<p><img src="/files/u46/kkorean_kids.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></p><p><strong><em>(Para's handwriting is on top, my serial killer-style block letters are on bottom. It's sad when a 10-year-old girl learning her second language has better handwriting than a native speaker—and writer.)</em></strong> </p>
<p>I used to think America owned the rights to the greatest beer commercials. Who can forget the Budweiser frogs, Bud Ice penguins, the Wazzup Guys, or the Tastes Great/Less Filling guys (actually, they were really forgettable). Even the Dos Equis ads rock. The Canucks also rock with the Labatt's bear and well, that's about it. </p>
<p>Koreans love to drink. Mostly beer and soju (rice wine). I'm not the biggest beer person in the world, and definitely not a wino. So I decided to find some other liquor. Scotch is really expensive, as is most whiskey in the ROK (Republic of Korea). However, I found a few bottles of mystery booze. Here's what they looked like:</p>
<p> <img src="/files/u46/DSCN3935.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="400" height="300" /><br /><em> (Doesn't that just warm your heart?)</em></p>
<p><img src="/files/u46/DSCN3918.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="400" height="533" /></p><p><strong><em>(Don't worry everybody, I'm still alive!!!)</em></strong> </p>
<p>Every summer I'm invited to a bunch of weddings, and I go to them and have a bunch of stories. Well, this summer, I've been invited to a few weddings. Unfortunately, my buddies in Minnesota as well as North and South Dakota are mostly finished getting married for the moment. By NYU Boys are just starting. My Colorado Gang is starting to get hitched this summer.</p>
<p><img src="/files/u46/bolder07.jpg" alt="" width="292" height="604" /> </p><p><em><strong>(This is an old photo. I'm going faster and looking cooler this year.)</strong></em> </p>
<p><img src="/files/u46/DSCN3638.jpg" width="400" height="531" /></p><p><em>(The oven, after lovin', is always funny and fun.)</em> </p><p>We all know what a Dutch Oven is. Or maybe you don't. If you're a little rusty on one of the greatest inventions of all time, here's the story about the birds and the bees and the ovens...</p>
<p><img src="/files/u46/jude.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="533" /> </p>
<img src="/files/u46/mom_neck.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /><p><em><strong>(My Mom performing one of her many daily duties. Cleaning spinal wound sutures...)</strong></em></p>
<p> <img src="/files/u46/car_wreck.jpeg" alt="" width="400" height="341" /></p><p><em><strong>(All caused because some mother driver tried to change the Spongebob DVD for her kids...)</strong></em> </p>
<p>People ask me often if I regret any of my tattoos, do they hurt, which one is my favorite, how much a tattoo of a Tasmanian Devil fisting a leprechaun will cost, which was my first, and so on. The answers are sort of, duh, all of them, probably $150-350 depending on the color, size and body part and finally, Darth Vader.</p>