Josh and Korey

Remember that episode…

Posted on January 11, 2011 by joshandkorey

I refer to episodes of Sex and the City quite often, and it might be annoying unless you have, like me, watched every episode and you know that there is truth in that show that just fits the situation. So here I go…

Do you remember the Episode (An American Girl in Paris part II, to be exact) when Carrie reaches into her purse and discovers a hole in the lining? She’s sitting in the museum in Paris where her (mean and awful) boyfriend’s new exhibit is being previewed, and he has left her alone. She reaches into the lining and finds the necklace that she had thought was lost. I believe she said she had bought it at a street fair in the Bronx or something, and that it cost “like nothing” but it was just…her. It reminded her of who she really was. She was not some obnoxious artist’s girlfriend, living (practically) alone in a foreign city, always there to save him from himself…she was the girl with messy hair and weird clothes who can wear Chanel with a cheap necklace from the street fair. So she runs from the museum, and the awesome French rap song starts…

That was a long and circumlocutory [awesome word: look it up] way of beginning this post, but it just felt right.

So I have rediscovered my hair. My natural, pretty messy, curly-ish blob of hair. It looks disgusting once I’ve slept on it and if it gets rained on and just sometimes even if I try really hard to make it look nice, just because. It can’t be controlled like flat-ironed hair, and some days the chaos is so great, you have no choice but to succumb to it. When you least expect it, it will look really really great for no reason. It doesn’t really look like anyone else’s hair that I’ve ever seen, and you need to know what it wants to make it happy. And here I have been: wasting it. Ignoring it. Forcing it to be something it is not.

It wasn’t until someone (J) mentioned that he just loved it so much more when it was itself–and he said this several times–that I decided to try it again. And I remembered who I was.

Sometimes all it takes to find yourself is to do something as natural as allowing your hair to do whatever it wants.

And sometimes you need someone or something to remind you.

It’s always meant so much to me that J liked my hair best its natural way, because straight hair really has been the norm, and in high school and college people favored it that way. He says my hair is “not like everyone else’s” and that is why he likes it. I think that in many ways I have some things in common with my hair…and maybe that’s why he likes me.

Posted in J and K | 1 Comment

It’s not the way most people say "I love you"

Posted on January 10, 2011 by joshandkorey

During our home reno process, J got a ping pong table, which now graces our backyard. I went out and bought ping pong paddles, balls and a net. Soon enough, I started to complain that I would find ping pong balls everywhere. Under the couch, rolling across the kitchen, chewed up in Koal’s bed…just in random places. I told J that I thought the ping pong balls were multiplying because I know I never bought THAT many. It was an inside joke for a while. So then we started hiding one ping pong ball for each other. J started it by putting it somewhere funny, and then I tucked it into his pillow, a sock, a shoe, we just kept passing it back and forth. Finally he cut it in half so that the game was over, but I hid the half ball and it continued. This morning I was getting ready for work and opened my drawers to find this:

🙂

Posted in J and K | 1 Comment

What to wear to work

Posted on January 10, 2011 by joshandkorey

In the second installment of what to wear to work, we have a ballerina pink top and sparkly necklace with basic black and boots!

Posted in What to wear | Leave a comment

LUSH review

Posted on January 10, 2011 by joshandkorey

You may have noticed this delicious-looking bathwater that I first posted in my year recap. It is the result of a bath bomb from Lush, gifted to me for Christmas by my wonderful cousin, Bree. It fizzes and dissolves in the water, leaving behind the intoxicating scent of lavender. And you smell wonderful afterward, in case you were wondering. 🙂 The best part was that it had this little slip of paper in the middle that said “bang!” which popped out as it finished dissolving. Bomb – bang – cute. This bath was a delight–I painted my nails with a lovely shade of OPI, enjoyed a tall glass of water, and read Syrup by Max Barry (which I wholeheartedly recommend–and if you are in marketing, it’s a must-read).

I don’t think I can ever bathe without a bath bomb now, so thanks Bree!! 🙂

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

New photos are up

Posted on January 10, 2011 by joshandkorey

Ok photo fans! I just posted pictures of baby Elizabeth on my photo site:

http://koreyelizabeth.blogspot.com/

Posted in photography | 1 Comment

What to wear to work

Posted on January 7, 2011 by joshandkorey

So one of those awful things about being a real grownup is having the wardrobe to match. When you graduate from college, you will buy exactly one suit. You’ll wear this suit on every job interview. You’ll get one of those jobs. You’ll wear the suit on your first day. And then?

Since I’ve always loved clothes and shoes, I took the challenge to heart. It’s taken me years, but I feel really comfortable now in dressing modestly and professionally, but with some youthful style. I really like color, but it’s taken me a while to figure out how to add color to my professional wardrobe (it’s hard!). Also, on dressing modestly:
Modesty is really important to me. I want to be taken seriously. Some of us (cough*me*cough) have some…assets…that are hard to cover in fabric, modestly, without looking gigantic (in a fat, bad way). SOOOOO it becomes even more challenging to dress modestly when even a staple button down can gather, bunch, pull, and reveal just a little too much. Also, for any new professionals out there: you may think that a little reveal is helpful in the workplace and let me assure you that it is NOT. This is 2011. There are women in this workplace and they will NOT like you. Any men who glance your direction are probably not groomed for the workplace and not respected. I’ve seen it happen. The last thing you need, as a young woman, is to have people talk about your clothes in a negative light. I have, on occasion, had people discuss my clothes along the lines of “Oh that K is so wacky can you believe she thinks she can wear lime green to work OMG she is out of control” and once those people came to know me, I realized that they weren’t actually chastising me–they wanted to emulate it! So let’s be ourselves, and have personality, in a professional and modest manner. Let’s let our clothes say “an interesting person put me together” and not “hey check out my _____”

That said, I’m going to post some outfits on here, in hopes that what I pull together can help broaden some horizons!

