Goodbye March, hello April... :S

Greetings, good sons! This is a slightly long and perhaps ranty update on what's happening in my life. (I doubt many people actually give two hoots, and I don't think anybody reads this blog anymore, but it just feels good to get it off my chest. Hoho!)

I know.. March is already over. Time has simply flown by the past couple of weeks, as Uncle Yenny has been somewhat busy with friends from high school (Jaclyn son, Iain son, and Harry son) coming to visit. For Iain and Harry, it was their first time in Korea, so it was a lot of fun showing them around and wow-ing them with some of the quirky stuff this place has to offer. For Jaclyn, who's been here before, perhaps the wow factor had worn off a little, but I'm pretty sure she enjoyed chowing down on lots of genuine Korean food. (Mmmm.... Fooooood....) So yes. Basically I had a wonderful excuse to spend the last two weeks doing lots of fun, touristy stuff and being a complete bum otherwise, without needing to feel guilty. Hoorah!

However, now that everyone is gone (sadface.. my apartment seems so empty T^T) it's back to reality and once again thinking about what the heck to do with my life. Basically, I've finished my daytime job at the elementary school ("The kiddy school", as I like to call it) and, since the beginning of March, have only been working at the adult school for 3 hours each evening. This means all my daytime hours are completely free and I have a looooot of time on my hands. This was great at first, and I decided that I would allow myself some time to soak it up and enjoy being a complete bum... Sleeping as late as I wanted, indulging in as much cheesy daytime TV as I pleased, and basically just whiling the hours away without any concern for being productive, whatsoever.

Then, after two weeks had passed and it was the middle of March, I began to feel just a tad guilty for being so lazy. I had promised myself before March that I would use my free time wisely and productively, and do useful things like study Korean, find some other casual jobs, go out and explore more of the city when the weather got warmer, etc.

Well... Epic fail on studying, definite fail on finding other jobs, and as for the last point... Hmm. My excuse is that the weather hasn't quite reached a nice enough temperature for me to venture outside of my apartment of my own accord. u__u (What can I say.. I'm from Australia. I'm accustomed to warmer temperatures. That, and I think the lazy bogan way of life is ingrained in my blood. Hah.)

Anyway.. Tomorrow is Monday the 15th, and that means the start of a new week along with the mid-point of April. I don't know what it is about Mondays that makes them seem like good days to start new things, but I think it's time I turned over a new leaf and made some mid-April resolutions (or rather, revised my new year resolutions from back in February  .__.;;). One-third of the year may have already passed by unproductively, but it's not too late to salvage the rest and make sure I don't waste it.

Goals from tomorrow onward:

1. Study Korean. Learn 5 new words per day (at least), along with studying grammar. 5 words a day may not seem like much at all, but... baby steps, sons. Baby steps. XD

2. Exercise every day. Considering that I have never actually joined a gym before, nor done any form of exercise for more than 20 minutes in one go since graduating from high school (curse those horrid, mandatory PE lessons, bah!) I'm going to start off with 10 minutes per day of aerobics/cardio workouts, and work my way up from there. Again... Baby steps. Haha.

3. Continue making more artsy fartsy stuff. This is probably the only resolution I've managed to keep since February, but I want to step it up a bit more and finish at least one project every two weeks.

4. Eat healthier and take my vitamins regularly. When I was leaving home last year to return to Korea for another year, my mum loaded me up with oodles and oodles of vitamins, mineral tablets, and health supplements, everything from Vitamin D, magnesium, and krill oil to the oil of evening primrose for PMS. @__@ Truthfully, I've been neglecting my supplements and just letting them sit in the cupboard because I'm too lazy to open 12 different jars and pop a dozen different pills each day. Now I realise that I'm not only wasting my mum's money by doing that, but also being unappreciative of all her efforts to keep me healthy while I'm away from home. Negligent daughter of the year. :(

5. Take one random bus each week and see where it goes. Time to be more adventurous! I've lived in Seoul for almost 5 years, and I'd like to think that I know it all, but the truth is... I don't. Not even close. There is plenty more of this city out there just waiting to be discovered!

Well, that's it from me for now. It's time to stop ranting, as it's already nearly 1:30am and if I want to make good on my resolutions of studying and exercising tomorrow, I'll need to get up somewhat "early". (As in some time before 3pm. =__=)

Here's to hoping I pull my weight with these resolutions. Fighting!!!