Hey do you have some music I can borrow?

It is so sad when I see people on the train that cannot afford earphones and are forced to blast their music from their cell phones for the whole carriage to hear. We need to start a charity for these poor unfortunate slobs so we can be spared their crappy taste in music.

Quality

If:

A lady comes up to you while you are walking home from the train station and says "I lost my train ticket and I need to pick my daughter up at daycare at quarter to...seven o'clock....quarter past seven" and asks for money to buy a new ticket

Please Note:

She does not have a daughter and did not have a ticket in the first place and is 15 minutes from the train station. She is in fact a crack addict.

I had my doubts when I first saw her but my suspisions were confirmed when a week later I saw her at the same place on her cell phone saying in a very whiney voice might I ad"of course I'm gonna sort my life out, just don't give any of that rehab shit"

Escape from the loo

I'm not a prude or anything but when I'm trying to pee i don't want a strange man wandering outside my stall thank you very much. At least over here the stall doors overlap the surrounding edges so there are no gaps where people can see in. I was in the WOMEN'S bathroom at work two days ago when I heard our female administration manager walk in talking to a guy about measuring the bathroom for new furniture or something. She didn't bother to check if there were any people pooing just waltzed on in. Might as well just remove the door and put up a sign that says "Open House". I was just about to flush and ;eave when this happened so I just stood there in the stall and decided to wait them out.

Some girl in the stall next to me flushed and left and our manager said "Oh you don't mind a man being in here do you?" in a jokey way knowing the girl would say no problem. But the girl said "actually to be honest with you I do" SCORE in your face lady! only problem is now that the other girl left I missed my window of escape when I could have left and not had all eyes on me they would have been distracted by the other girl. DAMMIT!

Our manager and the guy kept chatting and they mentioned the girl in the other stall meaning me and they said a few things I couldn't hear and then he said "She probably wont come out till I leave" Ten minutes later i hadn't heard anything and the female cleaner walks in and no voices so I chanced it and left. Turns out I'd been standing in there 10 minutes longer than I had to because they'd left and I didn't hear the door shut. I felt like such a LOSER.

I think i'm missing a few pages.........

Can someone please tell me why authors seem to think it's acceptable to not finish their books? I'm tired of reading great books that have no ending. I'm just left confused and annoyed after spending days engrosed in great writing wondering how they will end and then they don't. I suppose they are being "artistic" and mysterious so you have to think about the possible ways it could have ended or so you can interpret it anyway you want but it's just annoying ok A-NOY-ING!

What are we teaching our children?

Have you seen this commercial? Well it may only be showing over here in England, but go look at the link and watch it. I was shocked when I first saw it and now every time I see it I want to throw something at the telly. Ok I get it if you‘re a company that sells make-up or beauty products you want to use the prettiest people you can find, it just makes sense, but this ad actually has the tag line of “It’s what’s on the outside that counts”

So not only are they saying “it doesn’t matter if you have a good personality, you can be a complete asshole as long as you look good” they also imply that it doesn’t matter if YOU think you look good, as long as OTHER people think you look good, cuz that’s what’s important.

I was DISGUSTED. As if there isn’t already too many commercials on TV, ads in magazines, on billboards, on bus stops, on the internet, in the newspapers, on product packaging, etc that shove unattainable airbrushed, photo shopped, implanted people in our face everyday, they had to go that one step further.

Shame on you Remington, shame on you.

Overheard conversation....

in a Lebanese restaurant-

"The first time I had Lebanese wine I was being shot at"

Its even better when you know that it was said by someone who is a perfect stereotype of an older man in the British air Force. He is very posh and refined.

Almost an Opinion

Reading my mom’s blog which led me to Marilyn's Shampoo’s blog about anti-American sentiment in Britain has got me thinking. I hadn’t really noticed any tension or weirdness where I live just outside London with me being American and all so it surprised me a bit t read her Blog,. Sometimes people make jokes and sarcastic comments about Bush or America but usually I agree so I guess I just didn’t see it asl anti Americanism and I still don’t and maybe it isn’t, but I do see how there is a bit of a light mist of anti-Americanism all over that tints things, but it’s very subtle. But keep in mind this is only my experience and it may be different elsewhere in the country. I find it hard to see the line between playful banter and where an –ism begins so maybe that has something to do with it.

Somehow all this led me to think of a slogan to defend myself in the unlikely event that someone did get all up in my face about being American (it’s a shame I will almost certainly never get to use it) which is “It’s where I’m from, not who I am”. But when you think about it in some ways it IS who I am because who we are is the sum of all our experiences and for the first 20 some years of my life my experiences were in America. This thought made me proud at the same time as made me frustrated because I don’t like being labelled. I make it a point not to join any religion or political party because I don’t want people to see that I am a member and assume I follow or believe EVERYTHING that the group as a whole says they do. And I realised that just by being born I am now a “member” of a group.

