As the wise old woman speaks...

Getting older has it's perks.

You don't sweat the small stuff. You care less about what people say or think about you (at least the ones that are actually mature enough to handle things don't care.) You find pleasure in the little things and don't have to constantly be going, going, gone. I've always been a hermit, so I've never cared about all the here and there stuff.

My favorite part about getting older (besides the booze) is that you can remove drama from your life and not feel the same amount of guilt or pressure over it that you did when you were younger. I have had to make these decisions in the past year and the more I look back (hindsight 20/20 and all that) the more I realize I've made the right decisions. I don't feel remorse about it. The drama is gone and I don't feel nearly as weighed down with everyone else's problems. They can keep them!

Maybe I'm a bad friend

I don't know. Maybe not.

Sometimes I will get texts or calls from friends. And I can tell almost immediately that the conversation that will occur is going to go in a direction that will probably be asking something from me or of me that I really don't want to do.

Today I got a text from a friend that said "do you work today?" That seems innocent enough, but before I responded I had to think about who was asking me that question. Generally this person doesn't ask questions pertaining to these things unless the follow-up response will then be asking me to do something I'm not willing to do. So rather than just answering the text when it was sent, I waited until about an hour before I had to be to work. That way if she DID want something from me, I would have an excuse. LOL I don't think that makes sense at all. I go out of my way to make sure that I'm not put out of my way by others. It's a riddle inside an enigma.

Would you like some cheese while you whine?

There is this girl at my job that annoys the crap out of me. She complains about having on-call shifts all the time that she's never needed for, thus she rarely works. Bitch, I have to deal with the same thing! Everyone does. Do you think that you are the only one not working and the rest of us are getting mega hours? No! Stop bitching about it or quit.

Sorry, had to vent somewhere. She's on Facebook so I can't do it there and Twitter only allows 140 characters lol.

27 and confirming I'm a moron

For the first time EVER ( I do mean EVER) in my life I just saw in printed words the riddle "What is black and white and read all over?" I never understood what a newspaper had to do with that because I always HEARD it said and assumed they meant "red." I never asked questions either. I guess I am living proof that it's better to "stay quiet and look the fool, than to speak aloud and erase all doubt."

Memory lane...or something like that

Ever run into people you went to high school with that you really didn't care for? But because of the rules in life you stand there and smile and ask about them etc? But you really don't give a shit because that person was such an ass in high school that you went out of your way to make sure you didn't interact with them at all? Yeah, I get that a lot working in a mall. It's so weird. I stand and fake happy with this person, on the inside I'm completely berating myself over even acknowledging their presence.

I hate that just because I'm an adult I'm supposed to act as though I give a damn. My only memory of this person(s) is of them being so fucking full of themselves that it was as if he/she were doing YOU a favor to even speak to you. I know people change and God knows I don't want people to judge me from who I was in high school. I just don't have any other image of who you are outside of that memory.

28 Perfectly Good Reasons To Oppose Gay Marriage

By Rick Chris

http://www.rickchris.com/

1. Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, and birth control.

2. Marriage is valuable because it produces children, which is why we deny marriage rights to infertile couples and old people.

3. Obviously, gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

4. Straight marriage, such as Britney Spears' 55-hour escapade, will be less meaningful if gay marriage is allowed.

5. Marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all: women are property, matches are arranged in childhood, blacks can't marry whites, Catholics can't marry Jews, divorce is illegal, and adultery is punishable by death.

6. Gay marriage should be decided by people, not the courts, because majority-elected legislatures have historically protected the rights of minorities.

7. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

8. There is no separation between religious marriage and legal marriage, because there is no separation of church and state.

9. Devout, faithful Anglicans should never accept same-sex marriage, because it is an affront to the traditional family values upheld by Henry VIII and his wife, Catherine of Aragon, and his wife, Anne Boleyn, and his wife, Jane Seymour, and his wife, Anne of Cleves, and his wife, Catherine Howard, and his wife, Catherine Parr. They all knew the meaning of marriage and none of them lost their heads over the matter.

