I like watching Good Eats - food and fun in an analytical scientific sort of way... haha
Occasionally, Bernie ends up catching a little Everyday Italian with me and we laugh at Giada's expressions: using her hands and saying, "just like that!" i think she says that 10 times/show at least....
Guy on Diners Drive-ins and Dives eats A LOT! kind of scary...
Iron Chef is always fun to watch once in a while too...
so i guess it just gets further and further between xanga posts, and nothing exciting to say.
B signed up to take jalapeno corn bread to his work luncheon today, so we made that together last night -
My coworkers and I are going to Red Lobster for our holiday luncheon today.
I have tennis elbow, but not sure why. B thinks maybe all the piano/drum playing going on with our church's prayer campaign. I should go find a brace.
My previous boss (ex-medical director that moved to Washington State) invited me to facebook. I can't imagine linking work and fun like that. Not to say that work isn't fun (sometimes)! Really, though, the opportunity to pray with some patients has really been exciting lately!
Since we got back from Asia - we've been busy preparing to MOVE!!!!
we are no longer in beautiful Laurel.... but in Silver Spring!
AND my bro and SIL just had their second baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
too much excitement in my life right now.
at least the commute to work is soooooooooooooo much better 
View from apt in nonhyun-dong; the weather was pretty good - only one day was cloudy/rainy... usually was cool at night yet sunny and just warm enough during the day.
I did NOT expect to see so many Coffee Bean's out there! We don't even have them here on the East Coast!!
More yummy food with Bernie's family...
Towards the end of our stay, B was interested in more "western food"...
The first time we went looking for some, the most non-Korean we could find was donkatsu!
Later when visiting Ewha Univ (had to do one "korean" pic), we found some Italian food in the area...
Namdaemun shopping and picture of the WALL surrounding the remnants...
Our last night in Korea, had another family dinner with my mom's side... my brother and I had spent some time with them when we were much younger, so the only stories my aunts and uncles were telling were ones of Brian! we were at a sushi restaurant, and a couple aunts remember that Brian never ate fish, so they said they'd have to go to a Korean restaurant when he visits the next time! how he stood, crossed arms, pouting... there was more, but I can't remember... haha... anyway, look at the exotic fish!
After a few days in Seoul, we headed over to Yanji to visit my parents. It's located on the eastern edge of the border btw China and N. Korea, but takes twice as long as it should because you have to fly way around N. Korea to get there.
Even in Yanji, there's Wal-Mart and KFC! but food at home was really yummy... and mom goes crazy with them violets!
On the university campus there's a foreigner church that we went to on Sunday: dad's in the choir!
There's some funny English going on in other parts of the world...
We visited Baek Do San or Chang Baik Shan or Great White Mountain from where the first Korean man is legended to have come from... unfortunately, I forgot to charge my camera battery and here I only have pics of the way up... B has the other pics; we'll have to post some - those are the impressive ones...
We also visited a border city called Do Mun or Tumen... you pay extra to get onto the bridge and stand at the border to North Korea and you also get to get a view from on top of the building with the red roof... You can see some North Koreans walking around on the other side of the river... and you can see the pictures of the Great Leader on the buildings...
The first thing we did was to go visit some of Bernie's family and the area where his family has resided for a couple generations. It's interesting to learn about one's family history and good to be able to put faces and places to names and stories. Then we strolled through the "central park" of seoul - an inlaid stream, several feet below the nearby cars and buses.
We had a nice little (very post-wedding) reception with Bernie's mom's side of the family at the Plaza Hotel... even had cake that we sliced together!
Street food: tempura-on-a-stick!
Mandoo jungol! with little rice cakes... yum!
Visiting my grandpa in a senior center in Bundang: eating lunch at the cafeteria there...
Buying glasses in Bundang! we have the new frames on, but didn't get a close-up 
to be cont...
here we are on the other side of the world!
it always feels like you won't survive a 14 hr flight, but somehow you do -
i must say the individual monitors were cool; M and B watched different movies and then played each other on tetris and yahtzee... didn't end up reading the books we intended to read!
what is it with patients today???
1. afternoon starts with lady haven't seen for 6 months. i gave her 2 meds to take simultaneously in march which should have only lasted for 3 months. so i'm asking her if she's taking one pill a day or two, and patients sometimes just want to agree with whatever you ask, so she says, yes two!... but then she still has a few pills left! this is only possible if she's taking it every other day or she took ONE TAB at a time, finishing one med before starting the next. which we finally do figure out.
2. thin older lady who is SOOO hyper-paranoid - refuses to take medication when it looks different. granted, this is good to pay attention to, but when the DOCTOR gives you the med and it has the SAME NAME, it is OK to take. i have to review instructions with her over and over and then i just have to walk out of the room.
3. older lady who is also paranoid, but literally believes agencies are bad and her apartment management is always snooping around her stuff... her diabetes got worse, I'm trying to restart a medication she had been on previously and she's telling me I'm WRONG. now by this point, I can see that this patient is really not trying to be mean to me, but just so delusional. it would be a lot easier to let uncontrolled diabetics just live the way they want to, but it's just waiting for something catastrophic to happen later! do you think i want to struggle with you to have your medical conditions improve?!?! let me just go home now!
4. started another patient on insulin because his sugars are "high" according to the glucose meter. was waiting for him to get some bloodwork done, but heck it's been high enough - gave him insulin today. in the latino culture, some people think insulin kills you and other things, and who'd blame them if people are waiting til the last moment to get treated for diabetes, get on insulin because it probably is a bit too late and then they die. it's not the insulin killing you, it's the HIGH SUGARS!!!!!
so why today of all days? I had such a pleasant day yesterday. but I guess that's how it is... some days are just better than others. i'm ready for my vacation now.
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