Showing posts with label South Korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Korea. Show all posts

Friday, December 17, 2010

Time to reflect

December is always a tough month. 

I just put too much pressure on myself. 

Here is a small list of things that I hope to accomplish before the end of the year:. 
  • Initiate peace talks between North and South Korea
  • Write a Grammy award winning song and boast that I'm better than Kanye
  • Go camping with Sarah Palin
  • Become adopted by Angelina Jolie
  • Invent a website that someone wants to buy for 10 billion dollars
  • Scare people into good health like Dr. Oz does
  • Travel to infinity and beyond
  • Hire Jane Lynch as a life coach
  • See what all the fuss is about
  • Do an Old Spice commercial
  • Swim to Cambodia 
  • Receive one ridiculously huge coupon a day
  • Eliminate spam mail completely
  • Bitch slap a really rich housewife
  • Find Obama's birth certificate
  • Ask Mark Madoff if it was worth it
  • Achieve Nirvana
  • Stop biting my fingernails
  • Get an iPhone 4 and an iPad and marry them in a civil ceremony
  • Watch the third season of True Blood
  • Have more than 5 followers on my blog
  • Make more than $10 from my blog
  • Tell DrPhil he's fat
  • Party like a rich Armenian
  • Find out where Armenia is
  • Become a big fish in a little pond
  • Update my status
  • Get censored on Sesame Street
  • Become a modern family
  • Start a religion and call my disciples Phillopians
  • Have an immortal life like Henrietta Lacks
  • Sleep all day and party all night
  • Become the mayor of Wasilla
  • Try a little tenderness
  • Make fondue and attend a key party
  • Experiment with a home perm
  • Prepare an Oscar speech
  • Find out how they get the caramel into the Caramilk bar
  • Dance with the devil in the pale moonlight
  • Teach people about hummus or Hamas, if they want
  • Buy a suit
  • Buy a shirt
  • Buy underwear
  • Not feel guilty for wearing briefs (junk control)
  • Handle rejection
  • Laugh at the moment
  • Believe in myself or at least a better version of myself
  • Let my new life begin
  • Get physical
  • Eat vegetables
  • Make bad decisions to have better stories
  • Forget regret
  • Stay out of the rain
  • Raise money for The Savong Foundation
  • Bend the rules
  • Have a bathroom I can play baseball in
  • Change my name to Captain Awesome
And a few other things like save the planet and stuff like that. 

I only have two weeks left before the end of the year.  It's no wonder I'm stressed! 

I've included a picture for those people who follow my blog but don't like reading.  I call it a creative self-portrait. 


Hope everyone is enjoying the last days of 2010!
Books to enjoy!  Or not! 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
America by Heart : Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag
The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel
Swimming to Cambodia

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Last day in Cambodia ... for now

This is our last day.  We're waiting on Savong to take us around and see the pumps that were made on our last visit.  We also hope to see the building of a new one today.  I'm not sure if they have started yet. 

I also hope to buy some t-shirts and say goodbye to the kids at the orphanage.

Goodbyes are so difficult.  I even hate saying goodbye to my apartment every morning when I leave for work. 

It was a very quick trip.  In some ways, I felt like I accomplished a lot but in other ways, I felt like I simply ran out of time and needed another week to get everything done.  Of course, I'll be in close contact with Savong to see how everything is going and I hope to keep everyone updated on the new and EXCITING projects that are ahead of us. 

We leave tonight around midnight.  It will be a very long trip home and I hope that the tempers between North and South Korea calm down before we fly into and out of Incheon airport

I'll be back home Thursday evening.  I'll spend the whole day shell-shocked and then it's back to work on Friday.  AGGH!