Wow, I haven't posted since July!  What's up with that?!

Welllll, I've been busy!  I swear that every day for the last week I've told myself to MAKE some time to blog.  But something just always came up.  So here's a rundown of what has happened....

I went to Corea with Mike and my mom for 2 weeks at the end of August.   The trip was both exciting and challenging.  My family was very excited to have Mike visiting and they felt the need to show him every part of the country.  While this is exactly what Mike wanted, the planning was shit.  I depended on my family to make plans and they did for the most part, but some of the travelling was crazy and we went back and forth to areas way too many times.  One great money-saver was that we got to sleep over someone's house almost every night (except for 3).  Though in Corea, this comes with its price.  My family apparently doesn't believe in buying beds.  I suppose they were raised with sleeping on the floor... so they stuck to it.  So by the time we hit up Seoul, I could barely walk due to extreme lower-back pain.

Despite these annoyances, we managed to still have a great time.  Though it went by way too quickly and my mom didn't feel like she got enough quality time in with her mom (since she can't walk much nowadays).

Go here for pictures: Corea

This is most of my mother's family (minus 1 of her brothers who is now in the US)

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We arrived back from that trip on August 22nd at about 10pm and were completely exhausted.  THEN, we had the closing on both the condo and the new house on the 26th!

Plus we both had to continue to go to work because we pretty much used up all of our vacation time.  I don't really know what we were smoking when we planned this out... but we just really wanted to be done with selling the condo.

And it all worked out somehow.  We've been in the new house for a month now!  Though you probably couldn't tell by the looks of it because there are boxes everywhere and it looks like crap.  We basically only cleaned out and organized the kitchen... and then got to ripping out tons of crappy carpeting.  So now we're thinking about painting and then having someone come in to refinish the wood floors.

We are SO house-poor right now!

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