Duh

This should probably have been self-evident, but toasting up bread crumbs in some butter smells...well, like toast.  Indication that I do not cook nearly enough emdub food? :)

On tonight's menu: tuna noodle casserole.  I have a weird craving for it.  My gomo (auntie on my dad's side) used to make it since my mom only makes Korean food.

Homemade Sushi & Korean Meats

Lucky us, we had S&I visiting us for the weekend from Hawaii since their cruise embarked/disembarked out of San Diego harbor.  Despite all the chowing they did on their cruise, they were ready for some good eats with us here in SD!  We took them to the usual, California burritos, Urban Solace, In-n-Out, handmade tortillas and Mexican food in Old Towne, and "I" even got a McRib sandwich from Mickey D's one day since they apparently don't have it out in Hawaii. On one very fun night though, S picked up some DELICIOUS uni from Catalina Offshore Products and we did a homemade sushi night, paired with Korean meats on the table grill!  It was all soooo good.  I am going to have to work on my sushi rice making skills...my first batch was an epic, epic fail.  The second batch, however, was just right!  Can't wait to do another sushi night!

I'm so glad we got to hang out w/ S&I...I'm sad they had to go home though...we love having fun couples to hang out with!

My Funny Hunny

After almost 7 years together, K still never fails to make me laugh and smile.  He just had his wisdom teeth removed and as he was being put under by anesthesia, apparently told the doctor that we want to go to Siberia for our honeymoon so we can ride on the trans-Siberian railway.  First, I've never even heard of the trans-Siberian railway before this, although Google and Wikipedia tell me that it does, in fact, exist.  Second, we have a long list of places we want to go, and a sub-list of places we want to go before having children, but Siberia is not on that list...but Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg) is.  Apparently, he also groused and complained at the "no working out until the post-op visit in 10 days" so much that all the nurses thought he was hilarious for wanting to exercise so bad.  When they finally let me go back to help him into the car, the nurses all told me they thought he was a hoot!

Weeeeeee!

I bought my wedding dress last night!  It was the 2nd dress I tried on during this whole dress-shopping process.  It feels weird and cliche to say I always sorta knew that I wanted this dress but I guess it is true for me...right cut so it makes me look a little taller, right balance of being sorta simple/beach-appropriate but having some beautiful little details, etc.  Weirdly, dress shopping really wasn't that fun...everything was so big and it got overwhelming at times.  Though, in this whole dress-shopping process I've learned it never hurts to ask and be creative to make something that normally wouldn't fit in your budget to do so!

Baby Love!

My lil sis J is having a baby girl next month!  I knitted my niece-to-be a little baby beanie that sorta reminds me of a strawberry sundae with a white cherry on top, and two pairs of baby booties to match. 

The white pompom on top of the beanie may be a bit much (or just too wintery for Arizona) but it's so cute it sorta makes me giggle every time I look at it :)

I learned how to knit in the round to create the beanie using three double pointed needles.  I <3 youtube tutorials!!!!!

My First Transcript

I got my first transcript for a deposition I defended.  It's kinda weird but kinda cool to see my name and objections in the transcript :)

Satin Lei

K is graduating with his MBA one week from today!  To commemorate his three years of going to work early to make it in time to evening classes, meeting for group projects on weekends, and seemingly unending summer sessions, I made him a red satin lei.

This is one of those handmade projects that is not terribly difficult but takes a lot of time and patience.  Good thing I made him such a special lei...we found out a few days ago that K was chosen as the outstanding graduate student for Information Decision Systems (his MBA specialization)...I think he got magna cum laude too!  I'm so proud :)

Here goes my first stab at blogging artsy-craftsy making!  This project only requires satin fabric, scissors, and needle & thread.

1) Cut the satin fabric into 2 inch (or slightly smaller) strips.  Instead of using a ruler, I cut one of my business cards to 2 inches.  Snip the end of the fabric to size, then pull a thread loose from the snip and pull the thread all the way out, creating a guide line of where to cut.  For the entire lei, I used 35 strips of fabric that were 2 inches by roughly 2.5 feet long.

 

 2) Fray the fabric strips using a needle (or your finger nail, though I found using the fingernail hurt the pads of my fingers more) until the fabric left in the center is the width of your finger.

3) Put enough doubled thread on the needle so that the lei would go just above the belly button.  Knot off about 3-5 times and then sew on the frayed fabric strips, doing a running stitch down the center.  When you sew the entire length of the fabric strip, as you squish it down, start twisting the fabric around and around so that the frayed edges create the lei!  That's it :)

Voila!  It took me about 3 weeks to make this one, or the first two rounds of the NBA playoffs.  I also made this easy ribbon lei too.