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Can’t Sleep

2014/04/11 / Nic / 20 Comments

Okay I have Tumblr, I know there are many people like this. Hands up all you light sleepers! When you lay next to someone who just falls asleep effortlessly don’t you just want to punch them in the face?

I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome too so I NEED lots of sleep but it’s so hard to get. I don’t always think about embarrassing moments when trying to sleep but I have been lately. Stress maybe?

I try to have good sleep hygiene but it’s hard when we work, film and sleep in the same room. And blinking lights!!! All the blinking lights! Meanwhile my husband can fall asleep with even the main lights on.

I have very very vivid dreams as well so it’s hard to feel rested. I did read recently that people who remember their dreams in detail are people who wake up a lot through the night so what they were dreaming sticks in their memory. If you have trouble sleeping, Korea can be hard sometimes, there is a lot of noise, even in the countryside. Also the bedding situation may not be exactly what you are used to. Sleeping areas aren’t as designated as in Western culture. It can be hard to have that perfect place where all you do is sleep.

Hiking up Jiri Mountain

2014/04/11 / Nic / 3 Comments

I did not hike up the mountain because my body would not be able to handle it at all. They all had fun though!

The Way You Are Saying it

2014/04/10 / Nic / 32 Comments

At least he tells me things maybe a teacher wouldn’t! My Korean study somewhat stalled because of how busy we have been. I’m not at a conversational level where I can learn just by talking and listening, especially when everyone around me is speaking dialect quickly. It’s also hard to get my husband to speak to me in Korean as he always just naturally defaults to English all the time. I’m not giving up though and want to study every day. We are going to have to have days where no English is allowed.

MGT – Bus Travel and Car Accidents

2014/04/10 / Nic / 6 Comments

While subtitling this we talked about what actually happened to the guy in the car accident. We searched online and couldn’t find out if he ever came out of the coma, but we did find a news article about the “missing Korean tourists”. One of those being my husband! He didn’t know until today that people had searched for him for 7 hours! Even though it was back in 2006, big thank you to those who searched and were concerned.

Jumping Spiders

2014/04/09 / Nic / 33 Comments

I’m going to be completely honest here: the memes and stuff that go around the internet about how everything is sooooo dangerous in Australia annoy me. If there is something that is the truth and done in a funny way it’s fine, but mostly it’s just exaggerated or just plain stupid. AND THEN people will say things like, “I can’t ever go to Australia because it’s so dangerous with the snakes and spiders!”…. Seriously? You are not going to get off the plane and be attacked by crazy snakes and spiders. Australia is really not that dangerous.

Korea, well rural Korea, has the most annoying jumping spiders! They literally jump onto you! I miss my Australian spiders that were cool and just hang around and don’t bother you. I once had a spider in the shower that lived in the corner for months. He was just chilling. You can’t chill with Korean jumping spiders, they are little bastards.

I asked my husband about this, because he is terrified of spiders and moths….. and as you’ve seen in a comic….butterflies. He says he doesn’t care about these spiders because they are small and you can just flick them away. But he is scared of big spiders and colourful ones. So spiders that aren’t doing anything to him are scary, but ones that want to JUMP ON YOUR FACE aren’t? I don’t understand his logic.

As I was drawing this comic I felt something crawling on my back. I swiped at it and then I looked in the mirror and saw a dark red/brown stain on my tshirt. There was a spider crawling INSIDE my tshirt and I had just squished it! And now I’m wearing a different shirt… Why spiders? Why are you doing this?

Oh and rural Korea has millipedes… that’s a whole other story.

Cherry Blossoms & Canola Flowers

2014/04/09 / Nic / 9 Comments

We had a big day out on the weekend! We went and saw cherry blossoms. At the place we went to there was also a festival and lots of people! Lots of couples. Then we went to another place where there is canola, which was beautiful as well. Korea is very beautiful at this time of the year.