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So I got home yesterday after work to find something stuck to my front door:

What's this?

Hurray! A post-it note surprise! Once upon a time when the hubs and I were first going out he used to leave me post-it notes all the time on my dorm door. And because I love notes, our 9 month anniversary consisted of a whole room full of post-its saying “I Love You”. I love the sappiness.

But these weren’t just any post-its (‘don’t forget to do the dishes, thx.’ – kidding, he’d never leave me those I’d kill him), These had a great message on them:

Hey Tee, Here's a game for ya. You can think of this as one of those "random clicking" games that you like to play online, but better b/c you get real stuff instead of a jpeg of it (or useless points). You will be rewarded so...

The goal of the game is to find all 5 items. Here's the clue: !(Microloft and Kevin's Place). DeMorgan's Law might help: !A union !B = !(A and B). From our conversation last night.

Now a lot of people might be all “what in the” but the boy is a nerd and I love that he’s a nerd, and he loves that I’m not a nerd, so he included an answer sheet just in case. I love that man!

Hurray for an answer sheet!

So eagerly I entered my apartment, threw down my bag and began hunting! My first stop was to survey the room.  Like any good point and click game strategy, you need to first view your surroundings for anything that could look out of place. I did this also because I couldn’t understand what the clue was.  I honestly tried to solve it too, I stared at it for a long time.

What’s not a microloft and also not Kevin’s place? Well, they’re both studios but a microloft is 270sqft and Kevin’s place was about 400sqft.  So OUR place is not a microloft and not Kevin’s place. But clearly that logic doesn’t help me any way.

So when a strategy fails, I basically resort to where would the hubs hide me presents? My first obvious spot was the bed, since it was actually made and my bear with sitting in the middle. Sneaky!

Hi Bear!

Cookie!

Hurray! A cookie!! Now that I knew my prizes, I was eager to find the rest of them. Who can say no to cookies! So I wandered to the bathroom. A good point and click game will spread out the items in the different surroundings, so I figured the bed area was done. In the bathroom, I had no luck with the cupboards so I took a peek into the bathtub.

Thank goodness he decided to put the cookies in ziploc bags. Phew!

While munching down on a cookie (brain food?) I went to the kitchen to see what I could find. I opened the fridge and rummaged through the contents. I opened all the cupboards and shifted to the pantry drawer. The cutlery drawer. Below the sink. Inside the oven. Inside the toaster oven. Inside the microwave. Inside my pots and pans. I was started to get fustrated (and worked up a sweat – who know finding random items in the house like this would actually be more work than playing point and click games on the computer!) when I lifted up our chef pan and found another cookie. Huzzah! (I forgot to take a picture here)

With three down and two to go, I decided I had scoured every area except the desk. So I shuffled through all the papers, all the clothes on the chairs, all the binders on the shelves under the table, inside the boxes, and behind my plant. I came up empty handed, so I became confused and started scouring through my clothes drawers and closet, his closet and his clothes, the shoe rack, basically everything. In a point and click game, when you get stuck and don’t know what else to do, you always just start randomly clicking on things. Don’t say you don’t, I won’t believe you. Fustrated and already down to one cookie after eating the other two, I gave up and went downstairs to the lounge in our building where the hubs was patiently waiting for me.

“If you were a cookie, where would you be?”

A came back upstairs with me to survey my findings: two empty ziploc bags and a half-eaten cookie. We went through the clue again, and while it made so much more sense to me when he explained it, I’ll spare you guys the details because it involves actually being around to listen to the conversation we had the previous night. So after thinking through the clue (and him being extremely impressed I found three cookies by sheer brute force method with no logic whatever), he told me that one of them was under the table. When I told him I had already looked under the table, he said “no really. like UNDER the table.” Like, taped to the bottom of the table. I did not think to crawl under the table and then look upwards because that’s a lot of effort and who does that!!

Under the table?! Really?!

The last one was kind of a cheat too, because microlofts do not have a storage unit, but ours does. Except our storage unit requires a separate key because it’s in a separate room on the other side of our floor. I honestly would’ve never figured that one out. But off I went to the storage room to retrieve my last lost cookie. Hurray!

Storage Room Cookie!

Thanks hubs for the fun game. I love post-it surprises, and I love baked goods.

As I was writing thank you cards, I re-read one from my aunt where she wrote in Chinese: 百年好合

tee: ‘bat leen ho cup’?
a: ‘bat leen ho hup‘
tee: what does that mean?
a: a hundred years of being together
tee: give me another sentence with the word ‘hup’ in it
a: um…
tee: ‘hup an fun’? (which means to sleep)
a: … yes. may you sleep for a hundred years.

100 done, another … 60 or so more to go. Oh boy.

