We may not be the typical backseat-drivers but we're also definitely not your typical couple. Riding in the backseat consisted of stealing kisses, "rib-counting" (poking each other in the ribs), "body bongo", and making various animal/people impersonations... hahaha.

Discovered a smaller than small frog on my late nght/early morning walk and so I took about a billion pictures of him.

I think my camera's flash must have temporarily blinded him, either that or he was trying "self-kill" [suicide] by continually jumping into the wall.

Highlights of my Day... Friday, July 31

1. Early morning training, and by early morning I mean 9am, consisted of Kitty Cat and I heading off to my boxing club to work out together.

2. Morning training with Kitty Cat was followed by afternoon studying Korean at Coffee Bean while she worked away on her online course she’s been doing. And for the record, if my Korean teacher gets mad at me for falling short with my Korean diary writings, I totally blame Kitty Cat… hahaha.

3. Snickers arrived at Coffee Bean to whip me away. I had planned to head out to Little America to see D-Boy tonight but plans fell through and well, honestly, I wasn’t so disappointed. Curling up on the coach with my gorgeous man is hardly a runner-up kind of plan but instead is quite the amazing plan. Turns out he had other plans though and so my couch-curling-up plans were quickly stomped out.

4. Lollipop, Snickers’ best bud, had taken a couple of days off work and had anticipated Snickers and I joining up with him and his girlfriend for a little get-away. I’m cool with hanging out with Snickers’ buddies but I really could careless to meet their girlfriends. For starters, I have much more in common with Snickers’ buddies because, for the most part, they’re all boxers. Then there’s of course the whole awkward “what do I talk about?” issue with the girlfriends when I already think I really have nothing in common with them. I really didn’t want to go on this little get-away. I’m still sporting my purple eyes and although my pride is bouncing back, I feared being thrown to the girlfriend for the trip. We’d have the whole numerous “what do we talk about?” situations followed by lots of silence and strange looks when all we both really wanted to do was hang out with our own boyfriend.
5. Ah the things we do for love. Snickers gave a huge “thank you!” when I agreed to go on this get-away so I told him “save the thank-you’s for the end of the trip… you’ll need a lot of them” and on that note we packed up and left. We had a 1 hour subway ride out to Lollipop’s house and then that was followed by a three hour ride out to where we were supposedly staying. I liked the subway ride because it was just the two of us and he told me the story of how he met Lollipop. They were cell mates and so I hope, for his sake, he remains friends with Lollipop till death due them part. In my eyes, Snickers has such an inspiring Cinderella story. From his coach teaching boxing at the jail for 25 years and then stepping out to start his own club with him, to Lollipop and Snickers sparring and then sitting back-to-back half naked in a cell just to keep warm in the winter, I am continually fascinated by his life stories and how he’s come so far from where he’s been. He’s still growing too, I can see that. He’s going to go far and when I try to wrap my brain around it all, I feel filled with pride. He is my pride of Korea.

6. Turns out we had no place to stay and there were no real set plans in the first place. Lollipop and Snickers wanted to go fishing and that was about it so we drove for hours and tried to seek out a motel to crash in. Snickers and I giggled away in the back seat, he constantly trying to steal my kisses.

7. Finally we scored a place to stay the night and had arrived. The boys headed off to do some late night fishing and I was thrown into the anticipated “what do I talk about” situation when they left me at the hotel with Lollipop’s girlfriend. Turns out it wasn’t much of a problem like I had thought it’d be cause no sooner had we arrived but she fell asleep, leaving me wide-eyed and bored senseless.

8. Turns out $50 gets you a ghetto motel room with about a zillion blankets but no toilet paper. I decided around 2am to go in search of some but ended up getting somewhat lost and had to resort to “natural toilet paper”. Korea doesn’t have poison ivy, does it?! Anyways, turns out No-Where-Ville has no 24 hour convenience stores.

9. What started off initially as a walk to buy toilet paper turned into a two-hour tour with me killing my phone’s battery with text messages to Canada and trying to find Snickers. I thought it’d make Snickers’ night by searching out his fishing spot but, like mentioned in the above highlight, I got lost. Thankfully my Papa Bere gave me some of his “smart cookie” genes when I was born and so I had anticipated this by making a picture map, snapping shots of random things I past while walking. Getting back to my motel was simply a matter of going through the photos and retracing my steps.

10. I never did find Snickers’ fishing spot but instead returned to a very, very spooked Snickers. According to Lollipop, upon arriving back to no Amy in the motel room, Snickers grabbed his phone and bolted out of the motel room, running at full speed and with Lollipop yelling out to him. Snickers grabbed me in his arms and I swear I thought my head was going to pop off when he wrapped his arms around me. He looked sick to his stomach and didn’t say much. I cut the silence by saying “I’m sorry” and he responded with “I know, never say never… never again do!”

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Are we not like two volumes of one book?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.
-- Author Unknown

From the movie "Breakin' All the Rules". Pay attention to what he says about being able to bite your own hand.

.... go ahead and try it... "You want some hot sauce?!"

When Snickers asked me how he could show me that he really loved me, I responded by telling him to bite through his hand. He said he could do it but I told him to save it for when he proposes to me. "If you can't bite through your own hand than you can't have my hand!"

Highlights of my Day... Thursday, July 30

1. Met up with Kitty Cat in the morning and the plan was to check out a new fitness club down the street that had posted it’s adverting on our doors last week. Well, that was definitely a no-go when we showed up at the gym and walked in on them still building it and so off to Hongik Fitness we went.

2. Running into my good old buddy from back in the days me being fresh-off-the-plane was great but he’s not doing too well. I remember when I first met him, so eager to get married. Well, he’s married now and has a daughter but as for happily married, that’s another story. I feel for him, I really do, but hearing him talk about his situation made me all that more grateful for the greatness in my life… Snickers.

3. With numerous Korean diary writing pages piling up, I figured it was about time to get down to business filling them up… but not before Kitty Cat and I went shopping.

4. “Don’t get a bikini… I hate bikinis” Snickers texted me just as the Adidas sales clerk rang in my card and passed me my new Adidas bikini. Yes, he’s definitely going to hate it… hahaha.

5. Waiting an hour or two for Snickers turned into the whole afternoon and evening. I was sure he’s “I’ll be back in the afternoon” would mean “I’ll be back at noon” but then his plans got changed and it turned into a “I’ll be back tomorrow”.

