Everything Under The Tropical Sun

It will be the eve of our anniversary tonight. Since we’re not fighting or anything, I guess it’s safe to say that we’re 7 years old a day ahead. Hehe. This is a date we feel that is more important than our wedding anniversary. 02/20/2002 was a life altering day for the both of us and our wedding day was just something that confirmed what we knew then…

I’ve often “bashed” (his term, not mine) him on this blog saying the most ridiculous things or airing out his weird laundry for all the net to see… but the truth is, I’m truly and madly deeply in love with him. Just like a kindergarten kid bullying her crush on the schoolyard, I’ve often picked on him on and offline. That’s just the way I am I guess. I express myself excellently through writing but when it comes to physically showing it, I fail miserably. I don’t think he minds. He usually just shrugs me off when I’m in one of my bullying moods.

In spite of my bullying extravaganzas, I know he loves me. Believe it or not, I CAN be sweet (yes, I CAN!!!)… when I want to. He often tells me he doesn’t exactly know why he loves me and that he just does. It annoys me but I guess that’s just what it is right? Love is something very difficult to explain or describe… or even in some cases to justify. It just is. Hmmm… maybe I should stop bugging him about it? … NAH.

In the span of 7 years… we’ve managed to turn from a all-day-all-night party couple to the most boring couple in the world. When people would ask us what we’ve been up to, our normal response would be: “Nothing. We’re kill joys now.” I’m serious. We live it and own it because quite frankly, we enjoy just staying home… hanging out… experimenting with crazy and the not so crazy recipes. Sure, we talk to each other… but if we have nothing to say, it’s okay too.

Seven years… it sure can fly by so fast when spending it with my best friend.

I love you. Happy Anniversary!

It was our 3rd year wedding anniversary yesterday. We didn’t really do anything. We took the fastcraft (a fast ferry boat) to Ormoc. It’s about 2 hours 30 minutes ride from Cebu. Boy! It was cold but I was sweating like crazy. They announced that it’d be “moderate to rough” seas out but they didn’t say it was during the whole duration of the trip!

The whole time I was trying to relax… taking deep breaths to calm my gag reflex. I’d look out to sea but it didn’t help… look at the TV monitor, it was worse… Closed my eyes, I wanted to jump ship! Part of me was wishing we were still near shore because I’d readily jump over board than suffer more of the swinging and swaying of the boat.

If only it wasn’t for a dear client, I would have left the terminal as soon as they announced that the ride would be undesirable. So yes, everyone… on our anniversary, my husband and I went to see a client. Story of our life. If it wasn’t this particular client, we wouldn’t have given a damn. She’s cool, no hang ups, nothing. Her favorite word is “widow-widow” –> meaning playing things by ear. That’s what she did with her business. She made most of her decisions by ear. Now, she commissioned us to help her professionalize by re-branding herself. A “make-over” of sorts as she works towards turning her food business into a franchise.

It didn’t feel like work. It usually doesn’t when working for a great client. It wasn’t really a bad way to spend our anniversary. As a couple, we weren’t really that big on celebrating dates. On our birthdays we would usually just have a simple (but very very yummy, mind you) dinner with close family and friends… or we’d simply sleep in and enjoy each other’s company.

Aside from the rough sea trip (going and coming back… what a nightmare!), all in all, I’d say we celebrated our anniversary in our true couple fashion: simple, productive and we were with each other.