Highlights of my Day... Saturday, March 29

1. Discovering that my puffy eyes were here to stay for the morning frustrated me and so I eagerly and desperately searched for a means of getting rid of them. Today was the day of my TV interview and it seemed like nothing was going right. Not only did I show up 5 minutes late for my interview, but my eyes were still puffy, I was having a bad hair day, and I had forgotten to wash my hand wraps.

2. First thing on our list for today's events was meeting up with the reporter and heading to a coffee shop for a quick interview before training. Q got interviewed first and then me. She asked him varying questions and then told me his translated answers. One of the questions she had asked Q was, "When did you first fall in love with Amy?" He told her he fell in love with me the first time he saw me. I remember that day too. I was so nervous and no one really knew how to approach me so no one but Q talked to me. I was just known as that foreign girl who trained in the corner of the gym. Q walked up to me and started to try to explain the routine they have at training. At the time, Q's English was really bad and so honestly, I really didn't understand him but considering he was the only one brave enough to try to extend any kind of friendship, I wasn't about to tell him I didn't understand. But hearing him tell the reporter that he loved me from first sight did and didn't really surprise me. After all, it was Q who said "I love you" first and it was Q who, just 2 weeks after dating, he introduced me to his family. Q may be a simple guy but he is very much in tune with his feelings. Things are very black and white to him, I wish I were more like that, so exact on things.

3. Q's answer to the reporter's question lingered in my head for the rest of the day and so from then on I really didn't care what happened with my interview. I forgot all about my puffy eyes, my bad hair day, and my smelly hand wraps. I had discovered something so sweet.

4. Off we headed to the boxing gym wear I geared up for training and then had to train, acting like the large stalking camera wasn't bothering me... hehehe.

5. For the sake of adding some extra interest to my interview, Junior Mint got me to match box with Q. We had originally tried this some months ago but it wasn't so successful but today it was good. The thing with match boxing (or pronounced as "mass boxing" by some) is that it is really an exercise meant for one person but involves two. In this case, it was meant for me. I was allowed to go full force on Q but he is only merely allowed to defend himself.

6. We ended our training with some grueling ab work... ouch! The reporter said it looked painful, I told her it wasn't so bad. Mind ya, I know I'll be feeling it tomorrow!

7. After we concluded our interview, Q and I showered up, got dressed and then headed off to Daejon to meet up with his friends. Once a month Q meets up with his middle school buddies for a weekend packed with excessive eating, good times, loud laughing and continual joking, and a good game of soccer-volleyball, or two. I wasn't able to go last month but this time I came along with him.

8. Dinner consisted of 14 of us sitting around a large table and chowing down on some very delicious sushi... Korean style sushi, which basically meant that it's pieces raw fish minus the rice like Japanese sushi.

9. One of Q's friend is having a baby very soon and so everyone eagerly tried their hand at feeling the baby kick. Her tummy felt rock solid but underneath, you could feel the baby moving around. I've never felt a pregnant woman's tummy before and so it was so fascinating to hear them talk about the baby moving. Had I had the chance to touch her tummy, I would have been even more fascinated but I was too shy to reach out and do it.

10. Dinner was followed by hanging out at a bar, which was then followed by excessively loud singing at a singing room, random baseball hitting practice at a local baseball coin machine, and walking in the rain. Q and I then headed back to his parent's house.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why don't mornings usually agree with me?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Some days you're the bug. Some days you're the windshield.
--Price Cobb