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Bat Signal

September 18, 2012 By Talya Tate Boerner 19 Comments

My mother's Professional Grade Makeup Mirror

Traveling with my mother is entertaining….

Recently we traveled to Washington DC – my mother, her fifteen pound mirror and me. Heavy and onerous, the mirror nearly flattens the wheels on her rolling luggage. The luggage she cannot lift. 

Double-sided with circular lighting, you can view your face in natural light.  As if that’s helpful. It shines a beam into the heavens as though pointing the way to a nightclub grand opening. I truly expected Batman to appear outside our hotel room window. Professional spa grade, it magnifies pores, hairs, blood, atoms. It could be used to isolate cells, possibly curing cancer. But we have no time for such things.

In between visiting the sites of our nation’s capitol, my mother was busy receiving push notifications on her phone all day and night from her new friends at ChristianMingle.com, an online dating service with daily Bible verses and Christian dating tips…

Me: (asleep) Who is texting you so late?
Momma: Oh I got a flirt!
Me: Huh?
Momma: Oooh and I got a wink too!
Me: Huh?
Momma: From ChristianMingle. A flirt and a wink – that’s what they call possible matches.
Me: What’s the difference?
Momma: Who knows.
Me: Could you send them a bat signal and let them know we are asleep?
outside the White House
Kelsey (my daughter) & the BAT (Momma)

Fun, fun!  Really, it is:)

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If you are new to my crazy life, click HERE to read why Momma is the BAT and our home the BAT Cave…

Musical Pairings:

Crazy, Gnarls Barkley


Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are. – Batman

 

Filed Under: Family, Humor, Travel Tagged With: Barbara Tate, Christian Mingle, makeup mirror

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Comments

  1. ReaderLisa says

    September 18, 2012 at 5:19 am

    Cute 🙂

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  2. Colene says

    September 18, 2012 at 5:50 am

    I must meet that women! What a hoot!

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  3. Anonymous says

    September 18, 2012 at 5:58 am

    That looks like a scratch on my MIRROR! Oh, No!!

    I now have 20 e-mails on my ICloud account, and I don’t know any of them. Seven new flirts on ChristianMingle, 5 new matches on OurTime, and even a new account from Believe.com. I am being flooded; I am being stalked! I may have to move and change my identify. How does one get into the Witness Protection Program? Mom, theBAT

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    • TateFarmGirl says

      September 18, 2012 at 2:40 pm

      LOL. OMG you have signed up for too many services! You need to start your own blog.

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    • TateFarmGirl says

      September 18, 2012 at 2:40 pm

      I can’t keep up with you…

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  4. Anonymous says

    September 18, 2012 at 5:59 am

    I will turn up at my college reunion, but under another name. BAT

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  5. Nancy says

    September 18, 2012 at 6:09 am

    Your mother is a brave woman – I’d be afraid to look at my face in a mirror like that (or date, but that’s another story).

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  6. Staci Sandquist says

    September 18, 2012 at 6:41 am

    That’s hilarious!

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  7. Kaa says

    September 18, 2012 at 7:08 am

    Excellent choice in musical accompaniment. I know because it’s now lodged in my head.

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    • TateFarmGirl says

      September 18, 2012 at 2:41 pm

      and did you know Gnarls Barkley and Cee Lo Green are the same??? I am soooo slow.

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  8. Jenny says

    September 18, 2012 at 11:30 am

    Hahahaha!! Typical BAT! Love you Nona! 🙂

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  9. Anonymous says

    September 18, 2012 at 1:59 pm

    I always knew there had to be stories about the BAT that were high larious-just never expected so many! Also love the vocabulary (onerous!-Mrs. Key would be so proud)!

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    • TateFarmGirl says

      September 18, 2012 at 2:42 pm

      Thanks Bryan:)

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  10. Anonymous says

    September 18, 2012 at 7:39 pm

    Am sooo lmao! Bats niece. Lol

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  11. Anonymous says

    September 18, 2012 at 7:42 pm

    I didn’t know CLo had another name? But if it was Gnarls, I would have changed it too! I’m the SLOW one!

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    • TateFarmGirl says

      September 19, 2012 at 12:31 pm

      Thanks I feel better.

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    • Kelsey Erickson says

      September 20, 2012 at 5:04 am

      The BAT goes to Washingon, what a great weekend. The capital will never be the same again. 🙂

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  12. TimH says

    September 21, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    LOL!!!…Holy Bat Reflections!!! This is hilarious!!! Your beautiful Mom is a keeper, for sure, and anyone who knows her, loves her to death! And I agree with you, Talya, she does need to start her own blog! Then, I’d have two awesome blogs to read!!!=)

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  13. Renee says

    March 12, 2014 at 9:49 am

    She is hysterical and it’s not intentional, thanks for the laughs BAT and thanks to Talya for sharing it so well.

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