Highlights of my Day... Saturday, February 28

1. Seems like I wasn't the only one in lazy mode at training today. Black Skinny slept on the couch while Milk Dud played a computer game, and I tried to stay continually focused while Q watched a bit of TV. Thankfully Saturdays are kind of expected slack-off day but today, yikes, we definitely milked the word "slack"... hahaha.

2. Every month Q spends a weekend out in Daejon, his hometown, where he spends the weekend over-indulging with his middle school friends. Mi Nam was always my ticket out of tagging along, after all, he is like a child. A day and a half home alone and this little guy will not only flip the house inside out but he'll also try to eat half of it. Nothing gets left on the floor while he's alone, nothing that is that you want to still be there when you come back... hahaha.

3. I like Q's middle school friends, I do, I really do actually, but the same thing always happens when I go there. They end up pushing and pulling me to a million restaurants and I end up getting homesick for my own friends in Canada. Strange, I know, but the more I hang out with them the more and more I miss my friends back in Canada. It's almost as if one moment with them robs me of one moment with my friends, which isn't true because it'd be impossible for me to see my friends every month. But that's just how it feels to me. I decided to go this weekend though, much to everyone's surprise.

4. I literally almost peed my pants, seriously, as Q's promised "15 minutes and we're there" turned into exactly 56 minutes and me squirming in my seat. He got a good kick out of that... hahahah. The other day Q and I watched this show on TV, called "Strange People" or something like that, anyway, on the show a Korean lady drank her own pee. She claimed it gave her essential vitamins. I say, spend a little cash and invest in a good multivitamin... hahaha. Anyway, while I squirmed in my seat and banged on the dashboard in my desperate attempt at saving my dignity, Q laughed away and continually yelled, "Just drink it"... hahaha. He even went so far as to find some random empty cup in his truck and pass it to me. And for the rest of the evening, somehow, this pee-drinking lady became somewhat of a focus for the evening conversations.

5. Met up with his friends at an overly expensive restaurant where I was too shy to tell them the main dish (boiled meat) was nasty and so instead I nibbled away at the side dishes and kimchi jjigga. There was about 15 of us in total.

6. Last time I met up with his friends one of the girls was fully pregnant but today some little ankle biter showed up and the happily plump pregnant girl was back to being a skinny-minnie. Needless to say as you can probably guess, the ankle biter was hers. Apparently it's been almost a year since I last saw them all... oh gosh, has it seriously been that long?! Wow.

7. After dinner we all drove off this this outdoor soccer field where the guys had rented it for an hour. Turns out the hour was an hour later than we had anticipated and so we froze our knickers off while we waited. The girls, on the other hand, were definitely not agreeing to wait and so they separated from the main group and headed off somewhere together. I had no anticipation of playing soccer but I wanted to watch. My attention and willingness to hang around with that baby lasted pretty much as long as it took me to blink and baby talk and wedding talk wasn't what I had come for, so, I stayed with the guys.

8. Gotta give it to the Koreans for their hilariously cute spontaneous games that they break out into and have so much fun doing. Tonight, while waiting for their time on the soccer field, they decided to play a game. The point of the game was to stand several feet away from the pylon and kick the soccer ball at it. The last player to hit the pylon had to pay for the food and whatnot at the next restaurant. For awhile there Q had me sweating it out in the cold as he continually missed the pylon and had nothing but my wallet on him. Losing is one thing, but him losing would mean me shilling out mad cash for about 15 hungry mouths... no thanks.

9. Soccer was followed by more food at another restaurant, which was then followed by more food at yet another restaurant... and then another restaurant. Restaurant count for the night, 4, bowls of kimchi jjigga that I had eaten, 3. By the last restaurant, the fourth, I wasn't impressed. These people make it almost impossible for someone who doesn't drink and doesn't eat like a whale to keep up and feel comfortable. My tummy was still feeling a bit odd from being sick the other day, my ears hurt from all their low talking, and my brain was feeling rather fried from the evening of jam-packed translating and "Korean-only".

10. I know Q missed his friends, I got that, and I wanted him to have fun, but yet again thoughts of my own friends in Canada sitting around without me got me a bit down. It was inevitable.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How can you make a home if you can't forget your old home?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
-- Christian Morgenstern