I really should travel more often within California. I just had one of the best dim sum in my life at Lunasia in Alhambra. Dim sum places here in Orange County fail in comparison with Lunasia and that was my first time eating in Alhambra period. Wandering Chopstick had written a post about it and to tell you the truth, her pictures and post peaked my interest. I'm also a big fan of hers as you can tell. ^-^ I wanted to try some other restaurants, but my friends and I were tired after walking around the Santa Anita Mall to digest our food. I'm definitely returning to try more cuisines next time.
For some reason, the whole day seemed kind of blah. It wasn't exciting, nor boring; it was just normal. Not that normal is a bad thing, but it felt like emotions of any kind were absent. I don't know about you, but that felt wierd to me. Typically, at least once during any day, an emotion of some sort is expressed on my part, or my family's, but yesterday it was void of all that. I know I'm repetitive; my husband says I am all the time. It got me thinking, am I boring to be around? My two friends that I was with seemed to connect better than I do with both of them. Maybe there is some jealousy on my part, but I can't help but to feel like a freak of some sort. I'm sure everyone's probably thinking I should talk to my friends about it; Trust me, if something bothers me I do. I think I don't say anything to them about it because deep down I know why I may not connect so well like they do with one another. I have a family of my own, and neither of them do. My ability to spontaneously do things before I was pregnant are now hindered . I can't go to bars as often as they do, or go on mini adventures to LA or SD without having to consult my planner to see if either my husband, or a babysitter is available that day to watch my daughter. Not that I frequented bars that often either before she decided to grace us with her presence. I don't resent having my daughter at all. I just haven't figured how to adapt to this new environment my friendships are in. Of the few friendships I do have, I'm sure I'll figure it out somehow and someday.
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Ah, so it was worth the drive?
ReplyDeleteHow come you didn't take your daughter to dim sum with you? I was just there on Friday b/c my third-cousins came up from OC to see their cousin's new baby. So I called around to see who else had Friday off and we ended up with 7 adults and 2 babies. The boys discussed sleeping through the night, breast feeding, eczema, etc.
My cousins only recently started having babies, but we've all grown up taking care of our younger siblings.
I know it's different with family vs. friends, but I guess I'm trying to say, if there's other ways you can relate to each other, having and not having babies shouldn't make that big of a difference?
WC, by far it was DEFINITELY worth the drive. You know what's funny; my friends and I had talked about coming on Friday or Sunday instead because it was so packed Saturday. Our original plan was to stay there the entire day and eat our way through and I opted not to take my daughter so she would haven't to suffer staying out so late.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, it shouldn't make that big of a difference. My friends are really great. They love playing with her when I bring her along to our lunches. I think it's mainly just jealousy on my part; I'd like to have that connection that they have.