Bright pink for a January Thursday.

This is my casual Friday (yep, the flats make it casual) look. I also have a headband you can’t really see…purple with stones.

I’ll try to do this more often (if I think of it!)

Posted in What to wear | Leave a comment

This is cool.

Posted on January 7, 2011 by joshandkorey

J and I no longer have a house phone. Really only telemarketers (and my mom) ever called it, and we decided we didn’t need to spend money on it. The one thing that irks me about not having a home line is that it does one incredible useful thing: you can call your missing cell phone on it.

Now I’ve only had an incredibly lost phone once since moving, but it was a pain. But no longer, my friends!

http://www.icantfindmyphone.com/

I did try it, and it works!

Posted in life made easier | 1 Comment

This guy

Posted on January 7, 2011 by joshandkorey

Sometimes we take things for granted.
Well I don’t.
Okay just kidding. We all do.

So today I have a plea for you.

That you tell one person (just one) how you really feel.

How, without them, it would be as though your world stopped spinning.

And that you need them.

That you appreciate them.

Because we all need to hear this sometimes.

So today I write to this guy.

My other half.

The one who tells me that he likes my hair best the way it is naturally.

The one who encourages me to jump in puddles

and takes me to Yogurtland when I’m down

and leaves notes in my car

and works so hard for the life we enjoy.

This one is for you, J.

All this and more.

I love you.

Posted in J and K | Leave a comment

True Confession

Posted on January 4, 2011 by joshandkorey

I used to be addicted.

To Lip Venom.

Let me explain: first of all Lip Venom is a lip gloss with cinnamon and other spicy/burning ingredients that is supposed to act as a natural lip plumper. I’m not sure it does that, but the idea is that it hurts your lips (like a bee sting) so that they swell and flush a natural pink. The first time I bought it and used it I thought “this is awful! Who would willingly choose this!?” and threw it in the depths of my purse. One day, as I was attempting not to doze off in World History 101 or something in college, I thought “maybe the stinging of Lip Venom will keep me awake” — and it did. Then I was hooked. I used it, and it doesn’t last long so I’d need the sting again. And again. Until one day it no longer stung. I started to google the more intense version of Lip Venom and then I realized: something is wrong with me. This is disgusting. Why would I choose this?! And so, I threw that little tube back into the depths of my purse and I’ve never seen it again. Which is good, because I could really for some right now…

Don’t worry, now I use C.O.Bigelow Apothecary Peppermint oil infused lip gloss. Similar tingle, less pain.

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

2010, I will not miss you

Posted on January 3, 2011 by joshandkorey

I have done a bit of thinking in the past few days about the changing of the year. On one hand, the change from one numbered year to the next doesn’t do much for me. It’s just a number. A bit of paperwork. I never really see it as a big event, or as important to me. New Years’ Eve is never as fun as MTV makes it seem; perhaps it’s the pressure placed on it to be SO important. And it’s not.

But this year I feel differently. I appreciate the platform I’ve been given. The opportunity to look back at a year and accept that it is ending. The possibility that dawns with an entirely new year. And sure, I sat on a couch and watched a ball drop and that made it a new year, a new life, and it sounds silly…but this year, I believe. I believe that I can make a fresh start, and leave some memories in the past.

Obviously I suck at leaving things in the past. (If you know me, you’re nodding right now) And I believe in the importance of hindsight. Introspection and retrospection. So let’s review the year in pictures. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

In no particular order, because that’s just annoying.

**Click on any of them for a larger version!**

Some of the images below are graphic and therefore not suited for children or anyone who doesn’t want to see blood and head staples. 🙂

Oh, and these pictures are all from my phone, and bear no representation of my photographic ability. (What am I, a lawyer!?)

Um, we got a new house (yeah, where have you been?!) And CA has been having some insane weather! Look! FOG! omg.

Dad finishing 100 miles in the Tour of Palm Springs.

Vikings fans and their boy AP! Sorry my team beat you in the Super Bowl playoffs… wait, no I’m not. 🙂

And here’s how it all began: Kate’s birthday and New Year’s Eve 2010.

Crazy fire of Tustin 2010!

Josh now has a trophy spot. A mouse lives right above this picture. I’ll post about that later. 😉

You can’t tell, but I made bread! From scratch!

And anxiously awaited the birth of Avery Quinn.

And took the best bath ever thanks to Bree and her amazing Christmas gift (also another post)

Chik Fil A. Because it’s amazing.

Poor Koal: he got sprayed by a skunk (this was the second time), had J disappear and moved in with my parents for a while, got sprayed again, J practically drowned him trying to wash his face, and that was just August!

Bye, Vegas.

Pretty sunset over the 5.

We moved out of the condo! It’s now being rented.

Our spring trip to Big Bear turned into a snowstorm, and it was delectable.

I got to drive this beauty to Vegas.

I told you!

The biggest bruise ever is growing on J’s side…just wait: it will get bigger. This was a mountain bike crash in the spring.

The arrival of Miss Natalie.

Josh is shown how to walk.

Emily’s cookies and J’s floor bed as he recovers.

We went to a rodeo!

April showers: umbrellas in the Venetian, Las Vegas.

Remember when my closet broke?! OMG.

J raced a rented Vette at Willow Springs race course (the fastest road in the west). The Vette pictured is his dad’s, and the same one I drove to Vegas. The tape is to prevent scratches.