the blog

Life this Week in South Korea Oct 23-29, 2023

MONDAY, OCT 23 My Alien Registration Card is here! My Alien Registration Card is here (sung to the tune of The New Phone Books Are Here! The New Phone Books Are Here – a la the Steve Martin movie The Jerk)! Actually, it’s now called the Residence Card as there were grumblings
Read more

The One Where I Found a Place to Live in South Korea

Note: If you’re new here, you might want to check out The One Where I Got Myself to South Korea and I’m Moving to South Korea before reading this post… When we last left our hero…she was on the verge of having to leave her fancy South Korean hotel and go OUT
Read more

Life This Week In South Korea October 16-22, 2023

MONDAY, OCT 16 After my fun and exhausting weekend, I was NOT prepared to go back to class, but…sigh. I went. I had the tutor, Joon, in the morning, and he’s great. Helps me a lot. I try to do the lesson with him that we’re going to do later in the
Read more

Life This Week in South Korea: Oct 9-15, 2023

I know I’m all out of order here, but if I wait to catch up to The Big Picture before I start writing current posts, I’ll NEVER CATCH UP. So please bear with the back-and-forth timeline for a bit. Think of this as a well-played k-drama – they are masters at the
Read more

There One Where I Got Myself to South Korea

Intro: I know, I know, it’s been a long time…I’ve been ridiculously distracted (not to mention exhausted, sweaty, and busy) ever since I got here and the times I DID try to write a blog post it was just a jumble of…mess. I swear I left half my brain back in the
Read more

Where Bloggers Live: This is My Tragic Hair Story

Welcome to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes and lives? Every month a group of six bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, thoughts, with posts based on specific prompts.
Read more

Week in Review: August 7-13, 2023

MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 2023 The day started with us successfully getting to the beach just before sunrise… And went downhill from there.. There have been several things I’ve been putting off while down here as I needed to print forms/paperwork and I didn’t have a printer. I was buying a printer/scanner for
Read more

Where Bloggers Live: If I Could Travel in Time

Welcome to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes and lives? Every month a group of six bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, thoughts, with posts based on specific prompts.
Read more

Week in Review: July 31-August 6

I’m happy to say I’m totally getting into the swing of doing NOTHING. Ha ha. My energy level is rapidly plummeting, the floor is getting further and further away every day, and if the kids would let me, I think I could sleep 24 hours straight multiple times a week. Life is
Read more

Week in Review: July 24-30, 2023

Caveat: Forgive the ridiculous spacing. I fought long and hard but the internet is winning. I’m too tired. WOW it’s been a long time since I did a Week in Review! And look, I’m still Fashion Schlub, cuz…A GAZILLION THINGS ON THE TO-DO LISTS RIGHT NOW. This was a HECK of a
Read more

SPOILER ALERT: I’M MOVING TO SOUTH KOREA!!!

I’M IN! IT’S HAPPENING! I’M ACTUALLY GOING!!! Show of hands: who thought this would never actually happen? Oh, that wacky Bettye and her cockamamie ideas, she’ll never actually GO THROUGH with this!  I’m grateful for those of you who have been following along since the start of this journey back in 2020
Read more

Where Bloggers Live: Kitchen Gadgets I Have Loved

Welcome to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes and lives? Every month a group of six bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, thoughts, and more! Annnnnnd we’re back! This
Read more

Where Bloggers Live: Art & Collectibles

Welcome to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes and lives? Every month a group of six bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, thoughts, and more! Hey, cats & kittens!
Read more

Vacation Diary: All The Other Days

I’ve had two high-point days, and the other days were pretty much equal mixes of paperwork, looking things up on the internet, webinars and consult calls, ebaying, afternoon movies, and trying (unsuccessfully) to eradicate ants and keep the kitchen sink drain unglogged. It was a hell of a week at sea, sir!
Read more

Vacation Diary: Day One

I’m on vacation this week – yay! I don’t have anything too exciting planned; the week is gonna be heavy on erranding (one of my least favorite ings), but if you wanna come along for the ride… DAY ONE: Saturday Slept gloriously straight through the night with no wake-ups (very uncommon these
Read more

The Most Boring Blog Post Ever: My Medicine Cabinet

Welcome to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes and lives? Every month a group of six bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, thoughts, and more! I take full responsibility
Read more

Month in Review: March 2023

Better late than never, amiright?? I’ve been trying to put this together for two weeks but LIFE AND ALL THE THINGS. This is actually March and the last week of February, cuz the last time I updated it was middle of Feb. Plus, spoiler alert, NOTHING MUCH HAPPENED 🙂 After a long
Read more

Where Bloggers Live: A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition

Welcome to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes and lives? Every month a group of six bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, thoughts, and more! Today we’re doing the
Read more

Saying Goodbye, I Love You

(please indulge me this, I just felt compelled to write some thoughts) So, Katie just texted me “Happy Easter, my flight’s about to take off for New Orleans.” And I replied, “blah blah blah I love you SO MUCH.” As one does when sending off a loved one. And I thought…isn’t it
Read more

Where Bloggers Live: Favorite Websites

Welcome to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes and lives? Every month a group of six bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, and more! Today we’re sharing our favorite
Read more

By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: . You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact