2003-01-05 - 9:30 p.m.

January 5, 2003

13:40 -- One interesting, neighbourly way of dealing with unwanted possessions in Seoul is putting them outside for recycling. Folks take what they want. The remainder is picked up and either spruced up and sold at the borough's second-hand shop or sent to the proper place where that kind of material (wood, cardboard, plastic, metal, etc) is converted for reuse, incinerated for energy, or composted (restaurant leftovers).

Last week, I found two perfectly good plastic mats, such as you might find near a restaurant dishwasher. Since it was due to snow, I brought them into the porch for folks to wipe their snowy boots on before going into the house. One side of each mat has plastic bristles, perfect for scraping snow off.

[Note: It's hard to come up with things to say today. My "newbie" friend just called and we talked for 20-30 minutes. I'm not sure how long, but my phone battery got hot, so I know it was struggling to keep up with us. I need to get ready to go to Sunday meeting now.}

I'll take this notebook along. Yes, I found my journal! After I got back from posting the previous entry, I walked straight to my teaching bookbag, and there it was. :-)

18:30 -- I'm at the pibimbap place where they "rescued" me last year, stirring my stone bowl pibimbap, the best food for a cold day. The TV is showing that funny stunt show where the comedians try to do athletic acts. They have a yoga instructor trying to teach them to stand on their heads.

After the afternoon meeting, Lee talked to me about starting an OA group. She has the literature, just needs some other people to commit to mutual support. I'm not sure I have a problem. [Duh, who'm I kidding. I know I need to lose weight.] I do need to explore the idea more. I know overeating can be an addiction, along with yo-yo dieting which I've never done. My extra 20 kilos just crept up on me over the decades. The problem is that I don't exercise enough. I'm too good at sitting, hour after hour. ;-) It would be interesting to see 55 kilos again. I haven't weighed that since puberty. I'd been counting on the transformation my maternal grandma went through between 50 and 70, but so far it hasn't happened. Working up a real passion for a life-style change like Bev seems the way to go.

Thanks for reading!

Happy Trails!

~ Sil in Corea

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