Memorial day started out pretty good, I was supposed to go to Morning Worship but eh, didn’t quite work out.

(lol so the night before we had a little gathering, like I said, at S’s place where I had a vodka drink, which was very good, but you know, vodka, so I kinda knocked out lol)

I woke up like around 645AM which is before MW but still, I have to get ready and stuff and looking good takes time.

SO I had a pretty lonely breakfast by myself, which consisted of a banana and a mango lol

but that’s ok because today is Memorial Day, I reasoned with myself, and at Teaneck BBQs, there is food. I mean like a ton of food and good stuff too, like skirt steak and kimchi jjigaes and salads and ddukbokki 🙂 YUM

But my mood is quite quickly soured because of SULTANA. HMPH. Can I just say I’ve like totally hated her since February when she started acting all flaky and all and I’ve been advocating for her voluntary resignation since then. Too bad my dad is too sweet and he’s letting her slide by, but OH MY, the next time I see her she’s going to get it bad from me. Anyways, this girl calls and says she can’t make it because she’s sick, how convenient that she’s fine all weekend and the second its beautiful and its a holiday she’s sick? uh-uh. Who you takin for a fool? this girl wasn’t born yesterday, please, you’d need bap for brains to think she was actually “sick” like she says she was, an “allergic reaction” to a shot she received like last week? Uh yeah, no that doesn’t happen.

Puh-lease, trying to pull that over our heads. ME AND MY SISTERS ARE NURSES, FYI. WOW, you’re a real smart one, aren’t you?? SO DUMB.

More likely than not, this little sneak is tying to get out of working on a beautiful holiday. HMPH. NO SYMPATHY FROM ME.

And guess what?? I’m writing this from the store on a beautiful Sunday because why?!? SULTANA’S SICK. Suprise, suprise. Everytime the weather is nice, she’s “sick”, especially on the weekends.

So here’s my solution:

VOLUNTARY RESIGNATION the next time she pulls this on us.

Which means:

1. She doesn’t have a valid MD signed note excusing her from work

2. This happens 3 times in a quarter (3months)

3. She did not notify us and receive prior approval for time off at least 72hours in advance

4. She is NOT able to file for unemployment

HAHA! SO TIRED OF HAVING HER BAIL WHEN WE NEED HER. And she’s always 30MIN LATE!! EVERY TIME! I don’t think she’s ever been on time and my sister can vouch for that.

So really, we hired her for OUR convenience, we are not a charity, no we will not continue with this nonsense!

HA!

Stupid.

(BTW the voluntary resignation is something included in my own job contracts for the VNANNJ and AHS so it’s totally legal and fair!)

SO yeah, poor daddy couldn’t come to the one day he was so, so excited for.

Like so excited that he actually bought a hat for the occasion and was outfit planning. And he couldn’t come.

Can I just say again, I really, really, really hate that girl?

ARGH!

And what makes it worse was that the weather was just so nice and so beautiful and the food was amazing as always, like you can’t get meat grilled like at Teaneck BBQs like anywhere, IK, who is the Teaneck griller, is the best. YUM.

The meat is so tender and juicy and succulent and paired with the chimichuri (is that how it’s spelled?) OMG its like a party in your mouth delicious. And why is watermelon so good? What is it about eating cold watermelon outside that is just so classic? I love it.

And this year, my grandma came with us so it was really nice to have her there, she totally enjoyed herself and she made new friends too! (lol, someone slipped her a tract, I saw it in her bag haha)

Too bad grandpa didn’t come as well.

Well at least grandma was there so she could enjoy the outdoors and a proper BBQ before her TKR surgery next week 🙂

Goodness it’s going to be a busy week next week.

First, I will be at Trenton for work training.

Second, Teaneck C/O visit.

Third, Grandma’s TKR.

Wow, this year is like totally flying by!

But yah, I don’t really remember much of Memorial day bc I was also feeling under the weather and was coughing up a storm and I sounded like I had a frog stuck in my throat and I took like a 2 hour nap 🙂

Meh

Next year 🙂

Oh and yest. Sat. I was hospitality so I took K.W, S.Y, R.C, A.B, L.J, Q.A, A.M for lunch at Saigon Pho, and man, it was unexpectedly good haha

and then service with the girls ♥ my sisters H&J, Y & G 🙂 hehe I had green tea ice cream and also thai ice tea bubble tea w/o bubbles which btw whatever happened to it? I was going to finish drinking that today…hmmm….

and then! Marshalls! hahaha I got 2 shoes, very boring bong-sa appropriate shoes and work flats 🙂 well actually I think the shoes are from TJ Maxx and we just spent like an hour at Marshalls but eh w/e.