6. When your boyfriend is also your best friend, dog-walking partner, weight-training partner, personal body guard, shopping buddy, and a wanna-be roommate that doesn’t technically live with you but is at your home whenever they possibly can, it’s rough when they go away for the day.

7. Kitty Cat was my partner today and so in addition to the morning training and afternoon of studying and shopping, tonight we hung out at my boxing club.

8. I figured I’d have to face the music sooner or later and have to deal with the zillions of trillion questions at the boxing club, so I headed over to the boxing club in the evening. There’s no time like the present, or so they said. I arrived to a very dark club. It wasn’t even open and so I felt rather silly for having taken my tummy butterflies off the shelf and having them work. I totally forgot that the boxing club will be closed this week for a mini summer holiday. Regardless, tonight I geared up, cranked up the tunes and worked up a sweat while Kitty Cat sat ring side.

9. So much for going to sleep nice and early. Ended up getting into quite the “text-conversation” with Snickers. He’s still all about getting a reaction from me, that’s his problem. For whatever reasons, drips of insecurity drip from my disgustingly gorgeous inside and out boyfriend whenever we have some kind of disagreement. We don’t disagree often, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes I get the impression that he’s trying to stir up some kind of reaction from me. Whether it’s a reaction of anger, jealousy or whatever, I don’t usually fall for it. I think this only further ticks him off. He’ll learn though. I’m so beyond wasting my time with jealousy or doubts. Whatever is meant to be will be and the more you try to pull someone to you, the more you in fact actually push them away. Snickers is young though and I blame these few drips of insecurity with him being much younger than me and his inexperience with women, particularly western women.

10. I’ll be the first to note that Snickers and I are by no means a normal couple. Actually, we quite a "physical" couple, and by physical I mean we tend to find humour in somewhat hurting each other. Take for example an incident that went down this week involving a toy pellet gun I have. Just the other day I agreed to let him shoot me in the foot with it… hahaha. He said he’d count to three but he shoot me on two and I screamed like a little girl… hahaha. Paybacks a #$tch though and so I shot him in the foot AND the butt… hahaha.

Other strange things we do on a daily bases:
He hates tickling and so we’re resorted to biting and poking at each other’s ribs.
We randomly bite each other’s shoulders for no apparent reason.
I usually smack him on the forehead once in awhile with a spoon during meals.
He presses hard on my forehead when I frown… I guess to stop wrinkles.
He slaps the bottom of my feet if I bite my finger nails.
I always give him the last piece of my food, “… because it’s romantic”.
He always insists on picking the meat off the bones for me.
We randomly act out Bumble Bee and Optimus Prime from Transformers.
We have silly nicknames for each other that range from “Angel” to “Hard [Popsicle] terrorist” and “A.D.D.”
He thinks it’s funny to share his milk with me by trying to pass it through a kiss.
He insists on letting me do my nails and now he cleans my ears, too.
We shop at Home Plus for the sole reason that we like to make a free meal with the samples.
We often break out into impersonations of A.D.D. We even have an “A.D.D. face”.
Daily “body bongo”[bongo = toot], as in making silly toot sounds with your mouth on
various body parts… neck toots, tummy toots, hand toots.
He likes to stick out his stomach and eggs me on to punch it.
Daily punches to the butt happen every single day.
I think it's hilarious to try to rip out his chin stubble with teeth if his snoozing.

QUESTION OF THE DAY…
What exactly is “normal”?

QUOTE OF THE DAY…
I'll be the in to your sane.
-- Numan

He looks so serious... hahaha... and he is. You should see him when he catches me chewing on my nails... hahaha.

I'm still very much purple in the face from my fight but now my ears are clean... hahaha.

Actually, I'm not so much purple in the face as I am now changing colours. My face is now a mix of various shades of purple with some browns and even some yellows.

Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, July 29

1. It’s been four days since I last stepped into the boxing club, or the gym for that matter, and I’m definitely itching to get back into training. Next week Snickers and I will be heading down to Busan for a big long overdue health check and then, well, if you know anything about Busan you know a trip to Busan ain’t a trip unless you hit the beaches! I’m not too sure what Snickers thought I’d be wearing on the beach but when I pulled out my two bikinis to show him he gave me a very clear, very loud “NO!”

2. My gal Penny sent me footage of my fight today. I’ll have to get around to posting some of it but honestly as much as I love boxing there’s two things I can’t stomach about it, one being watching Snickers fight and the other being watching footage of my fights.

3. I’m so done with July and can’t wait till this month is over. Snickers and I have big plans for August!!!

4. Headed over to Snickers house to help him clean it up. We took Chumchi and Kimbab for a walk, which pretty much meant I chased Chumchi around and tried to avoid Kimbab’s growing liking for biting my toes and ankles.

5. Got my nails done by Snickers… hahaha. I swear, if it weren’t for the things he says to me and the fact that he’s constantly trying to be all over me like a cheap shirt, I’d think he’s gay. He slapped me on the bottom of the feet when he discovered that I still haven’t kicked my nail-biting habit and then he was more than willing to pull out his tools and do my nails. Mind ya, he didn’t stop at the nails. He then continued his “Kim’s Beauty Shop” act by cleaning out my ears… hahaha. He frowned at me when he cleaned out my ears and I joked, telling him not to kill my potato field that I’ve been so proudly growing… hahaha.

6. Had the big “future plans” conversation with Snickers after I caught him referring to me as his fiance on the phone. “You can’t call me that until you ask me… maybe I might say no” I had told him but who the heck am I fooling. I’d marry him tomorrow if he were to ask me to. Now that both of us don’t have games scheduled our focus has now shifted to just us, as in “us”. And so today’s chat that started off relatively light in nature got quite intense. I ended up blurting out that his mother makes me nervous, it didn’t go over too well but we’re on this whole “honesty-only” policy and so I had to tell him. She just never smiles and on both occasions when I’ve seen her it’s been uncomfortable situations in which I’ve all of a sudden forgotten all my Korean. Let’s see, the first time I met her I had just punched the bathroom wall after being told my game was canceled and then I saw her again this past Monday. My face was all purple and in addition to sporting some mad shiners I was also suffering from a very bruised pride, so getting a chatty and smiley was definitely not on my agenda for the evening.

7. Met up with Kitty Cat later in the evening. I made her wait till it was dark so that I wouldn’t be so conscious about my purple shiners. We headed over to my pharmacist’s shop where the pharmacist is all too aware of my boxing injuries and always inquires about my training. Today he asked me, “Who did that to your face?” and added “tell me and I’ll go punch them”… hahaha.

