Everyone, thank you so very much for your well wishes.
Joe did get on bended knee. It was so romantic! I was completely shocked. He proposed at the same place where we first met (a local restaurant that becomes a hang-out in the evenings). We went in the middle of the afternoon under the pretense that we were meeting friends for lunch. Later that night, he took me for a romantic dinner at the restaurant where we had our first date. However, after the proposal the rest of the day was a blur. We have yet to set a date for a wedding or anything. The ring is stunning. A single solitaire in a Tiffany style setting. It is lovely.