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I am on cloud 9 right now! If you happened to have been following my posts over the last couple weeks you will remember I just went through a crappy break up with a man who was not very good to me. It has been a huge change in my life and my attitude and happiness has done such a 180 for the better very fast.

So there is this guy I went to highschool with. We were never really friends, but ran in the same circles of people. He read about my breakup on Facebook and gave me a call. He said he had always thought I was very beautiful and that I didn't need to be with a guy who treated me so poorly. He went on to tell me about the three years he had spent in the army, and his world travels. He told me how now that he is out of the army, he has been going to school to become a professional airline pilot. He lives about 2 and 1/2 hours away from me on the army base, so I didn't think much of it when he asked to take me out sometime. We talked for awhile, about my school, and my plans for the weekend. Late last night I get a phone call from him saying he has a surprise for me. He was coming into town just to see me! My doorbell rang at about 11:00 AM this morning, and there he was, with groceries in hand prepared to make me brunch before I went to work at 2:00pm. Hello, charmer alert! He made chocolate chip pancakes (my fave) and we watched some tv before it was time for me to go to work. Moments after he left he sent me a text saying how he had such a wonderful time, and how I had more than exceeded his expectations of how wonderful I was (awww, swoon). He asked to spend more time with me over the next couple of days and of course I agreed!

I take a very important nursing entrance exam tomorrow morning, and to celebrate me (hopefully) doing well, we are headed to Orlando for a trip to Ikea, and dinner and a movie at Downtown Disney. We even have plans to find a place to watch the fireworks tomorrow night. I am so excited!!

And it is such a small world!! After talking for awhile we realized that my dad and his step-dad work together, and that our mom's are actually friends and that they all used to ride motorcycles together!! We also talked about how much I loved Disney, and he told me his dad worked for Disney for 20 years, and he can get free tickets anytime!

I feel so good about this :) I can guarantee you this is the man I am going to marry. It seems like he was made for me. Unbelievably respectful to women and such a gentleman, but has a great silly side that works perfectly with mine. He kept telling me that he couldn't believe I had been under his nose all this time, and that he thinks I am beautiful as well as being a really good person. Can it get any better than this?????

I am feeling so blessed and fortunate right now. Leaving my ex was the best decision I have ever made...because my broken road has led me to wonderful new things.

Just heard from him again. He sent me a text letting me know he was working on something that I would really like. A little surprise! I can't even imagine what it is. I will let you know as soon as I find out!!

@Cheeks11: Thankyou! Seriously my jaws hurt from the amount of smiling I have been doing!

Thanks girls! You are all so awesome :)

yay!! keep us posted! crossing my fingers for you.

My fiance is also someone I met while in highschool, then we lost touch for a while, then he moved back to St. Louis and we went out a few times, now 3 wonderful years later....engaged! yay! good luck to you!

@mjchexum: That is so great to hear! I love it when things work out like that :) I cannot wait until tomorrow! Going to be such a fun day and night!! He keeps telling me he has something in the works planned for tomorrow, and I CANNOT WAIT to find out what it is. I am such a sucker for surprises. He said absolutely no hints! lol So I am squirming like crazy.

I am most excited about the fireworks!! We are going to watch them from the beach at the Polynesian Resort. We are planning on bringing a blanket so we can sit in the sand. I am hoping it will end up as romantic as I am imagining it :)

@lezlers: Oh, I completely agree! I think it was so easy for my to get over the breakup because I realized the person I was in love with never even existed. I found out so many terrible things he had done to me that it made it very easy to walk away. It is crazy how wonderful my life has been these past two weeks, even having nothing to do with this guy. I have been generally happier because I am no longer with someone who was bringing me down so much.

I am being very careful with my heart :) There is no need to rush anything if it is mean't to be. Everything happens for a reason, and I am going to let it all work out the way it is supposed to.

@Statutory Grape: The 'future husband' reference was only mean't to be silly and playful. :)

Haha I guess I should have explained where that came from. We were joking around talking about the list of places we both wanted to visit, and he made the joke that "Vegas needs to be our first stop, see we can get hitched before anyone else has a chance to scoop me up." LOL

@xshellx2003: I actually didn't know anything about him in highschool, nor him me. Just knew who he was. I think in our sitaution it is better that way because we are getting to know each other as who we are now.

I'm so excited for you :)

@sloth: No worries, I definitely am :) I am still VERY focused on me right now, and making sure I am going to do very well in nursing school. Any man that is going to be in a relationship with me during nursing school would have to be incredibly understanding of the time and commitment it demands. My future for myself is still priority number one.

Hooray!!!  Good luck on the exam (I bet you'll nail it) and have a great date!  I love fireworks and surprises, so it sounds fantastic.  And keep us posted--you've got a whole hive rooting for you :)

******UPDATE******

I had a fabulous weekend!! First of all I PASSED MY TEST!!!!! I was the only one in the room of 25 to pass it, and I did so well! It was so stressful because you have to pass this exam to get into nursing school, and you can only take it once a year, so lots of pressure. When she handed my my results I burst into tears! I don't think it was necessarily that I was so happy about the test, but the tears were more of an accumilation from everything that his being happening to me in recent events. To me passing the test was a start at a new beginning, it mean't a new chance, and that I was heading in the right direction!! I am so happy :) Phew!

So the weekend gets better from there! I had a wonderful weekend with the new guy. We went to Disney, and had some fun at the food and wine festival at Epcot. He is a very very nice guy, but after some talking I have kind of come to the conclusion that we differ on a lot of things, religion, outlook on life, and expectations for the future.

BUT it ended up being such a good weekend because I WAS ON AMERICAN IDOL :) Disney's Hollywood Studios has a new attraction called The American Idol Experience. Park guests can audition, and if you make it through five rounds of auditions then you get to perform on the live stage in front of about 500 people! And I made it!!! It was so intense :) I came in second place out of 10 people for the day. The guy that beat me was a super charming Scottish guy...I didn't have a chance! lol We got our hair and makeup done, got to work with a vocal coach, the whole nine yards! It was intense, and so exciting! I sang "Drops of Jupiter" on stage and got some really good feedback from everyone. The producer came up to me after the show, gave me his card, and total me there were some people he'd like me to meet, and to give him a call sometime this week! Eep! The whole rest of the day in the park people kept coming up to me, saying how awesome I had done, and I even signed a few autographs for a bunch of cute little girls. Watch out Carrie Underwood! I have loved singing for such a long time, that it was fun to finally get to showcase it! Check out the pictures at the bottom!

All in all it has been an amazing ride! I am finally headed in the right direction and feel so blessed and satisfied with my life. Fall his finally set in down here in Florida, it's a little breezy today, and I couldn't be any more of a very happy girl :)

Thanks everyone! It was a thrilling weekend, and a great kick off to hopefully an amazing week. I think we are just going to stay as friends. He lives over 2 hours away from me, so it would make it difficult anyways. On the upside, I do have two dates this weekend :)

I am going to call the producer later this week. I think he is wanting me to audition for a few positions working with Disney, but I think the responsible thing to do would to keep chugging along with nursing school.