8. Was craving a street meat chicken stick tonight and so Kitty Cat and I searched downtown for one but the only place open was the stand where Snickers and I had bought “self-kill chicken” that, well as the name applies, almost killed me a couple of weeks ago. Upon approaching the stand I handed my money to Kitty Cat and told her to order me a level two chicken stick. Forget that level five business. I’m sure the man recognized me right away and was probably thinking, “Ah, here’s that crazy white chick again”, hence why I made Kitty Cat act like the chicken was for her… hahaha.

9. Can’t be bothered to face the peering faces at Park Jun’s salon and so I opted out of dealing with them and their trillion-million questions by dying my hair at home.

10. Did the unthinkable, I reset my own nose in the privacy of my apartment where I was free to yell on my own accord and yes, I did definitely utilize the opportunity to yell. I bit down hard on my sweater’s sleeve and then attempted to do it as quick and as painless as possible. One piece of advice, don’t try this at home kiddies!

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What is beautiful to you?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
-- Author Unknown

So sexy... hahaha. Snickers has this thing with making strange faces, strange sounds, and strange things to make me laugh. Pretending to puke up his food apparently makes me laugh... hahaha.

Dish number one of a million that he wolfed down... hahaha.

Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, July 28

1. While watching a movie tonight I leaned over and looked at Snickers and I thought “how the heck did I ever get so lucky?” First and foremost, I don’t believe in luck, never have never will, but I have no way of explaining how it is that I ended up with such an amazing man to call my “other half”. He definitely is my better half.

2. Leave it to someone related to me to write “can't believe a dog farts 30 times in a day... no wonder they wear collars... so their heads don't explode!!!” as their Facebook status… hahaha. Yup, that’s my cousin Danny for ya. I commented on his status, informing him that us humans toot 14 times a day. He responded with “and that toots travel at 10 ft per second... which should have EVERYONE re- thinking the size of their personal space! Elevators are dangerous!!”… hahaha. Yup, definitely related to me!!!

3. Today was pretty much spent lounging around the house and getting numerous feet and leg massages by Snickers. Nice… he had the game just yesterday but I some how scored the royal treatment… hahaha.

4. Mi Nam continues to play the role of the spoiled mischievous child when Snickers is around and, unknown to Mi Nam, he is definitely treading on thin ice. However, if he doesn’t smarten up and listen to my warnings than his days are definitely going to be numbered, just like my days here at Sambu are numbered.

5. Took Snickers out for dinner at the same BBQ place Kitty Cat had taken me the other day. Snickers totally milked the notion of it being a buffet, an all-you-can-eat buffet. He must have loaded up 4-5 plates with mounds of food and so it’ll only be a couple of days now until he’s back up to the 70kgs mark.

6. As it turns out, Snickers and I together brings our maturity age up in the double digits… hahaha. We have this inside joke about A.D.D. and he loves pulling out his “A.D.D. face” as it never fails to leave me in tears laughing. Tonight was no exception. He pulled out his A.D.D. face at the dinner table and I just about choked on my broccoli.. hahaha.

7. Dinner was followed by a walk in the park and then stocking up on ice cream at Baskin Robins. I swear though, after this week I don’t plan on touching any “unforgiving foods”, as I like to call them, for awhile. I swore when I saw Jodie that I wouldn’t touch ice cream but I’ve already broken that vow. My love for ice cream goes deeper than my love for abs but seeing Jodie’s abs killed my constant cravings for ice cream and replaced my visions of sugar plums with visions of a sick 6-pack.

8. Snickers headed out to Suwon tonight to see his best buddy. He told me that he’d be back tomorrow in the pm, which means he’ll probably swing by my house at 12:01pm… hahaha. That guy couldn’t stay away from me even if you paid him… hahaha. Mind ya, I must admit I’m no better.

9. Late into the evening, borderline morning, I remembered it was K-Gere’s birthday (Snickers’ father) and so, with a minute left to his actually birthday, I texted him “Father I am so very sorry it is so late but I wanted to say happy birthday”.

10. Telling Snickers I was taking Mi Nam out for a late night walk was almost enough for him to jump back on the subway and return to my apartment. He gets so worried about me and so he insisted I call him as soon as I get back from my walk. Yup.. he’s definitely a keeper!!!

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What makes you smile?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home.
--Author Unknown

We had a promise. He promised me he wouldn't knock his opponent out until the 3rd round... he broke that promise. I guess it's alright though... hahaha.

Congrats to the two champs!!!

Highlights of my Day... Monday, July 27

1. Waking up to the sound of my sweetie’s voice on the phone was exactly what I needed. Mind ya, waking up and being reminded by the purple eyes glaring back at me in the mirror that I’m still all banged up wasn’t exactly what I needed. Attempted to cheer myself up by bursting out into “I’m the Pancake Master” mode. Whipped up quite the freakishly delicious pancake!!!

2. The original plan for the day was to head over to UP Boxing Club, join the others and head out to Black Skinny and Snickers’ fights. However, waking up with bitterness still very much present on my tongue changed all that. Snickers is always telling me to “Change your thinking” and it’s true, “Change your thinking, change your world”, as the rest of his saying goes. I really wish I could change my thinking and put all this past me but I’m not a girl who others can let down and get away with it. I can’t forgive because I can’t forget and so until I forget, don’t ask me to forgive. I’m still very much disappointed in my team mates and other key people and as much as I try to tell myself that I don’t need such people in my life, I can’t help but feel bitter and hurt. I need more time… more time to figure out how to forgive, or at least how to forget.

3. My pride is a problem, I know. And as a result today I spent the whole morning grudging having to travel out to Il San. Right now I’m sporting this “I hate boxing and I’m a bitter-bitter-stubborn-mule” kind of mentality and so I decided to make life harder on myself and figure out how to get there by bus. Mission accomplished.

4. My next mission was to stay out of the camera’s view and avoid the media by any means possible… mission also accomplished. I managed to go a full couple of hours without the media or anyone from my boxing club approaching me by literally positioning myself on a spot that was quite dangerous, making it literally physically impossible for anyone to approach me. High above behind the ring was a large window and besides that window was a small ledge that had a railing but was somewhat closed off. Leave it to me to stand there… hahaha.

If you look at the top left of the picture you'll notice a green circle I drew on the picture. That's where I posted myself... way the heck out of the media's view and reach, or so I thought.

