I have this thing with stationary and pretty paper. It's always been this way since I was little.

Amy and I were at Wal-Mart the other day and I found a green hard-cover journal with college ruled paper ! It was calling out to me and was only $6! It's a "jumbo journal" and has a pretty design; some white sketched hummingbirds drinking nectar from silhouetted flowers on the cover.

I have a bunch of journals at home that are dedicated for different things:
One for the things on my heart.
One for learning Korean.
One for lyrics of Chinese songs that I like.
One for quotes that stir me from the books I read.
One to write short book summaries so I don't forget what I read.
...

This one I've decided to write stories of our family! Events that make our family who we are, funny events, sad ones, stories our parents told us from when they were young or dating, Grandpa and Grandma's stories... Amy helped me brainstorm some yesterday. There are tons of pages and many lines. I love flipping through a journal and seeing handwriting, (which has seriously deteriorated over the years) filling up all those pages. Oh, I can't wait to fill it up!

Here's one I wrote the other day:

AVOCADOS

No one really ate avocados in Taiwan back then. You wouldn't even be able to find it at the market. A-Gong knew some American missionaries and they shared the fruit with him. Being the resourceful person that he is, he planted the seed in the yard and it grew!

When Ba/Ma were dating, Ba invited Ma over to their house. He tricked her saying that the seed was actually a marinated egg (lu dan). So she took a bite! Ow! Haha!

Ba is so mischievious! What a prankster! Our Aunt and 2 Uncles born before him were all well-behaved. I guess that has to run out somewhere. 4th and 5th uncle were pranksters, too.

They ate avocados with soy sauce. That's what we also do now.

Amy LOVES avocados.

I have a green toy harmonica! How the heck does that thing work? I thought mine was broken because it wouldn't play all the notes until Amy told me that you don't just blow out, you also have to breathe in. Ohhh!

Even so, I still can't get certain notes. The half notes. It's fun though! But it dries out my mouth.

How does Stevie Wonder play like that?! Pure amazingness.
I'm going to try to play an easy song. What's an easy song?

There are so many interesting things to learn out there.

How cute the Google banner is today!
Lights. Christmas. Christmas lights?
Merry Christmas!!



I slept in so late today. It felt so good.
I'm going to be lazy today. Yay!!

Christmas also means See's Candy.

My favorite is the Rum Nougat.

I remember Amy used to take a bite of each to see what's inside and put it back in the box. So bad!

A question you may not want to ask your employer: "How do you guys work from 8 - 5? That's rough."

My boss found the temp talking on the phone several times yesterday and today. His progress was also way below par.

Not only that but she caught him SLEEPING this afternoon!

T: zzzz...
B: Are you sleeping?!
T: Uh... no, I'm just daydreaming.

He was sent home at that point.

He also called me "darling" again today! Note, this guy is younger than me.
Goodbye to you.

We hired a temp for the week to help us with some stuff for year-end.

I'm trying to work here but they are running the vacuum cleaner. I am so annoyed!! Like super-super annoyed.

Year end = high stress  (insert crazy face here)
Thank God tonight is boba night! Ah, I love boba nights!  (insert heavenly face here)

It's been a long time since I've heard the vacuum... which reminds me, I really need to vacuum our house.

P.S. Did you know that little babies like the sound of the vacuum cleaner or the blow dryer? Annoying, huh? It's noisy in the womb so those sounds bring them comfort. They even make audio CDs of a vacuum cleaner or blow dryer. Doesn't that sound nutty? I'm definitely not a baby.

Does this ever happen to you?

You put together an outfit in your head and it looks good. Mix and match and be creative.

Then you get to work/school/wherever and look in the mirror and think, "What am I wearing?"

Yeah, that's me today.

It took me 2 hours and 45 minutes to drive home today. Imagine going from a 6 lane freeway to 1. It was terrible.

Even though you just sit there and shift your foot between pedals, it really drains you of energy. Wow, I'm so tired right now.

Time to recharge with a shower then some grub.

S was helping me find some specific Korean songs the other day and found www.imeem.com. Wow, so nice!

I told him that if he found them for me, that I would love him forever. Hahaha. And he fell for it! Just kidding! Of course I will love him forever regardless.

He worked on finding my list into the wee hours of the morning. He found them and now I also have this amazing place to listen to music. So neat!

I wish I had a robot to help me find all the music I like, which I would also love forever.