NaBloWriMo #4~~Shit That Gets Under My Skin part 3

Lies Lies Lies Lies:

Okay...so I've really and truly dated myself...Solid Gold AND the Thompson Twins...

At least this one's more recent (Serj Tankian's Lie Lie Lie):

Now that I've gotten THAT out of the way...I hate LIARS. Do not lie to me and expect me to NOT find out...

Believe me, DS has tried and I've ALWAYS found him out. I would KILL him at poker.  I don't think it's either the Witchy Powers or being a mom. I think it's just human nature to know when someone's pissing on your leg and telling you it's raining. (thanks Judge Judy).

Most okay almost ALL politicians are liars. Even if they may, possibly, mean well, they're just in it for themselves or what others can do for them...Think of what would happen if, Gods forbid, the Shrub had said, I just wanna go into Iraq to take SoDamned Insane out of power because my daddy didn't do it...Fuck the Weapons of Mass Destruction bullshit! There weren't any! We coulda dropped Seal Team 6 in, got him and been out. Done! And we wouldn't have lost so many for a lie.

Afghanistan...We knew that BinDumbass was there and THAT is where we shoulda been...Period!!! HE shouldn't have been an afterthought. HE shoulda been the primary objective.

Yes, I watched the debate last night...
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/10/04/958801/at-last-nights-debate-romney-told-27-myths-in-38-minutes/
Romney was governor of Massachusetts before he jumped ship to work on the Salt Lake Olympics.Thanks..don't let the screen door hit your ass on the way out...

I think back to other Republican candidates and wonder if Romney, Ryan, Palin, Bachmann, McCain, are the cream of the GOP crop...they should just quit and let another party take on the Democrats...

I will be honest, I lied when I was a kid. I'm sure we ALL did and yes, I always got busted. So I learned to tell the truth even if it got me in wicked bad trouble.

That's one of the Toltec Four Agreements:
"Be Impeccable with your Word"

It's not as easy as it seems.

If you find out your best friend's hubby is straying, should you tell her? Wouldn't that hurt her? What about your friendship?

How about if your wife asks you if she looks nice in an outfit and you actually hate it? Would you say "no"? That would hurt her feelings and get you in the dog house forever. Saying "yes": is the better choice, even though it's a lie, sorta. If she likes the outfit, you're not wearing it, and she feels good in it, which makes her even prettier...savvy? It's sorta hedging your bets and splitting hairs, but you get the picture...

NaBloWriMo #3~~Shit That Gets Under My Skin part 2~~

Thieves...ugh...

Unless you're starving and you steal from Stop'n'Shop to feed your family, then fuck you! Stealing because it's a dare or because someone else was doing it too, does NOT make it right. I've been clobbered by a shoplifter and knew of a kid that chased an asshat who stole the money from the register and had a gun pulled on him.

My biggest peeve on this was my boss at Fossil Hell who thought he was entitled, yep THAT word again, to take stuff from the store because he was the manager. I told him off and quit my bestest evah fucking job...I got to play with ancient dead things and fondle rocks...could it have BEEN any better?!Well except for Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Gerard Butler or Adam Lambert under glass...but that's another story.

My DS got busted stealing a $1 drink from WallyWorld. Can you even IMAGINE that? I wanted them to press charges! I was so mad that I left smoke trails to the security office. They didn't wanna release him to me because they thought I'd do him harm...but he KNOWS my thoughts on thieves in general and shoplifters in specific. They should be hung, impaled, or auto de fe'd right outside the shop doors as an example to any other asshats that might wanna chance it. Except for the starving family scenario.

The worst ones are the asshats that steal from churches, the disabled, and pets from peoples' yards.
I might not like what churches stand for (exclusion, hypocrisy, sheeple-ness) but you steal from one and you deserve to wind up with your Soul being eaten by Ammut. Isn't she just the most beautiful critter?

She's part Crocodile, part Lion and part Hippo. If you lied during the Negative Confession, she got to eat your soul and that was the end of you...

That's even better than eternal torment of the Judeo-Christian traditions because if your soul died, it was if you had never lived...

