1. joseph and i were married on july 26, 2003. i was 23. the next day i turned 24. there were about 1000 people at the wedding, with 4 receptions. but no limos. just friends..lots of friends

2. i like cooking for friends and family. i took amateur classes at FCI to make sure i wouldn’t feed them crap. but i have no aspirations in becoming a professional chef.

3. i like stupid movies. joseph calls it the “theresa network”. i’ll watch 13 going on 30, notting hill, and love actually whenever it shows up on tv and i’ve got free time. but some stupid movies will make me gag – most recently “enchanted”. but i also have a love for smart movies.

4. i used to go karaoke alot back in college. i like to scream into the mic, so i usually sing korean rock ballads. my favorites are lee seung hwan, and kim kyung ho

5. at church, i like to sing at the same octave as the guys when singing worship songs. sometimes it scares the people around me.

6. i love to drive. i miss having a car. my first car was an electric blue nissan altima, after college i bought an acura tl. i now own no car, but part owner or many buses and subway cars.

7. i like to play golf, but i’m not very good anymore. i’m a better coach/caddie.  in middle/high school school i used to play alot and actually had a decent handicap.

8. i grew up in inner city baltimore. alot of the stuff that happens in the Wire seems familiar to me.

9. i dislike curry, but will make it for friends and will eat it.

10. i LOVE rice. my comfort foods are rice with kimchi and seaweed soup on the side. it’s actually the first meal i ever remember eating. i hope this will be an early food for our daughter too.

11. i like to do crafts. i like papercrafting and knitting. i’m currently in the middle of doing a papercraft of pee-wee herman for a coworker, and i’m trying to knit a baby blanket.

12.  i ran into a coffee table when i was a kid. i now have a scar immediately underneath my left eye. most people can’t see it because my glasses usually help hide it

13. i’ve lived in 11 different homes in maryland alone (does NOT include dorms). 2 in nyc. for a grandtotal of 13. (how fitting…)

14. i’ve had the same cell phone number since 1998.

15. i don’t like chocolate. i had a traumatic incident in elementary school where i had some chocolate milk and shortly thereafter threw up all over my and my friends lunches. i’ll eat white chocolate sometimes tho.

16. i have a large family. 26+ “cousins” just on my mothers side. 26+ “cousins” on my dad’s side as well. i haven’t met everyone yet, so i’ve stopped counting. the ones i’m closest with are those i grew up with, and helped take care of as i was growing up myself.

17. i’ve always dreamed of owning my own business. i’ve already thought through my business plan, financing and 5 years worth of goals with high level milestones every 6months. my parents have owned at least 8 businesses that I am aware of/can remember.  most of my aunts and uncles own(ed) their own businesses as well; ranging from a furniture company to a cafe.

18. i scare most people the first time i meet them. it’s usually me being friendly, they just don’t realize it.

19. i hate the heat. when i vacation, i like places that are usually cooler and no beaches please.

20. i’m skeptical about alot of things.

21. i don’t like people who have a problem with or complain about something but don’t have suggestions on how to fix it.

22. i can drink heavily, but choose not to. my tolerance is hereditary.

23. i like offal meats. hearts, gizzards, feet, tongue, ears, marrow, intenstine, tripe, sweetbreads, livers, etc. i don’t eat them often tho. they are not good for you in excess.

24. i’m strangely good at dealing with customer service and getting what i want either over the phone or in person

25. joseph is my favorite person in the world. right behind my halmuhnee =P

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thankfully we bank with an international bank and my aunt also uses the same bank we do. my aunt drives us to this building that looks sort of lame from the outside but when you get inside there’s a bunch of floors with random things including a bank. inside the bank we don’t just enter the regular common folk area, there’s a “vip” area for the high rollers/veterans. we go straight there and it seems like everyone knows my aunt. they exchange some money for us at a little bit better of rate than the avg person since it’s the “vip” area. not really sure how much better of a rate I got, but i was assured that it would be better than those common folk “over there”.

in this same unusual looking building were 2 hair salons right next to the bank on the same floor. weird. we were told that one salon is for the older folks, and the other was for the younger set. so we got our haircuts as we normally would on our post-easter vacation. joseph always gets some weird contraption on his head, and this time was no different, he got saran wrapped =P

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we both got trims and some haircolor. i decided this time i didn’t want to do anything crazy and just stuck with a little bit of color, and joseph got a reddish brown color.

then we went to buy some groceries. knowing that joseph doesn’t like alot of korean foods, my aunt decided to wait to get groceries after we arrived. while at the costco like warehouse joseph saw these fun things (wendy, pay attn):

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we also saw some other stuff too, like frosted flakes and fruitloops, which they called “corn frost” and “fruit ring” respectively. and i guess they try to promote milk by calling it “einstein milk”
the most beautiful thing in the market was the fresh seafood. it looked amazing! i feel like we rarely ever get to see fish that fresh in a market in nyc and so well laid out that it really makes you want to buy it

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then to a late lunch of jjajjangmyun. the last two or three times i’ve come to korea, my aunt takes me to this place in another building, in the basement that has some great jjajjangmyun.

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thus ended our day out. the rest of the day was spent at home with family and catching up on some much needed sleep!

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