March-June-?

A gorgeous apartment, a title to a new/old car, a crappy diet, three and a half months since my previous post, and I've finally decided to blog again (for the last time this year, no doubt). A lot has happened since March; happenings that I had every intention of writing about, but I somehow managed to become increasingly lazier as spring moved into summer (I blame the humidity... but I suppose it wasn't really humid until last week).

First: The new apartment. Simply put, it's positively amazing. I'm pretty sure I will never live in such a nice place again, as I'll never be able to afford a place like this in any other part of the world. Only in Korea could I get away with such a deal. Just to give you an idea of my new abode, here's a little peek:

I also purchased a car a couple of months ago to make the long commute between the above palace in Busan to my bothersome place of employment in Ulsan. I don't have any pictures of it (it's too dirty at the moment to take pictures for public viewing), but it's a little '96 Hyundaii Avante and it was cheap, which is the important thing. It gets me from point A to point B every day without any problems (yet... knock on wood), so I'm happy with it.

I've been cooking up a storm over the past couple of months, which I suppose is another noteworthy tidbit of news. It's as though my domestic-side has lain dormant for the majority of my 28 years, and now I'm making up for lost time. It should be mentioned, however, that my recent cooking adventures (and they are indeed dangerous adventures) have been the result of a diet change that would have left me with very few food options if I hadn't made use of my oven and frying pan. As mentioned in previous posts, I had been suffering from sinus infections and tonsillitis galore for eight months straight with seemingly no hope for recovery. After talking about all of my symptoms with a nutritionist-friend of mine awhile back, she came to the conclusion that I could quite possibly have Candida. She put me on the Candida diet for a month to see what would happen. I'm happy to report that, even though this diet has been a big pain-in-the-butt, I haven't been sick in six weeks (a huge accomplishment!) and I'm feeling the best I've felt in months. But, as I said before, the diet is indeed a huge pain, and I've been forced to become more creative in the kitchen as of late. Much to my surprise, I'm not the terrible cook I always believed myself to be, although I would be lying if I said I haven't had any huge flops (like making an avocado soup using avocados that weren't ripe... but I choked it down anyway!). This website has definitely been a huge help in my recent ventures.

In other news, rainy season is upon us here in Korea. There has been a perpetual rain/mist cloud hanging low in the sky for the past month or so with only a few breaks here and there long enough for the sun to come out and steam things up a bit. I have a feeling it's going to be an exceptionally humid summer and my hair, for one, is not up for such a challenge. Lucky me.... I've been looking like a brunette version of Einstein over the past few muggy days (without the brains).

Well.... I've never known how to conclude a blog post gracefully, especially when it's all over the map as this one seems to be. I could promise to write here more often, as I tend to dishonestly do from time to time, but I'm not even going to bother this time. So without further ado, this is where it stops. Good night.