happier
hello everyone! i'm a bit happier this morning than i have been since we've been home.
i've been watching oprah's best life series of videos on her website and reading her magazine and it's all very inspiring and uplifting. oprah is one of my heroes! :o)
yesterday jens and i went to amanda and ian's to have lunch and then we took eoghan and the dogs to this park across the bridge. don't remember the name of the area. it was GREAT though! it was a HUGE park with only two other people in it and they also had two little dogs with them that were sooo adorable. the 4 dogs played together for a long time. sadie and bella absolutely LOVED running around off their leashes! so cute! :o) i defintely want to go out there again sometime.
last night for dinner i made chickpea curry. it was pretty good. i wish i could make it like they do at tandoor in arlington though :o/
jens had to go back to work today (yeah it's friday...no it doesn't make sense....it's korea). so he's sitting up there doing nothing until they say he can come home. he just told me that a girl from his school one the english speech contest last semester and got to go to new zealand (i was one of the judges for this contest but i judged middle and high school kids). anyway, the girl got jens a giant chocolate caramel bar! woohoo! :o)
while jens is at work today i'm just going to relax a little and then clean house a bit. things are pretty well organized but i haven't dusted or cleaned the microwave in a while. i wish i had a box so i could finally take the xmas tree and decor down but we keep forgetting to get one! lol
don't know what our plans are for the rest of the month. i start work monday and i don't know what that will entail. i may have a meeting and may or may not have classes.
pretty much all our friends except amanda and ian are out of the country on vacation right now. so it's gonna be pretty quiet. i think we're having amanda and ian over for dinner sometime soon- this weekend or next week.
oh i wanted to say that jens did yoga with me the other day! i've been trying to get him to do it with me for the 6 years we've been together and he finally agreed :oD [It was actually my idea! - Jens] i just did a sun salutations routine with him and he liked it! he said he wants to do it on a regular basis for the whole year! i'm excited because i've never been able to motivate myself to do it on my own so having jens do it with me will hopefully motivate me to do it on a regular basis now. yay!
i've been pretty irritable and depressed lately being back in korea and all. i wasn't looking forward to dealing with everything that comes along with living and working here. i'm slooooowly becoming more positive about it but it's going to take some work. i know i've got to live here for AT LEAST another year so ive got to find a way to handle it and actually have a good time while i'm here. i think once everyone is back from vacation and we've got a bunch of social stuff planned that will help. and i just need to think about the fact that i only have to teach at my current school for about 2.5 more months and then i'll get to move into a big apt. and start at a new job. i hope a fresh start will uplift me enough to get through the rest of the year positively.
then i'll just have to figure out how to get through a 4th year! lol
this year is about saving money, jens selling his first novel and writing two more. he wants to stay a 4th year in order to get certified online to be a firefighter! that's right- jens wants to be a firefighter when we move back home! and yes- you can study paramedics and fire academy online and then you just have to go in person to take the tests. [Well, more than that - there's rotations and so forth as well. It's not exactly speedy, but speedier. - Jens] so it makes sense for us to stay here a fourth year and work while jens is getting all that certification stuff out of the way and then move back when he can just take the test and be a firefighter.
only thing is we were kind of thinking about doing a year in europe because it'll be easier and cheaper to see the continent while living there than to take several short trips from the u.s. to see diff. euro. countries at different times. BUT! jens doesn't want to do firefighter certification from a euro. country because the jobs aren't as easy and therefore he wouldn't have as much free time to do it. so it might mean that we do 2 more years here and THEN a year in europe. but at this point i'm ready to move back to the states asap so i'm leaning more towards 2 years in korea, go home, jens = firefighter and we take many short trips to europe over time. i'm ready to be settled down in texas and have a house and travel on holidays. which will be easier to do as a firefighter than alot of other jobs. you can get quite a bit of time off being a firefighter.
as for me i either want to start having kids when we get back home and be a stay at home mom and/or work in the eco-friendly/wellness realm. it's a broad realm i know. but that's what i'm interested in and i want to look into jobs related to that. possibly something with/related to central market or whole foods, yoga, nutrition, ayurveda, organic farming. there are loads of possiblities!
