update on anti-aa

So if you have been reading my blog consistently, you have read about my history with aa airline (I don't think that they are even worth half a second of my lifetime to capitalize their name). Well, I thought I redeemed my miles for a bunch of magazines, but it is not happening and I realized that it's been sometime since I requested subscriptions. Funny how they keep disappointing me. I will forget about the miles I spent on the subscriptions. Who knows, maybe I will get these mags in two years. So be it. Let them be. I really don't even have the time to make phone calls around. Whatever!

finally...

After several months of drama, I have finally started moving in my furniture. It's been a constant battle with the builder, and even till this day, I am annoyed that the property has not been completed to my satisfaction. There is still some majorly faulty areas in the unit and everytime I look at those spots, my blood pressure shoots up. Nonetheless, I am trying to stay positive as I am waiting for my punch list to be completed.

My days off and weekends have been very occupied in dealing with the constant drama that I have not had much time to hang out much. This is also the reason why I have not had the time to blog often and an obvious reason that I have not travelled so much this year compared to the last couple of years. I can't wait for all this to be done so I can enjoy the city life without much worry. My whole summer went by with really NOT MUCH achieved. What a bummer!!! I felt so pathetic yesterday that I booked a trip to SF, because it is time for me to get away and not think about some of these things.

And did I tell you that there's still LOTS of mosquito mobs out there? Geez, I got bit in several places when I was just walking out Fifi. They wanted to bite Fifi too, but I was protecting her by constantly swinging my arms around her that if someone were to look at me he/she would think I'm crazy. Whatever. I don't care.

Come to think of it, I have yet to get a new internet service at my place, but I don't know what to get.... Until then, I do not know how often I will be able to blog.... -_-

photo by J.Lee

지금

친한 친구 하나를 보내고 나니 기분도 이상시리 꿀꿀하고.... 하지만 내가 소중히 아끼는 친구가한 선택에 만족하면서 이번 주말을 보냈다. 시애틀에서 돌아온 후 많은 정리와 다시 이 도시에 익숙해지는데 정말로 오랜 시간이 걸린거 같다. 끊임없이 항상 바빳고 성격상 가만히 있질 못하니 나한테 많은 시간이 있었을수가 없었다. 정신없이 일하고 내 자신 뒤치닥거리하는 것도 벅찬데 누구를 만나서 더 복잡한 생활을 하기가 싫었던것도 사실. 변명으로 들리나? 하지만 지금은 한숨 돌리고 난후, 내가 필요한 시간이 흐르고 나니 이제는 누구를 만나도 될거 갈은 느낌이 드는데...

오랜만에 한국 드라마를 봐줬쥐- 고맙습니다. 거기에서 나오는 장혁보고 완전 갔다. 난 별로 연예인들한테 환상을 갖거나 정신 못차려 본적이 전혀 없었다. 내가 아는 여자애들이랑 달리.... 그럴만한 사람도 보지 못했고. 하여튼 한국 사람이 그렇게 생기기는 힘든거 같다. 요즘 나오는 애들한테는 별 매력 못느낀다. 시스타 보이같이 생긴 남자들은 딱 질색. 에니웨이 장혁의 위앞니보고 교정시키고 싶단 생각을 잠시 했지만서도 그 얼굴에 그게 또 매력이고 그 이빨고치면 지금보다 매력이 떨어질거 같아 그냥 만족. ㅎㅎㅎ 장혁같은 남자만 나오라고 해, 내가 기꺼이 만나주마. ㅋㅋㅋ

Photo by RP

it's over!!!

Finally, one of my best friends got married and is now someone's wife!!! It still hasn't hit me yet, but I am glad that this was one of the best weddings I've ever been to. Not because I was in it or because it was my best friend's wedding. All the hard work and many days of preparation has paid off, because we all had such a good time although our shoes killed us. I am also glad that tonight, she will be wearing the nighty that I gave to her. All I can say now is that I am so so proud of my friend to have met someone that cares for and loves her so so much.

