Today's Grumble

Ok. Seriously. Did your mama not raise you right? This is a WORK area. I don't need to hear your cell phone conversations as you stroll around my section's cubicles. I could care less who the crack you are or how many copiers you're installing today. Take it outside, buddy. I am a very, very busy Ginger girl today.

Too busy for two syllables?

I realize this makes me very "uncool", but I am completely annoyed with everyone calling SXSW "South By".  Who decided this was a good idea?  Did a group of people get together and decide, "Hey, let's all act cool and make 'South By' the new 'it' catchphrase this year!"  Seriously, are you so busy running around to different venues that you can't spit out two more syllables?  I also just love how everyone picked it up like the festival's been called that since it started...like they aren't trying to be cool using the new lingo.  They just started slipping it into casual conversation.  "Hey man, did you catch [insert band name here] at South By?"  "No man, but I saw this great Hitchcock movie with Cary Grant. It's called 'North By'!"

Warning: Reading This Post May Be Harmful To You

In response to an article Corrin shared on Twitter...

Are we going to have to have warning labels on EVERYTHING?

Yes, coffee is hot.

Yes, it is dangerous to use a hair dryer in the bath tub.

Yes, small pieces of food can be a choking hazard.

But do we really need to see a picture of a mother holding a photo of her son that died from choking on a hot dog?

It says nothing in the article, but did the adults in the room not know the Heimlich maneuver?

I am sure I will get some negative comments back on this, but I'm putting it out here anyway.

No Soup For Me!

Received this while trying to find a good slow cooker soup recipe:

"Based on your corporate access policies, access to this web site ( http://www.carriescooking.com/2008/06/spinach-tortellini-soup.html ) has been blocked because the web category "Adult/Sexually Explicit" is not allowed. "

Sarafina's Rules For Drive-Through Etiquette

Sarafina's Rules For Drive-Through Etiquette

1) If it's going to take you more than 2 minutes to decide what you want to eat, please go inside to place your order.
2) If it's Monday-Friday during people's lunch hours, change 2 minutes in the first rule to 1 minute.
3) Please do not try to place orders for a carload of people or for your entire office via the drive-through unless the orders are uncomplicated.
4) If you need to make a bunch of special requests on your order that you know from experience make your food longer to prepare, go inside.
5) While waiting in line with your window rolled down, turn your music down, too. If I wanted to listen to what you were listening to, I'd get out and ask you what it was.

Dear Schlotzsky's:

(sent via their website 15 minutes ago)

To whom it may concern:
I was very excited at lunch yesterday to receive a coupon for a free breakfast taco or breakfast sandwich to be redeemed this morning. I left my house early to allow time to stop at your location at Parmer and 35 before I had to be at work at 7:00am. Little did I know that your restaurant does not even open until 7:00 to start serving breakfast. I had to leave without breakfast, very disappointed. If you want to stay in business as somewhere people think to stop for breakfast, you need to open at least half an hour earlier to accommodate those of us that work alternate (early) hours. I was looking forward to having another option for breakfast in this area of town.

Whatever!

This amused me.

If Adam had won, would Clay be talking about how he thought "his ears were going to bleed" when Adam did "Ring of Fire"? Of course not. He'd be on the Lambert Band Wagon as fast as he could.

I think it's just tacky for him to talk badly about a fellow Idol contestant like that. Especially when we all know he can't stand that Adam has more originality and talent in his pinkie finger than Clay does in his whole body.

(Not to mention that Adam looks so much more fabulous in eyeliner than Clay ever would.)

Edit (5/29): Adam's response to Clay's "bleeding ears" comment - Glad Clay finally got some press. Hehe.

Imagine...

Imagine my excitement seeing a message on the Babies R Us website that with a nursery furniture purchase of $499 or more that I could get a $100 Sealy crib mattress for free.

Imagine my frustration as I talked to customer service (and a manager no less) only to find that the verbiage "FREE Sealy Baby Soft Premium Mattress (99.99 value) with ANY Nursery Furniture purchase totaling $499 or more!" really only means certain eligible items.

Imagine that the furniture line I wanted to order from (DaVinci Kalani) had a changing table/chest of drawers that counted toward the special, but the matching crib did not. Don't people normally order items from the same line?

Imagine that the only DaVinci cribs that were part of the "eligible" items were the "mini" cribs which are too small for said mattress. (Insert WTF face here).

Imagine that the only "regular" size cribs that are eligible are low-quality, poorly-rated brands.

Imagine that percentage-wise, more changing tables and chest of drawers are part of the special than the actual cribs are.

Are you totally confused? Yep. Me, too.

Am I thinking maybe Babies R Us doesn't really want my money? You bet.

People...

get on my nerves.  Just because people cannot get their items off of the printer doesn't mean I should have to paper-clip them together and put them in a little tray for them to find later.  If they can't get their behinds out of their chair more than once a day to get stuff off of the printer, it's not my problem.  If other people are rude and put them in the recycle bin instead of leaving them on the side of the printer, that's not my problem either.  We are adults - why can't we act like them and take care of our own things?  No wonder management treats us like bad children all the time...some people around here *act* like children.  I'm surprised they didn't use primary-colored baskets from Ikea so we could all learn where to put our toys at the end of the day. :P  /end rant

Hollywood....PLEASE

God. No Cowboy Bebop live-action movie. Did you not learn anything from the Aeon Flux debacle? Seriously...any stylized anime like Aeon or Cowboy does NOT translate to live-action.

