2. Rainy days are meant for lovers… hahaha. I love it how Koreans use that word. “He’s my lover.” As if saying “he’s my boyfriend” doesn’t do him enough justice.
3. I waited till the rain stopped to get loaded down with layers and go running. The rain may have stopped by the puddles on the ground definitely interfered with my running by latching on to my pant legs and weighing them down. Still had a good run though, despite the overly sloppy and floppy stretched wet pant legs.
4. Around 3pm today Grandpa-K, in his country home and in the presence of his loving wife, passed away.
5. When Snickers called me to tell me the sad news about Grandpa-K my heart sank. I felt terrible. I felt terrible not because he died but because if only I had gone with Snickers to his mother’s house last night I would have been there to comfort him and to go to Grandpa-K’s house with him. Instead, Snickers made the trip to Grandpa-K’s house without me.
6. I once had a Baba, that’s Polish for grandmother. She lived in downtown Toronto on Bathurst Street in a house that smelt like moth balls. With her frail aging hands she used to make use her traditional Polish cabbage rolls for holiday celebrations, a recipe she passed down to my mother, and I remember she use to laugh at the fact that I liked to chew on the fake rubber grapes that she had as her dining room center piece. I never thought much of what she really wore until she passed away and then I all of a sudden insisted on wearing her clothes. I still wear some of her sweaters. Baba was the only grandparent I had. Correction, she was the only blood-related grandparent I had. An elderly lady at my church once adopted me as her grandchild, Grandma Burrage. I don’t even think that’s how you correctly spell her last name but that’s okay. I loved her dearly but she too passed on.
7. I was quick to adopt Grandpa-K as my first and only grandfather. It was at Snicker’s boxing fight that I first met him and with every fight Snickers had after that, Grandpa-K always showed up. He didn’t talk much but I you could tell by how intensely he’d watch Snickers’ fights that he was just so incredibly proud of Snickers. When Grandpa-K started to count down his remaining days, I was then introduced to Granny-K, a quirky little lady who was instantly very affectionate with me the first time we met. I knelt beside her as she cried over Grandpa-K and she sat squeezing my hand. At night she slept beside me smiling, with her legs crossed and one heel up in the air. She slept exactly like Grandpa-K and it was no wonder either because the two of them have been married for around 60 years. But now Grandpa-K is gone and so while I know he is off in a better place, a place away from pain and sorrow, I worry about Granny-K. Who’s going to look after her now after the very person who looked after her for over 60 years is now gone?!
8. Thank you God for video calling. It’s way of making it possible to be in two places at once… and I love it!!!
9. With Snickers off at his grandparents house, I was left home alone with my thoughts and so an interesting thought creep into my mind late tonight. How about a destination wedding for just the two of us?! I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of this sooner!!! I thought of so many reasons why it seemed so perfect and so I searched more about in on the web. A destination wedding in Bali… perfect.
Why so perfect?
- it costs less
- avoids the whole guest list problem of who and how many to invite
- having the wedding at the honeymoon location hits two birds with one stone
- getting married in the winter weather wouldn’t be an issue
- I don’t belong to a church in Korea and I can’t stand Korean wedding halls, so
something beyond the expected ceremony locations would be great
- what better way to start a new life together and our marriage than having a little
wedding ceremony adventure in an exotic place?!
10. The downfall to my destination wedding idea is that time is limited. My work visa ends in March and Snickers agrees that if we’re already going to get married then why not do it when it could really help me, at the end of my visa. So if my visa dies out in March and today is already the second week of November, this means that we’d have to get married in January, leaving us but oh so little time to plan this. No worries, I already found my dress.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Did Snickers cry?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.
-- Author Unknown
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