Long weekend, Long update

Hello Friend!

Coming back from a three day weekend is always hard, but here I am.

Sorry I haven't updated for a while. It's been really crazy busy. And you know what happens when it gets crazy busy...I yearn for my boring/lazy days. LoL.

So I'm going to back track a little bit and start on Friday. I was crazy overbooked on Friday. I was really pumped and ready for my patients, but someone my schedule got messed up and people got here late and before you know it, I was so behind that I had 5 people I was seeing all at once. One person had to wait 1.5hours. I was so overwhelmed that I wanted to quit and burst into tears. I couldn't believe how behind I was and I felt awful for how long my patients had to wait. But I think, despite how stressed out I was, I did pretty well. I just took a deep breath and powered through it. Just took one patient at a time and kept at it until they were all done. So usually it's just my mornings that are crazy. I never try to overbook my afternoons. So on Friday, I wasn't overbooked, I only had 4 people. Considering the crazy morning I had, I thought the afternoon would be ok, but it wasn't! My patients all had crazy stuff going on and at 3:30pm (keep in mind, my last appointment is usually at 3:00pm) there was a patient that demanded to be seen because he had an emergency. So I had to squeeze this person in. I was trying really really hard to get out on time because I usually like to leave right at 4:30pm on days I'm planning on going home. My parents are usually waiting for me to come home to each dinner with them so I try my best to get home in a timely fashion. I don't know how I managed to finish all my charts, see all my patients, and get out on time, but I did it. I tell ya, when you really put your mind to something, you really can make it happen.

So I managed to get out on time and hurried home. The drive, like always, was boring. But it was nice being home. Because...this was the BIG weekend, where my BF would meet my family and I will meet his! I had trouble actually sleeping that night because I was so nervous about it. I ended up waking up at 5:00am on Saturday because I was so worried.

Usually when there's something going on, like when I was in school, the night before a BIG test, I would automatically wake up really early because I guess psychologically I was worried and wasn't getting super restful sleep. So I think the same thing happened here.

Like always I ate breakfast with my family and headed out to pick up my BF at 11:00am at the airport. He arrived actually a little early, so that meant I was late. Our first stop after I picked him up was to go see my friend, Jona, from HK. Haha, I know, it's not that much different from his actual name. Haha. Anyway, I went to pick up Jona from his dorm. You won't believe this, he made egg tarts from SCRATCH!!! And it actually tasted REALLY GOOD! Remember that egg tart place that was really famous on HK island that we went to a few times? And one of the times I went we saw them filming Batman (that might have been with Kim...now that I think about it)...anyways, his egg tarts tasted like it was from there!!! The crust was delicious! The egg filling was so good! Not too sweet! Five starts for Jona's egg tarts for sure!

So after eating two of those (lol), we went out for lunch at a Korean place. The food was ok, I wasn't completely satisfied with the seafood pancake, but all the other dishes were good. After lunch, we went to The Cliffs. That seems to be the place I bring EVERYONE. But neither my BF or Jona's been there, even though both of them went to undergrad there. Anyways, it was nice. Then my BF made a request to go to The Salk Institute, which we hung out for a little while. Then we dropped off Jona and we made out way to my BF's house, where we were going to have dinner. By this time, it was probably only about 4 or 5ish. We got to his house, which is super big and very nice. They are remodeling their home so there were some rooms that were nice and some rooms that were GOREGOUS!!! I really liked the way the remodeled rooms looked! I raved about it when I went home. My parents always talk about remodeling our home, but it never gets done. They are such procrastinators.

Then we sat around and looked through my BF's baby pictures. He was sooo cute! He rarely smiled. He has this photo stare. LoL. It's kinda funny. But he was a cute baby. Had dimples and everything. Too bad he lost the dimples now. His sister's baby pictures were so funny. His sister was really CHUBBY, like borderline fat baby. She had no neck...well, maybe she has a neck but her cheeks were so chubby that they hung down and obstructed the view of any neck she could have possibly had. There were pictures of my BF trying to pick up his sister and he was just struggling because she was so heavy! Haha. I even looked through his parents' wedding photos. They had a really nice album. I saw pictures of some of his uncles that I have met before, like the ones from the bay area. We couldn't recognize him honestly because he looked SOO DIFFERENT. So he's bald now has gained some weight. In his picture in the wedding album, he has long hair, down to his shoulders, and he's super, i mean SUPER skinny. He actually looked more like a girl. HAHAHA. My BF and I both thought he looked like a girl.

