Highlights of my Day... Thursday, July 9

1. Did running and weight training at La Sya in the morning and ran into No-Neck and his no-people-skills manner.
2. It rained like a mofo and so because of it Junior Mint insisted we keep all the windows closed. So while the massive downpour brought a chill to downtown Cheonan, it was like a sauna in the boxing club. Junior Mint made me wear my sweat suit and so it plus the hot stale air of the club meant I seriously thought I was going to pass out… well, either that or drown in my own sweat!

3. While I was at boxing Snickers thought he’d take it upon himself to literally deface one of my walls in my apartment. When I arrived home, I opened the door and was completely bombarded by a nasty smell. It was wallpaper paste mixed with the smell of pee. Apparently Mi Nam couldn’t take the excitement of Snickers’ mess and had peed on his bed, on his sweater, and on the floor…. Nice.

4. As for the wall, it looks, well… it looks like I’ll have to get use to it. Snickers was laying on the couch when I arrived home and by the look on his face, I could tell he didn’t look too happy. He said the wall looked ugly but honestly, it doesn’t look so bad. I mean, now I have a small wall of massive red flowers that are rather pretty, minus the minor bubbles in the paper that is. He had also tried to fix the two steps that Mi Nam had once chewed away. Leave it to Snickers to do something totally sweet like this. I could have cared less whether the wall looked beautiful or had been splattered with ugliness because the fact of the matter was I’ve never had someone done so many sweet things for me and tried so hard to make me happy. He makes me happy… continually.

5. Tonight Snickers and I had a little date planned. It was a dinner and movie date that I had planned. We were to start off with dinner at Mainz (my favorite restaurant) and then we were going to catch a flick at the local theater.

6. Dinner was a huge success and Snickers ate enough to surely feed a small country… hahaha. He kept his “A.D.D.-wanna-be” manners to a minimum and I had wore a dress for the occasion.

7. Snickers loves learning things about Western culture and so tonight I tried to teach him the correlation between the game of baseball and dating. “First base is holding hands…” I started to tell him. Turns out Snickers is well aware of baseball and so he was quick to blurt out “I want a grand slam!”… hahaha. I’m not sure how that works out though, considering a grand slam involves players on each base, thus 4 home runs, if I’m correct on that. I joked and told him that I was just hoping for a kiss at the end of the date but wow, way to aim high… hahaha.

8. Our movie portion of the date wasn’t as successful as dinner. No good movies were playing and we ended up changing our tickets at last minute when we realized we had bought tickets for a French flick. It’s been such a long time since I’ve ever walked out on a movie but tonight that’s how the movie portion of our date ended, with us walking out. Julianne Moore starred in the movie, “Savage Grace”, and so I was quite disappointed considering I’ve always liked her movies and considered her a great actress. But this movie, oh gosh. I can’t stand these wanna-be artsy movies that turn out to be nothing but silly rubbish and a waste of both my time and money. And as a result, Snickers now holds the reins for picking the next movie we get to see cause I totally killed it by picking this pathetic perverted flick.

9. After skipping out on the movie, we then did some window shopping. We walked around downtown hand-in-hand and then headed back to my house where I then scored the goodnight kiss I had anticipated for.

10. Somehow our goodnight kiss lead into a discussion about weddings. Personally, I can’t stand modern day Korean weddings that are all show and no feeling. Weddings here aren’t like weddings in Western culture where you get married in a church and have the big reception. Instead, weddings here tend to be all for show, with the wedding happening either at a wedding hall or outside at some traditional place like a palace, both of which have no real connection to the groom or bride. Moreover, the reception usually consists of people eating while the ceremony is in motion. Snickers and I talked about it tonight and we both decided that we both really don’t care about a big wedding ceremony, not just because it’ll suck up our cash but because we really don’t care to impress a bunch of people who, in couple of years, if that, down the road will probably not even remember our wedding. We’re both beyond trying to impress others and are much more interested in taking that massive lump of cash and investing it in a beautiful apartment. And so, as we laid on my floor chatting about wedding talk, we came up with a cool idea. Why not get married on the mountain beside Snickers’ house?! We’d have it in the fall when the tree leaves have changed colour. Our evening reception would be beautifully lined with candles and it’d be more like a fusion reception. We’d have Korean food for dinner but dinner would be followed with dancing under the stars. It’d be a small but beautifully intimate wedding, consisting of only those we truly love.

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

QUOTE OF THE DAY…
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery