Highlights of my Day... Sunday, March 15

1. For whatever reasons, reasons unknown to the residents of the Sambu Sweet Suite (residents being Mi Nam and I), my toilet has decided it no longer likes my floor and so it has detached itself from it. Strange, very strange. And of course I was the one to discover this cause, well, let’s be honest here, Nam may come across as a little boy stuck in a dog’s body but he still has yet to use the toilet, as far as I know… hahaha.

2. Mi Nam and I cleaned the house, well, not exactly. It was more or less me cleaning and Mi Nam chasing after the vacuum cord but yes, the act of cleaning was done with the two of us, just not by the two of us… hahaha.

3. Despite my father being miles and miles away from me, sometimes I find him taking over my thoughts and me acting just like him. I say this because today I tuned into some pop chart hits station on the Internet and the noise that came blasting out my speakers and flooded my ears made me yell out “what’s this noise?!” This “noise” use to be what I called music but now apparently, just like my father said, it is noise. Turns out the “noise” was Snoop Dogg… hahaha.

4. It was Granny Q’s birthday today and despite me being invited by about a dozen or so of Q’s family, I opted out and didn’t go. The more and more I go to Q’s family functions and dinners with his friends, the more and more I crave my own friends and family. It’s almost like a taste of bitterness in my mouth that comes about, knowing that he has full access to those he loves and yet I only get one chance a year for my access. I’ll be honest, it flat out sucks.

5. So with Q out of my hair and just me and smelly-bum Mi Nam here in the Sambu Sweet Suite, it made for a lazy Sunday filled with couch-lying sessions, random outbursts of Michael Jackson dance moves, and a lot of singing (if you’d even call it that… hahaha).

6. Spent a good chunk of my day working on my weekly Power Point presentation for my reading class. The reading we’ll be doing is titled “Who Took that Tooth?” Did you know that in Korea the tradition with losing a tooth is to throw it up on the roof, in hopes that a magpie (Korean bird) will come and take it?! In return, they believe that the magpie will bring about a new tooth in your mouth. I like my Western Tooth Fairy instead but the reading was pretty interesting. Unlike us Westerns with our Tooth Fairy story, it seems like many countries have stories based around animals.

7. In the Mongolian culture, they believe that dogs are similar to guardian angels, which makes sense if you think about it because most dogs only have one master to which they are super loyal too (myself included… Mi Nam is sitting on my feet right now). So they believe that if you put the tooth in some meat fat and feed it to the dog, then your new teeth will be strong and healthy. I don’t know about feeding my dog my teeth, mind you, considering Mi Nam has been known to literally eat half a shoe and completely devour several things like lip gloss, earrings, and underwear, what’s a tooth compared to what he’s already eaten?!

8. The other day someone commented on my homepage, asking me to list all the things that I miss from Canada. Well, that could start a whole new homepage but it got me thinking and so I decided to sit down today and type up a list of the products I miss from Canada. OK, so some of my products may be American or whatnot, but the point is these are products that I can’t so freely buy in Korea. Sure I can buy an Oxygen Fitness magazine but at $15 a pop, instead of $4 if I bought it in Canada, I’ve stuck to re-reading old issues I already have. Oh, and one more note, courtesy of my mom (Mama Bere) I do have some of these products and I’ve put them in italics (and am seriously rationing them… hahaha)

Products that I miss from Canada:
Crest toothpaste
Crest whitening strips
Lady Speedstick Antiperspirant
Vicks vapor rub
Vicks Nyquil Cold and Flu
Lumino Contrast Expert Hair Serum by L'Oreal
Couleur Experte and Superior Preference hair colour by L’Oreal
Maybelline Intense Volume XXL mascara (2-step mascara)
Lipsmackers
Optimum 100% Whey Protein shake mix in mocha cappuccino flavor
Supreme Protein bars in Peanut Butter Crunch flavor
Trident gum
bendy-straws
cinnamon heart candies
Reese Pieces Peanut Butter Cups
Vanilla cupcake/cake icing
Lucky Charms cereal
Oxygen Fitness magazines
National Geographic magazines
McIntosh toffee
Skippy Natural peanut butter
oatmeal
Red Rose tea
Pam cooking spray
McIntosh red apples
whole wheat tortilla shells
cottage cheese
cheese curds
cheese strings
skim milk
apple cider
rye bread
Shake N’ Bake
chicken noodle soup mix
broccoli soup mix

9. Yes, I do have some Lucky Charms but trust me, I definitely don’t share them and I definitely ration them. My mom sent me over a box for Christmas and so once a week I treat myself to a bowl of them… they’re magically delicious!!!

10. Q showed up later in the evening with gifts from Granny Q and his mother… rice cake, some kind of funky rice-puffy snacks that I don’t know what they’re called let alone are, and 30 eggs… hahaha. Apparently my egg-eating habits aren’t so secretive… hahaha. This month I’m all about chicken though.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who took your teeth?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
-- Ralph Hodgson