5. Black Skinny was the first to fight and he sought me out in the crowd before his fight started. I told him “kill him” and then we butted fists. “Kill him” was practically what he did, too, because in the first round down went his opponent!!! He gave a round one K.O. and I was so happy for him, so proud. It’s no secret that Black Skinny’s confidence and pride as a boxer crashed and burned as a result of his loss in Japan and so today’s incredible victory was exactly what he needed to remind himself of his greatness and strength.

6. I had arrived around 3pm and had managed to stay in everyone’s blind spot up until Snickers’ fight was just about to begin, that’s when one of the media people from MBC ESPN spotted me high up in my tucked away perch, dang. “Amy, Amy… come here!” they yelled out to me. It felt like all eyes had turned on me and so instead of standing there like a sitting duck waiting to be shot I came down and joined them on the first floor. Some how, I don’t know how, but some how me with my purple eyes and bruised pride got convinced to do a live TV interview and so when Snickers’ game was to conclude, I was then expected to come down yet again and speak on live TV.

7. Back up to my perch I went and then the announcer announced that Snickers’ fight would be starting. My heart raced a mile a minute and I gave me best evil-glare to his opponent as he and his cocky ego made their way to the ring. Next it was Snickers’ turn to come in. Unlike most fighters who have upbeat hip-hop entrance songs, Snickers’ entrance song is a ballad. He says it helps him to relax before the fight and so who am I to judge or say anything about that. I cheered my head off when he came in and so when he looked up to wink at me I seriously felt wobbly in the knees.

8. For the most part Snickers’ opponent bounced around the ring and so I knew this was somewhat frustrating to Snickers. Snickers let his gloves down, gestured to his opponent to bring it on but that’s when the unexpected happened… his opponent knocked him down. I yelled at the top of my lungs “it’s okay.. it’s okay”, as well as a not-so-pretty word that I had “borrowed” from Snickers… oops.

9. Seriously, I felt sick to my stomach. Round one ended shortly there after and then in round two Snickers finished it by knocking his opponent out. Some of my friends had watched the game on TV at their homes and so my phone buzzed with text messages from them all. Turns out I hadn’t in fact dodged the camera and in fact they had designated one camera to just focus on me. In my TV interview they asked me three questions, “Do you think he fought and trained hard for today?”, “You look sore, why are you sore?” [reference to my game there… like way to kick me when I’m already down], and “What’s one thing you’d like to say to him now?” Snickers’ phone rang off the hook as a result of my answer on the last question when I looked into the camera and in Korean I raised my voice and said “I love you! I love only you!”

10. Honestly, I wanted nothing more than to have today be all about Snickers but once again my pride had distracted me. I had tried hard to keep a low profile but hadn’t been so successful. Junior Mint approached me and said something to me which I won’t repeat for the fact that I’m trying out that whole “forgive and forget, or at least forget” thing, and the other UP members that were there really didn’t talk to me. However, today was Snickers’ day though and so I tried my hardest to put aside my own feelings regarding my own situation and tried to focus on him. He’s always so handsome in the ring and I always feel like the proudest girlfriend when I watch him fight. Snickers had fought a great fight, a fight that scared the heck out of me at one point but none the less a great fight. I was proud of him and seeing that his best friend, buddies, his grandfather, father, mother, two sisters, and his two nieces had traveled out to Il San today to support him made me all that more proud. He is my pride of Korea.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's the best piece of advice you've ever been given?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
-- Edmund Hillary

It's FIGHT DAY... again!

Sucking up my pride, lowering my hat and heading out to yet another fight. This time it's Black Skinny and Snickers who have fights. Black Skinny fights at 4:30pm and Snickers fights at 7pm. Check out MBC EPSN Sports for the fights.

Me trying to rock the eye wear that Kitty Cat brought over to my house. After the whole egg thing-a-ma-bob was a no-go, I tried heating this bad boy up and placed it on my face. I don't think it did much but it did make a super hero out of me for a couple of hours... hahaha.

Highlights of my Day... Sunday, July 26

1. Woke up and was reminded once again that I did in fact have a mashed up face… thanks mirror. So much for “Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who’s the fairest one of all?” B.S. that they taught me in school. If today were a beauty contest I would have lost hands down to Mi Nam… to Mi Nam, a butt-licking mutt with an over sized neck and who has yet to grow into his ears! Dang! Life is rough sometimes.

2. Goggled on the web how to go about taming down these very loud shiners I’m sporting and came up with various strange remedies. Turns out applying melted chocolate and wrapping it in gauze overnight is quite the popular remedy. Knowing me though and my lack of chocolate eating, I’d probably wake up and eat it all… hahaha.

3. I think I took too many punches to the head yesterday cause me goggling on the Internet for bruise remedies ended up with me reading all about how I can register in Korea for residence once my five year mark comes around. I’ll will have been in Korea for five years come February 16th, 2010… sweet.

4. My nose is still doing some funky clicking but it’s all swollen and so I really can’t do much with it besides randomly click it back in place and breathe through my mouth.

5. The other day my former coworker asked me if I could do her a favor and so today one of her students dropped by my house. I had texted the student earlier on today, warning her to not be scared of my freakishly purple swollen face but despite her reading the text when I opened the door her and her mother took a good step back and their jaws dropped. “It doesn’t hurt as bad as it looks” was all I managed to come up with.

6. With Snickers off at his game weigh-in (game is tomorrow), I had no real intentions of any showing my face in public, or to any other person for that matter, but I had already broke my plan with agreeing to meet with the student and so when Kitty Cat said “let’s hang out” I agreed.

7. Checked out the new restaurant that’s taken over my overly expensive pasta place that Giggle Girl Jr. and her mother use to take me too. The food was delish, mind ya, with a semi-locked sore jaw it was rather uncomfortable eating, not to mention I was super shy and struggled to keep my face hidden.

8. I got a lot of those “who’s the battered woman?!” looks, or so it felt, when I went grocery shopping with Kitty Cat and so I was relieved when we arrived back at my apartment. Showed her how to make my high energy bars and then we popped in a movie my friend Joe had given me yesterday. The movie was called “Panthom Punch” and I had been told that my friend Troy Ross was in it but, as it turned out, so was my friend Mark Simmons and my former coach Egerton Marcus, all three of which are known Canadian boxers. I really was in no mood to watch a boxing movie but when I saw Egerton step into the ring in the movie I yelled out; I was so stoked! Dang, I wish Egerton was here. He would have jumped into the ring and had demanded a rematch… hahaha. That’s Egerton for you, he’s always got your back, even when he knows you’re in the wrong. He’s just that loyal… and stubborn… hahaha.

