We're getting married, y'all!

Katherine and I met in October 2012 working at Acme Oyster House in Baton Rouge. I was a bus boy and didn't have much of plan for the future: I was going to pick up plates, maybe eat a hushpuppy or two that a customer left, then go home to play video games with my guys. I had no clue what I wanted as far as my future goes but thought "it'll work itself out". Everything changed one day in October when I saw this new hostess, she was stunning. My inner monologue started pumping me up to go talk to her; she would have no idea about my shyness or my left over hushpuppy cravings but I needed an excuse to start up a conversation. My genius 19 year old brain remembered that peppermints were kept near the hostess stand so BAM, henceforth my favorite candy was now peppermints. I can't remember what I said or what we talked about but I know I left that day much happier than any day before. I could go on about my numerous attempts to look cool for Katherine, but what I've learned is that we don't have to be perfect as long as we are perfect for each other. What I will say is that I was no longer JUST a bus boy who was intimidated by co-workers, nor did I want life to figure itself out. I wanted more, Katherine made me want more. Katherine was, is, and will forever be my confidence. Everything I have achieved or will achieve since "the peppermint day" is contributed to her. Katherine saw me as more than I saw myself that day 8 years ago, she became the first real friend I made in Baton Rouge, the first person that made me optimistic about the future, and the person that I can never see myself without. Katherine here, there is no way I can top that but what I can say is that there isn't a day that goes by that I am not thankful to have met such a man that makes me feel so loved and so protected. He is my teammate, my equal, my sanity, my calm, the love of my life. Nothing in this world is certain but one thing is for sure, I will love that man until the end of time.