I have been an admin assistant for almost 3 years. 2.5 years with one company and 3 months with this new company. I adoooore my new company and my boss. Also, math is not my strongest asset. Here are some things I happened upon I could not relate to more in my old job…and one…
*This was written 6 years ago, a year before I left Korea for Canada* I get asked this question a lot and so here…here is how I ended up in Korea: Recently, I called a lawyer. A lawyer in Canada, no less. This lawyer I called was very polite and helpful, apparently it’s the Maple…
While trying to explain Halloween in Ireland to The Canadian One I was remembering all sorts of different traditions we have that are different from his. For one, in my family we never carved a Jack-O’-Lantern (or Pumpkin). People in Ireland did but in my family we just didn’t do it. Our pumpkin…with our cat…dressed as…
I have only recently taken to baseball. Three years ago, a week into living in Canada-land, my father-in-law took us to see a Blue Jays game with my brother-in-law and his kids. I had never seen a baseball game before which is surprising given its prevalence in Korea. I spent the game mostly having no…
And so I come to the end of week 2 and get my nifty new app skin to not even pay attention to other that when I press ‘Start Workout’ and bitch about why my Spotify isn’t working. Spending two weeks jogging around my neighbourhood has made me realize that a lot of people use…
People always ask me ‘How did you and The Canadian One meet?’, ‘Why is your blog called The Ketchup War?’ and ‘Why is the printer beeping? Can you come fix it?” To answer that last question first, I have no idea. I’ll turn it off and turn it on and if that doesn’t work, I’ll…
I’ve never run in my life. Not once. Not ever. I used to see kids running around on the playground when I worked in Korea and think, ‘I couldn’t run like that if a bear was chasing me’. And now that I live in Alberta and the chances of an actual bear chasing me is…