♥

SO AHHH ZOMG I HAD MY VERY FIRST TALK LIKE EVER!!

OMG I was like totally freaking out about it because:

1. My householder was W.L.L  and her Chinese is so much better so I’ll probably sound like the gringo that I am

2. I hate listening to myself out load like over the mics

3. Its in front of everyone and I’m still fat like whoa

4. Its in the middle of May so no chance of snow cancelling meeting like my other two talks lol

But yeah. At least my family was there to support haha.

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Ahem. Whew got that out of my system haha

Well now I feel better about myself

And thankfully I go to Patterson to work in the infirmary over the weekend so I don’t have to see anyone until next week and by then hopefully they’ll have forgotten about this  talk haha

hopefully

So anyways,  Patterson was lovely as always but man, I was super, super tired. Like incredibly so.

I mean, I conked out at like 7, which is super early. I literally watched Diners, Drive ins and Dives for like 5 minutes, then read Legend for like another 5 minutes and I WAS OUT!

And boy was it busy over the weekend! I mean, I won’t go over the details because obviously its HIPAA infirmary stuff but let me just say it was sad.

We had an actively dying patient, a patient recovering from cancer removal, a rectal prolapse, and a digital disimpaction. Not all on the same patient, of course.

(so a rectal prolapse fyi is when your rectum falls out of your anus and it kinda looks like an inverted sock and a digital disimpaction is pretty much you put on a pair of gloves, lube up a finger and dig out fecal matter. How lovely)

But it was just so sad. 🙁

Ah but it is a pleasure to serve in Jehovah’s house.

Oh and the wonderful association of the friends! We had a party at S’s beautiful room, which was an amazing Bethel room if I say so myself and had a lovely time rolling spring rolls and sampling cakes 🙂 And fruit vodka tonics, hehehe

Lovely, lovely

So yeah that is a summary of my weekend

Tomorrow hoefully I will be able to share with you the sad sad story of Memorial Day but it was an enjoyable memorial day haha even though its not a Memorial day, we just always have a Teaneck picnic on that day for some reason.

ok now I have to watch a movie with the sisters lol, dude, I’m like super tired because work is likek terrible haha but I guess that”s why they pay us to do it. Darn training.

🙂

so this is kinda like a continuation of Friday’s Cirque du Soleil post 🙂

Saturday was fun although I woke up with a killer headache, womp womp. 🙁

But I had to go to meeting because I was supposed to go over my talk wednesday (my first!!) with Wang jiemie so I sucked it up but man! The headache got worse so I pretty much was incapacitated during the Watchtower study 🙁 Thankfully Jenny gave me some Advil and that helped with the migraine/headache.

Then i was invited to play basketball with some of the guys in the hall. Which made me worry because

1. i don’t do sports if I can help it, sports scare me.

2. I’ve never played basketball ever. not even in grade school lol

3. when I have to play with other people then I always feel pressured to do well so as to not let them down which brings me back to

4. sports scare me

BUT I’m always trying to get out of my comfort zone and while that has largely been related to food, i.e trying Indian or like a new restaurant, I figured I could give it a try.

That way, I can say I’ve tried it, because its silly if you say you don’t like something before you’ve even tried it, if you know what I mean.

So anyways, basketball.

It actually wasn’t that bad at all! I even managed to get the ball through the netting!!hurray!

And the boys that came are just the sweetest, they don’t even get mad when you mess up which was really impressive. Most people I know are super competitive and they tend to get really really angry when you mess up but nope! Not these boys!

Plus they actually take the time to teach you how to play basketball, not just like, ok this is how you do it and then like go off and play by themselves 🙂 And while they were beasting at the game, because there were people such as myself and the two Wang boys, they were gentle-like, which I also appreciated. 🙂

I’ d recommend them to anyone 🙂

So they were:

L.M, D.H, J.H, A.M, L.H, A.W,V.W <3

I love all of them. They are awesome sauce.

Then we had pizza at the Wangs, which was also super nice as I’ve never really got to hang out with the Wangs and they are super chill. I was suprised by how much I actually understood although speaking is something I still have to work on. Like I understand when I hear it but my brain just isn’t computing the words in my mouth to reply back in Mandarin so maybe with more practice it will get easier.

It was actually my first time EVER hanging out with L.H as well, so I was pretty happy about that as he seems really sweet I’ve just never really spoken with him before which I”ve felt badly about but now I can get that off my chest too so hurray!

So.

