STAR WARS: The Jediism Educational Video

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Class of 2008

On Saturday June 7, 2008 my little cousin Eric Howard Jeong, graduated from Orange Lutheran High School. I can't believe it! I just cannot believe how fast time goes by and how quickly a little boy grew into a wonderful young man.

Eric's mother passed away when he was 3 and my family has been taking care of him ever since. So basically I got a new little brother when I was 13 and it definitely wasn't easy but now looking back, it was way worth it. I'm so glad that Eric is part of our family and I'm so grateful for the wonderful young man he has turned into.

Eric really is one of the neatest most tender hearted teenagers I know. Eric is so good at so many different things. He is going to be going to school to either become an Architect or a Fire Fighter. He loves making and building things. He is good at all different sports (football, basketball and tae kwon do). He played football (DB, WR) for OLHS and helped take his team to win the Championship! He loves making movies and is really good at it. He loves to dance and has some of the "sickest" dance moves I've ever seen. HA! He is great at woodworking and anything outdoorsy. His favorite movie is Rush Hour 2 and he loves Korean food (who doesn't).

One of my favorite memories of Eric is that he hated to wipe his bum after dropping the kids off at the pool. After doing his business he'd yell, "Kimmie Nuna, Brenda Nuna, Melonnie Nuna! WIPE MY BUTT!!!!" It was the funniest thing. But then it got to the point were he was too old for us to keep wiping him but he thought it was the grossest thing to wipe his own but. We would just leave him there yelling for us and he was so stubborn that he'd fall asleep on the pot with his underroos wrapped around his ankles. The poor child was tortured by us so much! I bet if he could, he'd still have us wipe his little bum!

Well Eric. I am so proud of you and so glad that you are my little brother! I'm also excited that you are going to be going to Mt. SAC and that I will be able to see you more often. You are an awesome guy and I know that you are going to succeed at all you try! Thanks for letting me be part of your life!

Finals Week!

So Ben is just finishing up his 3rd semester in Nursing school (finals are Monday!) and one more semester till he’s an R.N. I am so proud of him! He has worked so hard and the poor guy has had no life for the past 2 years. He just study, study, studies.

The nursing program doesn’t run during the summer and winter semesters and he usually is taking upper division classes during these times, but this summer he’s taking off school! We are both so excited! I’m so glad that he will be able to just give his brain a break. Though I don’t really know how much of a break it will be. I’ve already got a list of things I want him to do. Mom and Christian have also got “Honey Do” lists for Ben but I think I get first dibs. I’m hoping that he will be able to get the flooring and baseboards finished on our house, a new stackable washer/dryer installed (bigger job then it sounds, he has to move and re-weld the water pipes. Sounds dangerous? I thought so too. Mostly because he’s never done it before. But you’ve got to learn somewhere.), 3rd bedroom cleaned out and garage sell the items or goodwill them, a new pantry put in and hopefully a dishwasher and if there’s still time the outside of the house painted! It might just all be wishful thinking because he only has 2 months, but I think most of it might really actually happen. Oh by the way, Ben also wants to build a “Mega-Man-Shed” in the backyard.

This sounds like a butt load of chores but anyone who’s met Ben a second time, knows that he love’s DIY projects and that he’s really good at it (he’s also an obsessive compulsive pack rat, but that’s a whole other blog). I need to make a post of all the stuff that he’s done so far. He’s amazing! I always wanted to marry a handyman like my father. I saw that in Ben shortly after we started hanging out. He loves his power tools! He has just about every tool you could think of but they have to be Dewalt. The past few Christmas’ and Birthday’s he’s been stumped as far as a list goes. I tell him it’s because he already owns everything he could ever want. Some things he even has two of! (remember when I mentioned that he’s a pack rat?) But they have all come in handy. Whenever anyone in the family needs a "Mr. Fix It", they call Ben.

This is kind of off the subject that I was going for today, but it’s a really sweet story I’d like to share to show you how I knew, Ben was and is the “ONE” for me. That’s what blogs are for anyways right? To just kind of relax and let your brain sort of … fart! Just let it all out in no particular order right?

Okay, so anywho, here’s my story. Ben and I were just kind of hanging out. Not really dating, just friends. It was the summer before we got married. I actually had a boyfriend at the time but was drifting away from “said boyfriend” and spending more time with Ben. Well I came home from work one day shocked and surprised to see Ben’s truck in the front. As I walked up the path to the back house (where I was residing) I saw this HUGE empty cardboard box on the back lawn. My little French doors where wide open and there was music and the noise of power tools coming from the kitchen. I was really confused but shortly after talking with Ben, found out that he was trying to surprise me by installing a HUGE air conditioning unit just for me! It was a hot summer and I had no air conditioning or windows that opened. Ben couldn't stand the idea of me sitting at home roasting, without fresh air. So he put a HUGE hole in the wall and put in an air conditioning unit. It was so big and heavy that he had to build a stand to support it outside because he was afraid that the walls weren’t strong enough. He also had to hire a professional electrician to come out and install a new line. Yes he could have just gotten a small little window air conditioning unit that could cool my little 600 sqft back house but again, anyone who’s met Ben a second time, knows that he does everything BIG! His theory basically is, “If you’re going to go little, what’s the point?” So he ended up putting this AC unit that’s powerful enough to cool a 1200 sqft area into my little abode. It was awesome!

So I really don’t know how this post kind of ping ponged all over like it just did. My intentions in starting this post were to tell about the adventures that my husband has had so far in the nursing program. He has experienced some things that even veteran nurses who have been working at the hospital for 25 years still never have experienced. I really wanted to post them so the memories could stay fresh with us because they are well worth it. I also wanted to post them because they’re way-entertaining stories that we just have to share. But it looks like I’ve gotten way off the path with this post so far and I don’t want to make these post so long that they look intimidating. So, I’ll just post “Ben’s Adventures in Nursing” another time. In the meantime, I just love and appreciate my “Dewalt Man”!