Hey Everyone, I had a little time to kill before I have to run errands.. so just wanted to give some updates!
Tim and I are doing wonderful here in korea, we have found some really great places to shop and eat. In fact, there is a ribs place we go to just about every week now! The food is awesome! We get to grill our own ribs and they bring out sides of vegetables and a macaroni/crab salad, this really good vegetable soup, it's really spicy but we have gotten used to spicey since moving here =). The owners there have memorized what we eat so we don't even have to order anymore!
We FINALY got our command sponsor paperwork in! I think I told you we already did earlier, but it came back to us saying I had to get a checkup at the TMC to make sure I wasn't retarded. That was really frustrating, and they tried sending it back another time saying some information was wrong, but it was stuff that we hadn't even filled out it had to be someone at the office there. So anyways, everythings taken care of and hopefuly they will just approve the darn thing already!
We've been looking into geting a car here, it's one of the things we are permited here. We were just going to have Tim's car sent here but we would have to pay for that and it would cost us in the thousands, so it doesn't make any sense when I was going to buy a car soon anyways and they will send it home for free. I've already contacted someone who had put an ad in the stars and stripes paper.. so we're waiting on that info. I'm really excited to get a car! I am so sick of cab drivers and them ripping us off, never knowing if they are going to take us where we want to go!
Oh, and we got a computer!!! It's really nice, HP.. I don't really know much about it, Tim's the one that picked it out but he said the storage on there is good size, graphics are great and it's really fast. we got a monitor to go with it for pretty cheap too. I'm pretty sure we bought this for cheaper then what our laptop was! And this one is so much better..so I am happy. =)
One thing I have done here, is learned to cook! haha! I must say.. I'm pretty amazing. =) I found this chili recipe that is exquisite! Tim's favorite is my fried tacos, it's probably the least healthy thing on earth! I am so excited that it is warming up now! I am hoping to grill soon, maybe on easter?
Wow, it is almost easter.. Margaret is supposed to have her baby next week!! I can't even believe how soon that is!!! I have been spoiling that child way too much though, and I am going to keep on spoiling her! Haha I love being an aunt.
Okay, well I really need to get going now, get some stuff done!
More later.
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Wow has it been awhile since I have updated. Still no computer.
It has been sooo busy!! Tim and I are having a great time together here! We have found so many new things in our own city in the last couple of months.. new areas, stores, resteraunts. It's been a really cool adventure here.
I think I have mentioned before of these places they have all over Uijeongbu, where you rent your own little room that has couches and a big screen and you rent a movie and can watch it there for like 8,000Won=$5. Well, Tim and I just discovered this place where you rent your own kareoke room for 15,000Won per hour, and it's like the same thing big couches, big screen and they even have some cool lighting like disco balls. Anyways, we had a BLAST there singing all these different songs, I believe Tim even sang an O-town song to me..All or nothing. =) We ended up staying there 2 hours, but they only charged us for 1...so nice.
Also, we have discovered this store called Homeplus, it's basically a 4 story walmart.. really big. We go there a lot whenever we need something for the apartment.
In the last couple of months, I have re-learned how to crochet and have started a couple of projects for my neice that is due in 2 months.. It gives me something to do when I have free-time.
Tim is still working hard and crazy hours.. He goes back and forth from regular schedule to the couple days on couple days off schedule, it's hard to get used to and be able to sleep well. There are times that he is working everyday and even through 4-day weekends everyone else is geting and then there are times that he will have like 6-8 days off at a time.. It makes it difficult to ever make plans because since he is in communications and works in the main hub he is basically on call. So if someone wants to go up in system he goes into work at a moments notice.
We have been planning our trip back home and hope to leave around July 1st, and be home for a full month. His sister, Ashley, is hoping to come in June to visit so we are super excited for that! We are just so homesick though, can't wait to see everyone this summer...then we will have another year here in korea.
At the moment we are waiting for our command sponsor packet to be approved. Tim says it has made it past the first 5 people to sign it and had like 3-4 more to go then it'll go to yongson or something to the actual office and then back to us. sooo...we'll give it a month. Once that is signed we will hopefuly be able to get the rest of our things here, including our car! yay for that. I will just say, I have had ENOUGH of the taxi drivers here.
Well, it is really late, and I believe my NyQuil has finally kicked in...so nighty night for me.
Hope everyone is doing well.
It has been sooo busy!! Tim and I are having a great time together here! We have found so many new things in our own city in the last couple of months.. new areas, stores, resteraunts. It's been a really cool adventure here.
