Dinner & a Movie with a Memory

We went with his friends last night to dinner and to see Crazy Rich Asians. If you haven't seen it, you must! There is so much to love about this movie and you don't have to know anything about Chinese culture or Singapore to love it. You will see all these actors from a variety of tv shows and be like "Oh that's that guy from that show!" or "I love her!" 

So many hot guys in this film!!

So much of the movie made me think back to my Emerson and Ali story, and even more to Lincoln and Amir. I looked back and realized that I first started Emerson and the Lion (my first story to be posted online) August 30th, 2015. 

That's almost three years ago! OMG I can't even remember what my life was like back when I started writing that. 

I had only known A for a little over two months and I was still living in my father's home. It was my first week being a real college student and not a high school kid taking college classes. I remember how weird it felt to not wake up at 5:30 to head to my first day of school. I remember A (now my husband) refusing to let me take the bus. He got up early to be able to pick me up. I even offered to ride my bike over to his place and then go from there, but he came over and I made him breakfast. 

Ok I'll blog about that stuff later. A three year anniversary for Emerson and the beginning of putting stories up. It seems like a lifetime ago. 

But some of the stuff in the movie like the plane with the private room pod! I put that in the Lincoln series! I know I didn't invent it, but it just was so cool to see it on the screen and imagine my characters in there having sex and watching movies to pass the long flight to Satra. Then there was the home and parties and servants and everything else I imagined Emerson walking in to. It's a really great film! Please go see it! 😍

We went to a really fancy Chinese restaurant before the movie. Being out here closer to the San Gabriel Valley we have the most Chinese-dominant cities in the US and it's probably only second to the Bay Area in overall populations. 

Dumplings are Bomb! 

I had an assortment of dumplings. One had soup in it! So when I bit into it there was this really good soup. Another one had vegetables. The string beans with almonds were my favorite, and the spicy noodles were too hot for me. 🤤

I was sitting between A and one of his friends that I don't know very well. Halfway into dinner, A got up and made me switch seats with him. He said he was having trouble hearing his friend across the table, but then later he told me the guy I was sitting next to was too interested. I thought he was just making nice conversation, but then he kept taking pictures of the food and everyone and A said he was trying to just get pictures of me. Sometimes I zone out with his friends because they use Farsi and Arabic and languages/inside jokes that I don't understand. I don't always pick up when someone seems genuinely friendly and interested in my life versus someone who is trying to move in on me. 🤷

We woke up this morning to find out there was an earthquake in Iran. A's family is all safe. It was a big one. 

Go see this movie!! You will not be disappointed!