Month: May 2013

  • 10 Day Writing Challenge. Day Two.

    Day 1: Ten random facts about yourself. 
    Day 2: Nine things you do everyday. 
    Day 3: Eight things that annoy you. 
    Day 4: Seven fears/phobias. 
    Day 5: Six songs that you’re addicted to. 
    Day 6: Five things you can’t live without. 
    Day 7: Four memories you won’t forget. 
    Day 8: Three words you can’t go a day without using. 
    Day 9: Two things you wish you could do. 
    Day 10: One person you can trust

    Asides from the obvious and obviously boring things like pee and brush my teeth. 

    1. I make Won cuddle me really snug even though 5 minutes later (when he’s fallen asleep) I’m so over it because I can’t breathe and I sprawl out starfish style. But if I wake up and he’s NOT cuddling me, I’m all, “hunnie.. cuddle meeeeeee!” And he does it half asleep half awake. Every time I’m sure he’s going to get mad but he never has yet.

    2. I call my mom. I try to keep the conversation interesting and joke around with her. But most of the time she’d in the middle of her drama or her dinner or a phone call so she’ll give me a minute or two then she goes back to her drama. I much prefer to talk to her in person as I talk really fast and I am really extra animated to make up for what words I don’t know how to say in Vietnamese, things that I cannot do on the phone :(  So I try to save my long gossips for when I see her in person. 

    3. Wait for my in laws to come home from work to say “hi” to them. Apparently it’s really important in Korean culture. Most of the time I’ll cook some snacks and dessert and hang out with them in the kitchen until they go to sleep. But when I’m in a bad mood, I literally say hi then head up stairs away from everyone.
    4. Regret the gym. When I don’t go I regret not going because if I did I would have been more energetic and feel better about my health and get skinnier. When I DO go, I regret going because my legs hurt, like they do right now :(  

    5. Play Candy Crush. Get mad. Vow to quit for good and never play again.

    6. Stay up until 3 or 4AM. Sometimes I don’t sleep at night at all. Won wakes up for work at 5AM and I am still up. He forces me to go to sleep then calls me at noon to make sure I haven’t died. For some reason I just can’t sleep in Seattle! ARGHH!! I haven’t taken naps during the day. And I started going to the gym to try and tire myself out. Doesn’t work.

    7. Take a pre-natal pill. Just in case… so our accident baby doesn’t have spina bifida. And for the record, please don’t tell our kid they were an accident. Thanks.

    8. Force myself to eat some form of fiber. Since I no longer live with my mommy who spoon feeds me at least 3 servings of fruits and veggies a day, I have to make sure I get it. A lot of Korean food isn’t in it’s natural form. A lot of the veggies are pickled or cooked in broths that don’t uphold their integrity. So I always try to have a bowl of lightly boiled veggies handy, or fruits, even fruits I hate, like bananas.  I hate bananas but I’ll eat one a day if I didn’t have anything else fibery.

    9. Save stories or dilemmas to write in xanga… but I never do because after a few days its  too much stuff to writ so I just don’t. Sad.

    I’m sure you’ve all heard of the Xangapocalypse. I think it would be nice that before I go, for good, that EVERYONE who reads my xanga (especially those of you who have been doing it silently all these years) say hi to me. And thank me for entertaining you for a good 5 minute once every few months. It’s  like my xanga funeral, don’t you have any last words for me??! Okay, don’t say stupid shit if it’s mean because I’ll just tell Won and he’ll put you on a list of people he’s going to punch in the face if he ever sees you in person. Anyhow, kind of fitting, I started this countdown just as xanga is starting their countdown… dun dun dun. 

  • 10 Day Writing Challenge. My First Ever!

    Day 1: Ten random facts about yourself. 
    Day 2: Nine things you do everyday. 
    Day 3: Eight things that annoy you. 
    Day 4: Seven fears/phobias. 
    Day 5: Six songs that you’re addicted to. 
    Day 6: Five things you can’t live without. 
    Day 7: Four memories you won’t forget. 
    Day 8: Three words you can’t go a day without using. 
    Day 9: Two things you wish you could do. 
    Day 10: One person you can trust


