"Hooded eyes", apparently that's the reason why I've always felt like a fish out of water when it comes to doing my eye make-up. I feel like the only 34 year old that can't do her own eye make-up, seriously it's annoying. I've been trying looks on my eyes that worked for friends and seemed relatively easy but looked odd and off on me. It wasn't my make-up choices or any real lack of skill, it was my eye shape. My eyelids are almost completely hidden by my upper eye. My upper eye acts like a hood over it, hence the name. I had asked Snickers what kind of eye shadow look he liked but when he said smokey eyes I then had to figure out how the heck to do the look on my very own eyes. If this was going to be the one day this week I wore make-up, I wanted it to turn heads, make strangers tell me I looked pretty and have Snickers in awe of it, so I turned to YouTube for help. Mission a success.
I complimented my over-the-top, not-usually me make-up look with an equally not-me girly fashion look -- tight black pants, a white lace top that felt rather painted on, heeled suede boots, and my brown leather jacket to sum it all up nicely.
But this entry it's about my hooded eye make-up or the lacy top I wore, it's about wanting to finally celebrate a Valentine's Day in style and out on the town with Snickers. You see, I'm married to a man who really doesn't care for holidays, hence the lack of presents bought, the cards ungiven and the minus level of effort put forth. We got into an argument about it this past week and I told him that I was fine with that but that he's got to realized he's married to a woman who gets worked up about the anticipation of a holiday, who loves all the holidays traditions that come with each, and who has way too much fun hiding the present before the due day. He is married to a woman who is used to celebrating Christmas for the full month and sometimes even twice in the same year due to my touch of Ukrainian background and friends in Toronto. And yes, though I must admit those traditions and whatnot have been somewhat left in Canada, after 20+ years of doing them when I did live in Canada it's hard not to reflect each year on them and want to continue them out. Our boxing club has revived several holiday traditions for me and has upped the spirit of the holidays for me. For two years in a row I have celebrated Christmas for a month at Hulk's thanks to our Hulk's Advent Calendar. I've even picked up other holidays to celebrate that I didn't before celebrate, like Halloween. Beyond handing out candy to neighbouring kids, Halloween was just another day at my house in Canada but here in Korea, here at Hulk's, I celebrated it for a full two weeks via decorating the club, handing out candy to visitors and then hosting a Halloween scary movie night.
So back to today's holiday, Valentine's Day.
I got engaged on Valentine's Day to another man 10 years ago and it was such a cliche thing for him to do, especially because I was leaving the country two days later. I obviously never followed through with that engagement and instead called it off and married Snickers many moons later. Now I am a married woman celebrating Valentine's Day with her husband and though I don't want the celebration to be so cliche, I do want it to be acknowledged and celebrated. I don't want the flowers or the chocolates but it'd be nice to get a card from Snickers or perhaps even a love letter. I want to collect such memorabilia and be one of those people that when they're old and gray pulls them out from the bottom cupboard and relives the "good old days". My father is very much like that and that's perhaps where I get the hopeless romantic side of myself. He saved a part of his wedding cake -- he got married over 40 years ago!!! That's how much of a romantic sap he is and I just think that's so amazing and so adorable.
I never did get a Valentine's Day card or a love letter but Snickers did plan a pretty cool date out in Seoul for us. He's got this crazy nak for finding interesting hot spots for us to visit and today it was an antique show. We spent the entire afternoon strolling the streets, checking out age-old things and talking to random sellers. I wanted to buy something special to mark our Valentine's Day but the thing I had my heart set on was way too expensive. It was an army mailbox. The memorabilia item we ended up purchasing was a bottle of Grand Marnier. When I first took Snickers to Canada he tasted it there. I don't drink in Korea but used to in Canada given that I bartended my way through university and had lots of friends in the industry. I always liked Grand Marnier but it's next to impossible to buy here in Korea. I bought a bottle of it when I went to Thailand for my fight but ended up giving it to Wow, to thank him for his support. Now we have our own bottle.
Walking arm-in-arm, sneaking kisses and just enjoying lots of couple PDA, we enjoyed a full day out in Seoul together. We really celebrated the day, Valentine's Day, and it was so good. For dinner we found our way back to the restaurant where we had celebrated our fifth year wedding anniversary -- a small steak house. We walked in and instantly the chef remembered us. We shared the same steak we had ordered last time and then we returned to Cheonan to share a small glass of Grand Marnier. And so that's how we spent Valentine's Day, the day after the actual calendar day but in full force, and it was the best one yet.
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