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BANGBANG! 5.14.2015

Ok so wow. Where to even begin?

Last month was all sorts of crazy. Like all sorts of crazy.

First, poor grandpa went in and out of the hospital 4 times. In 3 weeks. I am not even kidding. I wish I was but no.

And each time, he would say, I can’t breathe, I have chest pain, the gas bubbles up my throat, tell all the children to visit me, I want you to remember my final words…etc.

OMG. Can i just say drama?!

And my dad was so fed up with it all, actually all of my uncles and aunts were fed up, me especially.

We decided to place him in a nursing facility haha. ahem. Actually, that sounds terrible. But really, he was comfortable/eating/fine only in a facility/hospital.

The anxiety is real in him, lol!

Anyways, he then got admitted to a psychiatric facility, omg. and that’s when my dad felt horrible. Basically, you are stuck in a little bare room, like OMG super bare like there are not even furnishings for fear the crazies will off themselves.

(not that grandpa is crazy, he’s just super anxious. he’s got an eating disorder. he’s driving us crazy.)

AND visiting hours are extremely limited. As in between 1-2 and 7-8. Wow. Grandma’s been staying there on 16hr/day shifts lol. I guess you can’t stay grandma!

But actually, haha, he’s been doing very well at the pscyh ward and he was discharged yesterday (after 1 week!)

Woohoo! Today I shall be going to see him, to visit and make sure he’s really ok. I’m sure he won’t complain about anything anymore and hopefully the hospital sent him home with some anxiety meds because let me tell you, that anxiety was real.

Works is eh. I’m not even concerned anymore. If i get fired, I’ll collect my severance package and live in Taiwan for a year before i start to look for another job.

Went to Patterson (2x in the last month! somehow the schedule ended up that way) and I ended up working with my favorite people there both times! yay!

(JF and SF and VB, incidentally the first people I’ve ever met at Patterson, so yay!)

*Edit now it is 5/21/2015*

Ermm…so it’s been a while hahaha.

so everything has basically been the same old.

Let’s see…

So last weekend I went out in service with some of my fav people, JD and JH and J-err don’t know her last name but her insta is ROSE! 🙂

It was…interesting to say the least.

Like OMG there is this bro that is kinda really creepy. And yeah. well. it’s pretty much self explanatory but eh, let’s just say, I don’t trust anyone that doesn’t eat sugar. Or peanut butter. Or regular butter.

AND RITAS OMG, love love love ritas! And I drive well, for the record!! 🙁

But anyways, the next day (Sunday) we had the goodbye party for NB who is moving to the middle kingdom to join JT and KB (er, not the one I had a crush on, mind you, JESUS)

The party was all sorts of lovely, loved the decorations, loved the food (hot dogs!), loved the fire pit (smores!)-LJ and DC really did an outrageously lovely job!

I adored their little smores get up and the swing was all sorts of fun to fool around with and OMG what?! floating lanterns a-la TANGLED!! TANGLED! AKA my most fav recent disney movie (like seriously, what is that frozen crap?!)

(but, erm apparently it’s a buddhist tradition where you send off the souls of your lost one into their next life? that’s what the mom said. so yeah, that’s kind of a bummer 🙁 esp. since the lights are so, so pretty!)

btw- CB has an amazing taste in music- Yann Tiersen?! OMG heck yeah!

Drive there was all sorts of lovely too as I drove up with my girls, JD, HL and AK. The night would have been perfect had RR been there as well but alas she had a wedding to attend- her friend from japan.

Oh wells. weddings are important too, I suppose. And I got to see pictures so it was ok haha OMG RR looked AMAZING!

(and BM and LM was also there, miss those guys like seriously, why can’t they come back!? like can we trade out for one of them at least?! please?!)

Also the week before, the parents went on vacay to Banff Canada (lol for some reason i always want to say banff australia but apparently Canada and australia are not the same country!!)

The pictures from their trip are glorious. My word. The views of the snow capped mountains?! Lovely.

