- Your weight, especially how you look like you’ve gained some since the last time they’ve seen you
- How much you spent on purchasing your house/plane tickets/purse
- The small ways in which their child is not living up to their potential
- The large and specific ways in which their child is doing things much better and more important that you could ever hope to
- Your future, especially when you plan to have children
- How hungry you must be, and how you need to eat more, despite how much weight you seem to have gained
- Paying a restaurant bill, and how there’s no way they’d let you pay for this meal
- How much money you make, and certain jobs they’ve heard about where you could make more
We’re off to visit my mom soon. She was doing quite well yesterday, although she seems a bit overzealous in terms of getting off any medical assistance and getting back to normal. She probably won’t be able to return to normal work for a few weeks, even after getting out of the hospital, but she’s such a trooper that I wouldn’t be surprised if she were already worrying about the things she needs to do when she gets back into the office.
We’ll probably grab some lunch on this side of the bridge before we head over. Does anyone have specific NY places we should try to eat at before we leave town?
We’ve got another show tonight that my mom booked for us (a preview of an off-Broadway Hamlet, I believe), so it looks like it’ll be a pretty full day. The big win today would be if my mom can finally get some solid food. She’s been keeping down her jello and chicken broth, so fingers crossed!