It's been 16 days since my little wifey left the country to visit her family in Korea. She does that every couple of years and it's always a bizarre time for me -- on the one hand it's cool to be a bachelor again for a while, but on the other hand I really miss her and things aren't nearly as fun without her to share with.

 

It also reminds me how much of a grounding force she is in my life. Nothing really changes for the first couple of days after she leaves, but then things start going to hell in a handbasket: my sleep schedule gets kooky, I start eating cold cereal for dinner every night, and I work late because there's no real reason to come home. I'm not unproductive, though... when I get lonely I do things that I know she'll enjoy when she gets back, like pressure-washing the patio or cleaning out her car (I also replaced her headlights with SILVER STAR ULTRA bulbs, wheeeee!).

 

Her flight gets in tomorrow morning at 9:30am, and she will have been travelling for something like 20 hours. She'll be jetlagged, sore and tired from trying to sleep sitting upright, queasy from airsickness and multiple airplane "meals", and probably a bit cranky. But I'll be glad to have her back! I can't wait!

 

- Jas

 

P.S. Just for kicks, here's a pic of me, Shawna and my mother-in-law last time we were all in Korea together. It was taken at our overseas wedding reception, and we're wearing our traditional Korean "hambok" attire. Well, it wasn't completely traditional... tradition stated that my hambok was supposed to be pink, but they had mercy on this American boy and let me wear blue instead!