We first met in 2013 at Pizza My Heart at SCU. We worked there for a while before we ever started hanging out together. After a while, I decided I'd try to shoot my shot and we made plans to hang out after work to drink some beers (Strawberritas for her) and smoke hookah at a coworker's house. That quickly became a nightly thing and we were basically dating by about August of 2013. We hung out daily and eventually I tricked her into saying yes when I asked her to be my girlfriend on November 4th, 2013.
Daniel and I had just celebrated our 6th year dating anniversary on 11/4. We decided we'd just do a casual dinner at home with our squad that night. He's pretty notorious for buying tickets to concerts or comedy shows and then sending me screen shots of the confirmation. He had done that for Mark Normand at Rooster T. Feathers on 11/14 and then told me, "We're going to do a real anniversary date night. Dinner and a show. No kids." Apparently my sister, Analee, was in on it. He had texted to get her in on this mischievous plan of his. He then told me to ask her to babysit so I didn't get suspicious. We decided on The Fish Market for dinner, which isn't a typical date night spot for us but it wasn't too far from the show. Fast forward to us getting our food, I noticed he wasn't eating much. He'd told me he was anxious and reminded me that he always gets a little anxious before we go to shows for no particular reason. Fast forward again, we still have some time before the show so we decided to go light one up. He took us to the pond area of The Sunnyvale Community Center Park. Before getting out of the car, I specifically asked if he had a lighter. He said "yeah." We started walking, he stopped us once, saying here's a good spot. Which was weird because there was a bench 10ft ahead. We walked towards the bench, he stopped us again. At this point, I'm questioning what kind of shenanigans he had up his sleeve. Then he crushed what little assumptions I may have had when he looked at me, looked around and just suggested walking some more. We started walking one more time where he looked at me then we kissed. He felt around in his pockets, said he actually didn't have a lighter and instead pulled a little black box out. He got down on his knee then started beggin me to be his forever broad and I said, "yeah!"