I spent the afternoon with my mom yesterday. We grabbed some lunch, and then we went to my dad's to sort out some more stuff. I'm so glad she was there to help out.

Sometimes I get really annoyed by my mom, but yesterday was better. She even reached out for a hug...I think that was the first time ever?! Chinese people in her generation don't show affection or emotion very much, so hugs are ... unheard of. BWAHAHA

She's just gotten on the Internet, and I have her using gmail. She is still a little lost about saving, deleting, and archiving emails. I told her to keep her Inbox clean by archiving email that she may possibly want to find again in the future, and to delete email she knew she'd never want again. So yesterday, she was asking about "achieving" email. I couldn't figure out what she was talking about. She asked me what "achieve" was. And then she started spelling it.

ARCHIVE!

BWAHAHHAA AHHAHAA Ar-chieve. English is a hard language to learn.

I also took a Honda Fit for a test drive. Since we were allowed to take it out without having a Honda employee escort us, I drove to my old work complex and did a little "obstacle course". BWAHAHA Since we had no pylons, I drove in between cement barricades, and I practised my parallel parking. It was more fun than the Versa. I would have taken the Mazda 3 for a test drive yesterday, but I had to get home and get cooking.

I made a roast, and tried a "Doug's" method. It produces a perfect medium rare roast every time. You turn up the oven to 500 F and put your meat in 5 minutes for every pound. Then you turn off the oven, and leave the meat in there for 90 minutes without opening the oven door. EASY! But by the time we took out the meat, it was pretty cold. My oven cools down quickly. Also, my smoke detectors kept going off for the first 10 minutes, too! My meat was smoking!!

It was a busy weekend. If I wasn't with Mr. Nick, I was out and about running errands. I didn't get a chance to make a phone call I had planning on all weekend!