I ended up texting his Aunt in the bay area (yes, we keep in touch) and told her about this picture. She requested we take a picture of it and send it to her. So I had my BF do it. Hahaha.

After 3 big albums of photos, it was dinner time. His sister came with her BF. There were some appetizers before dinner, guacamole, mango salsa, chips, spanokopita, and cha sui. Everything was home made aside from the spanokopita and the chips. It was delicious! I would have eatten a lot more but two things were stopping me. 1) I have two REALLY big kankersores on my lip, this is NOT because of yeet hay, but because I bit my lip TWICE when I was eating last week and now it swelled up and is trying to heal itself and 2) I don't want to look like a pig and make a bad first impression.

So after the appetizers, we had the main course, which were cornish game hens (little chickens), mashed potatoes, roasted veggies and stuffing. I didn't eat very much of anything because I got full really fast. I think because everything was heavily laced with oil, so that really helped fill me up fast.

After the main course, there was dessert, which consisted of egg tarts and a really fancy white chocolate cake (from a famous local bakery). All the food was really good, I enjoyed it all very much!

So...onto the juicy stuff, my interaction with his family. I think I was really nervous or somthing because I had all these things I wanted to say and things that I worked on in my mind, ahead of time, of what I wanted to be like and the impression I wanted to make but when I got there, I just froze. I didn't feel like myself. I didn't feel very comfortable and I sure wasn't trying to make conversation with anyone. Ugh, why did I have to freeze up during a time like this when I was trying my hardest to appear outgoing and lovable. Ugh. So I really wanted to wish his parents "Happy Wedding Anniversary", but that never made it out of my mouth. I also wanted to thank them for having me over and compliment their nice home, but those thoughts also just stayed in my mind. I mostly only talked when I was talked to. I didn't really initiate any conversation. OMG, it was pathetic. Even my BF's sister's BF made more conversation with me and was trying to get to know me. I felt so dazed and out of it. But aside from playing the part of a silent mouse, I think dinner went pretty well. I didn't choke on anything or throw up on the dining room table, so at least I didn't make a terrible impression.

When I left, I was really hoping my BF would walk me to my car, because there was a little walk from the door to the driveway, but he just said "bye" and slammed the door on me. *rolls eyes*

The whole night I kept starring at my watch, and when I saw it was 9:30pm, I was starting to think it's SO LATE. And then when 10:30 rolled around, I almost nearly fell asleep. So I left around 10:30 and drove home thinking "omg, it's SO LATE!" I got home at 11pm and realized that it's 11pm in my STATE but not in my hometown. It was actually only 10pm. OMG. I'm such a loser. If I knew how early it was, I should have stayed and helped to offer to clean up. I just thought it was so late so I left so quickly. Another strike against me.

So Sunday rolls around and my BF is suppose to show up at my house at 9:00am for breakfast with my family. I convinced everyone that we should go out for dim sum, and that's what we did :) I was really excited and waiting for my BF to come. 9:00am rolls around and he's still not here. I get a text from him telling me that he's feeling sick and will be a little late. So he came around 10:00am. We left for the restaurant. As we were driving there, my brother calls and says he's on his way home too! YAY! He would meet us at the restaurant. So we got there and we waited and waited and waited. We waited for 1.5 hours. We were slowly eating so we had gotten a full by the time he came. So we were just watching him eat.

The restaurant my parents chose to go to, we haven't been there for probably 15years for dim sum. We always go to this other place but my parents decided to go here because they claimed they knew less people there. But when we got there, it seemed like they never EVERYONE. It just so happened that this table that sat next to us were all of my mom AND dad's friends. Then all the waiters somehow knew us too. And the dim sum cart pushing ladies too. Everyone that came around asked who my BF was. And my mom started telling everyone it's her son. Haha. Which everyone was confused and was like "wasn't you son chubbier" "he lost weight" "oh...." lol. Then my brother actually showed up and then everyone was super confused. I think they eventually figured out he was my BF.