I think I have mentioned before of these places they have all over Uijeongbu, where you rent your own little room that has couches and a big screen and you rent a movie and can watch it there for like 8,000Won=$5. Well, Tim and I just discovered this place where you rent your own kareoke room for 15,000Won per hour, and it's like the same thing big couches, big screen and they even have some cool lighting like disco balls. Anyways, we had a BLAST there singing all these different songs, I believe Tim even sang an O-town song to me..All or nothing. =) We ended up staying there 2 hours, but they only charged us for 1...so nice.
Also, we have discovered this store called Homeplus, it's basically a 4 story walmart.. really big. We go there a lot whenever we need something for the apartment.
In the last couple of months, I have re-learned how to crochet and have started a couple of projects for my neice that is due in 2 months.. It gives me something to do when I have free-time.
Tim is still working hard and crazy hours.. He goes back and forth from regular schedule to the couple days on couple days off schedule, it's hard to get used to and be able to sleep well. There are times that he is working everyday and even through 4-day weekends everyone else is geting and then there are times that he will have like 6-8 days off at a time.. It makes it difficult to ever make plans because since he is in communications and works in the main hub he is basically on call. So if someone wants to go up in system he goes into work at a moments notice.
We have been planning our trip back home and hope to leave around July 1st, and be home for a full month. His sister, Ashley, is hoping to come in June to visit so we are super excited for that! We are just so homesick though, can't wait to see everyone this summer...then we will have another year here in korea.
At the moment we are waiting for our command sponsor packet to be approved. Tim says it has made it past the first 5 people to sign it and had like 3-4 more to go then it'll go to yongson or something to the actual office and then back to us. sooo...we'll give it a month. Once that is signed we will hopefuly be able to get the rest of our things here, including our car! yay for that. I will just say, I have had ENOUGH of the taxi drivers here.
Well, it is really late, and I believe my NyQuil has finally kicked in...so nighty night for me.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Monday, 8 December 2008
'Tis the season to be jolly!! =)
Wow it's been busy!! 'Tis the holiday season once again!! =)
We are now all moved into our new apartment and settled in, it is beautiful! pictures soon.
We had such a great thanksgiving, Tim and I went over to our friend Lindo's apartment along with 30-40 other people from the same platoon. We made it into a potluck and everyone that had access to a stove brought food. I made the mashed potatoes/gravy, and pumpkin pies, and cherry cheesecake. yum! There was sooo much food it was crazy! I think there were like 2 turkeys, 2 hams, and 1 duck. (first time I tried duck) There was just a ton of food! We all stayed there pretty much the whole day eating away and playing card games. Tim and I had to go gome a couple hours to take a nap, we were so full it made us tired! Then we went back! haha
It's gotten extremely cold here the last few weeks, it actually snowed last night but didn't really stick. No one has yards here so the only place it has to stick is roofs or roads and all the traffic turned it into slush. Tim had to ride home from work on his bike in the slush, he said that was deffinetly an adventure. It's hard enough to keep from geting hit because drivers here don't care about hitting pedestrians, tim's been cut off on his bike once already.
Christmas is coming! we are soo excited! Our first christmas together. =) We put the tree up the day after thanksgiving and decorated. I have the nativity set Grandma gave me displayed on our coffee table. I always enjoyed decorating for christmas, it's kinda my thing. =) Tim was very proud to put his "The Simpsons" ornaments up on the tree.
Everything has been very busy, and it's so hard to get to the library to be able to post anything so I would not be suprised if I don't return before christmas, so happy holidays to all!!
Love,
Ruthy
We are now all moved into our new apartment and settled in, it is beautiful! pictures soon.
We had such a great thanksgiving, Tim and I went over to our friend Lindo's apartment along with 30-40 other people from the same platoon. We made it into a potluck and everyone that had access to a stove brought food. I made the mashed potatoes/gravy, and pumpkin pies, and cherry cheesecake. yum! There was sooo much food it was crazy! I think there were like 2 turkeys, 2 hams, and 1 duck. (first time I tried duck) There was just a ton of food! We all stayed there pretty much the whole day eating away and playing card games. Tim and I had to go gome a couple hours to take a nap, we were so full it made us tired! Then we went back! haha
It's gotten extremely cold here the last few weeks, it actually snowed last night but didn't really stick. No one has yards here so the only place it has to stick is roofs or roads and all the traffic turned it into slush. Tim had to ride home from work on his bike in the slush, he said that was deffinetly an adventure. It's hard enough to keep from geting hit because drivers here don't care about hitting pedestrians, tim's been cut off on his bike once already.