And OMG they are so adorbs, they got me this coffee tumbler from the very first starbucks ever and omg its so adorable of them! haha although they felt badly they didn’t get the sisters anything (although they did bring back some almond fudge-yum!!)

but we the girls went crazy with the eating out hahaha!

so night 1-monday- bon chon while watching unbroken-the movie was terrible! choppy narrative and anticlimatic. 🙁 and why is miyavi’s shoulders so so tiny?! (on a different note, OMG GARRETT HEDLUND!)

night 2- tuesday- avengers @starplex and movie food-food was bleh, movie was ehhh. NOT a fan of the experiment/russian accented maximoff twins! And what in the world?! HULK AND BLACK WIDOW?!? OMG no. (BUT! STEVE ROGERS/CHRIS EVANS! He is everything I want in a man. Baptized, of course lol!)

night 3-wednesday- at home- the cod! OMG never cook cod at home again. seriously the stink of fish was horrendous, it just would not go away, i had to wipe down all the surfaces in our home like 2x 🙁 but after meeting we took HL from korea to curly’s and had their fabulous waffle cones 🙂

night 4-thursday-IHOP. yes, breakfast for dinner is always a good idea! plus we visited grandpa and he seemed to be pleased to see us so yay!

night 5-friday-pub 199 for lobsters, clams and onion rings-OMG so good! and the prices cannot be beat, seriously!

night 6-saturday-bangganae for heukyeumsotang 🙂 yum

And then i picked up the parents and the K couple early on sunday morning 🙂

Oh yeah and of course.

I can’t not mention the film, The Brothers Bloom.

Seriously. I LOVE that film. It’s quirky, the camera work is beautiful and mostly the style in the film is just EN POINTE.

Bangbang is my new style icon. I aspire to dress like her.

I’ve already ordered a pair of chanel sunnies although the exact ones are no longer made. And well my wardrobe is already mostly like bangbangs! black, white and reds.

now i have to find that furry black hat-that hat is so adorable! and i need a black military esque cape. and i need tailored wide legged pants.

clear skin and weight loss is also a must.

as well as fur coats. have i mentioned i love fur?! i do. especially when worn like bang bang does.

(although i draw the line at the bleached blonde shaggy hair and the cigarettes. ugh. no)

but yes. i also need gloves and scarves and omg the list goes on and on.

meh.

And Penelope’s Song has been playing on repeat 🙂

well.

that’s about it.

xo

 

Today’s Mood is…

FATE by SOHYANG

OMG

HORRIBLE NEWS!

Chung CE (the sweet little girl i used to babysit with her brother, they used to live in leonia? yeah, that little one) was DISFELLOWSHIPPED!

OMG I CAN’T EVEN BELIEVE IT. well maybe i can, just a little bit.

(she was super, super, super flirty, like with even much older men, i.e. S Y, i mean seriously?? he’s like no joke 10yrs older than you!!)

but err yeah. it was for fornication :0

with an older married man :O

sigh.

that’s just super depressing. like seriously depressing.

she’s like 18? 19 at most?

what is a little girl like her getting all mixed up with a married older man of all things?! she must be out of her mind, i feel so badly for her parents.

Her mom was pretty strict, too. but i guess not strict enough?

Hmmm…what was i doing at 18/19?

Whelp. I can’t say i didn’t have strong feelings then either, because, ahem, it was at those years that i fell hard for R. Looney and A. Navarro but still.

I’m super thankful i was able to get over that hurdle. It must have been an answer to my prayer that LOONEY transferred to Stony Brook University in LI and met M. And what do you know? he’s getting married to her-or are they already married??

(can you believe he got engaged at the very same day as my JAF?! how crazy is that?! that date-it was some stupid saturday in october-is the worst day of my personal adult life lol although i suppose i should be pretty thankful that my worst day is still pretty lame haha but if you want to talk about career worst days ever, there are quite a few. oh wait, actually i take that back, my car accidents were pretty bad too. oh and that day when i saw the two of them together while working in bethel? hmmmm)

But thankfully, i’m able to get over people pretty quickly, like even now, when I think of JAF, it’s just embarrassing mostly, with no lingering sense of regret, no what-ifs.

Looney however, i’m still nostalgic about but i think mostly it’s because i was so young then and i mostly am nostalgic about my youth. i feel like it went by so, so quickly and it was an intense period of my life when there were so many changes and transitions and the FEELS-oh the feels!

Now that i’m 27-gasp! i turned 27 2 weeks ago already!-my feels are much more manageable.but i must say, on rainy days and during the winter, i get quite moody.

Also, i suppose, it helps that i have these crushes on my friends. those i have quite frequently, and they come and go, like the women talking of michelangelo (its a reference to the love song of j. alfred prufrock-a poem by t.s. eliot)

(i love t.s.eliot. i think he’s brilliant. i love his precise wording, his exact vocabulary to paint a vivid picture with words-brilliant! my favorite poet is probably t.s. eliot although sonnet 18 by shakespeare is the one poem that i can still recite word for word-no joke!)

