oh where to begin...

life became more interesting again now that olivia has been back. unfortunately, i have been crazy busy at work, which has caused my blogging frequency to go down quite a bit, and now i've forgotten everything that's happened.

what i do remember is janet & john's wedding, and the, um, little mishap caused by us musicians. the thing is, i've played with the same musicians several times in the same sanctuary, but for some reason, this time, when we began the bridal march, and all the guests stood up, we couldn't see a thing. so we played blindly, going by the speed and timing that was done at the rehersal the night before. unfortunately, the bride ended up walking much slower than at the rehersal, and didn't start walking down the aisle (so i've been told) until halfway through our song, so by the time we finished, janet wasn't even halfway down the aisle. oops. but, again, we couldn't see anything, so we couldn't even tell - that is, until pastor dan said to janet and her father, "that's okay. take your time." so we scrambled around and started playing in the middle of the song again, although, what people told me, is that by the time we started playing again she was already at the front. so we ended up playing for a while with her just standing there. yeah, i have to say that was one of the bigger disasters in my wedding-playing history. but besides that, the wedding was wonderful. good food, good company, good fun dancing, and a great, godly couple is married!

i'm so thankful for today off, as i reallllly needed a day off from work. and what better way to spend the day than a bbq and a visit to house of prime rib, where eric is finally gonna pay up on our, what, 6-year old bet?

and to end, part of my conversation with olivia this morning.

me: you promise?
olivia: yes
me: are you sure? you promise??
olivia: yes... although sometimes my word isn't as good as it used to be.

gee thanks o. what a GREAT friend.

i nominate myself for idiot of the day. i got home from work late last night, and alinna asks me, "did you get a ticket?" because i had gotten an envelope from the court of traffic. so i open the envelope, only to find the $10 check that I had written for my expired registration... it was mailed back to me, because being the idiot i am, i forgot to sign the check! add that into my book of dumb things i've done in my life. my book is plenty fat.

oh and i have to give a shout out to alinna's garden. those peas are really good! and i never really like peas all that much before. our only caveat is... when they say plant things a certain feet apart, actually do it! because her plants are growing all over each other. one day i will post the pic of that first "carrot" alinna tried pulling. it's hilarious.

apparently, people like taking our house quiz. here are everyone's results. Please note that drew and peter took the test twice. Please also note peter "the redeemed" still couldn't get a 100 on his second try. sad.

i have a new name for my car... stupidcar.

but it doesn't matter, because i'm hopefully gonna get a new car relatively soon! finally. that volvo is a trouble and a half. let me tell you another story...

so there's this plastic thing under my car that keeps falling down... i think it's supposed to protect my radiator? anyway, i used to just kick it back up, and it would kind of latch in one corner, but it was enough to keep it from dragging on the ground. everyday i would perform this ritual. well, sunday was no different. i kicked up the plastic thing, and started to drive home from church. only, everytime i braked, i would hear this really loud scraping noise, loud enough for me to hear with my windows closed and my radio on. so i drive back to church, and thankfully, there were still a few guys there. and because they're so great, they crawled under my car in their church clothes and proceeded to just unscrew and take the whole plastic thing off.

i thought to myself, well since they could fix that, maybe they can figure out where that long rubber thing that fell on my head one day goes. so i brought it out and they tried to figure out where in my sunroof it belonged. stupid me, i offered to open the sunroof to make it easier. big mistake. as i proceeded to press the button to open the sunroof, you hear loud cracking and crunching noises as shredded plastic starts to fly out of the sunroof. So i think to myself, okay, bad idea. who needs a long rubber thing in your sunroof anyway? i proceeded to close the sunroof, all the way until it stopped. All of a sudden I hear one of the guys say "uh, karen. you closed your sunroof too far." Now if you were me, you're probably thinking, how in the world do you close a sunroof too far? Because that's what I asked. The guys told me to get out of my car and look. I step out of my car, and look on the roof, and lo and behold, my sunroof was closed too far! Like, literally. The sunroof wasn't level with the rest of the roof of my car, it actually dipped into my car!

i need to get rid of this car before it loses more value as more things break off. volvos are evil, i tell you! or maybe it's ford who's evil since everything in volvos went downhill after they took over. regardless, i'm going to get a new car! no more 17mpg, no more random things falling on my head, and hopefully no more $600-$1000 maintenance every other month! wooohoo!

i never imagined any of the hyuns would ever have a potty mouth...

peter, after scoring a 40 on our quiz (tied for lowest):

peter (10:20:45 PM): lemme take it again
peter (10:20:47 PM): i'll ace that mofo
me (10:20:57 PM): peter hyun
me (10:21:01 PM): you are such a potty mouth
peter(10:21:27 PM): yeah, as in morrison and forrestor
peter (10:21:31 PM): the law firm
peter (10:21:33 PM): www.mofo.com
me (10:21:55 PM): you're such a potty mouth!
peter (10:22:45 PM): that's bullshiznit

!! he'll be in the bay area for the whole summer. i'm gonna need a LOT of soap to wash that dirty mouth out!

what alinna and i do when we're bored.

whoa, this new blog template thing is weird...

apparently byron and bob are way more into the LOTR game on PS2 than i thought. flash back to thursday night, they came over to watch the friends finale... but after it was over, they busted out the PS2 and started playing. which led to byron discovering that bob has been "cheating" on him because bob has been playing the game by himself (how dare he!) anyway, jenie comes home, and the first thing she sees are these two guys sitting in front of our tv (looking very similar to this) playing a video game. eventually i go to sleep... not sure how late they stayed, had to be after midnight sometime. flash to saturday, when they try to play at bob's house and discover they left something at my place. so they just bring the ps2 over again. managed to finish the game, only to find a secret hidden level. so i had to leave to meet up with other ppl, alinna leaves to have dinner with some folks, and again, jenie comes home, this time to an empty house except for the fact that there again, was bob and byron, in front of our tv, looking, again like this) . ahahahaha. obssessed i tell you. byron's poor friend mike, just sat there on my couch watching them play for hours. now you know what byron does when his wife goes to LA for the weekend.

anyway so apparently o wants to play our game here. so let's begin! guess what's under o's lee kum kee jar? if you guess correctly, we'll send you a replica of the real thing. (i say replica because i think the real thing is no longer anymore...)

gasp! bob cheated on byron!

to quote byron, "i feel violated!"

a joke, courtesy of olivia:

What book in the Bible speaks to advertising?

Habakkuk! Not a Pepsi.


HAHAHA. only olivia would tell me jokes like this.

work has kept me incredibly busy, but here is a boring story for you all... nothing interesting to report. maybe when o comes back at the end of may i'll have some more to entertain y'all with! stay tuned :)

one fine day a while back, i took a friday off from work. i come back on monday, only to find that there were hole punches literally all over the floor of my cube. after some investigation, i found out my ol' buddy john w borrowed my hole puncher, but in the process, spilled all the holes punches all over my floor. he thought that it would be vacuumed up by the time i got back, but apparently not. so there we were, on the floor, picking up all the bits and pieces of paper that had scattered everywhere.

cut to friday, john w decides to come by and visit and borrow my hole puncher again. he even told me, before he walked into my cube, that he promised not to make a mess. i said, sure, and he walked in to punch the papers. lo and behold, john w picks it up, and guess what? paper holes fly everywhere, on my desk and floor. i think someone needs to get john w a hole puncher for his bday ;)