Camping 2009

This past weekend Christopher and I went camping, this is like an annual event where C's co-worker Chianelli will plan this rafting/camping trip up in warrensburg for a weekend and Chris ever the boyscout will inevitably sign us up...i'm a city girl through and through...so in order for Chris to get me to agree to continue going with him...we do out camping a bit more luxuriously...let me take you through luxury camping one oh one

firstly, you get a big tent, much bigger than is required for the two people that will share it... WE got a 6-8 person cottage tent for us, exhibit A
Next you want to make sure you have the best accomodations as you possibly can, this means air bed...

(source amazon.com)

trust me it won't matter if you got a root under the tent or WHATEVER, you won't feel a thing since you'll be elevated from the ground! we got a queen one... and then put 300+ thread count sheets on (don't use your ultra nice sheets because it will just get ruined in the woods) and voila, it's like a travel hotel in the sticks! not too shabby at all

This year we decided to add onto our little luxury camping accomodations by affixing a fan/latern to the ceiling of the tent, ala

(source: rei.com)

granted we didn't use this much because it was WAY colder than we thought it would be in august in NY, the ceiling light really did help when there wasn't a flashlight handy...just reach up and flip the switch and " ahhhhhh let there be light!" it's fabu, really! just take my word for it aight?

i have to say besides the "omg i freezed my arse off that first night" experience, everything else was pretty good, i wouldnt have known i was camping out...it's these portable comforts that make camping bearable for a non wilderness girl like me...so fear not ladies! if your man wants to go camping, by all means agree to go with him and outfit your abode away from home with a few extra "amentaties" :)

oh, it also helps when you go to a campsite with water spigots and electrical outlets, makes a world of difference...

come to think of it... did i really camp out? like for reals? maybe not...but i like to cheat myself and think i did... i mean i SMELLED like i did after the weekend was over and got the battlescars (mosquito bites) to prove it... i deserve a gold star!

here are some other photos from the weekend for those of you who are curious how we made out

view of inlet where we launched our canoe, nice isn't it?

on top of mt hackensack (portrait via auto timer on camera sitting on a rock, hence not that close and not centered, solly!)

hike up mt hackensack, i almost died.. ok maybe not but i had a wimpy moment, it was actually an easy hike i have to admit, less than an hour up and less than an hour down.

breakfast of camping champions! home fries over a campfire! i'm marrying a man who can cook! this is good news.

view of schroon river at 6am, look at that mist and reflection... isn't it romantic? it's like something out of a storybook

this is our campsite, fiance to the left, tent and car to the right, picnic table about dead center...the spigot and electrical box is right in front of the car haha

alright so i never said i REALLY REALLY roughed it... it wasn't too bad...until next year schroon river!

(we stayed at schroon river campsites in warrensburg new york, it's like a the foot of the adirondaks national park... you can google it for more info)

side story: we had to head to walmart after our ridiculously cold night, we underpacked on the linens and had to buy a sleeping bag, also my last night camping, some mosquitos decided to have open feast on my face and bit BOTH my eyelids... they swelled up and i looked like rocky balboa for like 2 days...not one of my better moments i gotta say...

Movie review - I was an emotional wreck

during and after i watched UP this weekend.

(photo by disney)

disclaimer: if you haven't seen the movie don't read today's post as it will most likely give away a lot more story plot than you'd like if you traditionally like to see movies before you know the story.
originally i didn't have much expectation about the movie since i didn't read any reviews nor did i see any previews for it, but chris' brother insisted that it will be good and we should watch it and in all 3d misery i did (i'm weird like that and can't stand movies in 3d) and i liked it, A LOT.

For the most part it was like watching a movie of my life unfold...story about a shy boy and a loud mouth girl (chris and i) fall in love and get married (also us) throughout their lives its just the two of them happily ever after...but when the part comes where they part, i was falling apart in the movie theater i kid you not, it was like imagining what my life or what chris' life would be like if we weren't there for each other... i just couldn't do it...it was painful even though its not a reality, the possibility of outliving the one you love is devastation to a degree that i can't even fathom at this point in my life...it's beyond my comprehension...so of course everytime the reference comes up where she is not around to share some certain event with him i'm crying buckets again...

BUT it doesn't end all there..the little boy that gets introduced into the movie would be what i'd imagine a child of chris and i would be like...little chubby asian boy (thats me! asian!) , loves chocolate and wilderness (thats all chris) throw in some humor, manenrisms and his penchant to whine "i'm tired" (thats definitely the both of us at some point or another) it completed what my life would be if it was in a movie and chris happened to oulive me...of course like all disney movies there was a happy ending butboy did it drain me emotionally to watch it...i laughed and i cried and enjoyed myself...definitely what life is all about...

seriously, if you haven't seen it yet, GO SEE IT!

Marrying the right kinda guy

i don't claim to be an expert at this, but i believe i found a pretty good one to marry.

let me first get it out there that i am a self proclaimed baby, i have a very low threshold for pain and i WILL wail and whine when i'm hurt or see a bug or rodent. i will also flee from being in too close proximity to fish, birds and any other form of livestock or animal, dogs and cats usually not withstanding but thats a story for another day.

last night after C and i installed our window unit for the bedroom i was walking back to the kitchen when i felt this stabbing pain in my foot...when i try to look at it, it is bleeding so lo and behold, it is a splinter, how i got it, i have not the faintest idea but it hurt like a beetch...it probably doesn't help that my foot was nearly black from walking around in flip flops all day so not only do i have a splinter on the bottom of my foot, it is also contaminated by city grime and dirt...can we say swine flu target...okay maybe im exaggerating but you get the idea...as i'm wailing away and getting a cramp from trying to dislodge this foreign object from my sole...the fiance comes to the rescue...

he rushes over to me with his magnifying glass and lovingly (seriously i can't come up with a better word here) takes my dirty foot into his hands with great care, takes my tweezers and proceeds to rescue this damsel in distress (ME!)...ok saving me from a burning building or from an oncoming train it is not, but he is my modern day hero, love you like fat kid loves cake darling!

Our Last Dating Anniversary

today is April 24, 2009, 7 years ago i called chris up, confessed my feelings and here we are today planning our wedding! i can't believe how quickly the years have gone by, it truly does feel like yesterday when it all began...and of course we wake up to a BEAUTIFUL april morning, the sun is shining, the weather, a perfect low 70s, and i'm off on a friday! life is good. so how do we celebrate you wonder? well lets have a little recap :)

7am - Chris opens his card and gift (we're going to a mets - nationals game tomorrow afternoon)
10am - manicure and pedicure
12pm - makeup and hair appointment with the uber talented sissi chan, while chris is at the gym pumping iron
2pm - eat lunch, thanks for the steamed dumplings hun
2:30 pm - get stuck in church ave and flatbush ave traffic (ah the joys of living in brooklyn)
3:30 pm - ENGAGEMENT SHOOT WITH THE SUPER TALENTED RYAN BRENIZER, it was fantastic! i can't wait to see the pics
7 pm - Dinner reservations at Del Frisco's, Jenny loves her some kobe rib eye! (it looks like a dinosaur bone)
11:45pm - jenny gets her card and gift (a weekend vacation of her choosing...hmmm the possibilities)

Next year we'll be celebrating a whole new anniversary day, but april 24 will ALWAYS ALWAYS hold a very special place in my heart, to my wonderful fiancee, I Love Thee!