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Cube E Craft

this is really funny, and if you get a little bored it's a fun activity.

super cuteness

see that little green doggy cast?  super cute!  feel better pazzo.

i'm now 27

Makeup Trial

Guys, i know that everyone should feel comfortable without wearing any makeup.  however, sometimes i don't and today is one of those days so be gentle.  i'm right out of the shower and i'm totally broken out and hideous.  i know, you should probably even avert your eyes.

and then i went for my makeup trial with Dani at Shu Uemura on newbury street.  bam!  who looks way more awesome now.  i think she did a great job.  i look like myself - when i apply my own makeup that is, but fresher.  and all my pimples are hidden as if they never existed.  she might be a genius.

Birthday am email

"8:27 and i have a bagel and coffee watching matt lauer.

no sleeping in today i guess."

abe's reply:

"still better than:

8:27 and i'm on the redline wondering where all the seats are."

So true.

Birthday Eve

today was the last day of my 4 day work week and it feels like silky smooth awesomeness.  i went to spinning and then planted my ass on the couch stuffing food in my face while watching really bad television.  life has been really stressful lately and we've found that i'm grinding my teeth every night from it, hopefully without lasting damage.  i had to go to a funeral today, and it was the kind where there isn't a dry eye in the house (except for the ice queens like me) - not that it makes it any easier to see people in so much pain over loss.  i've learned that i still cannot take being the same room as a dead body.  this fear started when i was like 12 years old, and ever since then i avoid going to wakes and funerals if i can help it.  well it turns out that you really can't avoid all of them, but you can stay seated so that you don't need to physically pass by a casket in a church during communion.  i won that battle and was able to avoid any scenes.

so tomorrow is the day.  i will be 27 and ready to run down that aisle.  well technically i couldn't run down the aisle because i'd be wearing heels and because when you're outdoors there isn't a real aisle.  however, you all know what i'm saying.  the planning has lost it's lustre, not that it really ever had any to me, and now it's time to get this party started.  tomorrow is my first dress fitting (that i'm fully unprepared for!!), my first meeting with a makeup artist, the first time i see the bridesmaid dresses, and the first time i spend hundreds of dollars on lingerie.  it's going to be a nice little day, i was hoping to get a workout in to counteract all the beer i'll be consuming later that night but hey life isn't perfect and it is a celebration afterall.  my only hope is to make it to my saturday 12:15 abs class...we'll see if that happens!  i bet i'll make it, it just won't be pretty  - my funny work friend would call me it a hot mess.

almost bday day

my birthday is very soon, only a couple days away!!  this is the first year in many where i am not very excited for it.  i'm not worried about turning a year older, i could really care less.  my scary age is 43, and until then any other year is no big thing to me.  i really do think there's something very wrong with me.  i don't have a birthday outfit, and i haven't put one ounce of thought into any of it and i'm usually a huge planner.  i had to kind of nail down some plans so friends could get there, but i'm feeling just lukewarm about it.  on an excitement scale from 1-10, i'm probably a 2.  well atleast i can say that i'm not working on friday... and that is a present in itself.  

Early birthday gifts...

my parents got me pearl earrings for my birthday.  at first i was like: um, you guys got me pearl earrings two years ago and i'm wearing them right now, but i got an upgrade. they're really lovely, they have a nice lustre.  now i just need a matching necklace and ring hahaha.  i love getting jewelry, it's the ultimate special feeling.

Cake tasting!

At konditor meister. we now have our cake. three different flavors for our three tiers.

i'm not going to lie, the experience is Not all it's cracked up to be. we were both relatively disappointed with it. i thought it would feel more special and actually you just feel like a lemming. we were sitting at just one of many many tables in the back of a bakery tasting different flavors and looking through a book, and everyone else is there, it's very impersonal. i really liked our cake helper, she was very nice, but the rest of them were loud and annoying and i was getting really distracted by other people's conversations and costs and all that. i guess that's just how it is, but that special little something was definitely missing. i will say the cake was absolutely the most delicious cake i've ever had before. really, it was the very best.

