Highlights of my Day... Sunday, March 21

1. Word from KBC is that Snickers may be scheduled a fight next month, so I rolled over and caught some more zzz’s while he headed off to boxing.

2. Today I was excited to be heading off to Seoul to meet my new friend, Nurse Goldilocks. Snickers is always telling me that my Korean language skills are impressive but today I was definitely going to be put to the test. The two of us, Nurse Goldilocks and I, were going to meet up and head over to Insadong for some dinner and shopping.

3. I was nervous about the meet-up and thought it’d either be really good or really bad, so I got in a couple of extra hours of studying vocab before I headed out.

4. Snickers rushed home from boxing to see me off. He had scored a bloody bruised lip from sparring with Black Skinny. Call me crazy but I love his so-called ‘battle wounds’. I’m big into things like scars, obvious marks on the body that are sure to have some kind of interesting story attached to it. My favorite scar of Snickers is the three inch scar on his right hand from where he broke it in a bout and they replaced the bone with a metal plate. I remember the day I caught him sitting in the kitchen taking out the stitches with his teeth!!!

5. While on route to Seoul, Wonder Bread called me a half dozen times. Finally, I agreed to take his call. He heard through a common friend that I got married, so he repeatedly asked me if I was happy. Of course I am happy, I’d be crazy not to be. I’ve married my most favorite person, Snickers. Anyways, Wonder Bread insisted that he was only calling because he wanted to know if I knew any foreigners who he could be friends with. “I want to practice my English – a language practice friend” he said. I had a good laugh at that because the last time I met him English was definitely not what he was trying to practice and, if I stand correctly, he didn’t even want to talk – not Korean and definitely not English. He asked me if I could give him the number of my rugby playing female friend in Seoul. She’d chew him up and spit him out, but then again, maybe that’s what he needs. Regardless, I refused to help him out. I don’t really many foreign friends in Korean, none of which are deserving of the stress he’d surely give them either!

6. Well, my bus arrived and then I met up with Nurse Goldilocks. We had a bit of a mishap with the meeting location. I had told her to meet me outside of Dunkin Donuts at the terminal but I totally forgot that there were two of them. I didn’t really know how to initially great her, so there was a couple of seconds of awkwardness and then we hugged.

7. In Insadong we didn’t really do much window shopping, it was more or less just us two girls walking up and down the streets chatting and giggling the time away. Nurse Goldilocks took me to one of Insadong’s famous restaurants and then we headed to a coffee shop to get away from the insanely busy streets and the chilly chill of the outside weather.

8. Not too sure of what exactly it was we talked about but we talked a lot – for 5 hours! I was proud to note that I only had to depend on my cell phone dictionary a total of three times. I had a good time with her, correction, I had a great time with her. She’s a really sweet and a really smart girl. We texted each after we both went our own way home, so I have high hopes for this new found friendship.

9. The last bus back to Cheonan was scheduled for 11:20pm and I had a ticket for it. With ten minutes for me to wait, I decided to check out what food vendors were open. Stopped by a toast sandwich and got into a funny chat with the man running it. He was watching K1 fighting on TV and I mentioned to him that I love boxing. Well, one thing lead to another and next thing I knew it he was asking for my signature and offering me a free toast sandwich in exchange… hahaha.

10. It’s always nice to get out but it’s always nice to come back home. By the time I arrived it was quite late and Snickers was quite eager to see me, so eager in fact that when I got off the bus I spotted him running down the street towards me.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's a friend to you?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-- Carl Jung