Post 3 Day Weekend

Hi! I'm sorry I haven't blogged for a while, I've been gone for the three day weekend (went back home). I came back and blogged as soon as I could!

Here's the down low for this weekend:

Friday:
Busy busy busy day but I was able to finish a little early and get an early start to drive home. Since there is a time difference between CA and AZ right now, I pretty much passed out at 8:30 CA time (which is 9:30 in AZ). My brother came home around 12am so I didn't really get to talk to him or anything Friday night. I think he also brought a friend over but again, I'm not sure because I was already sleep.

Saturday:
Woke up 5:30am (CA time) and realized that no one's going to awake for at least 2 hours, so I tried to go back to sleep, but no dice. I ended up just playing on for phone for hours and even watching a few things on my phone until my grandma finally woke up. Then I think it was my dad that woke up next and finally my mom. My brother (door closed) was still asleep (with friend inside?). My parents and I left before I even saw my brother :(

We had an agenda! I guess one of my mom's friends from San Leandro came to visit my mom. Got dropped off in LA somehow so we had to go pick her up. So we were supposed to meet up for dim sum and I thought we were pretty late already (11am). Ending up, her friends didn't come until 12:10pm. Of course, knowing me, I didn't wait, I ordered a few dim sum items before they came but it wasn't all the good stuff I wanted. I just ordered some random things to hold me over assuming that when they come, we can share all the good dim sum items I want. But NOOoooo...when they arrived, all they wanted to do was TALK. We basically didn't really eat anything and the stuff that we did eat...I didn't even like because someone else picked them. My dad and I were sooo bored as we just sat there watching my mom gibber gabber with her friends. The only nice part about seeing my mom with her friends is that I realize she's not as loud and as embarrassing as I thought, her friends are worse. So, relatively speaking, my mom's not so bad. But as time went on, I realized that she started picking up all these annoying nuances from her friends and then all the positives about her meeting up with her old friends, morphed into negatives. She started picking up all these really annoying "country" style type of talk. I don't even know if "picking up" is appropriate, it's probably more accurate to say "regressing back" to that style of talking.

Anyhow, my dad and I managed to weasel out of there and left my mom and her friends to chat it up. Which I thought was GREAT! Freedom......................until I realized, I'm hanging out with my dad. We never hang out just us alone. This is weird. The only time we've been alone is when I needed a ride somewhere or I needed to drive him somewhere but it probably never lasted more than 20mins. Now we have the whole day to be together.....hmmmmmm.........interesting. Of course we didn't know what to do or where to go, so we ended up just kinda driving around aimlessly. He ended up somehow taking me to a granite/tile store. WEIRD. Then we went to a grocery store....didn't really buy anything. Then we ended up at another grocery store, but we just sat there in the parking lot. We didn't really talk.......cause he doesn't like to talk and we don't have much to say. So as the mins passed by, we just ended up taking a nap in a grocery store parking lot. When we woke up, he decided to go to a furniture store.........also weird.........

Don't get me wrong, I love my dad, but I guess we don't have a lot in common and we have a lot of trouble connecting.......so......many hours later, we were supposed to go meet up with my mom and her friends at this other friends' house. So we got there around 5:30ish? We were told that they were holding a PARTY and there was going to be some food there, so we shouldn't eat before hand. So we get, and there's NO food. They were still making it. And it's not even a lot of food, they were just making mochi (tong yuen). Yeah........that's all we were eating. O_O Anyway, it was just a long day of being deprived and disappointed by the lack of food. So we brought my mom's friend home and we called it a day.

Sunday:
My dad had to work today, so he was off the hook, so I officially became the head tour guide. So I ended up taking my mom and her friend out to breakfast, then we went to downtown, seaport village, coronado, my Aunt Judy's house, my Aunt Fay's house, and ended the night with some Korean food. (YUM!) Oh, let me also mention that I didn't know how to go to half of these places, so I was very stressed driving and navigating and listening to my mom and her friend chit chatting the whole day. I had a lot of near misses that day. Could have ended with terrible car crashes but thank goodness I was lucky. Thank you someone upstairs was looking out for me!

Monday:
Stayed home most of the day trying to get ready to come back to AZ. I still ended up taking my mom and her friend somewhere, and then I finally made my long journey back here!

This three day weekend ended up being just a long weekend of being my mom's tour guide/driver/butler. I can't believe how much I drove this weekend. Let me calculate this: 3hrs (friday), 4hrs (sat), whole day sunday, 3hrs (monday) = TOOO MANY HOURS OF DRIVING!!!!

Ahhh...I can't believe how much of a disdain I have grown towards long distance driving but yet, it seems like that's all I do nowadays. Oh goodness, I'm going to go collapse from exhaustion now....it's 9pm in AZ, good time for sleep! Good night!

I hope you had a good weekend! I miss chatting with you on the phone. Don't know when to call since I don't know if I'm going to be disrupting your resting or not. Let me know when you are free to chat a little and catch up :)