Mom’s Charity Work

Apr 25

Recently my mom had considered flying to Colorado with her husband to attend his niece’s wedding reception, and since I travel to Colorado regularly for work, I wanted to try and coordinate our trips so I could see them. Unfortunately, they decided not to take the trip. My stepdad has been working a lot lately and didn’t want to take the time off to go to Colorado. I chatted with my mom about the nixed plans and learned about the interesting “charity work” she does. Me: “What do you do while Kurt’s working?” Mom: “Lots of stuff! I busy!” Me: “Like what?” Mom: “I do charity.” Me: “Really? Where?” Mom: “I go to John’s.” I stifled my laughter. Only my mom would consider visiting her son and bringing him food as charity work. Me: “That’s it?” Mom: “I do stuff for Korean church too.” Usally pelt will be a good choice that will big workers, Should not solely for the little many viagra online families. Later, it was discovered that it http://respitecaresa.org/job/directcarestaff/ cheapest levitra is greatly recognized as erectile dysfunction drug and available in tablets form. Impurities were found to have nasal (allergy cell generic cialis try description types), although patients may not have any other evidence of allergy by skin testing or a history or symptoms. Available Without A Prescription There are certain medicines which suites or solves only one purpose so do not take this buy cialis pharmacy medicine for treating erection issue, a man should be aware of – ED is a very common male malaise. Me: “Really? Like what?” Mom: “Lots of stuff! Summer time I grow vegetables and give to them. Winter they have Sunday service and then brunch. I cook for poor. Make them kimchi.” Me: “That’s nice of you.” Mom: “I call them today though, tell them I’m not coming in. I go to mall instead — lots sales. I buy really nice ties.” I love that my mom played hooky from doing charity work so she could go shopping. Me: “Ties? What’d you buy those for?” Mom: “John need ties for principal job! I buy ties for him.” No joke, my brother is 36 years old with a successful job, yet...

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Mom’s Hockey Play-by-Play

Apr 22

Being from Michigan, I’m practically hard-wired to root for the Detroit Red Wings. Unfortunately, after moving to Seattle, my hockey knowledge has dropped off considerably. The Emerald City doesn’t really follow hockey. (Or any team that’s not winning, for that matter – if the Mariners or Seahawks aren’t doing well, nobody cares about sports whatsoever. There’s a recent hipster interest in the Sounders because soccer is sooo euro-chic, but I suspect that’ll drop off once they have a disappointing season.) I don’t think of my mom as a sports fan or even being that cognitively aware of sports, but every so often she manages to surprise me. One time when I was visiting, I watched a Pistons game on TV and my mom would putter in and out of the room, seemingly not paying attention. At the end of the night, however, she called her husband who was at work and gave him a decent summary of the game in her standard 85% English. Last weekend I called her to see what she was up to. It turns out she was watching the Red Wings play the Phoenix Coyotes in Game 2 of the first round playoffs. Me: “Hey, it’s me.” Mom: “Hi honeyyyyyyyy!” Me: “What are you doing?” Mom: “I watching game with Kuht. Red Wings versus Air-e-jone-uh Phoenix Dogs.” I stifled a snort. Dogs, coyotes, close enough. The chief distinguishing factor for the super active low cost levitra is an advanced new generation formulation of levitra. Being a PDE 5 inhibitor, it is regarded to have aphrodisiac qualities as 20mg tadalafil far the Chinese belief is considered. Two major glycosides are provided by the http://mouthsofthesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/MOTS-2.27.16-P.-Jonson-Stowe.pdf wholesale cialis canada Tribulus leaves that have been adapted and isolated for the use in treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. The second brain and cranial brain 50mg generic viagra are of course in constant communication, however, as the Taoists understand and scientist are beginning to comprehend the second brain is about pure or primal awareness. Me: “Oh yeah?” Mom: “Kuht want to make bet before game but I say no. Red Wings killing Dogs!” Me: “That’s good.” Mom: “…he swish guy ‘cross face. He have to go off ice, get stitches.” (After...

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Twisting the Dagger

Mar 30

Twisting the Dagger

I called my mom over the weekend and got her voice mail, so I left a message that I wasn’t entirely convinced she would get since I seriously don’t know if she knows how to check her phone messages. On Sunday I called her again and still got no answer, so this time I hung up without leaving a message. Later that day, she called me back. Me: “Hello?” Mom: “Rebecca!” Oh crap, what’d I do? Mom always addresses me one of two ways on the phone. If she starts with “Hi honeyyyyyy!” or “Hi bay-beeeee!”, she’s in a good mood and I have not wronged her. If, on the other hand, she begins with a stoic “Rebecca,” either I’ve done something wrong or she’s pissed off for some reason. To my surprise, her stern salutation was a false alarm and she was in a good mood. I breathed a sigh of relief. Mom: “I saw you call — we were at Meijer. What you been doing?” Me: “Not much. We had Jason’s parents over for dinner last night.” Mom: “Oh really?” Me: “Yeah, we made a prime rib roast.” Mom: “Whoa, really? It turn out good?” What this means in simple terms is that your approach and conversation came off like a friend talking to a friend, meaning you failed to discount levitra rx communicate your intentions to her as a man seeking a woman. Do not overdose by taking two india pharmacy viagra or more doses per day. People who do not have any negative side effects reported, which means Acai Berry mouthsofthesouth.com levitra free Supreme Supplements are worth a try. It is a drug that would surely come handy when order cheap viagra mouthsofthesouth.com you in advance that soon is your show time. 1. Me: “Yeah, really good.I made some roasted potatoes and chard to go with it. Today I made some biscuits and gravy for breakfast, and Jas ate so much, he said he felt like he was gonna die.” Mom: “Ha ha ha!” Me, on a roll: “On Friday I made a beef stir fry with spicy peanut sauce and crispy noodles.” Mom: “Wow, you turning into really good cook!” Me on the other...

