So 2014 was a busy year, it flew by super quick…

Let’s break it down month by month:

January:

The parents, the grandparents and my 2nd Aunt and Uncle went on a first class trip to Cancun, Mexico and OMG we the kids (pretty much my sister and I and the cousins) were hit by a gigantic mess!!

Like literally the DAY THAT THEY LEFT there was a gas main leak/electrical fire under Main St where of course the main problem was at my uncle’s store and my dad’s store.

How does that even happen?? I mean they are close but still a good 100ft. away from each other!!

So we open our store and are immediately hit by a blast of fumes- gasoline fumes to be exact- and our eyes are immediately watery.

PLUS there’s a haze of smoke all over the store.

I panic immediately- we open all the doors and i get on the phone with PSE&G-don’t even ask why I didn’t just call the FD right away but I called PSE&G who of course, immediately told us to evacuate the building and call 911.

So in the coldest days of the year ( like 17F) we are outside literally chattering from the cold while the FD arrives.

They come and immediately cordon off the entire area around our store and start investigating.

Meanwhile our cousin B is like outside because his own store is w/o electricity and is freezing and w/e no other stores are open on Main St. because there is no power in the entire street. WTH?

Finally like 3 hrs/later the FD and the police and the PSE&G people are unable to find the source of the gas- they place these gigantic fans outside our store and bring the levels down to safe levels and gives us the ok to return to the store.

By this time it is like 1pm and we realize-OMG the internet is not working i.e no credit card transactions.

So now i’m going nuts, on the phone with Cable/Optimum trying to get our internet operational and in the midst of this crazyiness, suprise suprise, we get a call from our parents telling us to check on B and J as there is something going on in their store.

OMG due to the power being shut off, the pipes BURST. alsdkfjslakkjflasjg!!! And because the cousins were panicked, they didn’t know what to do so they called the Fire Department AGAIN!!

And they deemed it a fire hazard as the water from the burst pipes ran into the electrical wiring.

aldkfjalskkdjflkasghlkdsjflksj!!! why is this happening now?!?!

so we call the parents in a panic, they call our 4th uncle who happens to be an electrical technician (or used to be in Korea) but by now the PD and FD have declared the building a fire hazard requiring tons of permits and construction-and because of that we find out that Casa Bonita is going to be closed for at least 3 days.

ALDKJRLSKDJGLJ.

Poor B sits in a corner and cries. I cry for him too inside.

And the rest of the week until the parents return is spent trying to rectify the situation- can you believe i almost lost my mind trying to fix the internet situation and it was just that the router was broken due to the power outage on day one. what do you know, as soon as i put a new router on, the internet works.

1 day before the parents return.

figures.

And the rest of January is pretty much a blur, trying to get my uncle’s store reopened. 🙁

February

Pretty much a slow month. My sisters and I continue to go to Carmen’s for exercise with A.

I start aggressively job hunting and go to a few interviews.

Everyone only wants to hire full time nurses.

I get called for an interview with Horizon BCBS and go all the way to Trenton.

I am hopeful but not really.

Otherwise it was super snowy.

I see JAF at Patterson one night while I am trying to check in, and he looks pretty spiffy.

March

 March I get a call and I’m hired by HBCBS for their MLTSS program!

Hurray! (whatever that is lol)

Its another busy month of service, we have the campaign for the memorial, C/O visit and then a circuit assembly.

C gets married to F!! Or JF lol and becomes CF 선 that fell apart as soon as i got there THANK GOODNESS lol but i was pretty sick the entire time i was there. 🙁

But just staying in LA was wonderful, even though the plane trip was pretty arduous.

This is when I get a mini crush on KB lolol omg I’m so easy!!

Dinner at Mitsuwa after Sunday and guess who??

Also i go to LA with my dad and J because of a

April

First day on the job.

The first couple of days are pretty easy. And lots of fun.

And i have a little gathering at my place for the Ws who got baptized all toghether and that’s pretty much it, service and work, service and work. 🙂

May

May is pretty much the same old, turns out there is a 2 month orientation period in HBSBC which is pretty much HBCBS paying us to sit in an office for 8 hrs/week and learn about corporate policies and benefits and everything is always changing and i’m always lost lol

And month i go to Patterson and take care of a dear brother who was actively dying.

It was very sad. That is all.

And then i went to the Memorial Day BBQ and got super mad at Sultana as previously stated on this blog lol

June

1 week of training down in Trenton which was tiring but atleast very informative.

Then the international conventions to the US started which was exciting for all of us- although it was when the KOREANS came.

UGH.

Please refer to the entry expressed written for them.

And X and W M came to stay also with us which was a ton fun. 🙂

But man those Koreans were pretty annoying and cause a bit of a rift btw us and my parents but that’s old hat now.

July

Start of the MLTSS program!
OMG i just want to poke my eyeballs out the workload seems crazy!!

But at the same time its not too bad lol

And I threw the baby shower for MJJ 🙂

And it was adorable and kind of a different baby shower from what i’m used to but it was still tons of fun 🙂

Mom and dad went to Viriginia- oh there was a bit of a hubbabaloo concerning who was going to go where and what not but umm w/e  why is L inviting people who aren’t even in Teaneck Korean Congregation when she’s in the getting invited 쳐지 anyways?? I don’t understand.

August

2 Regional Conventions right after another! Korean and Chinese!! 🙂

And still pretty busy but still slower than it was in July.

And K and J’s goodbye party as they were moving to China.

September

Hmmm…can’t really remember much from september.

I went to the gardens for sculpture with my mom and J (sorry H!!) and it was a lovely day/evening.

The Amazing Race.

Gilead Graduation

October

Annual meeting. 🙂

H’s suprise party! and A’s suprise bridal shower!

Dress shopping for A’s wedding-once my sisters and I drove out to NY to get a dress after meeting lol but i settled (or rather reached lol!) for this beautiful Erin Fetherston dress

Mom and Dad went to Hawaii and thoroughly enjoyed themselves 🙂

November

A+D wedding! Korean circuit assembly! & Chinese circuit assembly, i think??

c/o visit!

Erhmmm i don’t remember?? lol this is kinda sad.

Obligatory Thanksgiving w/family.

December

Family night!

1 week and some days off 🙂

and busy busy busy bee

 

That pretty much sums up my 2014.

You can totally tell i got lazy/tired of typing.

Also, 2014 was the year of the deaths 🙁

-ㅇㄱㅈ 자매’s death due to colo-rectal cancer

-ㅈ자매’s husband’s passing due to stage IV lung cancer (in 3 weeks too!) 🙁

-FR due to cancer

-ㅅㅇ언니’s dad’s death due to MI/old age

-J 오빠’s dad’s death due to MI

-RL due to dementia

and like 5 of my members but hipaa so enough said.

Here’s to a happy, satisfying 2015!!

Afterall this is MY year. the year I turn 27.

27!!!

 

OMG

 

xoxo