we've been having some really shitty weather here. one day it got up to 80 degrees and then the next day it's cold as hell. right now i'm sitting on my bed freezing my ass off. my dog is snoring so loud too. she sleeps on her dog bed on the floor. she is such a brat. my cat sleeps either on our legs our next to our feet. sometimes during the night i feel myself kicking her off. hehehe! i'm not sure when i'm getting to bed tonight. it surely is way past my bed time. i can feel tomorrow is going to be one shitty day. my coworker took the day off to attend a birthday party on the rez. when she is gone it is up to me to do her job as well as mine.

tomorrow is friday. brian and i usually make it a point to try and go out to eat on friday nights. last friday, we ate at a korean restaurant. brian had some kalbi and i felt like eating soup, so i ordered some bean paste soup and then to top it off we also had some korean pancake. i felt like such a freaking pig. i'm not sure where we are going to go tomorrow. i heard about some las vegas style buffet that opened up in peoria not too long ago. we might have to try that out tomorrow, but i'm still not too sure. i have a craving for some seafood. well, i better try and get ready for bed. good night!

this picture was taken in korea of course. don't you wish you were born a cat. i thought this was so cute!

happy new year! It's been a long time since i last posted. i don't like sitting in front of the computer. i sit at a computer all day at work and it really makes me not want to sit at a computer when i get home. i spend most of my time now running/walking on the treadmill, watching my recorded shows on the dvr, working out with wii fit, taking my dog on walks and basically just trying to keep myself active.
Nothing much really is going on currently in my life. it is the same routine 7 days a week. the weekdays are dedicated to going to work, coming back from work at the end of the day, cooking dinner/getting take out, excercising and catching up on recorded shows on the dvr. the weekend is when brian and i can roam. we usually treat our selves to a new restaurant or even a favorite. sometimes we go to the movies, roam goodwill/yard sales, go to the mall and shop or visit friends or family. it is basically the same routine probably 365 days a year. haha! we have no children so we are basically free to do as we wish. our only babies are my cat and dog.
next week is brian's 31st birthday. i am planning on cooking for him. i think we have been eating out too much lately so he requested home cooked food for his birthday. i'm not sure exactly what i am going to make. i am leaning more towards navajo tacos. we haven't had that in ages. i have this wonderful bbq that has a burner. i don't ever have to make frybread in the kitchen again! how awesome is that? i dislike how the wafting smell of burnt grease can get into every thing you own. i don't have that problem anymore. hey, speaking of fry bread, about 2 weeks ago a coworker and i were coming back from lunch and we saw this new eatery called the sacred hogan. they are located on 8th street and indian school. i think it is navajo owned, but i'm not too sure. they serve mutton and several other navajo cuisine there so i don't doubt that it is navajo owned, but anyway i thought that was cool to see since it is probably the first in phoenix. i've tried their frybread and it is very good!
well, my eyes are getting pretty dry sitting here so i will leave here with a few more photos

This was taken in korea. there were transvestites doing a show at an outside carnival.

i miss the korean markets

Brian and I ate fresh fish by the ocean while we were in korea. it was not deboned, but it was still delicious. the bones were so tiny and delicate that it was easy to chew.

this past weekend i spent time with my dad, his new girl friend and my two brothers. my dad came down to glendale/phx for his birthday. i threw a big bbq feast. i carefully planned out my meal the day before he was to arrive. we barbequed rib eye steak, t-bone steak, brautwurst, hotdogs, corn on the cob and i made some homemade potatoe salad and fruit salad. i also bought a birthday cake from the fry's mercado. it's sorta in a ghetto neighborhood, but i love the way that they make cakes. they are almost like the ranch market and also the prices of their cakes are very reasonable. we spent most of our weekend playing with the wii. i love mario kart! well, i best be getting to bed. i've been running my ass off these couple of weeks because my family in korea fed brian and i so much that i gained 7 pounds in 2 weeks!!. yeah, freaking disgusting so i've been really watching what i've been eating and trying to stay really active. i'll leave you with pics of my aunt's wedding. she did traditional and korean.

we've been back home since sept. 20, but it took a lot of time to get adjusted again. they are 15 hrs ahead there. korea was an experience i will never forget. it's a whole different world out there. everything is so compact. we build our houses based on width they build their houses based on height. they also plant trees, fruits, and vegetables on their roof tops. another thing that i noticed that was unusual is that the kids are always in school. you could tell they were school kids because they are always in uniform. i saw kids walking home from school at around 7 or 8 at night and some of them even go to school on saturdays! one thing that i will miss the most about korea is the underground shopping, the markets, and all the fresh seafood! i was eating fresh crab for breakfast! brian and i were also in my aunt's wedding. what an experience! i hated how sticky and hot it was and how brian and i always got attacked by mosquitos. we are planning on going back in about 5 years because it's a place that i would love to visit again, but not a place i would live. i am so glad i was born in america. here's some pics for your viewing pleasure. i took over 2,000 pics.

Crab & kimchee for breakfast, yum!!

seafood galore!!

there gas was only $1.67. that is crazy!

korean bbq!

my aunt and cousin

i hope you enjoyed. i will post random pics of korea every now and then. nite!

I'm so exhausted from trying to figure out what to take and not to take. Korea here we come!!

i have approximately 22 more days until i leave for korea, yay!!!! brian and i have been planning this for over year now. i can't wait until i can get away from work, the heat and just every thing all together. i haven't gone on a good long vacation in a very long time. i have some more things that i want to pick up this weekend. i bought a shit load of stuff that i can bring in the carry on bag. i even got some dramamine just in case i get sick. hehe!

These pictures are courtesy of my sister. she got stationed in korea in the beginning of june. i can't wait until our vacation to korea. we have probably a little over 60 days left. we got our passport a year ago and we bought some cool luggage this past weekend at ross. brian got a samsonite for $96.00 and i got a diane von furstenberg for $89.99. i'm experiencing some anxiety a bit, but i know i will live. this will be the first time i will be meeting my mother's family and also the first time flying out of the country.

a little video for ya'll to see....these are my mother's korean friends. this was taken last year on our trip to texas. i am so fascinated with the korean language. there is a lot of spit action going on there, just like the navajo language. I have no idea what they are talking about........

When we went back to the rez for my sister in-law's high school graduation, we took some pictures on our way to cortez, colorado. It's a cute, little town, but definitely not a town that i would live in. it sort of reminded me of a town that you would find in texas. some towns in texas are a little eerie for me. last year when we went for a visit to see my mother in killeen, texas we had to drive through small towns. and those towns reminded me of the movie the texas chain saw massacre. i felt very creepy and spooked to even stop in one of those towns for gas. the first gas station that we stopped at in texas they still had people smoking in the gas station! that was so weird to see. here in phx/glendale they banned smoking in restaurants and even bars! anyway, here's some pics for y'all to enjoy.

They say that this is a jail from back in the old days. this is located on the ute reservation. i don't know if this is true, but i thought it was cool to see. check out coco, she's being her nosey self as always.

The door was so darn heavy to push open!

The prisoners were held down there!

As I was taking a picture of the pit down below this freaking scared the shit out of me! it was a good thing that it was not poisonous because i was standing right next to it!

we saw this on our drive into cortez, colorado.