While wandering around Facebook this morning (and thus avoiding homework) I found this gem.. I laughed so Im sharing!
Facebook Status/Posting Guide "Things you should know to keep from getting deleted/hidden/or hated by your friends"
by Richard Burkett
1. Do not post song lyrics! No body but you thinks there is some deep meaning to that Rihanna song! They are not talking to you and most people think the music you listen to is shit!
2. If you have something to say to some one, message them.. Don't put some vague statement with "you know who you are" attached to the end! We don't care that you're not mature enough to handle your shit like adults! Feud on your own time! You know who you are! Haha
3. How much you are blessed or thankful for! We get it! Most of us are not thankful and could careless about how happy you are or what your favorite bible verse is! I believe in god.. I also believe that snickers are satisfying but you don't see that crap all over my status's! The only person who cares about this is your pastor, mommy, or the people you're trying to fool in thinking you're better than them... You go to church, don't drag me along!
4. Pictures of your kids as your profile pic.. I friended you not a 5 yr old named Talon or Apple or whatever you breeders want to call your spawn theses days! I don't want to look at my friends list and think I some how logged on to Sandusky's facebook! I get it that no one wants to see pics of your kids and you've now found a way to force us! Well played!
5. Sending me any request other than a friend request.. I do not want to play farmville, build an aquarium or an ant hill or anything with you! I have shit to do in my life and I'm truly sorry that you don't!
6. Random meaningless status update! Absolutely no one cares that you are about to eat, go to sleep, or jump in the shower but the person hiding in your closest waiting to kill you.. You boring ass! Twitter is for you and that's why I don't have it! No one but your mother cares about you just getting home and don't tell me "good night in ur status" these people really need a pet.
7. Posting more than 4 times an hour! I have other friends.. Let them say something too you fucking wall hog! Get off of Facebook for one moment and go outside! Facebook is not real life.. Do not post every moment of your WEDDING! What is wrong with you? Who posts from the alter! Cut the chord!
8. People who talk about their "haters" Ok Kanye! People not liking you because you're a douche does not constitute "haters!" You're most likely a 20yr old white girl that lives in some bullshit small town in Texas!! You have no haters just people who probably have a firm grasp on your nothing personality!
9. If you post a pic of yourself with you holding the camera... Sorry to break this to you but you have no friends.. If you can't find one person that can stand you long enough to hold a camera for 15 seconds then why should I be forced to look at a pic of your ugly face! Make friends and stop taking pics in the mirror/holding your arm out! I'm sure you're making duck face too! Haha losers..
10. Taking pictures of your food... why... i just don't get it.. Just eat you fucking food.. stop boring me with it.. what's next.. taking pictures of your shits...
If you are one or more of these people I am sorry you had to find out what people really think of you this way! everyone talks shit behind your back! I'm just trying to help you save a couple friends because you need them and if this offended you feel free to delete me because I most likely have already hidden you on facebook! Haha
With love,
Richard
That said Im guilty of 4, 5, 6 and sometimes 10.
Monday, February 13, 2012
A little more on Priority Mail
So this morning I got online to once again track my package. The USPS has this to say about Priority Mail:
Most packages arrive in 2 days. Then there are some that don't even arrive in 6 DAYS. Checked the tracking as well... apparently it arrived in Bowling Green this morning, and was sorted. It still has to be sent to the Russellville post office, then the Lewisburg one before it every makes a truck for delivery. We are looking at 8 days to travel 747 miles, at priority mail rates. I have class at 10, too bad I cant just PICK it up myself.
Where is the phone?
For the first time in over 2 years, my complaint about a phone is NOT the fault of AT&T. No really... they didnt do it this time.
Digger's blackberry ball was dirty... I was 100% sure of it, but it was acting up, he was at work and he couldnt scroll up, just down and side to side. He is a mechanically inclined person, he is technologically challenged. I tried to walk him through cleaning his ball (its okay to laugh I DID!) he said he cleaned it, but like a little kid washing their hands, he probably should have been supervised.
So he gave in and said to upgrade his phone. He has had an upgrade sitting on his line for about 5 months, I generally do the upgrade and take the phone leaving everyone in the house with my discarded phone, but this time I already had the iphone and there wasnt any other upgrade I was interested in. So I upgraded him on the 7th, around 11am.
On the 8th USPS tracking showed that the info was put in the system on the 7th, and shipped from Fort Worth Texas on the 7th. Our AT&T shipping experiences have always been 2 days time. So we figured Thursday a phone would arrive (actually 2 of them, I got one for my favorite 13 yr old too :) )
Thursday the tracking on the USPS website showed that it was expected to be delivered on the 9th. So Thursday afternoon mail runs... no phone.
