Highlights of my Day... Saturday, February 27

1. I played my best “I’m-mad-at-you” poker face but it’s always so hard for me to stay mad at him when he’s just too cute for words. He definitely knows how to play the cute card God gifted him with, dang, and today when he came home he played that card hard. Dang that cute card!!!

2. My mom use to say “this hurts me more than you” when she spanked me for whatever no-good I was getting caught for and now I finally know what she meant. I think me not letting Snickers come home last night hurt me more than him because it wasn’t until after 6am that I finally fell asleep.

3. Turns out Snickers didn’t exactly sleep too, so no sooner did we kiss and make-up but it was lights out for the both of us. Slept from 9am till about 3pm.

4. While other couples have their make-up “playtime”, for a more interesting choice of words, I prefer to use the opportunity to get Snickers to do the more difficult of chores. Today’s list of “make-up chores” included scooping up the poop from Mi Nam’s housing unit, cleaning the winter blankets, and cleaning up the bedroom stack of clothes.

5. Got asked to go to Granny-Kim’s house with Snickers but opted out after I had convinced Snickers to use this opportunity to tell his father what’s been going down with his boxing coach, Homeboy-C.

6. Met up with Cat. She had asked me to help her plan her reading course for this upcoming semester at Dankook and it felt strange but good to not have that on my plate. I do miss my students but it’s nice to have the chance to do my own thing and breath.

7. I always find it amusing when people pass me in the streets and randomly say English words or sentences to me. Usually it’s high school boys but on weekends there’s always the added night club ushers passing out flyers that stop me. Tonight one usher in particular stopped me a couple of times. I had passed by him when I was out with Cat but later in the evening I ran into him again when I quickly stepped out to pick something up. Initially he had stopped to talk to me in English but when I responded to him in Korea his interest was sparked. He was trying to convince me to go to his club and I responded by saying “I don’t need to go to a club; I have a husband.” When I ran into him the second time it really got interesting. One of his coworkers had recognized me from TV and blurted out “You’re a professional boxer!” Snickers would have cracked him one on the head if he saw them pawing at me. Club ushers are pretty aggressive here in Korea and so them pulling on girls’ arms and following you down the street is more common than you think. Tonight’s pawing consisted of them asking me to flex. I didn’t flex my muscled for them, instead, I did flex my Korean language skills… hahaha.

8. I love getting a reaction out of people when I respond to them and start speaking Korean. I’m always trying to improve my Korean but lately it’s been that “Making Out in Korean” book that’s caught my attention. I've been particularly interested in the 'fighting' phrases though I don't really see the connection with it to the title, but anyways. I’ve been trying to memorize the following so-called fighting phrases but was left kicking myself tonight when I couldn’t quite remember the second one.

“Why don’t you go somewhere and die.”
“Go drink your mother’s breast milk and then come back!”
“You’re lower than an insect.”
“Come here, I’ll teach you some manners.”
“You givin’ me attitude?”
“Mind your own business.”
“What you lookin’ at?!”

9. With Snickers out of the house and me having slept a good chunk of the day away, it left me bored out of my skull and still wide awake around 2am.

10. Around 2:30am I laced up my runners and was about to head out the door to go jogging when I overheard a huge commotion on the main floor of Ggum Guum. The two other families that live in Ggum Guum are religious with locking the front doors at night and so I was quite surprised to hear someone enter. This someone was drunk… real drunk… like puke-out-your-body-weight-on-the-stairs drunk. I waited till they finished puking their brains out and then headed out the door when I heard one of my neighbors start to clean it up. He had hosed down the stairs when I headed out and he stopped to ask me if I was scared running so late. “Why scared? This is Korea” I responded with. “Plus I need the extra sparring practice” I added. He laughed and I giggled, but then when I went to go start my jog, he mumbled “strange girl”. I'll take that as a compliment although I don't think that's quite what he intended it to be.

QUESTION OF THE DAY…
What do you have to fear?

QUOTE OF THE DAY…
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
-- Susan Jeffers