Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, September 30

1. I couldn’t wake up for weight training on account that in the past two nights I’ve only had a total of 5 hours sleep, so when I woke up this morning my body felt so out of whack. I hadn’t had slept long enough to score bed-head or pillow wrinkle lines on my face. I didn’t even have morning breath. Instead however, I woke up seriously questioning how the heck I was going to make it through the day.

2. Snickers and I had had our whole kiss-and-make-up scene last night in the hospital stairwell and so I was eager to see him again because I felt terrible for not being there for him when he came out of surgery. My attempt at making up for that was preparing a bag full of goodies for him. I don’t call Snickers a “food terrorist” for no reason, my boy can definitely eat, and so my bag full of goodies consisted of the following:

Milk
Banana milk
Orange juice
yogurt
Apples
Oranges
bananas
Freshly cooked rice
Still hot-from-the-oven sausages
Kimchi
Seaweed
Choco pies
Orea cookies
Crackers

3. Showed up at 9am and arrived to find Snickers sad looking, bored out of his mind, and slumped over the mini table on his bed. I wrapped my arms around him and apologized. Staying mad at him for a long period of time is practically impossible for me. I adore him.

4. Got an update on Snickers’ condition… a real update. His surgery went as planned but the doctors were rather stunned by what they saw in his x-rays. Turns out this isn’t the first time he’s injured his hand and didn’t do anything. His x-rays showed that he had broken his right hand SIX OTHER TIMES, only one of which Snickers admits to!!! He has to stay in the hospital for two weeks because of the metal plate they put in his right hand but he’ll be able to get back into the ring in two months.

5. I only stayed with him for about an hour and then I had to race off to work to finish preparing my Power Point lecture files. No sooner did I finish work though but I was racing home to see him again.

6. In my writing level two class with my medical students, I had them think up various inventions they thought would be useful and so I too thought up a couple.

My inventions:

Reversible pants: Flip them inside out and voila, another pair of pants.
The vibe-blanket: Instead of an annoying alarm sound going off to wake you up, the blanket vibrates.
Self-cleaning glasses: They have mini tucked-away windshield wipers that automatically swish down and wipe your lens when dirty.

My Vibe-Blanket invention

K-Gere's invention, the Duo-Purpose Sock... hahaha

Some smart student inventions:

The automatic toothpaste brush: Instead of
fumbling around with the toothpaste tube, this brush automatically pushes the
toothpaste up and out via the bristles.
The punch clock: An alarm clock that hits you in the head to wake you up.
The self-watering plant pot: No need to remember when to water your plants, the pot has it’s own watering hose that automatically does it for you.

Snickers sporting his robotic new hand.

K-Gere getting some camera action.

7. Filming continued with Snickers and so that meant I had to go along for the ride. No sooner had I arrived home from work but KBS was calling me, telling me that they were going to film me at boxing. I had been out of my house since 8:40am and it was now 5:30pm. I was tired, my feet hurt, and I was hungry. No time to stop and breath though… the show must go on, or so they say.

8. Having the film crew show up at boxing was rather funny because they made it look like such a big production by turning off the club lights and shinning a massive spotlight on me while I trained.

9. When we wished filming at the boxing club, they raced me back to Guum Ggum. We have very limited time before we were to arrive at Snickers’ father’s house for more filming and so I basically was given two choices: eat and show up dripping with sweat or shower and show up cranky from not eating. My own personal choice from them went somewhere along the line as “let me shower and eat and I’ll let you keep your teeth”. Ended up showering and tossing a protein shake into my purse, not exactly satisfying for an after boxing workout meal but I really had no choice.

10. Filming at Snickers’ father house was funny and I got to see just how big Tuna and Kimbab have got; they’re just as hyper now though as when they were puppies. I haven’t seen K-Gere for awhile now and so it was nice to see him. He’s going to be my father-in-law soon and so, honestly, I felt proud sitting in on his interview. With his rosy cheeks, salt and pepper hair, pudgy hands, and stocky figure, I think he’s super cute and so sweet.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Is that thing legal?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~
-- Erica Jong