9. Snickers told me that rubbing an egg on my eyes would help the bruising go down. He also told me that it’d turn the egg black on the inside. Of course telling me things like this gets the gears in my head spinning at full speed. I love strange facts like this and so after a day of rubbing the heck out of my eyes, Kitty Cat and I eagerly cracked open the eggs and guess what we saw?!... try yourself. What, did you think I’d seriously tell you?!... foo. Okay, so I’ll tell you… there was no black. Not only was there no black but my bruises also didn't tame down at all... dang! Tomorrow I have to head out to Snickers' fight and based on how the press and media have treated me in the past, I'll definitely have to try hard to dodge their cameras!!!

10. What there also wasn’t were text messages or calls from other friends, asking how I was doing. I know they know I lost my fight but what gets me is why so many people try so hard to avoid the uncomfortable situation of bringing up bad news. It drives me bonkers. I will however note here that of all the people who I expected to contact me, I was definitely not expecting a text message from my former team mate who had stiffed Junior Mint with being a no-show for pre-game training. I’ll certainly have to rethink what I think of him. Thanks to those of you who left messages on my homepage here, others who left messages on my Facebook, and those of you who did text message me or did whatever to approach me, despite the sourness of the situation, and were real with me.


QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Should I even try to apply for residence?


QUOTE OF THE DAY...
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
-- Erma Bombeck

The Korean champ maintains her status... for now.

I guarantee a rematch with this mighty power house (Jodie) would bring down the house and cause quite the stir in Korea!!!

Highlights of my Day... Saturday, July 25

1. Started my day off by waking up from a terrible dream by which my own sobbing and tears were what woke me up… so strange. Sometimes I have dreams like this, thankfully not often, but I do have strange dreams where the sound of me crying or me screaming wakes me up. I had dreamt that I had quit my job but I had been teaching back at my own high school out in Canada. I had just quit my job but they had insisted I finished the day. I remember writing on the board and all the students nervously awaiting me to crack and burst out in tears. It wasn’t until the chalk broke that I started to cry… and then I woke up.

2. Needless to say that wasn’t exactly the way I wanted to start the day but it definitely gave my day a brutal kick start. It was about 7am and I was full awake. I didn’t have to be at the bus terminal till 9am and so I killed time by repacking my bag and taking Mi Nam for a light jog.

3. 8:55am arrived and Snickers arrived shortly there after and together we, along with Junior Mint, took the 9:10am bus out to Bo Chun. Shortly after us arriving at the arena, Jodi, the main game fighter from America, showed up with her coach and the IFBA President. And no sooner had I greeted them and started up a conversation with them but then I was being asked by the MBC ESPN people (TV people) to pose as a kind of translator. For anyone else I probably would have been bothered by this request but Jodi and I clicked and I already had gained a lot of admiration and respect for her. So MBC and I took her around the arena and gave her the low down on how the show was going to go down. MBC had arranged for quite the elaborate entrance for all us fighters, having us come down some 20 flights of stairs, pause at three places to shadow box for the camera, and then we were to continue onto the ramp that would shoot out fire and smoke as we made our way to the ring. It was quite the majestic entrance but it only added to my already active butterflies.

4. Outside my changing room there played a small orchestra.. and then they called my name. It was game time. I made my way up to the top of the arena and then made my way down, all the time while the cameras were zoomed on me and people cheered for me in the crowd. Upon entering the ring I looked over at Snickers and there behind him were some unexpected visitors, three of my friends… Loren, a professor out in Seoul, Joe, a fellow foreigner and professional boxer here in Korea, and his wife. Loren and Joe are on the planning team with me for the Jeju Island boxing convention but I hadn’t anticipated them coming and so I was so happy to see them. My friend Penny had also traveled out to Bo Chun with her boyfriend to catch my game. The only one who had come from my club was Little Miss Sunshine.

5. In the first round I took a brutal hit and got knocked down, but I picked myself up and continued. Later on Snickers told me that when that happened, he knew for a fact that I had the heart of a lion and was a true Pollack. I’m always telling him how Polish people tend to be stubborn in their ways and in their thinking, “pride is the Pollack’s strength and weakness” I had told him. Today I showed my pride in the ring but I was defeated and so with that defeat down came my pride.

6. You know it’s funny, everyone is so quick to be in your face and wants to be all buddy-buddy with you when you’re on top of the world, on top of your game, but where are they when you need picking up… when you really need them?! Exactly. I had fallen in the ring but my pride had taken quite the beating and so again I fell in the bathroom. I locked myself in one of the stalls and fell to the floor crying with embarrassment. Embarrassed to show my face, embarrassed to admit I had failed, and afraid that Snickers would tell me to quit… that they all would. I hadn’t gone there for a loss but instead for a win and I definitely hadn’t gone there to step out of boxing and let others have the last laugh.

7. I let Snickers into the bathroom stall with me, only after I allowed him to get numerous dirty looks from the other girls who were shocked to see him in the girl’s bathroom. Anyways, it was there in the stall that he cupped my face with his hands and told me that he was proud of me. That’s all I needed to hear to get my butt out of that dirty bathroom.

Even I felt sick looking at myself in the mirror.

After my fight I threw on my hooded sweater and kept my face pretty much hidden with the help of my hat. I've never felt so shy in my life. I felt so shy that when Snickers' sister passed by me I instantly looked down and crossed my fingers, hoping she hadn't spotted me in the crowd.

8. Jodie’s coach had asked me earlier to help be his ring corner man during Jodie’s fight and so after suffering a defeat it was exactly what I needed to save myself from the self-pity party I was about to attend. In between the rounds my job was to prop-up the stool for her to sit on, place a wet towel on her head and give her water. Honestly, helping her really helped me a lot. Not only did it take my mind off my own stress but it was so awesome to experience this other aspect of boxing. I’ve never been a corner man before and so it was pretty cool. Watching Jodie I felt so proud and eagerly cheered her on. I stood by her coach and watched as with every command and word he yelled she would react. They were quite the team and I envied that. When the fight ended and they announced that the Korean champion had won, I too felt so disappointed. It was a close fight but I’m not too sure if it was a fair one. The IFBA President asked for the tapes and so it’ll be renewed but I felt terrible for Jodie. She had traveled so long and had trained so hard for something that so many of us in the arena thought should have been hers, a win.

