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Been working my ass off as of late, yet my ass has inexplicably remained the same size. Just as well, I'd hate to have to buy all new pants.
Bills are getting paid. My CPAP will be paid off by February--sooner if this marketing company keeps throwing extra work my way. The TV reviews are still small income generators. Mostly they are fun, and let me write off the cable and internet bills. Yay!
Tax time is coming. Can't wait to hear all the internet banter about the bullshit Fiscal Cliff the GOP manufactured. This is another of those areas in which I'm baffled as to what they think they're doing.
It should be clear as a bell to anyone with eyes that those giant tax breaks for rich people are NOT creating jobs. If they were, there would be tons of jobs right now. The reason so many businesses aren't hiring is that they don't NEED new employees. The middle class is low on cash so nobody is buying anything. If people actually had disposable income, they could buy shit, businesses could hire. Tax revenues would go up, and the need for welfare would go down. I'm not an economic genius or anything--but this plan of giving the rich giant meals in the hopes that crumbs will fall to the poor--it's asinine and only a fool would believe it. And to the mooks who say no one will try if they have to pay taxes--well THOSE are the moochers you're always bitching about. If you're only trying, creating, doing, building etc because you hope it will make you rich--fuck you. You probably don't have anything remarkable inside you anyway. The pursuit of vast wealth is insipid and displays a complete lack of understanding about the very nature of life and humanity.
I love Patricia Walden's Iyengar Yoga vids. LOVE.
H and I went to my cousin's wedding last Saturday. My mom didn't attend because I was there. Classy lassy, that one! (not) The family was warm and welcoming. In the years I was away, all the kids turned into adults, and all the adults turned into old people. Uncle *name-redacted* did not get drunk and roll his glass eye across the table like he did when I was little. Drag. Aunt *redacted again* and her partner finally started introducing each other as their "partner." Even as a teenager I didn't think any grown-ups actually had the same roommate for that long. A good rule of thumb is that if two same-sex people get a new place together more than twice--they're almost certainly a couple. Another good way to find out is to ask. ;-]
It was a good wedding. I was glad I went. They were glad to have me there. H is a delight in social situations. So Yay on that!
Had an online exchange with my younger cousin who also has no name. She posted "My friend OD'd on pot--said no one ever." I admit, it hit me the wrong way. No, you can't OD on pot. I smoke pot. You might even say I smoke a lot of pot. But the idea that pot cannot have negative consequences in your life because a) it's not physically addictive, b) you can't OD on it c) it's increasingly legal--that's just dumb. For fuck's sake, people die from energy drinks and OTC meds all the time.
I tried to relay my own life experience, and some info on pot I wish I'd gotten as a kid. I tried to tell her that it's easy for casual use to become habitual. And it's easy for habitual use to keep you from getting shit done--thus cheating the world of your brilliance. Shitty as it is, getting busted is no less harmful to your future because pot arrests are "bullshit." I didn't think FB was a good place to mention that a family history of depression and mental illness makes chronic pot use an even more slippery slope.
Sadly, my advice was received as that of a stodgy adult. She and her friends (her friends said this, not her) will happily rely on "the facts" rather than scare tactics people use to keep kids away from drugs. They went on to explain to me that booze is more dangerous. It pissed me off how much they sounded like me at age 16-25, and yet how they talked to me like I was some lame old lady. It took all my patience not to say "Hey fuck you--I'm stoned off my ass right now. And I ought to be working!"
With that in mind, I'm looking to buy a new vape. I gave my old one away in the hopes of getting a Magic-Flight Launch Box. Anybody have one? How are they? Been doing a lot of research and that seems like the best portable vape for under $150. Methinks my singing voice will thank me.
Today is looking over the new Stig and the Puppetman I finished last night. Then four marketing articles. Then, trying a new recipe for lip balm that I hope will not result in a bunch of wasted garbage. Cocoa peppermint again.
Later, I'm gonna do coconut lime lip balm, and some 1oz containers of chest rub--like for colds. Neat, eh?
Bills are getting paid. My CPAP will be paid off by February--sooner if this marketing company keeps throwing extra work my way. The TV reviews are still small income generators. Mostly they are fun, and let me write off the cable and internet bills. Yay!
Tax time is coming. Can't wait to hear all the internet banter about the bullshit Fiscal Cliff the GOP manufactured. This is another of those areas in which I'm baffled as to what they think they're doing.
