I can barely move my body!! I did two hardcore workouts this weekend!! YEEEEEAH! No wonder it was so difficult to wake up. Even sitting hurts my butt cheeks.

I finally got in a weekend of R&R. I hardly did anything. I sat around and watched a lot of TV and got in my workouts. I declined socialising at all Saturday night. Mr. Nick was away skiing all weekend. I hadn't had a weekend like that in a really long time. I feel re-energised.

But I've been mad at Mr. Nick. I wish I wasn't, and I wish I could get over it instantly, but it hasn't happened.

There have been things that were bothering me but not enough for me to say something until recently. Mr. Nick's declined a couple of my mom's dinner invitations, which once in a while is okay. When it becomes a pattern, I don't want my mom to think it's anything personal. (And I haven't forgotten that he didn't eat her "famous" traditional Chinese New Year dinner dish either.)

So Friday night, we went out for Alaskan King Crab (fresh and steamed...delicious...definitely one of my favourite dishes). My mom had asked me to invite Mr. Nick. I knew she'd be a little disappointed for him not coming, but I knew he had plans to go skiing, so I told her he was away.

Turns out, he didn't leave for skiing Friday and decided to watch the Canucks game. When we talked that night, he commented that my dinner sounded good. And I said, "it was. And you were invited." And he said, "well, the Canucks game was on."

And I got really mad. Furious. Mad enough to yell, which is not like me at all. I hung up on him.

I was disappointed that I'd have to miss some of the game, too, but I guess I am just not a hardcore fan. I'd rather enjoy a meal with my mom instead of watching a hockey game on TV. And for anyone else to pick a hockey game on TV over time spent with friends or family doesn't sit well with me.

He called me back as soon as the game was over, and we talked. Another thing that has been bothering me and which I actually spoke to him about was that I rarely get invited to his family's dinners. He sees them as often as I see my mom. Last week, he was telling me about his dinner, and I was like "sounds really Easter-like," and he said, "yeah, it was our Easter dinner." So yeah, I was a little more than hurt I didn't get invited to that.

So I made a big deal about him declining my family's invitations (I didn't mention this and I won't to his face that I feel like I made a huge sacrifice in order to have him at my cousin's wedding), and I made a point about not being invited his family functions. He asked me what he could do at that point in time, and I said nothing.

Which is true. There isn't anything he can do presently, and I am still mad. Can someone slap some sense into me? I am too stubborn.

To me, he would have invited me to his family stuff if he had wanted to.

So on Saturday night, he asked me if I wanted to spend a weekend in the mountains at his family's "cabin." I thought that was a little weird. And he told me his cousin from out of town was visiting and if I'd like to go to his aunt and uncle's for dinner this coming Saturday. And on Sunday, he asked me if I wanted to go to his parents' on Thursday night for a family dinner.

I said yes to the first two and no to the third. I kept telling him trying to make things up to me would be a lose-lose situation. Any invitations that come now will not seem sincere. He did get a little defensive during one of convos and said he wasn't sure where I'd stand on family dinners.

I call bullshit because he's gotten invites from me...and lots of them. My family comes from out of town, and they invite me AND HIM for dinner, and I pass along the invitation. I've had to endure an evening with my father so they can meet. He's been invited to my mom's for Christmas and Chinese New Year. So wouldn't the proper thing be to reciprocate unless he didn't want to??

I am getting upset over this all over again. Ugh.