    1. I have never broken a bone before. And I’ve been to the hospital ONCE in my life for myself. Do NOT want to go back. Ever. 
    2. Although I’m great at smiling at the camera,  I do not take “selfies” to post online, I take them to send to Won. I send him tons of really ugly and silly ones all day. Like when I am showing off how many chins I can get or if I have a big belly that day and I tell  him how pregnant I am (I’m not).  I get maybe 1 nice one every 3 months. That one, I’ll post as my xanga profile pic! 
    3. I have memories of eating Moths back when I was in Vietnam as a child. We lived in the countryside without electricity so at night, we huddled around an oil lamp. And when a moth would come by, we’d catch it and roast it in the lamp. They’re quite buttery. I THINK I remember this, for some reason I think I do. Maybe it’s made up.
    4. I love eating things that you have to work to eat like crawfish, oysters, clams, mussels, crab, chicken with bone, fish with bone. I hate easy things like steak or boneless chicken! So I don’t like to eat out because it gets too messy with my hands. My favorite meals are just steamed seafood at home when I can get elbow deep in shells.
    5. I like to dance, like in Zumba, but my body is pretty stiff even though I have a good sense of rhythm. I just can’t bust a roll fast enough! And I get cramps when I get too shaky and rolly with my hips. LOL sad :(  
    6. I’m allergic to alcohol. I haven’t touched an alcoholic drink in 8 years. That was when I was in college and I found out. Everyone thought I got STDS from the frat houses. But no, I got fuckin’ allergic reaction from drinking and that shit manifested all over my face. WAS A NIGHTMARE because it was shamefully embarrassing, especially because I had never in my life kissed a boy at that point. I still have the scars on my chin to remind me :(
    7. I am also allergic to having anything glued on my eyelids, which sounds weird but considering I make a living on glueing things to people’s eyelids, it kind of sucks. I can’t wear false lashes for longer than an hour before it gets itchy then red and swollen the next day. Then the next week I can expect super dry eyelids and peeling skin. WTF right? I don’t care. I still wear false eyelashes when I go out. Thankfully, I don’t go out that much.
    8. I’m REALLY little, like under 5 feet 100 pounds little. So I don’t ever wear any jewelry or accessories to prevent anything from visually cutting my limbs or chest and will make me look stumpy. Even for my wedding I am opting for a zero jewelry look, as much as I love the bling. The only time it’s been a good thing is that my engagement ring looks like an effin’ rock. I also have a belt OR purse rule, one or the other. Not both or else I get lost in the accessories. 
    9. Yet, I like BIG effin’ hair. I have a shit ton of hair compared to a normal person but when I do my hair, I add 2 extra packs of extensions. So I have enough hair for like 4  peoples on my head. Even when I throw my hair up into a bun on top of my head, I have fake hair underneath my real hair, then I’ll wrap some more extensions over my real hair. I like it when my bun is bigger than my head! Lily Gallichi style!
    10. When Won and I first started dating I jokingly told him that he better marry me by the time I’m 25 or else I’ll dump him and find someone who will. I just turned 25 last month, I’m getting married next month. This guy makes my every wish come true, no matter how ridiculous or big or small. 
    Your turn!! 

  • Update on My Life.

    My sad sad life. Okay, I’m being melodramatic. It’s not sad, it’s my every dream, to be a housewife without having to cook or clean unless I want to. I mostly just watch Housewives series now, except we’re not rich like that nor I am dramatic like that so I can’t really relate. But I just like having the tv on ALL THE TIME cuz the quiet is lonely.

    I ended up not getting a job in Seattle because I travel back to SF sooo much for weeks at a time. I work when I am in SF at least. I am thinking of starting up a private beauty concierge service in Seattle so I can work without committing to a schedule. I’ll service really busy working moms, and busy executives, and really vain people who don’t want to be seen going to a salon to reveal their best beauty secrets. 
    With the wedding coming up, Won wants me to not focus on work but more on the wedding.Which is fun but I can’t help but feel so guilty because everyday (middle of night really) I am charging his credit card a couple of hundreds of dollars worth of supplies yet I am not contributing to our bank account in any way. All our money is tied up in the wedding so it’s not like we have the extra money for me to invest in new supplies and contracts and insurance for my new business idea. 

    I go through very short but very real bouts of depression because I feel useless and guilty. Guilty for spending money without making any. And guilty for leaving my mom by herself. It never really occurred to me before how big and lonely my mom’s house is until I was there last week by myself for a day and I wanted to cry. So I came back to Seattle and unleashed the dragon and Won was like wtf is wrong with you? He kept asking if I’m pregnant cuz I am super emotional and tired and don’t want to be touched cuz I’m sore. Conclusion: We don’t know. We don’t want to know because I need to live in this delusion that I am not going to get too fat that I cannot fit into my wedding dress which was altered down like a glove for me. 

    But most of the time I’m happy. Won signed me up for the gym, and cake decorating class, and bead making class and whatever the hell else I promise I want to do. I went to the gym a total of 3  times in the last month. I love taking Zumba but people at the gym at bitches. ESPECIALLY the bitches who work at the front desk. I don’t know why they are such douchebags. 1. They’re not good looking. 2. They’re obviously not rich because they’re working the front desk of a stupid gym. 3. They’re not that buff, my husband can come in and kick anybody’s ass. So like, WTF is their deal?! They treat me like I am so bothersome asking them questions that are not posted online. Like I am so annoying, even though they aren’t doing anything else at the moment! And I always see them power trip and act like douchebags to other gym members too. And the girls are not very nice here. I am super smiley and everyone has bitch face on. Maybe I’m not serious enough about the gym :( *sigh* I think we are going to cancel my membership, NOT BECAUSE I NEVER GO, but because I don’t like the peoplet here. 

