Thankful on Date Night

Every week, on Wednesdays, Justin and O make a point of going on a date, or at least, spending the entire evening together. Ideally, we have no video games, and no Etsy-- just time spent doing things we both enjoy (this usually includes doing something delicious, and often something nerdy).
This week, Justin let me choose everything, and I was really craving vegetables in some delicious form-- preferably as unadulterated as possible. Since it's almost impossible to find a delicious vegetarian salad in Korea, I decided it would be nice to try out a new tapas place Coli, Che and I passed last week.
It was delicious!!! Justin wouldn't normally choose tapas, but he really loved it. This week, he offered to split all veggie dishes (how sweet), and although he really enjoyed them, he's really excited to go back for the meatballs another time.
We had a really nice evening in Seoul, and a cozy night catching up on Fringe, and getting to bed a little earlier than usual.
Today I'm thankful to have such a fun, smart, handsome, thoughtful husband. I really like that guy!

A Year of Thankfulness

This week, I turned 27.  It was a nice, relaxing day, and I was lucky enough to just do what I wanted all day long.  I'd stayed up late the night before, tidying the house as a birthday present to myself, so I didn't set the alarm, and woke up naturally around 10.  My friends came over for breakfast: Coli brought strawberries with the Special Yogurt, and Che brought an amazing carrot cake in the shape of the Millennium Falcon (http://indieberries.blogspot.com/2011/03/happy-birthday.html)!!!  It was divine! When they left, I had a little nap (I'm old now!), and slowly got ready to go out.
We had been planning to get Mexican at Dos Tacos at noonish, and then get Indian for dinner, but by the time we got to Seoul, it was 5, and way too late to have lunch before our 7:00 reservation at KajaRaha, so we all just got a little taco, and a margarita -- delicious!
Everything was perfect: Indian was delicious as always; and Sandra, the owner of a cute little cafe called Groovy cafe made me a chocolate cake that was so moist it tasted like a brownie; but best of all, I spent the day with some of the nicest, funnest people I know (two, who couldn't make it on account of being continentally impaired, called to say hi to us all, and wish me a happy birthday-- how perfect!)!
Life is generally a pretty good thing in my neck of the woods, and so I've decided to start training myself to notice the good things, the little things, to appreciate life to the fullest.  Every day (or almost every day), I'm going to post a picture and a write up of something that made me happy -- something that I've been thankful for each day.  Today, in the wake of getting another year older, I'm thankful just to be alive!
Peace,
Kristi