Someone Found the Interwebs

My mom has recently become quite tech-savvy.  Her car has bluetooth so she can chat hands-free, she's up and running on Facebook, as I mentioned in a previous post, and she now loves the camera setting in her phone.  Here are some pictures she's sent me recently.

Here she's bragging about how good her toes look after a pedicure.  I believe she refers to the as "happy feet!"

Staying on the topic of feet, she sent me this funny photo, saying apparently this lady thought she was a size 6, but is clearly not since her toes are hanging over.

Here she seems convinced she found Jerry Garcia's long lost daughter.  To be honest, I was just impressed she knew Jerry Garcia, but I suspect it's because we love Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia.

As tech savvy as she has become, she can still do silly things like leave her phone on the hood of the car, leave the house, and make a phone call while driving.  She lost that phone completely - found it crushed on the side of the road a few hours later.  But what I really love that even though we live so far away, she can keep me updated with what's going on in her life and share the funny things she sees.

Just Faux Fun

Back in the 90s my Mom got into faux painting. You know, it involved a lot of sponges, crinkled paper and other items to make regular paint look fancy.  She was really good at it after perfecting her skill in several rooms of our house. After seeing our house, some friends contracted my Mom to do some work in their houses.  Being an entrepreneurial business woman, my Mom made business cards!  The name of her little business?  You guessed it, Just Faux Fun!

So with that back story, just faux fun, here are a few goodies I found online that are just that!

Get a new phone! 

I know the picture is small, but it's a bobble head Alan from the Hangover!!

Get a Honey Badger shirt!  If you haven't seen the honey badger you tube video, you must.

The First Anniversary Cake

So they say you are supposed to save the top tier of your cake in the freezer and eat it on your first anniversary. Why would you want to save your cake? I don’t really get it. I also don’t really like cake. We served Bananas Foster at our wedding so we had a small cake for pictures and the cake cutting. Of course we saved it. I do see the sentimental value of it all. So it went into my parents’ freezer since the wedding was in Tennessee and we live in the DC area.
A month before our first anniversary I was home for a visit. My mom asked me if I wanted the wedding cake. I said no assuming she understood I didn’t want to take a frozen cake on an airplane back to DC then have to freeze it again. I don’t think it would have handled the trip. I could imagine the fondant melting and butter cream oozing onto someone’s jacket in the overhead compartment.
Well our anniversary rolls around and we went on a trip. I called my parents when we got home just to check in and my mom says, “You know your wedding cake really held up in the freezer. It tasted delicious.” WHAT? My mom ate the cake. But why? “You said you didn’t want it.”
I said I didn’t want to fly home with a frozen cake on my lap for 2 hours. Not that I didn’t want it period. We’re going to be in town in 2 weeks. We could have had it then. “Oh, well I didn’t know that. We’ll just have Lisa make you another one. But honey, I am telling you, it was fantastic. I had a few bites then threw it away.”
You threw it away?? I felt like Ross Gellehar from Friends when someone eats his thanksgiving left-over sandwich and throws most of it out. You threw my wedding cake away? So instead we ended up buying cupcakes and saying Happy Anniversary!