gimchi

10.19.2006

first things first

ta da!!

: )

may your day be joyous and your heart merry and light!

also, filled with delicious food and NC-17 excitement.

mmm.... food and excitment. life doesn't get any better than that.

and, ON we go!

check out those immense glasses. they, thankfully, have gotten smaller as i've gotten older. that's my brother vince - isn't he a cutie?

note the younger self's impossibly large glasses. the better to see you with, my dear! obviously, it was part of my costume (my talented mom made both of our get-ups).

teehee

i have realized recently that my eyeballs stick out farther than my eyebrows.

anthony thinks it's funny, because sometimes my eyelids "press ham" against my glasses.

what this really means is that i am a highly evolved asian, which, in turn, means that in the severe cold aftermath of global warming (a la 'the day after tomorrow'), my fatty-fatty eyelids will keep my eyeballs freezer-burn free.

this is my favorite phrase at present. "my fatty-fatty eyelids." i think i got it from fatty tuna sushi, or some such food item.

anthony asked if he could call me his yellow-skinned goddess. we soon amended it to, "fatty-fatty eyelid goddess."

10.13.2006

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

christ on a stick, i've been a busy bee as of late. running around, fro and to. and sick to boot! (thanks a lot, erika.)

i'm putting together the wedding photos i took for a friend of a friend. over 500! so i'm making a "best of the best" folder for easier viewing.

i'm actually somewhat ahead of the game with my classes and classwork. unfortunately, really behind on reading, though. like, really-super-all-kinds-of-behind.

still trying to figure out this wedding location thing. i'll have to ask parental units for their input, too. i am really quite torn. man, i am so bad at decisions!

somewhere squished in there, i'm trying to find time to do some art and craft for some upcoming craft shows. one in november and 2 in december. cleaned up the craft table - the cats had spilled my bottle of sewing machine oil and it was all over the table and is still pooled underneath my cutting mat. those wacky felines! thankfully none got on the floor or was tracked onto the bed. though i had some gardening tips i'd printed out which had become flooded with oil and now looked strangely like vellum.

GFSS last night was all too wonderful. two new people and a possible recruitment we met at the tea lounge. it was a much needed estrogen fix. we had knitting, crochet, embroidery and sewing going on. though not-so-sweatshop style with the pumpkin cookies and delicious teas, of course. i so adore meeting new like-minded people. one, weirdly enough, lives in the SAME HOUSING COMPLEX as me. small world, no? and it is *not* a big complex, by any means.

visiting parents this weekend before they head off to china for a month. they were in a car accident while in canada a week ago! my mom still has headaches, but overall they are ok. mostly sore and shaken up.

i've had all kinds of insane job offers that haven't panned out. at least 3. there's another w/in the company i work for now, so i'm crossing my fingers for that. change is good.

jen is having a yard sale on the 21st, which will hopefully mean that i'll have the entire house cleaned out by then. ... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! we can wish and dream. that is my goal, though. i've only done half-assed purging in the past. we're talking full-on enema. anything that's not bolted down or necessary? out the door! ("necessary," of course, is a very flaky and relative word.)

and chicago! i must research chicago some more and finish my scarf i'm knitting! so i will be warm and cozy whilst walking the windy city (mayhaps w/ sleep goblin by my side?). looking at beautiful art. i have a desire to walk around with some hot chocolate. maybe minty.

so i'm still breathing and buzzing and doing my crazy bee dance. buzzy bee. superbuzzy even. my cup is full and to the brim and i simply cannot add anymore. i think i'm at that euphoric stage of stress. if there is such a thing. i'm kind of making things up right now. i'm strangely giddy, possibly from lack of sleep, but i'm really enjoying it right now. *le sigh*

and thank goodness it's friday!

thursday's shuffle:

the jealous sound - all albums
iron & wine - our endless numbered days
the origin of love - hedwig and the angry inch
wig in a box - hedwig and the angry inch
venus - frankie avalon
tammy - debbie reynolds
peace of mind - boston
trackstar - castor, tracking sounds alone
gone for good - the shins, chutes too narrow
stumble then rise on some awkward morning - a silver mt zion, he has left us alone
magic dance - david bowie
south - three mile pilot, another desert, another sea

10.09.2006

possibilities

so here are the two places anthony and i are thinking to have our wedding:

1 - davis island garden club

front of the little house

sneaking around the back

pussyfooting some more

patio! lights? dancing? cake?

from the patio towards the gazebo and the water

sneak peak inside - a wedding had just occurred the night before. the chairs are kinda ugly, but they have white (albiet plastic) chairs available for $2/each.

overall impressions: intimate!

2 - tampa garden club

stupidly, i think i accidentally deleted the photo of the outside! the website has a picture of the front. long lawn that leads to the road and the bay.

i admit to liking this place a little more, mostly because anthony and i went to a valentine's day dance here when we were first dating. awww....

the view of the front from the side.

um, somewhere around the side, i think. possibly the entrance?

the view towards the water from the front

side area w/ cute little faux bridge.

this was some side room that you could cordon off for the ceremony, i like this idea a lot. except i wouldn't close it off, maybe leave it open w/ the columns and something gauzy. i like gauzy.
hehe - you can see ant's face on the left in the reflection.

the main room. there's even a stage!

overall impressions: grand!

10.06.2006

the part of the poisonwood bible that always hits me in the gut (i.e. makes me cry and wonder about the strangeness of life and happiness and guilt):

the belly of the plane groaned open and we were delivered abruptly into the benign spring air of fort benning, georgia.

it is impossible to describe the shock of return. i recall that i stood for the longest time staring at a neatly painted yellow line on a neatly formed cement curb. yellow yellow line line. i pondered the human industry, the paint, the cement truck and the concrete forms, all the resources that had gone into that one curb. for what? i could not quite think of the answer. so that no car would park there? are there so many cars that america must be divided into places with and places without them? was it always so, or did they multiply vastly, along with telephones and new shoes and transistor radios and cellophane-wrapped tomatoes, in our absense?

10.03.2006

deep breaths, deep breaths

so..........

life = hectic.

things i am attemping to accomplish:

1. find a wedding location
2. catch up on reading for my classes
3. finish assignments that are due on wednesday
4. purge the house
5. clean up the garden (again) & save the life of my jasmine plant
6. redo gfss website colors, possibly entire site, but that's for later. yea, later.
7. update and redo my portfolio completely. actually put more photos up.
8. breathe
9. not stress out.

so far, so good. i'm staying mostly calm. this weekend will be much needed.

jen got anthony this figure from the USF ceramic artists' sale. i wish i knew who made it, though she may know a name.

anthony has cleverly given the rabbit a toupee! guess what it's made out of.

THOMAS FUR. hahaha. he pet thomas rather thoroughly one day and gathered up the insane amounts of fur he sheds on an hourly basis. by quickly and deftly rubbing the fur between his fingers, he was able to fashion a beautiful and stylish head covering!

and here's just a random photo of dave and brian at the new world brewery show.