What I like about Korea in June:
There are roses everywhere!!!
I had planned to go to
Samcheok, which isn't far from here, this weekend, but I wasn't able to because of slight health difficulties.
I've been getting some wicked stress headaches lately. The pain started in my shoulder, crept up my neck, and then blew up into massive and slightly crippling headaches. I could deal with it until it started to make my head hurt, but after that, I turned into a major space cadet.
So on Friday, we went to the clinic in Jucheon, where they charged me a whopping 1,000W (.80 cents) for physiotherapy involving heating pads and then muscle stimulation. The muscle thing was weird because they put suction cups on my neck and shoulder and they made weird tingly feeling for a while. The ones on my neck only exacerbated the pains in my neck and head and were quickly removed. After that, they gave me a strange massage-type thing with the Korean version of Icy-Hot.
I know there are funny pictures of part of this process because Jesse took them. Depending on how mortally humiliated I feel like getting, I may post them..
So this weekend I did squat. I felt better yesterday, but clearly not up to par, because because Nicholas caught me staring into space and unbconsciously making spit bubbles. Oh dear. Regression.
I don't think it helped that he (accidentally??) hit me in the head with a soft baseball. =(
Today I waddled around a bit, but being vertical is a bit painful. With any luck, tomorrow will be better.
So, the whole point of this really long background story is HOW IN THE WORLD DO I RELAX MYSELF??
Option 1:
Go Running.
I have 2 problems with this:
1. I'm lazy
2. I'm kind of afraid I'll go ridiculously overboard and return to Bobblehead looking Michelle that I was my last 2 years of college. HAHA! I think Papa would come over and drag me back to the states and maybe actually tie me down to bed and force me not to be such a maniac.
So I either need to find a healthy balance of exercise, or not do it at all.
Option 2:
Eat
Only then I gain weight and that makes me stressed and then, yeah. eyeroll.
Option 3:
COOK!
I still eat, but hey, I share!
Today, I went with option 3, and made PIZZA!
goodness, I miss my kitchenaid!
However, making the pizza dough, kneading it, and punching it was delightfully calming.
pre-cooking
hummmm
Ooo look at that glow!
I may have used a good swig (or three) of this wine to make some sauce
Tada!
It kind of looks like a face; you have olives for the eyes and nose, and a tomato for the tongue.
show off!
Korean pizza cheese or "eee-tal-eee-en chee-chuh"
I think Italian cheese actually has taste...
In the end, not too shabby for a meal!
Daddykins, have I thanked you for the toaster enough times, because if I haven't, thank you, thank you. And thanks for the olives!
I planned to go out of town next weekend, but I don't think I'll be able to, mainly because I did nothing this weekend. I still have to finish my income taxes (EEEK! Thank you Uncle Sam, for granting us a 2 month extension! :D ), do my grades for this session, prep for next session, write a few more proposals to beg for grad school funding (what?), and sleep. Yeah. I'd take my laptop with me to the beach, but I don't think it'd go well with sand. We'll see. I really need a vacation.
A few extras:
1. I jokingly considered whacking my head against a brick wall so I'd go unconscious. Then I remembered that time I sledded into the corner of a brick building using my head, and how it didn't knock me unconscious. and that was on accident!
2. I'm pretty sure that my drugs have some notice along the lines of "Do not operate heavy machinery or cars" but I consider a Hyundai neither, so what's the big deal?
Eh, kidding! I asked Steve to drive today.
