farewell, february.

i can't believe it's already the last day of february. so my favorite month has come and passed again. and i've been a bad blogger through it all. i'll have to rely predominately on iphoto to tell me what i've done this month because my memory is pretty pathetic.

i mentioned in the last post that we went to carol's wedding reception. she got married in korea on january 3rd. i was actually going to try to make it to korea for the wedding, but i never found a reasonable flight. they played a video of their ceremony during the reception, but it was all in korean, so i wasn't too sure what was happening. it was still fun to see the differences and similarities between korean weddings and american weddings. i love that i can rely on carol to counsel me on the korean ways... it definitely helps me understand certain things about my own relationship. here are a few photos from the reception:she wore her traditional korean wedding dress for the reception, and kwon wore his traditional attire as well. i wish i had a photo of the two of them, but there was a professional photographer, so i felt a little bit funny taking my own photos. for her actual wedding ceremony she wore a wedding dress just like what we would wear in america, but afterwards there is another ceremony where the couple wears this traditional korean clothing. that part involves a lot of customs where you pay respects to your elders and your new family members. i wish i had a better explanation, but i still don't completely understand what happens during that part. :]
i thought her cake was beautiful... simple and elegant, and i just think the bow is an adorable touch.

we also had another huge snow storm this month... i didn't expect it to be nearly as big as it turned out, but i was wrong. here are a few photos of that:this was taken from my front porch. i'm pretty sure i posted a similar view of the big storm in december. my dad said i should have taken a photo with a yard stick placed in the snow to demonstrate it's depth, but i was too lazy. haha. these photos really don't adequately show how much snow there was, but they do give an idea. we had about 18 inches.
this was the day after the storm... it was sunny and everything just looked amazing outside. i took the long way home just to see all of the scenery. :]
i was really surprised to see the damage that many of the trees in the quad area at unr had amassed. i'm just sort of surprised this didn't happen in one of the other big storms we've had. maybe it did and i wasn't aware of it, but there were so many fallen tree limbs. it was insane. and as you tried to walk, there would be huge piles of snow falling off the trees. luckily, i was never the recipient, but i saw several people have a nice miniature snow storm fall on their heads.

it was a moderately busy month for school related stuff. i had tons of grading for lab, and they haven't even turned in their first lab reports yet! that will happen this week, so i'm sure i'll be busy with those for quite some time. i also had an anatomy exam, which went pretty well, and a practical in lab. i missed two questions on the practical... one of them i am fine with missing because it was on the cadaver. since i'm unwilling to touch, let along dig around inside the cadaver, i sort of accept the fact that i may miss some of those questions. but the other question i missed, i'm just kicking myself about missing. i wrote leukocyte instead of lymphocyte, and somehow never checked back to realize my mistake. ack! i'm still happy with my performance though.

aside from school work, the olympics have been keeping me up rather late. i really don't understand why they have a tape delay for the west coast. i wish they would just show it to us live. watching all of the skiing, snowboarding, and bobsledding has been a lot of fun. but i have to say... something about ice skating just doesn't thrill me like it did in the old days. i remember thinking it was the greatest thing when i was a little one, but this year... not so much. it was exciting to watch the women's figure skating though. james may or may not have a crush on kim yu-na. haha. he did say he remembers seeing her in various advertisements when he was in korea last year.

i also finished reading chasing harry winston. it's by the same author as the devil wears prada. it was a fun read, but i had a little trouble getting into it. the second half picked up though. i'm not sure if i would recommend it or not. if you read and liked the devil wears prada, and you're looking for a mindless and lighthearted read [my favorite kind, in case you didn't know. i don't like serious books. i do enough serious reading for school.]... then go for it, but don't expect it to be as good as the devil wears prada. so yesterday, i took a long bath and started love the one you're with, which is by emily giffin. so far, i'm hooked. and yes, i know my english teacher would be disappointed, but i'm too lazy to properly format the book titles. there is no easy underline option for me to use, and i don't remember all the html coding i used to know. :]

my friend mike was in town this weekend because he had a little break between blocks in med school. last night we were able to get thai food, and tonight we met up at olive garden. it was so nice to see him again, and it was nice to catch up with other old friends as well. i miss having mike live here... he was always willing to get food with me. :] plus we both talk to each other about our relationships, and it's so nice to have the male perspective for things like that. he tried really hard to convince me to go to creighton for pharmacy school so that we could live near each other again. haha. maybe if i don't get in this year, i'll have to consider that.

i didn't have very good luck getting a group photo tonight, but this one is ok.

i can't really think of much else. i haven't really had time to scrapbook, but i'm thinking about trying my luck tonight. since i have another studio calico kit headed my way soon, and i haven't even touched the february kit... it might be a good idea to make something. we'll see.

well. i hope everyone had a lovely february! :]