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It's all very sad

on tuesday, one of my friends got let go at work.  that was really sad and shocking, but we've kept in touch.  on friday, another friend got let go...and then later that night he died.  he came to say good bye to me at my desk, and i was a bit too in shock to say much to him, i was Very taken aback because he would be considered very senior.  and now i just feel really badly that i didn't say anything more because i had planned to.  i was going to call him this week and make sure things were ok.  well that conversation won't be happening.  the lesson learned here is to say what you want to say, don't wait till later... also another lesson would be to take care of your bodies.

time is money

i believe that people should always arrive on time, it's just plain rude to be late.  i think 5min - 20 min tardiness is acceptable and past that it feels more like gross neglect.  i know, i'm so uptight about that.  so you think i'm uptight about timeliness??  think again friends.  

we have a friend who made dinner for herself and her husband but her husband kept her waiting.  how long she waited for him, we don't really know.  she put a lot of effort into this dinner and placed all his food nicely on the plate with lots of thought.  when he walked in the door Late, she took his plate and scraped all the food right into the trash in front of him... i can't remember the last time i laughed so hard.  i thought that i was a little nuts, but there is no way in hell that i would ever do that because A. it sounds more like a fit of rage that i've never quite experienced, and B. i'd just pack that beautiful plate of food for my lunch the next day...i wouldn't want to waste it, and then i'd call abe and tell him how delectable it was.  luckily for abe, i just don't like to waste food.  the next time he's late, like seriously late for dinner when i've gone out of my way to cook a nice meal i'm going to have some kind of prepared explosion waiting for him.  no food will be wasted in my demonstration of time management though, but i assure you it will be weird. 

antigua

thanks to Chronicle, you know that old person news show, i Really Really want to go to Antigua.  365 beaches or something like that, private beaches party beaches, a downtown, sailboats, regattas, super friendly people, very safe, the lush greenery and pretty water.  it looks and sounds like heaven.  did i mention the weather there is perfect?  sometimes i wonder just why on earth i live here in this cold and bitter city, i really can never piece together an answer to that question.  maybe i should open a small boutique hotel somewhere beautiful... wouldn't that just be nice?

The Electric Biscuit

i was on the bus today and the cutest thing happened.  i was sitting near a little 3 or 4 year old boy and his... dad or uncle or dad with a custody thing.  i say that only because the man was holding a big bag with a doggie bed, doggie bowl, and little baggie of food that looked perfectly portioned out for the week and the little boy's backpack with a giraffe head sticking out, it was So Cute. the little boy's dog which was a little black french bulldog, you know the kind that looks like a bat and he's just sitting quietly on the ground with the bus sort of tussling him all around to and fro.  so the boy is talking and talking and talking but very clearly, so i could listen to his whole story, and it started as:

"we went to the biscuit museum where they have lots of electric biscuits, only the best kind, and at at the electric biscuit museum they had really big biscuits and really small biscuits, and dogs like to eat them."

dad says - "an electric biscuit??"

boy says - "Yes, an Electric Biscuit!"

oh my god, i was bubbling over in super cute overload, i just could have squealed.  and that might be the only time i can ever say that about a child on public transportation.

shoes...

i'm having the hardest time finding shoes for my first gown fitting in two weeks!  maybe it's an odd time of year, right before resort lines come out but right as winter sales are going on.  this is disasterous for me because i want Pink shoes or shoes with personality.  the idea of wearing white shoes makes me shudder for some reason, that's just not me, it's so...sanitizing.  but maybe i just never found cute white ones, oh and it doesn't help that they're All satin.  once back in college, i had a super awesome pair of pink satin shoes but since they were satin they got ruined by dirt and rain almost as quickly as they arrived in my life.  i loved those shoes.  so today i spent 4 hours at the mall, and actually i didn't even try one pair of shoes on because i couldn't even find one pair worth putting on my foot.  i stood in jimmy choo and tapped my foot making a really nasty face at the shoes before me.  Why in the world would they have a shoe store if 75% of what was in it was accessories, and the only shoes in there were god awful Ugly.  so i went to saks, and they had all winter shoes, and i went to barneys and they had only winter shoes and a huge sale area.  neiman marcus had the best selection, but still none of them were anything i wanted to wear with my dress, and then i went to each and every store after that sold shoes to no avail.  when i got home i searched the internet high and low and bought these two by Kate Spade of the Couture section of Zappos just in case:

     

i really hope the pink ones work out, although they totally remind me of Barbie for some reason... not that it's a bad thing, she's an icon but you know...

Awesome Technology!

what is that white thing in the woman's hand?  is it a second clutch?  is it a grocery list or something?  no it's a Sony Vaio P Series, and I WANT ONE!  it comes in garnet red, which would match my nail polish perfectly.  and they say it fits right in your purse.  this is obviously being marketed to women and i'm ok with it.  i think this might be the perfect little toy for a blogger.

The Tudors

this is a working weekend for abe so what have i been up to?  i watched season 2 of The Tudors on demand.  i feel like i kind of ruined things by seeing The Other Boleyn Girl recently with natalie portman and scarlette johanson. i mean, whoever plays Anne on the series is quite good and really looks the part but she is not as good as Natalie Portman!  I know the series is more focused on the king and he's really good but the sexual escapades are a bit over the top.  i could never sit in the same room as my parents and watch this show, i'd turn beet red with embarrassment.  but the fashion!  the gowns are gorgeous, and the headpieces, and the jewels!  i can't believe how blandly i dress in comparison.  that alone is worth watching.  i know the history pretty well so nothing is really a surprise, but it's just as entertaining and is probably even more entertaining to someone new to that whole era.

