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<\/a>Maruja has got to be in her late 40’s. She is very timid, deaf and talks w\/a bad lisp. <\/p>\nShe has black straggly hair, a bulbous nose, rough complexion and in my eyes, the only thing missing is a big hairy, wart on the chin to complete the image I have created of her. <\/p>\n
Its obvious why we all call her ‘Maruja la Bruja’ (Maruja the Witch) <\/p>\n
Needless to say that I don’t very much like her and her cooking…<\/p>\n
AGHH – I hate it! <\/strong><\/p>\n I get Maruja to follow me into the kitchen & then I run off to the living room to watch Bugs Bunny. Maruja enter the kitchen, sees the smoke & runs over to the range to see what has happened. She gasps as she realizes what mom is yelling about. <\/p>\n I turn up the volume on the TV as I know what’s gonna come next… <\/p>\n I love this re-run! It’s Broom-stick Bunny. <\/p>\n “Tell me, who undoes your hair? Why, it’s absolutely hideous!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But the laughter & jokes do not drown out mom’s yelling. <\/p>\n I guess mom has just about had it! Mom works long days & does not have time to cook or clean house and look after us kids. That’s why she hired Maruja in the first place! <\/p>\n But her cooking is eating up lots more time then mom expected. Maruja’s cooking is burned about 70% of the time anyway, but what difference does it make – it tastes awful to begin with and only dad & Danny seem to like it. <\/p>\n I don’t even thinks its edible!<\/p>\n I guess that it does not help that we kids don’t like her much and play tricks on her. Mom sure is pissed! <\/p>\n Not sure who turned up the temperature on the stove, but I think this time, it did the trick. Maybe the trick was just too good…<\/p>\n See, now Nancy is having to cook lunch & dinners; Patty gets to sweep & set the table; Danny has to mop the floors & do dishes; and I have to clean my room… <\/p>\n This summer, it looks like we are going to have to take care of ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Maruja, Maruja! What happened here!?” my mother yells out. She is pounding on the counter & hollering, but I think it’s all a waste of energy. Mom knows Maruja is deaf and she is in her room – No way will she hear mom’s yelling! But I guess this is one way to vent-out her … Continue reading “Something Awful is Cooking”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29],"tags":[32,33],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-new-jersey","tag-family","tag-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Witch Hazel is preparing “pretty potion” tea for Bugs, who showed up – trick or treating – as a witch (in Halloween costume) & starts doing Bug’s hair. I love this line from Witch Hazel : <\/p>\n