Migration

First, I migrate back to the USofA and now this wee little blog migrates over to Wordpress.

Hello?

Anyone there?

*tap tap*

The counter tells me that this thing got 92 visits yesterday. From whom, I know not.

Update your bookmarks, I suppose.

Europe in 4 parts

Part one: Germany


First place: Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurt was a nice city. I flew into there, because, well, it was cheap. Everywhere else was a few hundred dollars more expensive. I also had to fly in and out of DC because it was again, a few hundred dollars more to fly from local airports.

However, my outgoing flight was from Dulles -> Charlotte -> Frankfurt. If I'd gone directly from Charlotte -> Frankfurt, it'd be $15 cheaper, but a 5 hour drive opposed to a 2 hour drive. So technically my flight from DC -> Charlotte only cost $15? I don't know. Fuzzy logic is involved.

Anyways (hello ADD) I flew into Frankfurt. It was different from the rest of the cities on the itinerary because it was more like a modern city: it had tall buildings. Buildings that were taller than the churches.



Train station

It was busy. Good lord, it was busy.

But, it was at least centrally located to the hostel I was staying at.

Saw the Goethe Museum, a few churches, and the Main river



Not to mention a MJ shrine





I took a short nap in this park. What can I say? I was jetlagged, and it was shady, green and had some seriously, irresistably soft grass :D






Then, I went to Munich



Munich was cute and charming. As with Frankfurt, it was a very compact city. When you look at the map, you think it's huge. Imagine walking from SOHO to Central Park. That's what you imagine. Then you walk from one main spot to another and it takes only a jiffy.

Visited the Residenz, former home of some German kings.











Found another park, but this time for a picnic, not a nap.






Traveled to Würzburg, where I was born almost 20 some years ago...





Another angle of the Neu-something castle in Füssen.






I started stalking met up with David in Munich. David was one of the first people I met in Korea, and he was in the middle of an epic, jealousy-inducing, round-the-world trip. We did a few trips in Korea, like Gangneung and Deokjeok-do, and had planned to go to Jeju-do in the fall. Europe isn't quite Jeju-do, but eh, I guess it'll do :P And if you look back here and scroll down to the crossword picture, yeah, cool kids!




I miss Cat.


Next up: Amsterdam




Addendum:

I googled "nomadicduck" and then it asked me if I meant "Nomadic Duck" which came up with this


I'm wondering if I like it enough for the $25..

Bonjour, encore

After a whirlwind trip to Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France, I am back.

It was awesome. The company couldn't be beat and I saw and did many things I'd been longing to do. It gave me a much better idea of what I want to do next time I go, and that I really need to work on my french.

Random picture:



Castle in Fussen, Germany. Neusomethingoranother


I'm bit jetlagged & under the weather (go figure). While it was a great trip, it rained a great deal of the time and was chilly. Thus, I have a respiratory infection and germs swirling about my body. It was well worth it though.

Hopefully my computer will be more friendly so I can upload more pictures.

I don't really know what's up next for me; I'm due to head north to New York next week or the week after. I've started considering returning to Korea.



.....

I know.

Yet I don't.

Crap.

I sort of feel ready for grad school, yet I don't. I want to get a job here, but the economy is in a rut. I'm sure I could find one, but I won't be able to afford to live the way I did in Korea. I still want to travel. I want to spend time with people there.
I just don't know if I can take another year so far away from my friends and family.

This is what happens when I'm bored...

I buy silly things like this:






And then I do annoying things like photograph my family members against their liking.






I also find dust spots on the filter and give them names.





This big guy, his name is Burris.

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Today is Papa Smurph's birthday. He turned 39 for the 16th time!



I'm glad he likes simple cakes that take very little artistic talent to decorate. I'm also glad he doesn't mind that the frosting melted and had to be readjusted. Woopskies.

Happy Birthday Papa! Thanks for puttin' up with me :D



So I'm off to Germany tomorrow. I have an oversized backpack, 2 cameras, enough memory cards to take around 10,000 pictures, and very little planned. Should be fun! Be back in 2.5 weeks =)

27 cousins. 8 girls.

That's why I'm never having children.

I will not only end up with little terrors (payback), but they will be boys.

out of those 8, 4 are Murphy girls

The youngest (and tallest) graduated from high school this weekend.

Congrats Lindsey!



*sniffle* our littlest Murphy girl is growing up..*sniff* I remember the day when she was a wee newborn and we put her in Cabbage Patch Doll clothes and then the doll's stroller and crib. I mean, what? Who would do such a thing???

Hmph, not those Murphy sorts.

Notice how out of all the Murphys, Jeanie's the only brunette, atta girl!
My kids are also likely to be gingers or blondes of some sort. You know how much I would pick on them??


Watch me eat my words.

Raise your hand...

if you like cheerwine!




ah, delicious.

What I've been up to lately.

The jetlag is still killing me. I've been resisting the urge to fall asleep for about the past hour, and with any luck, I'll make it past 9:30 for once.

I'm kind of tired of explaining to people why I returned earlier than anticipated (So I could play the Sims 3 with my sister, duh.) and have resorted to copying & pasting emails.


So what have I been up to?

A whole lot of nothing.

Pretty sure I've caught up on all the Law & Order, Jon & Kate + 8, and Wife Swap that I missed.

I'm also pretty sure my brain is going to turn to mush faster watching TV than it would have staying in Korea.


Random visuals taken from my shiny new cellular device





Yes, that's THE Strawberry Shortcake. And yes, that is the most productive thing I've done. sigh.



coffee. mmmmmm.



Jeanie's stuffed Sno-2-go. nom.



She wants to be Korean, too.




Dang, he got tall.



So did she.

And that cheesecake was still frozen.


It's been a bit overwhelming being home. Not only readjusting to the U.S., just ridiculous family can be overwhelming. We had dinner on Sunday night, after I'd been up since Saturday morning Korea-time, local time Friday afternoon, and it was overload.

Well then.

So I'm back in the States, which I guess marks the demise of this wee blog.

Not sure, might blog about Europe, but my life in the States will mostly deal with trying to figure out what the bloody heck I'm going to do next, and the insanity that is running through my brain.


Don't ask me what happened. A load of bureaucratic bullshit and a need to mother people when you don't have a single clue about them, in my opinion.



So, last days in Korea:




Jesse + Chicken



YEEC Love




Last round at the hound




Artwork= gilded egg crates with pine cones. One of those pine cones violated my tooshie =(



Last round at RMT



dukbukki at Tongin Market



This dukbukki is different from typical dukbukki because it is made with a dry rub instead of loads of sauce. It was tasty, and I wish I'd had the chance to try it before.



The sushi in the background has a nice hunk o'American neon yellow cheese on it. nom........pukeface



It looks like a child's tea party...for adults




Um, damn Snow White!





Rocks



Puppy



Airplane



14 hours >.<





Pillow <3



Bridge to Staten Island.


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