Highlights of my Day... Saturday, September 12

1. Today was the big day, Milk Dud’s big day that is. Today he was scheduled to tie the knot at exactly 1pm which, in Korea, meant we’d be in, out, and tummies full by 1:30pm. I call Korean weddings “fast food weddings” because they seem just like that, just like fast food restaurants. There’s about as much sentimental value as a bucket of KFC chicken.

2. Okay, so I sound harsh but it’s true.

3. But anyways, Milk Dud is still sporting baby teeth and yet today he was tying the knot. It was a baby-induced wedding, or a shotgun wedding as many call them. Snickers and I got all dolled up and made our way to the wedding hall where we were then joined with numerous other boxers from UP Boxing Club. We sat on the groom’s side of the restaurant… I mean reception hall… but my coach and many others sat on the bride’s side that was sadly lacking in people.
4. So the wedding started and no sooner did it start but it was ending. Motor Cross sang a special song during the ceremony, some pranksters in the crowd strutted down the isle (still not too sure what the heck that was about), and then it was over. Short but not so sweet.

5. I had once told Snickers that the bride is always the most beautiful person at the wedding and how all us girls envy her. Sadly, I couldn’t say the same about today’s wedding. Don’t get me wrong, the bride was stunning but considering why these two were getting married, I don’t think many envied her.

6. “Do you think they’ll have a life-long love?” I asked Snickers. “I don’t know” was his response and so with that we made a quick exit after the wedding. I really do hope the best for these two not just because everyone deserves to be happy but because I don’t think I would be able to do what they just did today, get married because they were forced to. Weddings are to be happy days, the happiest day in a girl’s life, yet here was a girl being forced into marriage by parents. That is so wrong, on so many levels. She stood up in front of friends, family and God and took holy vows, “till death do us part”, and I couldn’t help but feel sorry for both the bride and groom, two young university 20-year-olds who haven’t even so much dipped their toes into life’s waters and yet are now jumping ahead and bringing another life into life…. Wow.

7. In the taxi way home I turned to Snickers and made him promise we’ll never have a wedding like that. “If you want to go Korean with the wedding you’ll have to go with a Korean girl because I refuse to have that!”

8. The rest of my day was pretty much spent lounging around the house and trying to peel Snickers off the couch. Finally I got up and blurted out, “I’m going for a jog”, which really meant I was going to use the keys I hid in my sports bra and go boxing.

9. Failing asleep at the boxing club definitely wasn’t a part of my late evening plan but I did manage to get in a good work-out. I also, however, managed to upset Snickers… a lot. Returned to Guum Ggum to a very unimpressed, arms folded, eyebrows frowned Snickers.

10. I know I am sensitive. Snickers knows it too just like I know he’s sensitive too, and so me accidentally falling asleep at the boxing club and being totally out-of-touch, out-of-sight for a good four hours stirred up quite the sensitive argument between the two of us. It resulted with Snickers threatening to leave, as in leave us as a couple. Leave it too to me to add more fuel to the fire too by blurting out, “Okay, leave… but remember two words: hunter and hunted” Snickers is all about getting reactions out of me and so we have this ongoing joke/reality check about those two words, which I must note he hates but it does it’s job. Anyways, it got to the point where he kept on saying “I’m going,.. I’m going” and so instead of listening to him repeat himself again I got up to leave. Ya, that definitely didn’t go over too well and so he physically tried to stop me. Needless to say, this was definitely the most intense and the most extreme argument we have ever remotely had. I love Snickers to pieces and adore the heck out of him, as he does me, and so as the argument hit it’s peak it wasn’t long before we started to see how silly this was and how so much better we are than this. It had been a rough evening but it ended with me all curled up with Snickers’ arms wrapped around me which, in my books, is a pretty sweet spot to be in.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
When is a mother's love too controlling?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.
-- Leon R. Yankwich