May 2013
8 posts
That Lovin' Feeling
Weddings galore this weekend!
Brings me back to how I felt last autumn when I married my husband, Jinu. I remember feeling that new love giddiness from the beginning of our relationship all over again. It was incredible to share our happiness with our family and friends and i’m hoping that this weekend’s now married couples felt something similar.
I will say, it was really nice not...
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First Listen The Great Gatsby →
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From NPR. Pretty much what I expected from Luhrmann, very glam and loud for the most part, and a bit emo. Oddly, my favorites are the more moody tracks.
Young and Beautiful . Lana del Rey
Over the Love . Florence + the Machine …although I lose the lyrics, maybe over sung a bit?
Hearts a Mess . Gotye Makes me want to take another look at Gotye’s music as a...
April 2013
13 posts
Food Happenings
Eating out less means making food at home more, which means I tend to get creative. When my little brother was at his old job, he made friends with an Indian woman who would graciously bring him traditional Indian food for lunch and most notably, he would go into a diatribe about how this woman’s yogurt rice was sooo good.
WTF is yogurt rice?
I had no idea but he made it sound really...
GIRL CRUSH // Gary Pepper →
This girl (Nicole Warne, owner of Gary Pepper) has been cropping up and here and there and every time I do a double take. Not only does she has crazy cool style but she’s freaking gorgeous.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.”
– Projected on the side of Brooklyn Academy of Music post Bostom Marathon bombing <3
There must be something in the water because last Friday I found out a co-worker is 3 months pregnant. Today I talked to yet another pregnant co-worker and found out that two more of my co-workers that I have less contact with, are… well… pregnant.
Does this happen like how girls’ cycles sync up when we spend a lot of time together?
To clarify, I am not pregnant.
Though it did...
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The Price of Value
At the beginning of the year, I said that I would not buy any new clothes and/or accessories for the whole year as a part of my resolutions for the year. We’ve started to dig our heels into April so I figure it’s time for a quarterly check-in. So far i’ve bought:
Underwear The only reason I bought these was because I was visiting my sister in a different city and realized I had...
March 2013
12 posts
“And you are worth the time it takes to take the time to get to know you. We’ve...”
– Shane Koyczan (via thatkindofwoman)
Dear Jinu,
My dear husband. My love. We have almost ten years together. Ten years fraught with physical separation and distress from growing pains away and again back to each other. Ten years filled with dedication, affection, and intense love.
We have a realist’s love. We know that this is not fate. We know that we’re not soul mates. We know what we have could quite possibly happen with someone...
Tidbits.
Starting the day off right! Soft boiled eggs, toast soldiers, and earl grey tea w/ condensed milk
Dear person I had a crush on,
Let me just say, i’m embarassed for my past behavior with a MAJOR schoolgirl crush that i’m pretty sure that you knew about without me having to say a word.
When I think about it, it’s pretty laughable (i’m not saying you’re laughable). I want to hide my face in my hands every time I do think about it though. But you should know (since I couldn’t say it then)...
Dear person/people I am jealous of,
We live a public life, we have a life in photos that live on the internet. I have to remember that photos (ok, for now Instagrams) that are posted don’t tell the whole story. People don’t photograph their struggles. They don’t photograph their bad days. They don’t photograph the awkward moments.
But these are universal experiences that everyone has.
I am jealous of the...
Dear past me,
You did good, no matter what you’re thinking now.
If I could offer a few bits of advice (because I don’t want to give too much away, or change what your future currently is) is:
1. It’s okay to be yourself. It sounds trite, and even now I still look around for approval. Honestly it doesn’t matter. You can and you will find people that complement you as well as challenge...
“In order to get people’s attention you gotta blow a loud trumpet. You gotta beat...”
– Oprah
You Are Boring
yourmonkeycalled:
Here’s the full text of a piece I wrote for The Magazine a few months ago. I really enjoyed writing it, and would like to thank Marco once again for publishing it there. If you haven’t checked out The Magazine yet, you should. Anyway, here’s why you’re a total snooze:
Everything was going great until you showed up. You see me across the crowded room, make your way over, and...
February 2013
20 posts
The choices we make
Daily Beast posted a collection of their readers’ thoughts on deciding to be child-free. This is incredibly interesting discussion to me since I am poised at the crossroads of if and when I should start trying for my first child.
Article: Why I choose to be child-free
When I was younger, and even in my college years, I felt very maternal. I felt strongly that I was meant to be a mother...
Dear future me,
This year so far isn’t turning out the best (it’s still early though). But if anything it’s a reminder that nothing is a guarantee and the best you can do is to work hard and to trust yourself. That has to be the lesson of your life…trust yourself.
You’ve had the ability to visualize what you want in life. I think if you keep focus on that visual of what you want,...
Dear Dad,
To be honest, i don’t think I started liking you until these past few years. This makes me sad because you had the potential to be a truly great dad if you were only there for us when it really mattered. I get that in your time, if you worked and put food on the table, and brought home a paycheck, that meant you were a good dad. But in addition to that what we needed was to see a dad that...
Dear Mama,
I am your daughter and more lately a friend and confidante. I’m glad that we have successfully navigated the relationship from you being MOM to you being mom.
If I can be half as good of a mom as you were to me, then I think my children will be set for life. You are one of the toughest women that I know. True grit. You are a mother who barely had a mother herself, and in a lot of ways...
Dear Santa,
Still waiting on that Barbie Dream House…
Dear best friends(s),
I know this isn’t always the case with sisters, but I am definitely lucky to have you guys as my best friends.
To A: You are my strength. You are my sort of mentor and a warrior that I can trust to always be honest with me because you believe that you are making me a better person (usually I ask for it first just in case). We’re weirdly somehow on the same wavelength most of the time,...
Dear ex-best friend,
I have no idea where you are or what you are doing but last I heard you ran away before you could graduate high school and had a child with your lover. I’m not even sure if the above is true (but this is what I was told) but if I could see you again, I would want to sit with you in silence and hold your hand so you knew that I would be there if you asked me to again.
It’s hard to...
Dear ex-boyfriend,
Sadly I don’t have the luxury of getting to write a you were such a bad boyfriend letter.
You know when you meet someone and you can see that they have something special inside? You were one of those people and the world is a dimmer place because you’re sunniness isn’t around any more. Idealist, happy, and most importantly, just an all around good person.
Our time together was...
Dear person that I like,
Thank you for being you.
