ooh oh witchy woman

Normally I am quick to be a little femi-nazi and point out how sexist men can be when a guy makes off-handed stereotypical comments about women. However, I am equally quick to pull the gender card one week out of the month during the time true ladies do not directly speak of.

Patience is NOT one of my virtues, on a good day. But I usually manage to mind my manners and even be charming from time to time. On a bad day, I can barely be civil. At best, I want to curse and scream at someone. At worst, I excitedly imagine executing a nice ass-beating.

It is amazing the people around me tolerate my bullshit. I can hardly stand to be around myself. While recognizing how unreasonable my attitude is, it also raises questions about the people I interact with. Maybe I'm being a tad mental, but I wouldn't feel that way if I weren't pushed to the edge in the first place by inane comments, fake gestures, ridiculous inquiries, and petty attempts at bickering.

I also feel like a fat heifer, yet I can't help the simultaneous urge to lay around and eat decadent foods. I blame it all on my female chromosones. Maybe being burned at the stake would cure me of this bullshit.

woot woot

I am officially promoted. I'll also be receiving a much larger salary. I'm very excited about it. I haven't done anything to officially celebrate yet but there are plans in the works.

My office is observing Good Friday so today is a total holiday for me. I went to the gym, plan to go to Target and get a mani/pedi, then clean the house. I've scheduled some wedding-related meetings later this afternoon, too.

All is well in my world. Hope whoever is reading this has a great weekend :)

i didn't stutter

One of my many pet peeves is when people do not listen. I hate repeating myself. Especially when it is due to the fact the asker is not actually listening to me and processing what I am saying and is one of those inane small talkers. I also hate it when people ask multiple versions of the same question. I'm finding this happens more and more as my wedding date nears. Unfortunately most of the inquiries come from people I have to interact with on a regular and/or professional basis so I cannot provide my standard bitchy answer that shuts people up. I have to come up with more creative ways to deflect their obnoxious questions.

Like, when the person asks for the eightieth time whether I've progressed any with my plans, I ask if she would like to be my wedding coordinator. Since she seems SO concerned with how things are coming along.

Or, the handful of people who are breathlessly waiting to hear our honeymoon destination. I'll send you a postcard, bitches. You aren't invited so why do you care?

Or when the fucker I've replied to via email twice and called back three times and said NO to, asks me one more time to reconsider. I didn't change my mind. Get over it.

I know some people are socially inept and only have a limited supply of topics in their "rotation" but go bore and annoy someone else.

controversy

Normally my posts are not this political but roll with it or come back another day.

Way late to the party but I read A Million Little Pieces this weekend. I know the media exposed James Frey as a big liar/embellisher. However, I had gotten on the library waitlist long before that scandal came about. Besides, the hype made me all the more curious to read it. The theme and tone reminded me of Girl, Interrupted and Clockwork Orange. I don't understand why he latched onto the Lilly character because she seemed like a straight-up nasty crackwhore to me. If I saw someone I loved giving someone else a BJ it would be SO over right there. AA annoys me, so I was glad he poked fun at its principles and saw through the sham and realized all he needed to do was exercise self-control. I was disgusted when the counselors did not cite Rational Recovery as an option when he asked if there were other programs, very irresponsible. I think calling addiction a disease is pathetic. Overall, I liked it, and I'm still on the waitlist for My Friend Leonard so I will probably read that, too.

This immigration debate is such bullshit. Show me a fucking American who is willing to do half the shit the illegals do. The work ethic among natural-born, lower-class citizens in our country is pretty much non-existent. Why work or wait to have kids when you can get welfare and public housing? Now I do agree that anyone who wants to live here should learn English, because I think it is disrespectful to reside anywhere long-term and not make an effort to communicate in the local dialect. Not to mention ignorant, since people could easily take advantage of you. Maybe the illegals already feel they are being screwed and don't care to learn English. I know this isn't very PC but I do get pretty irate at the ATM or phone call when I have to go that extra step and select English instead of Espanol. This is still America, right?