Squash Face

So you will only truly understand this post if you speak korean. I will try my best to explain.  My mom arrived last night!  She is really into gardening these days and always brings things from her garden. I think her most proud veggies are these korean zucchinis called HOBAHK.  I don't really know what the actual name for them are in english.  Hobahk is used for zucchini/squash/pumpkin family veggies.  She wrapped them in saran wrap and wrote my name on them.  It says JEE IN on it.  My korean name. 

Well she hands me this giant round Hobahk with my name on it and the first thing that comes to mind: "Hobahk gah teun neh uhl gool!!!"  OMG.  THANKS MOM! 

Translation:  There is a korean song that little kids sing.  And the translation is this:  (obviously in english, it doesnt rhyme or sound like a song)

My face is like an apple

it is very pretty

my eyes are bright

My nose is bright

My mouth is also bright

My face is like a pumpkin

It is very ugly

My eyes are crooked

My nose is crooked

My mouth is also crooked

YOU GET THE POINT: she gave me a BIG Hobahk with my name on it!!!  All she did was laugh at me when I started singing the Hobahk song.

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I L<3VE DIY

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Ghetto Martha is back!  November is DIY month for me.  I have been itching to do some crafts, and now is the perfect time.  Christmas is just around the corner and I need to get all my gifts together. As we get older it seems like: 1) It's harder to think of gifts to give to your friends who you have been buying gifts for at least twice a year for the past ten years.  (ie, I just gave Lisette her Birthday present last weekend because I really couldn't think of what to get her.  Her birthday was in May)  2) Everyone has enough money to buy whatever they want whenever they want.  3) With more and more responsibilities, our expendable income is not as large anymore.  Birthday gifts are one thing, but Christmas gifts have to come in bulk.  But I love gift giving.  I love when the gift getter is so happy to receive something nice in a beautifully wrapped package.  Although sometimes they don't understand my gift.  Like one year I made Jisun this quilt with photos ironed on.  But it turned out pretty raggedy looking.  It looked so cool in my head, but the execution just wasn't there.  From then on, I would forever be known as Ghetto Martha. 

A few years ago some of my friends and I decided to do secret santa instead of exchanging gifts with everyone.  We would each get one person a present of around $20 and then have a nice Christmas meal together.  It was more about spending time together and not about buying each other presents.  It's so hard to get everyone together unless there is some kind of celebration, so that Christmas meal means more than any gift.  (Although, I can't lie.  It is fun when you get to go home with an armful of presents!)  But this year, I'll be on the other side of the country.  I cannot take part in the joyous Christmas meal.  So I decided to forgo Secret Santa this year (not that anyone asked me to join in Secret Santa anyways. Haha).

I got this really cool idea for my Christmas gifts this year. Michi helped me a lot too with some really great ideas!  It's amazing how two heads are really better than one. You just keep building upon each others' ideas.  So last night I completed Craft Project #1.  Six more to go!  I am so excited about this year's Ghetto Martha christmas gifts!!!  Come back in December to see my blogs about the actual crafts!

Marine Layer visits in November?

I feel like I live in Seattle today
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My virtual planner

Life just got busy all over again!  This is a love hate relationship. 

Nov 6th:  Mom comes and kim gun mo concert
Nov 13: I think jackie's last weekend. PLEASE take me sailing
Nov 20: Dina comes again and Sharon's wedding
Nov 25: Thanksgiving and off to tucson
Dec 3: Jungeun and Newt visit
Dec 10: John visits
Dec 19: My birthday! and mom here for 2 weeks
Dec: 25: Christmas of course!
Dec 31: NYE!  Vegas with Dina...IF she comes?  Shes coming to the westcoast every month. is VEGAS still possible for NYE?
Jan -  2 weeks of ME time finally. =D
Jan 21: SF to visit Michi. (even though i already cancelled 2 SF trips, i might cancel again to prepare for 2 bparties at my house 2 weekends in a row)
Jan 27:  VA girls in LA for Jisun's bachelorette. YAY!
Feb 4: Michi's bachelorette in LA

And then FREEDOM! 

March 18: VA for Jisun's wedding!

Dosa Truck

Rating: Forever 21
This is my first real bad review. When susan was here we saw the Dosa truck in venice. It is not good at all. Its more for vegans. Yuck.

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The Long Awaited Red Velvet Pancakes

Larchmont Bungalow now open! 
Rating: TRUE RELIGION
After reading about Larchmont Bungalow's Red Velvet Pancakes last week, I have been dying to go.  They are quite good.  It's not "melt in your mouth" good, but definitely something to try.  I took the last pancake home and ate it at night cold, and it was actually better.  We also got 2 mini omlets which were also really good.  I got the cajun omlet which had chicken, sausage, and shrimp.  HY got the caprese omlet which had caprese stuff in it.  This has become one of my top brunch places.  As a promotion they were giving out free coffee and hostess cupcake looking cupcakes!  I didn't eat mine yet.  I might take a bite and throw it out. Their cupcakes are HUGE by the way.  I have picked up on dessert eating from HY and I've been eating way too many desserts lately. 

This is also the first time I've been to Larchmont.  I really love it.  It has a "georgetown" feel, but a little less uptight. 

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Tea Party

I finally joined a small group. YAY!  The girls had a tea party this weekend. It was AWESOME!  An awesome spread of tasty treats.

This is what I made. This is a sandwich my mom used to make me when I was little. I think I kind of mixed up the recipe with her mexican salad. But whatever, it was still good.  apples, cucumbers, carrots, spam, rasions, egg, walnut, mayo. 

I don't like those marang thingies. But lemon squares!!!  I was craving them a few weeks ago and I got to have these homemade ones.

These are my FAVORITE!  Special cream cheese and cucumbers.  YUMMY!

Caprese Salad

Delicious desserts. 

This tea holder is so awesome. I want one.

Chicken curry sandwiches. It was really good.

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