Wicked Attitude

I heard something on TV last night and I realized I’ve heard it over and over and it’s kind of annoying.  (Imagine…ME thinking something is annoying!)  When people refer to the SCENT of a candle as the FLAVOR of a candle.  I know that Webster’s first definition of flavor is odor or fragrance but most of us associate the word flavor with the secondary meaning which is the quality of something that affects the sense of taste.  I don’t consider the words scent and flavor interchangeable.  I don’t ask what scent of ice cream you’re eating.  Or worse when people sniff body sprays and ask what flavor it is.  It’s not hurting anyone, it’s not Earth shattering, just an observation of something that makes people sound ignorant.

I made some mini pizzas last night and the first bite scorched the roof of my mouth even after having rested.  Don’t you hate it when that happens and then you’re faced with two choices, playing with the injured, puffy mess with your tongue and wait for it to recede the next day or play with the injured, puffy mess with your tongue until the membrane peels off and then thoroughly grosses you out.  I chose to go with the first option though I’m usually more guilty of the latter.  Don’t know why I felt like sharing that with you but I did and I’m sorry.

We were looking for a family to adopt for Christmas and our local Red Cross said they were “full” and didn’t need any more donors but we could donate to the RC as a whole if we wanted.  Um, no thanks.  The point was to adopt a needy family not throw money into a pot where I have no real confirmation that it’s going where they say it’s going.  (Refer to abuses of money after 9/11 and Katrina)  So I keep looking up other organizations and it’s like pulling teeth to try and find what we’re looking for so we’re still on the search.  Many say the “deadline” is already passed.  Um, there’s still 9 days until Christmas so I don’t see how that’s possible.  “Sorry Mr and Mrs Jones and children…I didn’t meet the deadline so no Christmas for you.”  Why can’t there just be one central website that refers you to places based on your location?  If you should happen to know of such a site, feel free to list it in the comments. 

Well, suppose I’ll sign off for now.    Have a good one!

It’s official, we’ve broken down as a society.  Assholes who deserve to burn in hell have become the majority.  The Seattle Times reports about how the man who was trampled by deal seeking zombies was actually taunted as he lay there dying.

The paramedic stops pumping. The man’s shirt has been pulled to his neck, revealing his belly. A woman in the crowd mutters, “Pregnant.”

The women laugh.

Another cracks a joke.

To the woman who muttered the word pregnant, to the other who cracked a joke and/or laughed and to anyone reading this who found that disgusting display amusing…there’s a special place in hell for you all and I hope you know what it is to be publicly humiliated before taking your place in hell.  I do hope it’s not as you lay dying though because even I wouldn’t wish that fate on pieces of crap like you.  Where is the decency in this world people?  What happened to the America that we saw after 9/11 and witnessed people treating each other with dignity and respect and reaching out to help one another.  What would people have done if the same man was laying in the rubble in lower Manhattan and heard of the same story?  People would be outraged.  But since this was just a greeter at Walmart, one whom I might add didn’t even want to be up there because he’d transferred to back door duty after “getting fed up with rude customers”, it doesn’t seem to matter. 

If you want to read more about this sad commentary on the gutless turds we call fellow shoppers, click here.

Since we have no Krispy Kreme’s within 8 miles of us, we usually save getting a dozen of their lovely chocolate iced cream filled for an every once in a while treat.  Sure we could get them at the local grocery stores but let’s face it, they’re nowhere near as good and almost always stale and not worth the money.  Today we made the journey and when we got home we were miffed to day the least.  Before, you would barely have enough room for the donuts to fit.  Now they practically look like appetizers.  They’re roughly 1/3 to 1/2 the size they used to be and yet they’re still charging $7 per dozen.  Do you think we don’t see they are visibly smaller?  Do you think we don’t realize we’re getting financially raped by yet one more friggin’ company who has decided to charge the same price for less product??  Yes because with the economy in the crapper we enjoy yet one more company being financially greedy and taking advantage of the little money we have left after paying our mortgage, higher utilities, higher taxes, etc.  So we’ll either stop going there and find another donut place who doesn’t relish in giving us less for the same price or make our already infrequent visits there even less frequent.  Corporate greed sucks.

