My First Great Debt

10.25.2007 ||

Long post. (Btw, you guys were right. We should have gotten a patent on those damn costumes or at least paid... in liquor...) Our closing for the house was October 18th, so D and I are the proud new owners of America's greatest debt: a HOUSE! Not going to sugar-coat it. The closing was pretty anticlimatic. There was a pile of papers and consequently, hand cramps. THEN, we were handed the keys and garage door openers Cool in my shades

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After signing and initialing what seemed to be like a million pages, we drove back to the house and took some cheesy pictures.

He moved in the day after. Me? I'm trying to survive night classes after work. I am defintiely excited about everything and will post a BEFORE tour up soon of the place! It is love-hate though. After much deliberation, I can't have my ideal situation. Ideally, I would not move in with my fiancé at all until we were married. Why? Because

I LOVE my top-of-the-city view.
My room is Mauve.
I get a free gym, parking, and hot tub.
I can look down onto people picking their noses on the street.
I like being the independent girl.
I am a city-person and it's a 5-dollar taxi ride to my favorite bar or a drunken walk across the street.
I get into the best bar in downtown free of charge and long lines as a resident--love perks.
I want the newness of being a newlywed having a house together for the first time AFTER the vows are said.

But let's just say that my rent in the high rise apartments is practically the mortgage of the new house, give or take some peanuts, or a new purse. Also, I am going to CHINA for work in November, we're partying in Chicago for New Years and taking a Cruise to Puerto Vallarta in February. While we can afford it, it makes more sense to put the rent money towards our remodel (every damn room) and towards my wedding, which happens to be a chocolate-lavender modern lounge-dance-club affair for 300 guests. This is no backyard wedding, folks.

That said, I think the move is now after my current lease is up in December. While I am EXTREMELY excited and happy to be starting my life with him, I am rather sad about leaving my place.

I just moved into it in January and it feels as if I JUST finished it a month ago. You see, I am what you call... an independent girl. I pay for my own bills, I buy my own toys--baby, I WORK and I make a pretty decent living for myself as an ~~Pole Dancer~~ Enginerd. And yes, I do my own nails, I lick my own toilet clean, and I even wash my own ass, sometimes. Moving into this apartment was representative of my independence. It is my first place by myself--without my girls, without my family. It's MINE MINE MINE.

However, I am rarely home. I have night classes and when I AM home, I actually just have enough time to clean, work out, eat, shower, and do homework. In essence, I really don't get to do the things I want to do. You know: walk around naked, sing as loudly as I can in Viet if I knew the words, invite over some strippers or something. I'm being facetious if you couldn't tell. (Apparently, my facetiousness doesn't rub off too easily on some of the readers!) Though, I would like more time to walk around naked.

Relationships require ~~sacrifice~~ compromise. He's been through that living-by-himself stage and I guess mine just has to be a little short. It's for the best. I'm sure when the house and wedding turn out, I'll forget that I only had MY PLACE for a year. Anyway, he promised me he'd try to finish my walk-in closet with pink walls and girly chandelier and the Bose wireless sytem Worthy of REALLY cheesin

, since he gets the Bose Lifestyle 48 sound system, grand piano, and bigger flat screen hehe

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Claim to Fame

10.16.2007 ||

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BTW, the proper abbreviation to say "you are" is "you're", not "your". If you actually had the audacity to say I was over-offended in my last post, then you didn't read it to the end. Unless you WOULDN'T be offended if people purposely threw fish on your lawn because you were Asian. Hey if you can grow up with that and not allow it to offend any bit of you, more power to you, and welcome to Earth. Raise your hand if you know what facetious means! So confused?!?!

I LOVE Slut-o-ween. Two years ago, my best girl and I made Dirty Girl Scout (ala one of the best girly shots ever) costumes which won us a free trip to VEGAS from my favorite club. It was a riot, people still recognize us as the Dirty Girl Scouts who beat out Contra. Read the story here. Cool in my shades

. Warning: Slut-o-ween pics are not meant for immature children who stumble upon immature post-college girl blogs like mine, ha.

Last year, we didn't win a trip--we didn't enter any contests, but three of my girls and I made Sexy Ghostbuster Halloween costumes from male costumes because we couldn't find any to buy-online or in stores. I posted the story about this and got many hits about the costume thereafter.

The costume as we ordered it.

Apparently, someone paid attention because THIS YEAR (it even says NEW FOR 2007), there are sexy female ghostbuster costumes!!! SURPRISE!!!

Coincidence? Hmmmmm... I wonder if it was a concidence that I got MANY hits for the costume post and then this year, *BAM* there is a costume that didn't exist before!

Anywho, that's my claim to fame and I'm sticking to it. I ♥ my ladies.

