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the great gatsby was every bit as pretty, glitsy and glam as you’d imagine and carey mulligan was the perfect daisy!  i was almost inspired to chop off a bit more hair she looked so good..

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i sadly didn’t get around to taking any photos this weekend, but it was a good one!

we caught up with old friends,
ran into even older friends,
got the most awesome new toy (thanks, husband!),
made sugar free pineapple ice cream with my dad,
& hosted our first dinner at home!

both husband and i miss our mommies very much, but am glad to have friends and family to celebrate with!

i hope all the mommy’s out there had a wonderful mother’s day this weekend!

xo

i’ve been a bad little blogger lately, so i decided to join story of my life in the blog every day in may challenge! i mean, there’s topics and everything! i may not follow all of the topics, but i’ll be sure to post at least one post a day!

challenge 1: the story of your life in 250 words or less

i was born 30 years ago in houston, texas to two chinese (from taiwan) immigrant parents. i was the youngest of three kids, but i felt like an only child as my brothers were 9 and 13 years older than me! my grandparents babysat me while my parents worked, so mandarin chinese was my very first language. i spent a year in esl (what, that happened?!), made friends, and promptly forgot most of my chinese (sad).

my favorite things growing up were art and dance. i dreamt of becoming a ballerina,  but as it turns out i wasn’t very good. so instead i went to college and obtained a bachelors in both psychology and economics. still lost and confused, i found an internship where i got to play around designing marketing materials. that was fun.

my first job out of college was designing home accessories and a mail order catalog. i got a better offer a couple of months later and gave up a pretty awesome job for higher pay and better opportunities (or so my brother convinced me.  i partially still wish i were designing home accessories!)

i worked and played in my hometown for the next four years before meeting my best bud and now husband. together, we explored our town and traveled all about! and now here we are — settling in as a new married couple, furnishing our first apartment and looking for our first home. 2013 should be fun!