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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
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I hate Activia.
Current mood:  adored
Category: Food and Restaurants
Has anyone else out there tried Activia?
I only tried it because I had a Costco box of it in my fridge that my grandma thought she wanted and then didn't want, so instead of wasting it, I ate that instead of my regular Yoplait.
It tastes kinda weird, but I got used to it. I knew that it says that it regulates digestive health. What it did to me was fuck up my system. I didn't need any digestive health regulation as my system was running fine pre-Activia. I put up with that and kept eating this crap for breakfast as I'm not a food waster and it is not cheap stuff, even with a Costco coupon. But then it seemed to have an added side effect on me and Aunt Flo came to visit me two weeks early, ruining last weekend and pissing me off and since Activia was the only change in my diet or lifestyle, I'm going to attribute that to ACTIVIA. And yes, better two weeks early than two weeks late, but still, it ruined my weekend. 
Anyway, I hate Activia. If I ever acquire another box I'm going to go hand it out to homeless people or give it to a food bank. Maybe they need some digestive regulation. I think Activia needs to put something on their box that says: WARNING: THIS MAY FUCK WITH YOUR SYSTEM.
Anyone else tried this and had problems? Anyone like this stuff?
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Friday, September 26, 2008
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San Francisco Bloggers Meet-Up Cancelled
I'm not going to be in San Francisco at the end of next month as my grandpa had to cancel his WWII Fighter Squadron reunion. He didn't have enough reservations and the hotel wanted $30k for the rooms by 10/1, so he had to cancel.
Anyway, I told him that we should just invite some people up here instead, so if anyone is interested in that, let me know. If I know ya pretty good, I wouldn't mind if you stayed here at my house. So let me know! :)
Just think . . . San Francisco, Yosemite, Santa Cruz, Monterey . . . all the places that you can go if you come out here . . . 
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How many Americans are actually paying attention to our economic crisis? **UPDATED W/REPLIES**
Category: News and Politics
How many Americans are actually paying attention to our economic crisis?
That's my question today.
I find that a lot of people in this country are apathetic and do not pay hardly any attention to the news nor do they really care. Some don't even know what's going on with the Presidential election and what the issues are. It makes me wonder if they really even know what's going on with our economy and what will happen to them if/when things change.
My mom mentioned a few weeks ago that we could be headed into another Depression. I don't think that a lot of people in this country would survive that if we did. A lot of people have become too needy and too dependent on the government. I don't mean to sound callous, but look what happened after Katrina . . . I'm not sure that a lot of people can take care of and think for themselves.
I'm not really certain what to think about the new government bailout plan. It reeks of socialism to me. But what is the alternative? It's all pretty scary when you start to imagine what would happen if it all crumbled. But then again, throughout history, all democracies have eventually fallen.
I'm not sure that a lot of Americans are actually paying attention to the current state of our economy. I bet that I could call up a lot of my old friends and ask them their thoughts and they would be clueless. That's what really annoys me -- how disinterested, indifferent and uninformed people are.
If this turns into a cash economy, I personally think that would be a great thing. Far too many people are dependent on credit and they buy things that they cannot afford. More, more, more. That seems to be how a lot of Americans operate these days. Buying a $300,000 house and a $40,000 car when they only make 50 grand a year and have to live off credit cards to buy food. All so they can appear to be "well-off" and hide behind some false facade.
And yes, I can be critical. I have ZERO debt. I own my car. I own my house. I don't have school loans. I don't have a massive credit card bill that I'll never pay off.
I guess these people who don't pay attention to this crisis may start to when prices go up. When tax season comes. When they aren't approved for that new loan. When their credit cards are maxed out. And God forbid, if they lose their house.
Maybe people will start to wake up and see the light and start being financially responsible and start saving for things rather than buying on credit. Maybe they'll stop purchasing things out of their price range and trying to appear that they have more money than they do. Maybe people will start to THINK.
And, YES, this most definitely does effect me. It effects ALL of us. And not just Americans, it effects the world.
I fear that hard times are ahead. But how many Americans will actually know it until it hits them in the face?
What do you think?
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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As Un-PC as I can be
Current mood:  bitchy
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping
CAUTION: This blog is full of generalizations and stereotypes and is NOT politically correct, so go away if you cannot take it.
Last week I got my eyebrows waxed. I have not had them professionally done for about a year, as I have been plucking them myself. I decided that it was time to go back to a pro and so I did.
The salon that I go to has different stylists doing the waxing, so, since I'm a walk-in, I never know whom I'm going to get. It depends on who's busy when I decide to come by.
The first time that I got my brows waxed was back in '99 and it cost $5. Then it went up to $6 and now it's $10. Inflation?
Anyway, I noticed that my assigned waxer was a Latina, most likely Mexican, considering where I live in California. Just like I prefer black women or stylists that know my kind of hair to cut my hair (I have very thick and naturally curly hair and I don't like just anyone to mess with it as I have had bad experiences), I prefer that Mexicans do NOT wax my eyebrows.
