Jumping back

Whoo hoo! Fun Photo Fridays are back!

Link up with this gorgeous girl here!

Today I'm going back to the days where my job was FUN.

We had a great sense of teamwork, morale and overall friendship.

And i loved every second of it.

Since then, many of my co-workers have moved on,

half of them are still with us, but working in another building,

and things just aren't the same.

Luckily I've been able to form good friendships with many of my co-workers that extend outside the office. And  we'll always have the memories of the good times we shared.

 

Guest Post: Katy from Seoul FRESH!

Hey Ladies!!! I’m Katy from Seoul Fresh.

This is also my first guest post [guest post virgin] so bare with me.

Shay asked me to do a guest post while she is soakin up the sunshine and lots of cocktails on her HONEYMOON!!! I’m a jealous biach right now.

It took some thinking on how I found Shay's blog, but I saw that Shay had commented on another blog, so I decided to check out her blog (I like to make friends with other Asians...?) and somehow we have become friends. We are official friends too, because we are Facebook [and Twitter] friends. ;) She is also my sista from another mista! 

We've bonded over the fact that we have similar life stories…mine goes along the lines of: My parents couldn’t have kids, so they adopted. First my ‘brotha from anotha motha’ then a little later they decided that he wasn’t enough, so insert me.

(Long story short, my mom got these German outfits from…well I don’t know. But she liked to dress us up…or also make us look like twins. )

I grew up on a small grain FARM in MINNESOTA. Then somehow ended up going over the state line to North Dakota for college. When I was done with those four years, I got the hell out of dodge moved out to LAS VEGAS!

 

Little about my blog: I started because I have always loved to travel, and I figured it would be an easy way to keep track of my traveling adventures. It then turned into a way to remember everything going on in my life since moving to Vegas.

What is with the name of my blog? Well, Seoul is the capital of South Korea – it was where I was born. The Korean part of my life will always have an influence in who I am. Fresh – kind of has to do with being able to have a fresh start in my life by being adopted, knowing that there was two people out there that were able to open up their lives and their love for me.

But back to present me. Yes, I live in the City of Sin….and I LOVE it! Seriously, if anyone comes to Vegas, hit me up if you have any questions or want suggestions. 

I honestly think it was one of my best choices I made after college. Did I have trouble finding a job and getting on my feet? Yes, but isn’t that what it’s supposed to be after college life? I’ve had ups and downs here, hit a few speed bumps or dead ends, but I’m learning. I wouldn’t change anything because I have met some amazing people and had some unbelievable nights. Going from a small town to Vegas was a change, but not being surrounded by people I know has helped me grow and realize what I want or what I don’t want in life.

A couple random facts about me:

I have a small addiction to caffeine and Pinterest.

I have a lot of nicknames some include: Katy, K-Stets, Kat, Kit Kat, Kathryn, Katy Kat, and anyone that knows me from my sorority in college knows me as Casper. [Long story]

BINGO might be the only gambling game that I am ok with wasting spending money on in Vegas.

I have 5 tattoos. And trust me when I say, you can't get just one. They are too addicting. But you wouldn't know I had them (besides the one that kinda sticks out on my foot if I'm not wearing pants) because I don't know what kinds of job(s) I might have in the future where they do not like/allow tattoos to show.

I want to make it to every night club in Vegas. 

And I want to get out to the East Coast and do a road trip in the New England area....and of course, have a blate with Shay. :)

But, THANK YOU SHAY for asking me to guest blog. I hope you're enjoying your Honeymoon! 

Don't be afraid to stop by my blog and say HI! 

Thank you SO much Katy! I love hearing how people's blogs have started and think it's great that our stories are so similar! And how cute were you and your brother when you were little... i have similar pictures i'll have to dig out of the archives! 

 We definitely need to plan a cross-country BLATE, that would be SO exciting! 

I'll be back on Monday to re-cap the honeymoon!

Friday Confessions! Vol 2

Here we go girls! Friday is here already and bless me father for i have sinned...

I confess...

