Backstory: I was telling my mom that I need to go see her in FL…..and apparently she thinks I wrote the twilight series….
Correct me if I am wrong, But I don’t remember extending an invitation to you.
As long as I am writing I have a bitch to make. I am half way through the second book of the twilight series and was really kind of enjoying them UNTIL her first boyfriend was a vampire and now her second one is a werewolf. I can’t wait til the third book. I figure she will hook up with the mummy or frankenstein or superman or a transexual midget or an alien or who knows what. I am not convinced that I will continue through to the end of this one so I think probably the third one is out of the picture. I went to go to the beach and found out the road was closed because of the bridge. It is the first warm sunny day in a long time and I am pissed. Oh well.
Enough rambling
Love you lots and lots
mom
I don’t see how she thinks you “apparently” wrote twilight. I think she’s just bitching at *someone* and stated she was going to be bitching at you over it, no? none of that paragraph suggests that she’s mistaken that you wrote it or that she has a bone to pick with the way you wrote it, sorry. I wouldn’t be flattered by that anyway. I don’t like this entry.
February 24, 2010 at 8:30 pm
I don’t like this entry at all. I could also be quite offended by the following: “I figure she will hook up with the mummy or frankenstein or superman or a transexual midget or an alien or who knows what.”
I also don’t see how the mom “apparently” thinks the daughter wrote the Twilight series. That is nowhere in this.
February 24, 2010 at 8:39 pm
“As long as I am writing I have a bitch to make” makes me think that she’s complaining that she doesn’t like what *I* have somehow done with the book…..plus, it was probably said tongue in cheek.
and how could you be offended by: “I figure she will hook up with the mummy or Frankenstein or superman or a transsexual midget or an alien or who knows what.”
I feel like you both are taking this far more seriously than it should be taken.
February 24, 2010 at 8:52 pm
If I could thumbs up this mom a thousand times I would!!! Well done mommy!
February 24, 2010 at 11:38 pm
you people need to chill. this mom is just making social commentary. and props for that. sometimes it takes mommy to ID a moronic trend… lusty vampires!
February 24, 2010 at 11:52 pm
nah, feels like op is like, forcing praise that isn’t there. doesn’t help that they were obviously eager to just post something praising of themselves out of a ploy to get more praise, waiting only two comments to defend their own and all. this feels like an attempt to prove something. it’s undoubtedly social commentary on mom’s side, but whoever posted this misinterpreted it as a sentiment/mommyism at a different level than it is, like trying to force a mediocre joke to be funny. no one said mom doesn’t love her, but it’s more likely op took the bone-to-pick line as more than just mom jokingly nitpicking.
more than that, maybe it’s just me, but I’d be intellectually insulted if my offspring thought I couldn’t read the author’s name. you know, being on the cover, spine and several pages, I’m sure. no, I think this is misinterpreted and feels awkwardly forced to be more than plain blathering from mom. nothing personal.
February 25, 2010 at 3:53 am
I take the mom’s rant as a lighthearted way of pointing out what she sees as an absurdity in the book.
I took the daughter’s statement “…..and apparently she thinks I wrote the twilight series…” to be tongue-in-cheek, not that she actually thinks her mom believes she wrote the series. I can’t believe that even has to be explained. What’s so hard to understand about lighthearted sarcasm? Not everything needs to be taken literally.
February 25, 2010 at 7:21 am
Exactly! I can’t believe it has to be explained either. My only guess would be that perhaps (I hope) English is not the first language of some of the comment posters.
February 25, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Yerg — trust me, I was not trying to force praise….I think my mommy is hilarious and, frankly, that’s enough for me. I was trying to figure out how my tongue in cheek remark about her thinking I wrote them was being misconstrued….obviously I know that my mom doesn’t think I wrote those books…..she’s a smart, smart lady. And I was amazed that people were being offended by the jabs she was making at a book geared towards tweenagers…..
February 25, 2010 at 8:34 am
I think the transexual midget portion (equating this to vampires, aliens etc) was the offensive part. Obviously though a transexual midget is just as an unlikely love interest for Bella.
People sure are touchy though, I don’t think anyone comes to postcardsfromyomomma for in depth criticism of someone’s mom’s emails and to read comment arguments with the poster-who are you people? Waiting on the internet to jump on a mother-daughter interchange? The only critique here which isn’t from cynical, humourless and unneccessarily invested internet commentators is regarding transexual midgets.
Perhaps we should concentrate on how anyone over 15 could read two of the Twilight novels (haha, apologies for the Twilight debates which may now begin).
February 25, 2010 at 9:35 am
oh and the fact that “transexual midgets” are less likely to be a love interest for Bella than frankenstein or superman isn’t something I support but is the truth. I promise, this is probably my last comment on the matter.
February 25, 2010 at 9:39 am
I can’t believe all the fuss over the criticism of the stupid Twilight books and no one picked up on the first line. Seriously, “. . . I don’t remember extending an invitation to you.” Wow! Mom knows how to draw boundaries that’s for sure!
February 25, 2010 at 9:50 am
This looks like the kind of e-mail I see myself sending to my (hypothetical) kid.
I think her assessment of what might happen in the 3rd Twilight book is spot on. I finished the first two and couldn’t make myself continue on.
Don’t listen to the haters, K. They just wish they had a mom like yours. ;)
February 25, 2010 at 10:04 am
@#11 – yeah, to me the rest of the message kind of pales in comparison to “I don’t remember extending an invitation”. I hope she was kidding about that, too.
February 25, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Poor kid just wanted to come visit her Mom, and got a rant instead. Must have caught her at a bad moment.
March 22, 2010 at 1:20 pm