quirks and what not

This is my first relationship where I live with the person I’m in a relationship with. Those who have lived with someone who is not from the family will know that at times it can be quite unbearable to live with someone else. What am I saying?? Living with someone from the family can down right be a pain in the ass too. Sometimes I wonder if we’re better off living by ourselves from the day that we know how to feed and clothe ourselves.

Anyways.

One thing that is a bit bothersome and slightly confusing about living with Fredrik is the fact that he cares about how I eat.

At one point in time he used to get upset about how much I eat. He didn’t like the idea that I can out eat him. But I have days when I have a hollow leg and when I want to eat, no one is going to tell me that I’m not eating. My own parents don’t tell me when I can and cannot eat. I grew up in a household where you eat when you want to. Although everyone sits down for dinner together. Fortunately Fredrik got over me possibly out eating him.

But just now while we were having fried rice, he comments that we’re not in an eating competition in the most irritated tone. I was more confused by the fact that someone cared about the way I ate. My parents never cared enough to be bothered by it. My mom used to laugh at me for swallowing too big of a bite because I’m sitting at the table, hitting my chest with my fist, trying to get the food down the esophagus. But she was never offended, just called me an idiot. Fredrik was actually a bit offended. I find it so confusing to deal with.

For those who are of like mind, I must point this out, how you eat your food is not my problem. You could suck it up with your nose for all I care.

I suppose I should be nicer and try to eat at a “decent” pace. But the problem is… I don’t even notice when I do the things that I do. It’s like when I had no idea that my nose was whistling when I breathed (We’ll save that for another time.), I had NO IDEA! I guess I’ll just hope that he gets over it and learns not to care about the way people eat. At least I don’t chew with my mouth open.

spring

We all wait for it and wish for it. When it’s finally here, we bask in the sun and head for the outdoors like we couldn’t before.

Oddly spring doesn’t usually mean sunshine and happy days for me. I tend to get my worst cycling in spring. One moment I’m happy and the next I’m feeling like a piece of white bread. I wonder why it happens in spring. Maybe it has to do with the fact that it’s still a bit chilly even though the sun is out. Who knows.

The other day when I was browsing through some blogs, I learned that I’m not the only one that feels so strangely in spring.

Hopefully with the nicer weather I’ll be more motivated to have human interaction. I’ve decided that I am gonna work harder at keeping in touch with the people I know and try to get to know more people. But in the past few months I am in no mood to entertain or be entertained.

Next weekend we’re going to invite some friends over for dinner. I’m excited but scared at the same time. I don’t really understand why it scares me to have friends come over but it just seems somewhat frightening.

relaxing sort of weekend

Yesterday Fredrik and I went out for dim sum at Deluxe in Gamla Stan. I got my egg tarts and we even had roast duck with rice. We initially wanted roast duck with soupy noodles but I mistook the word rice for noodles. The rice was still good nonetheless. I have to admit the dim sum for 2 is not very fun. The best way to have dim sum is to have it with more people. 4 people is a pretty good number but more is even better especially when there are people who get things that you normally wouldn’t get. I can’t wait till we go back to Canada. We’ll go out for dim sum with my grandparents along with my parents out in Scarborough and that’s about as close to having dim sum in HK without having to go back to HK. The dim sum places out in Scarborough have much more varieties of dishes to choose from.

Cici was supposed to come over with her mom for some afternoon tea but Fredrik’s not feeling very well so that’s been postponed. I think it has to do with the dim sum being a bit greasy. I used to get sick after dim sum. I felt a bit gross last night too but I think having a cup of the detox tea helped.

Fredrik bought Mario Kart for Wii. It comes with this little wheel that’s pathetic but cute at the same time. I watched him play for a bit and it looks pretty fun. Hopefully we’ll be able to get some more playing time out of our Wii. We haven’t really had the time or the motivation to play it. Super Paper Mario has yet to be finished.

Anyways. Gotta go eat. Fredrik made fish sticks and spaghetti.