NaBloWriMo #7~~I think I'm gonna go with #12~~

What trend(s) in pop culture turns you off?  (I think things like this are AWESOME in list form.)  

1) Bikinis for little kids Really? Why? Great for the kiddy porn industry but for the rest of us...not so much.


2) Wandering all over the bloody place with your coffee. Can't you make this at home and sit like a human being?  I don't want coffee all over myself or my things. (Yeah, I've ranted about this already)

3) Cellphones attached to your face. Ugh. (See above)

4) Wearing your nightclothes outside. When did THIS become okay? Unless your dog/chicken/fish has escaped or you are chasing the rubbish truck, put some freakin CLOTHES on!


5) Twilight. Ugh...Obelisk writes better and I'm pretty sure chickens are illiterate. 

6) 50 Shades of Grey See above

7) Rap Music 99% of it is shite. I like Kid Rock, who's sorta rap and Coolio's Gangsta Paradise. 

8) Reality shows. How much of THIS CRAP is unscripted?.Prolly hardly any...in the real world most of us are crashing bores. Noone except for anthropologists would pay to watch us otherwise.

9) Clothing for kids The boys can look like hoodlums and the girls like streetwalkers...c'mon! 

10) Wearing clothes just because they're "in." Why why why?! Dear Gods, why?!!! 
Skinny jeans - no thanks, I'd look like a sausage. 
Tube tops - last time I wore one, I had no chest...
Thong underwear - I wore them when I was 70 pounds lighter and you couldn't see them because I didn't show them off.
Wearing clothes that maybe fit you 70 pounds ago...
Thank you people of Walmart for these do's and don'ts





That my dear readers is exactly why you wear what you're comfortable in, that fits and makes you feel wearing...

NaBloWriMo #6~~PC Is Getting Ridiculous!

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NaBloWriMo #5~~Employment or lack thereof~~

I have a job or well I DID until I went out almost a year ago to have a valve replaced in my heart and a stent too...
I came through that pretty well even though having your giblets rummaged through then being put back together with superglue is sorta creepy. I really don't care if it makes for a nicer scar, since I heal keloid anyways...that nice lumpy, humpy stuff. I even healed keloid from my episiotomy, which caused great joy in mudville...KWIM?



My first two are from throat to 6 inches away from belly button...The newest is a tiny bit smaller (rolls eyes)
But on with the show...

After recovering, I went through 12 weeks of Cardiac Rehab. I brought down the age of the room...I was the youngest one there...But I was the life of the party, which is hard to do at 7:30 in the morning.

So I got back into shape, was released from Rehab, then emailed the surgeon to give him the joyful news.  In between DH had his right hip replaced...groovy...but he came that through well, thank the Gods.

I'm raring to go and I haven't heard anything. When I had an appt with my surgeon, he asked if I was back to work and I said no. So he emailed the company. I wound up calling the HR #. First time I was on hold for 15 minutes with nary a person on the other end. Next I didn't get through for 4 freakin DAYS!! I thought it was my house phone, so I tried the cell and got the same thing. Next was faxing...It was then August.  I finally got ahold of someone and the lovely young man at the call centre in India told me that they had never gotten the freakin fax!!!ugh.


More email to the surgeon. He's leaving on a trip to Alaska. Come to find out, that's where our regional mgr is going too...hmm...too bad I didn't know that ahead of time...


In September I called work again. The assistant was like "Don't call us, we'll call you..." I visited and actually got to see the manager and I asked straight out, "Do I have a job or do you not want me back?" I mean for fucksakes! I've been doing everything except hopping the closest broom to freakin Delhi or Mumbay or even  San Diego..

My manager wasn't in today. So joy oh joy, I got the assistant. She was like "Oh you haven't gotten a call yet? We've been faxing and emailing.." Ya know what? This is getting fucking tedious. "We'll let you know if we hear anything...

I won't hold my fucking breath...

Every time I go in, the people are like "Are you ever coming back?"  I can't even say...

I put in an application at Barnes and Noble in September. I went in today. The tool I got when I asked if they had reviewed apps yet said that if I hadn't been called yet, I "wasn't a good fit." Dude I prolly have read MORE fucking books than are in your whole freaking store! And some not in English too...
This is basically my house:


I've run bookfairs, done special events at an educational toy store, and you don't think I'd be a good fit...pfft.
My Vietnamese might be bastardized from the Rogue Warrior, but it's certainly apropos:
"Du Mhan Yhu" Go fuck yourself...Mr Barnes and Noble tool...

In addition my DS has applied and applied and applied yet again to a mall store.



He's waiting for a callback tomorrow to see if he gets an interview with a fish higher up the food chain. I sincerely hope so. Cuz he's driving me absolutely round the bend!

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.