three days and not a second apart

So new blog for us.

Friday.
It was my birthday! I was incredibly excited about this! I am now 20. Greg and I made pancakes that morning and then he picked me up from school for lunch and we ate at this good thai place and he surprised me with Grey’s Anatomy Season 2. Oh!!! Probably my favourite gift was the home-made crossword puzzle he made me. I am still working on it b/c some of the clues are pretty hard… like SCOTTISH CATTLE or ANCIENT WARRIOR FROM THE BLACK SEA….
So later that day Greg surprised me again with this perfume I’ve been wanting and I found a cat and played with it for an hour or two. We also re-decorated his room b/c he acquired a table and a bookcase. So it’s really spacious now. Then we had dinner with my aunt at Spiral Diner and I kept seeing people I knew. We came back to his apartment and there were two of our friends (Robert and Emily) setting up for a party that had been planning for me. Which was incredibly nice and incredibly fun. The party was great and it had red velvet cake and friends and laughter and I was tired for a lot of it, b/c I’m always tired. But thank you to Greg and all of our friends.

Saturday.
That was another exciting day for us b/c that night was the Midlake concert! The power went out at his place and a dust storm appeared almost out of nowhere…the sky was brown for most of the day. Things that probably weren’t too white before looked like snow with the background brown. I had to work that night, so we drove to Plano.
At work, I was once again surprised by my coworker Johnny who had a cake for me. That was great.
So, then I left work and Greg and I went and got hamburgers (well, I got a veggie burger) and we drove to the Granada theatre to see Midlake. The doors opened at 8 and I think the show started at 9. BUT it didn’t really start till like 9:30 and there were like 30 minute sets between the bands and there were 2 opening acts so Midlake didn’t go on until like 11:00. They were really good and probably worth standing for 4.5 hours or something. Greg and I are really tall so I felt really bad for everyone behind us, infact there weren’t many people behind us b/c we were so tall and had pretty good places. We left early b/c we were both tired and it was like 12:30 or something and Fort Worth is 45 minutes away.

Today (Sunday)
I rode my bike for the first time in probably seven years. Weird. It was fun though and I was pretty tired afterwards. But I am glad I somewhat exercised…
Greg and I just watched about 3 hours of Grey’s Anatomy. Second Season. Now he is working and I procrastinating on my homework. The M key on my laptop fell off, so typing is weird.

There is an update.

The first part 2

It was sometime in late August when my life changed. It sounds like a movie, but Ericka walked into the coffe shop where I hold a part time job, and subsequently walked into my life. At first sight I was captivated. She had a beauty without comparison. I knew I had to speak with her and find out who she was. I was in a relationship at the time so I had to keep my relations with Ericka within the boundaries of friendship. I asked her what she was studying and it just so happened to be one of my great interests: Culture and linguistics. I proceeded to ask her about herself only to discover more and more details that I found to be attractive. For example, Ericka is a religion major and a Christian, a listener of good music, a book reader and a crossword solver. The more I found out about Ericka the more I began to like her. The only red flags were our age difference and well, my girlfriend at the time. I remember criticizing one of my good friends hard for dating a girl so much younger than him and now I was having to eat my own words. Ericka proved to have many mature qualities that alot of my friends, my age, have yet to attain. Qualities such as self confidence, direction, speaking one's mind, and knowing how to respond appropriatley to your own feelings. Ericka displayed a wisdom and character far beyond her years. I was impressed. Our times were spent within the coffee shop, and they were pure bliss. When Ericka would walk through the door everything seemed to illuminate. On halloween night, I confessed to strongly liking her, even though by then I was already in love with her. However, I knew that going from one relationship to another is dangerous so I proceeded with caution. Yet, my feelings for Ericka only grew stronger and stronger and I knew that I loved her and wanted to be with her only. Thus, on Dec 18th when she proposed to make our relationship official, I obliged extactically. Of course, there would be some issues to work out, but we would work them out together and as it turns out, that is exactly what has happened. More to come soon......

the first part

so i guess i will be the one to start this.

i am sitting almost in the seat where i first met greg.

anyways.

so. greg and i met in august. sometime in late august and what i first remember about him is that the radiohead album that was playing was one of his top five albums. and this his favourite song was Rapture by Pedro the Lion.

i went home and down loaded the song (Rapture) and I didn't think too much of it.

we started talking a bit on myspace. mainly about church, theology, jewish weddings, alcohol, etc etc.

i guess i developed a small crush on him. he's good looking, tall, and funny.

and then i found out he had a girlfriend. so i let my crush fade a bit more. still good looking, tall, and funny, greg became a friend.

i won't get into the messy parts of how greg became single and how he and i started liking each other even more. but i guess there always was a spark. there always a certain way he looked at me and i at him. and i don't think it ever really faded, even when we were restricted from being together.

never have i laughed with anyone more. or wanted to spend time with anyone more. i find that when i am by myself and i know i will be seeing greg in 10 minutes or so, i am anxiously anticipating those last 10 minutes and hurrying so i could see him even sooner.

greg will tell you that he fell in love with me october 31st.

i suppose i started to fall in love about then also.

i didn't see him coming. i suppose it was due to the circumstances of avaibility. nothing was planned this way. infact, at that point in time i was cautious about dating people. i didn't want to date just to date. so, in the beginning, i had no intentions of dating greg just to date greg.

however, december rolled around. greg and i were spending almost every day together while i was figuring out dating quandries and he was waiting patiently for me to be absolutely sure of our future.

caution.

and there is a significant age difference. nine years.

but, on december 18th. after exchanging our christmas gifts and having a small party with friends, i threw my arms around greg and told him that "i didn't want to be with anyone else and that we should be together and figure out everything else later."

when we had large talks about we called them Salt Mine Talks. our first Salt Mine Talk was on October 31. Our next talk was November 25. I think we had another December 29 or 30th. A couple more thrown around in January. The Salt Mine is this big hill of sand near a river behind my aunt's house. At night, it looks like salt.

greg told me he loved me on January 18. it just kind of came out. it was snowing that day. i was off from school. it was perfect.

i'll leave the rest of it to him.