08.20.08 - 06:11 PM I may lose my job but... boyfriend always pulls through and comes up with funny stuff that cracks me up so bad to the point my sides hurt! [No Comments]     08.19.08 - 11:17 AM Well well well I may get fired this week, but who knows? They've been on a streak at work lately. The latest of the offenses is that they've pretty much blocked all internet content except for business. So sucks for me who likes to listen to internet radio (i'd go nuts if i listened to buzzing lights all day in my office). So Roman and I conceded to bring our laptops to work so we can login to the wireless internet provided by the university that rents from our building (muhaha, we're so sneaky). Although my iBook Kagura is dying a slow death, she still works fine with certain things so I shouldn't be too picky. I've been thinking about getting a new Dell laptop since there's an awesome offer going on at the moment for their back to school season. My PC Haru is a Dell and he's still getting along fine even though he's around 5 years old now. If I get a new laptop, I will definitely name her Kisa or maybe Momiji (i'm looking at the yellow one). Scott got a new job at Sprint (thanks to my cuz Joe!) So he quit the oil company. Now that he has a week's worth of free time he's been doing a lot of work by himself on the house. We got a good chunk of the carpet ripped out already. (I'll show pictures later) [1 Comment]     08.10.08 - 11:17 PM Blip Blip My ever so gracious and almighty host, Gene recently switched servers. Hope the blip didn't effect everyone on orangeday too much (for the ten people that visit on and off =P). I had a good laugh over some things Scott showed me. I share the wealth! The muppets apparently quietly released 5 random videos online through myspace. I don't know what they're planning but all I know is that I frickin LOVE the muppets so this is the best thing EVAR! I laughed for like an hour after seeing this and Scott called me evil. This comic refers to when Miyamoto from Nintendo was rumored to have a huge announcement at E3 or something and all (American) Nintendo fans were crushed to be informed that the huge announcement is Animal Crossing and Pikmin. I effin love Animal Crossing and Pikmin so a big HaHAW to your faces. We found out that Lindsay (Jeremy's twin sister) got engaged to her boyfriend...of four months. It's not only me who's annoyed but Allison is too. Ugh. Do all my friends have chronic rush to the altar syndrome? =_= [No Comments]     08.09.08 - 10:43 PM Quickie I wanna go to comic-con next year!! [No Comments]     08.09.08 - 05:42 AM What can you say to a friend What can you say to your best friend when it's so apparent that their marriage is falling apart? November 2006 - I thought he was a nice guy...a fob that couldn't speak English to save his life, but a nice guy. They've been dating for 3 months that time. He held her a birthday party at his apartment and cooked her all sorts of food. Nok was with me whispered to me that he seemed like a good guy but she couldn't even speak to him due to that language barrier (she was the one vietnamese girl there). I admit it was hard for me to talk to him too since my Korean is really nil. Okay guy, not really good looking or anything, but he seemed to really like her. December 2006 - She announced they were going to get married. She's been dating him a total of 4 months. Apparently he's been paying $1000 a month to an ESL school to stay in the country with a student visa and she claimed that if she married him then not only will he be able to stay but they can use that money so she can go back to school. I asked her to seriously think about it and she claimed "It's about time I settled down, I'm the homebody type." I laughed through my nose. I tried to get her to hold off. Nok tried to get her to hold off. Her boss tried to get her to hold off. Her parents REALLY tried to get her to hold off. She's the type of girl that is so stubbornly set on something no one can convince her out of something once she has her mind to it. January 2007 - They got married at the state building and sign their marriage certificate. No one was present. They came into my bank (I was working in Wells Fargo at the time) to tell me about it...and to add him as a joint to her account. I was speechless at how fast they did it. At the time, my mind was swimming with "WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING!!!" but what can I say? She was deliriously happy to the point she was crying with tears of joy. I subtly tried to suggest they open a seperate joint checking account rather than add him to hers but she said it was easier this way. February 2007 - She starts to plan the wedding. I'm maid of honor and the bridesmaids are Nok and Tina. She's planning on having over 300 people at the event. During this time she also meets his parents. While we help her pick out a bridesmaid dress, she tells us how much she hates his dad, stating what a weirdo he is and how he assumes that her family has a lot of money since they've been living in America. (Her family is not rich btw). At this time at how much she was complaining about him I start worrying that she's going to have a lot of in-law problems. March 2007 - They have their wedding at the expense of around $15000 (a loan she took out). Other than her parents, nobody in her family turned out for the event. It was because her family is super Jehovah's Witness, and they stated that she's been living in sin by living with him before they got married. She was in tears that even her own grandma refused to attend. They still had a good 300 people at the wedding. After the ceremony, her father-in-law stepped up to the mike and announced the catered meal was "on him" and to enjoy. I was seething when that man