It's a Date! A Man Date.

April 4-10, 2011

Having played the late game the night before, I slept in Monday morning before getting up and cooking some food to keep me going through the day. Since I have been going to the gym, I have gotten back into making tuna pasta salad, and I was making enough for the whole week. After I finished cooking I went to work to get my long day over with, and when it was all over went straight home to lay about with Goah.
Tuesday morning, I felt rejuvenated and decided I better get myself into the gym if I want to bulk up before the summer heat comes, and my appetite fades. The gym is always so much quieter in the mornings, because there is only a handful of older ladies in there using the treadmills versus the hordes of guys in there at night trying to out-flex each other. However, the price I pay for quietness and emptiness, is having to listen to endless Korean love ballads played over the stereo for the old ladies. Totally worth it I guess. Plus, I usually listen to my mp3 player while I run or bike. After I finished up at the gym, it was off to work for yet another day of what is becoming repetitive nonsense. Luckily, the classes are only 40 minutes long on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so they are over before you know it, and in the blink of an eye the days was over and i was of the the gym again. The double workout is a great way to wake yourself up in the morning, and then burn off the excess energy before bed, and if I keep it up who knows what chiseled form I may take in the coming months. When I finished at the gym I went home and did some reading, before crawling under the covers for the night.
Wednesday morning, I got up and headed off to the hospital to see how Wes was doing, and as I got there, they were moving him out of his private room and into a 5 person room. His family was not very thrilled with the idea of having 1/3 the space as they did before, but the room was needed for another patient. I helped carry his things from old room to new room, and once things were ready, helped lift him out of his wheelchair into his new bed, which I might add was a tad bit short for him. After getting him all settled in, and having a visit with his grandmother, and mother, I excused myself so that I could head off to work. Work was pretty slow, so I used the extra time I had to work on my blog, and by the end of the day, I just didn't have it in me to go to the gym, so I went home and watched some T.V. until I was tired enough to fall asleep.
The next morning I got up and made sure I got myself to the gym, so that I wouldn't miss too many workouts before the weekend came, and my general laziness kicked in. Again the gym was nice, and I had lots of time to workout, as well as talk with SeonWon the trainer. After the gym, I went to work, and once again took care of my blog in my time between classes. Then while John and I were both on break, John asked if I wanted to go on, what would be our official first 'man date' the next morning to see the movie Sucker Punch, which we had both been eagerly waiting to see. Since Friday is the only day he doesn't work his morning kindergarten job making before work on Friday the only time we could see it, I told him it was a date. He had checked out the show times already, and the morning matinée started at 940, so we planned to meet at the Podo Mall theater for 930. After work, I hit the gym again, but only for a short workout, because I didn't want to be late for the movie in the morning.
9am Friday morning came a lot quicker than I had hoped, but once I was up and moving, I rode my bike over to meet John and see the movie created solely for guys. We had been watching trailers for weeks, and it had everything guys like us look for in movies. Cute girls, a sinister bad guy, a quest, secret items, ninja fighting, explosions, guns, robots, and the list goes on as my mouth waters just thinking about it. Since it was the Friday before payday, we summoned what change we could to get ourselves tickets, then buckled up for the ride. After the movie, we talked about how awesome it was as we rode down ten floors of escalators, and then both rode our bikes back to Bongcheon, to our apartments. Before the movie, I thought I might be able to get to the gym between the movie and work, but used the time instead to cook some food, then have a 30 minute nap with my best friend Goah, who is always down for a snuggle. When I got up from my nap, my food had cooled, so I packed my bag and went to work, hoping all the while that the days past quickly. After work, I went to the gym to make up for missing it in the morning, and so that I could get a good sleep to start the weekend.
Keeping with my visiting schedule, I got up Saturday morning and got ready to go see Wes in the hospital. Alex and Louise made it there before I did, and when I came in with juice and cookies for everyone, they were on the phone trying to get Wesley's caretaker situation sorted out. The private nurse who had been looking after  him for the past two weeks, was due to switch off, so a new nurse needed to be found post haste. After several minutes on the phone, and some lengthy explanations, a new nurse, who could start on Monday, was found. That meant Monitta would have to spend the weekend at the hospital taking care of Wes. On a side note, it is awfully strange how it is not the hospital, but the family, that is in charge of providing nursing care for their loved ones while in the hospital. This is a striking contrast to the provided nurse care in the hospitals of North America that I am used to. It also raises the question......What on Earth are all the nurses in this country actually doing while at work?
With the care giver problem sorted out, the four of us went over to Dos Tacos to get some lunch before Monitta had to start her long weekend with Wes. After lunch I headed back to Bongcheon and got my usual two bags of groceries, and then continued home to kill off the day with movies. After a couple movies and a good nap, I was awoke to a call from John asking if I wanted to go get some chicken and beers with him and his friend Eric. I thought that was a splendid plan, and we agreed to meet at the chicken place around 730. We had our chicken and beer, but the night was still young, so we grabbed a couple more pitchers and took them back to John's place so we could shoot the breeze some more. While at John's, he came up with the brilliant idea to approach the league about having a kegger fundraiser for Wes at our upcoming tournament, where there wold be an abundance of people looking to drink and abundance of beer. I took his idea and ran with it, quickly posting the idea on our league website to see how everyone felt about it. By the time we finished the beer it was 1am, so Eric and I left to go home, though I was starting to get my second wind. After waling up the ridiculous hill by my house, and with the good buzz that I had, I decided to make up some food for Monitta, since she was going to be at the hospital most of the weekend by herself. I set to work steaming some peppers, making potatoes, and frying up some chicken, and before I knew it, it was 4am and I had a whole feast packed up for her. Feeling my eyes getting heavy, I called it a night and went to bed.
Having the 2 O'clock game Sunday meant I had to get up and take the food I had prepared to Monitta early enough, that I could still get to the rink by 130 to warm up. I was a little tired, but had gotten plenty of sleep to keep me energized for our games. Monitta was very happy to see some home cooked food, and was talking with Daisey, and Liam when I got there. I didn't stay too long, but talked with everyone for a few minutes before taking off to get back on the subway. Our two games against the Tea Baggers went as well as we had hoped, with our team pulling out a 4-0 victory and a 4-2 victory, which solidified our spot in second places above them. After our games, I stuck around to talk with some of the board members about the fundraising idea, as well as to watch the rest of the games and enjoy the weather. When everything was finished at 8, I helped clean up before heading home to get off my feet and have a shower. Before I went to bed I called home to see what the story of the week was, then packed it in for the night.

Spring has given us an early look at how much we missed the warn weather over the winter, and we are hoping it continues from here on out.