Eat Healthy

My mother usually doesn't keep her opinions to herself. As was the case one night when she texted me:

Mom: "what did u have for diner?"
Me: "I had a hamburger"
Mom: "Wuau nice & healty"

She automatically thought that I was eating dinner at McDonald's (why that's the first place that pops in her head? I have no clue). So I reply telling her that we went out shopping and stopped a restaurant quickly and I had a burger. She replies:

Mom: "Ok that nice was a yoke ja ja"

My reaction was basically...wtf? I don't even know what that means. It took me a while to decipher the message with her text messaging codes that include "wuau" and "yoke" (I'm not even going to go near the "ja ja"), but I was still pretty confused. I guess she thought I was being hypersensitive about my hamburger? lol Who knows... In her mind, I should be eating home-made food every night...she is more than welcome to come over my place and cook me dinner anytime!

Wuau!!

I'm usually at work when I receive most of the text messages from my mom, which makes it a little difficult not to burst out laughing. For example, I was sitting at work one morning when I receive the morning "how r u" text message.

Mom: "how r u"
Me: "good, how are you?"
Mom: "so so"
Me: "are you still sick?"
Mom: "so so do u know that vin is g to canada"
Me: "he is? no i havent spoken to him. he hasnt been at work many days this week"
Mom: "Wuau!! he is g with brian all 4"
Me: "what?? he's going with brian all 4 what?"

My office phone rings after about 1 minute

On the phone:
Mom: "It would take me 4 hours to type all of that. Vin is driving to Canada, he should be there in a couple hours"
Me: "What does 'W.U.A.U' mean?"
Mom: "Oh my god, it means WOW! Don't you know the text message code?"

How is 'wuau' text message code for wow?? I always thought that a code would have less letters than the original word, but in the world of my mom's text messaging..I am wrong lol. As my mom pointed it, I'm not as cool as she is...

Part Deux

I got pretty sick this past week. As always, people at work get the sniffles and I, somehow, get the Black Plague. My mom sends me a morning text message that says the same thing each morning, "How r u?". The first day that I took off, I received her text message but did not answer since I was sleeping most of the morning. Well about 20 minutes later, I receive the exact same text message. I'm actually convinced that she just forwards the same text message when she doesn't receive an answer in an acceptable amount of time...usually about 5 minutes.

Mom: "How r u?"
Me: "I'm home sick"

This prompted her to call me about 3 1/2 seconds later. Although, I said this was only to include text messages - the phone conversation was pretty classic.

On the phone:
Mom: "You're sick?"
Me: "Yeah..I'm sleeping"
Mom: (In a panic) "Oh my god! I have one child that in Wissi, on the other side of the world and my other one is sick! Oh my god, what am I going to do"
Me: "Wissi? He's in Wisconsin"
Mom: "Yeah, it's on the other side of the world! Who even knows about this place?!"
Me: "What are you talking about?? It's a state, people live there. And it's in the middle of the country"
Mom: "I don't know where it is. I've never heard of it"

My brother travels to Wisconsin, or "Wissi", a couple times a year for business and has been there several times before. Apparently, if something is not on the East Coast - it's on the other side of the world. She has done lots of traveling...obviously, not many places in the United States though lol. With her daughter sick in bed and her son on the other side of the world, it made her go a little crazy.

One last note...Am I the only person who receives texts that say "R u sleeping?" and when I don't answer because I am sleeping, I receive a "Hello?" text? I guess so...