Friday the 10th, mail runs, no phone.
Saturday the 11th, mail runs, no phone
The tracking now shows that it took 4 days to travel 747 miles... well technically according to the tracking, the phones are in Louisville KY, they went PAST us by 150 miles to Lexington KY, then back 50 miles to Louisville... where they are currently sitting in some processing center (according to the USPS website)
What happened to the 2 day zone for PRIORITY mail? When you pay priority, its what you expect. Apparently the time frames have changed a bit, and in fact while digging I found that EXPRESS mail is not guaranteed for next day delivery (It used to be) Now it is just the fastest way, with no guaranteed delivery date.
This, my friends is why the USPS is going under, and more people are turning to Fedex, UPS, and DHL for their guaranteed deliveries.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Snow? Please?
Its true. Im asking for snow. This winter has been unreasonably warm.50-60 all winter. So when I heard Friday they were calling for 3-6 inches of snow I was EXCITED!!
What I envisioned:
What I envisioned:
What we actually saw:
But apparently it just isnt meant to be. We went to the mountains Friday afternoon.... it spit snow (but didnt really stick there either) and by the time we came home Sunday morning, there was about 2 inches of snow through Crossville, and then nothing the rest of the way to Nashville. I think the creek bank in front of the house might have had some frost/ice or what might have been the remains of snow (though I doubt that it was really snow). How disappointing :(
Friday, February 10, 2012
Entitled
Probably not something I should blog about but it's on my mind and has been for awhile so here it is.
It amazes me how siblings who for the most part were raise together can be so different.
My family is a prime example. My sister is not real close in age to my brother or myself. It's not a huge gap, but enough that the difference is apparent. In high school my parents divorced. I was a freshman, my brother a senior... Little sis was in the 4th grade. I lived with dad for a bit, mom for a bit, and ventured out on my own way before my time.
Brother and I grew up to be self sufficient productive members of the world. Okay so maybe I'm still working on being productive but you get the point. Neither of us depend on our aging parents to support our families.
Sister grew up to be entitled. Entitled to have everything she thinks she deserves though for the most part what she really deserves is a swift kick in the ass and a few lessons from the school of hard knocks.
I could completely ignore her (she's 2600 miles away) up to the point she convinced our 62 yr old mother to but a house big enough to house not only mom but also sister an her 8 kids. Lots of people tried to warn mom... It would not end well. The mother in her was just trying to help her "entitled" child. So mom bought a $200k house. Sister started by taking the top floor (master suite) and making it hers. She was pregnant with #8 at the time... She made the sitting alcove a nursery. Mom got stuck in the basement. With sisters 4 boys?!?!? Go ahead say wtf???? I do daily.
The 5 yr plan was mom help her out while she and her husband got their credit straight. Then they would get a loan and buy the house from mom, and mom wouldn't be out anything. Ha!
Sister kicks husband out.... She wind up paying mom $500 a month towards a $1200 mortgage payment an mom (1 person ) pays all utilities for the 10 people in the house. I guess my mom forgot the last time my sister left her husband, 5 kids ago.... and my dad paid $5000 for an attorney for the divorce that never happened. Of course he was never paid back. I guess she probably also forgot the hundreds of dollars my sister borrowed from her over the past few years, and never paid back either. Or maybe she is just a really good parent who wanted to do right by her grandkids... making sure they had a roof over their heads, and a semi-stable environment. Or maybe my sister was just nice to her long enough to get what she wanted. A huge house with NO bills to pay! Its all free! Well free for her anyhow.
Apparently this is acceptable in my sisters world, because she is entitled to pretend she is royalty.
She sits at home doing nothing but moderating on cafe mom (housefullofkidz check out her perfect world if you feel inclined) and pretending she has a perfect fairy tale life.
When my 62 yr old mother returns from working 8-10 hrs a day she is often left to deal with my sisters kids... Except the baby. My sister likes babies. In fact, she plans to move her boyfriend in to my mom's house in March, and they want to have another baby, one together. Blogerview!
Which leads me to the last straw in entitled moments. My sister informed my mother (the owner of the house) that she can move out in March. Move out so that sister's boyfriend can move in.
