In this installment of Nobody Tells Me Anything:

I called my mother last night, to catch up and hopefully get a clearer idea of when she planned to come visit.  I told her about the asthmatic cat ("Cats can have asthma?!") and my increasingly unreliable cellphone alarm, and she told me about shaving the husky for summer (must...have...pictures...) ( Read more... )

My office phone just rang, and Caller ID tagged it as a Harrisburg number.  I thought it might be my mother, but there's no real guarantee, so I answered officially to be on the safe side ( Read more... )

My mother is insane.  Also, incredibly generous.  These two things are not at all mutually exclusive, case in point:

Nick's brother had a dance competition in Baltimore (his bro is a Ballroom/Latin dancer who teaches professionally and attends a lot of these competitions), which is, oh, an hour away from my home in PA.  My mother offered to put ( Read more... )

halofire , halogencat , naiad_kitty , may I direct your attention here?

*titters*

In less ridiculous news, I am FIFTEEN EDGE REPEATS away from finishing my first, epic shawl.  If I continue at my current rate of five repeats every evening, it'll be finished and blocked for the next Yarn Night.  This is very exciting!  Once it's safely out of the way, I plan to produce a page or ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed that my mother had been secretly nominated as the next Republican candidate for president.  In the meantime, the party was trying to get her vetted into Obama's cabinet.

Very sneaky, Republicans.  Veeerrry sneaky.  Also, not a bad idea.

Man, nothing stirs up an office like the flower delivery guy!

( I NEVER get flowers! )

Some of you guys probably know about my family situation; my parents were both separated from their spouses when I happened, they made the same mistake three years later with my sister, and yet somehow my father reconciled with his wife.  So, I have a stepmother and three half-siblings somewhere out there.  It should also be mentioned that my ( Read more... )

Apparently my mother is going skydiving for her fiftieth birthday ( Read more... )

I just had the most bizarre conversation ( Read more... )

Due to my mother's overly persistant ex-boyfriend, we'll be changing our longstanding phone number sometime this week. Mom warned him and threatened to do this, but he just kept on calling us several times a week. Frankly, the entire family got pretty damn sick of him hanging up the second we answered. It's called "star-sixty-nine", genius. We ( Read more... )