Photo by J.Lee

successful party

Today's bridal shower was a big success! My other best friend, RP, and I thought out everything and things worked out very smoothly. Let me just say that I am glad that it is over and done with. Two more weeks and my best friend will be married and this whole thing will be over. It will be a bitter sweet day for many of us. Cheers to all of us!

annoying night

My friend's bachelorette party this weekend turned out all right. It first started with checking into our hotel suite- that was sweet. After dropping off our stuff there, we took a humid ride to dinner at a restaurant that didn't have AC working and ice in my water melting at a faster rate than I could gulp down the whole cup. The special activity that followed after we came back to our suite was not what we expected and was surprised with a substitute that didn't quite satisfy any of us. Because my day started early yesterday with patients starting at 9am, I was already getting tired and was ready to nap. I mean, my schedule yesterday was crazy and as soon as I was done with work, I fussed up to get ready ASAP then picked up another friend, so there was no chance for any type of break not to mention having time to nibble on anything. The night continued after the uninteresting activity- we chilled for a little while, then made a trip to a club that left with me with not many choices. We all cabbed to the club, intending to get buzzed, but as far as I can tell, I was not getting buzzed for the life of me- no matter how hard I tried... My plan left me much soberity ironically and little dinero after spending $$$ on alcohol.. I mean, I was buzzing for a total of two minutes when I gulped down several glasses of white peach sangria in an empty stomach. Seriously, my stomach was eating itself after waiting 10 hours since the breakfast. Well, after stuffing my sad stomach with a bunch of everything and lots of my favorite mussels, that buzzness completely went away and didn't know to come back even after pouring in martini and LOTS of shots in a row. I finally did what I usually do not do- I gave up. No motivation to dance the night away, no motivation to drink anymore. Time flew by watching other do dance-offs and I was more annoyed than ever that I decided to just head back. There were more things or I should say 'guys' that annoyed me throughout the night, and one even came off a little scary, but it was all good when I went back to the hotel and just chilled. All of us woke up early this morning and sat around talking about nothing and everything. On a day like today, it would be best to sit on the beach and nap, but I am sticking to my plan to get back in the game in the world of golf, so I am going to rest up and swing away this afternoon!

Christian Louboutin or iPhone?

Ah, what a dilemma.... What do I do?
I am so tempted to get an iPhone as a b-day gift for myself. I already spent way too much $$$ last month on a pair of Louboutin pumps. Do I return the shoes and get an iPhone instead???
My dilemma continues....

golf and life

OMG.... finally started practicing golf again in two year! I have no idea what kept me so busy the last couple of years, but it felt good to swing again. One thing i realized again which I had forgotten for some time is that it is seriously time to change out my irons. I've looked at some Callaway, Taylor Made, and Ping irons yesterday.... The ladies' clubs are definitely way too light for me and will be such a dramatic change from my Ping Zing swing. I grabbed some Taylor Made graphite clubs and those felt pretty good- turns out those are men's. I guess I'll just have to get men's clubs once again. More research to do in the next few weeks... That's more things I have to do... This is the kind of life I wish to have when I'm retired- hopefully early- play golf in the morning and chill under the sun on a beach everyday.... When I was in college I thought it would be cool to retire when I'm 30, and I really thoguht that I could make it work. If you asked me now, I would tell you I do not want to retire at age 30 (or perhaps I should say I can't, hahaha), because there's still so much more to do in life.... just so much!

비

이렇게 좋은 날씨인데도 불구하고 집에 있다니. 난 멀쩡한데 자꾸 내 몸이 나보고 쉬라고 해서 오늘은 집에 붙어있는다... 아까 쇼핑 잠깐 한거만 빼고 오늘은 별로 한게 없네... 가만히 있는 성격이 아니라서 이런 날엔 비라도 오면 내 맘이 편안할텐데.

