My 1st Anniversary

Tuesday, 8 July 08, 10.12am at home

Dear Diary..
I had a very beautiful time yesterday. There's no purpose to show off here or what, I really want to remember that time forever. That's why I want to write it here before I forget the details.

Yes, yesterday we really spent our first wedding anniversary at home. Honestly, I felt down at first. Maybe some of you could already see how I felt from my previous post although I was trying my best to think positive. You know what diary, I didn't regret at all to stay at home yesterday! Yesterday my husband took one day leave so he could stay at home with me. I dunno what he feels, but for me, I feel like we were catching up what we missed lately.

Yesterday morning, I woke up at 7.07am, switched the air-cond off, and wanted to go back to sleep. But, I couldn't sleep so I just gedebak-gedebuk on my bed and the noise made Ron woke up. Then we chatted and cekakak-cekikik for few minutes while still laying on the bed. Then, I was trying to create an atmosphere that we're really celebrating anniversary by asking him "Bagaimana kesan dan pesan Anda mengenai hidup bersama istri Anda selama 1 tahun pertama?" Ron kept silent, he took my left hand and put it on his chest. I laughed and said "Ohh, begini ya jawabannya Pak? Aku disuruh mengerti jawabannya sendiri dengan cara mendengar detak jantung Anda yang adalah jawaban jujur dari..." I had not finished my speech when suddenly a ring was inserted onto my forth finger!!

This moment I won't forget forever! I cried and cried and cried after I saw that ring!! My Wedding Ring is back on my forth finger now! This is the picture of my ring when I was typing this diary. Perhaps you don't understand why I was so surprised. I never told you in details what happened in October last year since it was too sad to remember here. If you notice in one of my October posts, in first paragraph, I did mention how I was so down and regretful. This is because I lost my wedding ring, my precious Tiffany wedding ring, just 3 months after my wedding! I was really sooooo sad and I regretted my clumsiness even till now. But, yesterday, my hubby bought me a Tiffany wedding ring again, same design, same type, smaller size since my old ring was too big.

I was crying wholeheartedly, the feeling was like combination of happy and sad and touched and love. Happy, because I got my wedding ring back. Sad, because it reminded me with a sad incident when I lost my original wedding ring on the night when I returned home from my Japanese class and the moment when I was searching that ring like crazy in the middle of the night for hoursss on the street, on the train, on the train station, and in my school. Touched, because I realized that my hubby forgave my clumsiness and how he understands my heart, it also reminded me how we were bonded together in marriage. Love, because I love him more and more every day. *Permisi nanya, apakah karna disogok??* Ehemm.. BUKANNNN!!!

In the afternoon, we spent time by watching two movies at home; Venus & Mars (Korean movie) and Sex & The City. *What did you do for him in return for that ring?* I also put effort, ok? I went to market to buy daging sapi and tauge. *Is that all?* Hey, it's not that I'm not creative enough to surprise him! It's because that's what he wanted to eat. He wanted to eat soto and perkedel so much!! So, I cooked for him. I know, soto and perkedel and ati ampela plus kecap bango is not a romantic dinner set, that menu is not recommended for lovers who're celebrating anniversary. In Indonesia we even don't eat soto in the evening, soto is breakfast menu! But, we did it! We had dinner at home, with no candles, with no appetizers, with no desserts, with no red wine, with no orange juice with its mini umbrella on top of the glass, with no evening dress, with no mascara, eye liner, etc, with no kruwel-kruwel hair. We celebrated our first wedding anniversary with simple faces, simple dresses, simple hearts, simple foods at our simple home. *Do you regret?* I have my wedding ring back, I have no other expectation!

-Abbie-