Just this past week in Las Vegas, a pair of custom wheelchairs were stolen off the front porch of two college friends with Spina Bifida, which means that they can't walk. So some fuckhead/s decided to swipe them and turn them into a scrapyard for a negligible amount of money. The cops weren't any help so they checked it out themselves.  The two guys play competitive wheelchair basketball so that's why they needed the top of the line ones. Thank the Gods, insurance will pay for new ones and they were able to get the names, addys, and plate of the culprits. Unfortunately it's not a rare case. I just did a search and there's like 10 freakin PAGES of wheelchair thefts...ugh. They're swiped from kids, veterans, anybody, that uses a wheelchair to get around...that's fucking disgusting.

Around here, people are stealing copper from the churches, let along breaking stuff and stealing the Poor Boxes. (Do they still call them that?) There's been like a dozen break ins in my area in a month. pfft. One local priest says that he forgives them...wish *I* could say the same...That's sacreligious! No forgiveness for defiling someone's holy place! Even if it's not mine.

Then there's the people who steal pets! WTF is up with that?!! In some cases, they're stolen by low level drug dealers and sold to medical researchers for cash. Their profit is 100%.  Even microchipping isn't exact. They're not registered or the overworked rescuers, vets etc, don't have the time to check.

In this very sad case, the little girl saved up to buy her own purebred puppy. It was swiped and someone else bought it...and the cops are like nope, it's this guy's...fucking lousy. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1272752/Police-year-old-girls-stolen-pet-puppy--say-back.html

Then there's the really awful story like this one:
http://www.examiner.com/article/discovery-of-tortured-family-dog-new-jersey-prompts-warning-to-owners

I think this is a do unto others case, eye for an eye and all that...

NOONE should EVER do this to an animal or even a child,which is another story all together.

They come into your fenced, locked yards and swipe your dog, cat or even your freakin BIRDS!! If you have chickens in your yard, some asshat might steal a couple for cockfights. If you have a Parrot, they'd steal it to sell it.

I won't even go into all the free pet scams on places like Craigslist. I've read of a few myself...just disgusting.

This one, at least, had a happy ending:

http://www.pawnation.com/2012/03/26/craigslist-ad-leads-woman-to-stolen-parrot/#page=1

Before you go thinking I'm one of those PETA nutjobs, I'm not! They want people to have NOTHING to do with animals...NOTHING. not as food, not as pets. NOTHING! 

They're gonna hafta pry MY pets outta my cold dead hands.  I grew up with a dog and a cat and guppies, a fucking TONNE of guppies...ugh.

I think that animals need to be treated right, trained and not just used as an ornament to make some on look good because X is the pet of the moment.  

I mean REALLY...is THIS NOT a spoiled and well loved critter?!

NaBloWriMo #2~~Shit That Gets Under My Skin part 1~~

I can honestly say that about 90...okay 80...dang...70% of the time, I am pretty easy going. Don't be rude, don't steal, and don't freakin LIE to me and things are all good capiche?

I've had an old bag blow smoke from her ciggie in my face as she was talking to me...this was back in a mall in the late 80's. You weren't sposta smoke in a mall either, but this old bag was "entitled" for just being an old bag. After gasping and reaching for my inhaler, which she thought was SOO freaking funny, I turned my back on her and walked away...it had been a slow night in the good old Bootery and I had been desperate for company...obviously not THAT desperate after all.

If you smoke, fine. Just don't hang outside the doors so I hafta walk through that cloud with my asthma-y lungs. I can't hold my breath that long. There should be a designated place on the roof or the basement where you can enjoy your cancer sticks.

The rudeness of today's people astounds me. I've had doors shut in my face, without an "Oops I didn't see you.I'm sorry." I told one jackass off for doing that. I was taught to hold open the doors, say "Yes, please" and "No, thank you."

I HATE people that park in the fire lane. Why? Are you that fucking lazy or entitled that you can't find a space to run into the market and get your Starbucks?*good coffee with the air of douchebaggery* These are the types that have those HUGE Mini Eating SUV's on lease, a McMansion they can't really afford and all the luxuries their tapped out Credit Cards can buy...AND work out everyday for hours...but can't walk the few extra steps...pfft.

