It's On: May 2011

I showed John's parents his 30 day diet. They didn't seem as amused as I thought they would. They asked me if I ate the same way. "Nope". Moments later she questioned why I didn't cook things for him to eat : / . Thinking to myself "I'm not his mother." Trying to defend myself: "We'll grill chicken and burgers, or steak. Or sometimes I'll make pasta and he'll eat it. But usually it's hard to cook two separate meals for two people. We end up having so much extra food. And John doesn't like eating left overs. Plus he doesn't want me to cook things for him because he knows he won't eat it." On a side note, we had our friends, John and Linda, over for dinner. We were joking about how my John doesn't eat corn. Leading to the fact that he won't eat pretty much any vegetable. I asked mommy Cao if he ever ate veggies even as a kid. She said no. Then Linda half laughing asked, "Sau khong bi dong?!" (excuse any miss spellings). Oh, what to do, what to do.

My good friend Jean is getting married next spring! I am so happy for her. She is one of 3 UMBC friends I still keep in contact with. The other two people are James and John (the guy I married :oD ). Most people don't remember how they first met their friends. But Jean and I both remember how our friendship started, 9 years ago in freshman Biology.

This little Chinese girl leaned over to the other 3 or 4 students who sat next to her, including me, and asked us if we all wanted to study together. It kind of caught me off guard. Most college kids kept within their own groups. She was so outgoing and friendly. I said ok. We started a bio study group and quickly became friends. She was planning to study business. I was studying information systems. Other than biology, we didn't have any other classes in common. Eventually I smartened up and switched over to nursing, while Jean switched to dentistry. Before I left UMBC I decided to take one more bio course with her. I'm glad I did since we got to be study buddies for the last time. From then on we went our separate ways and rarely talked on the phone or saw each other anymore. She then moved to NYC while I stayed in MD. I visited her twice within those 4 years. Some would say it sounds like we drifted a part. Maybe in distance we did. But each time we spoke to each other it was as if we saw each other all the time. There was no awkward back and forth "so, what have you been up to?". We always had something to talk about.

Fast forward to today. Jean and her fiance are living in Dallas, 3 hours away from Oklahoma City. Out of the entire world, they decided to move near us! Within the past 10 months, we have seen each other more than we ever have in 6 years. I'm so happy we've kept up our friendship. Below are some photos of a recent Dallas trip.