7:06 PM

Uninvited Birthday Crashers

It drives me crazy when you invite a kid to a birthday party and the mom drops the kid off, with all the siblings. Did the invite say "siblings included"? No. Then you have to scrounge around like crazy to arrange all the games and goodie bags to include more people- people that your kid, the one having the birthday party, is not friends with. Furthermore, the siblings are not the same age as all the other party goers so you either have one kid that is older than everybody else that is dominating all the games or you have one that is way younger than the other kids and you have to babysit them for the duration of the party. And it's not like the siblings add extra loot to the party, from what I've observed the parents who drop off extra kids usually just send a general "family gift", not a gift from each attendee. Also annoying- uninvited parents who hang around and expect to be fed and want to sit and chat while you are clearly trying to organize a relay race with 8 screaming kids (2 of them uninvited). I think the general birthday rule is if you are not invited than probably the party is not for you.
12:10 PM

Two Words

Men's jewelry.
2:47 PM

Craigslist

If you are going to post something for sale on Craigslist, the idea is that people will want that item and pay you money for it, right? So if you want people to give you money for your old crap shouldn't you at least rotate the pictures right side up so we can see what crap you are selling? That's to say nothing of those who don't even include pictures!


"Beautiful hand-painted purple floral antique credenza. Must see to believe! $400!" Ya...... pictures are essential. That is the dumbest thing I've ever imagined.

Plus, why does everyone want you to pay 10% less than what they paid for something, even though their cat goes in/on it to throw up?

"Gently used denim sofa, just needs a light spot cleaning. Paid $1500 retail in 1998. Asking $1350."

In summation, don't try to make a sizable profit on your sh**y old stuff. Also post pictures so I can see what ugly things people are selling today.

What is this? Why would someone put this picture on the internet and think that another person will pay money for whatever is in this picture?


*P.S. Craigslist is sometimes awesome though. We got a very nice washer/dryer for an awesome deal on there. And I looooove getting on the jewelry page for Provo and reading all the bitter things people say about why they are selling their engagement rings! Hilarious!
12:12 PM

List of Stuff

The following things are really frosting my cake these days:

1. Old people. How do they not understand that we normal age people can't always facilitate their oldiness? We have lives to live, after all.

2. Leggings as pants. Still.

3. Gas prices, obviously.

4. Honkers. You can't just honk at people at random. Honking should be for emergencies and saying hello only. If you are pissed off about how someone is driving just yell at them from the safe distance of inside your car like the rest of us do.

5. Inappropriate indoor temperatures. It should be 76*. That is it.

6. Over-facebooking. Um, we don't need to know that your baby finally had a bowel movement after 3 days of constipation! There are just some things you don't facebook!

7. People who don't like their kids. Don't they know that you get to choose whether or not, and when to have them? If you are just going to hate them and only ever talk about how miserable they make you, don't have any! It's real easy and you'll get a lot more sleep!

8. The resurgence of wide leg jeans. I look so gross in them. And all pants.

9. I can't seem to find a lady product that is between and liner and pad. Just a nice middle ground. Why does that not exist? Or does it and I just can't find it? (This is totally in the non-facebookable category. Blogs are different probably.)

10. Fast walkers. I hate when people are always zipping around all speedy, as though the things they have to do are soooo important that if they don't walk at top speed the world will cease to function. No one is thinking "Oh, look how speedy that person moves about! They must be very busy and important to need to walk so quickly! I can tell that they are an intelligent and productive member of the community because of the bustling style in which they are shopping for thier groceries!" Duh.

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