When I grow up I want to live in a ghetto

Rob and I are currently home hunting and we have seen some places that are better than others and some that maybe needed a bit of paint or new carpet etc. But holy lord today we went to one that was truly GHETTO.

I think the door was homemade, and not by a carpenter either. The living room had no floor. I mean there was chipboard or something but there was no carpet or wood laminate just crappy dingy underfloor stuff. I was thinkin ok so we'd nee dto get some carpet no biggie then I went into the kitchen.

The sink was a big ceramic farmhouse jobbie and the taps were like pipes with tubes angled down or something I was freaked out dude. And then as I started walking upstairs I could smell this dusty, manky, gross I don't know what. Rob says it smelled like old people, but it didn't smell anything like my grandparents I LIKE the way my grandparents smell and this was not nice!

I think only the kitchen and the small bedroom had real flooring but I don't even care cuz I had decided NO as soon as I saw the kitchen.


Note for Em and Mom:

It smelled like the duplex the dodoos had us cleanout that one time. yeah GROSS! those are memories I don't need.

Even if I did iron.....

I wouldn't iron that.

The tag on my underwear (I know like you wanted to know) says turn inside out for washing and ironing.
Ok
first of all who the fuck irons their underwear!
and second what the hell difference would it make if I turned it inside out to wash it?

Apparently my landlord sucks

I just assumed (silly me) that when I see 20-30 worms on my ceiling that I have a problem. So I call up my landlord, and by landlord I mean the company that deals with housing for the people in the military as my husband is in the air force. I explain that we have worms on our ceiling and describe them and he checks his database or whatever and says that pest control will only come out for certain problems and he doesn't know what those worms are so and I quote "we can't help you". Ok I should say here that the man was very nice and he doesn't make the rules he just answers the phone, but for a minute or so I really felt like crying because what the hell am I gonna do about WORMS ON MY CEILING?

Um Hello how the hell am I supposed to know what kind of worms they are? dickheads. When we had an ant problem they didn't ask what kind of ants they just sent out a guy to deal with it. I'm sure if my electricity wasn't working they wouldn't ask why they would just send out a guy to fix it.

So I looked online and found a local pest control guy and phoned him up. He was very nice and helpful and tried to guess from my description what they were but he said it was hard to guess without seeing them so it turns out he only charges £25 to come check it out so that's what we did. Luckily he was more helpful than the stupid landlord people and helped us find the source and told us all about these Indian Meal Worms and how we could take care of the problem ourselves without having to pay him to do it! Bonus!

Tagliscious

1) Are you happy/satisfield with your blog and with its content and look?

Yeah I think it looks pretty cool. I would like to be lass of a lazy ass and blog more often but that would require work on my part so no can do.

2) Does your family know about your blog?

Yep

3) Do you feel embarassed to let your friends know about your blog or do you just consider it a private thing?

Most of my friends know about it.

4) Did blogs cause positive changes in your thoughts?

Um I don't know. Some of them make me think which I think is a positive thing.

5) Do you only open the blogs of those who comment on your blog or do you love to go and discover more yourself?

I tend to only open blogs of my family and those who comment but that's mostly cuz I'm lazy.

6) what does visitor counter mean to you?

Nothing

7) Did you try to imagine your fellow blogger and give them real pictures?

not usually but I have on occasion

8) Do you think there is a real benefit in blogging?

Yes. sometimes getting your views out in the open is good for you and the people reading it. Other times just having a laugh with a funny post is good because the world pretty much sucks ass without laughter.

9) Do you think that bloggers’ society is isolated from the real world or it interacts with events?

I don't really have an opinion on this for 2 reasons. A) I'd have to decide on an opinion and I fear decision making. B) I don't have enough information on the subject and I'm too lazy to go get it.

10) Does criticism annoy you or do you feel it’s a normal thing?

I think it can be a good thing when done in the right way but I still hate hearing it.

11) Do you fear some of the political blogs?

No. I wouldn't want to write one though.

12) Were you shocked by the arrest of some bloggers?

Don't know anything about this so will have to respectfully decline to answer.

13) Do you think about what will happen to your blog after you die?

not until now. Morbid freak of nature asking this question! Um I suppose I hope it will still make people laugh and think.

14) What do you like to hear? What song would you link to your blog?

I totally agree with Melancholy Trolop on this one in that I'd have to constantly change it to match my mood and it would be far too much effort to do that!