Christmas is coming! we are soo excited! Our first christmas together. =) We put the tree up the day after thanksgiving and decorated. I have the nativity set Grandma gave me displayed on our coffee table. I always enjoyed decorating for christmas, it's kinda my thing. =) Tim was very proud to put his "The Simpsons" ornaments up on the tree.
Everything has been very busy, and it's so hard to get to the library to be able to post anything so I would not be suprised if I don't return before christmas, so happy holidays to all!!
Love,
Ruthy
Saturday, 8 November 2008
11-08-08
This is going to be a quickie but I just wanted to give an update on how things are going.
For starters, I took a look at that highrise at hillstate apartments last friday, and it was fantastic! It is on the 21st floor!! Amazing view of course, it overlooks the base and then all of uijeongbu, to the right you see the mountains which is no furthur then a mile away. It's a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, big living room/kitchen area..lots of closet space. It's just really nice, we are moving in on the 21st!! Yay us! =)
Our plans for Thanksgiving will be going to Lindo's new apartment for dinner along with several other people from Tim's work. My new friend Sutton(Megan) may be coming to our new apartment either the night before or that morning to cook up some american food, because we are not really cool with eating filipino food on thanksgiving. Don't get me wrong, filipino food is great! It's just we want it to feel like thanksgiving back home and I just love thanksgiving food.
I won't be able to update a whole lot, because one our computer is broken so I have to go to our CAC center to do stuff, and two moving and thanksgiving is going to make us uber busy.
Well, I am out of time here, so I wish everyone a great thanksgiving! Miss and love you all!!
Ruth
For starters, I took a look at that highrise at hillstate apartments last friday, and it was fantastic! It is on the 21st floor!! Amazing view of course, it overlooks the base and then all of uijeongbu, to the right you see the mountains which is no furthur then a mile away. It's a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, big living room/kitchen area..lots of closet space. It's just really nice, we are moving in on the 21st!! Yay us! =)
Our plans for Thanksgiving will be going to Lindo's new apartment for dinner along with several other people from Tim's work. My new friend Sutton(Megan) may be coming to our new apartment either the night before or that morning to cook up some american food, because we are not really cool with eating filipino food on thanksgiving. Don't get me wrong, filipino food is great! It's just we want it to feel like thanksgiving back home and I just love thanksgiving food.
I won't be able to update a whole lot, because one our computer is broken so I have to go to our CAC center to do stuff, and two moving and thanksgiving is going to make us uber busy.
Well, I am out of time here, so I wish everyone a great thanksgiving! Miss and love you all!!
Ruth
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Chapter 11: 10-29-08
It's been awhile!
A lot has been going on, I don't know where to start.
Update on the Apartment situation.. we were still waiting to hear about the one we had looked at that was supposed to be open soon. We stopped by the office and asked about it, she says December at the earliest =( Too long, we asked if there was anything else available and she told us of a few places, so we are going to look at one on friday that is supposed to be ready in 2-3 weeks. Oh, I so hope that it is nice and that it really will be ready soon! It's just a bummer since we had so many plans already for the apartment we were waiting for.
Tim had a 5-day weekend this past weekend, it was awesome! He hardly ever gets that much time off! Not unless everyone else is also..but since this new sargent has got here he's changed the scheduling for the better and I guess everyone is really happy with it.
Last saturday, we went to our friends baby shower, soo much fun! It was a weird mix of people though because the wife is filipino so all of her filipino friends were there and then there were all these soldiers, and then two wives(incl. me) and one 10 y/o girl..oh and like 3 babies.. We were cramped into their small apartment, same size as tims and mine..quite an experience. We had a lot of fun though. =)
Tim went to a meeting yesterday, and found out we are now able to get command sponsored! More paperwork, yay, but atleast we will be able to ship all our stuff back without going through UPS.
A lot has been going on, I don't know where to start.
Update on the Apartment situation.. we were still waiting to hear about the one we had looked at that was supposed to be open soon. We stopped by the office and asked about it, she says December at the earliest =( Too long, we asked if there was anything else available and she told us of a few places, so we are going to look at one on friday that is supposed to be ready in 2-3 weeks. Oh, I so hope that it is nice and that it really will be ready soon! It's just a bummer since we had so many plans already for the apartment we were waiting for.
Tim had a 5-day weekend this past weekend, it was awesome! He hardly ever gets that much time off! Not unless everyone else is also..but since this new sargent has got here he's changed the scheduling for the better and I guess everyone is really happy with it.