Ed visited Vancouver over the weekend where we spent a fair deal of time (but not enough, imo) eating and doing touristy stuff. The schedule went as follows:

• Ed arrived at 9:00am
• After much indecisiveness, I decided to go to Nu for brunch
• We get there at 10, only to find that it doesn’t open until 10:30. fail.
• We bum around until 10:30, get inside and sit on the pretty patio. I am freezing. Ed takes a total of two work phone calls while eating.
• We finish eating and Ambrose heads off to do manly things while Ed and I decide to rent a bicycle and ride around Stanley. We head down Robson Street.
• Find some random bike rental store on Denman and rent a tandem after perusing some of the sweet-looking ones outside. What they give us cannot even be called a lemon, it was so busted. Ed takes another work phone call.
• Try to bike around the block on it and it’s a bazillion times harder than it looked. Most likely because our bike was old and the seats were all off and disproportionate to the handle bars. We were a danger on the road, and I thought we would die on several occasions.
• Took the bike back to the shop and decided to get two single bikes. I requested a cruiser. They’re so much fun!
• Made our way to Stanley and biked around, stopping at many random tourist areas and debated running through the water park. Ed got freaked out with all the rock sculptures. Ed takes three work phone calls.
• The bike took us 2 hours, and then we walked down Denman to Mondo’s for 6 scoops of gelato.
• Back home for a short bit, and then off to visit the Vancouver branch of his company.
• We ate dinner at Samurai on Davie. He apparently loves wasabi to the point where its disgusting.
• Hung out at night with some of his work people at Doolin’s.
• Woke up bright and early the next morning to hike the grouse grind. I still suck at it. A lot.
• Didn’t have time for ramen lunch, so we said our goodbyes and he went off to the airport all sweaty from the hike

I had a great time with him in town. Pictures can be found on the tab at the top of the page. Thanks for visiting!!!

This is my maid of honour everyone. Thank goodness she has a good sense of humour.

elaine: so we decided to get titanium bands because they’re cheap and they last forever!
me: just like your looooooooove *holy crap, did I just say that? I didn’t mean that! I hope she didn’t hear me*
both: ……..
elaine: wait, what?

wedding recaps to come soon, I promise. I really should update this thing more often. Also I updated the “Listening To” section to show the songs we used during our wedding. I love all of them – I actually had a lot more that I wanted to use but we had to narrow the list down a lot. For example, I wanted to use Ingrid Michaelson’s The Way I Am as our first dance, but A said it would be too hard to dance to. And by the time everyone left, they all missed the last dance song which was the best song of the night, Flight of the Conchord’s Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room). I’ll tell you more about it later!

While out canoeing in the OC6:

Trevor: where should we canoe to?
RT: how about that freighter at your 2 o’clock?
Trevor: the red one? what’s the name of it? Golden what?
RT: Golden 888 Energy.
[ the freighter was actually called Golden Energy]
Trevor: one of those Asian names.
RT: Lucky Elephant Dragon Energy.

It’s funny because it’s true. Freighters always have weird names.

Thanks Chengy for the fantastic photo!

I’m married! Our wedding was fantastic, and despite the fact that my face was melting in the heat, I had a great time. Highlights included:

• our MOH being the only one to arrive on time, but forgot her dress
• our best man trying to break down my door with a stick
• the minister telling everyone to stand for the bride as my MOH walked in
• the crowd standing around awkwardly after the ceremony because no one directed them where to go
• my beautiful man giving a speech where he cried like a baby
• the lion dance. the most amazing lion dance ever. performed by our best man.
• dancing my last slow dance of the night to flight of the conchords

Thanks to everyone who came. You all made the night fantastic and even if the wedding sucked you didn’t let me know it. I love you all!

FYI, Sungha Jung is the most amazing and adorable guitar player on youtube.

tee: i love this kid.
tee: i want to secretly kidnap him. and have him play guitar for my wedding.
tee: I’d feed him?
jsey: u want to kidnap a kid to play at ur wedding
jsey: when ur against me having kids produce valuable commodities!
tee: …. this is important!

Clearly I don’t consider this a bridezilla moment.

Jason Mraz announced the dates for the second leg of his gratitude cafe tour recently! While I complained that Vancouver wasn’t on his original list, it’s up there on the second! And the best part? John got me tickets for my birthday! Eeeeeeee! So excited! Does this count as a mini honeymoon? A’s rolling his eyes at me…

*heart!*

1. All my bridesmaids now have their dresses. I’m assuming they’re all making alterations of sorts?
2. After hunting all over the city in so many different stores, I have wedding shoes! They’re white, they’re plain, and they’re awesome.
   

   my wedding shoes

3. I finished the cake toppers finally! They’re adorable, I can’t wait until the wedding is over so they can come home with us.
4. I figured out what to do with all the jars, but it requires some additional work so we’ll see if I have time for it.
5. Also including a peak at our invites:
   

   outside envelope.

   I just got Terry’s invites the mail, and it’s so gorgeous!

6. Still figuring out: favours, place cards, and the veil. Also still hunting for: evening dress, if possible.

and super easy to make too, minus the dipping in chocolate bit. The only problem is I don’t have the necessary equipment to temper the chocolate, so these babies can’t leave the fridge otherwise they’ll get all gooey

delicious chocolate goodness.

mmmmmm….

Also, crab curry. But I didn’t take any pictures of it before I devoured the whole thing.