Highlights of my Day... Monday, July 23

1. With scheduled plans for 7:30am, I was definitely not impressed with myself when I found myself still awake at 4am. I know text messaging Errol in Canada didn't help my situation but I was suffering from a totally, out-of-the blue, super annoying, earache and couldn't sleep.

2. Woke up at 7:30am and felt like I had just been drugged. I had absolutely no balance and I could immediately sense something was wrong with my hearing in my right ear. Great, as if my ears weren't messed up enough. I mean, when I was in high school I played field hockey and once took a vicious corner hit ball to my left ear. It definitely hasn't been the same since.

3. In my attempts to tough it out, suck it up, and avoid any possible miscommunication (and mis-prescribing of medicine... that's freaky), not to mention having to get a needle in the bum, I decided to jump on the web and self-diagnose myself. Found a really cool site called Familydoctor.org where you search by the symptom. My symptoms included a partly swollen ear, a mysterious cut on my ear, crusties in my ear (maybe they're last year's potatoes I forgot to pick... heheh, just jokes), inside tenderness, and my hearing was greatly impaired.

4. I came to the conclusion that I either have "Otitis Media"... in simple terms, an ear infection in the middle ear, or a ruptured eardrum. Not sure how this all came about though. So strange!

5. Treated myself to some pre-birthday celebrations today by jumping online at La Senza and giving my credit card a little tickle. With this being Korea and me not exactly being physically built like a typical Korean woman, today's shopping was a necessity.

6. Realized just how careful you have to be when pronouncing various Korean words. I headed out to Kimbab Chunkuk today but what I thought I ordered and what I got were two totally different things. Turns out that one syllable difference meant I then had to fight the forces to gag and eat the plate they brought out to me which clearly had more unknown sea creatures on it that meets the eye.

7. Held a mini birthday party for Giggle Girl Jr. tonight. I had picked up an ice cream cake and a present (Sudoku board game) for her. Turns out she's never had ice cream cake before and so it got me thinking about birthday cakes I had. I remember once this girl I knew had a money cake. We were young and foolish so we thought it was great that her mom had put money into the cake batter. Now however, there's no way I'd be brave enough to risk my pearly whites bitting down on such a thing!

8. I admit it, I miss Yoon Jae. Having said this though, I know he's not the one for me in that I don't want to be with someone who doesn't fight for me. I'm as stubborn as a Polish gal is going to get and so I like a good argument. I'd have a much higher level of respect for him if only he were to be a little more aggressive. I don't want to be with someone who so easily gives up or steps aside.

9. Made a new video. Because of the fact that my sleeping patterns are all messed up, I found myself around 11pm with way too much energy. And so, I decided to curl my hair, pick a song and then shoot a video.

10. Yes, yes, yes... I smoked a cigar for the video. I thought it'd be appropriate considering the roughness of the character's voice and me being a girl.... hehehe. Why am I explaining myself to you here though?! It's my video... I must say this though, my editing was pretty rough and I totally look like I'm needing lip-singing lessons but I don't care. I had a lot of fun making it. Hope you enjoy.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Any requests for my next music video?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
-- William James