i suck: at training.

the temp was all like "wwwwhhhhat?" when i'd explain something. aish. she's freakin' not going to be working here on monday so what's the point in having her come tomorrow? sheesh.

i guess some good news: instead of going to chili's, we're going to the "italian garden" restaurant. it's pretty good. like a fancy olive garden. atleast my meal will be over $7. but no chips & salsa. =(

vbs was pretty fun tonight. skit went all over the place, but ho, nick, stefan, grace saved themselves from utter embarrassment. games were pretty fun, too. i was in charge of this volleyball/tennis game. basically badminton with a balloon. but they had to scream the "fruits of the spirit" when they hit the balloon. so kids were screaming, "LOVE!" or "JOY!" or "PEACE!" all of which, were NOT being displayed. haha.

some very sad news. mama duck laid her eggs in our pool again. 4 ducklings. but when we came home, only 3 were chirping. the other one was floating on it's side. i scooped it up with the net and took a closer look. very sad. r.i.p lil fella. =*(

i'm very tired. probably no update tomorrow so i'll be seeing u when i see u. don't miss me too much. (^.^)v

Squirted 10:35 PM by E-J Yi

this is all folks!: bah...

had to train all this morning. my mouth probably has stank breath from talking so much. she's at lunch now so i'm writing this quick update.

had a GREAT dinner with ann & fiona last night. food could have been better, but conversation was great. made me lol: "hellllooo~" fiona's eyebrows would say. :D

and as a spur of the moment...i got to see hyun jin. boy is going to MIT grad school people. ladies, line up. haha. anyways, he's really glad that he's going to his "dream" school. i told him there was a bunch of nerds. haha. but he said there was a bus that goes back and forth from wellesley to MIT. it's called the F#$% Truck. so like a whole busload of girls would go and come back. and as david so aptly put: "i saw dinah (a wellesley student)'s friends and trust me, you don't want a busload of that." LOL!!

aite. i have VBS tonight. and tomorrow. and saturday. probably won't have time to update this mug until next week when i have no work. going to a "big" lunch for me tomorrow at chilli's. whoopee. atleast loretta will be there to talk to me.

song of the day: luther vandross - dance with my father (?) (^.^)v

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beauty is in the eye of the beholder: did i write that correctly?

i am speechless. one of my co-workers is a photographer. but not just ANY photographer. he is freakin' awesome. so awesome that he's been published in national geographic and that's pretty amazing. i told him when i first got hired that i was so impressed by his photography (we have a bunch of his pictures hung up on the walls all around the dept). and i guess with the news of me leaving, this morning he sends me a link to his page. it is absolutely breathtaking. i love photography and looking at pictures. but his are, hands down, some of the best i've ever seen. please, go take a look. even with the dislike i have for birds, he made them look so beautiful. dang it, i should have taken photography. >.<

so they're (my dept) is having lunch for me on friday. on julie's last day, they went to chili's, so i said the same place. grace & young suggested i should go pricer ("um, yeah...i heard pappa bros has good steak, but i'm not sure..." or "i have this HUGE craving for sushi at jinbeh"), but i decided against it. these are shi gol (country) people here. they ain't gonna eat raw fish! =) tomorrow a temp is coming to get trained. for 2 days!! i can explain everything to her in less than 30 minutes. i guess this means i won't be updating tomorrow and i'll be forced to make small talk with a stranger. SUX.

these days, our family is trying to get healthy. my mom has lost 12 lbs from walking every day and eating less. it's fantastic for her. however, it's not fantastic for me. yeah i should be trying to lose weight, too, but i'm hoping that i'll lose it by walking around so much in korea. now our kitchen is filled with this healthy crap. 7,000 multigrained wheat bread (which i hate). soy milk (which tastes weird). lots of vegetables (which i can only eat certain ones). the other day, my dad made us watched oprah (which he taped) on diabetes & luther vandross. (btw, my dad is a HUGE fan of oprah: "she has the best show." he even laughs when she makes jokes which he NEVER laughs watching tv.) anyways, diabetes is the #1 killer more than cancer. and like if you weight alot, you have a good change of getting it. i found out my glucose count is 82 (normal range 80-100 or something like that) so i think i'm doing pretty well. my dad thinks our family is gonna get diabetes or something. yet we can prevent diabetes. american culture has made us fat and lazy. drive thrus especially. so the past few weeks, i haven't been going through drive thrus. i actually get OUT of my car, get my food inside the eating establishment/bank, and get back into my car. pretty annoying, huh? but they said those little things count. take the stairs and not the elevator. unfortunately, if you're getting out of the car and going into taco bell like i do, then all this goes out the (drive thru) window. har har.

