International Text Messages

My mom recently left for Argentina and will be there until the middle of August. Yes...a full 2 months. Some of you may be upset thinking that there wouldn't be a post until she comes back. Fortunately, you are incorrect! I've received more texts in the past week since she has left than I do when she is in the United States. To be honest, I'm a little scared to look at my cell phone bill since international texts are not included in any text message package and are billed per text message received and sent.

Right before she boarded the plane, I received one last text message:

Mom: "Jen when u can email me vin email and put in my conctact"

Me: "You have his e-mail already in your contacts. You just e-mailed him"

Mom: "Ah!! ok"

Once she landed, I received the following text:

Mom: "im good GRACE"

Apparently, in the 13 hours that it took her land in Argentina, I had forgotten her name. Once I received that text, the rest just started pouring in.

Mom @ 1:11pm: "pls checmYVOICE MAIL+TKS" (I think I should teach her to proofread)

Mom @ 1:14pm: "did u check now?"

Me @ 1:16pm: "You didn't have any new messages"

Mom @ 1:17pm: "ok tks"

All of a sudden, she's the fastest text messenger! And very needy.

While I was at work one day, I started receiving all of these text messages that made no sense.

Mom @ 1:49pm: "Im ok"

Mom @ 1:57pm: "Im ok"

Mom @ 2:02pm: "Ok and vin?"

Mom @ 3:04pm: "Ok im ok i call you later"

Mom @ 10:26am (next day): "Im ok"

Mom @ 10:26am: "Im ok" (No, that's not a typo. They were sent within 30 seconds of each other)

At this point, I have no clue what's going on! I just keep receiving text messages every couple minutes saying that she was fine. I finally get her on the phone and ask her what she was doing. She tells me that she's fine and she couldn't figure out her phone so she just kept sending text messages to test her phone. It would have been so much less confusing if I knew she was going to be running text message tests. I hope she pays me back for those "Im ok" text message tests because, at this rate, my entire paycheck will be paying to know that she's ok every minute and a half.

No Doubt!

There will always be specific songs, smells, and places that remind us of someone. For my mother, it's really any song that came out in the 1990s, especially any song by No Doubt. I got a call from my mom and she was telling me that she was watching the Spanish version of American Idol where each week the contestants have to sing a song based on the week's theme. I'm not quite sure what this week's theme was, but one of the contestants sang a No Doubt song. This automatically meant that I was receiving a phone call.

Mom: "The Argentinean girl on the show remind me of you"

Me: "The girl did? Why?"

Mom: "She sing a song of No Doubt. I remember you listen to them all the time when Vin went to college. Do you remember?"

Me: "Yeah I remember"

Mom: "Yeah No Doubt. That with Glenn Stefan"

Me: "Yeah, Gwen Stefani is the singer"

Mom: "That girl sang the song so good! And she doesn't even speak English"

My mom always had a problem with Gwen Stefani's name. Glenn Stefan is a new one. She used to yell "I'm so sick of hearing that music with When!"

I recently told her that I bought tickets to see No Doubt in concert, which prompted her to ask me "They are still around?! Oh my god.." Yes...When/Glenn Stefan is still around.