Ok
This week is much much better, so far. Since my mom was for the first time visiting me here in SF I was only going to lab really early in the morning and trying to get home before she woke up. Usually I would find her up in pajamas and with a shocked look on her face to see me coming back from work so fast.
She knows that Lab is not a 9-5 job but what she didn't get was that there are many rode blocks to science and so if you do not have a particular ingredient that you ordered or can't use an instrument you can't really start your experiments. I had a few experiments but they were fast to manage on a daily basis.
I woke up at 3 am today. I couldn't sleep because I knew she had to be in SFO at 6am... We left home at 4:30 on the dot, got to the airport a few minutes after 5. I was in lab by 5:30... I did a Mega Prep (DNA extraction). I finished that by 10 am. During incubation periods on the prep I collected my FACS samples.
Being efficient and quick to get out of the nut house that is my lab feels really good. Also everyone is really shocked to see me so early.
I am going to try to keep up this schedule so that I can stay away from unpleasant co-workers, trouble, and take more care of Coffee.
But enough about today and work. Hanging with my mom was soooo relaxing. I felt like a human being cause I was actually out of the lab before the sun went down. We would window shop eat out. Go see really nice houses in the rich neighborhoods. Also mom couldn't get over how different the fauna was here, like flowers and leaves and all that... And how hill-y SF is. Took her around the Presidio and Mill Valley couldn't get over the pine/eucalyptus trees smell. Didn't really thing the Golden Gate was that big of a deal. I agreed I mean it is just a red bridge after all. She insisted on cooking one night. I guess she missed beans.
We talked about the wedding. I think I managed to hype up her enthusiasm again. And then we just piped dreamed really badly. Sigh.... I hope some of those dreams come true. I took her to Napa and Sonoma. That was a disaster trip because for the first time in my life those places were very cold and rainy, kind of like SF should be. And then it took way too long to come back. Also Coffee was soooooo cold and miserable over there. Very dissapointed I usually think of Sonoma as the place to escape to if SF is too cold. :(
On the other hand we went to the Nordstrom Spa, had a body massage, pedicure, and manicure. At first she didn't want to go cause she didn't like the idea of the massage (even though shes had it before) but she liked it and she said that I had needed it.
We also had tons of fun in Carlos' and I little Spanish romantic restaurant in SF. Carlos kept kidding around with her and she would fall for it every time. Super funny. I mean honestly speaking I was actually a little tipsy.
I put on my wedding dress for her to see and she liked it. Whats even better is that when I put it on I LIKED IT AGAIN!!!!! I mean the scariest thing about this dress after I've bought it is that I'll stop liking it. But I am in love with my little dress again and can't wait to have tons of fun with it in my wedding. We talked about the wedding sooo much I got enthustiastic myself
Everything worked out. I was a little bit anxious about her visit cause I thought maybe we would get in a fight or she wouldn't like my apartment or something like that.
But what I noticed is that in remembering the ugly past so much I don't give my mom enough credit. I'll start changing that now.
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