I know I'm sounding stereotypical about a certain ethnicity, but after my experiences, that is how I am. I have had at least four Mexican women work on my brows and every single one of them made my brows too thin and very un-natural. I walked out HATING it and waiting for them to grow back.
This stylist was very personable though and I liked her, so I figured that if I told her exactly what I wanted that she would do the job. So that's what I did.
Overall, she did a pretty good job and I was satisfied. But, she ended up taking a little too much off of one brow and then she told me how I can fill them in and pointed to herself and said: "Just like how I did mine."
She resembled this:
That's why I don't like Mexican stylists to do my brows.
And while I'm being as un-PC as I can be, I also don't like my brows to be done by Asian stylists either. I have been to three of them and ALL of them try to round off my arch and give me an un-natural look yet again, but in a different way.
I prefer my brows to be pretty natural with not much shaping and a bit of a clean-up. They are already dark, I don't need to darken them more and look like a clown. I also don't need them to wax off my already nice arch. Just my preference.
Moral of the story: Anthro doesn't do Mexican or Asian waxers anymore, unless they're giving me a Brazilian.
**end of un-pc rant for the day**
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Monday, September 22, 2008
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Pissing off an Ethiopian waiter.
Current mood:  vital
Category: Life
So . . . I was hanging out in Berkeley this past weekend, perusing the book and music shops and meandering around town. We decided to eat at this Ethiopian restaurant since neither of us had eaten at such a place before. I was excited to try it. It had a Zagat sign on the window. There were quite a few diners. I figured that it couldn't be too bad and it would be interesting to try.
I ordered a steak tar tar type dish. B ordered some chicken dish. It was served family style. The waiter, who was all smiles and happy to see us when we came in, explained how to eat Ethiopian food, by picking it up with our fingers and putting it on the "bread." I asked for a fork . . . it was just a little too greasy for me . . . But when I unrolled the "bread" (apparently a staple in Ethiopian cuisine), I could hardly stomach to try it. It was thin and spongy and looked like something you'd wrap around your sprained ankle (yes, it resembled gauze). I did try it. I ate it the way he said to. I hated it. I wished that I would have brought some naan or flatbread or a tortilla or something with me. My barely cooked "steak" dish was only appealing for the first couple of bites. After that, it was just far too much to eat. I tried B's chicken and it wasn't too bad. The Ethiopian cottage cheese like stuff (kinda like ricotta) was damn good. The potato thing wasn't bad. The greens weren't bad either. But that "bread" just gave me the heebie-jeebies.
I decided that I wasn't a fan of Ethiopian food and that I would never recommend it. I was also worried that I would get sick off it. Thankfully, I didn't.
B and I were sitting there discussing it quietly how we didn't care for it, but proud that we tried something new. I couldn't even bring myself to eat half of my dish and filled up on the side dishes, wishing that I would have ordered a vegetarian plate. I'm sure it was good food if you like Ethiopian cuisine, but I found that it was not for me.
Anyway, we were getting ready to pay our bill and leave and the waiter gave us a really dirty look. Apparently he was not too happy that we didn't like his food (it was an family-run Ethiopian restaurant) and showed his disgust. We left a tip and were not rude or anything. It just wasn't a type of cuisine that we liked.
I actually thought that I had imagined the rudeness in the waiter who, initially, was quite nice and happy to have us there, but turned into a rude meanie when he saw that we didn't like our food. But B noticed it and commented and neither of us have ever encountered such a thing. I mean, it's not like we refused to pay or voiced our dislike. We simply didn't care for it and paid our bill and left. We tried and didn't like. But damn, I don't think that I've ever seen a waiter so pissed off. I think he was happy to see us leave.
Have you ever encountered such a thing?
On another note, I think that I really like Berkeley. I haven't been there for a while and have avoided that place due to the high percentage of tree-hugging liberals, but I found that I do like it. I'm applying to Cal for my PhD and I had decided that if I opted to go there that I could take it as it's the school of Alfred Kroeber and one of the best anthro programs in the world, but now I've decided that it wouldn't be too half bad living there. My mom lived there when she did her undergrad in Davis (I guess she commuted, but she's vague about the details . . . yeah . . . that was the early 70's and she was a hippie . . .). From living in South Dakota, I have learned to get along with lefties. In fact, living in SD probably primed me to cohabitate with all the liberals in my field and made me more of a moderate.
Anyway, I like Berkeley. There are few of those pretentious bleached blonde cookie cutter bimbettes over there like there are everywhere else in California. People are more down-to-earth. They are more unique. They are more like themselves instead of some label-toting Paris Hilton wannabe. I like the uniqueness and how there are few sheep. It's actually my kind of place. It's weird how I can say that about a city that made it illegal for their fire trucks to sport American flags on them after 9/11 . . . Plus, I think I'm more tolerant of differing views than I was, say, ten years ago.
I just need to stay away from Ethiopian restaurants and waiters who get pissed when you dislike their food. And NO I don't recommend Ethiopian food. I'll point you in the direction of an Indian, Mexican, Greek, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, or Italian restaurant if you want some "ethnic" food.
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