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so i've been debating for years on blogging about this topic: race.  to be honest, the biggest thing that's held me back is hurting people that i truly care about but who weren't always friends or nice to me in my past.  i think the segments i wrote while in utah, the stupid question moment segments, were the closest thing i could do in talking about race which includes the issues of being an

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so i go home to zion in three days!  i haven't been home in almost a year and a half.  i will be returning to a new made over home (mom and dad have spent the past year remodeling), returning to even a fatter cat (i think he has gained 10 pounds since last time i saw him), and to a new brother in law.  this will be a first for our family - have an inlaw spend the holidays with us.  i wonder what

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so this seriously should be my parents' christmas card for this year. a pic of their giant cat coco looking a bit like the grinch.

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so i'm going to be a hater and say i think my picture is better (even if it is a year old)!  

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so i forgot to post an anniversary posting to myself last week.  november 26th.  the day i came to america from korea via airplane and social worker who delivered me to the salt lake city international airport and into the waiting arms of my parents. my dad likes to say they got the biggest turkey that thanksgiving.  ha ha ha. gobble gobble gobble. i celebrated the memorable occasion by sleeping

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so i've always been a cat lover.  i grew up with cats.  dozens of them. literally.  there is a photo of me when i was like four years old on christmas morning pushing a pink buggy filled with kittens.  gifts from santa - who also happened to love cats (see celebrity cat posting and who is in the photo with him.)  while out here in the district, i did have a cat named smokey.  who was very very

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so what do i have in common with this female whale?  we both have scoliosis and now she gets to wear a brace too. Ms. 300, good luck to you and may you not have to wear a brace for four years and have two surgeries like i did! SeaWorld develops custom brace for whale with scoliosisNovember 14, 2011 | By Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel Veterinarians and animal experts from SeaWorld Orlando are

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neiman marcus, or what we regular people call needless markup, just put out their christmas fantasy book last month.  i would like the ferrari ff to drive my baby pandas around in please. here are the deets on the car so you know what you are getting for your $395,000 well spent on a present for me (dog not included):651-horsepower V12 engine Proprietary, lightweight 4WD system 0 to 60 mph in

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i see whoopie pies everywhere these days.  at the grocery store.  at starbucks.  at bakeries.  what gives?  what's the big deal?  according to the fountain of all wisdom (wikipedia), they are giant oreo-like cookies but with soft cake outsides. but isn't that half the yumminess of an orea cookie?  the crunch so you want to dip your cookie in milk?   apparently the whoopie pie is the official

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so a friend back in slc who is a videographer/photographer put out a call online yesterday for anybody that had a fat cat who was open to being photographed.  naturally i had to recommend my parents cat coco. my mom says he is quite famous in the neighborhood and kids stop by their house to visit and pet coco.  i keep getting warned by ms. porter that coco is going to replace me in my parents'

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so do you ever accept a friend's request on facebook that you have NO IDEA who they are but you click on the mutual friends link and like 20 of your other friends are also friends with this person.  and apparently you grew up with this person.  but you still have no idea who they are. but that's okay.  because now we're facebook friends. this happened to me today.

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so i've decided to just create a whole new section of my blog entitled inspiration: experiences in the district. it really is just a fancy name for story corner.but this one i'd like to share did not happen to me. it happened to the boy i have a crush on. okay. i guess i have more than just a crush on him, so i am going to call him "special friend." but i divulge. let's get back to the

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so i've recently discovered nbc's parks and recreation on netflix on demand. and i'm totally hooked. i haven't established a relationship with a television show since the west wing where i honestly feel like the characters on this show are my new friends. i dream about them. they make me laugh like really really loud - out loud. and ron reminds me of my dad in a weird sort of way. i think the

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so i finally found the number one desire, the thing i want more than anything else to top my giant unrealistic wishlist that i've been keeping here on my blog since 2006. baby pandas. and yes. i want all of them. but if you are the wonderful person that fulfills my heart's desire, i will name the rolie polie one in the middle after you.

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so i drove past freedom plaza in the middle of the day last week. was on my way to the passport office and made a wrong turn in downtown traffic that brought me right next to the plaza. this was the first time i had seen the tents of the protestors for the occupy wall street movement. interesting. it reminded me of young women's camp except not in the mountains and with cardboard signs that

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so saturday i had a free afternoon and i took all the time in the world grooming myself. yes grooming.grooming for me entails:plucking the eyebrowsgiving oneself a facialwhitening the teeth with crest whitestripshaving a long leisurely bath and actually shaving my legsgoing through my makeup and throwing out old eyeshadows (yes i finally threw out a calvin klein compact that i bought in 2001 in

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so i read a dear friend's blog today and realized this is lame that i've let mine go. even if its just me that reads it, it's still the closet thing i have to a journal these days. so, to my half a dozen readers (yes that's pretty much the members of my family), i am back online and will do my best to update this blog here in the district as often as i can. let's start with baby steps....maybe

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so i just celebrated a birthday. one year shy of the ideal, prime age. i was asked how i felt about turning another year older. and i replied, i feel very good about it since each year in my 30's seem to get better and better. why? was the response. why do you think each year gets better and better? and the answer: because i've finally gotten to know who i am and more importantly, love who i

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this has to be one of my favorite tom cruise interviews that he's done on hometeaching. especially when he laughs. it just warms my heart.

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so Robert Holley is a famous american in korea. Also a mormon. i first heard about Robert Holley on my mission. i believe he had served his mission in Pusan and then later moved back to korea and all the koreans looooovvveee how good he can speak korean.this commercial is awesome.

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so last night on the daily show, jon stewart and stephen colbert announced they were teaming up their rallies on october 30th here in dc into one giant rally to restore sanity and/or fear. this didn't surprise me since the two go together like peanut butter and jelly. but what did surprise me is when oprah showed up via videoconference and put her seal of approval on the rally!and then

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so i've been working on a macbook pro now for the last 2.5 months. i've felt hip. i've felt breezy. i've felt like my new laptop goes with every pair of shoes that i own and every one of my outfits. i've felt unbelievably frustrated.you see, i was given some bad information when i first took my new job. i was given the choice of getting a mac or a pc."how many people in the office have a mac?"

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so today Stephen Colbert testified in front of congress on immigration. he has a segment on his show called the fallback position where he goes and works other vocations for a day in case his current job as a tv talk show host doesn't last.recently he spent a day as a migrant farm worker and he explained that experience at the congressional hearing today. if i had been there and was a

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so i'm sure a lot of you have heard that jon stewart is hosting a rally to restore sanity here in DC at the lincoln memorial. if you missed his announcement on the daily show, i've posted the video below.The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cRally to Restore Sanitywww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Partyit will be held october 30th, saturday. for those of

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so i found this on youtube and i have to say it was pretty dang entertaining for a friday morning. again, its amazing what people can do when they have lots of time on their hands.

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