Backstory: Occasionally, I get emails from this random woman who has my e-mail address mixed up with her daughter’s. I haven’t had one in about a year, because I keep responding and saying that I’m not her daughter, because I know how mad my mom would be if she thought I was blowing her off.

chris hi honey do you know megans e mail? i wanted to send her happy birthday! i got the internt. so write me so i can see its working. how is kristi? did you get the chicken i left at grannys? iwant you to work on my tatoo when are you going t grannys? i love you mom

Offspring – I am cancelling the reservation to Arun’s restaurant.  People are losing everything to the flooding in Iowa; people are losing their homes from bank foresclosures (USA Today highlighted a family who took out a home equity loan for $100,000 – their house is now worth $60,000); the price of oil is making travel via car or air prohibitive yada yada yada and I am going to have my hard working princess daughters spend $100 each for a fancy dinner – food we consume, digest then poo? I would rather spend money supporting the local restaurants. Mama