Tomorrow i'm going on my wedding shoe hunt...Barney's, you better watch out.  

january update

in case anyone was wondering if my thursday spinning instructor was still dressed ridiculously tonight in class:  the answer is yes.  he said that he does it on purpose, the message he's trying to convey is "buisness and fun" or something.  and tonight he showed us some warren miller on the big macbook he brings to class.  he does a great job distracting me from all the sweat dripping off me.  today i graduated from the back row to the front row, it was scary but i felt surprisingly energetic.

my wedding gown has arrived!  i'm going in for my first fitting on my birthday in two weeks, more to come on that.  until then, i will probably be crazy trying to slim down a little bit.  i really thought i'd have a couple more months before i'd see the dress on me.  and guys, i don't have shoes yet.  i'm totally unprepared for the fitting.  i don't even know what kind of shoes i want or how tall.  sigh. i'm going to look this weekend.

my 9-5 has become really stressful.  all day long i have pain i my shoulders from scrunching up in a totally erratic stress ball.  i look a lot like a hedgehog scurrying back and forth all day long with a coffee mug, it's really not pretty.  hopefully things will improve there soon.

i got Pineapple Express on Netflix this week, and i cannot wait to watch it both for the comedy and my crush on James Franco!

the missing gene

i'm the type of girl who laughs at other girls who cry at the movies, when they read thoughtful cards, open wonderful gifts, or are just feeling very touched.  i just can't really understand why they cry... i really just am missing a piece of biology.  you know those women who have to fan their eyes?... what in the world are they doing, does it stop the tears from coming?  i've done this once or twice in my life and it did nothing but make me look like i was doing a bizarre dance while tears streamed down my ugly crying face.

i think i had my one cry of the year.  over the weekend i shut myself in my room with panda and cried my eyes out for an hour.  of course there were reasons, but also if you don't let them out once in a while they might just dry up and disappear forever...and then i'd really be cold as ice.  i'm hoping that this means that i won't have any left on my wedding day.  for 1. i'm going to be paying a pretty penny for perfect makeup including gorgeous false lashes and 2. my mom and dad are very emotional people and will for sure shed a hundred tears each and i don't like this.  why do people cry when they're happy?  my dad actually asked permission to cry... i told him that i'd prefer he didn't, but i know he will, it's basic human emotions right?  

if tears were money, i'd be dirt poor.

nice to meet you

the first question people ask me when i first meet them is either "where do you live?" or "are you japanese?"  neither of these questions really exhibits much about me.  i live in a great apartment which is everything i'd ever want except for the fact it has only 2 closets and doesn't allow dogs, and i am not japanese but thanks for assuming - i'm korean and totally look it.  generally when i tell people i live in cambridge they're all like: it must be so great to live in the city, it must be so exciting!  i usually feign agreement, but in all honesty living in the city gets old after 3 years and now the only thing that makes it great is getting to work in 25 minutes.  it's all so shiny and exciting at first with all the bars literally everywhere, but you know i'm telling you it's not a city that's always changing it's a city that Never changes.  especially for me, the grass always seems to be greener on the other side.  the thought of a walk in closet bring misty tears to my eyes, a yard for our future dogs to run around in seems like heaven, but a commute into the city and spending what time i would normally be at the gym slimming down inside a commuter rail jammed in next to an overweight stranger makes me want to puke.  don't get me wrong, cambridge is pretty awesome it's my favorite of all the "right outside boston" places, i mean we have harvard, MIT, healthworks, berryline (fake pinkberry), the minuteman bike trail, the red line (the cleanest and fastest of the public transportation trains), recycling like crazy, and probably a ton less idiots than that other popular city outside of boston.  so what have we learned?  maybe when you meet someone there should be a really tricky question down your sleeve so you really get to know something unique on the spot.  like: hey it's great to meet you, so what section of the newspaper do you like to read?  or which newspaper do you like to read?  you know, there's like a billion interesting questions you could ask someone besides: are you japanese, that's all i'm saying...

Victory!

we moved at an odd time last year in april, so a week ago we got a letter asking us if we were going to leave or stay... with an increase of $160 in rent.  in all my years living in the city i've never seen an increase that large.  abe was like: oh whatever.  i was like: NO!!  so i spent a couple of days looking around on craigslist for a new place that would be both bigger than the space we have now and for less, i know i was basically asking for a miracle but that's what it would take for me to break out the moving boxes.  in the end i decided that i really didn't want to move because i like our place, but that increase was just unreal and so what did i do?  i asked the landlord to meet us somewhere in the middle and increase by only $100 instead of the original $160 which would save us $720 over the year.  our landlord is a really nice guy, and he said Sure.  the lesson learned here people: sometimes all you need to do is ask for what you need.  it felt like a major victory since we have shelled out so much money fixing the bad smell in our car (long story), bought a new bed, and i joined a more expensive gym recently.  i will take any victory big or small right now.