Apparently it is okay to use most of your elderly mother's income to support your family, until you find another man to come along and fill the gap... oh wait, hmm its only filling a gap if her husband left a gap, right? Well with $2500 a month coming in from her husband, Im not seeing a gap, but apparently being a princess makes you entitled to the income of 2 men PLUS that of your elderly mother. Who knew? The fact that her 8 children have done around $10,000 in damage to the house since my mom bought it, the fact that my mom has no where to go (she is welcome here, however her job ISNT here and because of this house she will probably work until the day she dies) it all burns my hide.
I dont know what makes me angrier about the situation, the fact that my mom is being used, or the fact that she is also abused. My 11 yr old nephew (the oldest boy) recently gave my mom a black eye. My sister said my mom deserved it because she is bitchy. Who wouldnt be bitchy if they owned a house they werent allowed in most of, paid bills for people that they have no reason to support, and got verbally abused on a daily basis, and physically abused when it tickles the 11 yr old's fancy?
This week Cafe Mom is coming out to do a video interview of my sister, and her perfect home... all about how she has bedazzled it. I wonder what Cafe Mom would think if they knew the type of person she really is or the fact the house isnt even hers, or the fact she has her soon to be ex husband over patching hundreds of dollars worth of holes her precious perfect children put in the walls, wonder what they would think if they knew she yells at her elderly mother who resides in the dungeon over the laundry that she doesnt bother washing for her kids, just throws down the stairs into the room mom is being held captive in when she isnt working??
Just a note, I do not blame the kids for their behavior, I blame my sister who is a blamer, and blames everyone else for anything that goes wrong. I blame her husband and my mother for letting her think she is entitled to the royal lifestyle. I will take the blame if I wind up socking her in her pretty little princess face one day.
It amazes me how siblings who for the most part were raise together can be so different.
My family is a prime example. My sister is not real close in age to my brother or myself. It's not a huge gap, but enough that the difference is apparent. In high school my parents divorced. I was a freshman, my brother a senior... Little sis was in the 4th grade. I lived with dad for a bit, mom for a bit, and ventured out on my own way before my time.
Brother and I grew up to be self sufficient productive members of the world. Okay so maybe I'm still working on being productive but you get the point. Neither of us depend on our aging parents to support our families.
Sister grew up to be entitled. Entitled to have everything she thinks she deserves though for the most part what she really deserves is a swift kick in the ass and a few lessons from the school of hard knocks.
I could completely ignore her (she's 2600 miles away) up to the point she convinced our 62 yr old mother to but a house big enough to house not only mom but also sister an her 8 kids. Lots of people tried to warn mom... It would not end well. The mother in her was just trying to help her "entitled" child. So mom bought a $200k house. Sister started by taking the top floor (master suite) and making it hers. She was pregnant with #8 at the time... She made the sitting alcove a nursery. Mom got stuck in the basement. With sisters 4 boys?!?!? Go ahead say wtf???? I do daily.
The 5 yr plan was mom help her out while she and her husband got their credit straight. Then they would get a loan and buy the house from mom, and mom wouldn't be out anything. Ha!
Sister kicks husband out.... She wind up paying mom $500 a month towards a $1200 mortgage payment an mom (1 person ) pays all utilities for the 10 people in the house. I guess my mom forgot the last time my sister left her husband, 5 kids ago.... and my dad paid $5000 for an attorney for the divorce that never happened. Of course he was never paid back. I guess she probably also forgot the hundreds of dollars my sister borrowed from her over the past few years, and never paid back either. Or maybe she is just a really good parent who wanted to do right by her grandkids... making sure they had a roof over their heads, and a semi-stable environment. Or maybe my sister was just nice to her long enough to get what she wanted. A huge house with NO bills to pay! Its all free! Well free for her anyhow.
Apparently this is acceptable in my sisters world, because she is entitled to pretend she is royalty.
She sits at home doing nothing but moderating on cafe mom (housefullofkidz check out her perfect world if you feel inclined) and pretending she has a perfect fairy tale life.
When my 62 yr old mother returns from working 8-10 hrs a day she is often left to deal with my sisters kids... Except the baby. My sister likes babies. In fact, she plans to move her boyfriend in to my mom's house in March, and they want to have another baby, one together. Blogerview!
Which leads me to the last straw in entitled moments. My sister informed my mother (the owner of the house) that she can move out in March. Move out so that sister's boyfriend can move in.
Apparently it is okay to use most of your elderly mother's income to support your family, until you find another man to come along and fill the gap... oh wait, hmm its only filling a gap if her husband left a gap, right? Well with $2500 a month coming in from her husband, Im not seeing a gap, but apparently being a princess makes you entitled to the income of 2 men PLUS that of your elderly mother. Who knew? The fact that her 8 children have done around $10,000 in damage to the house since my mom bought it, the fact that my mom has no where to go (she is welcome here, however her job ISNT here and because of this house she will probably work until the day she dies) it all burns my hide.
