Hope you enjoy this 14 minute tribute to Paul McCartney at the Kennedy Center on December 6, 2010.  Seated next to him is the First Lady and President of the USA, as well as Oprah Winfrey, a fellow honoree.

I don’t watch too much tv, but sometimes I get caught up in Korean dramas with Uncle.

Our favorites are the historical dramas of the Joseon, Goguryeo eras with the unbelievable martial arts and political intrigues. We watch these on dramafever.com, dramacrazy.net, or mysoju.com. These are free (!), but beware – they are addicting!

“Boys Over Flowers” was one of the first to get me really hooked.  It is a frustratingly fun modern show about a feisty cute girl and 4 extremely wealthy boys.  Go Junpyo is the lead man, and he is SO good looking!  “Couple in Trouble” is another fun one – it is the Korean version of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell’s “Overboard”, and the lead man remind me of Uncle, except the lead man cries and Uncle never does.

One of the disappointments when Aunty got her iPad a few years ago was not being able to watch Korean dramas – something about flash not being supported.  Anywho, Pal Rayna told me about Viki – a free app to watch with my iPad!  Woohooo!!  Another vehicle with which to suspend my disbelief and escape to a world a continent and eras away!

Friend Fay and Pal Les sent me this brain test – I suppose it is good exercise for the brain.  Don’t take this test if you are tired.

Numbers will appear on the screen.  Then, the screen will be blank with circles in the spots that the numbers previously appeared.  The point of this test is to click on circles in the order of the smallest denomination number to the highest denomination.  It can get tricky and the better you get the more numbers appear.

I wanted to see what the best score is – it couldn’t be 1 or 2 years old (younger and younger with each successful screen) – so I took snapshots of the screen and then could fill in the numbers in the correct sequence to get the maximum bestest score.  Of course some would call that cheating – I call it testing the test.  The score with all numbers correctly identified in all stages gave brain age “19”.

19 might be the age when the brain is at its peak of memory ability according to the test makers – but from Aunty’s point of view, a 19 year old has less to remember than someone Aunty’s age so it is natural that they can remember everything.  In any case, just take the test and get your brain exercised in a fun and frustrating way.

Here’s the link to the test: http://flashfabrica.com/f_learning/brain/brain.html

Have fun!

What do Korean dramas (watched on DramaFever.com or DramaCrazy.net), Bejeweled Blitz (played on Facebook with/against friends), and MyVegas have in common?

Besides being a lot of fun and full of entertainment value, they are Aunty’s biggest time wasters.  Guilty wonderful sleep depriving time wasters.

Recently Aunty resolved to stop playing the addicting and exciting Bejeweled Blitz with friends as well as games on MyVegas anymore.  It is a boohoo decision, but surprisingly, after a few days of withdrawal sorrow, Aunty feels free.

Free with more time to do the activities that will get us closer to our goals of retiring financially independent.  More time taking care of strategies, mundane tasks of accounting, keeping up with pressing issues.  More time for Aunty’s posting and/or updating and adding more pages on this website.

Small decisions, with big consequences, and perhaps when the time comes and our retirement is set and on auto pilot, Aunty can play more, watch more, and not feel guilty about it.  It’s the carrot to work toward.

As Jeff Olson says, “The price of neglect is much worse then the price of discipline.”

If your life is going hunky dory and you can afford to take it easy and play, then congratulations!  Aunty and Uncle aren’t there yet, so for now, Aunty must have more discipline and not neglect action steps to success.

However, Aunty does need some diversion, and thus is not entirely give up on watching Korean dramas.  Instead of watching back to back episodes of them for hours at a time, Aunty now limits it, at most,  to one episode per day of one drama only.  “Saving Mrs. Go Bong Shil” is currently Aunty’s mini diversion, an hour of immersing myself into another world and dimension an ocean away.

I hope Mrs. Go Bong Shil gets to live “happily ever after.”  It is also my wish for all of you.  For Uncle and me, it is just a few more years of getting our financial house in order so that Uncle can finally retire to fish and surf all day.  That would be his “happily evah aftah.”

Here’s good friend Naks singing “My Way” to the sell out crowd at the Aloha Kitchen in Las Vegas.  Pure talent for a very memorable performance!