• I took about a 3 hour lunch today. Had to go to a client lunch presentation, and after that lunch decided I needed a break, so grabbed C and L and took ANOTHER lunch break and a half!
• While on said lunch, returning a shirt at Kohl's, turned around and bought these babies...

• I've been sort of cranky and "mean" to the BF all week (or so he says) and we're supposed to go watch the big fight at his buddies house tomorrow night and i really don't want to go. I'm just feeling somewhat anti-social and unfriendly...
• I'm feeling really lazy lately and even though the dog stinks to high hell really don't feel like giving him a bath tonight.
• I'm having one of those weeks where I'm straight up ready to throw the scale out the window. I've been busting my ass with cardio kickboxing and for the most part watching what I eat, and the numbers are not budging. Its just getting really frustrating.
• I'm stressing about turning 33 in a month. 3-3. OLD. nuff said. Bleh.
• The former bestie's birthday is in a few weeks and I'm not sure how much of a "friend" i should try to be. Do i just Facebook wish her a happy bday? Do i send her flowers to work? Or just a card? Do i attempt to make dinner plans? How much or how little do i care when i know she has written me off her friends list?

Well there you have them. My confessions for the week... What are some of yours? Link up with the Glamazon Mom and share!

And then I woke up.

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Did you ever have a dream that when you woke up you thought it really happened? That's what happened to me last night. I'm guessing I had this dream because this person has been on my mind for a while now. (See this post at the bottom)

So in my dream I remember going to visit M in my dream. (IRL she just moved to a new apt with her BF and got a new puppy) and I was going there to see the dog and her place. A lot of the details now are very fuzzy, but i remember for some reason both of our families were there. And as we were sitting down and talking, i look down and see this enormous engagement ring on her finger. And when i say enormous, in my dream that puppy was like 10 carats. Though in the dream when i asked, she told me it was 3 (funny how the mind distorts things).

Pause. a little back story to my friendship with M. We have pretty much been BFFs for 10 years. I met her right as i was finishing college through a mutual friend. We had a lot of similarities and just clicked. Over the years, even though we live about an hour away from each other, we have managed to maintain a close friendship. Granted as our lives move on, and as we get older and don't hit the party scene as much, our times together have dwindled, but we've always managed to talk to each other everyday either by phone, email or IM. Until this past summer. When it all changed. M started dating JB "supposedly" in August. I say "supposedly" because i think they both basically lied to me about when they started dating. A)because he had a long-term gf for 4 years and hadn't called it quits with her and B) because i "dated" JB a couple of years ago (not knowing he was still with the girlfriend and therefore a scumbag player, and by dated i dont mean dated, i mean drunken hooking up, you get the picture). BUT Anyway. Since they started "officially" dating, she has completely distanced herself from me, for whatever reasons, and when we do talk, its very awkward. She only wants to brag about what HE buys her aka "he got me Christian Louboutins for Valentines Day, what did YOU get", or we talk about general kinds of things, other friends, work, the weather. So that's the abridged version of the backstory.

OK, back to the dream... so i look down, see the ring, and was like, "wait... you got engaged and didn't even TELL me???" she looks at me sheepishly and was like, "yeah, i wanted to talk to you about that"... so we end up going into another room where she starts crying and i start basically going off on her about how crappy of a friend she is and how hurt i am over her distance and how i can't believe that she got engaged and didn't tell me. then i ask how long have you been engaged... and she says... 9 weeks! well at that point i just lost it and felt myself not able to breathe, that's how enraged i was. and starting to scream at her, but no words were really coming out because i was so choked up.

And then... i woke up.

What a seriously f'ed up dream right? I mean, i guess i am just so at a loss over this whole thing IRL, that it carried over in my dream. And thus far, i haven't said a word to her about how i feel because i don't know if our lack of friendship would even matter to her (i'm certainly not the first person she's written off as a friend, and i'm sure i won't be the last). Anyway, just had to share, guess its something that's bothering me a lot more than i thought.

On a happier note, when i did finally crawl out of bed this morning, someone didn't want to wake up, and had buried himself IN the pillows. He wouldn't even open his eyes at first! I had to snap a photo!