Last saturday, we went to our friends baby shower, soo much fun! It was a weird mix of people though because the wife is filipino so all of her filipino friends were there and then there were all these soldiers, and then two wives(incl. me) and one 10 y/o girl..oh and like 3 babies.. We were cramped into their small apartment, same size as tims and mine..quite an experience. We had a lot of fun though. =)
Tim went to a meeting yesterday, and found out we are now able to get command sponsored! More paperwork, yay, but atleast we will be able to ship all our stuff back without going through UPS.
Sunday, 5 October 2008
10-05-08:Chapter 10
Happy Birthday Daddy!! =)
Today started pretty darn early for me, about 1 am. ughh. I hate being off schedule with sleep, it's so screwed up right now. I do like that I had been waking up at 5 with tim, I know that's odd, but it's nice to get up and make breakfast for him while he showers and be able to sit down together before he leaves instead of him waking me to say goodbye. but 1 am?!? I did fall asleep around 8:30 last night, lame, haha I'm geting old.
Tim had the day off yesterday, he was pretty sick with a sinus headache and all the fun stuff that comes with that so it started out pretty slow. I ran to the store and got him medicine and hot tea, he started to feel better towards mid-afternoon. So, I tortured him in the bathroom and cut his hair. I was actually pretty nervous because I've never cut guys hair before, I didn't do so well with fading on one side but the other looked pretty darn good. he wore a hat to work today haha! I also cut my own hair too, he helped with the back to make sure it was even. Somewhere in the middle of this process he ended up cuting the chain on my neclace!!!! =( Only he would manage to do that, and then continue without noticing.
We went to the real estate office again yesterday to let them know we had OHA now, looks like we have to wait another month before something is available =( hmrph.
Our friends downstairs, Tony and Danika, let us know of their baby shower in a few weeks, they found out their having a boy!! Tony was hoping for a girl, but doesn't every guy want a little baby girl?
Today started pretty darn early for me, about 1 am. ughh. I hate being off schedule with sleep, it's so screwed up right now. I do like that I had been waking up at 5 with tim, I know that's odd, but it's nice to get up and make breakfast for him while he showers and be able to sit down together before he leaves instead of him waking me to say goodbye. but 1 am?!? I did fall asleep around 8:30 last night, lame, haha I'm geting old.
Tim had the day off yesterday, he was pretty sick with a sinus headache and all the fun stuff that comes with that so it started out pretty slow. I ran to the store and got him medicine and hot tea, he started to feel better towards mid-afternoon. So, I tortured him in the bathroom and cut his hair. I was actually pretty nervous because I've never cut guys hair before, I didn't do so well with fading on one side but the other looked pretty darn good. he wore a hat to work today haha! I also cut my own hair too, he helped with the back to make sure it was even. Somewhere in the middle of this process he ended up cuting the chain on my neclace!!!! =( Only he would manage to do that, and then continue without noticing.
We went to the real estate office again yesterday to let them know we had OHA now, looks like we have to wait another month before something is available =( hmrph.
Our friends downstairs, Tony and Danika, let us know of their baby shower in a few weeks, they found out their having a boy!! Tony was hoping for a girl, but doesn't every guy want a little baby girl?
I'm in the middle of possibly the best series I have ever read before. Twilight. There are 4 novels, soon to be 5. Margaret let me borrow 1-2 and I didn't think after the first that oh, maybe I should order the next one's now since I finished the first one in 12 straight hours. So, now I am waiting, very impatiently for 3-4, re-reading 1-2! If mythical, romance, fiction novels are your thing, I highly suggest this series. It's outstanding.
Thursday, 2 October 2008
10-02-08:Chapter 9
A very crazy thing happened last evening, almost suprising. Tim and I were taking our trash out on our way to go buy some movies at a store down the street. We had just set it out on the curb when this lady hauling a little cart was passing by. As soon as we had set the bags down she jumped on it and was already searching through the bags. I was so suprised by this I couldn't help but give her a nasty look like what do you think your doing?! My first thought was maybe she was looking for recyclables, but then I realized they don't recycle here. Then it dawned on me that this lady was either looking for dinner, or she was searching for our documents to see what she could get. I just looked at Tim and he didn't seem to be bothered one bit. As soon as we were out of hearing distance from the her, I asked "is that lady seriously searching through our garbage? In front of us!" he answered in a matter-of-fact kind of way(like I was supposed to know this) That he was warned people go through everyone's garbage, and we were supposed to shred any documents that would have our s.s.# or anything on them. Of course as we were on our way in, I noticed the garbage bags had been taken. At least it was only our kitchen garbage, so I am certain all that was in there was rotten food and trash...
Note to self: Shred all documents, asians are crazy.
Note to self: Shred all documents, asians are crazy.
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