I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Monday, June 4, 2012

The Secret Life of Plants (June 4)

  • I'm so happy and lucky to have Winter on my side. She said exactly the right thing to MT today - basically what I would say if MT spoke English or I spoke Korean :)
  • After school, we got ice cream bars. We were hoping for walnut ice cream - no such luck but still had yumminess. We also stopped and said hi to Plant Lady - whose real name is Eun Jun. She told us that the Chinese characters of her name mean silver, gold and pearl. How cool!
  • I decided to make pizza for dinner. I needed some things from the store and passed by Eun Jun's store again. I waved and she introduced me to her children, who knew some English. She asked what I was doing for dinner and I told her I was headed to the store to figure it out. On my way home, I saw her again and told her I was going to make pizza and showed her what I bought. Then she said something about melons and disappeared into her shop. She emerged a few minutes later with 2 Korean melons and a small bag of dried chamomile, for tea! It was soooooooooo cute. I'm so glad I met her!
Ingredients

So colorful!

Cheeeeeese

Nom nom nom :)

  • A giant bug came out from behind my wardrobe to freak the hell out of me tonight. I trapped it under a cup and left it there for a couple hours. Then I decided that I needed to get rid of it because otherwise it'd stress me out as I fell asleep and then I'd forget about it in the morning and probably trip  over it and tip the cup over and set it free. AHHHH. Couldn't let that happen. So I mustered up some gumption and threw it out my window. Woohoo!
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