I Didn't Mean To Binge That Korean Drama... :\

So my Mom is officially addicted to K-Drama's. It started near the start of the year. (Time is moving so fast I can't quite remember!) And since then she's watched several drama's. My sister-in-law Lindsay has been into K-Drama's for quite a while now, and both her and Robbie watch a bunch together. For my Mom's birthday they got her "Goblin: The Lonely and Great God." Elsewhere I've seen the drama called "Guardian."

Anywho! She loved it! I didn't watch it with her. Some drama's we've watched together, but mostly I'll watch the first part, go do stuff, and come back to watch the last few episodes. Only a few drama's I've seen in their entirety. 

Well, she's been begging me to watch Goblin with her. She loves the drama so much she even got the CD album off Amazon. Heh, well, after weeks and weeks I finally started watching it with her last week. And I was determined only to watch two episodes a day. No bingeing allowed! This lasted a few days. 0_0 Started with six episodes spread between three days. Then the plot just got so juicy... and I watched six episodes in one day... and the last four episodes the last day.

Dang it! :P Honestly, the drama is really good. It gets into spiritual beliefs with reincarnation, the tea ceremony before passing to the next life, spirits that dwindle before moving on, the gods among them all, and the Goblin cursed with immortality. The topic is interesting. But what was truly captivating were the characters, plots, development, and great casting. 

It's been fun watching different Korean drama's. There's definitely tropes and patterns in the stories whether they're stories of rich heirs or idols. Senior year high school girls dating older and suddenly becoming homeless happens a lot. It's all fun, and I like the concise stories.

Also, I've been digging a little into K-Pop. For about 20 years I've listened to BoA who's Korean and has both Japanese and Korean music. But this whole idol group dynamic in Korean music is just a whole thing altogether.  It's a little crazy. Stumbled upon Girl Generation and Twice within the last few weeks, two major girl groups in Korea. I like Twice's latest mini album and picked it up at Target. Korean music CD packages are another beast on their own. They come with different version with photo booklets and randomly given photo cards, and other do-dads. People will collect sets of the same album, with different packaging, just to collect and trade the cards! Plus getting the different photo books.  It's crazy, but a really creative way to sell so many albums... to the same people.

Anywho... Hope you're having a great day!

Sarah

 

God Showing Love in Silly Ways

 

A Few months ago the most unexpected thing happened: My Mom got addicted to a K-Drama.  K stands for Korean, and they are really quite popular, though I've only seen a couple.  Hulu was offering a great deal, a dollar a month for a year, and I signed right up.

A few nights later I left the app open on the TV for my Mom and went to bed... Heh, well, I woke up around 2 am and she was watching Boys Over Flowers!!  A Korean drama that came out in 2009 based on a Japanese manga/comic.  Went back to bed, woke up at 6:30, and she was still watching it!  I told her to go to bed, which she begrudgingly agreed to do. :P

And this is the kicker... she was watching the show without English subtitles!!! Enjoying the whole thing.  Then proceeding to give me a crazy rundown of everything that had happened to that point. Really, what she was picking up without understanding the language was really quite impressive. It wasn't until episode 13 I figured out how to get the subtitles working. 

Since then my Mom has watched the show countless times, watches interviews on YouTube, listens to the music on loop (0_0), and is now working on her very first fan fiction, which she is so excited about.  This is her first writing project, and she wanted to do something fun, and for the last couple weeks she has been spending hours creating new characters, mapping everything out in note pads and sticky notes, and is about to start the actual writing.  She is just so giddy about it, and my Mom gets super cute when she's excited.

So what does all this have to do with the topic at hand?  God showing his love and all that? 

Well, my Mom has also been working on jewelry and got a booth in a store.  She got it all set up last weekend, but it wasn't until a few days ago she came running to the car all excited.  It was her booth number!  F-4.  Seems simple enough, but in the Boys Over Flowers world F-4 is a pretty big deal.  It's the name of the group of guys on the show.  F standing for flower.  Everywhere on the shows girls are like, "It's the F-4!!" *Swoon*.  

Maybe it's coincidence.  Just a chance thing.  But you know what, I want to live in a world of Miracles.  We do live in a world where miracles still happen.

I think we'd be amazed at how many miracles we truly experience, only we're so busy reasoning them away we fail to notice.  I want to notice and be thankful.  And I think my Mom's jewelry booth being F-4 is a signature from Heaven, God giving a little smile.

Here's some more pictures of the booth with my Mom, Steven and Ty, who have been working on the website and helping to get everything set up.