Hands down, I win today.

Crying alone in your apartment from watching American Idol...sad, but I too have been there. In no way am I trying to belittle your misery. You are correct. The ratio of Chinese people to talent seems to be less than the ratio of Vietnamese to talent.

Now get ready for some major shit talking. It might get confusing because I need to refer to a lot of people using our code naming system so if you need clarification, we can just talk on the phone.

Okay, so last night we ate dinner for Mute's farewell. It was me and the husband, THE couple, Mr. 2 plus wife and baby, and a new couple, oh yeah and Mute. Guess who was the girl of the new couple? The sister, but equally as annoying, of Suey! Dude, she had the nerve to refer to me as the "older sibling" of Suey's good friend, you know the the friend. So that was that, but then I was later stuck in a conversation between the girl from THE couple and Suey's sister. They were talking about getting door to door car service with chauffeur, having tailors come to their house once a week to make clothes for them, and how they can't be having local hands touch their hair for a haircut. I was silent the entire time from shock but then STUPID husband throws me into the mix by saying "oh dude, Wooing's had some crazy stuff done to her hair here!" I was shoving food in my mouth and staring at the table so I wouldn't have to talk about how I slummed it by getting a local haircut. I mean seriously these girls were complaining about not having heated floors when I'm living in a place with NO heating at all and wearing a ski suit to go to sleep at night. It's fine that they talk about it and it's awesome that they can afford it, but I just don't want to listen to it for 5 hours. It's not just what they say but the way they say it. I can't quite describe the tone so just picture Suey talking.

Winner, Happy Blind Bat, you guys were totally right on about the girl from THE couple. She said "SHUT UP, I HATE YOU RIGHT NOW" to her boyfriend, in front of everyone. Ha ha ha...I guess that's pretty awesome.

Later, I get home and I'm screaming at the top of my lungs to let out my anger and husband tells me, "just know that you're more annoying than they are!" Man, I can always count on husband to put me in my place. I know I'm being irrational but it's just because I'm always cold and bitter.

But the biggest mistake of all, get this, I told Suey that she should take my little oven cause I'm leaving. That means I have to spend MORE time with her. I felt guilty for giving her the cold shoulder all night so when she said she needed one, I offered. I totally don't mind giving it to her but now I'm worried that I've insulted her by offering her my ghetto oven. Husband tells her that the door of the oven had fallen off and that it kinda closes now but it still works and proceeds to ask her if she wants our broken radiator that I Macguyvered back to work. Sometimes, you gotta love the husband for being so wrong. I wanted to laugh. It was kinda like throwing a, "hey, do you guys realize that you are a bunch of spoiled brats," in their faces.

Sorry about the rambling and complaining.

Anyway, may I offer a possible solution for the cooking for one issue? What I do is, I make the recipe and serve it. Then I freeze it and pass it off as new on the husband a couple weeks later. So, in your case, you can give it to Whitestar when he comes to visit instead of him ordering Pink Dot. Just throw some greens on it and it looks like new.