

this is my blog.

Don't know me? Well I'll let you in on the basics. I am a 24 year old woman who works at Lord & Sons, Inc. in San Jose, CA. It's a construction industry manufacturer and distributor. I'm the Marketing and IT Support Specialist, as it says on my business card. Really, i'm the in-house graphic-designer/catalog-designer/web-administrator/computer-fixer. There's been talk about promoting me to the Assistant Marketing Manager, but it hasn't yet, and the last time I heard it mentioned was in December. Maybe I should e-mail my boss.

I was born and raised in Santa Clara and still live with my parents. Yes, I have experienced living in dorms, apartments and shared homes, but find that the fact that my parents don't charge me rent is pretty awesome. Plus I'm getting married in June this year, so eventually I'll move out.

I have the most amazing fiancé in the world, and I cannot wait to be his wife this coming June 5th.

Brian is the man that I have been hoping for and waiting for. He gets me like no one else does: my weird sense of humor, my nerdy-ness because I love computers and crossword puzzles, the fact that on a regular basis someone at work will yell out from their cube "KARA, How do you spell 'embarrassment'???" because I'm the new company-wide human spell checker, and that my favorite TV show is Bones and House (and not Jersey Shore which we mock relentlessly).

I love him because he has my same sense of weird and twisted sense of humor. Because he unlocks the car door on my side before he unlocks his door in his truck. Because he makes dinner for me on my days that have been crappy. Because I can tell him anything and everything (no matter how embarrassing or shady) and he still loves me. Because he thinks through things when I want to just decide now. Because he loves chocolate and I don't as much, and he opts for banana cream pie instead of chocolate-chocolate-chocolate pie because he wants me to be happy. *enter content sigh here.*

Anyway, yes. We are getting married on June 5th. I'm in the process of planning the wedding, which I find is awesomely fun. Brian requests that there is good food and that he has comfortable shoes. I can work with that. Everything else has been fun to work out. Invitations: Designed by myself and printed at my photo lab which I get wholesale prices at because I'm a "professional photographer" (cough... more like amateur photographer with a business "name"). Had my dress before we were engaged (because I knew the proposal was coming and I had really found my perfect dress already).

Shoes, favors, decorations, music, rehearsal dinner site, florist, bakery etc... researched and purchased online because I just love the internet. Yes. I realize I'm a nerd.

All that being said, I love my life. I have a job that I look forward to going to every day. I have a fiancé who loves me for who I am, and I love him for who he is. I have a family who loves me and who has supported me 100% through the years. I have friends who have stuck by me since my high school years and are the BEST women in the world. I love Jesus with my whole heart. I hope that people will know the intimate, personal, deep, life-changing relationship they could have with Him. And I have the best family ever.

Life is good.