As for the coffee...when the HADES did THAT start? I wouldn't mind treating myself to a cuppa but some folks go everyday! Don't they have coffee makers in their homes? We do...and we drink it at home, like civilized persons. Putting cupholders in the shopping carts just sets my teeth on edge. You're shopping, not socializing...unless of course you're part of the busload of old dears from the wrinkle cities who get bussed in on Mon, Tues and Wed to get their milk, bread and catfood and block the aisles while Agatha tells Lilian about her bowel movements when you're trying to get to the things on your list. Gods help you if you move their carts out of the way...it's like you just took their little yappy dog and filleted it in front of them...sheesh.

And ANOTHER thing! Cells phones! DH and I use ours in the car for emergencies. In MA you're not sposta talk or text on the phone whilst driving. Our state would be so far in the black if they'd just ticket these bastages who do it.  Driving is driving. You are in control of a tonne's worth of metal so THAT is what you should be doing. NOTHING else!!! How many accidents are caused by ijits doing everything else whilst driving. I'm not even going near the shaving, putting make up on, beating on the girlfriend(I called the Staties on that one), reading the newspaper, or oral sex(saw the passenger's head bobbing up and down and it wasn't apple season, KWIM) I've seen when the drivers are sposta be DRIVING.

I was working at an Educational Toy store and a woman's at the register...I'm waiting for her to finish up her conversation...*cue the Jeopardy theme* She finally looks at me and is like "Aren't you done yet?I'm in a hurry." *I haven't started because I need to know if you wanted gift receipts* I got the eyeroll and the exhalation of frustration. Too freakin bad! It's YOUR fault not mine, if your conversation was so damned important, mebbe you shouldn't be shopping an hour before the birthday party...

Then there's the Loud Mouth Loud Rocks who are on the phone who hafta talk louder than everyone else so you can hear them on Mars.  I really don't wanna know who is sleeping with whom, what you had at last night's party, how trashed you got, whether the contractor cut the wood to the wrong size, or how the Bruins are doing...I don't GIVE a SHIT!!!

Unless our President has given you "The Codes" to "the suitcase", get off the Fucking Phone and drive, walk, have a face to face conversation...

So ends this morning's rant...

NaBloWriMo~~National Blog Writing Month #1

Well, I found this from a friend of a friend on FaceBook. Hades, if I can do 50K words in a month, how hard could it be to do a blog post every day for a month? I guess we'll see...

First off, a bit of an intro:
I'm 48, having an Internet Troll as a DS, a computer geek as a DH. I am owned by a 9 year old Leghorn Hen. I also have 2 fish tanks. One has an Albino Tiger Oscar named Felix. I THOUGHT I was being original, but I found out I wasn't...pfft.  The other has a Snakeskin Gourami, a Blue Gourami, and a Pearl Gourami. My fave, the Honey Gourami went belly up, dammit.  There's also the Zoidbergs a pair of Corys, one's albino and the other's regular Cory coloured.

I am a crafter with shops on Etsy (HowlingCaterpillars and AKiwiSilkie), on Artfire (HowlingCaterpillars) and do TopHatter Auctions. I'm a member of the Paganteam, the Native Forum Team and the Metaphysical team, all on Etsy.

I make dream catchers, jewelry, t shirts and and altars in a jar. I add neat things to Xmas ornaments, like Frank and Myrrh resin incense, and purple and gold cloth or feathers with Mt Athos Byzantine Blend Resin Incense. Check out my shops...you never know what you might find.

Along with being crafty, of all sorts (I'm a practicing Eclectic Pagan, btw). I am also a writer. I've won NaNoWriMo (the National Novel Writing Month) every year I've done it. It's hard, but not, at the same time.
This is the first chapter from the first year:
http://spottedcrow.blogspot.com/2009/11/nano-09adventures-in-arkady.html
First Chapter from the Third Year(I can't believe I don't have the second year up ugh):
http://spottedcrow.blogspot.com/2011/11/nano-2011_18.html

This year, I'll still be working on one of these again.

