I Am Leaving Miss Perfect….

Hello everyone! So this is my new home now, and I hope to stay a while. I’ve really missed blogging, and I hope this blog is motivation for me to continue writing in the future. I was a previous owner of this domain a few years ago until it expired, and now I am finally “home.” The concept of “leaving miss perfect” is truly gratifying and humbling. If you don’t know me, I am a total perfectionist, which does not work in my favor (or anyone’s favor) sometimes. The purpose of this blog is to document my learning process and journey in accepting the beautiful, crazy imperfections in life. As difficult it may be to abandon the notion of imperfection, I am ready to embrace it!

So where to start?! I’ve only been engaged for less than two weeks, but I’m very excited about the planning process! I haven’t really started doing much with wedding planning since the announcement, but I’ve done some. Communicating with some LA wedding planners is the extent of my planning thus far. Oh wait, I also drafted the guest list. Don’t get me wrong. I have a personal folder full of wedding ideas on my personal laptop that I’ve compiled in the past two years. (Did I mention that I’m an anal retentive perfectionist – a synonym almost?) When I had dinner with Robert’s relatives in San Francisco last week, they asked me how I knew that Robert was the one because I’ve obviously been waiting for him to ask me for at least two years. And I simply answered: I just knew he was the one. Within a month of dating Robert, I knew that he wasn’t like all the other guys I’ve dated. I wasn’t looking for a relationship when he came into my life. In fact, when I moved to the DC area, I told everyone that I was going to enjoy being a bachelorette and having fun. Well, I couldn’t have been more wrong because that’s when God brought Robert into my life: when I least expected it. And I’m so grateful for that. Robert treats me better than anyone, and he tolerates my brattiness so much. When I thought Robert was going to be a temporary fling whose sole purpose was to take me out to dinner and hang up pictures and curtains for my first apartment, things didn’t turn out that way. Well, he still hangs up pictures and curtains for me, but now he’s going to be doing that for the rest of his life. BTW, it is so weird referring to Robert as my fiancé instead of my boyfriend, especially after being together for four years and 9 months! It’s also very strange to be wearing this little piece of Tiffany jewelry every day. I sometimes stare at my beautiful engagement ring and wonder how I got so lucky. So very lucky….

I know that my future posts will include details of the wedding planning process, so I want to apologize in advance if you get bored with them. In a way I’m glad to be back to the blogging world because I miss keeping a diary of my life. I want to look at my life one day and be proud of my blog. That’s what is so great about blogging: all your thoughts and words are memorialized forever, and you can share everything and anything with the world. It’s total liberation.

That’s all I have for now.

- M

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