I forgot to mention this til now. My recent college graduate smarty pants niece got an awesome job at this little place called the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. So during the big move, my sister (who was helping with the move) stumbled upon a local magazine with a silly garage sale article in it. Just what I need, my older sister having new fuel to tease me. Here's the article: Rochester Magazine Article. I responded to the editor pleading with him to publish a correction; I am no where near mid-50s (and that if you squint your eyes a little and stand 100 yards away, I could be mistaken for a woman in her late 30's, or even mid-30's.) Anyhow he responded saying that when he said "almost all", that he of course, did not mean me who is obviously much younger. Phew. I also told him that I am not Machiavelli's grandmother, but more like his cute younger sister.
It really was a fluke that my sister came across the article. Makes me wonder how often the site gets mentioned but I never hear of it. Any publicity is good publicity.
I just heard back from the English teacher in Japan - he wrote a book about everyday English, in order to teach Japanese students how regular Americans talk. And portions of this blog are appearing in the book. I hope he uses a part where I say "anyways". Someone wrote to tell me that anyways isn't a real word. Anyhows, he said the book has finally been published and is in the mail to me.
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This article is unreal ~ they are so uninformed. Susan C
That article was funny in an offbeat sort of way but he sounds like how my cousin was making fun of me for getting excited about the things I have bought at yard sales. But I told her "But saving money is cool! That will never go out of style!" and she agreed with me.
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