impy: Blair Waldorf looking very alone and sad. (broken blair)
Oh look. We're gearing up for another night of curfew. I've got to stop reading any and all comments on news articles because I am going to lose what little bit left I have of my mind and now's not the time to get locked up anywhere outside your own home. Sigh.

Work called yesterday to say that I didn't have to come in because they were closing at 7 (funny, curfew was at 6...) and then after he finishes telling me that we do get paid for the hours we were scheduled, D then says, "oh shit/fuck (I don't remember which), I forgot you're not even on tonight. Sorry." To which I told him it was fine, it was nice to know for sure my Saturday night off was paid.

Saturday, btw, went full on looting downtown. Cass and I were on the phone shortly after I got home (I walked down to get the mail before curfew) and she was watching various live-streams that I assume were from the various news stations. I watched a few replays later and one live as they rolled through downtown surveying the damage. I will say that it did not take me long to get super tired of hearing the name "West Elm" as I swear, each reporter felt the need to focus on it. Why? The windows/glass door were shattered and the sprinklers were on and the water was kinda trickling out (probably rushed whenever they opened the door) but it wasn't on fire and there were stores that were, in fact, on fire. Hell, Hall's Chophouse had the owner (?) go back inside, grab his gun, and come out and fire the shots you could hear in other videos. THAT's something to cover, not water damage at West Elm. Jesus.

I was up for most of Saturday night, til maybe 4am when I realized my mute on a former coworker must've ended because her stuff was popping up in my feed again. unfortunately, the second thing I noticed from her was a video that I clicked and I really fucking wish I hadn't. I'm not entirely sure I did not inadvertently watch someone die on video. It was very much a close the computer down and run away because holyfuck, who shares that shit? Who shares it without a warning at least? I have not been able to bring myself to watch the ten minute snuff film that set off the riots and protests because I absolutely know that it is not something I could handle seeing and then I stumble across... I... no. No. And it looped, because all these fucking videos loop and I wish brain bleach were a real thing.

The kicker about Saturday's protests is that the daylight part? Peaceful. The sun sets and a new group of people swoop in and shit goes sideways real quick. I'm not sure why the curfew was 11-7. I can only assume it was to squeeze every last dollar they could from being open but um, not sure how well that worked since a lot of the restaurants and things downtown had the looting happen while customers were still inside.

Cops didn't arrest anyone Saturday, even though they absolutely had time to do so. Just saying. Sunday though, they went in hard at the protest on Marion Square. Wtf. Sunday's curfew was 6pm-6am and the MS protest was maybe noon-ish when the cops started arresting people? It was weird.

Today has protests in Summerville, which is a hop, skip, and a jump down the road from me. Luckily, if you can call it that, that road has a plantation or two in between so you know it's not really that short a distance.

All of this would be soul crushing enough on its own, but you combine it with the massive uptick in COVID cases in the state and Widget going MIA over the weekend (because of course he fucking did) and it's just... last week was wild. Oh, and someone pulled a hit and run on one of Cass's cats and said cat died in Cass's arms. Throw in that surprise tropical storm and May went out in a swirl of chaos, truly.
impy: tori from jackie's strength video (wtf)
Note to self: Stop while you're ahead. Or not. Whatever. I have a coworker whose email she shares with her husband. I think I got her email to use to send her a Netflix subscription years ago. And then she wanted another coworker's email and it was just easier to send that way. However, that time her husband added me to the forward list. I read the first week's worth and then I put him on the delete after I made sure it was a forward and not a legitimate email from her.

After the first year I started forwarding him stuff too because hey, it's only fair. I usually restrict it to stuff he might actually already agree with because the dude has a license to carry a handgun and I choose to respect that. :P Which means when his forwards start FOX News, I make sure not to forward "Gay Marriage= What part of equal do you fuckers not understand?" Yeah. I got a real email this morning about something I sent. (Something about CEO's disclosing the pay gap between the minions and themselves, I think?) In return I get a "if I started a company, I think I'd be entitled to the biggest paycheck." And it went downhill from there. Dude, I don't say a word about how I think it's highly unlikely that your theory about Obama being the actual Antichrist is true, nor do I point out that the first forward of the day is contradicting the second forward and they're both from the same politician which means that you seem to give more weight to the stuff I send than the stuff you claim to support. Which is scary. (But useful for when I rule the world.)

So. Awkward moment of "really? REALLY?" and then I hit delete, ranted here, and remembered the whole gun thing. God bless the South.
impy: tori from jackie's strength video (joy!)
You ever get a gift that is so unexpected that hours later you are still in shock? My best friend just gave me a phone...

I know.

Whoa.
impy: tori from jackie's strength video (wtf? TJ)
I don't want to be one of those annoying people who is constantly nattering on about the cute/insane things my child does, particularly since I do not have a child, but sometimes... Sometimes the nephew provides me with laughs that I must share, lest they bust my sides and my sides only.

I truly don't remember starting our Fall Fundraisers the week after school began. I thought they gave us two weeks so that parents weren't quite as strapped by all those pesky school supply lists and had probably been paid again. Apparently the new school regime does not believe in such logical thinking, as Widge came home today loaded with school fundraiser things.

The first that made me choke back a giggle was the SAIL program selling aluminum water bottles. For $9 a pop. Then I looked at the various Scholastic crack-dealings and that was nice, although I didn't see as much as I would have expected to love. Sadness.

But the ultimate wait-what moment came when I looked at the little instruction sheet for their wrapping paper/gardening/chocolate/misc crap extravaganza. Dude. Pick ONE. Otherwise people's eyes glaze over. I guess this doesn't matter since down at the bottom of the pink sheet of DOOM it clearly states:
Remember: Safety first! No door-to-door sales!

To which I looked up and realized they'd abandoned all pretense of having the kids sell their own stuff and really did expect their parents to do the work for them. Then they wanted me/the boy/everyone else to whore this crap out online and over the phone to all our friends.

The problem with this logic, sugarplum fairies, is that I'm just old enough that I was probably one of the last few years of kids who actually did have to hoof it from house to house, selling utter crap to old people who, if I was lucky, would think me cute enough to be irresistible. Sadly for me, my cuteness wore off in third grade and I lived in a neighborhood filled with rich old people... who had already been hit up by all the rich kids who had been back at school since the start of August. I may have laughed at them while I ran around with an extra two weeks of freedom, but obviously they laughed harder when my broke-ass walked from house to house to house being told they'd just bought some useless crap from some other kid.

So. Yeah. I had to sell my own stuff. My parents didn't do it for me. They'd walk with me as I hit each house because, hello, not crazy, but they didn't force little old ladies to break out their checkbooks or anything. So why in hell would I do all that work for someone else? I firmly believe that when the time comes, you inflict the pain you had as a kid on someone else, so long as we're talking selling craptacular, overpriced wrapping paper to virtual strangers.

This isn't to say I wouldn't hit my friends up if I thought there was a chance they'd say yes, but I'd make Widge do the actual hitting up.

But the point, and I did find it again, was this:

Down at the bottom, the first prize listed, $350 Sell This Much And Get Driven To CiCi's Pizza... IN A LIMO.

Yeah. I thought I would die.

Then again, I've met quite a few of the limo drivers around here and I gotta say... wow. No.

Must away to look at what the Widge is selling.

Uh...

Apr. 4th, 2008 05:48 pm
impy: tori from jackie's strength video (smilie)
So, tell me again how I missed Tori going comic book on us?

Here.

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