I guess this year will be a tough act to follow. We have some ideas, but it's not too crazy as it was before. I think I'm getting too old to dress like a slut. HAHA. hehe

I think the best movie to reveal the Halloween-Slutoween phenomena was Mean Girls when Lindsay Lohan went to a party dressed as some fully covered monster. She learned that in GIRL WORLD, Halloween means girls get to dress up as sluts. So don't blame me for living in Girl World, teehee Worthy of REALLY cheesin

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Marrying Your Brother?

10.08.2007 ||

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: Snow Love, Destiny, Alyssa, Rina

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I had a NICE post in mind until I met a middle-aged woman who asked if my fiancé and I were related--at a bridal show. P.S. If you don't plan on reading to the end to understand this one, don't bother to comment. Pretty tired of premature comments.

Are you kidding me? Why, as a matter of fact I am Asian. Why, as a matter of fact, my fiancé is also Asian. Why, yes we both have black hair. Why, yes we both have natural tan skin. Why, yes we have dark brown eyes. Yesterday, at a theknot booth at a Bridal Show representing Mid-Michigan:

You guys are SUCH a cute couple, you look like brother and sister. What nationality are you two?
*Thinking: WTF old lady, you wanna get punched? Here we go* He's Viet and I'm half Viet and Half Chinese.
So you're the same?! You both have the same color and everything!

SAME? SAME COLOR? Is Polish and Italian-French the same? Is Canadian and American the same? Does that mean that I must be related to him? Does this woman have a death wish? Is that how they teach you at theknot to advertise and represent their company? Do you expect me to buy your crap? *Earmuffs: Maybe if you went to the school of IGNORANCE you dumb fuk.*

*Looks around the room* Hmmm, everyone else in this banquet hall is white with pale skin... does that mean you are related to all of them ignorant middle-aged theknot rep? As often as these things happen, I am pretty used to the ignorance of West Michigan. The ONLY reason I am still here is because I LOVE my industry and it is based in the area. My fiancé is moving out of the BAD area and driving an hour to work in the morning from the city because the ignorance and racism that resides in the uneducated-ville is so overwhelming. We would rather live a long ways away from work if it means we don't have to deal with the stares and underbreath comments that I CAN STILL HEAR. I'M ASIAN, NOT DEAF, STUPID. If I recommend anything, it would be to live in an educated town--one with a university. There is less of a close-minded population...... and more bars. Seriously.

Secret Asian Man Cartoon Strip, courtesy www.secretasianman.com

That stupid theknot rep had the audacity to ask my fiancé and me if we were related! And THEN she said noted AUDIBLY that we were the same COLOR and everything. What's in this EVERYTHING part anyway?! I'm sure theknot hires good people. I'm sure that they don't intend to support bigots and the ignorant to represent them at Bridal Shows, but they did and that lady was a moron.

She caught us in a good mood. We had finally found a venue that would be perfect for our wedding. I JUST found hope that not all the places in the area sucked. Had we still been in a bad mood, I don't know what would have happened. Perhaps I would have asked her if she was related to all the other light-skinned people in the room. Perhaps I would have bitch-slapped her and asked her who her mama was. But no, I stared at another ignorant specimen, shocked and in complete disbelief, and walked away. Maybe SHE should marry her brother so they can have inbred children with the same COLOR and everything. Then they can spread their ignorance and everything. BTW--I'm like two shades darker than D, so TAKE THAT you color-challenged poophead. Yeah, I said it. grrr, this makes me so angry!

Sometimes, it's not worth it. Had we been in an awful mood, he or I would have cleverly said something in understated tones that with enough subtely, would make that woman think about what she said that night. We usually do. We've both been in situations where the other person walked away with their tail between their legs. We're not afraid to say anything--i.e.,

Someone once said that the lazy Japs were taking over our city while my fiancé was in the room. To which my fiancé in his business suit walked over to said gentleman and said, "The median income of Asians in the US is roughly twice as much for a Caucasian. I believe the word 'lazy' would be inappropriate." The man who made the comment didn't say a word and the man behind the counter said, "I LIKE ASIANS. YOU PEOPLE ARE HARD WORKERS." Dumbass--as if he didn't hear you agree with the craphead who all of the sudden forgot his opinion. YOU PEOPLE?!?! My business-suited man walked away quietly vindicated.

But that would be giving her too much credit--thinking she'd actually reflect on what she said. Plus everyone in that room was white so they could have given us a beat-down forcing us to listen to their awful pub music. Just kidding.

*Sigh* The worse part is that he and I are actually still worried about the area in which our new home is located. Most of the people send their children to private Catholic/Christian schools, i.e. small chance of diversity. I don't have any problem with any religion, just the people who teach their children to be ignorant, bigoted, and prejudiced. I'm not saying that all church people are that way because they aren't. But if you teach your children to hate people who don't believe the things that you do--what good are you and your religion? And unless you've dealt with the "What religion are you?" I answer and then they say, "OooOOoooOOoh" as if they PITY me for not being a white reformed Christian--than you don't really know, do you? I dunno??

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