비오는 날은 기분이 좋다. 사람들이 많이 나와 있지않고 제각기 집에 들어가 있다는 생각에 기분이 좋아진다. 반면에 비많이 오는 날에 나가있음 짜증... 저번 화요일같이... 다운타운나가서 쇼핑하고 비취에 가려고 했던 나의 단아한 생각의 버블이 터져버렸음. 비가 쭉쭉 쏟아내려서 잘가지도 않는, 살것 하나도 없는 가게안에서 한시간이 넘게 죽치고 있었다. 에니웨이, 오늘같은 날은 그런 비가 왔음 좋겠다. 그러면 답답한 마음도, 짜증이 나는 마음도 조금이라도 시원할거 같다.

photo by J.Lee

awkward lingerie shopping

This weekend, I finally put my ass down at home and really didn't do much. Several annoying things have been happening and I took it as a sign to stay put at home. Nonetheless, there's stuff to be done and I have been procrastinating shopping for some gifts, so I dragged my ass out and went shopping despite the fact that I was feeling like crap. One of my best friends is getting married the end of this month and I am also arranging her bridal shower. I've been too busy to get anything done and I was feeling bad. Anyway, I found a few stuff at Saks and knowing her all too well to know what she would like for her wedding gifts, I picked out some.... hmmm..... rather revealing, provacative lingerie. My friend and I are not the same size by all means, but I had to try those on to see the silhouette and to get an idea of how it would fit on her. Well, as I was making trips to the fitting room, the lady working there was chuckling! WTF. She was probably thinking I was shopping for myself and assumed that I was buying those to impress someone- uh, 난 그럴사람도 없걸랑요... 젠장... then I thought, there's nothing wrong with that. She wouldn't have chuckled at guys shopping for lingerie.
Anyway, I did get something very sexy and sophisticated for my friend. And while I was at it, I ended up getting something pretty for myself as well. Perhaps I could impress someobody... hehe.

anti-aa

People that know me well know very well that I don't like to fly American Airlines. I think the last time I was on an AA plane was when I flew to Paris with my sister close to 10 years ago. The trip back and forth on that AA made the worst impression of any airlines I had flown, i.e. a drunk stalker passenger that didn't stop talking to me progressively got worse because this stupid flight attendant kept giving him more alcohol, and on the way back, I had to experience a horrific flight thanks to a psychotic, bipolar drugged-up flight attendant that was kicking around passengers' bags and refused to get me and my sister any type of beverage, not even water!!! She was getting mad like a crazy cow at passengers for no apparent reason and had this Nazi attitude about everything. Feeling extremely uneasy and disturbed by the digusting experience, I wrote a formal complaint email to AA. Eventually, some dude called and offered a free ticket, and I flat out refused. That's how much I was disgusted by them and I still am. Some of you know me very well- once I am turned off, there is no coming back at all... it is extremely difficult for me to recover. As I started to travel more often, I became a faithful UA user since then... I'm very stubborn to not fly AA even till this day. My travel buddy flies no one but AA, so we always end up booking different flights, and it will stay that way as long as I live.

Well, just a few days ago, I received a letter with my mileage summary from AA and an invitation to redeem miles for magazine subscriptions. This is the first time they sent me such letter. Why not, I thought... Most likely, I will not be flying AA in the future anyhow unless AA is the only airline existent on this planet, and I know the miles will expire this year, so I did what I usually don't do- order subscriptions. Fortunately (?), I didn't have enough miles to get a reward trip, and used up all but 24 miles to get nine different magazines- no, they are not all fashion magazines. Some business, golf, FOOD, and home interioir mags... Although I've left the measly 24 miles- unused, this is more or less a final closure that will forever close the door to AA.

2nd eye damage in my life

Okay, so more things are happening, but not all of them are good. I knew it was going to happen sooner or later, but it finally happened yesterday. -_- It's no joke when I say I've been suffering from dryness of both my right and left eyes. I use artifical tears and it does help to watch sad movies so I squeeze some liquid from my idle tear glands and get a chance to wet my eyes.

This all came about when I started wearing contact lenses since high school. My eyes were so dry that when my eye doc wanted me to try gas-permeable lenses because she claimed that my vision will improve, I almost commited suicide! I was getting nauseated from my lenses moving around everytime I blinked- yes, everytime eyeballs moved, I could see the edges of the lenses as white blurry rims..... I had to suffer like that for months. Anyway, my incompetent eye doc still did not make any diagnosis and I suffered.... Finally she let me try soft lenses after I begged and begged, and just like night guards, once you go soft, you never go back to the hard ones! To make long short, due to the severe dryness, I ended up with a severe eye infection in 2005. I was forever banned from wearing contacts (and lasik surgery is contraindicated in my case), but I cheated after behaving for months. Then recently, I felt it- felt that severe dryness. I changed my disposable contacts yesterday before I went out to the beach, but it hit me really hard all of a sudden. Couldn't do much until I made it home. That needle-poking pain... WTF- when I looked in the mirror, it was so much worse than the first infection. I could see the damage on my right cornea... the same eye I had trouble with. Since my life is at stake and I have yet to get a disability insurance, I will be seeing my ophthalmologist (not the old optometrist- don't even know what the hell happened to her) first thing in the morning tomorrow. Well, I had to see patients all day with my glasses on and I really did not feel normal at all.

