Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, June 23

1. Second last day of filming with Arirang TV and so today we headed out to buy a gift for my father and to do some filming at my house.

2. This past Sunday was Father’s Day and I totally forgot about it. I don’t remember most Western holidays, to tell you the truth. Actually, I don’t even remember most of my friend’s birthdays and I’m brutal at remembering names. But whatever, that’s beside the point. The crew had asked me to think of a gift for my father and so I had been contemplating it for a couple of days now. Yesterday I woke up with a great idea and so today we headed out on the town in search of it.

3. Cooked up some of my newly adored oatmeal-cinnamon high protein pancakes for the Arirang TV crew… hahaha. They were quick to gobble those bad boys up, dang!

4. Snickers and I headed off to boxing together. Sometimes I’m convinced he tries to get a reaction out of me cause tonight he joked about having the pleasure of training among six women. Now the fact that each one of them equaled about two of me, and in some cases three, was irrelevant. I’m not a jealous person and so he could be training besides Megan Fox for all I care. I use to be the jealous girlfriend back in the day and what I found was the harder you tried to pull someone towards you the more you in actuality pushed them awa. Jealousy just eats you up. Mind ya, a little bit of jealousy is healthy… all in moderation, just like peanut butter… hahaha.

5. After a long weekend of sinfully-delicious, purely-evil eating, I weighed-in at 51.5kgs.

6. At the end of training Snickers’ father called and upon hearing my voice in the background, I instantly was invited to come over for dinner. It was past 10pm but his father insisted I come over and so that’s what I did.

7. Tonight marked the first time I’ve sat down and had an actual conversation with Snickers’ father and it marked the first time I visited their home. The two of them live in a small house on the opposite side of town. Snickers had rode his bike home but I took a taxi cause I had to shower. Upon getting out of the taxi, I heard someone call out my name. It was Snickers’ father, K-Gere, waiting for me with a massive smile. We had a bit of an uncomfortable greeting as he reached out his arms and I mistook his actions as an attempt to give me a hug. We kind of had one of those arm-extended hugs with about half a meter in between us. I laughed so hard at the awkwardness.

8. While dinner was being prepared, K-Gere handed me a photo album and so I eagerly reached out and opened up it’s cover. I love photos, they say so much. Koreans seem to have this thing with children/baby nudity and so flipping the pages and seeing my boyfriend starring back at me in the total buck in his early years threw me off guard and I giggled like an immature child discovering that boys are different than girls.

9. After dinner K-Gere’s girlfriend came over to join us on a kind of double-date stroll up the mountain. K-Gere brought along some badminton rackets and so Snickers and I entertained them by playing a good game of badminton. Every time I scored a point I’d break out into this ultra-silly “happy dance”, as I called it, and Snickers would laugh his head off. I kicked his butt royally at badminton but I think he let me cause it meant he got to see me exhaust myself with my happy dance… hahaha.

10. At the end of our double-date evening, when we reached the bottom of the mountain, I noticed some wild flowers that I use to always pick and make wishes upon. I picked one for Snickers and one for me and then I told him that he had to make a wish and then blow off all the wishes off the wishing flower in one big breath. He looked at me, closed his eyes, and just as we were both about to blow out our wishing flowers his father blurted out, “wish to get married!” I wasn’t too sure on who exactly he was directing that comment too but I almost ended up inhaling my wishing flower as a result… hahaha. We made our wishes and then K-Gere’s girlfriend drove me home. I was all smiles and full of pride on the car ride home. Tonight’s mini dinner party had come so unexpectedly and it was a lot of fun. The dinner was delish, the walk down memory lane with them via the photo album was hilarious, and checking out their second house where K-Gere makes traditional Korean medicine was really interesting. Badminton was fun, the midnight mountain stroll was beautiful, and there’s nothing I would have changed about tonight. It was perfect. Snickers tried to sneak kisses from me every second he could and K-Gere covered his eyes to tease us. K-Gere is a great dad to Snickers and I really hope my relationship with him (K-Gere) continues to bloom. He always smiles when he talks to me and he calls me beautiful, just like Snickers. I don’t know how to explain what I really want to say here except for the thought that I’m sure my mom is smiling as she is reading this now, knowing that despite her and my father not being able to be here to look after me, that someone else’s family is. Snickers’ family has really taken me in. I feel so grateful for them in my life and it feels so awesome to be part of something so much bigger than just a couple.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who's in your "second" family?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig