Sweet Caroline

Written last week: “Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” has been stuck in my head for several days. What is more, I now associate the song with my friend, Caroline Reyes. So, congratulations, Ms. Reyes, you’ve been stuck in my head at various points in the last few days. Haha.

Anyway, how is everyone? I won’t bash on Koreans this time. Instead, I will talk about this past weekend with Brett and Kris. To begin, I will simply state that it was quite an interesting weekend. When Brett first arrived, we went and got all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ. We ate for about 2 hours. After, we went and hung out with my friends where he met the lot of them. We hung out for a few hours and made many inappropriate jokes. Somehow, Enzyte became the subject and, from there, well things got out of hand. I will mention, though, that there was a St. Bernard involved and there was lots of spit coming out of his mouth while his head was hanging out of a car window. Feel free to use your imagination… After that whole situation, we went home, pillow-talked, and went to bed. Brett woke up early the next morning, and I wasn’t too enthused about that…. Jerk. Haha. Anyway, we went to the grocery store, ate some food, and headed to downtown Seoul. We tried to go to a museum, but the museum was not quite what we had in mind. We ditched that plan and headed to the palace. That didn’t work out, either. At some point, we met up with Brett’s friends where we tried squid that was cut up in front of our eyes; it was still squirming when we ate it, and the tentacles were sticking to everything. It was sort of weird. There’s a video on Facebook with us eating the squid, but I’m not sure where it is. Find it! Watch it! After that, we went to get some real food. After the real food, we went to meet up with Kris. We met up with him, put our stuff in the lockers, and messed around. From there, the night went downhill (or uphill, depending on how you look at it). Haha. The first part of the night, until about midnight, we went around eating everything in sight. I ate a hotdog, ice cream, a kebab, and more … and that was after dinner, mind you. Then, we met up with Brett’s friends again, and we went clubbing. The club was lame because it was Korean Thanksgiving weekend. It was quieter than expected, but we still had a lot of fun. Finally, we went home around 5:30 and went to sleep. On Saturday, we went into Seoul again. Most everything was closed, SO we went around eating again. I think I ate 5 donuts that day from three different donut shops. In 3 days, I think I ate close to 7-10 donuts from three different places; they were so amazing!! We found some really good stew, too. It was kind of like oxtail stew. After, we wandered around, ate more random food, and went to … an ARCADE. It was amazing … no, it wasn’t. Well, it was okay… we played some funny game that involved a baby crawling really fast and having him jump really far. Apparently, I don’t press the buttons fast enough, and my baby did not move very quickly. I sucked at that game and just about every other game in that arcade. Oh well. To finish our night, we went to McDonald’s, ate 40 cent ice creams, and left.”

Written today: ”This past week, I have just been working as normal. Lately, I have been doing extra work for my boss that has slowly added up. And, I hate to admit it, but I’m still falling a little behind. What is more, I’m a little burnt out. What is more, I could not sleep last night, and I really haven’t been able to sleep the past few nights. Last night, in particular, I had this huge epiphany. I might’ve come across a good plan for when I get home, but we’ll see. I’m still working out the logistics. Anyways, the idea came at 3am, and my mind raced for over two hours… Blurg!

In the end, I just want to say that I’m doing all right. I’m enjoying everything that I am doing, more or less, despite the many challenges I face everyday. I can’t really complain, even though I really want to….

Hope everyone is doing well. If life gets you down just remember, “THE PLANET… IS YOURS!!!”
"EARTH!"
"FIRE!"
"WIND!"
"WATER!"
"HEART!"
"Go Planet!"
"By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!"
Captain Planet, he's our hero
Gonna take pollution down to zero
He's our powers magnified
And he's fighting on the planet's side
Captain Planet, he's our hero
Gonna take pollution down to zero
Gonna help him put asunder
Bad guys who like to loot and plunder
"You'll pay for this Captain Planet!"
We're the Planeteers
You can be one too
'Cause saving our planet is the thing to do!
Looting and polluting is not the way
Hear what Captain Planet has to say!
"The Power is Yours!"”