(Excuse any typos, I’m in a hurry but not enough of one to not bitch for a moment)

We’ve been watching Food Network since its inception and always loved these charismatic chefs they chose.  We were die hard Emeril fans and I admit the last 2 years of his show on FN, we slacked off being as regular viewers as we once were.  When they had Bobby Flay on neither of us cared for him because he just came off as an arrogant tool.  I think he’s softened a bit but the man thinks he’s still full on tool.  I, like many people, just loved Paula Deen when she came to the network.  It was like watching your down home grandma make your favorite comfort foods.  After her ballooning in success, it seemed ol’ Paula was everywhere and her accent seemed more and more grating to the point, I can’t even watch her anymore without changing it halfway through.  This accent has ruined us for Down Home with the Neeleys between their accent and their constant dry humping, I’ve yet to make it through a whole episode without muting or saying “that’s enough.”  Then you have Giada DeLaurentis.  Petite, all teeth and forehead, Giada.  We loved her show more for the beautiful way it was shot and the man liked watching her boobies the whole time.  As time has gone on, her head has gotten bigger and her bitchiness has come through quite a few times.  Well a perfect example was Oprah yesterday.  She was on with Oprah and that Nate dude and made some disgusting brie, basil and chocolate panini.  Nate was very polite and even took a 2nd piece which you knew he’d probably “accidentally” drop, Oprah called it “interesting” and then upped it to good when Giada was getting visibly pissed they weren’t fawning over her childhood nosh.  Then they gave it to the audience and she asked them what they though and you didn’t get an overwhelming “Mmm” or clapping or anything, you could just hear a few “interesting’s” or random noises.  (I’m sure they edited out the sounds of people horking it back up)  She was not a pleased little diva.  Two of the few “old standbys” that I still like is Alton Brown’s Good Eats and Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa.  Now yes, Alton can get a tad annoying at times but overall his show is so entertaining, we overlook it.  Ina, I really should loathe given she’s showing off her Hampton snoot which should make her completely unrelatable to 90% of her viewers but somehow she still reels me in with the good recipes.

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I’m not a Britney fan and I do little more than shake my head at her most times and move on with my life as some new story pops up.  I got reeled in by my morbid curiosity to watch her special Britney: For the Record which was pretty much uninterrupted except by her own fragrance commercials.  I was hoping to come away with some understanding of why she’s made the choices she made over the past few years but that wasn’t really the case.  She didn’t say more than she was going through hard times or how her marriage ending was hard on her.  Well, okay…most of us surmised that on our own.  The whole head shaving thing?  “People shave their heads all the time.”  Um actually no they don’t Brit and especially not one of the most searched people on the internet so you can’t see why this would be news?  I mean I don’t particularly care but apparently lots of people do or else people wouldn’t bother to tune in to your latest train wreck.  I don’t know how she lives with the whole paparazzi thing but I still felt like a lot of the things she was saying were off of a script her Dad probably gave her to make her appear sane to the courts.  Of course, that dude isn’t the most stable either.  When you dress up in a killer, evil clown that would induce a heart attack to a 30 year old, why the hell would you dress up in it and terrorize your grandchildren with it??  This will surely be a topic in their therapy as they recall one of their first memories.  I weep for those children.

The most shocking thing in this special actually had nothing to do with Britney but Madonna.  What the HELL happened to her face???  I mean I remember seeing that one really hideous pic of her without makeup coming out of the Kaballah place and her face looked all plastic surgery mangled.  I just figured it was a weird angle or something.  Well that special showed that that pic was no weird angle.  You know that “Cat Lady” they’ll occasionally show who looks like a lion from so much plastic surgery?  Well let’s just say the man and I saw the definite beginnings of that look.  She looks like she might’ve had cheek implants and maybe collagen in the lips and her forehead definitely doesn’t move.  I shudder to think what she’s going to look like in 10 years when she hits 60 and has that tell tale old woman neck and gnarled hands but this smooth, injected face.  People, learn to grow old gracefully.  Seriously, you look idiotic.