I was finishing up graduate school in New York and Tim was working in Maryland. We had a schedule for visiting each other bi-weekly but because it was about to be Thanksgiving, I decided that we should skip that weekend’s visit and just see each other at home so that we could save ourselves a few hours of driving. Since I wasn’t going to be seeing Tim, I invited a friend up to Binghamton for SantaCon so that we could catch up and celebrate my upcoming graduation, new job, and move to Maryland. She told me that after SantaCon she wanted to treat me to a nice dinner to celebrate my accomplishments but I had no idea that I would actually be walking into my engagement party!