Random thoughts in no particular order

I can smell the difference in air quality between where we live now and where I work (and I can only assume from where we lived before).

There’s a mountain (?) (big hill with trees?) behind our apartment!  We went for a walk on Sunday night and walked up some of it but it was dark and the path diverged and there are those super dangerous trenches (?) that cut across the path (and hubby is a bit clumsy and there’s no way I could carry him out of “the forest” should he twist his ankle).

When we were walking up there I realized that I had never been “in the dark” in Korea; there’s that much light pollution here.

We now live south of the river but the closest grocery store is back north of it.  There are so many street markets here – reminds me of Taiwan.

We also live on the busiest street in the neighborhood

I haven’t heard the dog in 2 days …

There’s a sewing factory next door to us – so old style Korean love songs play starting at 9:00 in the morning and many international people work there (I think the women I saw were Vietnamese but I’ll need to eavesdrop to confirm).  But apparently those ladies don’t get too much dry cleaning done as the label on all of our clothes was “foreigner” — funny for hubby’s shirt to have that label, kind of reinforces for him, the outsider that I am considered, given that he dropped off that set of dry cleaning! — he always tells them my name so that it’s easier for me to get the clothes, drop them off etc).

I really really really need to start studying Korean.  I prank called my dry cleaner last week to see if they were open.  I kind of blame hubby for not even trying to help me and so now realize that he won’t be much help for vocab and grammar structure but is more willing to help with pronunciation.

I’ve started my masters and am already forgetting if I’ve read certain books/articles … yikes.

We get blinds on Friday!  Yay!  Goodbye Korean Air blanket taped to the bedroom window.

We’re getting a marble island built for the kitchen and will go hunt down a dude in the area this weekend.  We’re also going to buy a couch, a tv stand (although we don’t own a tv we have a large computer screen that we watch movies on and a DVD player).  We also need to get new bookcases as the ones we have a super cheap and falling apart — as in I accidentally ripped the top off of one of them, when it was empty, buy picking it up to move it to another room.

Oh!  Chuseok was so relaxing.  The family came over for a lunch that lasted 5 hours.  His mom cooked/reheated some of the things we bought at the market the day before.  We sat around eating and drinking all afternoon and laughing and talking.  It was very family like with no pressure.  Yay!

Well, I think that’s it.  I have a feeling my blog posts will be decreasing due to a lack of time management on my part and all that needs to be done for my masters.

OH!  and I realized that my natural hair colour is the same as one of the t-shirts that I own, which in and of itself isn’t a big deal except that when wearing the shirt in natural sunlight it’s more green than brown.  That’s right, my natural hair colour has a green undertone to it.  It has all my life.  And no I don’t swim in pools all that often.  Time to go see Johnny and get this fixed.

AND! For some reason the bossum (sp?) in this area, is flavoured with cinnamon…. nasty.  I kept thinking that the smell was coming from the bakeries but now I know the truth.  Have you tasted it?  Not a good fusion.