In the spirit of the last meme

[mousme]

I decided to take a snapshot of two of the notes my mother left when she was last here sitting my cats. One has been redacted, because another person was participating in the note-leaving process, and left her full name and phone number, so I'm not going to put that on the internets.





For the record, she's exactly like this in person, too.

Comments

[toughlovemuse.livejournal.com]

Did you ever find her ring?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Alas, no. It's quite upsetting, she's had it for nearly forty years. It was her engagement ring, if memory serves. At the very least, I know it was a present from my father before they got married.

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

I love your mother. What lovely handwriting she has.

I am sad about her ring. Perhaps we should rent a metal detector and crawl all over your backyard.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I've always envied my mum her handwriting. When I was eleven I had *horrific* handwriting, which made her despair. It was the one thing she pestered me about when I was in school. I think she never quite understood how a daughter of hers could have such awful, cramped handwriting. (It turned out that the way I was taught to write cursive was all wrong, but who knew?)

I hear you on the metal detector, but I'm sure it's not in the garden. She always takes her rings off when she comes into the house. So it must be in the front yard, in which case someone probably already found it, which is sad.

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

it's certainly better than MY mum's handwriting, yeesh.

[moonandtree.livejournal.com]

It explains SO MUCH!!!!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I do come by it honestly. :)

[aliyna.livejournal.com]

I want a photo of this woman! I must know what the French queen of eccentricity and delightfulness looks like.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

My mother is actually Romanian. I will try to find a good photo, but the only one I have is a candid picture I took a few years ago, and it doesn't quite look like her.

[catsarah.livejournal.com]

Don't be regretful of your handwriting my dear. Your mother cheats! She's not writing, nor is she printing...she's learned to do a mashed calligraphy using a marker or two. I can do this also if I put my mind too it since I taught myself some calligraphy way back when...

You can let you're mum know that I think she's a big ole fluffy missive printing cheater! Having said that, I think a character like your mum seems to require calligraphic notes...tell her she needs to get on with the illuminations now.

*Love*

[mousme.livejournal.com]

My mother is a classically-trained painter. She can do beautiful calligraphy, too, although lately her essential tremor has made all writing except printing difficult for her.

Let's just say that I inherited *none* of her artistic ability. It's one of my biggest disappointments in life, that I can't even come close to drawing the way she does.

An amusing anecdote: my handwriting when I was in elementary school was my mother's despair. I think she could never figure out how her own daughter could have such cramped, horrible cursive writing (turns out it was my school's fault). My handwriting changed dramatically in high school, when it became much closer to what it is today.

[catsarah.livejournal.com]

Let's just say that I inherited *none* of her artistic ability.

I agree there is sometimes and inherited component to artistic ability. But I firmly believe that *everyone* can learn to draw. Everyone. If we lived closer together (hell I could do it from here, but closer would be easier), I would show you if you were willing. All you really need is the desire to draw and a few basic tools. Sometimes all it takes is showing someone that they can improve to give them the impetus to keep going. And practice, as they say, makes perfect...

However, it may just be your fate that you write. Writing is a manifestation of artistic ability that is no less valid than fine art.

I concur with what a lot of folks here say, I would love to meet your mum someday. Maybe during one of those fishing trips we're going to do eh?

<3 Cats

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Heh. I told my mother about her on-line fanclub, and she is thoroughly mystified by why people think she's awesome. :)

I have always considered myself a writer, but there are times when I would *kill* to be able to draw what I see in my head. I have ideas for writing which I would love to be able to illustrate as well.

I will try to dig out a picture of my mother for people. :)

My shopping trip with fearsclave has been postponed due to injury, but I'm still going to try to pick up a reel for the rod you gave me in the near future.

[(Anonymous)]

Paze sez:

Someone else beat me to it: I was going to ask if your mom had studied calligraphy (or had taken a general penmanship class where calligraphy was taught), because that's what it looks like.

It also look runic. Actually, it looks quite a bit like the hobbit handwriting (Bilbo's and Frodo's, at least) that we see in the LotR films. Very pretty.

My mom had to take penmanship when she was in school, and as a result she became both right handed (after she had her favored left hand tied behind her back for a few months!) and a very lovely handwriter. I sometimes wish my left hand had been tied behind my back when I was learning to write, because my handwriting is so very ugly. :(

[mousme.livejournal.com]

My mother was taught how to write by Irish nuns. I think that accounts for the calligraphy. :)