random facts

random facts about us... 

We got asked if we were terrorists once by a lady who was dead serious, then she snuck us into the NBC Tower in Chicago... she ended up being one of the main ladies for the news and we had no idea!

One of Josh and I's funniest memories is when I accidently flicked him in the eye...

I almost died once... well kind of twice... sort of. Anyway, one time was when I was overseas in Romania and I had an asthma attack and my (genius) leaders decided not to call the ambulance until I was turning blue and my eyes wouldn't stay open and then it took the ambulance another 20 minutes to show up where they then stuck me with needles in three different places and opened my shirt wide open with the door still open so a lot of people got to see me in my bra! The other time nothing really happened to me but I could have been seriously hurt or dead if I hadn't moved seats 30 seconds earlier...

I like plants... I get attached to plants like people get attached to pets!

I've been in countries before where I was interrogated just because I was close to a border that was closed and they asked for all of my families information including how many siblings I had, their names, my mothers maiden name and everybody's middle names!

I've been in countries that I've had to cover my hair, just because it was wet!

I can say 'thank you' in 8 languages!

I'm hopelessly addicted to chapstick and my husband finds it a little pathetic! I don't blame him cause I do too!

My husband has an IQ score of a genius! Seriously, it's like 140 and the average is (I think) 100! 

Gabriel likes to try things 500 times before he will actually decide that it's a good thing (or a bad thing). 

My hubby has never been to Canada even though he only lived 4 hours away from it the majority of his life... we're going to make a trip up there when we go back to America.

My hubby has been to Mexico though and now Korea.

I've been to 11 (soon 12) different countries and have lived in 2 of them (besides the US).

Some people think my name is a mans name.

My voice sounds like a dying high pitched chipmunk when I'm sick! hahaha! I sound like Mickey Mouse normally;) Not quite but none the less most people will remember my voice after only meeting me once... it's kind of nice because I've gone to look at apartments or called businesses or something and sometimes I don't even have to say my name they will say 'oh I remember you, you're the girl the the high voice!' I had a friend that I would call and though I never met her mom, when she would tell her daughter who was calling she would refer to me as 'the girl with the funny voice'.

Josh and I really want to adopt. It's something that I have wanted to do since I was very young.

News stories make me cry sometimes.

My husband finds it annoying that I sing theme songs from commercials... when I was in the states one of my most common was the Stanley Steamer song... now that we're in Korea I just mimic what the Korean's say! Hehehe! 

I love history and my husband loves math! My husband finds things like figuring out equations fun and I will look up countries histories and read pages and pages of it just because I find it interesting! 

Gabriel has 7 teeth.

I've been to countries where I wasn't supposed to tell anybody I was going there because it was apparently too dangerous!

Josh used to stick his cat in his toy kitchen cupboards... I saw this pictures where he was standing there smiling ear to ear and the cat was in the cupboard hissing because it was mad!

This is what I do when I'm a little bored!!!! 

Saturday

So, I told my mom, when I talked to her on Monday morning, that I was going to write a post that day because apparently she thought I died or something because I hadn't written on here for a few days... but I didn't! Bad me! I got wrapped up in a book and never got around to putting anything on here! BUT in my defense I did put a post on here this morning and technically it was still Monday in the States so really I'm all good... right? Right.

So this last weekend Josh and I decided to get away from English Village for a much needed break. On Saturday we decided to go into the little town that we live by and just get some snacks and do a little bit of shopping. 

As always we had to wait for our taxi to come get us... I do have to say that I miss the days when we had a car and could just hop in and drive wherever we wanted whenever we wanted!

We have a this little bakery in town called Paris Baguette, it is our all time favorite place to buy bread! They have yummy pastries, cakes and ice cream... all sorts of good stuff!

We also went to our favorite nick-nack store in Yongmun. I swear this store has a little bit of everything! Everything but food and clothes... and cleaning supplies! I got some very cute slippers there, a sketch book, and some stationary, Josh got a leather bound note book and a bag. It's just a little fun store, but packed full of stuff. It may be small but you could spend an hour or more in there just going through everything! 

