December 31, 2007
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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.
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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.
Comments (9)
i like journals too. a good one actually makes the writing go faster
i used to have more for different uses, but now i just keep one. the first one. in college, i had one for things related to my faith... i should start that one back up.
mmm, avocadoes
so good!
i loooove avocados. i esp luv eating them with tofu, scallions, soy paste. and i call my dad "ba" too! hehehehe. happy new year!
i like the idea of keeping journals. i thought keeping journals for different aspects of life would be tiresome because sometimes thoughts cross-over into each other. but i like the idea of keeping a "family stories" journal. and if i think of anymore, i'll send 'em your way... haha, YOU write 'em. i'll just read 'em later.
psss, avocado plural is spelled avocados.
mmm. yummmay
I LOVE avocado! My parents eat it with salt. Pretty good! We have a very ripe avocado tree and my son gets to eat like 3 - 4 a day! Lucky him huh? lol
I love avocado the way you guys eat it. THere is no other way to eat avocado is, soy-sauce and yummy avocado!! It's just a little fatten, I don't mind at all!!
that's a cute story of avocadoes. write so one day your kids know the tradition why you ate that with soysauce. I ate that like a desert with condensed milk.
I've never tried avacados with soy sauce. Maybe I'll give it a try.
avocados are the bomb!
soy sauce is too sweet for me. i just use plain salt.