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