I don't know about you people, but when I can't see too well (because when you wear glasses, you don't get an accurate peripheral vision as you do when wearing contact lenses), I also can't hear too well. If you haven't experienced that, well.... I guess I'm just a weirdo...
photo by YJK

my handwriting to blame...

Ok, so I have not been blogging as faithfully as I promised myself previously. That is because I don't have much going on in my life right now. Things are pretty dormant. I have not been taking gazillion trips like I did the last few years, work is work, weekends are spent doing pretty much the same things I usually do every weeekend. Anyway, I thought I mention something that's never happened to me before.

As usual, I was checking all the charges that were made to my credit cardS and found two of them to be incorrect! WTF! So I looked up the original receipts- It's a good thing I keep all my receipts- yes people, I keep all of them, and on a daily basis, I record all my expenses so that I won't have to go insane and call 911 in January when I have to do my tax return. I am extremely organized and anal about categorizing all my expenses so I can maximize my tax deductions- yes people, you'd be surprised how much you could save if you were diligent about keeping things organized. Anyway, what I wanted to say was those incorrect charges were made at restaurants, and I'm assuming the tip amount and the total amount were probably not legible. In total, I lost less than a dollar, but still, it sucks that I have to pay for my artistic handwriting.
Ha, you would know if you ever saw my signature. But anyhow, I did learn a valuable lesson this time. I will know to write legibly on those stupid restaurant receipts.

photo by J.Lee

weekend drama

오늘도 나의 땡끄를 끌고 다운타운으로 나가주었다. 나가는 길에 또다시 스피드할수 있어서 기분전환에 perfecto. 아침에는 더울거 같았지만 막상 비취에 나가니 바람불고 햇님은 구름사이로 숨어버리고 나올 생각을 하지않았다. 여름이면 항상 태우는 나는 작년에 너무 여행하는라 $$$을 많이 써서 이번 년도에는 좀 참기로 했기때메 미시간 호수의 우습지도않은 꾸정물 파도로 어는정도 맘을 달래기로 결심. 가증스러운 꾸정물을 바라보며 magic wand같은거로 저 브라운 물을 아루바의 아콰물로 바꿀수만있다면.... 이상한 생각까지했다. 근데 오늘날씨는 별로 안바쳐주었기에 다음 주말이 벌써 기다려진다. 엄마랑 아빠왈, "너는 안태워도 까만애가 왠만하면 참지..." 그래도 지금 내 모습은 내가 볼땐 너무 히끼무래하다... 힘없는 두부같이...

오늘은 우리 애기 생일이기때메 집에 일찍(?)들어와서 조그마한 생일파티를 해줬다. 짜쉭 너무 귀엽게는 생겨갸지고. 정말로 눈에 넣어도 안아픈 내 애기다. 어제는 내 옆에서 천장이 날라가게 코를 골며 자는데 진짜로 과관이였음. 나중에는 잠꼬대까지 해가며 자는데 깨우니까 화들짝 놀라기까지하는 귀여운 짜식.

방금 친구가 전화해서 이번에 결혼하는 친구 bridal shower를 우리둘이 플랜하겠다고 얘기했다는데 솔찍히 이제까지 브라이드메이드한다고 드레스값에 (전혀 내스타일도 아니고, 한번 입고 말것을....), 7월에 있을 크레이지 bachelorette party에 들어가는 비용 (호텔에 방몇게 잡았음), 그런데다가 결혼식이 금요일이라 그날은 일 재끼고 목요일은 rehearsal dinner라서 그날 환자 많이 못보지, etc. 생각하면 기분이 영 아님. 내가 결혼하는것도 아닌데, 정말 돈 많.이.든다. 친한 친구라서 해줄수있지 아무게 브라이드메이드했음 돌아가셨을뻔. 이제 얼마안있음 condo closing도 해야하는데 돈쓰는거 진짜 재미없음. 이럴 돈있음 여행을 가는건데, 너무 너무 슬퍼진다.... 흑 흑...

