Having worked retail for over a decade and dealing with aggressive and unfriendly customers who get mad because we do not offer their specific group discounts, I despise the sense of entitlement every single person who demands discounts has.
I worked for a bookstore, so we gave teacher's discounts on teaching material... which made sense...
I know some places do military discounts, good for them if they want to do that, but I wouldn't expect it... to be honest...
So recently a little cupcake shop in my town has opened up and they are pretty tasty, well made cupcakes...
Today they posted that they give discounts to military, this is a base town so I understand... and then from out of the woodwork angry rude people start berating the new small business for not giving their specific group a discount...
talking about how they would NOT SHOP HERE AGAIN and TELL ALL THEIR FRIENDS...
just so indignant and rude and expectant....
you know what, if you cant buy a cupcake without demanding a 10% off pat on the back for doing whatever job you get paid for...then make cupcakes yourself and save the rest of the world your false sense of importance.
If I got a discount I would feel special, I would not expect it from every business I walked into.
in essence,
grow up.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
This is Random...
More of a question rather than a post here today...
While I attempt to read about the school closures in Norfolk, Va to contest desegregation, I turned on Sesame Street for Aiden to watch while I read....
Why do the adults in Sesame Street, regardless of the year of the taping of the show, look like they are from the 1970s?
While I attempt to read about the school closures in Norfolk, Va to contest desegregation, I turned on Sesame Street for Aiden to watch while I read....
Why do the adults in Sesame Street, regardless of the year of the taping of the show, look like they are from the 1970s?
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Something I Came Across
So.... This ...
"it is only when a woman surrenders her life to her husband, reveres and worships him, and is willing to serve him, that she becomes really beautiful to him. She becomes a priceless jewel, the glory of femininity, his queen!” (1973 Marabel Morgan)
reminded me of This...
" Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave." (The Goblin King, Labyrinth)
Anything an evil goblin lord tells a girl obviously isn't any way a woman should behave...
Just saying....
This guy is an evil tyrant who turns babies in to goblins...
Ok back to your normal day...
"it is only when a woman surrenders her life to her husband, reveres and worships him, and is willing to serve him, that she becomes really beautiful to him. She becomes a priceless jewel, the glory of femininity, his queen!” (1973 Marabel Morgan)
reminded me of This...
" Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave." (The Goblin King, Labyrinth)
Anything an evil goblin lord tells a girl obviously isn't any way a woman should behave...
Just saying....
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| Please forget that he looks like this.... |
This guy is an evil tyrant who turns babies in to goblins...
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| This does NOT look like a queen to me |
Thoughts
We decided a few months ago, in order to save some money and have a little more breathing room in the financial department, to cut cable. Now with a computer intelligent husband and modern technology, we do not miss very much and my subscription to Netflix opened the doors to such train wreck...cannot look away...shows like Confessions: Animal Hoarding (don't judge me). One of the channels I miss, Current is now Al Jazera USA, but on Current was a documentary show called Vanguard and Adam and I loved it. We watched every Vanguard that came out and we watched this one....
American Jihadi
The documentary follows the history of Alabama born Omar Hammami, a pretty normal southern kid who was smart, had friends... lived normally with his Syrian born father and American mother until he became radicalized, went to Canada, Yemen, and eventually Somalia and became a terrorist...
It is an insane documentary and one that kind of stuck with me because I was like... what is wrong with this kid??!!?? Hammami was on twitter, pretty regularly and he slowly went on the outs with his terrorist organization al-shabaab and then they started trying to kill him, and according to them and pretty reliable sources... they have.
American Terrorist Killed
I read this article last night about Omar, twitter, and the odd relationship he had with one of the journalists who followed him...
Omar and Me
The article was really interesting and it says a lot about how social media and how close communications have enabled people to discuss or even connect in the oddest of ways. Reading the author's continual frustration with this stupid dude who just couldn't get his egotistical head out of his ass enough to realize that not only had he gone into some false world of activism, but he had options had me reading by the light of my phone at midnight, which is way past my post Aiden bedtime.
