With Pyen Chi back home with our two other four-legged babies, her absence at Hulk's was surely felt. Coincidentally enough however, with it being her first full day away from fron Hulk's, who should appear at our doorsteps but another four-legged friend.
We spotted him in our parking lot so I went outside to investigate. I called out to him and, surprisingly enough, he ran up to me. I didn't expect that nor did I know whether or not I was just about to become his next meal... hahaha. Turns out he is a friendly little dude, that is as long as you keep your hand palm up. Palm down makes him nervous... abused?! I don't know but he is very sweet to me.
I can't afford to fall in love with another four-legged beauty for the fact that we may be "readjusting our living situation", meaning we may be moving. Hulk's was our dream and now it's lead us to another one -- a house. We dream of a house with a yard for our 3 four-legged babies to freely jump in and play on, a lawn for us to have BBQ parties -- some breathing space. In my dream, our house would be countryside. Snickers would wake up to let the doggies out, they'd go hiking up the mountain with him while I headed out for run on a secluded road that'd be occupied with just me and my music pushing me forward. There'd be no downtown traffic filling our ears, nor would there be any downtown street fights or drama. It'd be just us, our family of five, and nature.
Nothing worth the fight comes without a challenge or sacrifice. We sacrificed a lot to make the dream of Hulk's become a reality and this house is surely no exception. The sacrifice for the house we want will be the apartment we currently have. We're thinking about sacrificing it sooner than later and not exactly in the way many may expect. We're contemplating a move that many may think is quite drastic but then again it's me we're talking about, when have I gone the easy way and followed what was expected?! Exactly. Go big or go home -- I like to go big.
Big sacrifices bring big changes, big opportunities and even bigger potential. Our concern these days is with our current apartment. It's just a waste of money when we think of it. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful apartment and I love coming home to it but we spend most of our days at Hulk's. We basically just sleep at our apartment. It's rather silly to keep such a large 12-room apartment if just for our four-legged friends. We have rooms in it that we don't actually used, 3 to be exact. Three rooms that have absolutely nothing in them. Snickers' mom has been pushing us to move in with her but even if she accepted us with our four-legged babies, I'd be a "hell no" with my answer. Don't even get me started on the long list of reasons why I am a no-go. I walk around naked and I am not about to put on clothes, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Anyways, the move we are looking to make is quite drastic, we're thinking about having no home, and though it'd be a very strange situation, it'd save us roughly a grand a month. Plus, it'd get us our hefty key deposit back from our current place -- a sweet nest egg worthy of considering.
Business is good at Hulk's, it's really great, but I'm bothered by the fact that a chunk of our hard earned money goes towards renting an apartment. We can afford our apartment, that's not the problem, the problem is that renting it is like throwing money away. You really have nothing to show for renting, but buying something, now that's where it's at. I don't want to throw my money away, hence why we want to buy a house. We're even contemplating buying just the property and then getting a house built. But being able to do so means saving money and the first place where we can save on is our rent.
Honestly, the main thing holding us back from the yet to be announced move are three super adorable little ones -- Pyen Chi, Pacquiao and Balboa. They are three key members in our family, three extensions of my heart, but they also pose as three potential problems. I was asked if I would ever give them up and I responded the same way as I did when asked if I would ever live with my mother-in-law -- hell no!!! We never anticipated having three dogs but now we have them. Pyen Chi was a wedding gift but when Mi Nam died she got incredibly depressed so we picked up Balboa for her. Pacquiao was supposed to go to my father-in-law but then a turn of events in his situation meant he couldn't look after him. The little furball was then homeless and so super young. Snickers knew I had already fallen in love with this little furball and he couldn't bring himself to detach me from it, from Pac.
Soooo... when I saw this adorable little doggie outside our Hulk's door today, Snickers' face told me that we may be in trouble. I am such a softie for four-legged cuties, correction, four-legged cuties minus cats. I grew up being very much a cat person but then when I moved to Korea I wasn't. One too many run-ins with some mean, mean street cats and having to hear their mating moans and mating fest just turned my opinion of them. Then I got Mi Nam and realized just how different of a pet a dog is in comparison to a cat. A dog will always greet you like you're the arrival of Christmas but a cat can't even be bothered. Now a Korean street cat, woozers, that cat will greet you by flying at you with all claws out!
I can not part with my four-legged beauties, I refuse to. If you wouldn't ask a mother to part with its baby then don't ask me to part with my doggies; that's just nonsense. They are just as much a part of my family as a two-legged family member is. We'll just have to find another way, another way to save up for the house and keep them.
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