Why is it that I find myself writing online precisely when I'm most busy?  Oh well.

A – Age: late twenties
B – Bed size: Full
C – Chore you hate: organizing my library
D – Dogs’ names: no dog
E – Essential start your day item: coffee
F – Favorite color: solid bold primary colors (red, green, blue, yellow - and yes, I know that green technically isn't one)
G – Gold or Silver: gold
H- Height: 5'8
I – Instruments you play: clarinet, and badly at that
J – Job title: Reverend
K – Kids: none now, in the future?  TBD.
L – Living arrangements: with the parentals
M – Mom’s name: are you going to use this to apply for a credit card in my name?  You either know my mom's name or you don't need to know.
N – Nicknames: Shawnie, PS, etc. etc. etc. 
O – Overnight hospital stay other than birth: well, there was that one time in the ER I went in the evening and came out in the AM
P – Pet Peeve: poor driving, unclean hands, spitting, etc.  where to start?  I'm in Korea.
Q – Quote from a movie: "You're so money, man."
R – Right or left handed: Right
S – Siblings: older brother
T – Time you wake up: depends on when I need to be up.  Usually before 6:30
U – Underwear: boxer briefs - generally
V – Vegetable you dislike: can't think of one right now
W – Ways you run late: taking a shower for too long
Y – Yummy food you make: I can generally cook well enough to please my own palates, but I don't know if I'd serve others.  Decent spaghetti.
Z – Zoo favorite: I loved feeding the kangaroos when I was in Australia.

Aloha -

I arrived in Honolulu this morning, which was weird since I'd spent all day Friday in Seoul, then woke up in the plane to find myself about to land on Friday morning.  Screwy nineteen hour time diff.

I had breakfast here, and need to run some errands - but I'm so exhausted already that I don't know how I'm going to stay awake past the early afternoon.  Perhaps I'll just take an early nap, but I suspect that I'll have a hard time adjusting to the time zone difference if I do.

Lunch was at L&L's, I have way missed Hawaiian food.

Once you have been tagged, you are supposed to delete the other person’s Firsts and add your own.. At the end, chose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If you were tagged, it’s because I want to know more about you.

1. Who was your FIRST prom date? I chose not to go to prom, but the my date would have been my brother's friend from college - Sorry, Patty!

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love? Hmm, I don't even know how to define my first love, let alone whether I talk to her.  I'll just safely assume no.

3. What was your FIRST job?  According my taxes, it's when I joined the Army.  Under the table, I worked as a janitor for a church and tutored kids.

4. What was your FIRST car?  1999 Hyundai Sonata

5. Who was the FIRST person to text you today?  A friend from school.

6. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning? Jesus.  Really.  Ok, fine.  Not really.  It wasn't Jesus.

7. Who was your FIRST grade teacher? I can't remember.  I just remember that she was one of the two Korean teachers at Hibbard Elementary, and she was the one who wasn't doing the ESL class.  Sad that I forget.

8. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane? It was when I moved from Korea to the states, so my first ride would have been to Chicago.

9. Who was your FIRST kiss? I was four, and disturbingly good at convincing the girls my age to do what I wanted them to do.  Dang, I was a pretty shady kid.

10. Where was your FIRST sleepover?  My guess is Richie's or Danny's.

11. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today? My mother.

12. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?  Liz and Jack's

13. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning? Look at myself in the bathroom mirror and decide that I needed some more sleep.

14. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to?  Dang - probably some Korean cultural thing held at church.  All I remember is that it was some woman's choir from Korea and they were dressed in hanbok's.

15. FIRST tattoo? Don't have one, but if I did it would either have been a cross on my left shoulder or Philippians 1:21 written across my back in Greek.  Or a small American flag.

16. First piercing? None.  Unless you count that one time in junior high when I got somehow jabbed a piece of pencil lead through the skin next to my fingernal.

17. First foreign country you’ve been to? Was born in Korea, so the US?  But that shouldn't count, so Canada?  Eh?

18. FIRST movie you remember seeing in the theater? Dang, I don't remember which film it was but I know it was when I was in Chicago and that it definitely wasn't "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" because they were showing that movie in the next screen over, and I remember being severely disappointed that we weren't going to watch that.

19. When was your FIRST detention? Fourth grade?  Maybe fifth or sixth?  All I remember is that I was at Covina Elementary and it was the first time I'd ever been treated as one of the "bad" kids.

20. What was the first state you lived in? Illinois.  And I still remember how to spell it.

21. Who was your FIRST roommate? Other than my brother, Sam...  Eugene was my first roommate in college.  Unless you count the fifty other roommates I had when I was in Basic Training.

22. If you had one wish, what would it be?  I'm keeping that off the internet.

23. What is something you would learn if you had the chance? I always wanted to learn American sign language.