Highlights of my Day... Thursday, March 25

1. With Snickers on standby, waiting to hear whether or not he’s got a fight in April, he’s started to diet in anticipation of scoring a fight. I’ve been trying hard to help him out. Anyone that knows me or knows Snickers knows that his game diet gets pretty brutal near the end, consisting of cola, ice cream, and mini yogurt drinks. This time, however, he’s given the reins of his game dieting to me. I’ve loaded the fridge up with lots of veggies and eggs and have put him on a protein-carb cycling diet. On most days he’ll be eating low carbs and high protein, fruit in the morning and veggies at night. He’s good to go with getting his protein but he doesn’t really like veggies unless there a side dish and are accompanied by a small country’s worth of rice.

2. Snickers’ veggie of choice = mushrooms. I’ve got quite the stock of salad dressings to try to tempt him into eating salads or at least cut raw veggies but so far all he likes is the Caesar salad dressing. Now in regards to fruit, he loves fruit but the problem is he eats way too much fruit. And by way too much fruit I’m really only referring to bananas. On average, he eats about four bananas a day. Last night he woke up spontaneously at 3am, ate a banana and then went back to bed. Fruits are great but you really should only eat them in the morning because they’ve got natural sugar and a lot of carbs, and too much of a good thing isn’t so good. I guess in all fairness though, he did eat that last banana in the morning… hahaha.

3. So much for riding the house of any kind of editable temptation, Snickers returned to Ggum Guum with a bag full of baked goods from Paris Baguette. The Paris Baguette nearby Ggum Guum just reopened and apparently they had a massive sale.

4. Got my butt publicly kicked when I decided to go running around the Dankook lake at 2pm. I usually go running really early in the morning or really late in the evening, so I wasn’t expecting to have such difficulties breathing because of my clothes. Like usual, I loaded up on the layers – my ‘second skin’ shirt and pants, a hooded sweater, a pair of training pants, and then my outer Adidas training jacket and pants (both are lined and serve kind of like a snowsuit).

5. Snickers had joined me for my run. He wanted to drive over to Dankook, get out and then run the track around the lake three times, totaling 6.9kms (2.3kms a lap). Into the third lap I had had enough. I couldn’t breathe. I seriously felt like I was in some kind of sauna with the heat cranked up. The weather wasn’t particularly warm today but underneath all those layers of clothes it was boiling.

6. Went home a disappointed runner. No more ‘heavy-layered runs’ for me. Time to peel off the layers for spring!!!

7. During the week, 5pm marks ‘nap time’ at Ggum Guum and it usually lasts until 6:50pm when we then wake up and head off to boxing.

8. Junior Mint is always trying to get any new girl training at our boxing club to become buddy-buddy with me. I, on the other hand, am not as accepting of new people as he’d like. Tonight I was introduced to a new girl. My teammates were all overlooking the situation go down and were obviously waiting for Junior Mint to pull out the ‘friend-test question’, as they call it. Junior Mint knows me well, too well sometimes, and so he knows what kind of person I am drawn to. “Do you want to spar with Amy?” is the so-called ‘friend-test question’ . Based on the girls’ response, I’ll either become friends with them or then and there will basically be the first and last conversation I’ll have with them. For the most part, the new girls all give the same over-exaggerated ‘no’, hence why I only consider two girls at my boxing club friends, Bella Punch and S-line Wanna-Be. I really don’t care whether or not I’ll actually spar with whatever new girl gets asked the question, that’s not the point. The point is that I don’t particularly like weak girls, especially weak girls who act all girly at a boxing club. Anyways, Black Skinny shook his head at her and Panty Boy Jr. whispered to me in Korean, “You’d kill that chopstick.”

9. Yet again Snickers and Black Skinny had sparring practice. I envy Snickers, and the other guys too for that matter, for being able to get so much sparring experience. Tonight they both wore full protective gear but Snickers was left with scratches all over his face from the head gear.

10. After boxing I cooked up some veggies and eggs for Snickers before he headed off to the sauna with Mouse Doctor. “Go get naked. Go have fun, and don’t come home unless you’ve scrubbed all 2000 and 1 body parts!” I yelled out the window. I’ll never get the idea of heading off with my friend to a public sauna where all can see me scrubbing my naked body. Moreover, I like my friends but there’s no way on God’s green Earth that I’ll ever let them scrub me down.

QUESTION OF THE DAY…
What is your body to you?

QUOTE OF THE DAY…
The body is a sacred garment.
-- Martha Graham