(oh and my lack of capitalization, proper grammar and punctuation? that i’m going to blame on emulating another of the great poets, e.e. cummings! but eh, mostly, it’s because i’m lazy and i can’t be bothered, ha!)

in fact, shall i compare thee to a summer’s day? thou art more lovely and more temperate. rough winds do shake the darling buds of may and summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

But really, you are more like william carlos williams’ red wheelbarrow. without punctuation, fluid, painting a vivid picture yet remaining so ambiguous. what do you feel? what are you thinking? much like exactly what does so much depend upon, on such a simple thing as a glazed red wheelbarrow besides white chickens?

And OMG, can’t believe i still remember that. seriously. that was from high school. like, almost a decade ago.

a decade.

that’s a lifetime for some people. like legit, a lifetime. like if a 10 year old child passed away tragically at 10 years of age, who are we to deny that his life, short as it was, wasn’t a lifetime?

eh. this is depressing me. well. i guess it’s a depressing sort of day.

so, my dear red wheelbarrow (you were dashing in that cheery red coat!) what exactly are you thinking? who are you with? what thrills you?

Most importantly, who do you find yourself thinking of?

till next time, dearly beloved

xoxo

 

As Flowers Bloom And Fall

OMG. I am so, so, so sorry!!

I can’t believe I let the whole month of March go by without a single post!

Well, I guess you can imagine how busy I was that I’d let it go without updating.

But in a way, I’ve been writing a whole lot more than ever before- recently i started writing fiction again and it’s been really helping me cope with stress, lol

And well, hopefully I will be able to get more regular with updating here, as you know, this is my life and I’d want a record of it, if its only for myself, you know?

GAHH! Well. March was pretty, eventful although now that I try to think back on it, I can’t really seem to remember most of it. Let’s see..

we had the memorial campaign! 🙂 Campaigns are always, always fun and I was able to do quite a bit of service! And I got to know K and L G who is a pair of mother/daughter sisters that recently joined our hall- by recently i mean in the last 6 months lol! And they are so sweet, very encouraging and they are in our service group! 🙂

we had RC’s goodbye party and this time he really left for good haha. well, he’s already at the korean branch so I take it he’s really, truly left.

we had our dahui and i got to take H from Korea with me and she was kind of a buffer but not quite lol but it was lovely having her with me! And also after the dahui i took her and my sisters and her cousins out for dinner and a drive around the NYC skyline

And then we had our CO visit! that was pretty fun too, and it was on the same week as our memorial! we had a 101 in attendance and it was my first ever Chinese Memorial and it was so nice, so many studies and visitors! (although grandma apparently was upset i wasn’t at the korean one so next year, i’m going back to korean ahahaha)

Service all day on Friday, followed by a most encouraging pioneer talk on saturday and another full day of service on sunday! (although i was pretty tired and it was evidenced by my forming a HORRIBLE rash all over my body-Dr. Lee said it was allergic but still.)

Oh and I had my wisdom teeth taken out. ugh. 2 on 3/23/2015 and another 2 on 4/6/2015. Talk about a horrible experience (the 1st time around, the 2nd time wasn’t too bad lol)

And that about sums my March. Most of my free time was writing fanfiction lol!

And yest, I went to A’s house for speaker hospitality and that was nice, i was able to get to see some people that i hadn’t seen in a while, like V and A D and K W 🙂 After A’s house, I was invited to J D’s house for dinner and OMG it was the nicest dinner that I’ve ever been to, so formal with all this wonderful cutlery and courses and OMG the food!

The food was fantastic! And we played these card games- so stinking fun! The time just flew by. Of course the company was ah-maz-ing! It was my 2 fav people in all of morris- R R and J D (of course lol!) and C J (he had to leave a little early), QA (another of my fav people!), TJ K (I’ve only just met him but he seems like a sweetheart!) and Z err don’t know his last name lol!!!

Let me just say, UNO can get pretty intense. As well as the other card game- nets? Necks? something like that.

And now… well i’m really tired these days. :T

 

IT’S 70 DEGREES TODAY!! WOOHOO!! FINALLY!

Can’t wait, omg this winter went on forever!

But now it’s finally over. I think.

lol. i don’t know how i made the font above so big but eh, w/e.

 

dearest. 

 

i can’t stop thinking of you recently and it’s really taking all the restraint i have to keep from marching up to you and confessing. as much as i’d like to know for sure how you really feel, the fear of rejection is even stronger so i shall remain a secret admirer, watching from afar. like a creeper ha!

or not.

well, best to you, my love.

 

 

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