Day 182: HALF WAY, BABY

my morning

Inception

today, i took a personal day.. i wasn’t feeling well in the morning, so i called in sick to work and decided that i should spend some time with myself. i do love work, but being with people for such a long period of time during the day really is draining, soooo.. yeah, i just sat at starbucks by myself and ate a yogurt parfait, blogged, and just sat outside. it was really nice

later in the afternoon, Gratch, Jmal and I hung out and just chilled at Gratch’s house. Julie had to leave early for dinner, so Gratch and I just talked for a couple hours.. it was a much-needed talk and i’m so very thankful. SO very thankful.

earlier in the day, i asked Christopher if he wanted to watch Inception that night, and he said he’d want to, and Annabelle had said her and Tonny were going to go watch it later that night, so i asked if we could join and they said yes so, after Gratch’s, i left for glenview. i stopped by REI to get a pair of Sanuk’s sandals (yoga mat style!) then i headed over to the theaters. Chris sadly informed me that he couldn’t make it to the movies, and i didn’t take it well at all. that whole situation ended pretty bad, to say the least.

so, i got to the theater like 30 minutes before the movie started because… i didn’t have anything better to do hahaha, and i saved seats for the people that were supposed to come. i was informed that Shirley, Annabelle, Charley, and Tonny were supposed to come, so  i saved seats for the 5 of us! Tonny came first, then Charley then Annabelle. sadly, Shirley didn’t come

INCEPTION WAS AMAZINGGGGGGGG. i have yet to watch it a second time.

oh btw, this was the half way mark in my project 365

Day 166: Early 4th of July Celebration

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today was pretty fun i always love hanging out with yg… haha it’s weird. i don’t feel older than them =\ i feel like i’m just a senior in hs when i’m with them hahaha that was a fun year in cyc

anywho, PJ and Alenna had a 4th of July bbq at their place–it was potluck! so people brought lots of side dishes and appetizers and desserts! they were yummyyyy afterwards, we just hung out downstairs until we went to go watch the fireworks at arlington race track. honestly, i’m not that big of a fireworks person, i just like the fact that people get together to do one thing: watch the fireworks. it probably sounds pretty stupid, but… i like the fact that we’re all sitting there and looking at one thing together. i dunno what about it that really gets to me, but it’s good. really bugs me when people in the group are distracted by other things–totally not saying that anyone in our group was, but yeah. just sayin’.

there are a bunch of pretty fireworks, although i don’t know the real names of them…do they even have real names?? o_O” wtjunks. haha but i like the “willow tree”, the “hand”, any shapes, the “chemistry”, the “hollywood glamour”, and… yeah, i can’t think of anymore. haha

MAGNESIUM STRIPS??? is that what burns super bright when you burn it?? like the brightness of the fireworks? haha. we did this in my chemistry class at stevenson. actually, that reminds me… one of my friends from that class actually fb chatted me a month or two ago. i was SO surprised when she chatted me i was so happy to hear from her! we had ap psych senior year together, too man, i miss stevenson..

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i forgot to write this:
4th of july is always some kind of a happy day for me. ever since i could remember, my family always did stuff for 4th of july, but as i got older, i ended up spending most of them with my friends. i remember one in particular, july 4, 2006–i spent most of the day with the maloney’s they were kind enough to have me and peter kim over and hang out, eat, spend time with the family. at night, we all went to melas park to watch the fireworks there… and then afterwards, julie and i went on tilt-a-whirl (one of my favorite rides at carnivals) MULTIPLE times! that day was also kinda eh, because i actually had to go to the hospital because my eemo was in a lot of pain, so we had to admit her into the emergency room. but yeah… i don’t know why i think of that 4th of july. maybe because a lot of things were going on and i just genuinely had fun.

Day 142: Chain Rxn

my final score on my first completed game of CHAIN RXN. such a lame game, but i love it! so pretty to look at all the little colorful bubbles

it is 3:06a, and i am sitting on the floor with jmal and we are both playing Chain Rxn on our own computers. hahahaha. we were supposed to work out after college group, but we were catching up with pettit and then jmal showed me this game…. hahaha fail oh well. it’s always awesome being with these two.

ps. i’m psychotic.

Day 140: Old Man Snoring

sleep.

about 42.5 more days until i hit the halfway mark for this project!

this is NOT me complaining; just stating a fact.

i think one thing that he never fails at doing is falling asleep when he’s with me. he says it’s because he’s “comfortable” around me, but c’mon now, let’s face the facts: this really means i’m boring.

bazinga. (not really)

haha;

yeah. he was tired today, so he snoozed a little bit while i was driving. oh, and he didn’t snore in the car.

