In progress...

Stats on the countdown:

• St. Patty's Day dash in a bit over two weeks (in which I'll be wearing THESE beauties. Don't ask how much I've trained though...)
• Thesis/classes done in 3 weeks
• Hubby arrives in 4 weeks
• Move to Korea on week 5

After that, I'm a great blank slate.

Jumping back, I have to relate the second great weekend with the hubs in which I had such tooth pain I cried through our Valentine's dinner at a classy establishment. Well, a root canal set me right and a few hundred bucks back, and surely between the food poisoning/car wreck weekend and root canal weekend, our next reunion and subsequent months should be karmic-ly cleared for sheer joy and perfection.

I also had an amazing, hilarious IHOP night tonight. A guy came in asking about his free pancakes (National Pancake Day = free pancakes! starting at 7 am) and when he was told it didn't start until tomorrow, he started a hilarious diatribe about how excited he'd been about the pancakes and how he'd made up a "Free Pancake Song" on the way over in the car. The poor server tried to work around it and point out how the fruit pancakes were great regardless. "But they're not FREE!" came the response.

Good thing I wore a hat so I could hide the fact I nearly burst out laughing.

The rest of life is absolutely nuts. I'm going to work on blogging more regularly (I actually do have a bit of a backlog of military/moving stories...), but suffice it to say that my 1:00 am trip to QFC on the way home yielded bubble bath, a 6 pack of apricot ale (mm, thanks Pyramid) and a 6 pack of Smirnoff Ice. Smirnoff Ice- I'm definitely in trouble.

Vocab of the day:
Korean: 밤 = night
Military: NAAR = night to air refueling

The Joys of Insomnia

Thesis draft due + insomnia= finishing my glass of wine and my work at 7:13 am.

I had the most amusing night at a coffe shop/IHOP (sequentially) which also seems to have stirred my productive vapors. Sitting on the balcony directly above the coffee grinder at Bauhaus made me think crazy thoughts like, "Can I find a coffee shop in Korea to sit and smell grinding beans?" After being booted at 1 am (sad change from the previous 2 am close), I moved to the ever-sketchy but so-much-fun 24-hour IHOP a few blocks away.

After trying unsuccessfully to diagnose the language spoken by the group of rambunctious men across from me, the most creatively dyed and tattooed group I've seen in a while came in and played NASCAR corners in the booth directly at the other end of the restaurant. A cute but silent older Hispanic couple sat across the divider next to me, and as I was finishing my draft up around 3:00, an agitated gent brought me a piece of paper with [10,000/hour seattle attorney] scrawled on it and asked me to google it for him (on the cleverly named "IHOP, yum!" wireless network). He told me at length about his pending case against National Insurance then wandered away without realizing that I still had earphones in listening to interviews, and the friendly server/host came to ask if "that man was bothering me."

Really, an epic way to spend your waking hours if they weren't meant to be waking and are usually far less entertaining. All topped off by the most ridiculous fog I think I've seen while driving home. So I cleverly took a few shots while driving (hey, there was nobody else on the road). 

I'm either going to sleep or run now... but later have some amazing stories about my first real trip onto a military post. Be very excited.

Vocab of the day:
Korean: 불면증 = insomnia
Military: PBS = project breakdown structure