10. Married gay people will encourage others to be gay, in a way that unmarried gay people do not.

11. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because dogs have legal standing and can sign marriage contracts.

12. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to legislative change in general, which could possibly include the legalization of polygamy and incest. Because we don't know what comes next, we should never change our laws.

13. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why single parents are forbidden to raise children.

14. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society. Heterosexual marriage has been around for a long time, and we could never adapt to new social norms because we haven't adapted to things like suburban malls and tupperware parties.

15. Legal marriage will inspire gays to mimic the straight traditions of spiritual commitment ceremonies and celebratory parties, which is currently impermissible for them to do and which they have never done before.

16. Marriage is designed to protect the well-being of children. Gay people do not need marriage because they never have children from prior relationships, artificial insemination or surrogacy, or adoption.

17. Civil unions are a good option because "separate but equal" institutions are always constitutional. In fact, compared with marriage, civil unions are so attractive that straight people are calling dibs on them.

18. A man should not be able to marry whomever a woman can marry, and a woman should not be able to marry whomever a man can marry, because in this country we do not believe in gender equality.

19. If gays marry, some of straight people's tax dollars would end up going to families whose structure they may find morally objectionable. Clearly, it is more just to continue taking gay people's tax dollars to support straight families, who are going to heaven regardless of what anyone else thinks of them.

20. Gays should hold off on the marriage question until society is more accepting of them, because they are not part of society.

21. The people's voice must be heard on this issue. Therefore, we must have a referendum on a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, because we can't think of any other way to discuss the issue.

22. Each state should decide for itself whether gay marriage will be recognized, because there is no "full faith and credit" clause that requires states to recognize each other's institutions.

23. Gay marriage attempts to replace natural heterosexual instinct with a cultural institution. Morality demands that we subordinate institutionalized commitment to raw, unfettered, biological impulse.

24. Gay marriages could very well suffer maladies like domestic violence and substance abuse. That's why we invented the Quality Control department to pre-approve the righteousness of all marriage applicants, such as convicted serial killer Richard Ramirez who married a woman while on Death Row.

25. Those who support gay marriage aim to overthrow the dominant culture, as evidenced by their enthusiasm to participate in it.

26. The country can't afford to provide benefits for married gay couples. That's why Bush would never consider spending $150 million on programs that encourage more straight people to get married.

27. Gay couples do not deserve marriage because, if everyone on earth limited themselves to same-sex sexual behavior, humanity would soon be extinct. Based on the same concern, we also deny marriage rights to the biologically childless and to those who have borne only one child. (We are also considering denying marriage rights to those who have borne three or more children, because if everyone copied them, the world population would shoot through the roof.)

28. Marriage was created in the Bible as a bond between a man and a woman. The people who lived prior to the writing of the Bible, such as the Chinese, sat around in confusion for many years until the Mesopotamians finally came around and invented the family unit.

I just don't understand

...how in the world I am related to my sister! She calls me selfish any time that I don't do something for her. I am within EVERY RIGHT I HAVE to say "no" to her! She calls me from her place and says that she left her gift for her friend's baby shower at our house and could I bring it to her at her place. Um, no. I don't want to waste my gas for that. She's the dumbass that put it in her CLOSET, out of eye sight, and forgot it. Most people tend to put stuff in places they'll remember to take it with them. Ya know, near your purse or keys or even put it in the CAR. She puts in the closet. So when I say no, her response is "you are so selfish, you don't have anywhere to be" and blah blah. SO WHAT? She wouldn't do it for me. Bet that. Let me forget something and her response will be "well I use the premium gas so I'm not driving all the way over there for that." So she can't waste her gas for me, but I'm supposed to do it for her because she's an idiot?

I reallllly don't understand how we're sisters.