The Evil One

You try very hard to fit in to the online community. It is by far a very easy way to network and socialize with other like minded and not so like minded individuals. You find a group that you gel with, you post in the threads, you even get bold enough to post a few topics, and then there is that one person, that one annoying, one negative, one confrontational person who just annoys the hell out of everyone. This person is rude, types all in bold letters, is anti everything and is always the one you can count on to go wildly against the grain of the rest of the group and then get highly defensive when someone disagrees. How do you deal with this person? Do you just ignore them, or do you stand your ground? Do you leave the group? Or do you let the person know how you feel and let them know to never address you in a post? How do you deal with someone who seems to embody pure evil?

On the one hand, it is just the internet. Most of the people are not really the persona that they try to portray and you will probably never meet them. But on the other hand, everyone should be able to express themselves in public, even if it is E-public and not have to endure a person who is obviously socially retarded. Is it so farfetched to expect individuals to be civil when dealing with others? I think not.

Life Moments

So far in the last three days, I went to a concert on the beach, saw Snoop, Janet Jackson, NeYo, Jessica Simpson (who was having audible vocal issues), the Girls Next Door, and Pamela Anderson. That was really cool. What wasn’t cool is some dude who was drunk off his ass threw up on the parking shuttle bus. So nasty.

But then I saw Iron Man last night, which I have already stated in my review was awesome. Of course, when I went downstairs to check on my son at 2am, I realized that he decided to sneak out of his window and go to a party. Seventeen is turning into a really crappy year, and I don’t want to be that mother who is happy to see her son leave. He was already on restriction, and now he may not be able to see the light of day until he is 18 and out of high school next June.

Today has been slightly better. I hung out in Barnes and Noble playing around on the CPU. I then was engaged in a very interesting conversation about race with a gentleman who actually echoed a lot of my feelings that I wrote about in the Touchy Subject Post. He was a white gentleman, a Navy brat and he believes that America needs a healing too when it comes to race. It was refreshing.

So, now I am in the middle of the day and I pray and hope that everything is peaceful for the rest of the weekend and really for the rest of my life. I mean I can wish right?

On a much lighter note, it seems some civil servant stopped gossiping on the phone just long enough to push the button that has eased some of our financial woes. Now I can loosen up the purse strings a little bit, have a little fun, and begin to make sure that I am overly prepared for another rainy day. Of course once I am prepared, it probably won’t ever happen.

That’s Life!

Makeup Alley

For the past several years, I have been using a great website www.makeupalley.com to review new beauty products that I may come across and am considering purchasing.  This is a wonderful website that lists products by brand name, top picks, or top reviewed.  Real people log on and post their reviews of beauty products good and bad. It is a valuable tool when looking for products that are specific to your beauty needs. I use it religiously and highly recommend it.  www.makeupalley.com, a real time and money saver for busy Divas on the go.

Fashion Faux Pas Day

Today must have been Fashion Faux Pas day.  It seemed that all around me, people made really poor fashion choices. First I saw a lady with capri pants, socks that stopped mid calf, and those loafer slides that you would normally wear with a pair of slacks because you have been in heels all day and you want to give your feet a rest.  I know it was a little chilly this morning and she may have been cold, but doesn’t it just make more sense to put on long pants, or forego the socks and turn on the heater in your car?  If I had my camera, I would have taken a picture.  But then again, I am glad that I didn’t because that would have been rude.

A little later, I saw an amazon of a woman wearing a black blazer, white button down shirt, and a plaid schoolgirl skirt with sheer pantyhose and wedged heels. A cute look (minus the sheer hose, and wedged heels) if you’re 17, or Paris Hilton. But when you’re over 40… yeah… not so much. There is just something bizarre about a completely grown woman dressed like a sexy school girl in public, especially if it is not Halloween. I do have to say that she did have very nice, very long legs.  Unfortunately, if that skirt had been any higher, the whole coffee shop would have seen all of her business.  I actually wished that I had my camera for this one because the fact that she imposed that outfit on the world at her age was extremely rude and completely uncalled for.

Later I went to a concert on the beach. I can’t begin to count how many girls I saw with teeny tiny skirts and high heels, on the beach.  What is that?  For goodness sake, it’s the freakin beach!  It is one of the few places where you can and should go barefoot in  public, and these girls were in 3 inch hooker heels.  Apparently, common sense is truly not common.

Maybe everyone is floating around in some kind of fashion twilight zone, or maybe, I was just a little more observant today than usual.  Either way, there are two rules that apply when getting dressed and actually leaving the house.  First, if you have to keep pulling your skirt down, hint, the damn thing is too freakin short.  And two, a full length mirror is your friend, actually take the time to look in it, turn around and look at yourself from behind, try to see what the rest of us will be seeing when you bend over to pick up change or something else off the ground. Yeah! see! exactly! We don’t want to see all that before we have had our coffee early in the morning either.  

 

My Favorite Place

 The view from my favorite red chair of my favorite Starbucks. I love my Extra Caramel-Caramel Frapps. I think I’m obsessed. Okay so I enhanced the photo, but this is the way I choose to see it, all colorful and serene. Please take the time to enjoy it with me.