We also went out to eat at a little traditional Korean restaurant by the school. I had never been before to this particular restaurant before but Josh had been once before. They led us to the back of the restaurant where it was an open balcony that over looked the river. 

Traditionally Koreans will sit on pillows next to very short tables when they eat. 

This made for a very interesting time with Gabriel. The table was low enough for him to crawl on top of and also reach all the food... and when you're eating with chopsticks and having a difficult time as it is trying to get food in your mouth, having to pull a wiggly, adventurous 11 month old off the table every three minutes makes it even more challenging! 

First they gave us an appetizer... not really sure what it was but it was yummy! It was a batter that had some veggies in it and was fried, then you dipped it in some sauce and there you go! Yummy! I didn't have a problem eating that with my chopsticks, I was actually getting kind of good at it!

Then they brought us the main course. We ordered this chicken soup that was interesting. It was a whole chicken to begin with and then one of the ladies came by and cut it into pieces for us. I'm not sure what the green stuff was... or anything else in the pot! Hahaha! It was good though, you were supposed to take the chicken and dip it in a salt mixture before you ate it. 

Unfortunately ripping apart chicken legs/thighs/breast with chopsticks proved rather difficult for me... impossible really! The people who owned the restaurant noticed my difficulty and soon they came along offering me a fork... I was rather embarrassed that I was so bad with chopsticks they hunted down a fork for me, but I was grateful none the less! Oh and the background stuff in this picture is all the other side dishes that they give you with any meal. There was raw onion, a corn salad, pickles, kimchi, and other stuff... we usually don't eat too much of it because it's usually rather 'special'! 

So that was our Saturday... maybe tomorrow I will tell you what we did on Sunday!

Laundry?

Hmmm.... should I do the white load or the dark load first?

 I just can't decide... what do you think?

Light or dark...

The dark is VERY dirty... but there is more of the white stuff...

hmm....

Gabers!

I love trying to teach Gabriel things. It is so much fun and Gabriel is, of course, so incredibly cute! Gabriel is a true boy all the way. His goal is to seek and destroy everything and anything! It's fun to place things around the apartment for him, like toys lined up, because when he sees them he gets super excited and then will go along wherever you have to toys lined up and throw them up in the air behind him until they are all gone and then find his next thing to demolish! 

I've been trying to get him to say a few more words lately. Sadly, he has absolutely no interest:) I don't mind though! I will say "Gabriel, can you say 'ball'" and Gabriel will look at me forever as I continue to say the word until he gets a big smile on his face, giggles, and then runs away! haha! The closest he ever gets is you might see his lips move just a little bit but it still will result in him running away along the walls and couch after he smiles and giggles at your attempt! 

Gabriel is getting better at walking though! He is letting go of things more and more testing his balance, sometimes he just stands there, not holding on to anything, until he realizes that nothing is supporting him and then he will freak out and desperately grasp the closest thing in his reach! He is also an expert at climbing stairs! He doesn't get the chance very often but when he does he crawls up them so fast I'm amazed! 

Lastly, Gabriel finally crawls! YAY!!!! He still resorts to his belly wiggle quite often but more and more he is finding out that using his hands and knees really is the faster option! I'm happy because I really love the crawling stage, I think it's so cute, and I was afraid that I would miss it. I'm sure it's not going to last very long though, he is ever so close to walking! 

Gross!

On Saturday morning I was so tired that after Gabe took his morning nap I had to take a nap myself! Josh volunteered to take Gabe so I could get some sleep, what a sweet hubby I have! So before I took my nap I went to the restroom... apparently on my way out I did not close the door all the way. So Gabriel, who is never allowed in the bathroom, decided to take full advantage of the open door and snuck in while Daddy wasn't paying attention! Josh then found Gabe standing next to the toilet swishing his hands in the water... EWWWW!!!! Gross!!! Hopefully it never happens again!