this weekend was a bit crazy...

on friday, elaine, esther and i met up for drinks at this place in studio city called firefly. drinks, appetizers, service, ambience were all really good...a nice place to just sit and talk, which we haven't really done in a while.

on saturday, i went to church, came back home and cooked, then went to susan's birthday thanksgiving potluck at her place. nice to hang out with people there - people i haven't seen in a while. just sat around and talked the whole evening.

sunday i went to the mosaic westside morning service. it's weird, but they meet in my old high school auditorium. walking around yesterday was kinda the stuff of nightmares...you know, where you dream that you're back in high school. anyways, the other time i went to that service, we just stayed in the auditorium and lobby area, but yesterday, they had a thanksgiving lunch fellowship activity. so they used the cafeteria, which was pretty surreal. just walking around campus, trying to remember what it was like in high school...is eight years that long ago? feel like it was another life. one person put an interesting spin on it, though...that having church there kind of redeems the place. not that things were horrible in high school, but i just didn't like it that much.

afterwards, i picked up judy and we made our way out to arcadia. a couple i knew in michigan came out to visit the wife's family for thanksigiving, and they brought their new baby. the last time i saw nina and rich, she was newly pregnant, and it's the baby's first trip out to california, so they threw a dinner party at the grandparents'...they invited a lot of the michigan people that are now living in southern cal, so it was a reunion of sorts. pastor joel, judy, bin, david, christy, darren, and even terri (she was out here for an interview) were all there, including some of nina and rich's family friends. with the family friends and darren and christy's two kids, there were about 8 kids age 4 and under running around. that was odd. i just kept on looking at judy and bin and thinking, "what are we doing here?" even though some of our own friends are recently pregnant, it still seems like that whole stage of life is so far away for most of us. granted, nina and rich, darren and christy, and the family friends that came are a bit older than us...but most of us aren't anywhere near that...

you guys will get a kick out of this...pastor joel is the em pastor of the church steve kang, kenny and jimin go to...he's actually officiating this saturday. anyways, he kept on "hinting" about how great philip and kenny are...to me!! that was really odd and funny...i tried to explain to him, even talking about how you guys would react, but he kinda kept it up throughout the night. had to share that, 'cuz nobody there understood why that was so funny to me.