FOB Tips

Fob tip of the day: Never say "none of your business" to your fobby parent.

You might as well say: "Dearest parent, please accept this as my formal invitation to become unrelentingly obsessed with where I'm going, what I'll be doing, who will be there, if there will be drugs, and why I am keeping secrets".

I hope you've found this tip helpful.

Long Johns

Ok people. The FOBulous Mom is back after a long bout of pure unadulterated laziness. Today I present to you the following picture which was snapped from deep inside the fob habitat:

Observe the air purification in progress

Now, being a good Canadian, my mother has prepared herself for the long winters by stocking up on several hundred pairs of long johns. Being a good appliance owner, she has prepared herself for dryer maintenance day by doing much of the same.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from The FOBulous Mom! Keep it real in 2014 y'hear?

Sometimes my Uncle is a Fob

We had my out-of-town uncle over for thanksgiving and he was entertaining us with some stories from his recent trip to China. Apparently, some of the gwai los on his trip fell victim to pick-pockets while he avoided being swindled due to his heightened alertness. In typical fob fashion, he started to give us young folk tips on how to travel safely and protect ourselves from bad people. He went on to describe how nowadays the Chinese thieves are using tongs to reach into your pockets to steal your wallet and/or cigarettes so we need to keep all our valuables hidden inside our vests. He even gave us a straight-up Zorro-style demonstration using the tongs he grabbed out of the vegetable bowl on the dinner table.

Not to be outdone by my uncle's clear fob supremacy, my mother proudly announced that she too is a very clever traveler by exclaiming "I told ga jie to buy a decoy wallet from the dollar store to put above her real wallet!"

http://skinnygirlsandmayo.com/2012/01/27/good-gadget-bad-gadget-pt-v/

Nicely done, One-uppington!

Mode and Miwdew

If your parent is a fob, he/she may be concerned with the growth of "mode" or "miwdew" in their dated 90s bathroom.

I know mine is.

Chinese Food

So this happened...

The guy responsible for Rebecca Black's "Friday" has struck again, this time, with a song about Chinese Food. I'm sure some people will say that this video is racist, but I think this video is great. What's not to like? The catchy beat, poetic lyrics, ever changing subtitle language, inexplicable clubbing of a 10 year old girl, Japanese geishas dancing at a chinese restaurant, greasy north-americanized chinese food, and a creepy panda... seems like the ingredients of a family-friendly hit to me!

The Hair Elastic

My mom came over to my house and I noticed that her hair was tied back with one of these...

I guess if it can hold your broccoli together then there's no reason why it can't keep your hair out of your face. Resourceful.