a vanity fair

got a text from my mom today:

Hi hon

Hit 95.2 lb loss today at WW

Yeah

Talk to u ltr

Mom

this text, of course, tells us many things:
1) clearly she has improved her phone/typing skills
2) she's almost hit the 100 lb mark of weight loss

both big accomplishments for my mom

i later called her to congratulate her; she told me that her husband had bought her new vanity plates for her cherry red mercedes convertible. as a side note, she and her husband are big on vanity plates. she used to have a license plate that said TOOTIE. it is a term of endearment from her husband, but you can guess how he came up with it. they have blankets for that. i digress.

her current vanity plate was a surprise from her husband, who, as we know hasn't been the most supportive of her in the past. it reads WWSANDY. and, yes, the WW stands for Weight Watchers (they should be paying her more for all of this free advertising).

btw, she hasn't gone by "sandy" since she first met her husband (early 90s?). then he pulled a tom cruise "katie is now kate" and changed her name to "sandra." more sophisticated, don't you think? fits well with the red mercedes.  digressing again.

anyway, the bigger significance is that her husband is finally coming around on this job -- to the point where he's paying extra money on a license plate to show his support. this is big. and because of the support, she's doing even better at the job, is making more of her own money and is continuing with her weightloss.  all in all, it's been a win-win, as they say -- in a way only the two of them can fully appreciate and document on their license plates.