Mia Korea

My Christmas was characteristically ridiculous.  About a week before Christmas, I planned a Christmas work party set for the 23rd.  A few days before the party, my boss comes into the work room and goes "umm...so would it be a big deal if we changed the date of the party to the 22nd?  I'm kind of getting married on the 24th."  So we were like..."WHAAAAAAAAT?????" and then of course we changed the party date.

Sidenote: my boss has, in the past, talked about how she wished she had a boyfriend and everything.  Turns out she's been seeing this guy for 13 years.  She's ridiculous.

Exposition: Back in October everyone from work went out to The Singing Room.  They're really into Mamma Mia right now so May (my boss) requested that we sing Mamma Mia and other various ABBA songs.

Later on in the week she came into the work room and was like "Katie, you should sing Mamma Mia for my wedding, haha."  So I said, "okay, haha."  And then she said "Really, you will?" and I was like "uhhh...yeah if you want me to Mamma Mia (a break-upish song) at your traditional Korean wedding May, then sure."

So I arrive at the wedding with my zip drive containing a karaoke mp3 version of Mamma Mia on it, thinking this is probably a chill wedding with a few people in attendance.  Also thinking, she's probably changed her mind about this.

Turns out there are a zillion people attending this wedding and it's really fancy.   Also turns out that Korean weddings are really short.  There's no fooling around.  The whole walking down the aisle and saying words of commitment and everything took only 10 minutes.  And then I heard "Keh-ee-tee"  and I was like "What.  Now?  Me?  Oh dear God."


So I went up there and sang karaoke Mamma Mia in front of a whole bunch of people and my boss and her husband all fancy and beautiful.  It was so ridiculous.  Who does that?