You just wonder why on earth do people think its sensible to kill people, to shoot each other, to do anything this assinine when they have the opportunity to do so much.... live in a pretty stable society, have friends, family...everything and then like they just lost their senses and in Omar's case...get so caught up in their own stupidity that they would rather get shot than admit...OK I'm an idiot, I need to get out of this.
I am going to admit I have a prejudice here, I abhor militant religious groups, I think they are the exact opposite of any sort of message of faith and when you start to babble about killing people and use your scripture to do it, you are cherry picking to the point of absurdity and you aren't practicing your faith AT ALL. This goes for ANY militant religious group. There are terrorists in all sorts of faiths... Look at the word terrorist, terror...who would want to inflict that on anyone?? Let alone innocent people who what... represent the entity you have a beef with? Get over it... when will these idiots learn that when you hurt a kid, an innocent bystander, anyone... it doesn't scare people, it makes them mad...and then more violence, more stupidity??? I get that and I am not a springing well of knowledge.
Even Buddhists
I think I just got really frustrated with this story because you want to reach through the screen, slap this kid and go...get your shit together and stop being an idiot... you have no reason to be doing this, you are only causing more hurt, strife, and death for innocent people when you and your idiot enemies shoot, bomb, and kill each in the name of something you obviously don't fully understand. No kid in Alabama has any reason to have any jihad against anyone..... So you don't agree with a war, YOU are in America... out of a lot of places you have the right to work on that, express that, go to college... go in to politics and foreign relations and become someone who does something GOOD not someone who is an idiot, becomes a murderer, thinks its a good idea to attempt to brainwash other idiot kids into doing what you did, and get murdered on the other side of the world causing your family more pain and hurt just because you were too stupid to realize you messed up.
Moral of the story here... Don't be stupid and get caught up in crap you don't understand. I have no idea what life is like for anyone else but me, I am not going to juxtapose my life experience and my opinions with someone in a world I know nothing about and while it may sound selfish, I am going to worry about me, worry about my family. I have opinions... I pretty much think that violence, war, aggression of any kind is pretty ignorant when you get down to it and if we spent more time trying to get along than we do trying to tear each other down, things would be a lot better.
American Jihadi
The documentary follows the history of Alabama born Omar Hammami, a pretty normal southern kid who was smart, had friends... lived normally with his Syrian born father and American mother until he became radicalized, went to Canada, Yemen, and eventually Somalia and became a terrorist...
It is an insane documentary and one that kind of stuck with me because I was like... what is wrong with this kid??!!?? Hammami was on twitter, pretty regularly and he slowly went on the outs with his terrorist organization al-shabaab and then they started trying to kill him, and according to them and pretty reliable sources... they have.
American Terrorist Killed
I read this article last night about Omar, twitter, and the odd relationship he had with one of the journalists who followed him...
Omar and Me
The article was really interesting and it says a lot about how social media and how close communications have enabled people to discuss or even connect in the oddest of ways. Reading the author's continual frustration with this stupid dude who just couldn't get his egotistical head out of his ass enough to realize that not only had he gone into some false world of activism, but he had options had me reading by the light of my phone at midnight, which is way past my post Aiden bedtime.
You just wonder why on earth do people think its sensible to kill people, to shoot each other, to do anything this assinine when they have the opportunity to do so much.... live in a pretty stable society, have friends, family...everything and then like they just lost their senses and in Omar's case...get so caught up in their own stupidity that they would rather get shot than admit...OK I'm an idiot, I need to get out of this.
I am going to admit I have a prejudice here, I abhor militant religious groups, I think they are the exact opposite of any sort of message of faith and when you start to babble about killing people and use your scripture to do it, you are cherry picking to the point of absurdity and you aren't practicing your faith AT ALL. This goes for ANY militant religious group. There are terrorists in all sorts of faiths... Look at the word terrorist, terror...who would want to inflict that on anyone?? Let alone innocent people who what... represent the entity you have a beef with? Get over it... when will these idiots learn that when you hurt a kid, an innocent bystander, anyone... it doesn't scare people, it makes them mad...and then more violence, more stupidity??? I get that and I am not a springing well of knowledge.
