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Ball Drop

Was anyone else a bit disappointed with the ball drop this year? I mean it was really bad! I wanted fireworks and spinning doo-dads...not a semi-sparkly ball and a giant pointless countdown clock. What at let down, not to mention a crappy start to the new year.

Tales From Retail- A woman checked out in my line at work a few days ago and thought she could pay for a $159.99 vacuum cleaner with 5 coupons. I didn't even say anything, just called my manager. What was there to say?

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Thoughts From My Day

Why do they make the manual window knobs out of the cheapest plastic ever? This is my first winter up in the north and yes, there is snow up here. I thought it was a myth. So I was going to the bank and when I tried to roll the window down to talk to the teller and the sucker snapped off in my hand. My poor little Ford apparently isn't built Ford tough like the commercials say it's supposed to be.

Minor tangent- have you ever noticed that car commercials are 8 times louder than what you happen to be watching, just in case you were to miss the screaming announcer or the seizure causing graphics that flash across the screen faster than anyone can read...

Now I have to go back to the mechanic shop to fix my poor car for the 2nd time in 3 months since I moved up here...all I'm gonna say is that this car never gave me a lick of trouble when I lived in the South...I'm not sayin, but I'm just sayin'.

Also, now scientists say that there is a hole on the moon that may be habitable. Now I know there are some really bad places that people live on this planet, but would you really want to relocate to a soundless hole on the moon? What would you do on a Friday night? Think about that when you're putting your name down on the moon colony list. If you're life sucks that bad it's time to talk to someone about it.

Last thing- I work in retail and I must have answered the phone about 116 times today and answered the same two questions, "Are you open today?" and "What are your hours?" This is how I wanted it to go...

Me- "Thank you for calling----, this is Hannah, how may I direct your call?"
Caller- "Yes, are you open today?"
Me- "No, they just asked me to come in today and work this shift so I could answer the phones and tell people no, we are not open today."

Also- Michelle Obama is the Iron Chef guest star for the January 3rd episode...isn't there a charity or a small underprivileged country she could be helping? Honestly, its just embarrassing.

Robert Gibbs You Disgust Me

Anyone watch the news these days? Well you should at least pause the channel flipping on the news station of your choice long enough to witness the travesty that is the White House press secretary. This guy really fries my cookies. A few minutes of watching Robert Gibbs* should be enough for you to get the general idea. If you're looking for a sign that the White House is insulting your intelligence then look no further...

The first thing that should make you sit up and take note is the number of times Gibbs stutter, "Uh..." in a 2 minute period. Isn't that like the first thing you learn in public speaking? To control your speech patterns and personal tics? Gibbs is bush league and unprofessional.

The second would be the fact that the press can barely get an answer out of the guy. He skirts the issues and dances around the hard truths. And then worse: he stops to lecture America on his opinion. Like we give a damn what he thinks! Gibbs is supposed to represent the White House; be a voice for the administration.

It is my personal belief that the administration needs to pop a professional cough drop and start singing a new tune by finding a new voice to broadcast from behind that podium. Because right now, Gibbs is stamping a foolish brand on what the White House is calling the daily press briefings.

*-photo courtesy of The Eggplant Press

First of many, one can hope.

So I decided to start a blog because a friend told me that I should write a book. That being arrogantly said, I just don't have the patience or the spare brain cells to lend to a project like that. A blog, however, sounded just wonderful. Just thoughts, no 500 page commitments, no one breathing down my neck about deadlines, or telling me, "You can't actually SAY that to people!"

So here is topic number one...

Crap that happened in 2009 that no ones seems to care about anymore:

1.) Britney Spears named celebrity of the decade.-courtesy foxnews.com
(Seriously? The woman who shaved her head, whose weight fluctuates 20 lbs daily, who screamed about flashing her girly bits onstage in front of thousands represents the good life in America...we are so proud!)

2.) Peanuts Can Kill
(a salmonella outbreak made us all afraid of scarfing PB&J's for lunch for fear of blowing chunks for days on end, not to mention the spine wracking chills and diarrhea-thanks for that)

3.) Pirates are not really Johnny Depp Cool.
( Actual pirates have entered our lives in the form of nautical Somalian terrorists...like we don't have enough oil problems at the moment)

4.) Octomom
(If you don't know about this one then crawl out from under your rock one time. That being said, no one cares about her anymore. We have all accepted that fact that she will mooch off our tax dollars until her young are raised and we have now moved on)*
5.) Chris Brown turns out to be future wife beater.
( And no one was really that shocked. As a result he'll never do business in any town ever again...lets all take a minute to grieve...or not)

6.)Cherrios don't lower cholesterol.
(or help with heart disease...oops.)

7.) Susan Boyle
( wanted fame and fortune-got it and had a break down.)

8.) Usama bin Laden spit out another hate video
( ok, he's been on dialysis for how many years now? someone tell me the bastard didn't record like 26 of these tapes back in 2002 and then dropped dead)

9.) Balloon Boy
( what did his parents expect out of that? I felt bad for the kid. Not the kid's fault his dad stuffed him in the attic or whatever and called 911. Not to mention the kid outed his dad. He responded to the question," Why were you hiding?" by turning to his dad and saying, "You guys said that, um, we did this for the show." That nickname will follow him forever. Let us hope his father gets a few prison tats to remember the occasion by)

10.) Swine Flu
( let's call it what it is, shall we? H1N1 just sounds like a math equation from junior high. Luckily we appear to be on the down hill slide from the epidemic that sickened thousands)

11.) Couple infiltrates State Dinner at the White House
( please tell me that the people in charge of security for that party have no input in Homeland Security for this country, I shudder to think...oh and as a side note, the Secret Service figured it out THE NEXT DAY!)

12.) Michael Jackson Died
( the only thing I will say is this: the man had free will. The doctor wasn't force feeding him drugs. Jackson asked for all the junk he was on and the only illegal actions the doctor performed were passing the stuff on. Giving out anesthesia meds for home use is, of course, illegal, but Jackson asked for them. Negligence I could buy-murder I cannot. Jackson was a man, and far from a saint.)

These are just some of the things that happened this year, many I left out because they mattered. There are still American boys overseas, there are still massive economic problems worldwide, and we all still appear to be frogs boiling in a pot. Its time to wake up and re-examine our priorities.

What are yours?


*octomom photo courtesy TMZ