Hi,
First of all, I like to guys to compare prices before you buy the stuff for me. Find the cheaper price to buy.
My list are:
Kenny G - new CD - In the mood for love (something like that)
Lemeon peel scripper (Ming Wo has one but over $10, I find that little expansive.)
A Oliver oil/Basimac Vinegar bottle with the pour thing (SuperStore has a set
for $8.99. Of course I want to have a nice Oliver oil and Basinmac Vinegar come with it.
Maybe some chocolate, I don’t want nut cover with chocolate, I would like the good truffel. Not a big box. I might not able to finish it til next X’mas. I like the kind you can get at Costco but it is too big.
And I like one kind of hand lotion, I think the Co.’s name is Straight Arrow, it is a big fat jar, blue lid with a pump, I heard you can find it at London Drug, I will find out more info. and tell you guys later.
Of course Lotto tickets - please make me a millionair.
Thank you.
Mom
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At the risk of sounding snobby or whatever, perhaps a spelling class?
Agreed!
Thirded! Good god. “Oliver oil” is classic, though.
Enh - the vibe I got was very … non-native English speaker.
if she was a “non-native English speaker” then why would she be writing to her own children in English and not her native language?
OK, let me clear the air.
This is my mom.
She moved to North America 30 years ago. She speaks excellent english, just doesn’t write it too well. She writes to us in English because we were born here and don’t understand her native language.
ps liz: WTF? think before you post.
I thought it was cute, Kat! People can be so rude.
think before i post? what’s that supposed to imply? i was responding to the fact that your mom probably wouldn’t be writing to her own children in a language she wasn’t fully comfortable with. i assumed that a family would all speak the same language.
obviously i didn’t know the back story and in this context i do look pretty stupid. i wasn’t trying to be rude and i definitely didn’t mean to offend you. i’m sorry that i did.
Basinmac Vinegar
hahah too cute !
I really liked this one!
I thought this was cute but strange… “Oliver oil” is indeed classic, but my favourite point is that “balsamic” was spelled in two different ways
Reminds me of the kind of “buy me gifts but don’t spend money” emails I sometimes get from my mom.
I love that she wants them to compare prices. I am always afraid to get my sister anything because she will be mad if I got it from anyplace but a thrift of close-out store. And, please, if I didn’t have spell check on every app I would be so lost.
So cute! And I have to say, her mention of London Drug made me miss British Columbia, Canada. Wish I still lived there. I also think its cute how she points you in the right direction to find the best deal. Oh Moms
This is sooooo my mom.
Thanks for telling us the backstory. When I read it I was like this person obviously speaks english very well, yet still has some of those wonderful foreign language ticks. I happen to love them.
I have a french friend who always insists that her sister ‘got’ a baby. love it!
Too cute, I could definitely tell English is her second language… I love it! My mom moved to this country 4 years before I was born, and didn’t teach me her language =(
Big mistake on her part, but at least I still get to chuckle at her mispronunciations/spellings!
This was an awesome message. My sister who is like my 2nd mother would send me something like this! Appreciate your sharing!!!
I LOVE “Oliver oil” my grandmother would say that…and she was born here and raised here. My mother says things like “grinning like a Chesapeake Bay” instead of cheshire cat. She’s intelligent, just gets her sayings a little confused sometimes. I think it’s cute.
I love this! Reminds me of my Aunt who says “Worsher” instead of Washing Machine and an old neighbor who was from the South and said that I “Worked down that Toysr”, meaning that I worked at Toys R Us! I love language ticks!
I grew up the only white girl in a primarly immigrant Italian neighbourhood and I have a very white name that has no translation in any other language and no one’s parents could pronounce it. I have missed the idiosyncryocies of that language and reading this post takes me back. As for the spelling, I know people who were raised and educated in the English language who spell just as well as this mother.
Hahah-This was too cute. I like the “oliver” oil part too. This post had a very endearing quality to it.
Yo dog I got something to say yo mama is so stupid she sat on skitlles and made a raimbow
I especially loved the mention of receiving Lotto tickets so you can make her a millionaire.
Gotta give Mom credit for being logical.
And Drake, you’re either an idiot or 8.