All these middle aged ladies (my mom's age and older) kept checking out my BF and would make comments like "he's so handsome!" My BF at one point went to the restroom and he told me that when he was walking back, all those ladies were starring him down from head to toe and checking him out. Hahaha.

After dim sum, we went back to my house and hung out. We played games and just did random stuff for a little bit. Then we went to my Aunt's house, the one that lives around the corner. My other grandma lives with her now so I wanted to see her. I didn't tell them who my BF was, but it seemed like they all knew, they didn't have to ask. We sat around for a little bit and then I had to leave and go to the mall. I was meeting up with my quiet cousin and her BF. I was really excited about meeting her BF!! She's just so quiet that it's hard to imagine her dating someone. But there he was, in the flesh. He's really tall, like 6ft tall! Made us all feel like midgets. He seems nice, he checks out. There wasn't really much to highlight from our extremely long conversation together. It lasted like 1.5-2hrs. It was just me talking the WHOLE time. I was just grilling him and asking him all these questions about himself. So afterwards, he went home, and we left for dinner. We went to a szechuan restaurant. It was pretty good. I guess I was pretty hungry because as soon as the food came, I just started eating, I didn't wait for anyone. I pretty much pulled the dishes close to me and started going at it. My parents both were yelling at me and saying how impolite I was being, but I wasn't paying attention. I was just stuffing my face.

We finished dinner and went back to our house. My BF and I have been trying to watch Cloudy with a Change of Meatballs 2 but hadn't had the time. So we decided to watch that together. I guess it really sucked because my brother was the first one to fall asleep, then me. I don't know if my BF fell sleep or not. I woke up when the movie was over and my BF tapped me to wake me up. So after the movie, he left and went home.

I was nice and actually walked him out to his car. I was trying to give him directions on how to get back on the freeway then these two myterious dark figures emerged from NO where and started walking towards us. It was so dark outside and they were both wearing hoodies so you couldn't see their face or very much about their outline. It was so scary! Both my BF and I stood there in fear and we didn't move. I was alreadying thinking about what we would do if they pulled out a gun or a knife on us. Thankfully they just walked by and didn't do anything to us. But we talked about it afterwards and we both were SUPER SCARED at that time.

Monday rolled around. My parents made me eat breakfast at home around 10am. I was suppose to meet my BF and his mom up for dim sum (yes, again) at the other restaurant my parents were trying to avoid going to at 11am. So of course I wasn't very hungry. I got there right at 11am, like I was suppose to. My BF and his mom were late AGAIN. I sat there and drank a whole pot of tea before they even came. His mom was very nice and thoughtful. She got me some "gifts". She brought me some mangoes, some spaghetti sauce she made (I had talked about how good her cooking was that night at her home) and some HK soaps (on DVD's). I was very touched that she had thought of me and brought me these things. My BF revealed to me later that it was really because they just had too much and was trying to get rid of it. -_-  Like I said, he always ruins things. I'm going to just believe that his parents like me and were just thoughtful.

After dim sum, it landed us at around 1ish, we went to the mall. Originally, were suppose to go to the beach but since it was late and his flight is at 6, so that means we would have to get to the airport around 4:30ish, we just went to the mall and walked around a little bit. We went home around 2:30 where my mom and brother fed us again. We were eating like every two hours. My mom and brother made a ton of food and we were really stuffed (my third meal of the day and it was barely afternoon). After the linner (between lunch and dinner), I drove my BF to the airport and we said our goodbyes. I can't believe we had three days together but it really didn't feel like any time together at all. It was all very packed and rushed and filled with other people. We didn't really have any alone time to spend with each other at all.

I realized I didn't get to spend any time with my brother either. I rarely get to see him now too. I think I really care about my brother and when he disappoints me, or prioritzes friends over family or doesn't come home when he says he would, it just makes me so disappointed it gets projected as ANGER. When he disappoints me, it makes me want to morph into the SHE-HULK and strangle him. But I love him. I really do. I'll just have to get over it that he has different prorities and I should accept that I will be disappointed from time to time.

So I got back to my apartment kinda late. I was so tired, I just passed out earlier than usual. And now, I'm at work. Back from a LONG LONG weekend. It hasn't been too bad so far, I've had three no shows already.

Oh, just to let you know people care...my BF and Jona asked about you. We are all thinking about you and wish you a speedy recovery.

*BIG hugs*