Sunday

(outfit details:

on me:

Kate Spade Dress

Oxygen Wear Cardigan

Stuart Weitzman shoes

On Y:

Don’t know!! Sorry!! 🙁

On H:

Modcloth Dress

Oxygen Wear Cardigan

Aldo Shoes

Michael Kors Bag

Luz Necklace

On J:

ModCloth Dress

Target Cardigan

Modcloth Shoes

Givenchy bag)

OMG Becky got baptized which is like the most amazing feeling in the world!! Like whoa, I actually helped someone dedicate their life to Jehovah, like it doesn’t get any better than this!

The morning started off pretty regular for a Korean Assembly morning in the Lee household which means the girls were up at the crack of dawn to get ready lol, we take forever!!

(Makeup, hair and then going over the outfits over and over again and dress changes and then fiddling with jewelry and helping mom pack lunch and making sure the bags are packed even though they should have been packed the night before lol plus daddy always seems grouchy on the morning of korean assemblies because he just can’t fathom taking that long to get ready lol )

the morning program was really good although I honestly don’t remember much of it because I got super distracted later with something that happened later on that day that I will get to later lol

Actually there was this part that I super appreciated about always being prepared for the ministry whether youre at work or in a MD waiting room and that do be ready we need to have the information in our brain first like we need to read the Bible and meditate and really try to absorb  what the scripture is trying to tell us. And the demos were really nicely done too! This program was all about the Bible being a powerful tool beneficial for all things and it had a really nice part encouraging the youth too 🙂

And finally the baptism talk!! I was o happy to see my darling B standing up there with her sister and whn they answered yes I actually had tears in my eyes, both of them have come so,so far what with opposition from their father to battling school bullying and temptations from boys…etc. So yeah it was an emotional moment.

And while they were going in the water I took like a million pics lol

then during lunch, my parents went home  because they were both feeling a bit under the weather and they were like coughing up a storm lol so they ended up missing the afternoon session which is when the horrible happened and kinda pretty much wiped out everything from my mind.

So the wt study went well, and the interviews went well and then was the second to last talk! Bro JPL is speaking with ease and is lookng comfortable, the two interviews are next with the first brother, a non-Korean learner from wallkill putting on a very good effort to finish his part while recounting a very difficult experience of when his brother passed away (so young at 16! and from a MI!) and he finishes to thunderous applause which is rare for polite Koreans, they usually clap so…politely lol.

Next is the second interview and the sister is halfway finished with her part when the bro next to her bends down for a second and I’m like that werd when BAM! He falls face down onto the floor!!!

O__O

OMG. The crowd is audibly gasps which again is pretty rare for a Korean crowd and OMG every one on stage is running to him. I get up too to run to the back when I see G and her husband running towards the door and a flash of beige is also seen which happens to be Bro. M who is an accupuncturist so I hang on tight because it is so very tight in that back room, I don’t want to crowd. And the stage crew brothers are dragging the fainted brother off because he is super tall and everyone is panicked and OMGOMGOMG.

Yeah, lets just say I wasn’t paying any attention at all to the rest of the program. In fact, I was so shocked and suprised that I kinda blanked out about the rest of the program even before it happened.

Iguess it was about the same for everyone else too though, because as soon as the bro was cleared from the stage, the sister just calmly finished her interview and walked herself off the stage (mad kudos to her, seriously!!) and then poor Bro J looked like a deer in headlights. He just mumbled a sentence that I doubt anyone caught as we were all still in shock and just walked off the stage without even going over the review question.

During the song immediately after, it had to be like the quietest song ever as people were just staring at the door leading to the backstsage waiting for some kind of sign that the brother was ok.

Halfway into the next and closing talk: no sign

Almost over: G and her husband come out and they quietly gather their stuff and leave the auditiorium. Crowd quietly murmurs.

End of last talk: chairman comes up on stage and goes, “I know everyone must be wondering about the brother that fainted earlier. I am pleased to announce he is ok and have gone home.P

Everyone: Thunderous applause and for like a really long time. Like seriously the longest and loudest clapping at a Korean Assembly like ever.

Like I said. way too much excitement for one day. lol

So we quickly clean the basement bathrooms (or atleast my sisters do, I’m socializing bc I’m in Chinese first of all and second of all, I never get to see all these people so I want to make sure I say hello lol) and I end up going to dinner with my sisers and Y, who is kinda like our youngest sister lol

Thai food at Lotus Thai!

Yay

(Ermm yeah, I guess I didn’t take any photos of the food lol)

And it was so lovely getting to hang with my girl LH and her hubby. Love them both, such awesome people!!

So yup. That about sums my weekend. Whew. So hard to type with these nails!

(theyre super cute, black and white polka dot french extensions with pink bows on my ponter and middle <3)