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today was pretty chill, i guess–
1. worked out with jmal
2. gave baby julie a ride to tutoring
3. ate with chris and jmal
4. bowled with a bunch of people

gotta star sleeping early and waking up early.

adieu.

“hulk saddd”
“bazinga!” (one of my favorite sayings of all time )

i bid you adieu, forreal.

Day 138: I Scream, U Scream, We All Scream 4… Sherbet :) heh.

jmal with our mini tub of sherbet

i hung out with jmal basically all day!

1. ate
2. visited master park for about an hour or so
3. bought our mini tub of sherbet
4. came home
5. watched Coraline and part of Alice in Wonderland
6. ate more (haha)
7. headed off to Hoffman/Barrington area–chilled with james lee & sam cho (james’s hs friend), watched Pandorum @ kenneth’s
8. came home

thanks, jmal for driving for the latter half of the dayyyyy.

Day 119: INSANITY!

"keep breathing, keep sweating. LET'S GOOO!!!!!!!"

so, i started doing Ab Ripper X from p90x sometime during the beginning of this semester. i’ve heard about p90x, but i’d never tried it before until one of my physics-mates, Anny, introduced me to the ab workout. i actually really really enjoy doing it i don’t dread it or anything (usually….hahahaha)

HOWEVER, jmal came home last week, and told me about this workout called Insanity. i’d never heard about it until she told me, and now we’re doing the workouts together! so, we see each other EVERY DAY hahahaha. i totally missed working out with her hahaha. we push each other like none other. and if PETTIT was here… oh gosh. end of ze world I MISS OUR FREAKING CRAZY WORKOUTS <3

the instructor’s named Shaun T, and i think he’s an x-athlete and something something something, i don’t remember hahaha. there’s a girl named Tanya in the video, who’s in all the workout videos (so far), and jmal and i call her our “competition” cuz she’s crazy in-shape. hahaha

we’re gonna freaking OWN her. SUCK IT, TANYA!

Day 117: 2/3 CLP

we got the "C" and the "L"..just missin the "P"...

this is the first time jmal and i have seen master park together in a long long time… since beginning of last summer, i think? it was totally awesome just spending the day with jmal–tournament, working out, hanging out afterwards it was so so much fun. we just missed pettit a lot during the whole day

so, this is the first tournament i’ve stepped foot in, in…years… it was super uber totally totally TOTALLY nostalgic…

-i miss sitting around until sparring competition began (which was always late in the day)
-i miss kicking around our head gear to warm up because we didn’t have any kicking targets (which i never understood why not even ONE of us bought because we ALWAYS needed them…)
-i miss eating the over-priced food that they sell at the concessions
-i miss scouting our possible opponents for our matches
-i miss coaching each other and trying to encourage each other to keep fighting
-i miss our freaking BUFFET of food that we ate after each tournament–usually korean food
-i miss…fighting…

gah. let’s please start training again??? who care’s if we’re 20/nearly 20/7+months from 20…

anywho. this is master park, jmal, and me

oh, and… “CLP” stands for
Crazy
Little
Parks.
cuz, master park always called us his daughters

Day 116: Ryan Started the Fiyuh

…in the sky, that is!

sunset as seen from the Lincolnshire Barnes' parking lot

today, jmal and i started the Insanity workout. it was developed by shaun t? ionno exactly who that is, but yeah. good for him for making a nasty freaking workout. today was day 1, so we just did the Fit Test, and oh my gosh… i felt like i was on my way to blacking out… the moves aren’t TOO difficult, but we have to see how many we can do in a minute, record our results, and then do the fit test at the end of the 60 day workout, and see our improvement.

she’s still so fit. i’m still so not fit. haha, SOML.

afterwards, we chilled, she left, i showered, went to barnes, read/blogged there, and i decided to leave around 8:10p, and this is what i saw! it was pretty cool i twittered it and stuff, but… yeah. the sky. dang.

and, it looked even cooler for the buildings that were facing the sunset.. the color that the sun was spilling onto the buildings looked epic.

Day 113: Reminders.

plane letter from jmal

i was cleaning out my nightstand and i found this plane letter that jmal had written me in 2006. i was very surprised to find it, actually, cuz i hadn’t read it for a long long time. she’d just started her first job @ Capannari’s, a homemade ice cream store in mt. prospect (on Pine and Central, i think. right by the train tracks), and she taped 1/2 of her first tip onto the letter! how sweet of her!!!

anyways, i found this on the same day that i was having a horrible day, so it totally brightened up my day and reminded me that she’s been there for me since day 1… always there to listen, to talk and just… have fun. i don’t know what i’d do without her

thankful for you, sis. seriously. i love you! and i’m so glad you’re back for summer!!!