said that because he didn't pay for SHIT. That's HER loan and HER money! He didn't plan for jackshit. Bald son of a bitch. Keep cool, Nancie...you didn't marry his son, she did. April 2007 - At the time, Scott and I have been going out for a year. He's an affectionate P.D type of guy. When we came over to her apartment to help her out, Kathy kept telling us "stop being all over each other like that". Scott told me later that he was a little surprised she would say that considering she was a newlywed herself. A representative from the immigration services interviews them to make sure their marriage is legit. May 2007 - The in-laws decided to come over to America to live with them. THE FUCK. It's one thing to deal with them once in a while when their across the ocean, it's another thing to deal with them while they're LIVING with them. She tried to play it off and be cool about it. Nok and I REALLY began to understand that her husband married her for the greencard and family visas. June 2007 - She was miserable while the parents were staying with them in their dinky 1 bedroom apartment. All they did was go gambling in Blackhawk and drink all the time. The father-in-law keeps telling her they should have a baby. All her friends including myself told her "NO. NO. NO. Once you have a baby they're STAYING with a family visa for sure. NO." She was smart enough to agree. August 2007 - The mother-in-law decides to buy a failing tailoring shop in Broomfield (which is an hour drive from where we are). How did she get the funds you ask? Of course her daughter-in-law's money. Also, did I fail to mention that she hasn't gone to school at all? That $1000 a month has been going to her in-laws mostly. September 2007 - Her husband decides to save money and they move with their parents to an apartment in Broomfield. They basically make her quit her job (she's been working there for 3 years) and tell her to work at a Dry Cleaners for 13 hours a day. Ugh. January 2007 - She said she's been miserable. Living with her in-laws who barely work. Working at the Dry Cleaners for 60 hours a week with no overtime. She said she was no better than an illegal mexican worker. Nok and I keep telling her to leave him, that it's not too late to divorce him and get her life back. She refuses to get divorced because Korean people will talk tons of shit about her mom and her dad if she does. WHAT A STUPID FUCKING REASON!!! February 2007 - She quits her job at the Dry Cleaners and works for her mother-in-law's tailoring shop because business has been dwindling due to the fact the mom-in-law can't speak an ounce of English. Then why come to the country you leeches??? The father-in-law is unemployed by the way. Why work when you have everyone else working for you? May 2007 - She quits the tailoring shop. She couldn't take the mother-in-law's demands and nagging anymore. She and her husband fight all the time now. We're still telling her to divorce him. Why won't she listen? She gets a job as a receptionist at a salon a friend works...which is an hour commute away from where she lives. August 2007 - We come to today where their fighting has finally escalated to the point that even her in-laws are unable to ignore it. The father-in-law stated "I used to think you were a shy and sweet girl, but now I see you're just a rude punk." Oh really? I wonder if he realizes his son is having an online affair via computer with his ex girlfriend. She calls me in tears late last night about it. She finally tells me "I'm not happy. I can't take it anymore. I don't want to be here." I want to report them to immigration services SO badly. SOOOOOOOOO BADLY. I want that family to be in crate boxes and shipped via UPS back to Korea. These people not only cost my best friend her savings, her family, and her self-respect, they want her to give up her sanity as well. As she was crying on the phone, she claimed that she didn't want the Korean people to talk shit about me if I help her. Seriously? Fuck Korean society. If it means suffering through a marriage with no affection, no love, constantly catering to the needs of lazy leeches, losing all your money, having to be tricked into a fake marriage just for a green card...fuck Korean Society to hell. YOU HEAR THAT KOREAN SOCIETY??? I SAY FUCK YOU. FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. There will be more to come later. [No Comments]     08.05.08 - 05:45 AM Quick Catch Up Okay! Quick catch up since I didn't blog for a while there~ Thursday - We bought the carpet and installation services at Home Depot. Even though we got estimates from other places, Home Depot was the most upfront about their prices. We also got 10% off the services because I got the credit card. One word of advice peoples: Carpet salesmen are the PUSHIEST sons of bitches ever. The main reason why I went with Home Depot was because the people there had the no pressure approach. But if you like that pushy type, hey go with whomever. Friday - We bought a Washer/Dryer for the house. We got a pretty good deal for them both~ decided to pick it up at the warehouse rather than pay the delivery charges. Saturday - I went to Grand Junction, CO with Scott's parents to go see a wedding of their goddaughter. FIVE HOUR DRIVE. For non-coloradans, Grand Junction is near the Utah Border. Ugh. I was too carsick to really appreciate the wedding of two extremely wealthy people. We didn't even stop by Aspen or Vail!! =( Sunday - Scott and I picked up our Washer/Dryer at the airport in his mom's van. SO HEAVY. Later that night we went to Comedy Works with a bunch of friends (Allison got free tickets!) to see the "Chicks of Comedy". The guys really thought it would be a night of lesbian comedians but it was actually hilarious! Monday - Kathy called me and says she