9. I let Jodie cool down a bit in the change room before I entered. I greeted her with a huge hug and she said thank you to me for all the help. I thanked her too. I really wished I could have helped her more and so we exchanged emails. Later on after our fights, numerous fans in the crowd approached us. Jodie ended up signing the back of some male fan and, when I was leaving, I too got asked to sign the body part of another guy, his chest… hahaha. In total, today I had posed for numerous photos with fans and had done a couple of handfuls of signatures. I had lost my fight but somehow had maintained my popularity with the crowd.

10. Traveling home on the bus with Snickers wasn’t so comfortable as the adrenaline of the day had worn off, my eyes had puffed up and I was pretty sure I had discovered that I had broken my nose for the very first time. I take it the clicking of any bone isn’t a good thing and well, that’s exactly what my nose was doing, clicking. I had bit down too hard on my mouth guard during the fight and so opening it to chew any kind of food was out of the question. I arrived in Cheonan a bruised, super shy boxer with a clicking nose and a butchered pride. I looked like a battered woman making my way to a shelter as supposed to my house. Snickers took my braids out for me and thank God too, cause I was way too shy to head over to Park Jun and announce that I had lost. I can deal with the bruises and even the broken nose, I don’t care about that. What I do care about is my pride and losing today killed it, so I rather remain MIA for now.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Where are those so-called "supporters"?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
-- W.C. Fields

I lost my fight and my badly damaged pride and broken nose don't really want to talk about it right now. I had a longer than long day on Saturday with my face constantly being splattered all over national TV and the cameras following me around. Mind you I have no regrets and I would really like to thank a handful of you who actually had the guts to face the uncomfortableness of asking me how I was.

...you know who you are.

I know what I did others could only wish or think of doing but don't, and so I'm okay with being hurt but some of you really hurt my pride today. I really thought some key people would at least have the decency to give me a ring or at least drop me a word

... you know who you are, too.

My purple eyes will fade away, I'll reset my nose and it'll be fine, but I won't forget. I may forgive but I can't forget and, if we can't forget, can we really forgive?

It's FIGHT DAY!!!

Hey Everyone,

While you're reading this I'll be gearing up and heading out to Bo Chun here in S.Korea for my fight. The scheduled got all flip-flopped and switched around and so now I am the very first fight of the show... how nerve racking is that?!

MBC ESPN Sports, 1pm.

Anyways, I met my opponent yesterday and found out some pretty cool news but I'll fill you all in on that when I get back. Now I'm off for a long bus ride out to the location but I wanted to say thanks to those who have continually supported me with my boxing... and even those who haven't.


-- Amy

Classic shot of catching someone sleeping... hahaha. No sooner did I take this shot but Junior Mint woke up and flicked me on the forehead... hahaha.

The Cheonan market... I love this place but with the new addition of the roof, it makes this place a year-round favourite local hot spot.

Highlights of my Day... Friday, July 24

1. With today being my official game weigh-in, I had to weigh-in before my before weigh-in which was also before my weigh-in… did I lose you there?! What I meant to say is that I had to go to La Sya to weigh-in, just in case I had woken up in the middle of the night for a glass of water (have been known to do that and have no memory of it). Then I met up with Junior Mint at 9:20am so that we could go to the boxing club to check my weight. Then it was off to Seoul for my official game weigh-in, bringing me stepping on the scale today to three.

2. Tomorrow’s main game is between Park Je Hyun and an American boxer, Jodie, both of which are very high in the IFBA rankings (Je Hyun is champion status). Jodie flew in just for the game and KBC was quick to introduce me to Jodie, apparently that’s the thing they love doing, having the foreigners be all buddy-buddy while we all sweat it out waiting for weigh-in and our health check. Jodie’s coach had traveled in the night before and was suffering from jet lag, I felt so bad for him, but she was also joined by the IFBA (International Female Boxing Association) President and so I got talking to her. Great lady and definitely a great contact to have made!

3. The guys, like usual, stripped down to their tiny-winnie barely-there panties and stepped on the scale. I was good to go with all my clothes on but when Jodie stepped on the scale she stripped down to her bra and panties. She had to weigh-in under 46kgs… that’s crazy low! Anyways, there wasn’t a closed jaw in the room when she stripped down. I looked up and there starring back at me were arms larger than mine and sick-sick abs! Snickers may have beautiful abs but she put even his abs to shame! I think her opponent, Je Hyun, felt intimidated and so off went her clothes when she stepped on the scale for weigh-in. She couldn’t quite compete with the body Jodie was sporting but props to her for being so brave at attempting. Good luck to both ladies tomorrow. Their fight alone is worth the long drive to the location!!!

4. Got looks of disapproval by the doctor on call at KBC when he called me over for my health check and noticed that it was just a month ago when I had last fought. I didn’t have much recovery time till I was back in the club training, actually I only had my fight day and the following day off training to be exact, and so he wasn’t impressed. Nothing became of his concerns though beyond him drilling me with the whole “follow the flashlight” routine and checking out the joints in my arms.

5. Sweet news: I’m now ranked 3rd female flyweight in Korea! Meet my opponent, not a very friendly girl but she’s ranked #5 and her coach seemed overly interested to ask me a million questions. I think he was trying to make up for her cold introduction.

6. Weigh-in is always followed by eating but today’s eating came long overdue after Junior Mint insisted we first travel to the train station to buy our train tickets. By the time food was finally placed in front of me I had pretty much finished off the rest of my gum and had nibbled away at 1/3rds of the gum wrapper.

7. Upon arriving back in Cheonan, Junior Mint and I headed over to the local market to meet one of his friends. I really didn’t have time to spare but I couldn’t really get out of it and so I had no choice to tag along.

8. Getting my hair done at Park Jun’s salon always ends up turning into quite the “parade”, or so it feels like. They always put me in one of their private rooms when they braid my hair but the same usual Park Jun workers flood the room with peering eyes and curious questions.

9. With my bag all packed for tomorrow’s game, my hair done, and my outfit laid out, I then went to La Sye for one last run on the treadmill. I felt so shy walking in with a head full of braids and some of the trainers asked if they could touch my head.

