Quick review of the last few weeks...

I know that I said that I was going to post more of those pictures Jesi and I took, but you'll just have to wait to see them until after I get back from Utah because that's where I'm going to edit them up. That means you'll get to see them in about 3 weeks or so. Sorry if that's what you were looking forward to, but, not really my problem. ^_^

These last few weeks have been a ton of fun around here. My two cousins, Amanda and Alex, came for a three week visit. Two of those weeks I wasn't really able to spend any time with them because of work, school, and this MASSIVE paper I had to write. I even took the paper with me on our camping trip with the kids!

The paper was actually a lot of fun to do, just a lot of work as well. I took Abnormal Psychology and, along with our normal class reading, we had to diagnose a "public figure" and then research the current literature on our diagnosis. I decided to diagnose Hyun Bin's character from the Korean drama "Secret Garden" with a diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Situation Specific Phobia: claustrophobia. It was a lot of fun to analyze his character and read some of the research. Well, some of the research was horrendous. I had several articles that were based in neuroscience which is not my forte. I was looking up at least one word per paragraph. I though I was done with that after college Spanish...

After the paper was done, I was able to spend a little more time with the kids, sewing, crafting, shopping. Good times.

The parents took the kids back to San Diego and then headed off to spend a week and a half in Arizona for an art retreat for Mom and work for Dad. This left Jesi and I alone with full run of the house! Woo hoo! We crafted to our little hearts' content, did a little cleaning, and overall had a grand old time.

Parents got home Wednesday night (more like REALLY EARLY Thursday). I worked Thursday and then I started my awesome FIVE DAY WEEKEND!!

This five day weekend was pretty random. I usually work every Saturday, but my boss gave me this Saturday off. With no sessions Friday, Monday, or Tuesday, I ended up with a five day weekend. I spent Friday hanging out with Jesi at a movie. Saturday we went with Dad out to Saturday Market.

Jesi and I had a fabulous time, but were a little sad. Usually Saturday Market is SUPER fun. But this time it just seemed like the same old stuff. I wish they would change things up a bit. They've had the same vendors for years. And a little variety, please! All the jewelry looks the same, the handicrafts all have the same feel to it. There were very few booths that really stood out from the rest. After a while they just kind of all blended together. Jesi compared it to shopping at markets when we were in Vietnam and Korea. I personally think shopping at those places is way more fun because 1) it's always a game to try and buy ANYTHING because of bargaining and language barrier (more fun on some days than others), 2) every once in a while you find really cool stuff that you would never see in the States.

I kind of miss being able to go to Namdaemun and Myung Dong...

Now it's Sunday and I think I'm going to try and get a little more picking up done in my room, maybe get some things ready for our trip to Utah. We're all taking Jesi down to start up at BYU and then I'm staying with her for a few days before heading up to Salt Lake to stay and visit with my old roommate Mindy (whom you might remember from my trip to New York). I'm super excited for visiting Mindy and playing with Jesi, but really sad that Jesi is going to be gone at college. TT^TT She'll have tons of fun, though, and I'll be getting really busy with grad school soon.

Good times, good times.