Thankful for #3

!!!!FACEBOOK!!!!

I am thankful for Facebook.  Do I remember a time without facebook, yes, yes I do.  They were dark days when I had to actually hold a conversation with someone on the phone, texting, or some other messenger.  I just couldn't leave a message for them, fb chat them, poke them, invite them to games, leave videos for them to look at.  How did I share it with them....

In all seriousness, facebook is awesome with keeping up with your buddies.  I love that I can leave photos, links and vids for my friends all over the world, wherever they may be.

PLUS!  Facebook has been an awesome tool when dating guys.  My first year in Korea

 about 6 months in, I met an army man through a couple of friends.  We dated for about a month and half.  This incidently is when I started posting a few pictures of us together on facebook.  The relationship however abruptly ended when a woman facebooked me, with a picture of my then boyfriend and her together.  Wierd.  It was his fiance. 

Game Over Soldier.  Game Over.

(This comic may or may not be true...)

Thank you Facebook!

Thankful for #2

(Amy, Meghan, and Me)

I am thankful for families that are just as crazy as mine.

and...

For stories like this:  My friend Amy on the far left is a girl that I met in Korea on the subway.  I had a Nebraska key chain on my purse, she saw it and asked me, "Hey, are you from Nebraska?"  I turned my head, wondering who this crazy person was on the subway talking to me.  We kept talking however and found out that we only about 40 minutes away from each other in the states, our dads work together, and we were both going to the same church together. 

The world really IS small.

Thankful For #1

Why are you thankful for where you live?

I am thankful for being back in Nebraska.  Look at this!  Gorgeous!!!  I love being able to drive in areas like this and not being in city all the time.

Single Girl in Mormon World

My comment was in a blog I follow!
I'm a nerd....but that's okay.

She is dedicating her blog this week to giving thanks.
Check it out!

http://asinglegirlinamormonworld.blogspot.com/2010/11/single-girl-thanksgiving-2.html

Flower Market

October 28th, 2010

Imagine a land filled with flowers-real ones, silk ones, tulips, roses, carnations, vases, buds, and everything in between!  I tagged along with my friend Jen and her two adorable kiddies.

Check this out!  This just the silk flowers and this was just one vendor's area. 

Can you say flower explosion?

 My lil buddy doing one finger touching on the flowers.

 This is where the real flowers are!  The smell as a-mazing!

Some of the beauties we picked up.

I bought two glass vases and bought Gerber Daisies and Yellow rosese for two of my friends.  How much did each of little flower arrangements cost me?....about $8 a piece. 

It's probably a really good thing that I lived FAR, FAR, FAR away from this market or else I may have been poor but my apartment would have been filled with flowers ALL the time!

Doubler

So....I am stateside.

This does not mean I am going to stop posting things about Korea though.
I have alot of adventures that I have not posted yet, that NEED, thats right need to be told.
Plus, I know I am going to have some EPIC adventures in Nebraska!

So no worries you lucky 8, there is more in store for you!

Yeeeeeeeehaw!!

I Am BACK. . .in the midwest. (for now)

(and for everyone that knows me and my time in Korea...you know how I appreciate the military. The End.)

I left Seoul, Korea at 11am on November 1st and arrived in Omaha, Nebraska at 5:15pm on November 1st.  Cool, right?

The parental units and I decided that I seriously needed some steak. Yum!  So we headed downtown to the Texas RoadHouse.

(Mmmm...Amurican!!..yeah wikipedia that!)

The epic moment of the evening?  The waitress coming over and announcing to the restaurant, "Amber here is celebrating her birthday!!!! YAY!  Amber come climb on the saddle here and grab your napkin.  Now whip that napkin up above your head like a lasso....go ahead whip it around above your head!"

Let's take into consideration the state of my condition. . .I've been flying for about 15 hours and this does not include the layovers. I'm jetlagged.  And I just finished a HUGE steak.  I was exhausted, but I played along because really, I felt that it was better to embarrass myself instead of the waitress. 
I was puzzling over why she thought we were celebrating my birthday. All I could come up with in my jet lagged haze was that she had overhead my dad say, "Order whatever you want, it's your special day....back in America!" 

(See...super excited about it)

So the day after Texas Roadhouse night I am telling a friend about it over the phone, retelling the riding of the saddle story.  My dad happens to pass me in the hallway, "Oh, your mother told them it was your birthday."    . . .oh right . . .it would make sense that the waitress would think it was my birthday if someone told her that.

P.S. I love my mom