It should be clear as a bell to anyone with eyes that those giant tax breaks for rich people are NOT creating jobs. If they were, there would be tons of jobs right now. The reason so many businesses aren't hiring is that they don't NEED new employees. The middle class is low on cash so nobody is buying anything. If people actually had disposable income, they could buy shit, businesses could hire. Tax revenues would go up, and the need for welfare would go down. I'm not an economic genius or anything--but this plan of giving the rich giant meals in the hopes that crumbs will fall to the poor--it's asinine and only a fool would believe it. And to the mooks who say no one will try if they have to pay taxes--well THOSE are the moochers you're always bitching about. If you're only trying, creating, doing, building etc because you hope it will make you rich--fuck you. You probably don't have anything remarkable inside you anyway. The pursuit of vast wealth is insipid and displays a complete lack of understanding about the very nature of life and humanity.
I love Patricia Walden's Iyengar Yoga vids. LOVE.
H and I went to my cousin's wedding last Saturday. My mom didn't attend because I was there. Classy lassy, that one! (not) The family was warm and welcoming. In the years I was away, all the kids turned into adults, and all the adults turned into old people. Uncle *name-redacted* did not get drunk and roll his glass eye across the table like he did when I was little. Drag. Aunt *redacted again* and her partner finally started introducing each other as their "partner." Even as a teenager I didn't think any grown-ups actually had the same roommate for that long. A good rule of thumb is that if two same-sex people get a new place together more than twice--they're almost certainly a couple. Another good way to find out is to ask. ;-]
It was a good wedding. I was glad I went. They were glad to have me there. H is a delight in social situations. So Yay on that!
Had an online exchange with my younger cousin who also has no name. She posted "My friend OD'd on pot--said no one ever." I admit, it hit me the wrong way. No, you can't OD on pot. I smoke pot. You might even say I smoke a lot of pot. But the idea that pot cannot have negative consequences in your life because a) it's not physically addictive, b) you can't OD on it c) it's increasingly legal--that's just dumb. For fuck's sake, people die from energy drinks and OTC meds all the time.
I tried to relay my own life experience, and some info on pot I wish I'd gotten as a kid. I tried to tell her that it's easy for casual use to become habitual. And it's easy for habitual use to keep you from getting shit done--thus cheating the world of your brilliance. Shitty as it is, getting busted is no less harmful to your future because pot arrests are "bullshit." I didn't think FB was a good place to mention that a family history of depression and mental illness makes chronic pot use an even more slippery slope.
Sadly, my advice was received as that of a stodgy adult. She and her friends (her friends said this, not her) will happily rely on "the facts" rather than scare tactics people use to keep kids away from drugs. They went on to explain to me that booze is more dangerous. It pissed me off how much they sounded like me at age 16-25, and yet how they talked to me like I was some lame old lady. It took all my patience not to say "Hey fuck you--I'm stoned off my ass right now. And I ought to be working!"
With that in mind, I'm looking to buy a new vape. I gave my old one away in the hopes of getting a Magic-Flight Launch Box. Anybody have one? How are they? Been doing a lot of research and that seems like the best portable vape for under $150. Methinks my singing voice will thank me.
Today is looking over the new Stig and the Puppetman I finished last night. Then four marketing articles. Then, trying a new recipe for lip balm that I hope will not result in a bunch of wasted garbage. Cocoa peppermint again.
Later, I'm gonna do coconut lime lip balm, and some 1oz containers of chest rub--like for colds. Neat, eh?
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And, dude, you should have totally told her you were stoned. Call her out on her ageist crap.
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She's also really pretty, and seems to be surrounded by those user-asshole kind of teenage boys. That's one thing I'm glad I didn't have to deal with in high school...scores of horny boys pretending to like me in the hopes that I'd give it up.
But I digress...
She was quite insistent (as were her friends, who were more obnoxious about it than she was) that it's not a big deal. While it doesn't have to be a big deal, kids should know what to watch out for going in.
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I'm just curious that, if what you (and other old fogeys ;) tell her are "scare tactics," where is she getting "the facts?" I'm wondering if she believes you can't get pregnant the first time you have sex, too.
It's a shame she doesn't realize you actually know what you're talking about. You're a good ally to have in a situation like this. Hard to argue with an invincible teenager, though.
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Funnily enough, I considered sending her the article I wrote for Kinkly. But her older sister got unexpectedly pregnant (I don't think the baby is 1 yet) and I thought the gesture might be misread.
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