Even Buddhists
I think I just got really frustrated with this story because you want to reach through the screen, slap this kid and go...get your shit together and stop being an idiot... you have no reason to be doing this, you are only causing more hurt, strife, and death for innocent people when you and your idiot enemies shoot, bomb, and kill each in the name of something you obviously don't fully understand. No kid in Alabama has any reason to have any jihad against anyone..... So you don't agree with a war, YOU are in America... out of a lot of places you have the right to work on that, express that, go to college... go in to politics and foreign relations and become someone who does something GOOD not someone who is an idiot, becomes a murderer, thinks its a good idea to attempt to brainwash other idiot kids into doing what you did, and get murdered on the other side of the world causing your family more pain and hurt just because you were too stupid to realize you messed up.
Moral of the story here... Don't be stupid and get caught up in crap you don't understand. I have no idea what life is like for anyone else but me, I am not going to juxtapose my life experience and my opinions with someone in a world I know nothing about and while it may sound selfish, I am going to worry about me, worry about my family. I have opinions... I pretty much think that violence, war, aggression of any kind is pretty ignorant when you get down to it and if we spent more time trying to get along than we do trying to tear each other down, things would be a lot better.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
The Weekend Was a Haze....
I had a weekend, if one would describe a weekend as feverishly attempting to finish reading three books and turn in two papers by midnight Sunday night and have a third paper ready by midnight Monday...
In between that, we did end up going to an Indian place to eat some pretty tasty dinner and I had a nice Indian beer new to me, but on the whole, the weekend has consisted of reading about the romantic lost cause mentality of the South, Jim Crow, and the rise of the Christian Right in American politics....
In other words, at times infuriating, at times heartbreaking, and at times...baffling...
This weekend coming up is the Ocmulgee Indian Festival, I am very excited about that as always.
Here are our Mounds!
I think it is pretty neat to have such a cool landmark in my area... and the festival is amazing. Old navy had a pretty nifty sale this weekend and with a coupon for one item at 50% off I was able to snag a pretty nice button up plaid shirt, I think some of my fall fashion woes are over!
I think this with some dark skinny jeans, a gray sweater and maybe a dark blue scarf will look pretty awesome when it is not 90 degrees....
Now, back to this...
God's Own Party
Which I have to finish and write a paper on... if I can get out of the Jerry Falwell chapter, I will be fine......The one on Billy Graham was pretty cool....but Jerry Falwell, is a no.
In between that, we did end up going to an Indian place to eat some pretty tasty dinner and I had a nice Indian beer new to me, but on the whole, the weekend has consisted of reading about the romantic lost cause mentality of the South, Jim Crow, and the rise of the Christian Right in American politics....
In other words, at times infuriating, at times heartbreaking, and at times...baffling...
This weekend coming up is the Ocmulgee Indian Festival, I am very excited about that as always.
Here are our Mounds!
I think it is pretty neat to have such a cool landmark in my area... and the festival is amazing. Old navy had a pretty nifty sale this weekend and with a coupon for one item at 50% off I was able to snag a pretty nice button up plaid shirt, I think some of my fall fashion woes are over!
I think this with some dark skinny jeans, a gray sweater and maybe a dark blue scarf will look pretty awesome when it is not 90 degrees....
Now, back to this...
God's Own Party
Which I have to finish and write a paper on... if I can get out of the Jerry Falwell chapter, I will be fine......The one on Billy Graham was pretty cool....but Jerry Falwell, is a no.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Muffins!
Last post of the day ... I promise
So when you want muffins, but you don't feel completely Martha Stewart....
This is how you spruce up 99 cent muffin mix.
1/2 cup of half and half
1 egg
1/3 cup of melted butter or vegetable oil
Mix it up, and bake per directions
They turned out really creamy and not overly dry like the mix muffins usually do...
buttery too...buttery!!!
September 2013 Birchbox
Received the September Birchbox today and there are some interesting things I am stoked about trying and hairspray that I am giving away and that person can tell me how it is.
The theme was red this month and I really am looking forward to trying the bright orange nail polish I received....
Next is some VERY bright red lip gloss, maybe I will try something new...
Now this I am excited about...
Can I say... How cool is this??? I loathe the wine stain when I am out, if I had a few of these in my purse at dinner, I could have a second glass!
and finally...
