i found this quote as i was browsing random web sites– me likey!

“A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

right about now i’m singing, “i’m a survivor!”

tomorrow is a very big exam. wish me luck!

so today my glove ripped and i got a forefinger-full of formaldehyde. it all seemed ok until i started washing dishes and my forefinger shriveled like a prune.

“oh crap,” she said.

perhaps it’ll go away by tomorrow.

i’m having strange nightmares. a missed spa appointment, a crazed stalker, a continual lack of clothing.

what?

i got a swiffer!

dork!

national trail day
today, the ryan and i went exploring up around mount baldy. we hiked up to see the san antonio falls, ran around the creek at icehouse canyon, drove up to the mt baldy ski lifts, and stopped at a little shack for overpriced root beer floats.

this morning i saw a spider crawling on the wall behind my microwave. while cooking dinner tonight, i found an ugly pincherbug crawling along my kitchen sink. i swear, my house is being invaded by bugs trying to escape the summer heat. gross. time to move!

it’s angry korean mole day. celebrate with me?

the family photo shoot.

the makeup/hair lady only slathered on 4 or 5 layers of foundation/bronzer/powder onto my face before making my eyes and lips up so darkly that i looked like a drag queen. if that weren’t enough, she pulled my hair back so tightly that i was afraid that my scalp would come off– and proceded to clip on a large fake hairpiece to my ponytail. oy. it was a good thing that annie and i decided against having our hair up for the pictures– with the ponytail out and my hair down i looked happier, more kim, less ru paul.

the photographer played happy french music during the shoot until a certain [biddy biddy bap] song caused annie and i to burst out into uncontrollable laughter. i’m very interested in seeing how those photos turned out.

a tofu-veggie dinner, jasmine milk tea, miss universe pagent, and 1 hour drive later, i was finally home. it took 15 minutes of scrubbing and an intensive facial mask to remove the spackled on makeup– tomorrow we’ll see how long it takes to remove the hairspray.

alas! the life of a model is never easy.

ciao, dah-ling!