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I was never one of those little girls Imagining My Wedding Since I Was Five. When I was five, I got this idea in my head that you had to marry somebody with the same birthday as you, even though I knew my mom and dad had different birthdays. But the only person I knew who I shared a birthday with in my Catholic kindergarten was another girl, how was I ever going to find someone to marry?! (Yes, I learned about girls who liked girls once I transferred out of Catholic school, LOL. But that still left me knowing nobody else who shared my birthdate!)

After that got straightened out, I stopped caring about weddings until I started being in serious relationships 15-20 years later, and even when [personal profile] hyounpark and I were planning our own wedding, making all the little choices and doing every last tedious bit associated with it - five years later, what do I remember? )

I'm a foodie, and I couldn't tell you what food we had at our wedding because I think I got to eat maybe two bites of it? There were M+Ms in various shades of blue and white and I remember that because we got our names printed on them!

Still, there is this:

Monterey - The Kiss

And everything after.

(Three weeks ago, my brother's wedding started 20 minutes late because there was a miscommunication about the programs and we had to make a surprise last-second 15 mile round trip back to the hotel to retrieve them because primarily English ceremony with written guidance in Chinese. I joked to the pastor as we ran out to the car that we were upholding family tradition. He seemed a bit alarmed by that.)
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0. People are talking about NaNoWriMo; my last 3 months I haven't been able to write anything longer than a tweet. What's up with that?

1. HI HI OMG I MISSED YOU ALL SO MUCH HOW WERE YOUR SUMMERS?

got married, moved (back) to Cambridge, the rest of my life since then )

Okay, that's enough of that. Basically, if you're curious about the last three months of my life, my Twitter is probably the best place to find out. Or my Facebook, but I feel like most of us are already friended there (and if not and you'd like to be, ping me in comments :) )

In the meantime, it's supposed to get into the 60s today, so I will probably head down to Mem Drive for a bike ride through the foliage, though unpacking and laundering the winter clothes will also be a priority.

fallen


[personal profile] hyounpark and I wandered out to Homecoming yesterday. Didn't get a lot of the food we'd normally eat on a Pioneer Valley Food Run, but we did snag cider donuts from Atkins Farm and pizza from Antonio's. We don't really go for the football; I go more for the people and the music, and yesterday was full of that.

- gave advice to a few earnest and overwhelmed '13s (class of '13, wtf, when did we get so old?!)
- hung out with an adorable 19-month-old for dinner (babies grow crazy fast, and love things that let them make a mess, I'm just sayin':

52-card pickup

finger-lickin' good


- shortened but high-energy Choral Society concert was one of the best I've been to in years. I recognized at least one song from each group (and was bouncing in my seat mouthing along to it, I'm looking at you, Izatate Ikusabitoyo Glee Club boys' marching song), throwing candy at the student conductor is always fun, and we got to show off our bling to the person whose fault it is we even met in the first place (Mallorie, our beloved choral director; steered me towards the small-group Madrigals singers my junior year, where I actually met [personal profile] hyounpark).
ursamajor: Tajel on geeks (geeks: love them)
Happymaking: our engagement photos!

[personal profile] hyounpark, reading over my shoulder: "Wait, STDs, what?"
[personal profile] ursamajor: "Save the Dates. Apparently, it is standard practice in the Wedding Industry to abbreviate 'Save the Dates' as STDs."
[personal profile] hyounpark: "Wow, that's like, not even the third thing I would assume that abbreviation to stand for."
[personal profile] ursamajor: *puzzled* "The first is obvious, but what's the second?"
[personal profile] hyounpark: "Oh, standard."
[personal profile] ursamajor: "... see, I wouldn't have gotten 'standard' out of STD unless it was actually STDEV for standard deviation."
[personal profile] hyounpark: "Now who's the geek!"

Wedding Season 2009 continues; pictures from [livejournal.com profile] slwands and Kristen's wedding a couple of weeks ago are here! ❤ ❤ ❤ my Backstreet Boys, I mean my Taplin Boys. 47 weeks till their Reunion performance! We had Antonio's on the way to Judie's! And the Lone Wolf was a delicious new discovery :)


piccies )

Before that, Hyoun and I were able to sneak in a Tuesday night date slash slightly belated dativersary and birthday dinner at Garden in the Cellar. Parsnip truffle soup, burrata with fig paste, foie gras with fluffy sugar doughnuts. Nom.

Also, slightly belatedly: nine years of constantly refreshing my friendspage. Love you all, [livejournal.com profile] xfr kids, even if none of us quite qualify as kids anymore.
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Oh, right, the part where three weeks ago, I flew off to Korea to get married, and have been busy up the wazoo ever since, so if you've posted anything important in the last two weeks, tell me about it? :)

I feel mildly guilty that this is going to be a crosspost, but maybe y'all will forgive me when I say that I come bearing WEDDING PICTURES? :)

within: dozens of family members! chickens! Lynne in the box! piggyback rides! )

That's all the pics we've got for now! Though there are some more in my Flickr set that I was too lazy to bring over here; you can see them if we're Flickr friends :) It was a crazy and minutely-scheduled weekend, and being able to hop on a tour bus down to Gyeong-ju in the South with our family for the following three days was a lot more relaxing.

But we are marrrrrried! Kinda. The legal American ceremony in October will be smaller. But maybe I can get another piggy back ride there, too, for [livejournal.com profile] memerath to capture ;)

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