With this ring, I thee...hang on a second!

Steve is an engineering senior at UW who was first introduced by a mutual friend who invited me to a barbecue thrown by their landlords - I'll always remember him as the guy who proposed implantable cellphones. Later I found out that he's a regular at the International Club lunch at Blackhawk EV Free Church, where I've been going since moving here. He's very the ang moh, but grew up in Quezon City, Manila with missionary parents, so he sort of qualifies as international...and wants to go to NUS for grad school.

Yesterday we were in the kitchen getting tableware out and this angmoh lady we haven't seen before starts chatting with Steve...

lady: Where are you from?
Steve: I'm from Milwaukee. You should talk to her. She's the interesting one.
lady: Is she your wife?
me: [speechless]
Steve: Next time someone asks me that, I'm going to say yes.

Later, Aunty CH (Singaporean) asked me to arrange some dates on a plate.

Steve: Whoa! Giant raisins!
me: They're dates.
Steve: They look weird.
me: You've never had a date?
Steve: I have, but she was prettier than that.

There are WAY too many interesting guys in my life. Including the teenage cashier at Ace Hardware who neglected another customer to wave at me the second time I came in. I'm sure he thinks I'm about seventeen.