Highlights of my Day... Thursday, February 18

1. When I was on my honeymoon it was one of the tour guide sellers and now it’s some of my teammates at the boxing club that are heckling me about the baby question – “When are you going to have a baby, Amy?” I haven’t even fully digested the fact that I am now married and already they’re expecting me to poop out a baby.

2. Snickers’ buddy boy out in Suwon gave him a PlayStation 2 the other day and so we’ve been testing it out. I argued that Wii is better but not really one for video games to start off with. We bought a game the other day while out in Seoul and it’s a totally old skool game.

3. Transferring a current E2 visa in Korea is really easy but considering I got asked to do it today after just handing in my F2 application and documents yesterday is a whole other issue. As many of you know, I use to work at Dankook but I resigned from my position, and I did so for various reasons, part of which was so I had more time and more freedom to do as I please. Transferring my current E2 a to another employer, of whom I’m only interested in part-time work, and being obligated to them till my F2 visa comes through certainly defeats the purpose of it all but it did however solve some issues regarding having way too much time on my hands and keeping my wallet full.

4. The whole situation was made all that more clearer to me after a long chat with Cherry Pie over a much needed coffee. Together we came to several conclusions regarding the whole E2-F2 visa situation.

5. Together we even came up with a solution for the whole wanted wedding dinner party I’ve been pondering. Although May is a long way away from the wedding date that occurred in January, it’d provide the perfect weather for the outdoor venue I think would pose as the perfect romantic hot spot for an evening dinner party. All I have to do now is sell Snickers on the idea.

6. Despite the double espresso shot in the cup of coffee I downed, I ended up crashing in the early afternoon. Last night I had a late night cup of coffee on an empty tummy and it kept me up till about 3am tossing and turning in my bed while Snickers slept the time away.

7. Changed my routine at boxing.

MONDAY TO FRIDAY DAILY ROUTINE
Usually at 6-8pm I go boxing. Boxing is then followed by an ab workout, in which I do 4 sets of 50 reps of two different ab exercises of my choosing, and 20-30 minutes of light weight training.

MONDAY – Chest, shoulders and triceps

Chest
Flat bench flyes with dumbbells

Shoulders
Alternating dumbbell press
Lateral raises

Triceps
Tricep kick-backs
Prone pulley tricep extensions

TUESDAY – Biceps and back

Biceps
Hammer heads
Alternating bicep curls

Back
Seated rows
Lat pull-downs

WEDNESDAY -- Legs

Legs
Calf raises
Hack lifts
Weighed lunges

THURSDAY -- Chest and triceps

FRIDAY -- Biceps, back and shoulders

Ab workout favorites
Bicycle kicks
Side bends with dumbbells
Bench crunches
Reverse crunches
Traditional sit-ups
Captain’s chair crunches

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
Usually, I pick only one of these two days as my day of rest while the other day I do my longer run (about 9km).

RUNNING
4-5 times during the week I run 6km around midnight or 1am. It’s followed by a cool-down session of stretching. Because I am such a night hawk and this evidently doesn’t really work with Snickers’ internal clock, running super late helps me sleep. After a good run, it’s an easy lights out for me.

8. Trained tonight with Panty Boy Jr. and the Korean Bulldog. Ran into one of my favourite High School Kiddies and I think I sent him home with “issues”, so to speak, when I asked him to reach up the back of my top and pull my headphone wire down… hahaha.

9. Bought myself a late Valentine’s Day gift – a massive bag of Snickers bite-size chocolates. Actually, I didn’t really buy it but I told Snickers I did. I wasn’t about to tell him that it was actually the biggest piece of “bait” used yet by one of the guys at the local eye glasses store that I pass by every time I go to boxing. Usually he (the eye glasses dude) and I simply exchange smiles and nods. Occasionally though he stops me to chat or treats me to a yogurt drink and sometimes he’s even gone so far as to walk me a couple of blocks. Tonight, however, I ran into him in the grocery store when I stopped after boxing to pick up milk. Upon seeing the massive counter of Snickers bags I commented, telling him that I had wished for a bag for Valentine’s Day but never got one. “Now you got one” he said as he picked up a bag and placed it on the check-out counter.

10. Spent the rest of my evening lounging around the house and watching “Strong Man Competitions” on TV. Go Poland!!!

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why does the F2 visa take so long to process?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
-- Ben Stein