Surprising

Yesterday, Cristina went with some friends to Oak Glen. I went to lunch with a couple of friends. When I got home Cristina and the girls had come back and were having lunch and talking. So I decided to visit my parents since I hadn't seen my dad since his surgery on Thursday (he had the first of two procedures to fix his droopy eyelids, a kind of lift). When I got there he was taking a nap and had a towel over his head. But when he removed it I was a little surprised. He looked like a slightly younger, asian version of my dad (could this be proof I was adopted?). His balding forehead had three places with incisions and staples, and two slices over each ear looked sewn together. His eyes and face were swollen so that when he was talking to me his right eye looked half shut and his left eye like someone was holding his eyelid up.

My parents hadn't eaten so I went to pick up some food for them from the local Mexican food restaurant. They called in the order. Once I had arrived and paid for the food one of the waitresses came up to the register to talk to the hostess. I recognized her. Only thing is last time I saw her, she was a man! Now he had long hair pulled back... and other things. Once again I was a little surprised!

Later on we went to eat at the Canton Bistro with Cristina's family for her siblings' birthday. I tried raw sushi for the first time. I spit it out quickly. The texture of the raw meat was uncalled for. I ate the rest. It tasted good. But I could not bring myself to chew (gnaw) the raw eel. After that I tried another one with raw salmon. It also tasted good. But I had to cut the meat up into tiny pieces in order to get it down. I will not be ordering the slimey likes of sushi again!

After dinner we went over to my in-laws' house to kill some time before heading out to karaoke. On the TV was a survival show. The guy was in the desert trying to find food and water to keep him alive until he reached his destination. At one point he decided to set a trap for a skunk. It worked, but it stunk! He captured it and cut off its head. And he ate the untasty creature whilst inhaling its aroma. Later he came upon a rattle snake, killed it, skinned it, cooked it and ate it. And it's a good thing too becuase late in the show he came to a point where he figured he had better pee into the snake skin and save it for when he absolutely needed to hydrate to survive. And, wouldn't you know it, it actually came to that. And so there we were... (WILLINGLY?) watching this guy drink his own urine from a snake skin tube! And it's dripping! Everyone in the room was cringing.

Of course, after that we were ready to face karaoke singing, or really any kind of muscial torture we might encounter.