Bride wars

Abe said: don't you want to see this movie? At first I was thinking that it didn't look so bad. However, the more previews I've seen the more I hate the catty premise and antics. I'm sure that it is supposed to have a lighthearted humor about weddings and crazy brides but I have no intention on wasting my time with that. If I'm going to waste my time with a fluff comedy it will not have Kate Hudson in it. Please don't make me go.
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am i in the right place?

today i took a spinning class.  my normal day is sunday but i thought, what the hell, i'll try a new instructor on a thursday evening.  so i go in and first of all the instructor was Male - in an all women's gym, ok... different but alright, he was wearing a dress shirt and tie with cargo shorts and wasn't on the bike... um what the F are you doing dude..., he brought his laptop in and he was pretty much just DJing and singing into the little headphone mic thing.  it was probably the oddest thing i've encountered all week.  to make things even better he'd flash the lights during class like a strobe light and encouraged everyone to sing along with him to the music.  so it was very out of the ordinary, but i did really enjoy myself and the class was challenging so he did his job well.  it was a class that i might never forget.  but he also did say something during class in between singing and talking about how "banging a right or a left" is so north eastern and nobody else knows what it means, he said: sometimes it's just that extra 1% that gets you where you want to be, and that's not very much is it?  i guess when it's put in that way 1% isn't that much, and putting 1% extra in each class or each day would eventually get me where i wanted to be.  i'll be in this class again next thursday, only because i want to see if that was his normal spinning outfit.

Honeymoon is booked!

we are going to the Cap Juluca resort in Anguilla for our honeymoon.  i had a little bit of a debate on where i wanted to stay in anguilla but i think that i made the right choice.  it recently went through some renovations that were completed in december which is nice.  i have a friend who stayed at Cuisinart and loved it which is right next door.  i don't think you could really go wrong...so i say now.  but i'm really looking forward to this place and this vacation.  i love the sun, sand, and ocean.  

tomorrow has to come.

well i did work on friday, but i didn't really consider it the end of my vacation.  tomorrow is going to be the beginning of a regular work week after a nice vacation lounging at home.  and by lounging i really mean it!  everyday i went to the gym in the morning, and then we literally hung out all day long.  abe was sick the entire time so we couldn't really do much anyways.  i did catch up on some movies i'd always meant to see:  Casablanca, Singing in the Rain, The Sound of Music...i'd seen it before but it's been 15 years since, Tropic Thunder, and Hot Fuzz.  that's quite the variety, and they were all really good....well tropic thunder was funny but it wasn't everything i thought it would be.  Hot Fuzz was much more than i thought it would be.  Casablanca was nothing that i expected.  Singing in the Rain was my favorite i think.  so besides seeing lots of movies and watching tv, abe let me go on a shopping spree.  i got the Tory Burch flats that i'd wanted, new jeans, LuLu Lemon workout clothes, a new suit, and other office clothes.  it was awesome to be able to replace a lot of items that were old and dingy, and then i cleaned out my closet.  i do this 3x a year generally, but we really are crunched for clothing space here so it's important to do it anytime i buy a good quantity of stuff.  i know i have tons of things i don't wear but i'm also afraid to get rid of.

i had all these ideas of things i wanted to do over my break:  Fugakyu for sushi, visit to a museum, get a $5 footlong subway, get a manicure, pancakes for breakfast...i know a lot of these are food related, trying new recipes, and a small road trip.  so how many things did i accomplish?  i got a $5 footlong, 2 manicures, abe made mushroom soup from anthony bourdain's less halles cookbook that i got him for christmas (it was delicious), and i got addicted to spinning.  

it's going to be a long time till my next vacation... i think it will be my honeymoon.

End of the road

today, we marched into Jordan's Furniture and into their Sleep Lab.  it took us all of 20 minutes to find a better mattress, and pillows.  we walked out with super high expectations in fixing our sleeping lives and a dent in our wallet.  we Hate our current pillow top mattress to the point where we curse it everyday.  my parents got it for me only 2 years ago, but they either bought one too soft or just really cheap because now it's completely sunken in.  it's like crawling in and out of a hole each morning.  next weekend, our new gem of a firm memory foam mattress will arrive at our door.  i hope to achieve a greater feeling of rest and a better attitude on life.  let's see if a mattress can solve those things.  does anyone have a memory foam mattress?  abe used to have a memory foam topper, and it was so awesome.