Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Oh Thoreau, your wisdom beguiles me! The title of this update is a Henry David quote and one of my favorites. Anyway, it's very true. I should simplify my life but that's not as easy as it sounds. Things are a let less whirlwind-ish, though, and I s'pose that's a skip in the right direction, eh?

Right now my head is kind of zigzagging everywhere so I apologize in advance for the randomness that is about to ensue.

This past week has been quite insane, but in a strange kind of way. I haven't had to go to work or anything because all the kiddos are on their Spring vacay. I'm happy for it, but lord there's only so much I can do to spend the time. I wrote letters, took walks, milled around the stationary store. I even went to my office to work on a few wedding things while David worked at home.

One thing I did a little too much of is played Pet Society. Miseducated has an article on it here if you want so more info, but basically it's this game on Facebook where you have a pet and you take care of it and make money/points by grooming and playing games and visiting friends! You get to decorate your house and by earning more points you earn more rooms in your house. It's wildly entertaining. Here are a few screen shots:

living room


bedroom


bathroom

I'm working on my kitchen and I'm going to do a garden room! Eeh...too much fun.

Back to reality. Yesterday I had the longest trip ever but it was definitely worth it. I finally made it to my voice lessons and I'm really glad I made the trek. It took me a whopping 3 hours, but I guess I went about it all wrong, taking the subway when I should have taken a bus. At least I know for next time, right?

The voice lessons themselves went really great. My instructor is named Ryan Goessl and he's a classically trained baritone with a Master's from UNC but has lived in Korea for 3 years. The lesson was very technical and I learned a lot about my voice that I didn't know, such as: I have a tendency to crescendo at unnecessary times during warm ups and my upper lip is often too tense. Hoorah for learning new things - Tasia would be proud. :)

I'll be going to lessons every other week for an hour. Ooh, and 2 interesting tidbit, Ryan has appeared on "How I Met Your Mother" and he also teaches a very famous Korean pop singer! How fun!

Hmm...other news. Well, I was recently approached by the publisher of "OFifteen Magazine." They wanted me to to provide one of my favorite recipes. So of course I offered up my yummy tomato soup delight! Click below:

Lastly, David and I decided to order a pizza last week since we were running low on groceries and so I got on the phone and did my best at ordering in Korean (I would call it a semi-success). The only thing that went wrong was the fact that we got a Coca-Cola when I clearly said AHN-EE-OH COKE! which means "No Coke!"

Anyway, I thought I was ordering the right size when I ordered an XXXL. See, they have 2 sizes - Large and XXXL. I thought if I ordered the XXXL it would be like a regular large. Turns out it's really like an XXXL pizza. I laughed very hard when the delivery guy came to our door with the bohemoth "delicious concept for family." Pics:

^that's a regular sized notebook there.

We got plenty of meals out of that one...

Adios! Wendy