Highlights of my Day... Sunday, March 22

1. Three things I almost always do when I’m in Little America, besides shaking my head at all the wanna-bes, involve indulging in late-night mandu, waking up to a Western breakfast (bacon, eggs… all the fixings) at Blue Rodeo, and buying a bunch of pirated movies from my little Korean cutie.

2. My little Korean cutie at the movie store apparently doesn’t sell Korean movies on Sundays, or so I was told, I think he just misplaced the Korean movie list book because that's a pretty bogus excuse and I know not they haven't exactly been selling in Little America. Anyway, so I wasn’t too happy about that but it didn’t stop me from picking up some movies and, because he didn’t have his Korean movie list, I scored two free movies… nice!

3. Opted out of the Western breakfast on account that Little America just isn’t the same and I just wanted to leave. Maybe I’m getting too old for night like last night, I don’t think so. Italiano in Canada is older than me but when I’m with him it’s like a competition to see who can keep up with who. Our energy is unstoppable. But here, here it’s different. Maybe it’s me who’s different now; maybe it’s both. I don’t know but what I do know is that Little America has lost it’s spark and is no longer the little bubble world I use to escape to when I craved English and wanted a piece of western life.

4. Not much to say about the rest of my day besides the fact that I slipped into major lazy mode and almost watched three movies back-to-back.

5. The other day I picked up a children’s CD set in hopes of doing a new spin on studying Korean and so today listened to over 50 children’s songs in one sitting.

6. Boredom does one of three things to me, pushes me to go shopping, causes me to take super long naps, or kicks my butt into clean-freak cleaning mode. Today my mini movie-athon was a combination of movie watching and napping but later on in the day I headed out to go shopping.

7. Confused my manager-friend at her clothing shop when we started talking about marriage and kids. “Do you want kids?” she asked. “Why would I?” I responded. I guess my answer wasn’t the best considering her and her husband of three years have been trying to make a baby.

8. I still don’t see what’s all the fuss about having a kid and so I came home and gave myself five minutes only to write up a silly list of all the reasons why I don’t want a kid.

My List(...to humor you. Don't take it so serious)

1. They always complicate things… your life, your relationships, your schedule, everything.

2. Am convinced I may hug it too hard, causing it’s head to pop off.

3. It’s not like he or she would be carrying on my family name.

4. I like my current luxury, care-free way of life by which I am able to come and go as I please.

5. I’ve never felt the need to have someone in my life to complete me.

6. I’m somewhat alone now and so if I can deal with being alone now then I’m sure I’ll be able to master growing old alone before I get old.

7. Children’s Aid would have my number on speed dial considering I sometimes can’t even be bothered or forget to take Mi Nam out (the most low-maintenance dog in the world) once a day for bathroom duty.

8. I refuse to become one of those people who embarrassingly talk baby-gibberish and who's style consists of puke on their shirt for a good couple of years.

9. I don’t really like people touching or getting into my stuff.

10. While most parents would be scolding their kid for fighting in the play ground, I could so see myself scolding my kid because his form wasn’t correct… hahaha. “You have to lean into your hook… lean, I said”… hahaha.

11. Considering all that I’ve done and all that I’ve still yet to be caught for, I’m sure my kid would drive me mental, knowing that a mini-me is walking around.

12. I don’t find babies particularly cute, adorable, or interesting and while most would have fun parenting their baby, I’d be cursing every minute of it under my
breath.

13. A kid is quite a quick way to throw yourself into the poor house.

14. Thankfully the fact that I don’t drive (legally that is) gets me out of car pooling but it’d mean my time and money would be eaten up by doing errands for this little ankle bitter.

15. Mi Nam would never approve of another person stealing my attention away. It’s bad enough he won’t even let Q sit beside me on the couch!

16. Mi Nam is way cooler than any drooling ankle bitter and so why have a kid when I can just get another dog?!

17. I constantly have to clean up and pick up after Mi Nam and Q as it is, and I doubt Children’s Aid would approve of me giving birth to my own personal slave… hahaha.

18. Bulge out at all seams and go on an emotional, food-binging roller coaster for a year only to pop out a kid that will send me on a life-altering roller coaster for the
rest of my life… no thanks. The short two minute kiddie rides at Canada’s Wonderland are all I can handle.

19. Put my boxing on hold while I pop out a kid and then most likely not fight again because of “family” obligations…. Do you really want me to hate kids?! Please… put me out of my misery now.

20. I don’t want to become one of those of so-common parents who’s world revolves around their kid. Now if I could change kids ever so often, like how I change my shoes, than that would be a more interesting world.

21. I want to die old looking and feeling young, not die young looking and feeling old… stress kills and that’s exactly what a kid represents to me, stress.

22. I like coming home to a quiet house where everything is exactly where I left it. And I want to continue to do this. Come home, lay down on the couch and hear nothing but my own breathing.

23. I never bought into the whole “get married, have a kid” Canadian dream so many of my friends pursued. I was always more interested in getting that interesting job and jam-packing my brain with tid bits, lessons and experiences in life, none of which involved a child on my hip.

24. You can kiss your social life and personal space goodbye.

25. I can also kiss splurging on overly expensive make-up and brand name clothing… no thanks.

26. If my attention span with guys is pretty low, you can sure beat that my attention span with a dirty-diaper nagging child is in the minus numbers.

27. I don’t want the responsibility of having to bring up a child. It’s a bit too much for me and I really don’t care to make such a big investment.

28. With so many family-less children waiting to be adopt, why the heck would I want to have my own child. Bob Barker has it all wrong... don't get your pets spayed or neutered, get your neighbor done!

29. OK, so maybe I’d like my kid but it’s just like my dog. I like my dog but I don’t really like other people’s dogs. My kid would definitely have some social issues and I’d be the root of the problem. No sleepovers, no friends over to play…. no situations where I’d become a free babysitter and have to look after someone else’s brat.

9. Joined a friend at Coffee Bean to study Korean which the phrase “joined a friend” should already hint to you that the study wasn’t very productive. None the less, it was nice to get out of the house for a bit.

10. Returned home to slave away at my lecture Power Point file for tomorrow’s reading class.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Seriously, why are some people so set on having kids?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
-- Ed Howe