More on My Weekend

Slept almost immediately after I came home last night – simply too exhausted to write anything long and coherent.

So my time with the parents and biological mother was nice. I feel guilty, however, because I felt so impatient with my biological mother. I hope I didn’t show this too much, but I was inwardly very impatient. She’s a nice person, but so clueless of everything that I can’t really have a real conversation with her. It’s not her fault, but I think we are just very different people, and she has been out of my life for so long that it takes a lot of time to explain anything to her without exhausting myself.

Perhaps my expectations are too high. It IS much more effortless to talk with my own parents, even if the conversation also frustrates me at times. At least they have enough context of my life to understand what I talk about, and then we can carry on an interesting conversation.

So I took my biological mother to Six Flags. We started out late on Saturday and there were way too many people there, however, and just the prospect of waiting in line for hours and hours horrified us, so we decided to only go to the Safari. Lots of cute animals there. My favorite was definitely the giraffe, because they have pretty colors and really long eyelashes.

In the afternoon we went to a restaurant near Princeton to eat. I then took my mother and walked around the Princeton campus. Also took her to the French pastry shop on St. Tulane and bought some dessert. My friend A took me there last time we were on Princeton campus about a month ago and showed me the place, and it is really wonderful. (Thanks, A!)

The next day she went shopping in the morning, then we went to see Star Wars III. She had never seen any other Star Wars movie before, and was very, very confused about the chronology and the storyline, like the fact that there are 6 Star Wars so far and the original Star Wars was really episode 4, and that this latest Star War is the episode that comes right before that. Arrrrgh. (The fact that there was no word in Chinese for “prequel” greatly complicated things.) After a little bit of Star Wars we finally decided to sneak into Mr and Mrs. Smith, which was just starting. Surprisingly, it was very well-made. Parts of it were very funny. If you are into this kind of action comedies (which I am) I highly recommend it.

Then ate at my favorite Chinese restaurant in celebration of Father’s Day (I brought a bottle of Cabernet for my dad). Then I drove home and almost didn’t have any energy to interact with Boyfriend. Slept from 11:00 until 8:30 and finally felt a little better.