오늘 또 요가도 못하고 쓰잘때기없이 시간만보냈다... 젠장...

photo by J.Lee

speed, baby

On the way to the city yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to see almost no traffic. Thanks to this rare chance to speed a little more than usual- it was a good way to relieve some of my distress. My beautiful, sturdy tank (v-8, hp of almost 500) knows to speed well and performs to my expectations. I wish Chicago kept the kind of weather we had yesterday- it was perfectly breezy with the perfect amount of sunshine- of course, no humidity. Walking along Lake Michigan made me realize how pretty this city is although I ended up getting blisters on my feet from walking in heels.... so stupid.... My plans to run today got ruined, but whatever happens, happens. Oh no, I still have to make up the missed yoga sessions from the last two days. Craptacular!

photo by J.Lee

또 다시

어젯 밤에 요가를 끝마치고 매트위에서 잠이 들어버렸다... 젠장... 한 시간하고 쓰려졌으니.... 오늘은 주말이 시작이라 그런지 내일 두시간할거 생각하고 제끼기로 했다. 오늘은 하루종일 환자를 정신없이 봤더니 좀 피곤하긴 하네. 내일은 날씨도 좋다는데 환자가 빽빽하게 스케줄이 됐네... 젠장... 일안하는 토요일에는 날씨가 드럽고 일해야하는 날은 날씨가 화창하다. 내일 비치에라도 나가줘야 할텐데.... 삐삐는 이빨닦여줬더니 내 옆에서 지금 쓰러져 자네... 두눈을 아주 꼬옥 감고말야.... 귀여운 짜식. 이렇게도 귀여울수가 없다 우리 애기는. 이틀만 있음 우리 애기 생일이다. 더 이상 늙지않고 나랑 한 평생 같이 살았으면 하는 바램이 너무 간절하다.

sleepy sleepy head

ok, so i was proud of practicing yoga for two full hours last night, but as i untwisted and layed my tired body on the mat and immersed myself into the last pose- shavasana- i fell asleep... fell asleep on my yoga mat in the living room and woke up feeling pretty chilly. i must've been laying down like that for an hour and a half. if someone had put a blanket over me, i might've easily spent the night on the mat, who knows.... this would have never happened years ago... have i aged that much? it took me a while to wake up to the reality and had to laugh at myself. after all, you can never be too serious. ok, i am about to do another hour of yoga now. cheers to me!

photo by J.Lee

family plan?

So I learned something new about myself yesterday and was quite pleasantly surprised by it. I ended up seeing a family of six boys from ages 12 to 11 months. Both parents showed up with the kids, and I must say, it was a pretty efficient family as both the mom and dad were authoritative figures. As I was seeing these patients, I couldn't help but feel envious. I know, I know... I work on a lot of kiddies- kids, in general, are squirmy creatures, but some of them- I really would like to adopt because they are truly cute and well-behaved, but never have I wanted to have that many kids. It was the strangest feeling. I really am starting to feel like I want to have a family of my own. 정말로 이상한 기분이였다. 그런데다 그 후로 어제 오후에 온 여자아이 환자는 너무나도 심한 치과 공포증이 있었는데, 내가 항상 하는식으로 엄청 애한테 애교떨고 마구 달래주고 했더니 치료후에 생각지도 않았던 귀여운 허그로 나를 깜짝! 내가 오히려 아이들로인해 감동받으며 산다. 그래서 느낀건데, 내 자식낳고 살면 얼마나 더 보람이 있을까? 생각만해도 짜릿하고 감동적이다... 하지만 내 스태터스가 영 바쳐주질 않으니 참 비극일수 밖에... 에궁... 어디 클리닠에가서 씨를 찾아야하나 아님 아이 아빠가 나타날때까지 기다려야 하나? 나이가 나이인만큼 오래 기다리지않게 빨리 나타나기를.... 기다리는 동안 아무것도 가진게 없는 나는 돈이라도 많이 벌어놔야 할텐데.... 이것도 저것도 없는 나는 어제도 오늘도 방황한다. 제일로 걱정이 되는건 이 나이에도 절실한 사랑을 만날수가 있을까. 아니라면 아무랑 애낳고 살아도 상관이 없겠다. 설마 하나님은 나보고 평생 혼자 살라고 그러는건 아니겠지... 괜시리 평생 혼자 살 생각하니까 무섭다. 제발 아니길 바란다. 나이가 드니까 덤덤하고 무뎌지는 면도 없지않아 있지만 사랑만큼에는 무뎌지고 싶지않은게 내 진심이고 바램이다. 아직 그런 마음은 간직하며 살고 싶다. 그리고 이런 희망을 갖고 사는 내가 좋을뿐이다. ㅎㅎ

