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Showing posts with label home alone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home alone. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
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Friday, October 19, 2012
Interview with {no other than} Alissa!
I can't believe that we have been in America for over 2 months! I also can't believe how sweet my friends (dare I say, 'community'... a word I never thought I would use post-Greenville) have been with checking in on how transition to America is going.
Instead of emailing everyone individually, I thought I would interview myself (I am pretty sure that all the cool kids are doing it).
Here are some of the most popular questions that we have gotten over the last few weeks/months.
Q: How do you like Colorado?
A: We LOVE it. The low humidity is amazing. And it is sunny a lot. One thing that we are still adjusting to is suburb living. It is a whole different beast. I can do city living (like Daegu) and I can definitely do small town or rural, but suburbs are...interesting.
Q: What do you miss from Korea?
A: the.people. No doubt about that. We do miss some of the food, the simplicity of non-American living, and I miss the financial stability/security of having two incomes (but God IS good and He DOES provide, so we are okay, I just like to feel security in earthly things like a paycheck.)
Q: What do you do?
A: Currently, I am a nanny. I get paid to hang out with three pretty cool kids (ages 8, 5, and 2.5). Most days are pretty fun, some days are not so much (those days I come home saying, "we are NEVER having children" When you have kids, they live with you ALL the time, like, the parents never come home and you get to leave...yikes! I think it is a huge blessing that all humans are born as cute, helpless infants. So glad that no one accidentally pops out a teenager....or a two and a half year old.) Anywho, it is a pretty good part time job. I will get a full time teaching job (eventually).
Ian goes to class. He learns cool stuff and tells me about it. He seems to like classes and is doing well!
Q: What do you like about living in America again?
A: the.people. It is SO great to be near family again. We love having a car again and being able to communicate easily with people around us. Our grocery bill is considerably lower as well :-) There are a lot of little things that are nice too: not needing a proxy to watch Hulu or listen to Pandora, being in similar time zones to most of my friends, knowing that we will have Thanksgiving and Christmas off (YES!), seeing other women out running etc, etc, etc.
Q: How do you like your apartment?
A: We love it! Usually we do a video tour of the place we are living, it is coming...eventually.
Q: Are you still running? How is running in Colorado?
A: Yes, I am still running. I thought I was going to move to Colorado and have about 23,489,302,948 insta-running buddies...not so much. Running has taught me endurance, so I am trying to endure until I can find someone to run with. I do go to a running club on Wednesday nights. They write really hard workouts - which is fun, but the demographic is a bit different than what I am looking for.
I think that is about it...anymore questions? Ask away and I will be more than happy to answer :-)
Instead of emailing everyone individually, I thought I would interview myself (I am pretty sure that all the cool kids are doing it).
Here are some of the most popular questions that we have gotten over the last few weeks/months.
Q: How do you like Colorado?
A: We LOVE it. The low humidity is amazing. And it is sunny a lot. One thing that we are still adjusting to is suburb living. It is a whole different beast. I can do city living (like Daegu) and I can definitely do small town or rural, but suburbs are...interesting.
Q: What do you miss from Korea?
A: the.people. No doubt about that. We do miss some of the food, the simplicity of non-American living, and I miss the financial stability/security of having two incomes (but God IS good and He DOES provide, so we are okay, I just like to feel security in earthly things like a paycheck.)
Q: What do you do?
A: Currently, I am a nanny. I get paid to hang out with three pretty cool kids (ages 8, 5, and 2.5). Most days are pretty fun, some days are not so much (those days I come home saying, "we are NEVER having children" When you have kids, they live with you ALL the time, like, the parents never come home and you get to leave...yikes! I think it is a huge blessing that all humans are born as cute, helpless infants. So glad that no one accidentally pops out a teenager....or a two and a half year old.) Anywho, it is a pretty good part time job. I will get a full time teaching job (eventually).
Ian goes to class. He learns cool stuff and tells me about it. He seems to like classes and is doing well!
Q: What do you like about living in America again?
A: the.people. It is SO great to be near family again. We love having a car again and being able to communicate easily with people around us. Our grocery bill is considerably lower as well :-) There are a lot of little things that are nice too: not needing a proxy to watch Hulu or listen to Pandora, being in similar time zones to most of my friends, knowing that we will have Thanksgiving and Christmas off (YES!), seeing other women out running etc, etc, etc.
Q: How do you like your apartment?
A: We love it! Usually we do a video tour of the place we are living, it is coming...eventually.
Q: Are you still running? How is running in Colorado?
A: Yes, I am still running. I thought I was going to move to Colorado and have about 23,489,302,948 insta-running buddies...not so much. Running has taught me endurance, so I am trying to endure until I can find someone to run with. I do go to a running club on Wednesday nights. They write really hard workouts - which is fun, but the demographic is a bit different than what I am looking for.
I think that is about it...anymore questions? Ask away and I will be more than happy to answer :-)
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Weird-o!
Hi, friends. I am a weird-o.
This is me: in sweats and a tshirt. The hubs who is amazing is visiting the DMZ this weekend. I am home by myself (if you are bad person and now are going to come rob or hurt me, go for it, I have some mean self defense skillz). Anywho, I am home by myself, guess what I am doing. Cleaning! hahahaha. Who does that? You are home by yourself...perfect opportunity for painting of the toenails, watching chick flicks, eating food that your beloved does not really care for. But I clean. I crack myself up sometimes.
I do have a lot of blog posts floating around in my head. So once I get done cleaning and organizing, I will sit my derrière down and share with you the excitement in my life.
This is me keepin' it real: First attempt at the timer on my camera
Second (or tenth) attempt:
If you are thinking to yourself, "self it looks like Alissa has make up on" you are right. Not really a fan of putting stuff on my face everyday, but I did today. I had to go to school this morning (yes, it is Saturday morning) and teach a class in front of the parents. But within 5 seconds of hitting my front door, I was changing back into sweats.
Question: what do you do when you are home by yourself?
This is me: in sweats and a tshirt. The hubs who is amazing is visiting the DMZ this weekend. I am home by myself (if you are bad person and now are going to come rob or hurt me, go for it, I have some mean self defense skillz). Anywho, I am home by myself, guess what I am doing. Cleaning! hahahaha. Who does that? You are home by yourself...perfect opportunity for painting of the toenails, watching chick flicks, eating food that your beloved does not really care for. But I clean. I crack myself up sometimes.
I do have a lot of blog posts floating around in my head. So once I get done cleaning and organizing, I will sit my derrière down and share with you the excitement in my life.
This is me keepin' it real: First attempt at the timer on my camera
Second (or tenth) attempt:
If you are thinking to yourself, "self it looks like Alissa has make up on" you are right. Not really a fan of putting stuff on my face everyday, but I did today. I had to go to school this morning (yes, it is Saturday morning) and teach a class in front of the parents. But within 5 seconds of hitting my front door, I was changing back into sweats.
Question: what do you do when you are home by yourself?
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