Little girl voices and WHY does this bug me?
Why do parents allow their girl children to have little "cute" voices (Which really are cute when you're 7 but not when you are anything past 16) ? Most of these kids need a year of speech lessons to learn how to properly speak especially on the phone when you are calling to MARKET either yourself or a company you work for. < !! ending in a preposition.It is so annoying and perhaps it is just because I live in Southern Calif and they are versions of the old "valley girl speak" Grrrrrrrrr
GROW UP!
STOP speaking in a singsong voice that is about 3 octaves above your normal speech and making a statement with a question mark at the end.. Are you asking me or are you informing me?
TEACHER TEACHER MOMMU DADDY ~ John and Susie can't spell nor can they speak.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Ect etc etc no it's ETC!!!
Why do people use the abbreviation "etc." when they can't spell it? Do they stew over the spelling or just think they can spell it and spell it wrong? I hate seeing ect. Grrrr is it asking too much to use an abbreviation correctly spelled? SO ANNOYING!
Etc. Etc Etc Etc. and so on and so on :)
Etc. Etc Etc Etc. and so on and so on :)
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
So. Tired. of. Cell Phone Manners or lack thereof
What is the deal? 20 years ago we used answering machines to screen our calls and now no matter WHAT we're expected to keep a cell within reach of our selves and answer all calls immediately? I called a vendor yesterday and clearly he had a ear bud in and I could not hear him, the quality was so poor. Unfortunately when I told him the call was so awful I couldn't understand him he said sighhhhhh hang on and I guess changed to just the cell and it GOT NO BETTER!
Its okay .. you can call me back. If you are under a house under a sink or under a car I GET IT .. call me back. It just rings of desperation and IMHO unprofessional... They get angry b/c we can't hear them. I GET it Bub Clean up your act! Or is it me who needs to get a grip?
I love cell phones I have a cell phone... but isn't there a time and place?
Its okay .. you can call me back. If you are under a house under a sink or under a car I GET IT .. call me back. It just rings of desperation and IMHO unprofessional... They get angry b/c we can't hear them. I GET it Bub Clean up your act! Or is it me who needs to get a grip?
I love cell phones I have a cell phone... but isn't there a time and place?
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Death of a friendship
A very good friend of mine died unexpectedly the day after Christmas. We thought we had more time. To be totally truthful (Wow that's an oxymoron) We knew she was dying but expected it to be later in the month or in January. We knew that she would not recover this time. She had gone to bed the day after Thanksgiving and I think wished herself death. She had colon cancer and was 89. 89 people say.. she had a good long run. That's so true. But she has been a part of my life since high school more than 40 years ago and she was my buddy. She has been so much a part of the weave of my life..she was the 'go to' person in my life. When I have a cooking question, a sewing question, a life choice question. She was one of the few non judgemental people in my life.
She would always say...well I am not sure... and then start the weave... we would work on the issue step by step. If it was something physical she would say well let me look.. her you do it... but she would always be the one to encourage and teach and applaud every ones successes and gently grieve when it wasn't such a success. She was funny and silly and a good pal and I will miss her always cheerrful smile. Goodbye sweet friend... we had a good run.
She would always say...well I am not sure... and then start the weave... we would work on the issue step by step. If it was something physical she would say well let me look.. her you do it... but she would always be the one to encourage and teach and applaud every ones successes and gently grieve when it wasn't such a success. She was funny and silly and a good pal and I will miss her always cheerrful smile. Goodbye sweet friend... we had a good run.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
a quote I resemble
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them." Quote courtesy of Jane Austen
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Thanksgiving Eve and the Grocery Store Parking Lot
So of course there was ONE final trip to the grocery store before the locust... Whoops I mean family arrives. Loving family :)
I always always put the cart either back to the store or to the corral. It's a thing with me one of my little obsessive compulsive things. Is it asking too much that EVERYONE put their cart at least into the conveniently located corrals? Sometimes I will turn and say to the person closest to me just going into the store "would you like my cart?" 9 out of 10 times they will recoil (RECOIL!!!) and say uhmm no thanks. that's crazy you know that they are going to go and get an untried cart with funky wheels and what mine has cooties? That's so strange. hehhe Okay so is asking to much to not put the cart into the handicap space? Is it asking too much to not put the cart into the empty space next to you IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SPACE?
Okay I'm done.
I always always put the cart either back to the store or to the corral. It's a thing with me one of my little obsessive compulsive things. Is it asking too much that EVERYONE put their cart at least into the conveniently located corrals? Sometimes I will turn and say to the person closest to me just going into the store "would you like my cart?" 9 out of 10 times they will recoil (RECOIL!!!) and say uhmm no thanks. that's crazy you know that they are going to go and get an untried cart with funky wheels and what mine has cooties? That's so strange. hehhe Okay so is asking to much to not put the cart into the handicap space? Is it asking too much to not put the cart into the empty space next to you IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SPACE?
Okay I'm done.
Thanksgiving dinner table jokes
Shamelessly stolen from another blog :(
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
SARAH PALIN: Before it got to the other side, I shot the chicken, cleaned and dressed it, and had chicken burgers for lunch.
BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change!
JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.
HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.
GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?
COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of chicken? AL GORE: I invented the chicken.
JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now and will remain against it.
AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.
DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken doesn't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.
OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed access to the other side of the road.
NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.
DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.
GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.
BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart-warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.
BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken 2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken 2008. This new platform is much more stable and will never crash or need to be rebooted.
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?
oh and if you know a 9 year old :) Why do gorillas have such big nostrils? Big Fingers :)
happy Turkey Day!
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
SARAH PALIN: Before it got to the other side, I shot the chicken, cleaned and dressed it, and had chicken burgers for lunch.
BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change!
JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.
HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.
GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?
COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of chicken? AL GORE: I invented the chicken.
JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now and will remain against it.
AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.
DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken doesn't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.
OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed access to the other side of the road.
NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.
DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.
GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.
BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart-warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.
BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken 2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken 2008. This new platform is much more stable and will never crash or need to be rebooted.
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?
oh and if you know a 9 year old :) Why do gorillas have such big nostrils? Big Fingers :)
happy Turkey Day!
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