    How to end this on a good note: Pictures of the wedding crafts I’ve been doing..
     
    Wedding shoes came in the mail! I bought 3 other pairs before this but returned them all before I found this one. I wish I knew how to better capture light and crystal but in person this mother efffer lights up like a Christmas tree in your wildest dreams. I am sooo pleasantly surprised at the quality of the rhinestone considering how cheap these were! I really hope our wedding day photographers  & videgraphers can capture the beautiful light from these! They come in my size and are 6inches!! even thought they’re advertised at 5 3/4, which originally turned me off from them cuz I was adamant my wedding shoes HAD to be 6+ inches. 

    Here is a comparison picture with one of my favorite 6 inch shoe that I’ve had and loved since forever. 

    I’m spray painting chandeliers gold because our wedding colors are pink and gold. So I got these white chandelier and went to town with gold spray paint. I also did not like the original chandelier crystals beads that came with them so I ordered better quality crystals to hand on these. YAY! This was a sample set of 5. I just ordered an additional 25. Plus 300+ pink candles. And now I need to go buy more spray paint. and YAY! Let’s light up this mther effer and dazzle in gold!

    I also thought the votives candle holders were too plain so I bought gold glass paint and am now taking on the task of hand dipping 300+ candle holders.FML. The first 20 were fun and now I’m like FML people better appreciate these!! Need to buy more paint. 

    It’s surprising how little cupcake holders are.. Can you imagine these itty bitty little things are going to hold 200+ cucpcakes when they’re done? 

    Fabric swatches for the guys…

    And flower shopping at the the Flower Mart to get an idea on pricing so that ALL our wedding guests can have a fresh flower on their plate. 
    Won’s double wedding band that we just picked up. We’re going to have them sand down the smoothness for an rougher more textured look. And mine is still not done yet :(

    And here is me. Looking how I feel.. 23 years ago. Hmph! 

  • More Oysters

    When I told my mum about the oyster trip, she insisted I make some super yummy oyster porridge. 

     
    I’ve never even made porridge before. My mom says you’re supposed to put 1 cup of uncooked rice and then tons of water. I was lazy so I scooped a bowl of cooked rice in the rice cooker. And kept adding water when it got thicker. I think you’re constantly supposed to stir, which I did not know because the rice at the bottom of the pot burned and stuck to the pot. Can’t scrub it off. 
    R.I.P. little  pot :(
    Also, I was supposed to chop up uncooked oysters but I had forgotten so all I had to work with were the left over baked oysters. Too bad because the best part is the oyster juice when it cooks. Oh well! Next time!
    Some garlic and shallot. Note: add oil to the pot so it doesn’t burn. Luckily, there was not a lot so I was able to scrape the bottom of this pot. Hahahahaha (not). 
    Add the chopped oysters to the shallot pot and some more “oyster sauce” because.. it’s oyster porridge!! I don’t know, I made that up. I really had no idea what I was doing. Then add the oyster pot to the porridge. Porridge is not a fun dish, it’s very bland. So I added some fish sauce because I’m Vietnamese and that is what we do.

    I ended up making some more oyster stir fry and adding it to the porridge because the porridge was STILL bland. I never knew this but Koreans eat kim chee with their porridge. I thought it was weird but considering how bland my porridge was, it was not a bad idea. Haha. 

    Good thing Won eats EVERYTHING! Hahaaha
    In other news, Won signed me up for a gym. I went for the first time yesterday to go swimming. It was so embarrassing, I came in and swiped my card. 
    Then walked across the whole gym to the dressing room. . I’m trying to act like I go to the gym all the time and that the big machines and weights in there do not scare me. And that it’s normal that I am wearing a pretty dress and some flip flops while everyone else is in real gym clothes. FML. Then the front desk staff chases me down telling me I needed a picture taken since it’s my first time
    So I walked back across the gym to the front desk to take a horribly ugly picture I was not prepared for.
    Then I walked back across to the dressing room to realize the lock Won gave me does not fit, luckily he had bought me a new pad lock in case this happened. 
    So I had to walk back out across the gym AGAIN to the front desk for scissor to cut open the package. 
    Then I walked back across to the locker room to realize I threw away the combo paper at the front desk.
    So I had to walk back to the front desk. Only for the staff to tell me that the combo paper is actually on the back of the lock. FML. 
    So I walked back to the dressing room to change and get in the pool -___- 

    As if I am not awkward enough!!  So much for pretending I am a regular. 

    So what.. is going on with everyone else’s life? We’re going to the Cinco De Mayo festival in Portland tomorrow! Exciting!