Thank you all for your beautiful and supportive comments! I read thru them with my husband (a new word I'm starting to get used to!) and we really felt the love. Thank you so much!

And sorry... I've decided to not post any wedding photos, simply because of how many other random people can see them. I would love to share the photos with all of my blog readers, but as far as I know, there's no real way to control who could see them on the web. It never really dawned on me until one day my name popped up on google images, and I saw that random photos that I would put on myspace or facebook or on my blog would show up there. Something I didn't realize was a consequence of posting any pictures, anywhere on the web. Sorry to let some of you down! I really would love for you to see them!

And since being married, life has been a whirlwind. Seems like we used up all of our good luck in making the wedding happen, and came back home to a list of bad luck, hehe. So we've had our hands full trying to deal with everything, one day at a time, and on top of that, trying to celebrate with friends and family here and there. And then I was without internet for a week (Screw you AT&T). I finally canceled AT&T and am with someone else, and I am soooooooooo happy!

Been writing with friends, and still on the hunt for a producer for album #2 which is long over due!!! I'm very excited about the new songs though!

And so, I leave you with this music video that is super "kawaii". I know, it's random. But it made me smile. :)

To watch the video, click HERE.

love,
p. ahn

Sorry for everyone's who's been checking in to my website and wondering where the hell I've been.... 

Since I joined twitter and facebook, and started my own blog...it's been sort of hard to keep up with all this technology!!! 

But on to more important news, I got married!  Read about it here:  http://bit.ly/9exEY5

love,
p. ahn

I've become addicted to Google Reader.  For those of you who don't know, it's a thing on google that organizes all the blogs you're subscribed to, and makes them all available on this neat little page, so you don't have go to like, 20 different blog sites to see if they (hopefully) added a new blog. 

In the beginning, I was only subscribed to 2 blogs.  I didn't even really get what blogs were until I one day was searching for photographers online, and I stumbled upon some really pretty fashion photos that were on this girl's blog.  I became fascinated with all the things she posted because they were so beautiful!  The other blog is my friend Wendy's.  She's hilarious, and tells good stories filled with her awesome dry humor.

So, I started out with these 2, and then from them, I started checking out more blogs via links they would post.  Now I'm subscribed to 10 blogs, and "following" 3 people.  Every morning, I have a cup of coffee, and sit down at my computer, and before I even look at emails, I open up Google Reader, and look at all the new posts.  It's like my own new edition of a magazine every day.  I find them all really inspiring!*  I'm subscribed to ones on art, Paris, flowers, Japan, street fashion, and some in between.  One has inspired what I want my wedding to look like.  Another gives me confidence in how I dress**.  So now....I've been reading tons of blogs, and writing none. 

Until now.

As I've typed this blog (made just for myspace and my website), I've just created my own Blog!  So holy poop--here we go! 

www.girlinatree.blogspot.com/

xo
p. ahn

*as I'm writing this, I'm wondering if this is boring people to tears.  Are blogs so 3 years ago or something?  I have no idea!  I apologize if I'm behind the times and this is old news and/or you don't care about how much I'm into blogs these days. There always seems to be some lag time between popular things and me embracing them....I didn't start watching Sex & The City until last year! 

**is it weird that I'm not telling you what blogs I belong to?  the answer is probably "yes".  I can't help it that I'm weirdly protective of them!  :-o

it finally feels like it's turning to fall around here.  "fall" meaning, 70 degrees.  It gets chilly at night.  Chilly being 67 degrees. 

I wrote another song with Inara George and got a sneak peak of her new solo album that will only be released digitally.  It sounds amazing!!  :)  Perfect music to keep me company while I ran my mundane errands to the post office, and to the book store.  I got a book on origami and embroidery.  As soon as I got home I started making origami boats, and swans, tulips, and a lantern.  The only ones that looked good though were the boat the swan.  I want to learn how to make them really tiny, and add them as decoration to make a colorful dinner party table. 

the soles of our feet our black and covered with soot.  it doesn't look ashy out, but there are still fires, and I'm sure there are some particles of it in the air. 

the first chunk of my demos are almost complete!  and in the meantime, I'm being really careful to not throw up in my mouth (aka acid refluxing). 

