Highlights of my Day... Saturday, March 27

1. Snickers headed off to Suwon today to help his best bud move back into his parents’ house. For awhile there he had been living with his money-demanding girlfriend. I know he loves her but Snickers and I seriously question whether or not she loves him or his wallet. The other day he decided that living together wasn’t the best thing after all, so he got rid of their apartment and moved back home. However, in doing so, he gave her the massive TV and larger-than-life refrigerator he had bought for their apartment. Ya, ok… like I really get the point he’s trying to prove there! I take it the TV and the fridge were the runner-up prizes for the grand prize of getting to live with him. “Forget her!” I told Snickers. “Give us the TV and fridge. After all, it’s us that have to listen about this sad one-sided puppy love story. Where’s our consolation prize?!”

2. Anyways, not too sure on if he’ll continue feeding her questionable $3000 a month money demanding but both Snickers and I agree that the only thing left that he should even consider giving her is a good kick to the curb and a good old “don’t let the door hit you on the way out” holler. Sure, I too am financially supporting my other half but I’m also now married, so our situation is much different. Snickers will be around for the long haul but she may only be around until his bank account goes dry or he goes crazy from working like a slave to support her. And unlike Snickers, she’s going out and spending loads of his hard earned money on pointless things and on other people – possibly other guys.

3. With Snickers out of the house, I was able to catch up on some emailing, study Korean without being distracted by Snickers insisting on ‘kiss breaks’, and plan for tomorrow’s language exchange morning meeting.

4. Met up with Cherry Pie for jokes, good times, an honest friend's ear.

5. With Black Skinny’s fight being a week away, many of us from UP Boxing Club have been pulled into helping him train. I’m all for encouraging him at boxing and showing my support and respect but he getting Snickers to go run the path up the mountain at 7:30am on a Sunday and then Snickers asking me to do so is where I drew the line. Sorry boys. I can stay up till 7:30am but ask me to wake up, be alert and be able to hustle my Polish tush up a mountain is brutal. It’s bad enough I have to wake up and be ready for my 9:30am language exchange meeting! Sorry boys, but to your early morning request I’ll have to use Snickers’ favorite answer here, “Helllllllll no!”… hahahah.

6. Printed off some stuff for tomorrow’s first weekend language exchange meeting at a local PC room where I was mistaken for a university student… sweet! His ‘bait’, as Snickers would call it, was asking me if I used msn messenger. But when I didn’t fall for his first bait, he threw me another piece of bait by telling me my print outs (16 pages) were free. I took his second bait as a compliment and ignored answering the first bait by pretending I didn’t hear him.

7. Oddly enough, I am looking forward to tomorrow’s first weekend language exchange meeting. Unlike the Monday night meeting I attended, I’ve got big plans for my weekend meetings, including a distinct meeting outline plan, weekly discussion topics, suggested textbooks for both those learning Korean and those learning English, and weekly homework for both groups.

8. I’ll be the first to admit that Snickers and I are one of those attached-at-the-hips couples and consequently we have our daily routine is bombarded with ‘couple things’. For example, Snickers always waits for me with my house coat in hand while I shower. When one leaves the house, the other walks them to the door to kiss them goodbye and then they stand by the balcony window to wave goodbye. I never make my something to eat or drink without making something for Snickers, we always have coffee-snack time together every day, afternoon nap time, and we occasionally have showers together.

9. But, we’ve taken things a bit further by making up some cute but silly house rules. Such rules include a no-more-than-2-nights a week policy that means neither of us can sleep without the other for more than 2 nights a week. This is easy for me because most of my Korean friends live in Cheonan but for Snickers who use to live in Icheon and whose best friend lives in Suwon, this isn’t so easy at times. Another rule we have is a no clothes sleeping rule, that’s pretty self explanatory.

10. By the time 12:30am hit me I had accepted the fact that I was by no means able to sleep because I had no Snickers to cuddle up to and wasn’t even remotely tired, so I laced up and went running. On my way back to Ggum Guum, up ahead of me on the path I spotted what appeared to be a drunk man staggering home. I moved to the right side of the path in anticipation of running past him but then he moved to the right side too. And when I moved to the left side, he did too. We were still a couple of meters away when all of a sudden this supposedly drunk man took off his hood and revealed his face. I was shocked, it was Snickers!!! As soon as I saw his gorgeous smile I jumped up on him, wrapped my arms around his neck and my legs around his waist. I definitely hadn’t expected him home until the morning and so I was so incredibly and pleasantly shocked to see him. He had arrived home apparently just as I had left Ggum Guum to go running, so he sat on the curb and waited half an hour out in the chilly weather for me to return.

QUESTION OF THE DAY…
What tickles your fancy?

QUOTE OF THE DAY…
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
-- Christopher Morley