It's Better Handmade Blog Ring Post #10 - Icehouse Crafts

Okay, so I lied or maybe I couldn't count...but this is the last victim of the Blog Ring Post. Seriously...I mean it this time...*crosses fingers*

This week's roastee is Icehouse Crafts.  She lives in Baltimore, Maryland and has been a full-time professional crafter for a good long time. She hits up and down the Eastern shore doing shows. Good on her. I'm pretty localized, except for when I go to Chickenstocks, but that's another story.

She paints and stencils signs and home decor goodies.  She's got a great sense of humour...I giggled looking at some of her work.
How true is THIS one?


This one too:


Obelisk could use this one for her chicken bucket aka cat carrier because that's her attitude:


This is too true for here:


I could use this one for DS:


This is another must have for my place:


Yep:


I like this one too:


Being a Pagan, I'd have these out all year long...The neighbours are already afraid of me...sheesh I never thought I was terribly scary, but I guess so... :(

She has a section for the spring holidays, for pirates, kids and adults. She has one for pets, even.  Basically something for everyone. I suggest that you guys come in and check her shop out.

Dear Icehouse Crafts can be found on Artfire:
http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/icehousecrafts
Her own website is here:
http://www.icehousecrafts.com/
There are some other neat things here, like Rag Dolls, pie tins, blocks, spoons, wreaths, all sorts of kitcheny stuff.
She's got a cute little blog too:
http://www.icehousecrafts.blogspot.com/
And she's on FaceBook:
https://www.facebook.com/Icehousecrafts

It's Better Handmade Blog Ring Post #9 - CatyAnn

This is our last victim...sigh...I've enjoyed getting to know my team mates and checking out all the shineys. Her name is Cathy and she lives in NW Ohio! A BuckEye, if I remember correctly. My cousin went to Ohio State.

This is SOO Springy looking.  Look at the details in the glass flowers!  The flat disks remind me of Caramel Bulls Eyes. mmm.


This is just dreamy! Look at that Focal...Love the deep green. And  it's got Orange!!

She's got matching/complementary earrings for both of those necklaces. I like to do that too. And a bracelet for the yellow lollipop one too...so you can be completely stylin'.

These are very rich looking especially as we head for fall. 

 

This bracelet is a classic...you could wear that to see the Queen or the President whilst carrying your Chanel bag.


She also has things to showcase your new bling...Gods, I dislike that word. They're made of old picture frames and have screen to hang your goodies...what a great idea! Wish I had thought of it. ;)

On another note, she's a Breast Cancer survivor...
Can I hear some applause from our audience?!
Damn Straight! It's a HUGE accomplishment. Two women from my son's grade school died from it, another friend's sister has it and my hubby's aunt had it.
She has some charms in her shop for that too.


She can be found here on Artfire:
http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/CatyAnn
On Wordpress:
http://catyann43506.wordpress.com/
On Blogspot:
http://www.catyannscreations.blogspot.com/

It's Better Handmade Blog Ring Post #8 - Wyvern Designs

This week's victim is a fellow BayStater! W00t!! Think I'm a bit State-centric? hehehe. She hails from Auburn, which is way way way northwest of me, out by Woostah.


She's also a Pagan, as am I. We don't bite and we throw the best pahties 8 times a year.


Dear Wyvern is a Jill of all trades. She paints, works with Polymer Clay, knits, crochets, and makes jewelry and house stuff too...

Off we go to see some wicked pissah (New England Speak for really cool) goodies in her shop.

Oh boy oh boy...the first things I see are ORANGE!!! W00H00! I LOVE LOVE LOVE Orange!!!

Utoh she's got Flamingos and a Crow too... I'm a bit of a bird brain myself...


These are really neato in her supply department: You can NEVAH have too many Scarabs...or Wolves either.


She makes very intricate and interesting greeting cards too.

She sends them in puffy envelopes so the "Post Orifice" doesn't squish em or otherwise wreck them. Good idea...They can manage to mangle magazines...pfft.

I love her Rune Bracelets too. This one's for guys:


She has some SteamPunk and some Pagan-y goodies too.  A very neat and cool shop to take a wander through...I hope some of our Team Mates will take the time and have a peek.

Wyvern can be found here on Artfire:
http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/Wyverndesigns
On Twitter:
http://twitter.com/WyvernStamps
And on BlogSpot:
http://wyverndesigns.blogspot.com/