sucky weekend

It's been a sucky weekend. It started badly with me developing rashes, blister & worse. It was depressing to be all patchy and red. And itchy!! Turns out most of it was "Sun rash" which I took to be heat rash. It only got up to the low thirties this week. It's an uncomfortable way to find out that I really have acclimatized to Taebaek.

Next there was a fight with Mike. All over a stupid email address.

Then we went to watch Spider-man 3 at our outdoor cinema festival. The festival was great, the chairs were comfy enough, I got to make sunscreen and we had some nice food. We'd been warned to arrive early and we managed to get a few seats together in the fourth row. The view was great! The weather was perfect, cool but not cold, for an outdoor movie. Sadly Spider-man 3 was a terrible movie... not worth the $2 festival entrance fee. Too many bad guys, awful dialogue and some super gross dancing (why oh why???). Why was MJ made to be whiny and needy? Her part made me wonder what happened to the girl in Spidey 2? The sandman could have had this movie to himself (as bad guy)! The cg work was gorgeous and that's the best praise I have for this movie. Thoroughly disappointing.

At least the remaining movies that will be shown can not be worse than Spidey 3 - they really can't!

6am is not a nice time to be woken by strange noises. Neither is before 6am. Tell that to my wardrobe! For some unknown reason, the main wardrobe hanging pole fell down this morning at ten to six. It's strange because that was where all our winter coats and dry cleaning was hanging and it hadn't been touched for four days (or so). So why did it fall down? Staples. Instead of using metal fittings for the hanging pole in the wardrobe plastic fittings had been stapled in. No surprise that it fell down. I just wonder why it had to be when I was trying to sleep??

So Sunday morning, later Sunday morning, - time to finish the worksheets that Mike & I agreed to do together. However, as usual, this means I'm doing all the work and he's ignoring it all until he says I'm snapping at him. I get it all done and sent in by 12. Mike did assist on the worksheets, it's just frustrating when he's playing xbox and I'm desperately trying to make a good worksheet for students that I haven't taught for a semester! ARG!!

We decide to get out of the house and head to Samcheok. At least we might be able to go swimming and buy a new fitting for the wardrobe. The skies are clear so off we drive and in less than 20 minutes it's pouring with rain! The rain is the heaving kind that has us watching the river level - trying to see if it will get higher, it doesn't that we can tell. But the beach is out. Oh so out. The rain does lighten up so that we are only mildly wet in our search for lunch. At least lunch was nice, omu rice (fried rice wrapped in an omelet) for me and kim chi jiggye (kim chi soup) for Mike. So we search through home plus and can't find anything that will help the wardrobe situation out - short of buying a new one. I do manage to find a super cute Barbie hot metallic pink & silver bag, Mike poo-hoos it and so I don't buy it. There's not much else to do so we head to Donghae and there in Emart we strike gold! New fittings for the wardrobe. At least that got sorted.

Right, well I think that's what you call a vent. I'm vented so I'm going to get this week over with (it doesn't help that I'm over it before it's even started). And continue the countdown until I get home and see everyone. It's strange that the closer I get to the trip home, the more homesick I am.

I'm going to be more positive tomorrow. As in Monday the 30th of July. I really truely am.