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I am definitely not the blogger type. Maybe I should start twittering? ahaha… then I’d be online constantly and then I’d feel bad about not blogging. hehehe. I have these slow periods in my life where I start to blog for a while and then things speed up and then I have no time to blog… Now if I were getting paid to blog, that’ll be a different story.

I’ve been busy doing some shoots, finishing up edits and getting prints to customers, so that’s why I haven’t blogged for a while. On top of it all – it just ended on the weekend but my last couple (plus) months have been filled with planning and organizing a semi anniversary husplig khites party for my in-laws. Man, my weekend was so long, it felt like several days worth of stuff…

Fri – Cook, clean, cook some more into the night and we left the in-law’s place at like 12 or later. Ber was a bit tipsy and when that happens – he TALKS. So into the night, he talked my ear off and we had to wake up at 4(am).

Sat – Soua called at 4 and told us to get up. We did, and rushed over to prepare and prepare some more until about noon. Then it was time to head over to the place and set up. The party thing began promptly at 2ish. It was sweet of my father-n-law to share his story about his love for the kids. He cried (ahhhh.. something soothing about a grown man crying.) My mother-n-law made things even more emotional when she shared how grateful she was to have some family here in Missoula, but because she’s sensitive to subject, she cried even more… all in all – the party went well and ended well and we spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning the mess we made.

Went home round 7 and let dj out, and played with him for a sec and then had to go pick up my sister-n-law so she could come check out my clothes since several other people were here in town, the ladies wanted to go out. We first went into Amvets hoping for good music but there wasn’t any at that time and our one cousin man who came out to be the DD was weirded out by all the stares. Hehe.. he was like the one “gay” friend that a group of girls go out with. What do you expect from a gay club…?

At this point, I was rolling over to 24 hours without sleep aside from a few naps here and there… we then headed over to Stocks where Chunkie was djing and danced until 1ish 2. CRAZY! Then headed over to Shing’s place where the men were in their poker faces and some of the ladies joined in but I was tired and finally got to knock out but there was no real place to sleep except at the foot area of Shing’s bed. Ahaha.. thank goodness they didn’t kick me throughout the night.

Sun – One of Ber’s far cousin friend got married and we went to attend their husplig khites thing that afternoon. It was mother’s day – you’d think they’d figure to get married on another day… but oh well.

Then we had to send a couple of folk to the airport who weren’t going to stay until the graduations this coming week. And had to finalize money share put into my in-law’s party. Ber and I got a little back from what we put in, but that only means we get some back to give away for next week’s thing for his brother’s graduation. We give and we get… so no biggy.

finally – it was like 4pm when we finally got to it but better late than never. We sister-n-laws and Ber’s sister, Yer, took his mother to the mall and bought her a couple of outfits and had dinner at the Mustard Seed. Man – we had a very busy waiter – and I wonder why they gave us still to him because he was running around the whole time and waiting on a million other people while there were some just standing around. And so we finally asked this other standing around waiter about an hour into our sitting about where our food was, and as we asked, they went right back and got it for us. That means, our food had been sitting back there waiting.. grrr… it wasn’t that good either – just like what you get at noodle express. EXCEPT it was more expensive. – I think if anything – go to the Mustard Seed for their “American” desserts but their “Asian” Cuisine was not all too great. Just average. But because of the bad service we didn’t stay for dessert.

Hlob Chue’s daughters were having an eating thing for mother’s day – so we went over afterwards too. MAN.. lots of eating. I probably went over my calorie count on Sunday about some 2000+ calories, that’s the intake of a day plus some more!!! eek!

I told you it was a long weekend.

And today’s already Wednesday. I’m glad it’s going by fast but I better get my but on things. Ber and I got chosen for hosting the Hmong New year this year, and we haven’t started since it’s been so hectic. I wanted to make it big with some donations and more – but it looks like that won’t happen with the time constraints we’re under. I’m a bit disappointed they didn’t come to us until May – that only gives us half a year. If I’d know back in January – then I’d have some more time to plan… grr. It’s ok… I hope.

photos always at flickr.com/nn-dp Haven’t posted here in a while but flickr is just more accessible for me. It has an upload program on my desktop that I use. ehh.. long story – see you next time when I’m not busy.