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.