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October 12, 2004
Weekend in Rochester
Hi! I'm back in Texas again! I had a good weekend visiting everyone and being home. It started out a little rough, because Friday night when I got home, my mom and sister told me about a car crash that occured in the City on Wednesday night. Sadly, one of our good family friends, another one of the Korean adopted girls that I grew up with, had died. It was so traumatic, and I am so sad. We went to the funeral first thing Saturday morning. It was really hard, but it was a really beautiful service, and I felt like I had a little closure on the whole expierence. I think it would have felt worse if I found out when I was gone and wasn't able to participate at all. But never the less, it was a difficult start the weekend.
My mom was really concerned, and wanted to make sure that we spent the remainder of the weekend, having a good time, under the circumstances, and just spending good quality family time together. I ended up just spending all day with my mom, Bill and Chrissy while Seymen went to work for a few hours. We then had a really nice dinner at the Yacht Club with my fam. and Jake, Seymen and my old roommate and good friend, Yada. She wanted to ask my mom for some advice about a job opportunity that she is being offered (her parents live in Thailand! So she just wanted a second opinion from someone close to her in the US). So we ended up playing cards all night and having some good discussions. Although, the night ended in us (Mom, Bill, Seymen, Yada, and I) in a very heated battle over Whizbang, with yelling and pounding the table so loud that we kept Chrissy up when she was trying to sleep :-) For those of you who don't know Whizbang, let me know and I'll introduce you to the wonderful world of competitve card games! :-) Poor Yada, it was her first time playing, and she did AWESOME, but Seymen, Bill and I did not hold back, and go slow as we usually do with beginners ;-)
Sunday, Seymen and I stayed at the apartment and got up early, and went to Fuji for a few hours. Tori called while I was there, so I left Seymen (after testing, and printing 6 mugs and a plate) and went to breakfast at the Diner. When we came back, I tested again and ordered 2 calanders, and then Tori, Seymen, and I went to my dad's to hang out until dinner time. Dad and Georiga, made us an AWESOME dinner, with all of our (Mine, Chrissy's and Seymen's) favorite and requested dishes. We had prime rib (Beth's Request), dad's homemade scalloped potatoes (Chrissy's request), Domadas (Seymen's request), and Spanikopita (Mine and Seymen's request). It was awesome food, and then Seymen's friends from work, Nate, Thaun, and Thaun's wife Chau to hang out and talk for a bit. It was really fun, and talked for a while.
Afterwards, we went back to my mom's so that she could see me and say goodbye, and then we went to Spot coffee and met with Maki to talk and visit. This morning, we had slept at the apartment again, and went into work (Fuji) for the morning. I took Seymen's car and went to LMNK where I saw all my old co-workers and went to lunch. They told me it just seemed so normal and natural to see me walk into the building and over to Carrie's cube, where Keith (my old Boss), Christa, Pam, and Mike we're all talking. It was great...Keith even offered to me that I could jump in and do a few storyboards while I was visiting ;-)
After lunch I went back to Fuji where I hung out and worked on a mini-project for my dad. Seymen made Maki buy tickets to come visit me (which is going to happend October 29th-31st). I think she was in shock :-) But she is really excited to come, and already trying to plan things to do!
Other than that, I came home and installed my new Sims 2 Game. I will start playing this weekend, because I think that my week is pretty busy...since it's so short, and Tracy and I have to study 2 nights this week, and salsa class. This weekend will be perfect for Sim-ing it up...So I hope you all had a good weekend. Mine was really nice. I loved being home. I did OK leaving Rochester, but I cried in Chicago when I heard about the fun dinner plans Seymen had with Maki and his other work buddies. But I"m better now, and definitly relieved to be in warmer weather here! It is actually very nice! :-)
I did alot of thinking this weekend, and during the flight home, about my reactions to Texas, and how I am portraying my expierence. We (my fam. and Seymen) have come to the conclusion, after much analyzing, that I have gotten over the excitement part of this, and just expierenced the lonely, What the HELL did I do to myself stage...and I may feel like this sucks, and I hate it, but I don't think I do. There's good and bad, but in the end I always feel sad and panick in the beginning, and end up falling in love with it and never wanting to leave...or being really sad when I do leave. So anyway, if your reading this, and getting slightly worried about how I feel about my move, rest assured, I'm planning on sticking it out for a while (Especially because I have people with Tickets booked to come visit me into January of next year) and I'm going to make the best of what I have. :-) And I'm going to TRY to stop complaining about the bugs...as long as they stay out of my apartment...hehehe
Posted by beth at October 12, 2004 01:44 AM