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I don't know how to open today's episode because I feel like there's a huge elephant in the room and rock.

And you're probably looking at the title being like Ashley what happened to like hello what

happened to how are you just a huge jump scare didn't see that coming it is not clickbait it is real

your girl's engaged we're just going to skip the introduction and the fluff and jump right into

today's episode because

the title alone is a jump scare. So yes, I am engaged, which is so insane to me because this

entire year, I've been like making jokes about it to him and to all of you being like,

there's no ring on my finger. Like, I can't wait till I'm engaged.

Like, when is he going to put a rock on my finger?

And I've just been talking about it so nonchalantly and like in a joking way because,

you know, I knew it was going to happen sooner or later.

But obviously I was hopeful that it was going to happen this year because I wanted it to happen

sooner than later but I had no idea it was going to happen when it did like this entire time

I was thinking and I was like telling my friends that I'm going to know when it's going to

happen like I'm not going to be surprised because Josh is not secretive at all. He's the worst at keeping secrets. He does not keep secrets. He is an open book. Like he is just a very honest person. But he's not slick. Even when it came to buying the ring, I knew exactly when he bought it because he couldn't

lie about where he was going. Like, I think he texted me one day while he was at work being like,

hey, like, I'm not going to be home until this time, but like I can't tell you where I'm going.

And like also don't look at my location. And when you tell me not to do something, I'm going to do it.

So obviously I'm going to look at his location. And what do you know? He's a jeweler.

Like, what are you doing there? Do you have another girlfriend? I hope not. So I hope you're buying me a big fat rock.

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