As if that weren't enough, I just read that MTV is going to remake the RHPS. (that's Rocky Horror Picture Show for you virgins out there that have not had the delight of going to a midnight showing of this movie)

Seriously - no more remakes, no more anime-to-live-action movies. Enough. Quit it. Don't let someone's first impression of CB or RHPS be these new movies.

This is ridiculous...

It's 66° in our office right now.  It's the middle of July and I am wearing a sweater and have a blanket wrapped around me.  I forecast snow flurries by lunch.

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Top 5 Reasons for Me to Get Back In Bed

1) The smoke detector started beeping last night about 10:20.  It took me over 10 minutes to unhook it.  It's possible that I threw it halfway across the living room, making the battery pop out of it's compartment.

 

2) The Tylenol PM I took at 9:00 didn't kick in until about 5 minutes before #1 happened.

 

3) I slept through my alarm going off the first time or it never went off.  I've never known it to *not* go off.

 

4) Since I got a late start, I didn't have time to dry and straighten my hair.  It's not curling right and looks like poo.

 

5) As I was pouring my coffee (which was badly needed this morning), some of it spilled on the new shirt I was planning on wearing today.  I had to rinse it out (so it wouldn't stain) and change shirts. 

 

 

*raises hand*

My name is Meagan, and I have a BAD case of the Mondays.

Oh, see...this is just WRONG

The thermometer on my back porch (which is in the shade, btw) says it is 96.5°.

Refreshing cocktail, anyone?

Squeamish America

DISCLAIMER: This post is most definitely Adult in nature. You've been warned.


From Buzzfeed today:

Full Frontals

I love how much attention male full-frontal nudity gets in this country. Americans are so squeamish about sex...especially the male member being displayed on the big screen. It's perfectly ok for women to do full-frontal work, but men...uh uh. Sorry, guys...no matter how comfortable you are with your bodies, America doesn't want to see your Naughty Bits.

As most of you know, my Scottish Fling, Ewan McGregor, has had no problem doing full nudity in his movies: Trainspotting, Velvet Goldmine, The Pillow Book, and most notably in Young Adam. Of course, Young Adam also included some very steamy and boundary-pushing sex scenes that earned the movie and NC-17 rating in the States and an edited version of the movie being released to DVD here as well. (Side note: only *1* scene was cut from the DVD release. Evidently, we can see a woman completely naked, but we can't see her being pleasured by a man in certain ways. It does amuse me that the custard scene was not cut - just goes to demonstrate how little the people who make those kinds of decisions know about sex.)

Back to the point of this post:

America - get over yourself. Stop being so uptight about sex and nudity. As long as a TV show or movie has an appropriate rating on it so parents know not to let the kiddos watch it, then who cares what naughty bits are shown? I say equal opportunity nudity for all!

A Plea to Clothing Designers

Misconceptions about petite women:

 

1) We are not all 70+ years old.  We do not all wear matching pants & tops.  I do not need the flower on my top to be made of the same material as the pants.

 

2) We are not all flashy trendsetters.  We cannot all wear bright colors and large patterns.  My behind looks large enough, thank you.

 

3) Some of still like a waistline that actually sits on our waist.  I prefer to hide my muffin top, not accentuate it.

 

4) Why must we pay large amounts of money for simple, classic styles?  I love Ann Taylor, Petite Sophisticate, etc., but I cannot afford $80-$100+ for a pair of nice dress pants.  I mean, aren't you using *less* material to make petite clothing?  Why does that mean we have to pay *more* money?

 

5) Last point of this rant: We are not all a size 2, 4, or 6 either.  Can you please make more clothing in 8, 10, 12, 14?  A lot more of us fall into the middle range of sizes.  I really don't want to have to beat another Size 8 up just to get the last pair of cute pants hanging on the rack.

To all the smart people in the world...

Can someone *please* invent a yogurt container that won't spray yogurt all over you when you pull the top off? :-p

Seriously?

How hard is it to turn on the heater early enough before staff starts getting here at 7 so that it's not COLD in here?  I wish I had a thermometer to see just how cold it is.  It's no wonder we're all sick! >:(

Christmas Order Frustrations

1) Crate and Barrel.com: Thank you for shipping my gift card so quickly, but what genius slapped a huge sticker on the inside of the card it goes in?  I am quite aware that it was a $20 gift card...I didn't need a huge sticker to tell me that.  Not only does it look bad, but it's covering the part of the card with the To: and From:, etc.  Hopefully you will "be able to find one" to send to me. :P  Seriously, a company of your caliber should not have issues like this.

 

2) Amazon.com: Thank you for shipping the two toys I ordered, but why couldn't you send an email as to why the 4 books didn't ship?  More importantly, why did one of them being on back order prevent the rest from shipping?  Come on guys!  I know I chose free Super Saver shipping, but that didn't stop you from sending the toys in a separate order.  I guess it's a good thing I made the time to call and inquire about where the books were.  Once the back-ordered book was removed from the order, the rest shipped in less than 24 hours.  What a concept! :P

 

 

*grumbling*

Do I physically *look* 30 all of a sudden?  All of the teens that work at the grocery store call me "ma'am" and NEVER card me anymore! :P 

 

Seriously.  It's disturbing!  It wasn't *that* long ago that I was their age! 

 

Just because Ace of Base was rampant on the radio when I was in high school doesn't mean I am ancient, does it? 

 

Or just because Erin was my only friend that had any kind of internet access at all...and that was BBS systems and local dial-in to Austin!