pt is engaged! congrats!! three hyun brothers down, one left to go.

busy weekend, full of adventures in the city, several celebrations for my bday, and lots of time with family & friends. good food + good company = lots of good, God-blessed times. major props to al who turned her & hideyo's place into cheeseboard, the sunnyvale branch. she busted out the cheeseboard cookbook, and went all-out for my bday. brioches, scones, breads, pizzas, the works. i'll post pics later, but their place smelled SO GOOD.

tonight in small group, we continued on in our series on grace with resting grace. one of the things tim keller mentioned was that peace from God shouldn't replace any normal emotions we would normally feel in our lives. like, it's okay to have peace, but still feel grief, etc. i think for me, this whole time, i was feeling like the frustration and discouragement i've had recently about my knee meant that i wasn't fully trusting in God because i didn't have complete peace about the situation. i thought that so long as those emotions still existed within me, i wasn't in complete peace. so it was a good message for me to hear right now.

and by the way, some advice - when choosing music to play as background music during individual reflection time, don't choose:
1) opera
2) bag pipes
when the opera started playing, i couldn't help snickering because i seriously couldn't concentrate. it wasn't even melodic singing, but this crazy soprano going all-out. olivia hit me in the back to stop me, but she ended up being the one busting out laughing along with janet. so janet asked for some music without lyrics, to which nelson agreed, searched, found something, and played... bagpipes. we didn't even try to hold ourselves this time and fell over laughing. absolutely hilarious.

AND - we found use again for al & hideyo's unity candle! for my bday pie! (we didn't have birthday candles.) man, who knew unity candles would be so useful post-wedding? everyone should get a set!

and after a couple years of drought, cal is finally in the tournament again! 7th seed, first game against NC State. didn't cal play nc state in the first round the last time they were in the tournament? with the richard midgley 3-pointer at the buzzer? anyway, if we win, it's a potential for a second round game against texas. why does the ncaa keep shoving texas into cal's face. anyway, go bears!