High to Low... Tuesday, May 29

You know those annoyingly fake, “everything-so-peachy-perfect”, “I’ve-smile-24/7” people, well I’m clearly not one of those people nor do I ever intend to be one.  I know some though that I'd love to give a good 1-2-hook to... hahaha.  So if you’re hoping to read a homepage that’s reality is bombarded with flowers, sugar and spice and everything nice then well, here’s your exit cue.

I’ve never been keen on people who just can’t say they’re having a bad day when they’re having a bad day.  I like real people.  Real people experience the good with the bad and aren’t afraid to admit it. 

Having said this, I’ll be the first to admit I had one heck of a rough day.  It started off on cloud nine when I woke up and was reminded by the sleeping beauty beside me that it was my husband’s day off.  Our mission today was to go house-hunting, correction, our mission today was to show a friend the wicked, wicked new pad we were hoping to move into.  A little background info on this place, this particular place used to be K-Gere’s office.  It was once a café but then he renovated it.  It’s got a massive front room, a full kitchen, a huge bathroom, and a small home office room.  But the best part of the place is definitely the back patio.  The back patio is huge; it’s bigger than all of Ggum Guum!!!  The back door in the kitchen opens up to the back patio that currently has two small vegetable gardens on it and lots and lots of space for an outdoor patio set.  It’s so very cool.  And, that weren’t cool enough, it’s a five minute walk (if that) to the Cheonan subway! 

We got major thumbs up from my friend today when we picked her up and showed her the place.  She seemed very optimistic about the place and it only helped to get me more pumped up about moving into the place.  K-Gere still had five months to his contract for it so the plan was to take over his remaining months and then make another contract with the landlord.

One problem.  One very, very big problem.

Turns out K-Gere mentioned in passing that he’s looking to get out of his contract so the landlord had started to looking for a new tenant.  We’re very skeptical as to whether or not his words are true but when he told us our plan could never happen all our hopes and escalated anticipation came crashing down.  They came crashing down hard. 

There’s no flowering the reality, I was really bummed out about the news, somewhat heartbroken.  I want to get out of Ggum Guum.  I loved Ggum Guum when I first moved in and the location will always be amazing but ever since our landlord made four one-room apartments on the second floor it’s been annoyingly busy here.  Take for instance the three university girls living right below me.  Three in a small single room is brutal to start off with but the fact that they come home drunk and then sit outside the window smoking, letting their nasty smoke venture into my place, is so incredibly annoying.  In a way I do feel bad for them.  They’re only paying $80 less than we are for Ggum Guum but our place is four times larger than their place.  So ya, I feel bad for them but every time I hear them whining on their cell phones or smell them smoking outside all my pity goes out the window.  

And then there’s the fact that Ggum Guum has been renovated THREE TIMES!!!  Three times they tried to clear our place of the mold and mildew and yet it’s still here!  Do you remember, two of those times they simply wallpapered over the mildew.  Who does that?!!!  Finally on their third attempt they gutted the whole place – walls, floors and even the kitchen cabinets.  The mildew has returned, I saw it a couple of weeks ago.  It’s so incredibly frustrating because it’s such a health hazard.  I didn’t have allergies until I moved into Ggum Guum and I know for a fact that a place like this would be demolished in Canada.  There’s no way it’d pass the health regulations and I’d probably be suing someone right now.

Ah, the frustration. 

I really had my heart set on K-Gere’s place so hearing it was a no-go was rather heartbreaking.  Snickers told me to just forget about it but I can’t.  It met our budget, was much larger than Ggum Guum and the back patio…. oh the back patio!!! I had already envisioned having my gal-pals over for Sunday afternoon patio lounging.  I know I jumped the gun but ahhhh, I really wanted the place.  It wasn’t perfect but it was perfect for us.  


Oh ya, and then there was the fact that I was called "fat" to my face by an in-law... definitely added to the low point of today.  Not cool.  I say, keep that up and I'll show you fat -- fat lip when I knock ya one.  Oh relax, I wouldn't actually punch them.  Punch them for free?!  I'm not amateur you know... hahaha.