Checking My Vocabulary

I love writing in my blog. It is something to look forward to when life gets a bit humdrum. I often take dramatic license and overplay scenarios, embellish slightly, and exaggerate a bit. Well this didn't go over to well with my mother, who recently read my blog. She does not know how to access the internet and refuses to use the computer because her husband didn't plug it in where she wanted it. She said she may try to use it when he moves the cord. Anyway, to access any of my material she has to get in her car, make a ten minute drive to her brother's house and my aunt prints things for her. Well yesterday she printed out my blog. In the midst of my luxuriating on my day off I get a voicemail from my mother. Beeeeep...."Coco Bean (my nickname), Auntie printed your blaaaaag (insert Massachusetts dialect), I can't wait to read it." Something in me fluttered and I brushed it off as I tore into my cheese dip at Chili's.

Cut to today and radio silence from the East Coast. No daily phone call, something was up.

I leave work to go get a lightbulb, walking in the sunshine and the warm California breeze. I dial her number and she answers. "I read your blog, I have a few corrections." My mother is a freak of nature when it comes to grammar and spelling. She is impeccable so I figured I missed a comma or two.
"For the record, I have never been bitter."
Oh my, here we go.

I had written a blog post about my trip to Europe and I referred to my mother as being "furious and bitter" at the thought of my trip. It was given to me by the long lost teenage father that abandoned us aka "deadbeat" as she calls him and I took dramatic license and used some rather harsh words when describing her reaction to this so called "graduation present."

I would never want to hurt my mother's feelings. She is my rock, my best friend and my biggest fan. She was a pioneer in terms of raising a daughter as a single mom while working full time and going to school. She is the funniest person I know and my confidante.

She was the best mom a girl could ever ask for and you can print that.