Ektor and I met on Halloween night in NYC at a party in the East Village. I was 5 days away from taking my GRE's (graduate school entrance exam) and was really wanting to sit home and study but my pesky roommate insisted I assist her out for an evening of Halloween debauchery. So here I was, not dressed up, standing in a dark club and kinda irked about being there when I spotted this cute guy dressed up like a Greek God (how ironic :). I tried to introduce myself by talking to the group of guy friends he was with (resulting in one of them buying me a drink, something I still tease Ektor about) but the cute Greek God really wasn't paying me very much attention. Frustrated I decided to take matters into my own hands and initiate conversation with him. It wasnt just a few weeks ago that one of my guy friends told me that I had to more "straight forward" and not afraid to approach a cute guy when I saw him. Ektor was the very first guy I ever "hit on" which worked out to my benefit because I finally got up the nerve to ask for his number and a week later we went on our first date.

Ektor arrived into John Wayne airport Friday October 31, 2008 at 10:30 at night. Knowing that I wouldn't be able to wait to open my birthday gifts he casually asked if I wanted to open them that night or wait until the morning. At first I tried to be good but eventually caved and started in on the pile of gifts. All of this happened so fast and in such a blur but I remember the first gift was a hardback copy of The Catcher In The Rye which I had really been wanting. The second gift was a really nice thing that hangs with a quote from the Dalai Lama (hard to describe this particular gift). The last gift was a beautiful scarf wrapped around an equally beautiful little jeweled box. I looked up at Ektor with a racing heart wondering if this was the moment and opened the box....inside was a ring that Ektor had taken to get my size. Confused, I looked at him and he responded with "I think you can have that back now." At this point my mind was tumbling over itself and I couldn't figure out what he was talking about, I mean honestly I thought it might happen but probably not for another day or so so that he could drag out the anticipation. Right when I was in the middle of protesting that this game wasn't fair Ektor reached into his pocket, went down on one knee, and pulled out the most beautiful ring of commitment I have ever seen. I am going to save all the details about how I sobbed and he proposed with the most romantic story (that I'm sure was well practiced) and how I kept interrupting him by yelling "yes, yes, yes"...but I will save that for just for our memories.