i seriously think i have carpal tunnel syndrome. and it's not my right hand which i usually probably 60% more because of the mouse, but my left wrist is the one that hurts like crazy. ouchie. i try to bend it back and forth to stop the pain, but it doesn't help (maybe made it worse). =\

i never bought anything from abercrombie & fitch. and now i'm glad i didn't. they're racist bastards. here's another one. i hope they get sued up the a$$.

had a great dinner with young, grace, and julie @ maggiano's last night. i ate too much bread and couldn't finish my chicken parmasean (spelling?). afterwards we went upstairs to thirsty's. 2 stupid (white) kids were running around the mall. one of those brats comes up to us, "can you watch my shoes?" right when i was about to say "NO", grace asks, "what for?" "so i can jump on the escalator." "don't jump", grace says, but he ignores her. i wanted to toss his shoes into the garbage can, but there was a group of 3 ladies nearby us praying. anyways, i went into neiman marcus to go to the bathroom and looked in the children's section and it was filled with burberry & juicy couture. omg. it was sooooo cute. i wish i could buy these expensive clothes and have joel wear them. a burberry shirt his size was $72. O_O for that price, he AND i have to wear it.

song of the day: jay-z - excuse me miss? (^.^)v

Squirted 10:12 AM by E-J Yi

omg, SICK!!!

what is he thinking?

i'm not hatin' on him really...he's just so...i dunno, girly?

Squirted 3:58 PM by E-J Yi

leave me alone!!: dang, it's my last week at work and people are STILL getting on my nerves...

we got a new copy machine. we had a "lesson" on it when it first arrived. about 5 people came (out of 40-something). then 10 more people kept asking me how to use it (obviously they weren't there). i sent out an email to everybody in the dept on how to use it...

retarded co-worker #1: hey, how do you use this new thing?
me: [trying to be cheerful, but pissed off inside] oh, did you not get the email? (i said it with a smile.)
retarded co-worker #1: [in a sarcastic tone] uh yesss~
me: oh [trying to figure how what this idiot wants me to do]
retarded coworker #1: come show me.
me: ...

i start explaining.

me: first you enter your copy code, then press the ID button...
retarded coworker #1: WHOA WHOA WHOA!! do it again. i'm so lost. our copy code? what's our copy code?
me: the same one you've been using [FOR A FREAKIN' 6 MONTHS YOU IDIOT!!!]
retarded coworker #1: oh, i keep forgetting.
me: [patiently look it up] 9204.
retarded coworker #1: ok NOW show me how to do it.

i show him.

retarded coworker #1: oh that's EASY! hahaha.

@#%$#$%^&^%& what the #$%! is wrong with these people? i swear. and then my boss, g, keeps telling me all these changes i need to make "in the future" on invoices. I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO BE HERE NEXT WEEK. WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME THIS? they haven't even hired a replacement. she don't need to tell me that crap. yeah, as you can probably guess by now (or could have guessed 8 months ago), that there won't be any tears coming from me. sadness? HECKKKKKKKKKKK no. can't wait to leave. it will be like i did a big, fat ddong (crap) and it came out in one smooth piece. ah, relief. until then, this is workplace indigestion.

ok enough venting.

tonight's the monthly dinner with grace & young & julie. we always have a great time. today we're eating at maggiano's. yum! tomorrow's dinner with ann, eunice, fiona @ yokohama's. andrew, i am counting on you. you said their bento was pretty good so that's why we're going.

this weekend is vacation Bible school at Church. oh the lovely headaches that will be coming to me. oh the crying and the yelling! oh the greediness and the tantrums. but it's all for love, right? >.< i'm helping out with the skit and 6th graders' crafts. i hate crafts. i suck at stuff like that. but i like helping out with the skit. i feel like i could be a good director or something. like when the skit team was reading their lines the other day, i was imagining how they should say their lines and stuff. a long time ago, i used to imagine how i would act if i was in the particular korean drama that i was watching. would i have made that face? would i have made that pose? would i said that line that way? i know i couldn't never hit kim hee sun-stardom, but i think i can act a lil better than some of those crappy "singer-turned-actress" talents (tv actors). they suck HARD. don't quit your day job. the only thing i don't know if i could do well is cry on command. me & ann were having this discussion once. that we could both cry easier at night if listening to a particular song. i guess the nighttime brings about a mood. one song that could probably bring tears to my eyes is SES's "tell me". such a pretty, sad song. btw, i used to also think of songs i would use during my photo shoots. haha. i have a weird imagination.