Last night I had some very yummy gelato.  the night was still warm at midnight, and thousands of bikers were clustered together at the end of the block, preparing for their massive "midnight ride".  We spoke to one of them, but she was really condescending. 

watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYZJkaD28-I

So, one of the cover song suggestions came from a guy somewhere in cyberspace who recommended Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World".  As I was looking thru some of Louis' songs, I came across his version of "La Vie En Rose," which is a pretty kick ass version.  I love Edith Piaf, and so...this song seemed to suit me even better!  Jake Blanton is on guitar.  I hope you like it.  It's a very humble recording.  ;)

p. ahn

watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYZJkaD28-I

So, one of the cover song suggestions came from a guy somewhere in cyberspace who recommended Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World".  As I was looking thru some of Louis' songs, I came across his version of "La Vie En Rose," which is a pretty kick ass version.  I love Edith Piaf, and so...this song seemed to suit me even better!  Jake Blanton is on guitar.  I hope you like it.  It's a very humble recording.  ;)

p. ahn

yesterday i did nothing at all. i slept in til 11:30....stumbled around for a bit.....went downstairs and watched a really sad film.  went back upstairs, and took a nap.  then ate some ice cream and played some card games with Mike.  Then we grilled and i made soup.  we ended the night with 2 episodes of mad men.  i bet mike $10 that they were only a half hour long.....but i lost.  they're an hour....or around 50 minutes on dvd.  

yesterday was the first day i didn't have shoulder tension.  i think i needed to give myself a day to do nothing.  everyday i've been doing something.  we all need to give ourselves a 'nothing' day.  it's good for the body and soul.  :)

well, it has been done.  despite the numerous reactions to my twitter (announcing that I was going to cut my hair) being mostly, "NOOOO, don't do it!!!!!" from the guys, and "it's gonna look adorable" from the girls, well.....i did it!  

it was time.  i've had long hair for a while, and my locks grow back fast, so i'm not too worried.  i discovered that i would chop off enough hair to actually donate and people could use something out of it.  so i decided to give it to Locks Of Love, which is a non-profit that makes hair pieces for financially disadvantaged kids.  Who wouldn't want to give to that??  So, knowing that my hair of many, many years was going to a really good cause made me feel even more excited about the cut.  But i have to say, as i packed my hair away in a baggie and an addressed envelope, I felt sort of sad to say goodbye.  But also really thankful.  

Anyway, you can watch the video here:  http://bit.ly/b2SQE

I hope hair that's been cut off doesn't gross you out.  It definitely gives me a little bit of the heebies--and it's my own hair!  It almost looks like a body part.  It looks so dead when it's not connected to your head, and when it's in a big mass like that.  

i'm still getting used to the new 'do.  it's SO different.  i'm this girl now.  the girl with short hair.  i do find myself staring at photos of women with beautiful long hair and wonder if i made a mistake, or ponder how long it's gonna take for me to grow it all back again.  But then, I really like the change.  The fact that I just jumped in and did it, and can look back and say, "oh yea....remember when I was 25 and i chopped off all my hair?  what the F was i thinking?"  I feel like my new hair and I are still settling in together.  I'm excited to see where it goes.  

And sorry to talk to so much about my hair--but it's a BIG DEAL!!!  my poor fiance has heard me talk about it for the past week now.  "should i get it cut?", "should i just keep my long hair?", "i can't believe i'm cutting my hair!", to "do you really like my hair cut?".  His answers are:  "yes", "no", "shit man", and "for the 100th time, yes."   

p. ahn

well, i was supposed to get my hair cut last night.  I woke up thinking about it....and couldn't go back to sleep.  the night before i kissed my hair and thanked it, hehe.  and then my hair appt. had to cancel.....

some people might see that as a sign.  i haven't done a cut this drastic since i was 13.  But i have done it once.  my hair was super long, and then i chopped it all off and looked like a little boy, sort of.  some people say, cut a little bit off, and then see how you feel. 

i like drastic changes though.  sometimes the only way i'll get anything done is if i just jump.  i was sitting on my bed and admiring my long hair again last night....and wondering if i'd miss it.  i kneeled over to pick something up off the floor, and in doing so, somehow my knee sat on my hair and when i pulled my head up, i literally yanked hair out of my skull.  and yes, it hurt!  and i said, "ow! damnit!!  i'm cutting my hair for sure!!!"  as if to punish it. 

we're only here on this earth for a short time.  might as well max it out.  right?

why is there someone with a leaf blower blowing leaves around everyday?