Seven years

Posted: May 5, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Romgi the Enigma | 6 Comments

Today Jarom and I are celebrating our 7th anniversary. Since we got married we have…laugh

  • moved twice (this seems like a low number!)
  • graduated with a BA (Jarom, 2008), a BS (Mika, 2012), and a JD (Jarom, 2012)
  • held 8 jobs
  • had 3 kids (Evan, 2009; June, 2010; Christian, 2013)
  • bought a house
  • had 4 cars (and only 1 currently running)
  • traveled from coast to coast
  • been to 4 family reunions
  • gotten 9 new niblings (6 nieces and 3 nephews)
  • survived car problems, health problems, financial problems, parenting problems, and the death of our baby
  • been to the ER at least a dozen times
  • had 7 pets (3 lizards, 3 rats, and a dog)
  • attended 5 weddings and 2 funerals
  • stayed friends, stayed married, still like and love each other

Way to go, us! We’re headed for Korean food and ice cream tonight.

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The Sorting Hat

Posted: January 20, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Book of Sand, Romgi the Enigma | 5 Comments

I can’t be the only one who does this, right?

Jarom and I love to play Sorting Hat – which is, to figure out which Hogwarts house our friends and family would be sorted into. It’s best if you make an initial sorting when you first meet someone and then revisit your guess once you’ve gotten to know them better.

Recently I started reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone to Evan at bedtime. June was jealous so I’m also reading it to her, separately. Today I’m working on a crochet project while I watch the first Harry Potter movie.

My own assessment of myself is that I’d be in Ravenclaw. On days when I feel blah, I tell Jarom I’d definitely be in Hufflepuff, but he says I’m clever enough to be Ravenclaw. And good company there with Luna, right?

Where do you put yourself? Do you agree that I’d be Ravenclaw?

Anniversary

Posted: May 7, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Romgi the Enigma | Leave a comment

We were gone Friday to Monday – kid-free, courtesy of Jarom’s parents! – for our anniversary. We stayed at a resort near Ogden and I looked up a lot of things we could do: dinosaur park, nature preserve, huge movie theater, historic downtown to stroll through. Guess what I ended up doing instead? Crying and watching hours-long marathons of Pawn Stars and My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding*.

On Saturday we went to lunch at a mostly-decent Mexican restaurant and I really, truly meant for us to go to the dinosaur park and then see Iron Man 3 after that. But by the time we were done eating, all I wanted to do was go home and sob. I felt bad using up our vacation to cry; Jarom told me to go ahead anyway, so I did. And I had a long nap afterwards. When I woke up, the first Back to the Future movie was just starting, and we watched all three. Cable, I love you.

I also ate a lot of donuts . . . and tortilla chips . . . we’d gone to dinner at a steakhouse Friday night, courtesy of a giftcard from my brother (matched by the owner – we have been getting a lot of free stuff lately). Even the leftovers were amazing. Medium rare steak with bacon and a fried egg on top? Yes, I will eat that for many meals in a row.

After Saturday, I mostly did okay emotionally. Monday was fine too – and today, until I got tired of my attempts to only eat desserts/sweets on our date night (don’t worry, I haven’t caved yet!), and the kids got wild(er), and I needed dinner but didn’t feel like eating. Then I snuck off to the bathroom and cried.

When I feel like this, I have a million things to say. I want to scream them and shout them. But the idea of actually letting them out – I can’t do that. I’m not brave enough to tell anyone how broken I feel.

That being said, I’m glad that when I do get around to talking, Jarom listens to whatever’s on my mind. Even if it’s just that I wish today was Thursday (date night) so I could have a donut. Or two.

*I swear to you that is a real show and it’s impossible to stop watching once you start. It was horrifically mesmerizing.

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