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my precious baby

Everytime I am away from home, my baby never forgets to wait for me. Believe me, she knows when I go on trips that I won't be back for a while and is happy to talk on the phone with me when I'm away. She misses me terribly and I miss her terribly. She gets extremely sad and nervous when I start packing, but she is a completely different person (?) when I come back home- simply ecstatic! I love coming home to my love- my baby.... What would I do without you my baby.... She's gotten very much accustomed to receiving gifts from me whenever I come home from trips that she is always eager to have me open my suitcase so that she can find her present in there. I can never relax upon arriving, because she will always want me to unpack right away. She gives me no break! Yesterday was no exception- she strip-searched my purse and my suitcase and found all of her gifts. She was simply over-joyed and didn't even want to eat any snacks I had offered her. Silly baby.... that's my baby....

She's barely 19 lbs, but she takes up half the size of my bed, sleeps on all four pillows of mine and wants to be under the covers, tosses and turns during the night, kicks me forcefully when she sleeps, snores when she's tired and wakes me up when she sleep-talks, hops into the basket of freshly done laundry because it's warm, licks my lips when she wants to wake me up to have me open up the blinds to get sunshine in the morning, gets pissed off when I can't make time to play games with her- the games that she herself created, but baby, you know I love you very much, because these are the reasons that I love you, baby, and much more! A thousand kisses everyday is not enough although you get annoyed when I give you kisses, but I love you again and again, forever and ever and ever.... I love you, baby...

phoyo by J.Lee

아쉬움

그렇게 가고 싶었던 뉴욕을 드디어 갔다왔다!!! 너무나도 반가운 사람들을 많나게 됐고 도시의 냄새도 실컷 맡고 오랜만에 즐거운 여행을 하게돼서 뿌듯한 마음으로 돌아왔다. 지금은 여행 후유증으로 시달리고 있지만.... 항상 여행후에는 또 다른 여행이 필요한 법! 짧은 여행이였기에 더욱더 아쉬움이 많지만 어쩔수 없는걸.... 택시를 타고 공항으로 다시 돌아가는 내 발길이 너무나도 무거웠던걸 보면 역시 나는 시카고에서 오래 있지않을거 같다. 나도 내가 제발 가만히 한곳에 있길 바라지만 무슨 계시인지 아무래도 딴곳에서 나를 부르는거 같다. 그곳이 어딘지는 아직은 모르지만 내꿈이 그곳에 있는것만은 분명하다. 하루빨리 내 꿈을 찾자!

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내것이 아니라서 느끼는 서러움

오랜만에 내가 선택한 직업에 대해서 회희를 느낀다. 아니, 무엇보다도 내것이 아닌 남의 병원에서 일을 하며 끼니를 잇는 (?) 내 삶에 대해서 더한 서러움을 느꼈다. 또, 내가 여자의사라서 느끼는 한계와 날 도울수 있는 사람은 오직 하나- 바로 나라는 싱글 스태터스가 나를 슬프게 만들었다. 더더욱 이렇게 날 슬프게 하는것들은 여자들이 여자들한테 갖고 있는 편견과 차별.