thinks her husband is cheating on her. Dun dun DUUUNNNNNN. Pretty legit reasons to think it too. Anybody know a good (free) computer monitoring program? And people wonder why I"m exhausted all the time. [No Comments]     07.27.08 - 09:22 PM Bye Bye Fountain It was another "addon" that the previous sellers left behind for our benefit...an ugly stone fountain in the middle of our little backyard. Don't get me wrong, I love fountains, but the one they chose was not only ugly but it came with a giant foot-long koi fish they nicknamed "Jaws" I didn't understand why they did...until recently. Apparently Jaws (quite appropriately named) ate all the other smaller koi fish in the pond. No biggie right? But then he ate the sucker fish that cleaned after him (I'm quite positive he ate him, the raccoons wouldn't be able to find him since he sticks to the black rocky bottom). So since he ate the one fish that cleaned up after him, the water became a cesspool of his waste and he not only slowly plugged up the fountain pump in quick order but the algae in the water turned into this gruesome swamp thing. So Jaws was slowly dying literally swimming in his own shit. He was always to his side in a corner, not eating the fish food we dropped into it. No pet store would take him and Scott's parents definitely didn't want the cannibalistic fish. He wasn't completely dead when Scott tried to take him out of the fountain on Friday (he put up quite a fight, Scott had to wrestle him to get into a bucket for 20 minutes) but Scott felt bitter enough to throw him into the small stream further behind our backyard and let nature run it's course. So byebye to Jaws. Now comes the fountain! Scott's mom and dad said they definitely wanted it and the monstrocity was welcome to it. It looked like fake rock so I assumed after it was empty that it would be easy to carry out. On Saturday, Scott and I went to Water World with a bunch of friends while Scott's dad and Alan (Scott's brother in law) tried to lug out the fountain to Alan's pickup truck...AND Alan threw out his back attempting to tip it over (he's only 23!). Apparently looks can be deceiving and even though it LOOKED like fake rock, it actually was full of cement. A good half ton of cement (no emphasation). So today we called my cousin Joseph to help, and we wanted to take another go at loading the fountain up. Poor Alan was out of commission. So it was me, Scott, Joseph, and Scott's dad grunting and huffing trying to get the fountain out of the backyard into Alan's truck. After a good hour, we finally loaded it onto the truck that was pulled up next to the gate. Ah, drama doesn't end there though. Laura (Scott's sister who drove the truck) couldn't start the old truck after the fountain was loaded because the ignition and steering wheel locked. So it took ANOTHER hour of toying with the truck to get it to work. FUN!! So we drive the truck over to Scott's parent's home and here comes the fun part...Scott's mom apparently wanted the fountain on the FRONT PORCH of the house and not the backyard. They don't have a grass lawn in front of the house, it is a bunch of bushes, trees and rocks. The only way we would be able to get the fountain to the front porch was to haul it up 7 steps on the walkway (Scott's parents have a huge house, fyi). After another good hour of grunting and pushing up the half ton fountain up the steps, we were able to pivot/drag the fountain into the space that Scott's mom wanted us to put it. I'd like to say I have gotten a healthy respect for the men's strength. Laura couldn't help because she was dressed to go to a party and the most I could do is help push. So thank you again, old people, for leaving behind another piece of crap that we almost broke our backs trying to get rid of. I swear if there's any justice in the world, I hope they suffer just as much as we did with their new house!! I will post pictures of the damned fountain along with our now very open backyard. I am already planning to pull out the dying rosebushes and random plants they planted to possibly as Alan to build a pit barbeque. That would be so sweet!!! [No Comments]     07.22.08 - 09:03 PM The paint...it won't come off!! I don't want to make this a home improvement blog but it's the most interesting thing I got going on in my life at the moment. Scott and I tried to finish painting the master bedroom today...we just needed to paint the ceiling. Unfortunately the sun went down before we got a chance to finish (we started at 6:30 PM). Stupid work! The master bedroom color was as tacky and tasteless as everything else in that house. Basically they painted one wall pink with sponged splotches of orange and brown and the rest was a really dull white that eventually turned yellow with age it seemed. Scott agreed early on to let me choose the colors for this place. I've read that blue is a peaceful color to gaze at before going to bed. Also since we only have one window in the master bedroom, we went with a light blue color since we didn't have too much natural light to go with a darker tone. For the ceiling (as per Kathy's advice) we went one shade lighter than the light blue we had so it was an even lighter blue which would fool the eyes and make our vaulted ceiling look even higher. Sounds like I'm pulling it out of my ass but its true =P The upstairs carpet is an uglyyyy brown. We are definitely getting a nice beige carpet (the carpet is super old, it was most likely the original carpet that came with the place). I tagged it before we painted over it! muahaha That is one uglyass pink paint they did. *Shudder* I will post pictures up when we are fully done. I am already considering painting over the moulding and doors in the bedroom with a nice cream color. One crisis at a time right? [No Comments]