ただいま tadaima ... we're married!
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Got back late Monday night from yet another wonderful Burning Man (pictures to come). Many thanks to my incredible Dav who labored hard packing all our stuff and drove the whole way home. Instead of the average 7 hours, it took about 12 hours! It's been an emotional adjustment back because of the horrendous Katrina tragedy. Incomprehensible. We were ignorant of it until the day before we left as news trickled in.
On a personal note though, I am extremely happy and can't believe my fortune that I am now married to Dav! We married at Twilight Zone at Burning Man on Wednesday evening. I love Dav's blog post about it. I love calling him my husband, I love him calling me his wife, I love that we will have the same last name, and I love that I get to spend the rest of my life with him. I am so warmed by the many congratulations we've been receiving. Everything feels so natural and perfect.
It's quite special that our whole relationship has been blogged about (we even had a private blog when I was living in Tokyo so yes, pretty much everything is on one blog or another!). Folks who know me from TokyoTidbits have followed our story, and to me, it's a fairytale.
The picture above is from Burning Man 2002, when we first met. I believe this is the first picture I managed to get of just the two of us (vs. a Campalicious group picture where we always 'happened' to be next to each other). I was a bit bashful of asking Dav if I could have someone take it for us...trying not to be obvious in wanting a special twosome photo. Sure glad I did!
After I went back to Tokyo that year, thanks to the internet, we continued a polite but touching banter. When he visited me 2 months later, we were still rather cordial with each other. The first day, walking around Tokyo together, I had wanted so much to hold his hand, yet dared not to. But finally we shared how we really felt ... I remember distinctly sitting on the couch in my tiny apartment, grinning and telling him how I decided I wasn't going to allow myself to be shy and reserved with him...that I wasn't going to hold back anymore...
Then, when I moved from Tokyo to San Francisco to be with Dav, I wrote on my blog, dated August 20, 2003:
I am leaving tomorrow. I continue to be a nervous wreck cuz my apt. is amazingly still full of stuff. Don't know where it all came from. Anyway, I'm off. Been waiting a very long time for this and can say with every cell of my body that this is the right thing to do. It's seems a dream that Dav and I will actually be together like a normal couple. No more relying on email and typing so much my thumb got numb.
And here we are now as a married couple. I'm looking forward to growing old together.
We plan to have some sort of celebration in October, when my parents will be visiting. Today, Ian told me that upon telling Julia and Tyler about it, Tyler then went on to tell his friends, "I'm going to my aunt's party and we have to wear funky clothes." How cute!!
And now, there is a piece of paper in some drawer at the San Francisco City Hall that records our marriage under law.
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Congratulations to you both! You and Dav are meant to be together - watching your relationship develop online has been a really joyful experience, you are so well-matched. and so good-lookin, too!! you're a beautiful couple, in every sense of the word & i wish you all happiness, always.
jean/san diego
Omedeto!
おめでとうございます。;)
You guys are so perfect together- I can't wait to congratulate you in person :)
おめでとうございます！
Congratulation !
I can imagine the scenery of the burningman was more colorful and bright. I wish you happiness forever !
Oh, sweet Mie! You are so deserving of all the blessings you ever hoped for. I am so happy for you that you and Dav found each other. It really is all so very perfect. Your proposal was adorable and precise and just about the cutest thing I have ever seen. Thank you for sharing your relationship with me. Congratulations newlyweds!
Mie and Dav. CONGRATULATIONS. This news has made my day. I am just so happy for you both and I know you two will be blissfully happy. It is just a fairytale story and I am a sucker for happy endings. :) Hope to see you both really soon.
Tracey
Thheee loooveeeee boooaaatt, laa laaa laaa laa laa laa laaa laa laaaaaaaaaaaaa, thheeee looovvveee booaaattt....
Congratulations !
Sweet. A tear in my eye! :)
Congrats again you too. :D
I'm sooooooooo happy for you and Dav-san!
Congratulations!
I always believe that you and Dav-san have something destiny to be together forever.
Korekara mo nakayoku ne \(^0^)/ Oshiawaseni.
おめでとう！！！！！
やったねmieさん
お祝いをしに行って幸せを分けてもらわないと、、、来月あたりに。
来月ってあたりが現実味ある感じで、、、(笑)
Holy crap! How could you forget to tell me this!?! WOW! Congratulations to the two of you. I KNOW that you will be very happy together for a long time because you're both made for one another. You two deserve it.
Hi! I don't comment much on your blog, but I do keep reading it regularly, and happy that you two are married. Congrats!! :)
Congratulations Mie and Dav!
I teared up when I read the subject of this post :)
What a wonderful thing. I'm so happy for you both!
congratulations mie and dav, on your fairy tale come true!
Congrats! that's such great news! I remember reading TokyoTidbits thinking "these guys are perfect for each other, when are they getting married?" I know you'll be happy forever.
Hello Mie, you don't know me, but I have been following your blog for a year or so, since I was looking for a sento local to my new apartment and your entry on your local sento popped up. CONGRATULATIONS! That is so wonderful - had to have a little joy-weep!!! I got engaged this summer to a fabulous Japanese guy who proposed in Parc Guell in Barcelona on our trip to England and Europe to see family. Isn't it wonderful feeling totally committed to the man who moves your world? We will marry next year - Tokyo and Liverpool for parties. I can't wait to be Mrs Furuya. CONGRATS CONGRATS CONGRATS - you guys are perfect for one another.
Newly 柳沼さん！!! Let me just add to the chorus of おめでとう to the freaking ございます！
Wow, what a SHOCK!!! Didn't see THIS coming!! :-p
I think it's clear to anyone that's been following your blogs that you two are meant to be together. Congrats on making it official!
My golly. No words can express how touched I am. All the lovely comments here, dav's blog, and flickr. Amazing, and makes this very very special. We sure like to do things on the internet!
Thank you all for being supportive and watching us over these years. It's been absolutely perfect.
Kiss!!
My heartfelt congratulations. The two of you have proven that a long distance relationship can work.
Chuck
My heartfelt congratulations. The two of you have proven that a long distance relationship can work.
Chuck
Congratulations!
What a surprise!!
Congratulations Mie, I'm so happy for you!
Hope to see the lovely couple in near future..izumi
Congratulation Mie&Dav!! I'm sooo happy too.
I watched pic of Dav's blog.
映画のエンディングだってあんなに素敵にはなれないよ!
心からお祝い申し上げます。
SFに行った時は必ず会いに行くからね。 see you!!
they say that desert love lasts forever. or is it the opposite? at any rate, who cares what they say, congratulations.
I just stopped by to thank you for your part in resolving a mystery.
someone pointed me to an old blog post of yours. thanks!
Congratulations!
now.. you guys.. don't become couch potatoes, yeah?
ehh why do i bother, you two couldn't be boring if you tried.. ;)
I wish you both full of fearless adventures.
Tomaz
Hey, Mie! Wow, I haven't checked your blog in a while, and I just read this morning that you already got married! Wow, that is wonderful news! Congratulations to you and Dav. I wish you a very fruitful and happy marriage :) Omedetou!
Hazel Marie
Manila, Philippines
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