10. Had the strangest feeling come over me while booting my Polish butt on the treadmill. Snickers was on the neighbouring treadmill and so I turned and started to make funny faces at him, in hopes of making him laugh. His eyes seemed to be glued to the TV screen and it seemed like the harder I tried to get his attention, the more into the TV show he got. Finally frustration hit me and I changed treadmills. It was the silliest of feelings, I know, rather high-schoolish, if that’s even such a word. Anyways, lately all I’ve been thinking about is Snickers and Japan. I’m so nervous that he’s going to go and forget about me and even though I really don’t know what frustrated me so much on the treadmill, I think things are just really getting to me lately. I’m so happy with him it scares me. Usually when things seem too good to be true they usually are just that, too good to be true. Snickers definitely is too good to be true in my books and it really freaks me out sometimes but it makes me wonder, am I too good to be true in his books? Anyways, after we worked out, we went for a walk with Mi Nam and I asked him, “What percentage do you want to go to Japan?” He paused for a bit and even though it was a short pause, it was enough to make my heart feel like it had sunk down into my shoes. Then he looked at me and said, “Tell me to not go and I won’t.” Trust me, I’d make my world so much easier to say that to him but I can’t. I want to support him no matter what he decides to do, regardless of what I wish he'd do because I of all people know what it's like to have dreams and goals that those close to me don't support. I don't want to be the very person I can't stand or respect. Moreover, we all have our own dreams and aspirations and if we really are meant to be than no country, job, language, or whatnot will stand in our way. What ever is meant to be will be, so that’s what I told him.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What does the future hold for "us"?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
-- Tennessee Williams

A picture of a picture, taken the second time our paths crossed... July 7, 2008.

A page from my Korean homework diary. I had written about my curiosity about Snickers and how I wanted to go see him fight and how I wanted to talk to him but I didn't know how. I was too shy.
Ain't life just funny like that. One day you're so sure of things and no sooner do you get comfortable but then it changes. And on that note, happy birthday to the man who has definitely changed my life, brought me such happiness and so many smiles, who I adore, respect and think it's gorgeous beyond belief, the bearer of my last first kiss... my man!!!
I love you Snickers.

Highlights of my Day... Thursday, July 23

1. The reaction from Snickers when he woke up to all those Cola bottles on the floor was hilarious. He sat up, paused and then yelled out "Sh## Cola!" I laughed my butt off upon hearing him yell out an English swear word considering just a couple months ago his English vocabulary basically consisted of very basic words like "yes", "no", "ok", etc. Laugh as some of you may but Snickers' favorite word begins with "sh" and ends with "it"... don't look at me, I never taught him that. He didn't actually know what it meant though until today when we took Mi Nam out for a walk. I pointed at Mi Nam's little poop pile and said "that's sh##.. Cola doesn't sh##, Mi Nam does." I think his second favorite word is "sweetie". He always gives a giggle when I call him sweetie.

2. Morning running, once again followed by morning napping.

3. “Let’s see if I have the guts to allow this post” noted a ticked off commenter today. Apparently this Anonymous commenter (how original I must note) don’t like how I continually use a “… hahaha” because, and I quote them, “it’s rather sad”. How is laughing sad?! They also don’t like how I say “whatnot” and I take it they’re not going to like it either when they read that I think they’re a tard. Tard, as in the mix between a retard and a bird’s poop (turd), or just flat out slang for a retarded person who is not actually mentally or physically retarded but definitely acts like they should be strapping on a helmet and riding the short bus. Don’t threaten me. Read my homepage and you’ll be quick to note that I willingly and continually step in the ring on a daily bases and take numerous punches, upper cuts, jabs, hooks, AND WHATNOT, to my face, body, AND WHATNOT…. hahaha. Leave your cheap words and even cheaper threats for your buddies on the bus, thanks.

4. I know you’re probably thinking, “Wow Amy, that was kind of cruel of you to write that” and yes, it was but so be it. I don’t sugar-coat my thoughts like “certain homepagers” and I think that’s what many of my readers appreciate from me and have come to expect and respect. The commenter that I was referring to above had written a comment that bashed Korea’s culture and claimed it was so behind in the times. Using two Korean friends to base your assumptions on is pretty lame. I know two Americans who are gay, so I guess that means every American is gay… ya, okay. Okay, so Korea isn’t Canada and it’s not America. It’s not any other country too for that matter but that’s the beauty of it. Of course, like most things, Korea also has it’s good points and it’s bad points but I’ve come to learn that your own personal perspective and how you take in such points really alters whether you see them as bad or good. Take for example the issue of family in Korea. Snickers and his father live together but his father calls him everyday, numerous times, and calls if he’s late coming home. At first I made fun of him, asked him his age as a joke and then told him that I’d go crazy if my father did the same thing. But I’ve since then have changed my thinking about it and now I envy Snickers for the awesome relationship he has not only with his father but with the rest of his family. Koreans put such a great emphasis on family and while most of us Westerns would feel smothered by it, it makes me kind of sad to know that Western culture has become so focused on Independence and individualism. Kids move out when they’re 18, families no longer take summer trips together, getting the whole family to sit down for a meal involves planning, and the only thing that really stands strong in the family is the “I” in “family”. Snickers family has graciously and totally unexpectedly adopted me into their family and so I am ever so thankful.

5. My point to this whole rambling is that you could argue about which country is better till we’re all blue in the face but you’ll never agree on one answer. You don’t like Korea?! That’s okay… maybe it doesn’t like you. I particularly prefer Korea over Canada, but now I really don’t care where I live. I could be living in Togo for all I care. I don’t even care what you think about whatever country but I do care when you come and splatter your “tardness” on my homepage. And yes, I know it’s not such a word but this is my homepage and I’ll use or misuse the English language however I please, thanks.

6. Enough undue attention to the tards… better to leave them be to their own tardness.

7. Sambu workers waxed the floors, trapping Snickers and I in my apartment… oh darn, what is a girl to do when forced to spend most of the day with the most beautiful man alive?! Hahaha. Don’t get too excited, we passed the hours away flaked out on the floor listening to Mi Nam snoring.

8. Tonight Snickers dropped a bomb on my lap and I didn’t quite digest it correctly. He had mentioned a while back that he’s been approached by a promoter in Japan but nothing really became of it, or so I thought. Turns out he’s got two weeks to give Japan an answer as to whether or not he’ll be moving there to box and train in Japan.

9. I excused myself, telling him that I had to get ready for training, but what I really wanted was to secretly cry in the other room. I can’t say anything to him, it’s not for me to decide and so I told him that it’s his life, his boxing career and regardless of what he choices I will support him. You see, when I first came to Korea I was in a similar situation. I had studied Korean culture throughout university and so it was in my dream to come work here but then I got engaged. A year into my first contract here in Korea I realized two things, one being that I needed more time to experience Korea and the other being that I really shouldn’t be engaged if I was ok being so far away from the man I supposedly had agreed to spend the rest of my life too. So, I broke off the engagement and stayed. Four years later and I’m still here, no regrets. I told Snickers that he has to find his own answer and that I don’t want him to have any regrets. Snickers doesn’t know his answer yet, which to me means that he may be leaning towards Japan.