i don't listen to enough Christian music as i should. i try to listen to 94.9 when there's nothing else on, but it's hard to find "catchy" songs. Plus One is the one group that i have really liked b/c they sound just like a pop boy-band group (which they are) so i listen to them alot. i was thinking of buying like Avalon or Jump5 (?), but there isn't as many catchy songs on there. and there's not enough r&b/rap Christian music. Kirk Franklin & God's Property was the best at that. the songs "Stomp" and 1 other song was pretty good. Mary Mary got some playing time on BET & FlavaTV b/c of "shackles". but besides these songs, Christian music is really, REALLY hard to listen to. i always thought that if people remix Christian songs into dance songs more people would listen to it. maybe i'm just weird.

dang, it's only 10? calgone, take me away!

song of the day: mary mary - shackles (^.^)v

Squirted 10:01 AM by E-J Yi

1 week left: oh yes. 5 days. 40 hours. but man, i'm STILL here...

the weekend was good. too fast. too furious. ok, enough with the sullungness (corny humor).

friday: watched a russia presentation from one of sam's friend, darin. made me sad when we saw pics of sam. gosh, i miss them. the presentation has me wanting to go to russia to do missions and to visit. after that, we headed over to the pangs' to hang out and watch 'minority report'. made more sense watching it a second time. tom cruise is hot!

saturday: got home really late the night before so didn't get to wake up early to go to the annual volleyball tourney for dallas korean churches. good thing tho b/c sam & hanna called from russia! i was thrilled. it made me miss them even more. again. gosh i want to see caleb~! =*( after i got off the phone with them, i went to the vball tourney. my Hanuri Church, being so small, was in the "C" division; the smallest of the 3 divisions. we didn't even practice. we were still recruiting people to play the week before. so basically i didn't really think we'd do so well. boy, was i glad that i was wrong!! :D i missed the first game, but we won straight sets. came just in time for the second game and we won the first set, lost the second, but came back to win the 3rd. daniel & eddie were playing awesome. i missed the 3rd game b/c i had to pick up jimmy, but came just in time for the 4th game b/c we, again, beat the 3rd time in straight sets. so basically we were playing for the championship in our division. we won straight sets again and now have a pretty, gold-plated trophy displayed at our Church. it was so exciting to watch. =) wow, we won soccer & vball this year. go hanuri!!

then me & julie headed over to stonebriar mall for some shopping. i need to buy some new clothes. got me a couple pair of pants (i think i'm going to return one) and a really nice & expensive bra from gap. it was so comfortable so i thought, shoot, i never pay over $20 for one, but i just thought, oh heck, and didn't think twice. when i return my BR pants, i can afford to get another one. haha. after that, we headed over to the pyuns and went to souper salad for dinner. Oh my goodness. that place was freakin' good!!! and only $5?!?! totally worth it. i'm craving it now. yummmm~! went back to their place to watch "die another day". omg, FREAKIN' hilarious when people started speaking korean. rick yune was HORRIBLE. the chinese guy (who played a n.korean) was better than him!! even the white guy sometimes sounded tolerable. it was so funny. halle berry is hot. O_O

Sunday: went to Church. came home to do some ironing. watched some tv. went to seoul garden for father's day dinner. forgot my credit card (NOT on purpose) when i was supposed to pay. saw paul chung & his parents there. his father kept saying, "who is the one i keep calling 'the President'?" hilarious. (he called my sister the "President" when she was orch-dork prez.) then saw the song family (taerim & paul) there, too. paul (song) was short. and looked majorly white-washed. i used to play with him when i was really lil (2 or 3), but dang, i'm about as tall as him. ok, not really. =)

came home to watch the nba finals. boring as usual, but it's over now. good for david robinson. okay, now on with the next season!!!

if you haven't read it before, you HAVE to read rosie's journal. especially june 14th's entry. made me lol. she's a freakin' comedian. absolutely LOVED the "jahn sohree" lines. i heard ALL of them. and some of them all at once. sheesh.

my last week at work. oh yeah. no more of this waking-up-at-the-butt-crack-of-dawn-to-get-to-drive-through-an-hour-of-traffic-to-get-to-a-low-paying-crappy-job. i cannot WAIT till friday. i'm going to have this HUGE smile on my face ALL day.

song of the day: backstreet boys - shape of my heart...b/c rosie (june 16th entry) so happily reminded me! (^.^)v

Squirted 10:02 AM by E-J Yi