on saturday, we had dinner with Robin & Stanley and Michael & Grace. Ho & Erika also came over. RS and MG are long time friends from college (can you believe it has been 15 years?? 15 years you guys!) and Ho and Erika couldn't make it to the baby shower on Sunday so were invited to join us on Saturday.
it was wonderful to hang out with R/S and M/G again - felt like we were back in oregon! *sigh* won't be any oregon trips in the near future with babies on the way and in the plans.....
robin is very good at engaging Ho - Grace and I both observed. so i was listening in a little as he talked. when she asked how he was feeling, he said that he is actually very unhappy with his job and wishes that he could move on to a different job at Stanford or UCSF, but does not have enough tenure. he also mentioned loneliness and being a little depressed. he has a form of blood cancer that i believe is in remission, but i am not sure. i am always afraid to ask the tough questions, but i think that asking also shows you care, so i always waver between not wanting to appear nosey and wanting to let people know i care. depends on how well you know the person too (and i do not keep in touch with Ho on a regular basis).
it felt like we were eating the entire evening - started with take out from Tri-Valley Seafood, paired with a bottle of chianti that G&M lugged all the way back from their Italy/Europe trip! then we moved to chocolate from Switzerland, this amazing tartufata (olives with black truffles in truffle oil) on shepard's bread, chocolate mousse cake, coffee, tea, chocolate chip butterscotch cookies, and more tartufata. grace said they first had the tartufata in Italy (called black gold for a reason) and has searched high and low for truffle oil and real truffle products in the bay area. turns out only the most high end, hoity toity grocer carries it. she couldn't even find anything at Whole Foods. trader joe's has an olive tapanade that is vastly inferior. i might check Andronico's. at any rate, by the end of the night, we were all stuffed.
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It sounds like you had a few days of REALLY GOOD FOOD!!! I'm still waiting for that to happen, but I still have John who wants to save $ on food. I keep reminding him, we won't be able to eat really good food after the baby comes!!! As for good friends vs. friends, I still feel closer to the TCBC friends. Maybe it is because we have no kids yet and can't totally relate to them!?!? Or, maybe we're just more Americanized and although we want to look good, we aren't willing to spend hundreds to get there (that could also be influence from our Taiwanese hubbies). :o)
I definitely agree about being more Americanized... and our dear hubbies :)
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