10. I felt sick to my stomach at the thought of possibly losing him and with time ticking, I convinced him we better talk about this later and get training before the gym closes. I tell ya, nothing is quite like running on a treadmill when not only are you struggling to push yourself physically but are choking on the tears and trying your hardest not to puke on the treadmill from the shock of such news. I know that Snickers and I getting together went against several people’s wishes and went against a lot of odds but it’s been smooth sailing regardless of what most thought would bring upon destruction. Snickers may speak a little bit of English now but when we first met he didn’t speak a word of the language and so if something like a language couldn’t even tear us apart than I’ll be damn if I let a country get in our way. If he asks me to go live with him in Japan I will go. I haven't told him this yet though. He has to first decide for himself but as for me, I know what I want. I’ve waited 27 years to meet him and I’m not about to wait another 27 years or settle for a runner-up.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How far would you go for the one you love?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

Nothing quite says "I love you" or "happy birthday" like two massive hearts made out of 50 Coke-a-Cola bottles that's sure to send you on a sugar-high... hahaha. (Birthday card in the middle).

I took these pictures the next day but thought I'd add them with this post. I made this in the wee hours of the morning and had to work in the dark. It wasn't until the morning that I actually got to see what I had made. You should have seen Snickers' face when he woke up to this... hahaha!!!

Hghlights of my Day... Wednesday, July 22

1. Nothing quite levels out the age gap than pulling out the old “pull-my-finger” trick… hahaha. Snickers thought it was hilarious. Yup, we are definitely comfortable now… hahaha.

2. Morning running at La Sya. Morning running was then followed by morning napping. Had an extended nap that lasted about 4 hours.

3. Napping was then followed by boxing. It was only a month ago that I had my last fight and so, having trained for everyday for that fight and then upping my training and going non-stop for this fight, I’ve had limited days off training. I’ve been going hardcore with my preparation training for this upcoming Saturday fight, training 2-3 times a day. I’m happy that I’ve tapered out my weight training because it was leaving me sore in the mornings and making me slow in the ring. Needless to say I’m looking forward to this upcoming Friday when I’ll be getting my first day off since I got scheduled this fight. Friday I’ll be going in for my official game weigh-in and then will be getting my game hair done later that evening.

4. But until Friday, it’s go-go-go with my training and today was definitely no exception. Upon arriving at training, still all sleepy-eyed from my long nap, I was then told to gear up for sparring practice.

5. I usually like a good heads-up with sparring, as in giving me a day's notice, but today I was given no notice and I felt in no condition to spar. Regardless, I geared up and stepped into the ring. Junior Mint had asked one of the High School Kiddies to come in early today to spar with me. We were supposed to go four full rounds but in the second round it was brought to an end when I took a mean left jab and came back with a cruel left hook that totally took my opponent off guard… and off his feet. Last time this same situation had made me proud but today it made me feel relieved. I had come into training exhausted and so I really had no energy to go the four full rounds plus do my pad work, sand bag training, more shadow boxing, more skipping, and ab training.

6. On the other side of town Snickers was sparring, too. He had sparring later on in the evening and so Junior Mint, Black Skinny and Panty Boy Jr. headed over to his club for sparring. Junior Mint insisted I come watch but I can’t stomach watching Snickers fight…. anyone else sure, but Snickers no. As a result, I was a no-show.

7. Snickers showed up at my house after sparring and I felt sick when he looked up at me. His left eye was red and starting to swell. I treated him to a light dinner out but watching him spit up blood into his napkin wasn’t exactly how I had hoped to spend my evening. Upon arriving back at my house, I spent the next couple of hours massaging the left side of his face with ice. He tried to make me smile by joking about it but his jokes came to a pause when I blurted out "it's okay... you'll get your turn to do this to me on Saturday." Wrong thing to say to him apparently. Snickers totally supports me with my boxing but has been urging me lately to make this upcoming Saturday fight my last fight.

8. Snickers had taken a good beating during sparring and so I headed out to La Sya for running by myself while he veggied out at my apartment.

9. With it being Snickers’ birthday tomorrow I had planned a little surprise for him, but because of him and I both having fights very soon, we can’t exactly go and celebrate his birthday like we’d want to (dinner, cake, etc.). We had agreed to wait till after his Monday game next week to celebrate. Today I finally finished his birthday gift but now I have to wait for it to arrive and so I got him another gift, to kind of hold him over till his birthday date. Snickers has been drinking Cola in efforts to suppress his hunger because of having to drop crazy weight for weigh-in and so I thought it’d be funny to make a special order with a local shop owner for two cases of Cola. Snickers usually sticks around my house after training and so I had arranged to have the Cola delivered at 1am and my friend to show up at 4:30am. The plan was for us to load his two scooters up with the Cola, head over to Snickers’ house, and set up a massive line up the mountain where he does his usual 5:30am run. At the end of the line I’d be sitting there wearing a cute polka-dot dress and holding a birthday card for him. He’d be so surprised and I figured that it’d be a great way to start his birthday off.

10. Plans foiled though when I arrived home from late night running and found Snickers all cuddled up and totally passed out in my bed and with the delivery kid about to show up and my friend texting me to confirm our early morning plans, I then had to come up with a quick back-up plan. I had to get out of the house so that I could make some calls and some how sneak in all that Cola. “I have to go walk Mi Nam” I told him. He insisted we go together but I managed to convince him to stay put, which definitely was not easy considering how he always insists on helping me. Anyways, once I got out of the house, Mi Nam and I then ran over to the shop where I had ordered the Cola, in hopes of intercepting the delivery kid. Mission accomplished. Now the problem was sneaking two cases of Cola into the house and setting it up without Snickers waking up… mission also accomplished. I felt like such a sneaky cookie… hahaha. In the middle of my floor I made two massive hearts using the Cola bottles and in the middle of the hearts I then placed a card I had written in Korean. As I laid down beside him, I couldn’t help but give out a little giggle, knowing that I had pulled it off and tomorrow he’d be waking up to quite the funny birthday surprise… hahaha!!!

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Coke or Pepsi, what's the diff?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
-- Chili Davis

My new ultra cute, super comfortable, way cool bumble bee earphones.

Note how Mi Nam's sleeping with one eye efinitely open so that he can watch them... that's not the only thing he's keeping his eye on mind ya.