i went home last night to visit my mom and she fed me some dinner. she’s trying this new miso stuffed eggplant recipe and she wanted me to try it. i told her i don’t really like eggplant, but she insisted, so i relented. yup, still don’t like it.

i was thinking though, why is it that no one deep tries eggplant? eggplant tempura? surely it’d taste good, right? hmmmmmm.

so anyway, my mom and i were talking and she was waxing philosophy with me about relationships and what are good things to be found in a good relationship. my mom reminded me a lot about what is important in life, and i’m sure she wasn’t preaching, but there were a lot of things that she said that made me appreciate how lucky i am.

while we were talking, my mom then whipped around and stopped talking to me and dashed over to the tv. AMERICAN IDOL TIME! oh my. my mom is a huge fan of the show. who would have known that a non-english speaking japanese woman would be such a reality tv junkie? i would never have suspected it.

but she loves it.

she asked me about whether or not i saw william hung. she told me she had read articles about him in the local japanese newspaper. very interesting.

while talking to my mom, i realized that she’s amazingly progressive for a woman in her generation. most traditional japanese mothers of her generation would think that there children should be married by the age of 25. we were talking about other japanese families that we knew and how some of the families were pressuring their kids to get married immediately out of college. my mom said that this is something that you shouldn’t rush and you shouldn’t get into a marriage where you don’t fit in with the other person. why would you want to get into a relationship where you would end up fighting for the rest of your life, she asked. it’s true. sometimes she surprises me.

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