The Im Family

 it's crazy how long it's been since the last time i blogged here.  i spend so much time on insta and facebook, this blog has been largely ignored.  i'm on my second year of gardening and have been trying to maintaining a physical gardening log and failed at several attempts.  So i think this may be my best bet.  So here's the first gardening entry! Today is March 29th, 2022. Temps today were unseasonably cold and have been for the past three days.  Todays high temp was 47F and the low tonight will be 22F.  But should warm to the low 70s tomorrow.    This crazy cold and heavy winds yesterday blew down several daffodils.  many are leaning but upright enough that i left them and only pruned the ones that were knocked to the ground.    

(ozzy writing the blog 2023)  I am aware this blog extremely old and un-updated, but here we are. This is Ozzy Im, at 14 years of age, turning 15 later this year. The last post was in 2016, and many things have changed. I now have moved on to other cool obsessions, things I  never thought I would grow out of I have. Mimi is off to college, and I'll have to admit, it's very lonely. Mother wanted to show me this today, and I really wanted to write something here, so here I am. I still remember a lot of the things I used to enjoy, but as of right now, I'm really into the series called "Persona". It's pretty old, starting out in 1996, and the newest game coming out in 2023, technically 2020 assuming you don't count Persona 5 the Phantom X, since it's a China only release, but that's not the focus for this piece. It's more about what happened in the 6-7 year absence. In the past couple years I was given a PC by my father, I've learned so much, p...

Last fall, Rob found a great deal on a 5 day trip to London, so he booked the trip for the kids' Spring Break.  The deal included air fare thru British Airways and hotel stay for the 5 days.  Rob seemed really excited about going, but to be honest, I didnt feel any great desire to visit London.  I didnt really have any interest in the royal family, or visiting any of the old buildings there, no interest in seeing the changing of the guard, though I was a little intrigued by seeing Stone Henge, but Rob didnt want to see it and besides, it was quite a distance from where we would be staying.  Not expecting much, I began my search of things to do in London, when I was reminded about the Harry Potter studios in London and then I got really excited by it!  But, sadly, our initial search showed that there were no tickets available at the studio or thru any tours for any of the days we would be in town.  We found some on one sketchy looking website that had very l...

it's the new year and my resolution again this year, as with every year, is to do a better job recording our family history on the blog.  ive been failing at it every year since the onset of facebook.  sigh. i hope this time around i do better! another resolution i really want to work on is demonstrating positive thinking behaviors for myself to reduce anxiety, but more so for mimi because she's been lately struggling with negative thoughts and anxiety.  starting 7th grade and physical changes has been really challenging for her this year. 

You know cruises arent my thing, but when a family member is getting married on a cruise ship, you go.  Rob's brother and his wife, Tiffany, decided to have a small wedding on the Harmony of the Seas (Royal Caribbean ship, at the time of this post it is the newest, largest cruise ship in the world) so that was part of our plans for Thanksgiving week this year.  Sadly I wasnt able to get any photos of the wedding.  Their baby, Tiyan was really fussy, so Rob took her away to walk around so she's stop crying, and I took over the go pro camera and wasnt able to also take pics at the same time.  So, sadly, I didnt get any pictures once the ceremony started! The Harmony of the Seas was pretty much the same as the Allure of the Seas that we went on a couple of years ago, only a little bit larger with more people, and had slides that i dont think were on the Allure.  All that the bigger ship made for was a more crowded experience.  Service was meh, food seemed sk...

i cant believe another year has gone by since my last post!  i used to be so good at keeping up with the events of the family, but some how another year has passed us by without being recorded and i'm so sad about all the things i forgot to write down, never to be remembered again!!! mimi celebrated her 12th birthday.  ozzy started competing in gymnastics.  i just had my gallbladder removed after many months of feeling sick (like since last august?).  mimi's been having more issues related to her vascular ring.  we took another trip to cali to visit with bryan and tiffany and celebrated cousin Tiyan's first birthday.  dad had eye surgery.  mom is going to have it too.  they found a blockage in an artery near mom's heart.  ozzy got in to aap.  mimi passed Iowa algebra test.  we went camping at camp Jellystone.  had a great vacation last summer at cape charles (even though rob and i did have fight) and we have plans to go again...