Friday, August 30, 2013

The First 6 Months

It seems appropriate that I type this up on Mom and Dad's 38th wedding anniversary. They're wonderful and are pushing strong to 40+.

I've been thinking a lot about what I've learned over the past six months of marriage. As I think back the time just blurs together from when John and I were engaged to marriage, but I've learned a lot about John, a lot about me, and a little about relationships.

So here goes:

1. Saying prayers together, reading scriptures, and weekly Family Home Evening make a huge difference. Some days we're better than others, but we have been trying really hard. It changes the mood in our house and how we interact with each other. Being in the temple together has the same peaceful feeling.

2. John loves to sing silly songs and dance around the house. Seriously. If you met him in public you'd have no idea and he'd refuse to sing or dance to anything, but he is really a Korean pop star on the inside.

3. We're so boring and such home bodies. If you reversed the clock by a year or five I was out every night, throwing parties, making new friends and about as extreme an extrovert as they come. Today... We spend most nights having dinner at home, watching tv or playing board games and getting about 4 times as much sleep as I've ever gotten in a night. I've gotten used to an average of ten hours of sleep each night - it's weird.

4. Honeymoons are among the greatest things ever invented. John and I ventured up to Niagara Falls and Toronto for an extended weekend. I persuaded John to get a couples massage. We splurged on fancy hotels and food. We took pictures like Asian tourists. It was so so wonderful! On the way back we took an afternoon in Palmyra, New York and stayed a night with John's Grandma in Utica.

5. Marriage is the most selfless and selfish thing I have ever done. I've learned more than ever that it's good to do things that make you both happy, but it's great to do the things that make your spouse happy more than yourself.

6. I'm the luckiest girl in the world. Seriously. John is even more amazing and caring than I ever imagined. He takes such good care of me.

7. John is preparing me for raising children. He acts like a kid a lot. Mostly it makes me laugh and sometimes I roll my eyes. I love him for it.

8. I've become a crazy cat lady. Einstein and Mouser keep me company all day and I love them. As much as it pains me to admit it I'm a full fledged crazy cat lady and the kittens are my babies. The only thing that helps me sleep at night is that John is way crazier in his cat-love.

9. I can't wait to have a house to decorate, a garden to plant things in and a place to have people come visit. It's amazing how quickly things change. Less than five years ago I felt queasy signing contracts for temporary subletting of rooms because I didn't know how long I would be in any one place. Now, John and I talk about where and when we want to buy our first house in the next couple years. I find myself turning on more HGTV in the background than anything else.

10. It's not all rainbows and butterflies, but I'm so happy to be married to John. I can't wait to see what the future holds.

What have you learned from your marriage? What marriage advice do you have to give?

2 comments:

Lee Harmon Waters said...

Loved this post and how happy you are!

Yeng said...

SOFT TECH GEEKS
Soft Tech Geeks is a chinese underground organisation of computer experts and hackers. We stay discrete in order to prevent the identity of our clients from FEDs and individuals.
• Hacking really takes the right tools and equipment (Spywares and other necessary softwares).
Most people really think that a hacker can just breaking into a security system just by browsing through the site.
But if you really need a hacker we are here for you. We give you full details of our strategy on how we are going to get the job done, then you can decide if we are really or not.

HOW WE WORK:

• We don't ask personal questions about you and we dont give out our personal information.
We strictly do business and don't expose you or your service to you to anyone.
That's how discrete we are.

OUR HACKING SERVICES:
As long as technology is involved anything can be hacked.
*Most people want to Hack a target's email I.D, social media websites or apps, smartphones, for many reasons such as husband cheating on wife, girlfriend cheating on boyfriend.
*if you need to hack a particular organisation so as to sniff, delete, change a particular information or records.
*as a parent you might need to monitor what your children are doing on social media and on their personal computers or even clone their phones to also hear their calls or see text messages on any app they chatting with, so that they don’t get into trouble.
*if you want to hack a private domain email account(business email).
*you want to eraze your name from court’s criminal records, perhaps you might want to Hack into the database of any government agency,
*you want to spend someone's money by cloning another credit card to their account without bank or the user's notification,
*some people want to mine bit coin, we can create a platform for you to mine bit coin without having to cheat anyone.
All these are what we can get done within few hours.

OUR ASSURANCE TO YOU:
Fankly speaking, we always give a 100% guarantee on an job we take. Time to complete a job depends on the complication of the job and if we take your job then be rest assured that it will be done, and we give you a 100% assurance that we cover our tracks well enough, so when we do a job its like we were never there. We have also come across FAKE HACKERS claiming they will get the job done in a short time , and sharing testimony of themselves but they are all scams (AVOID THEM).
REMEMBER THIS "AS LONG AS IT'S TECHNOLOGY IT CAN BE HACKED"

We look forward to working for you.
SOFT TECH GEEKS
softtechgeeks@gmail.com