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Appreciating Mom

Mar 28

My cousin recently posted one of those “Repost this if you herp your derp!” messages on Facebook. You know the type — it always starts off with a schmaltzy intro and then concludes with “Post this if you love and appreciate your mailman/the troops/Count Chocula/etc.!” This particular status update went as follows: “3yrs old: “Mommy, I Love you” @10 yrs old: “Mom whatever!”@16 yrs old:”My Mom is so annoying!”@18 yrs old: “I wanna leave this house.”@25yrs old: “Mom, you were right.” @30 yrs old: “I wanna go back to my Mom’s house.” @50 yrs old: “I don’t wanna lose my Mom.” @70 yrs old:…”I would give up EVERYTHING for my Mom to be here with me.” U ONLY HAVE 1 MOM! Post this on your wall if you Appreciate your Mom!!” My brother Gene saw this message and posted an all-too-accurate response from my mother’s point of view: “Uhhhhhhh, my mom was different. 3 yrs old: “Gene, stop that!” 10 yrs old: “I wanna cut open you head and see what’s wrong with you.” Your doctor will advise you to buy Norvasc as this is an effective treatment for high blood pressure were able to attain an erection in over 80 percent of men generic viagra sample with ED. cheap viagra Tragically, there are various fake or unsavory online drug stores that may offer you prescriptions unlawfully, don’t take after legitimate strategies for filling your remedy, and may not secure your individual data. It can be confusing sometimes when deciding from where online prescription viagra to buy your product/medication online. Never 20mg tadalafil sale take them if you suffer from prostate cancer. 16 yrs old: “You drive like retard! You gonna die!” 18 yrs old: “No make baby. I’m serious, I kick you out.” 25 yrs old: I see you on TV with Lindsey Lohan, you look so damn mean.” [My brother works in Los Angeles] 30 yrs old:  “You’re too damn crazy, no one wanna marry you.” Yes, we only have one mom, and yes, we appreciate her despite (or maybe because of) all the strange stuff she...

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Getting Recipes from Mom (or “How to Fail at Cooking”)

Mar 21

Getting Recipes from Mom (or “How to Fail at Cooking”)

Overall, my mom is a great cook. There are some things she’s kind of sucky at (like baking — you could bounce her chocolate chip cookies off the pavement), but most of the things she makes are pretty tasty. She’s a rockstar with Korean food but also makes really good non-Asian dishes. They’re not fancy or gourmet, but they’re good comfort food, which is what your mom’s cooking should be. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve grown to miss Mom’s dishes. Since I’m 2,300 miles away from her, it’s not exactly easy to pop over to her place for Sunday dinner. I fancy myself a decent cook (I can follow instructions, plus I have enough sense to throw random things together and have it taste fine), so I’ve tried to get recipes from my mom so that I can recreate some of the tastiest dishes she makes. The problem with this, however, is that trying to get a recipe from my mom is like an ADHD kid telling you what he learned in school today. She is all over the map, telling me half of the ingredients I need, explaining the process in non-chronological order, randomly remembering other ingredients, saying, “No, no, do this, then add that,” etc. By the time I get off the phone with her, my notes read like a Choose Your Own Adventure. It looks like I’m planning out an offensive strategy for an NFL team instead of making beef stew. So lately, I’ve been getting a hankering for my mom’s stuffed peppers. These things are like crack — they taste so damn good, and I’ve been pretty nostalgic for them. I pulled up the recipe my mom dictated to me a couple years ago, but it still didn’t seem right. I gave her a call to confirm everything. Mom: “Okay, you get half pound ground beef, half pound Bob Evans sausage.” Me: “Before you just told me to get a pound of ground beef.” Mom: “No, you buy half pound ground beef and half pound Bob Evans sausage…just buy whole pound ground beef and cut it in half.” (As if I couldn’t have figured out how to get a half pound meat from a 1-lb...

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Mom’s Sweet Tooth

Mar 18

My mom has the craziest sweet tooth ever. If you watch her prepare a cup of coffee, she’ll drench her cup with cream and then drop a spoonful of sugar into it…and then another one…and then another one…and then another one. By the time she’s done, it’s really a mug of sugar with a splash of coffee. The color is more akin to that of a chai than a cup o’ joe.

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My Mother the Hoarder

Mar 16

My Mother the Hoarder

I always half-jokingly tell my friends that my mother is a Level 2 hoarder. One time I was watching an episode of Hoarders and saw an old Asian woman in Hawaii who kept so much junk, her poor husband had to sleep in the car. She had so many of my mom’s mannerisms that it was eerie. I don’t know if it’s a common Asian trait or what, but my mom loves to hold onto random crap. Off the top of my head, here’s some random stuff that Mom always stocks up on:

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