4 years and 33 shirts later

I'm on a mission right now to have my room spotless by Friday. Here is part of the "discovered" result... during college, my on campus involvements all provided free t-shirts; I probably accumulated give or take at least 6 shirts a year. I was going to make a quilt with all these shirts, hopefully I'll get around to doing that soon.

Experimenting

 Experiment fail. My mom bought some Trader Joe's doggie treats for Lucky, but her attempt at being a good dog owner failed. I kept watch of my dog as he was testing out his new treat, as he was about 40% done and getting closer to the inside of the treat, I noticed blood! :( I was super not happy about this and tried to quickly take away the treat. Have you ever tried to steal a treat back from a 50 lbs. dog?!

Ikea galore

As you can see, I've desperately been need to organize my room ever since I moved back home from college. My mom and I finally took a trip to Ikea, seeing that it was the quickest and best way to buy a decent dresser for both me and my brother. My mom seriously probably hasn't been to Ikea is 20 or so years; all the furniture we have from Ikea is at least 20 years old! Today, we actually made 2 trips to Ikea! Oh Ikea...

101010! Good luck?

Hung out with some old high school pals Nafisa, Jade and company at Griddle Cafe in West Hollywood. I was definitely excited to see Nafisa, who I haven't literally seen in 4 years. Meeting up with high school pals and going back to the Griddle made me reminisce about the first time I actually went to the Griddle with Jesse Y. and Tony C. at 8am during one of those standardized testing days when seniors got to come to school late. Dang.. I haven't talked/seen those guys in a while either...I seriously am very horrible with keeping in touch with high school friends.

We talked about the East vs. West Coast namely NY vs. LA. As most of you should know, I really want to move to NY, and what better time than now when I'm young, healthy, and able to handle "real" weather. My friends still do have a valid point, no matter what, the SFV will always be considered home to me. An Angelino for life.

Thank goodness

My brother finally took the SATs again, hopefully he does super well! Kudos and good luck brotha. :) In celebration of finishing a nasty 5 hour standardized test, we (me and my momma) decided to treat him to a good/decent meal at Cheesecake Factory.

My mom has finally decided to take a much needed vacation. Thank goodness! This just means a week full of mommy and me dates/ her sort of breathing down my neck about being productive hah! I found this cardigan in the sale section at Nordstorm Rack; it's totally tacky and cheesy, but the tacky and cheesiness is what  made it notice it and smile.  Plus, it provided a perfect backdrop for my mom needing a vacation.

I also recently watched a random Korean show about a Korean mother who was adopted by an American couple in Oregon when she was a baby. My mom told me to watch it by saying look it's about NY... wrong. Anyways, this woman, Colleen O'Neil had a son, but I'm not sure who the father is because the son is full Korean. But the whole story is based around the son's quest to find his mother's biological family. It was endearing to see that the son, Richard was so determined in trying to learn Korean and his passion for playing the viola; he is quite the accomplished violist. Colleen now lives with her boyfriend, Bill in Astoria, Oregon. Her lifestyle is so simple, she is proud of who she is, what she represents, and loves Bill; there is nothing more to it. The show portrayed her to not need anything else in life, which got me thinking how my life could be that simple if I didn't over think every detail in my life. This story made me further appreciate all the important people who have helped shape my life.

Randoms

 My dog is not allowed in the house and only under extreme special weather circumstances is he let into the garage. Well, as I was trying to take a picture of my dog, the sneaky little thing just bolts into the garage. Let me tell you, my dog has recently surprised me with his good behavior by sitting at the door and waiting for me to step out of the garage. Today's little stunt was totally unexpected, but I caught him in the act, red "pawed"...

I have no idea what this fruit is but the literal Korean translation is cherry what is it? My brother pointed this sign out and at first I didn't believe him because this makes no grammatical sense.

Fresh starting

WHOOSH.

This week my mind has been going 1340982340 mph thinking about the (so far denying/dreading) future.

 My brother and I noticed this car, it has to be one of the ugliest cars we've ever seen. From afar, the truck looks like a normal suv, but when you get closer I think something about the curves in the car and the horizontal lines on the back make the car totally unattractive.

Quapa?

 Day 3 of rain! :)

The bad 'taking pictures while driving' habit still continues... -_-.

Serious family addiction ever since my mom brought home pastries/cake for my birthday -_-.

I love the varying colors of these three girls. I know, I know, this picture is totallyyy creeper-esque.

After dropping off my brother at tutoring, I've drove past my old Granada Hills neighborhood and elementary school. My neighborhood looks the same, the current owners to my old house in my opinion have made the house uglier, but I guess the old huge trees planted in the sidewalks make up for the small designed 1950s homes. When passing my elementary school, everything from the playground, the buildings, the stairs I used to get picked up at looked the same until I saw the front of the school... they had painted a huge mural with a super ugly horse and knight. I was shocked, then "sped" off quickly before someone noticed a small asian girl driving suspiciously around an elementary school. 

Later in the evening, I got to attend a "special" SUV event with my lovely ol' pals Paul, Jo, Ash, and David (plus some of P's friends Iko like Eco and Jen). YAY! Thanks for hosting Paul!

The day Paul finally knew how to make French bread! hahahah

I haven't had Beard Papas in 2 years! Thanks Jo & Davidddd.

They're so cute.

Dance off! Such a good duo, great job y'all. hahah 

Don't ya just love dancing to Lady Gaga?!

Here's the story with tonight's blog title...
So we got on the topic of Jon/Kate and their 8 kids..
David: Oh those cute 8 hapa children..
Me: What are they again 1/8 Korean?
Ash: No, they're 1/4.
D: Oh so they aren't hapas...
Me: What do you call children that are 1/4?
Ash: QUAPA!

Special thanks to ASH for the title of tonight's blog. ;)