Meet Miji

Today I decided to start a new blog called Married to Miji. For those of you who don't know, though I am not sure there are any, Miji is my hubby. It's my nickname for him that I took from the nickname his family has for him and made it my own anyways, that's where I got the name Miji. He and I always have so much fun together and it has always been that way, since day one. As everybody knows, we met on match.com. I found him after sifting through profiles of all kinds of crazy, there he was, and he didn't look so crazy. He had this profile picture that totally looked high maintenance because of the cigar in his mouth. If that would have been the only picture he had, I may have skipped right by. Luckily for both of us he had other pictures too. The one that caught my eye as this picture of him and his two best friends just hanging out with a drink in their hands. He looked easygoing and there was something there that just drew me to him. We texted back and forth for about a week until he decided to call me up one night. Our first meeting was at Macaroni Grill in Redlands and from then on we became an us and now here we are, almost together for 5 years...seems like so long ago. We have been through so much together in that time. We have lived in 3 different places together, raised two kids in the last part of their teen years together, planned and survived a 250 guest wedding, had a grandchild...the list goes on and on. When we first got together we were in the crazy goofy in love phase. I remember going to bars and sitting next to each other just staring at each other and laughing. Boy, did we piss off some waitresses because to us we were all that we cared about in the room. I am sure they hated us. Then we got married and we were in the honeymoon phase, fresh off our honeymoon and so happy to be married to each other. We were so damn cute that people rolled their eyes at us or told us to get a room, but we didn't care. So...hmmm...what phase are we in now? I don't know if there's a name for it. We are still goofy in love and also still in the honeymoon phase. We are settling in to our marriage and still learning new things about each other as well as adjusting to the things that drive us crazy about each other but that we still love them anyways. Some things we do annoy each other like me diagnosing myself on WebMD when I experience any type of symptom that isn't normal. Or him when he cracks himself up at things and doesn't stop. We follow each other to the freeway each morning on the way to work and I nag him about turning on his lights even though it's light out as he nags me that we need to get the car washed soon. That is one thing that irritates Miji...a dirty car. Our car needs to be clean. He will usually just drive it through a car wash at the gas station and I have to admit that I love it when he does. He switched the music to "Car Wash" and disco dances in his seat, he's cute. He puts up with things I do like me having to press on the refrigerator door a few times throughout the time we're home to make sure it's closed or how I pout and tell him he doesn't love me just because I know he will walk over to me and tell me all the reasons he does love me. There are things I have to put up with too that he does, but his things are more adorable than anything. He's a comic book geek and while I may never understand the rhyme or reason to whatever happens in his comic book universes, he always takes time to explain it to me. He includes me into his comic book world by buying me superhero T-shirts or taking me to see his comic book movies and indulging me with cheesy fries and a cocktail before the movie. Not only did I score with being married to the greatest hubby ever for me, but then I also get his family. On the weekends we hang out with his parents and his mom gives me wine as we watch old movies on TMC. We shop, hang out with his tias, it has been the greatest thing ever. Not to mention he gets along so well with my family and it is just something I had never experienced before, until he came along. Being married to Miji is awesome. Everyday is an adventure with him, even if it's just a work day. We wake up and get ready together, act silly, talk about Ginger Chan. We get home from work, cook together, watch Bold and the Beautiful. Miji is my rock. He is always there for me no matter what, in good and bad. So long ago it used to be just me figuring out how to deal with life, but not anymore. He loves me, loves the kids. He's amazing and I am so lucky that he's mine...even though he forgot to take out the trash today (I had to get that one in there).