Terms of Endearment

Most of you know that my current client is a Japanese automotive company. For the most part though, the only Japanese people that are stationed in this American subsidiary are very senior, and I usually do not have much contact with them. The day to day people that I deal with at this company are for the most part American.

However, there is one Japanese man in particular that does request information from me directly every month or so. This past month, I had to do something over and above what I usually do, and I suppose that helped him out a great deal because I subsequently received an email back from him addressing me as Juliana-san and thanking me! How cool is that??

Totally made my day... :)

Life Altering Moment...

For those of you who know and love my dad you may be shocked to find out the following. He shaved off his mustache Friday....

For those of you who don't know my dad from Adam, let me explain...

My dad has had this mustache for almost 25 years. It's like his trademark! In the past he has always threatened to shave it off, and my family usually screams in horror, "NO"! When asked who would play my dad in a movie, my family always, automatically and without a second thought says Cheech Marin. CLEARLY, we cannot use this reference anymore... Whenever my dad and my uncle Jeff (who has always been taller and leaner than my dad and who also has a mustache) are ever in the same room, my cousins, brother and I always called them Mario and Luigi! CLEARLY that opportunity has passed...

I (to my best recollection) cannot even remember a moment in my life where he has never donned his infamous set of facial whiskers. My mother often recalls for me this one time circa 1981 (that I clearly do not remember) when he decided to shave it off and I being a mere two years old saw him emerge from the bathroom clean shaven and immediately burst into tears. Apparently I didn't recognize him and wouldn't go near him until he had grown it back. Yeah I was a cutie, wasn't I?

And now with less than six months till Maxx's Bar Mitzvah, my dad has decided to make this bold and outrageous move. Will he grow in back in time? In my opinion, all the pictures from this event will not capture the true Michael Wurzburger if he has not grown back his faithful friend.

I hate change... Sigh...