Alex and I are enjoying our seventh anniversary as a couple on April 9 (2007). Our domestic family consists of ourselves and our two cats, Buster and Cookie. If you haven't met Alex let me tell you about him. He's a decade younger than I am. He was born in Israel and raised in Greece. His dad is Israeli and his mom is Greek. He came to the U.S. on his own when he was sixteen and graduated from high school and college in the U.S. He's absolutely brilliant (in areas that I'm not--like computers, other technologies and finances). Did I mention he's really cute?

We met online. The name he was using in his dating listing was "Atheodo." Since I studied Greek in college (the Biblical sort), I saw that it was an unusual Greek compound meaning "God gives not." ('a' as a prefix negates what follows). It was such a strange expression I decided to send him a message to ask about his name. He explained that 'A' was an abbreviation for his first name and 'theodo' was shortened from his last name. He was impressed to find anyone who understood Greek. We were quickly talking on the phone and when I mentioned that his accent sounded like it had an Israeli influence, he was really impressed (he had not mentioned that he spent the first five years of his life in Israel).