I dont know what makes me angrier about the situation, the fact that my mom is being used, or the fact that she is also abused. My 11 yr old nephew (the oldest boy) recently gave my mom a black eye. My sister said my mom deserved it because she is bitchy. Who wouldnt be bitchy if they owned a house they werent allowed in most of, paid bills for people that they have no reason to support, and got verbally abused on a daily basis, and physically abused when it tickles the 11 yr old's fancy?
This week Cafe Mom is coming out to do a video interview of my sister, and her perfect home... all about how she has bedazzled it. I wonder what Cafe Mom would think if they knew the type of person she really is or the fact the house isnt even hers, or the fact she has her soon to be ex husband over patching hundreds of dollars worth of holes her precious perfect children put in the walls, wonder what they would think if they knew she yells at her elderly mother who resides in the dungeon over the laundry that she doesnt bother washing for her kids, just throws down the stairs into the room mom is being held captive in when she isnt working??
Just a note, I do not blame the kids for their behavior, I blame my sister who is a blamer, and blames everyone else for anything that goes wrong. I blame her husband and my mother for letting her think she is entitled to the royal lifestyle. I will take the blame if I wind up socking her in her pretty little princess face one day.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Public Speaking
or---- I cant believe I signed up for this as an elective!
Yep thats right, Im taking a public speaking class. Really it is GOOD for me, for my career, and for my transcript.
Inside, Im terrified of speaking to a group of people I am not familiar with. Co-workers? No problem! Friends? Even better!! Best friends? Im the life of the party!!!
Strangers? I freeze. Its not that I care if they like me. I have those crazy thoughts that fly through my mind though. Like, Is my zipper up? Do I have a boogie hanging from my left nostril? Is that a zit I feel forming in the middle of my forehead? Did I remember to put mascara on BOTH sets of eyelashes this morning? Did I remember to get dressed this morning? Did I turn off all the lights and lock the back door on the way out?
My mind distracts me, I lose track of what Im supposed to be saying, and inevitably, one of the random questions in my mind works its way out. Fortunately for me, Ive never asked if I have a boogie hanging out of my left nostril.
Off to write a 10 minute speech on Homeless Interventions. Wish me luck at 1:30 tomorrow!
PS: Do I have a boogie hanging out?
Yep thats right, Im taking a public speaking class. Really it is GOOD for me, for my career, and for my transcript.
Inside, Im terrified of speaking to a group of people I am not familiar with. Co-workers? No problem! Friends? Even better!! Best friends? Im the life of the party!!!
Strangers? I freeze. Its not that I care if they like me. I have those crazy thoughts that fly through my mind though. Like, Is my zipper up? Do I have a boogie hanging from my left nostril? Is that a zit I feel forming in the middle of my forehead? Did I remember to put mascara on BOTH sets of eyelashes this morning? Did I remember to get dressed this morning? Did I turn off all the lights and lock the back door on the way out?
My mind distracts me, I lose track of what Im supposed to be saying, and inevitably, one of the random questions in my mind works its way out. Fortunately for me, Ive never asked if I have a boogie hanging out of my left nostril.
Off to write a 10 minute speech on Homeless Interventions. Wish me luck at 1:30 tomorrow!
PS: Do I have a boogie hanging out?
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Cutting bills
So last night I sat down and went over the bills. We have a home phone that we use once a week to fax hours to payroll. We can't get rid of it though as the co-op requires us to have a home phone in order to get their dsl. Country living gives us no other internet options. I noticed though that we are paying 6 a month for caller id. Huh? Why would we have put that on the bill? For almost 7 years we have been paying 6 a month for something we don't need or use! $504 wasted. Then I moved on to the cell bill. Whoooweeee! What an i chop from it??? How about 35 a month in insurance? The way their restructure insurance works to replace any of our smart phones it's now 200 bucks for the deductible. I will put the 35 aside I'm a cell phone fund acct... If we have to replace we can just pay cash instead of getting raped on the phone bill. Oh bonus apparently our homeowners will cover the phones if something happens to them at home. Works or me. Navigation got chopped from SAMs phone. She can't find her way out of a paper sack, plus that's why we have 3 tomtoms. I cut husband's data plan back he never comes close to going over. So today I chopped that 6 from the bill along with another 5 by signing up for paper billing on the home phone and 55 from the cell bill. total savings 66 plus taxes... Now off to class then coupon cutting!
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