I got my first ever blood test today, which was slightly but not really eventful. Back at my high school, I helped out during the blood drives and I always heard of the people that weren’t able to bleed quickly enough that they were sitting there with a needle in their arm for almost an hour. I was moderately concerned that I would be one of those people, but apparently I’m a fast bleeder and I was done bleeding in under a minute. After I was done, I went out into the waiting room while my parents finished their check-ups, and took this picture.

There were two receptionists, one that spoke Korean (the one standing up) and one that did not (the one seated). The old woman in the hat kept on talking in Korean to the receptionist that didn’t speak Korean, asking where the bus stop was to the closest grocery store. That was moderately entertaining.

After getting all our tests done, my parents and I went to a nearby Korean buffet called the Senoya. We went to a buffet because we had to skip both breakfast and lunch for our blood tests, and we assumed that we were going to eat a lot. Ends up, I ate less than I normally would have in a non-starved state.

After we got home, my mom cut some watermelon that we bought from a supermarket earlier today. Ends up, the watermelon was overripe and decaying. I took some pictures of it so I could email the supermarket with the photos as proof that the watermelon was bad, but they ended up giving us a refund for it anyway.

And finally, at the end of the day, I picked off my gauze band-aid because the tape holding it onto my arm was unbelievably itchy.

And that’s how I spent my action-packed day.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 18

Number of times I did my own laundry: 2