Tuesday, October 30, 2007

YES

if beard and i ever tie the knot--this is going to be useful!

http://www.byebyeblender.com/

a bridal registry that lets guests give money towards a honeymoon or luxury gifts. PERFECT for people who have been living together for a while and have all the household stuff.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

spare me my life



A way to learn English in Japan. Wait for the girls.

Monday, October 15, 2007

damn, i make good soup



it kind of looked like this. i don't have the fancy bowl.

today for lunch (during the drill) i made a great pot of soup. i've had the cold that won't go away forever now and i decided to hot it out. i started some water boiling and put in the rice pillows. then i added a generous helping of kimchi followed by mushrooms (the big ones htat are stuck together), odang, 2 spicy green peppers, 2 big cloves of garlic, one med large onion, corn, and a little carrot while this was all simmering i added in 2 forkfuls of spicy red paste. YUMMY Yum yum. It was a 9 tissue lunch.
just a test. a bit scary when you don't know what's going on...

are we being attacked?

what the frick is going on around here. we were just finishing up lunch and what i would call a storm siren went off for a long long time and fighter planes were flying over head--a lot. and then the siren stopped and there were announcements for quite sometime. then the announcements stopped and the siren went again. no planes and no announcements this time...
most likely its a test. i remember something like this happening last year but no announcements and only one siren and places and EG said it was to test the army.
off to work. we'll see what they say.

Friday, October 12, 2007

korea

One thing I'll miss about Korea--the cabbies. Well, some of them.
I know I'll miss the harmonica cabbie. I've had him twice. I get in for the long ride to Gupyoung Dong (about 25-30 mins). He says nothing for a while until we are deep in rush hour traffic. Then he brings out the "where are you from?" i say america. He says OH AMERICA! Number ONE! i say, thanks. Then he calls me Miss America. I say, yes, it's true. how did you know? Then silence for about 5 minutes as I go back to eating my fruits and veggies.
Then, we're at a red light. He takes out a harmonica and waves it at me. I say, harmonica. He says, america!. So that means either he got it IN america, someone brought it for him from america, it was made in america, or he thinks my name is america. He then proceeds to play home on the range, during which the light turns green, we're in a lot of traffic with a lot going on, but this doesn't deter him from playing. He finishes, I smile and say good! I'm hoping he'll put it away, we have a tricky intersection coming up. But NO! He says, America number one song and plays the star spangled banner--complete with a hendrix-esque riff in the middle. nnniiiiccceee. we arrive safely to dunkin donuts. phew.
The first time this happened I was on a shorter ride and he played 3 songs. Number one korea song and numbers one and two america songs. I remember home on the range but i can't remember the other one. I might have encouraged him this time b/c the traffic was lighter and i wasn't so pressed for time.
On a side note. The other day as I was walking I saw a kid on a bike playing a harmonica--and there was a kid on the back of his bike! This kid is either the cabbie's son or his protege.

Monday, October 08, 2007

wowza

just spent a HUGE amount of money on plane tickets. doing things slightly different. beard found a cheap flight out of kuala lampur, malaysia to moline. SO we're leaving Jakarta dec 15th, flying to malaysia. I'm hanging out a day and a half and then leaving on the 18th for moline. that is if our reservations go through. we'll see about that soon enough.
and now that my tummy's in knots, i'm going to try to go to bed.

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

long time no blog

first let me just say i have the "death hurt" this means that my right gland in my neck is swollen and hurts REALLY REALLY bad. it means i'm doomed for sickness. DOOMED. ive been stocking up on vitamin C but we all know where this is going. sick city.

second something funny: tuesday i had my picture taken for a newspaper ad, again. This will be the 2nd time i've been in the newspaper for DDD. yes, i'm that hot. or something. anyway, i wore a nice shirt instead of a regular tee-shirt and as i was leaving for lunch my boss pats her stomach, points to mine and says, Traci, you're not fat! i say, um...thanks. I want to reply by patting my stomach and saying You, too! but decide to just get in the elevator. i think it was a complement.

and now--we returned from china sunday. had a minor issue that could have been major with customs trying to come back in, and tuesday was my birthday. beards birthday was today (wednesday) which is also a national holiday. i'm not sure why and i don't really care. i'm just really happy to have the day after my birthday off work. as is beard,too b/c as with most years, he starts out his birthday hungover b/c i was born a few hours ahead of him. tuesday i went ot WA bar with CH and had a pilsner urquell and then we went to bisan for red chicken, aka yum yum chicken. then we went to jenny's and then back to my apt. eungyung, ken and his gf yubi, sandy and his gf tidha, and keith all helped us celebrate the bdays. eg brought a delicous chocolate with chocolate mousse cake and then ordered this great chicken dish.

this AM, i woke up fine and ate pizza, sat, showered and met jenny and CH at homeplus. stocked up on some goodies, taught for a bit, saw CH's apt and then went out for dinner with beard. pork galbi.

and now i'm at home. going ot get off the computer and read a decent amount of the book i just started. tomorrow--back to work and studying. this weekend--jinju and lantern festival and mini gumi reunion.