A huge congrats!

I am so incredibly proud and happy for my friends today!

Regina got engaged....finally ;) She is set to marry the man of her dreams. Ruben is an honestly good guy, but more importantly he adores her and respects her and makes her happy! I wish them all the love, luck and fun in the world in this amazing experience (wedding planning) that they are about to embark on and in their future life together!!!

Then there is Dainel who just got his M.B.A. I am so incredibly proud of him. Working a full time job and still managing to go to school! This is a man who means the world to me and one of the few men who constantly restores my faith in men, who allows me to believe that there are quality men out there! I know I have been out of touch with him recently and for this I am greatly sorry and am not even going to belittle the situation by trying to justify my absence. However I do hope he knows how much I truly love him. This is a man who tried to help me in one of the darkest periods of my life, the first to do so actually. He showed up to school with an article he had cut out from a newspaper, he didn't lecture me, didn't say much, but he gave me that article, in his own way tried to let me know he was there for me and it only took years for that single action to touch my heart so profoundly. I was unable to see in the darkness that I lived in, unable to appreciate what kind of friend he was. This is a man who is caring, has a good heart, tries so hard, gives 100%. This is the man who, even though we were hundreds of miles apart, out of the blue sent me flowers on Valentine's Day sophmore year,... some beautiful star gazer lillies, my favorite! This is the man who always takes time to see me when I am home visiting, who has tried to fix the mess I always manage to create on my computers time and time again without ever expecting so much as a 'Thank you' in return. This is the man who does little things to show me he cares about me and our friendship. A man who sent me a beautiful arrangement of flowers when I turned 21, and he does all these things out of the goodness of his heart! He deserves so much and he will make some woman insanely happy one day and she better realize how lucky she is and realize what kind of a man she has in front of her and not break his heart or else she will have to deal with me. He is the man who laughed along with me through AP spanish, chemistry, physics, etc... this is the co-creator of the Howell Bear, the Burko Slug and the Delzangle Weenie. He's my Danielito, the one man I know I can always count on. When I lose faith in men, when I start to feel that all men are the same, when I feel that bitterness rising inside of me all I need to do is think of him and remember how lucky I am to have the friendship of a man who is capable of restoring my faith in the male species! I thank you from the bottom of my heart Daniel and I am so incredibly proud of you!!!!

I should probably actually tell Daniel and Regina these things, since I am fairly certain no one reads this blog anymore!