Living with OPM - Other People's Music - in Los Angeles K-Town

Current Time: 8:57pm PT on a Saturday Evening
Current Room Temperature: 95.1 degrees Fahrenheit (with the fan blowing High in my face)
Currently Playing Music: Some Mexican Fiesta Music Blasting outside of my window, across the street ... "Eh~~yah!! Cha-Cha-Cha!!"
How I feel: Burning up from the ridiculous TAN I got earlier this morning (not to mention the current room temp.) laying on Santa Monica Beach, waiting for BH to finish his "jump up and into the waves" game.... silly hubby... hahaha!

OK... you can't say you've LIVED in LA, until you've LIVED in a 100-years old Korea town house across from the "amigos and amigas" who love to blast their music every evening.
I've always wondered why the "brothers" hung outside of their homes when driving around Washington DC... it seemed intimidating to me more than anything. Well, now I know why - this 100-years old K-town house has NO AIR CONDITIONING and NO HEATING!! You think it's hot outside... until you've been INside with NO A/C in the middle of HOT summer in this deserty Los Angeles. The hot breeze is better than the suffocating stale air of indoors. I am truly LIVING the LOS ANGELES life.

Now... I don't know why God is putting us through some of these difficult trying times. Just last year, we lived in one of the luxurious LOFTS downtown near the financial districts of LA, paying $1750/mo... A/C pumping so hard I had to wear a hoodie to keep warm indoors. Now I pay $750/mo in this 8-bedroom house, sharing showers, bathrooms, and a kitchen. I have faith in God that He'll pull us out of here soon enough (before we toast or just melt away)

However... I have learned SO MUCH through these times: "MINIMALISM" above all else. When we first came to LA, we rented a U-Haul trailer and hauled it with our new F150; and packed it up with our queen size bed, leather couch, coffee table, desks, and etc. This time was different. We had sold our F150 at a loss (those darn gas prices), received a free car from "mommy." Due to my refusal for lugging anything across country anymore; we sold all our furniture, rented our own condo, and headed out to CA in our suitcases. After living out of "A Bedroom" for a few months, I was surprised what many things I really don't need in my house. Because when I got back "home" in VA, I was amazed at how much FOOD I had stacked up in the cabinet, how much CLOTHES I had that I do not wear anymore, ...and just how much STUFF I had around the house that I did not need. I really felt like a Queen in a castle with all these STUFF at hand.... that I actually started giving away all my stuff. I wanted to be at a situation where... (if I had to)... I could just pick up and GO quickly... to wherever I needed to go. I no longer want my NICE bed, NICE couch, NICE furniture, NICE house, NICE anything holding me back from doing what I want to do. Look how long it's taken us to finally wrap up everything to "move" to Los Angeles from VA. ...12 long months.

At this point, I'd like to quote Solomon:

Ecclesiastes 1

Everything Is Meaningless

1 The words of the Teacher, ^[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:

2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!"
says the Teacher.
"Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless."

3 What does man gain from all his labor
at which he toils under the sun?

4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.

5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.

6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.

7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.

8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.

9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

10 Is there anything of which one can say,
"Look! This is something new"?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.

11 There is no remembrance of men of old,
and even those who are yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow.

So, what's the use of the latest and the greatest computer, cell phone, or any type of electronic gadget?!! soon it'll not be the latest and the greatest... just like my little roomba vacuum that eventually got sold on eBay for not performing to its full extent. ...i got bored with it.

That was my random rambling of the day... i think this heat is getting to me... as us Koreans like to say "I must have ate the hotness" and have lost my mind finally.

WAIT--- I think I actually hear some English words in that song... oh... no... it's still Spanish... it's so LOUD and CLEAR in my ear. =OS