the world is your acorn

from mom last night:

Would you save your hair for me when you cut your hair next time? I will need a wig one day since my hair starts to fall …

Latest email from mom, to my brother and me:

Subject: laudry machine

Are your front loading laundry machine smell ? Mine does even after I wash the machine with a special stuff made for getting rid of the order. I also wipe dry the chamber after each washing. no use !!

What else I should do ?

Piece of an email from mom this morning:

Also, I am emptying the kitchen cabinet these days and found many cups, utensil and formula bottles you guys used 30 some years ago….Should I still keep all of them? the nipples of formula bottles have turned hard and dark.

As per Syd’s request…

There’s lots of things that I grew up eating that I really miss, to my utter surprise. I often try to recreate them, sometimes with help from my mom. Recently I picked up ham hocks from the new Publix down the road (which is not shy about selling animal parts), so I asked my mom how to make the stew that I love so much.
Here’s what she told me:

* Put the hocks perpenticular in the pot if you can (so the skin won’t touch the pot and won’t burn)
* Add water just to barely cover the hocks
* Add ginger, garlic, small amount of green onion if you like, soy sauce, sugar, a tiny pinch of five spice powder (not required)
* Cook to tender. You may want to turn the hocks from time to time to prevent burning

Like me, my mom doesn’t cook with recipes or measurements. But I think they turned out ok. The Little Red Haired Girl, of course, will not eat them.

Before:

After:

Edit: We used to eat this in a bowl over spaghetti with a squirt of ketchup mixed in.

recent email exchange with mom:

…
I am so happy not have to work any longer.. Please use my hotmail address from now on. I am struggleing to use my new HP laptop..
…
ps. I will digitize our family photos …
I saw 6 turkeys in your backyard

My mom often sends me bizarre, hilarious, and/or infuriating emails. Occasionally I post them here. Well today Brittney twittered about this blog, which is a compilation of a bunch of MomMail. Fantastic.

From mom today in response to receiving our holiday card and a question about buying Frontline online:

next year, pls dress oliver in Chinese costume..that would be very interesting. but pls let him run when you take picture. I like to see him flying in the air when he runs

I saw the front line ad in TV..will let you know when I see it again..I will google it then I will remember the name.

this is the last thing she said:

what do you plan to do this weekend? plan to buy a car? I may get forester.

Should I be buying a car because she is? I’m confused.

I emailed my mom to let her know about the new dog this morning. I was a little nervous that she’d be critical of the decision to get a dog, saying that it’s too much work or too expensive or something. To my surprise, she seemed pleased. Here is what she said:

that is great! can I borrow him? where did you get him from? you need to learn grooming the dog. it is very expensive to have him groomed. does he cost you arm and leg?

Some thoughts:

• What is she going to do with him if she “borrows” him?
• How can she “borrow” him? She lives in Connecticut. I clearly don’t.
• Is “grooming the dog” some sort of line dance?
• The Little Red Haired Girl said that she could borrow him in exchange for her arm and leg.