alright i'm gonna go now! have a great week! live*love*laugh!
i've been watching oprah's best life series of videos on her website and reading her magazine and it's all very inspiring and uplifting. oprah is one of my heroes! :o)
yesterday jens and i went to amanda and ian's to have lunch and then we took eoghan and the dogs to this park across the bridge. don't remember the name of the area. it was GREAT though! it was a HUGE park with only two other people in it and they also had two little dogs with them that were sooo adorable. the 4 dogs played together for a long time. sadie and bella absolutely LOVED running around off their leashes! so cute! :o) i defintely want to go out there again sometime.
last night for dinner i made chickpea curry. it was pretty good. i wish i could make it like they do at tandoor in arlington though :o/
jens had to go back to work today (yeah it's friday...no it doesn't make sense....it's korea). so he's sitting up there doing nothing until they say he can come home. he just told me that a girl from his school one the english speech contest last semester and got to go to new zealand (i was one of the judges for this contest but i judged middle and high school kids). anyway, the girl got jens a giant chocolate caramel bar! woohoo! :o)
while jens is at work today i'm just going to relax a little and then clean house a bit. things are pretty well organized but i haven't dusted or cleaned the microwave in a while. i wish i had a box so i could finally take the xmas tree and decor down but we keep forgetting to get one! lol
don't know what our plans are for the rest of the month. i start work monday and i don't know what that will entail. i may have a meeting and may or may not have classes.
pretty much all our friends except amanda and ian are out of the country on vacation right now. so it's gonna be pretty quiet. i think we're having amanda and ian over for dinner sometime soon- this weekend or next week.
oh i wanted to say that jens did yoga with me the other day! i've been trying to get him to do it with me for the 6 years we've been together and he finally agreed :oD [It was actually my idea! - Jens] i just did a sun salutations routine with him and he liked it! he said he wants to do it on a regular basis for the whole year! i'm excited because i've never been able to motivate myself to do it on my own so having jens do it with me will hopefully motivate me to do it on a regular basis now. yay!
i've been pretty irritable and depressed lately being back in korea and all. i wasn't looking forward to dealing with everything that comes along with living and working here. i'm slooooowly becoming more positive about it but it's going to take some work. i know i've got to live here for AT LEAST another year so ive got to find a way to handle it and actually have a good time while i'm here. i think once everyone is back from vacation and we've got a bunch of social stuff planned that will help. and i just need to think about the fact that i only have to teach at my current school for about 2.5 more months and then i'll get to move into a big apt. and start at a new job. i hope a fresh start will uplift me enough to get through the rest of the year positively.
then i'll just have to figure out how to get through a 4th year! lol
this year is about saving money, jens selling his first novel and writing two more. he wants to stay a 4th year in order to get certified online to be a firefighter! that's right- jens wants to be a firefighter when we move back home! and yes- you can study paramedics and fire academy online and then you just have to go in person to take the tests. [Well, more than that - there's rotations and so forth as well. It's not exactly speedy, but speedier. - Jens] so it makes sense for us to stay here a fourth year and work while jens is getting all that certification stuff out of the way and then move back when he can just take the test and be a firefighter.
only thing is we were kind of thinking about doing a year in europe because it'll be easier and cheaper to see the continent while living there than to take several short trips from the u.s. to see diff. euro. countries at different times. BUT! jens doesn't want to do firefighter certification from a euro. country because the jobs aren't as easy and therefore he wouldn't have as much free time to do it. so it might mean that we do 2 more years here and THEN a year in europe. but at this point i'm ready to move back to the states asap so i'm leaning more towards 2 years in korea, go home, jens = firefighter and we take many short trips to europe over time. i'm ready to be settled down in texas and have a house and travel on holidays. which will be easier to do as a firefighter than alot of other jobs. you can get quite a bit of time off being a firefighter.
as for me i either want to start having kids when we get back home and be a stay at home mom and/or work in the eco-friendly/wellness realm. it's a broad realm i know. but that's what i'm interested in and i want to look into jobs related to that. possibly something with/related to central market or whole foods, yoga, nutrition, ayurveda, organic farming. there are loads of possiblities!
alright i'm gonna go now! have a great week! live*love*laugh!