I’m a twenty-something university grad living in the Bay Area with hopes of returning to the world of academia for Japanese, linguistics, or East Asian Studies.
My obsessive-compulsions include stopping the microwave only when the time remaining is divisible by five and reading the fine print on commercials.
My first sip of tea was out of my baby bottle. I make one of the best cuppas you’ll ever taste.
Noncompliance is DEATH!!! /block propaganda (Taken with instagram)
Delegating to Uncle Wayne the intricate engineering designs and infrastructure of his society. (Taken with instagram)
Henry Rollins (via simply-quotes)
probably going to send this to my Mom for her birthday
(via tangledupinlace)
Word!
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The entire pie at my family functions is ‘when are you having a baby?’, and when we weren’t married it was 75 baby-25 married.
(via g-funk)
Get the nickname right!
- Me: I saw your aunt at training today.
- Wayne: Marilu?
- Me: No, Theresa.
- Wayne: What was she doing there!?
- Me: She was at training... At the lecture hall. For the new operative system.
- Wayne: Why was she there?
- Me: She's a level below me, but she does my work too...
- Wayne: Why were you at training?
- Me: For the new operative system..
- Wayne: Why was she there?
- Me: Because she works there!
- Wayne: Who?
- Me: Auntie Theresa! I called out to her afterward and she didn't hear me!
- (Wayne: What...)
- It took me forever to find her...
- Wayne: Theresa doesn't...
- Me: Uncle Tony's wife! She has always worked there!
- Wayne: Oh! You mean "Tess".
- Me: Tess!?
- Wayne: Yeah. Auntie Tess.
- (Me: When the hell do you guys start calling her "Tess"?)
- I thought you were talking about Auntie Theresa!
It was all fun and games, she actually cackled like a naughty child as she ran down the hall yelling “you’ll never catch me” to the dog. ;-)
I made some Shandies in celebration of how awesome she has always been. Don’t get me wrong, my mum ruled with an iron fist - our house was a mumarchy - but she has been very playful since she became a grandma. :-)
Mum’s meal
- Spicy shrimp fettuccine with Bahn Pho noodles. Thai coconut milk, a little butter, and lemon in lieu of sour cream, and canned chunk tomatoes instead of plum tomatoes all factored in a bolder flavor.
- Mum made a low-fat chocolate cheesecake from scratch which I countered and cancelled out with one of her new favs, Ube ice cream.
For those of you who know my mum, she only sneaked into the kitchen once and stirred my pot -literally- when I wasn’t looking. I kicked her in the butt (not hard), slandered her “cheeky”, and ordered Drake to chase her out!
But in all honesty, Mum enjoyed herself and that’s all I wanted for her. :-D
I can’t teach you this over the phone!
My brother has five children [out of the 12 nieces and nephews] and one of the older kids had a friend over who screwed around with my brother’s computer, probably downloaded a trojan, and his admin password was changed. First thing he does? Calls me and insinuates (because he wouldn’t come right out and accuse me) that I somehow changed it while setting up his WiFi - and failing because he didn’t have an Ethernet cable - last Sunday. This is a bit of a sensitive subject as I have always been a computer nerd but ever since Wayne and I have been together [my family] dismisses what I know… I have a long rant about that but I’ll save it… Anyway, I explained that WiFi passwords and Windows login passwords are not connected, and I offer to research how to reset it without the recommended CD.
What do I find? Net user command. Awesome. One problem, though… my brother and all of my immediate family are not tech savvy or computer literate. It takes FOREVER to explain how to use a smart phone or the internet safely to them. I tried calling my brother to explain that this is similar to hacking and I can’t really teach him how to do it. His alternative? Offer us dinner and gas money to come down and fix both the wireless and the login problem.
Moral of the story: in lieu of learning a new skill that may advance your career, offer nachos to a nerd to get the job done. / When in doubt, nachos.
In case you all think I avoid my extended family “just cause”, it’s actually because of moments like the one above and the constant “when are you gonna have babies?” interrogations.