뭘 위해 그렇게 바둥바둥 사는것일까. 인생이란 이렇게 살아야 하는게 아니거 같은데 내가 갑갑한 곳에 갖혀 있는거 같다. 나만이 내 자신을 이 틀에서 벗어나게 해줄수있다는걸 알지만 방법을 모르겠다. 언제까지 이런 방황을 해야하는지 모르겠지만 이제는 지겹다. 지겹고 지쳐서 어떤 생각도 나지 않는다. 내가 너무 욕심이 많은것일까?

부활

오늘은 해피 이스터... 하지만 참 기분 꿀꿀한 날이기도하다... 일어나자마자 기분이 영 아니었는데 왜 그런지 참 기분 묘한날이다.

어젯 밤에 성당에 다녀와서 뿌듯은 했는데....

사는게 왜 이리 힘이 드는지 잘 모르겠다. 난 결혼도 안했는데 친구들 태몽이나 꿔주고... 누구가 그러는데 내가 미리꾼 태몽이란다. 믿어야 할지 참 난처하다.

친구가 오늘 내 칸도 오픈 하우스에가고 싶다길래 갔더니 왠걸, 문이 닫혔네.... 역시 아침부터 기분이 이상했었던 이유가 있었나부다... 이런날은 가만히 집에서 잠자코 있어줘야쥐.... 구경온 사람들도 꽤 많이 있던데, 이사람들은 집을 팔고 싶은거야 뭐야? 너무 느긋한거 아닌가?

하여튼 지금은 삐삐랑 조용히 남은 주말을 보내면서 나의 인생의 부활을 고민해야겠다.

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Whatever happens in Vegas ______ in Vegas?

So my Vegas trip with my best friends turned out all right though it was not as hilarious as our Puerto Rico trip in 05. Being a weekend trip it was, we had to manage our time very well.

Friday night, RP and I arrived late and we searched for food as hunger was not going to get in the way of our usual partying with several martinis, shots, etc. The rest of the gang had already arrived earlier that day and was quick to get out and party. After we checked in, RP and I just wanted to kick it and relax; however thinking about the angry faces of our friends, we slowly got ready and dragged our asses out in our one-layer clothes and heels in the freezing weather... It was either that or wearing my cowboy boots with North Face jacket.... I didn't have the courage to wear those to a club.

The first night was all right with no drama... which is unusual for us. The next day though, JK was dramatizing a certain action on GA and fell off her bed while bouncing off her head nicely on the wall and landing flat on her nose. Luckily, no nosebleed, but ended up with a bump on her forehead. Then next, I started to jump up and down on a sofa chair while being excited about something I can't even remember, the chair got tipsy and I almost fell backwards and could have thrown myself out of the hotel very quickly, through the big window of our room! Thanks to my flexible body- I have much to thank my gymnastics experience in junior high as I saved my own life by swiftly balancing forward. Then what we did next, you're never going to believe. Since we did not feel like stuffing ourselves with another buffet dinner, we smartly decided to order pizza in. But the dilemma was we had to pick it up from the delivery in the LOBBY.... Who does that at freakin' Bellagio? And what did we do? Of course we decided to do it and draw straws to pick one person to do the deed. Well, since everyone chickened out, and being the bravest one, I volunteerd to sacrifice myself and spare no dignitiy to feed my buddies and I picked JK to be my wing-girl. No biggie... until we got to the lobby and saw herds of people populating the lobby like ants swarming over a piece of bread crum. We spotted the delivery-man rather quickly as no one is swarming over two large cases of pizza and a full plastic bag. Righ away, we picked up the pizza like a pro from the delivery guy.... Then, I started to painfully feel the stares of numerous strangers on every part of my body, and what I didn't notice was, I started to sprint, speed-walk.... and felt the sweat coming down on my face.... In the mean time, JK is craking up in half looking at my ass sprinting the long walk to the elevator out of deathly embarrassment..... Then I heard someone whispering, "wow, they're smart!".... well, at least we are smart.... but I realized we can be pretty stupid. That was an ass-sweating experience I will never forget.

That night, we went to a couple of uninteresting clubs.... Then, our next destination was the highlight of the night for the activity I will not discuss on this website.... Whatever happens in Vegas.... surely stays in Vegas!

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