Like I said, I don't use hair spray but... I will see what someone else says about it.
All in all a pretty nice Birchbox month, I still think this is totally worth the 12 bucks a month.
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| The September Birchbox with lip gloss, nail polish, wine wipes, a face peel and some hairspray |
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| I love this color |
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| woah... scarlet woman indeed |
Now this I am excited about...
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| For those of us who have a little wine... |
Now I have really sensitive skin, but I like skin treatments so I am hoping this doesn't feel like I have poured hot acid on my skin.
and finally...
Like I said, I don't use hair spray but... I will see what someone else says about it.
All in all a pretty nice Birchbox month, I still think this is totally worth the 12 bucks a month.
Clothing Frustrated
I will be the first to admit that I am more comfortable in a pair of jeans and a hoodie, but I've discovered during my daily attempt to ignore my mounting schoolwork that clothing for the 30 something crowd can be completely just off base unless you have insane amounts of money that a full time graduate student / mom does not have....
I can no longer do the major mall stores because they cater to someone at LEAST ten years younger than I and the stores for "women" are well.... Ok like the lady in "This is 40" said... I'm not ready to shop at JJill and Chicos.....
So I don't want to look like this...
and I am not exactly ready for this...
and I cannot in any way afford this...
I know there are places to go and I know that if I look long and hard enough I find something that compromises but sometimes I Just get so frustrated because I do want to dress nice, but the effort and the costs end up so annoying that my hoodie and jeans are still a staple.
I can no longer do the major mall stores because they cater to someone at LEAST ten years younger than I and the stores for "women" are well.... Ok like the lady in "This is 40" said... I'm not ready to shop at JJill and Chicos.....
So I don't want to look like this...
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| you can get this look at forever21.com |
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| you can get this look at chicos.com |
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| This is from jcrew.com and the sweater is over 200 dollars by itself......... |
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
A Sort of Recipe...
As you can tell when I talk about food or do recipes they are very generalized... because I kind of throw a dash of this and that until I get what I want...
This is how I make Collards....
I ADORE collards...
and I have a pretty quirky way of making them but they taste awesome so hey...
First take your collards... Fresh are best, but I have found some frozen varieties are OK in a pinch.
Make sure they are bite sized....
Put them in a pot and cover them with water, at least enough over them to cover them all, they will reduce quickly, but the juice rules...
I add one packet of goya's ham concentrate seasoning... I've done bacon, I've done bones...but with grad school and a baby this is fast.
Then I add to taste...really to taste... garlic powder, onion powder, some cayenne pepper, and well I use ghost pepper flakes because I like everything spicy.
Now bring all this to a boil on high and stir it a bit....
Then I add 1/4 of a cup of crisco or butter, whatever I have in the house and then... The magic part....
1/3 to 1/2 of a cup of vinegar.... YES vinegar... it does magic things to collards.
Then I put the whole thing on low, put a lid on it and cook it for at least two hours, sometimes more...
It may sound like an odd mix of things, but the collards come out AMAZING.
Adam, my husband, was never a fan of collards...but he loves mine.
This is how I make Collards....
I ADORE collards...
and I have a pretty quirky way of making them but they taste awesome so hey...
First take your collards... Fresh are best, but I have found some frozen varieties are OK in a pinch.
Make sure they are bite sized....
Put them in a pot and cover them with water, at least enough over them to cover them all, they will reduce quickly, but the juice rules...
I add one packet of goya's ham concentrate seasoning... I've done bacon, I've done bones...but with grad school and a baby this is fast.
Then I add to taste...really to taste... garlic powder, onion powder, some cayenne pepper, and well I use ghost pepper flakes because I like everything spicy.
Now bring all this to a boil on high and stir it a bit....
Then I add 1/4 of a cup of crisco or butter, whatever I have in the house and then... The magic part....
1/3 to 1/2 of a cup of vinegar.... YES vinegar... it does magic things to collards.
Then I put the whole thing on low, put a lid on it and cook it for at least two hours, sometimes more...
It may sound like an odd mix of things, but the collards come out AMAZING.
Adam, my husband, was never a fan of collards...but he loves mine.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
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