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50 Little Things
I am taking the advice of Mer and doing a list today for fun. Might be harder than I think. I am going to attempt to list 50 little things about me. I know many of these may be things already known, but let's see if I can find some new ones.
- I like Yoko Ono.
- Today is my husband's birthday.
- I am studying Spanish on the Duolingo app.
- I have a banjo.
- I own a scooter I am going to ride as soon as it's fixed.
- I know how to solder.
- I like Eminem.
- I live around the block from my childhood home.
- I collect old phones and radios.
- I do not like Journey.
- I am an amateur radio operator, licensed for 20 years.
- I am a Dudeist Priestess able to perform weddings, funerals, etc.
- I love Shakespeare plays.
- I love almost all vegetables.
- I like to follow Cleveland baseball.
- Surprisingly, I like tv shows such as: Wagon Train, The Rifleman, and Gunsmoke.
- I am distantly related to Dave Mustaine of Megadeth.
- I like Metallica
- There is a picture of me wearing a dashiki in my high school year book. I love colorful clothes.
- I used to be on a golf league. I LOVED it. I was a terrible player, but really enjoyed playing.
- I was arrested at 18 for disorderly conduct. The police had to wake me up to arrest me…..
- I had my first child when I was 19. He is going to be 34 this year and is a great person.
- My husband says I can't whistle, but I can. A little. Badly. For a very short time. hahahaha
- I have seen Weird Al in concert almost every year since 1996.
- I taught Sunday school in the early 90s.
- I like square dancing even though I never do it anymore. Since junior high.
- I was a competitive swimmer for 6 years.
- OMG How is it not on the top of the list?? I LOVE THE BEATLES! I was in discussion about Yoko today so she was on my mind first. But the BEATLES are IT.
- I LOVE Frank Zappa. He is fantastic. I hadn't felt love for a musician like this since the Beatles. The Beatles are always first, but then FRANK.
- I am a HUGE Harry Potter fan. I have all the clothes to dress up, three wands, of course all the books, regular and large print for when I am older. Anything I can get my hands on Harry Potter makes me happy.
- I have three brothers, one a year and a half older than I, one a year and a half younger and one seven years younger.
- I stopped smoking 2 years ago this May on my birthday.
- I didn't care for the movie The Revenant.
- I am very afraid of spiders. They can just go to hell. Or away from me. Either one is okay.
- I like to fish.
- I love to read. Duh
- I can change a tire.
- I am almost 53 years old and I do not dye my hair. I have a little gray hair but I earned it. I am not going to dye it. It's short anyway.
- I have been to Alaska.
- I do not carry a purse. I haven't since 1994.
- We have a clock in every room, including the bathroom. Do you guys, too?
- We use 24 hour time on our digital clocks.
- I do not like bananas.
- I love donuts, but don't eat them because I can't stop.
- I like to crochet, knit, and cross stitch.
- I do not smoke crack.
- I watch MeTv with my husband almost every night after he gets home from work.
- I like sparkly stuff.
- I have the ashes of my last two kitties on my coffee table.
- I think this was a fun post for me. Thanks Mer!
My husband and I finally got my father's house totally cleaned out this weekend. My dad died in May last year and the final thing to do for the estate is to sell his house. We (my brothers and I) needed to empty it out first. I've slowly been cleaning it out. Piece by piece. Giving different things away, keeping things for myself, throwing other things away. The things in the house were all fairly new. He had the whole inside of the house redone in 2007, so memories cleaning out the inside of the house were only a few years old. The outside of the house has been a different thing.
Nothing on the outside of the house has changed in the 50 years my parents and then my father lived in the house other than getting siding put on in the 70s. Nothing had been changed but nothing had been maintained either. The grass was cut by my father growing up and then a company when he was too sick to do it anymore, but other than that, nothing was done. Bushes were overgrown, weeds were everywhere, piles of wood and rotted wood were all around the small property.
That has all been cleaned up. The house looks just like it did when we were kids. All three of my brothers have been there at different times to pick things up or to do some work on the yard. Each of them reminisces about different times growing up. I hear the stories, I see the house, I start to feel sad that it will soon be sold.
But I remember that my brothers and I are lucky. We all grew up together in the same house. We never had to move as kids. Never had to switch schools. My parents continued to live there after we all moved out so when we came home we really felt like we were HOME. I moved around the block from my parents in 1996 and was lucky enough to be with my mother a lot during her last year of life. My father lived there until last year when he died. We are lucky to have those 50 years of memories, not all good, but many happy ones also, to reminisce and laugh about with my brothers.
So I am starting to get used to the idea of someone else living there. I still live around the block and pass the house quite often.
I hope whoever buys it, enjoys it. It's just a small house with a little fenced yard. It was much more to us. It was home.
My favorite childhood toy
Bacon, over at PigLove, had a suggestion to write our Blogs, today, 30 June 2014 (My son's 32nd birthday, by the way), about our favorite childhood toy. It's all for Bacon's Show & Tell.
The first toy that came to mind was my pogo stick. I got this in the year of purple, sixth grade, so I must have been about 11 or 12. I call it the year of purple because that Christmas my parents somehow got the idea that I REALLY like purple. They kindly bought me a purple parka, purple turtle neck, purple corduroys, and purple glittery sox. This was 1974 or 75. I didn't like purple. In addition to all the purple clothing, I got a purple pogo stick. I might not have liked purple, but I sure did love that pogo stick!
That winter was not a very snowy one from what I recall. I put on all my new purple gear and went out to try out the REAL gift! I pogoed up and down the street and was even nice enough to let my brothers try a go.
I don't have that pogo stick anymore. I kept it all year and the next and then I was a teenager and on to my new hobby of collecting anything Beatles and I didn't seem as interested in my pogo.
I live in Greater Cleveland, Ohio. I grew up in the same suburb where I live now. I like where I live okay. The suburb has changed somewhat, though. For me, it's going to change again soon.
I live in a college town. Not a big place, but not somewhere where everyone knows everyone else. I grew up here. I now live around a small block from where I grew up. I can almost throw a stone from my back yard and have it land on my parents' front lawn. Okay, the yards are not very big, so that's not very impressive, but you get the idea.
I did live in the city of Cleveland proper for about 10 years and I really enjoyed it. Everyone on our block knew everyone else. People walked to the store and sat on the steps. Our kids went outside to play at other kids' houses since all the parents knew each other. If a child misbehaved you can bet the parents would be calling your parents and there would be a punishment. You never heard "my little Johnny wouldn't do that!" We all knew each other's children too well. Our children went to school together and families attended mass together (there was a Catholic school across the street, where most of the neighborhood kids attended). It was very much like my experience growing up in the 1960s and 70s, but in the 1990s.
The street where I grew up had several families with children. Our next-door neighbors alone had eight children to contribute to the group of kids on the street. Most families at the time had three or four kids. We had a large, great group of kids to play all kinds of games.
Of course, as you grow up, things and neighborhoods change. We kids grew up and moved away. Many of our parents stayed in our childhood homes and when we came home we still knew all the neighbors. Slowly, the older residents passed away and their houses were sold. A few parents moved to Florida to retire, but five of the core parents still live there. Our next-door neighbors' parents lived for many years next to my parents until both the neighbors passed away. Mrs. Smith (now Myers), Mrs. Gortz, Fran and Ray (I forget their last names), Sharon, Kenny and my father were all still on the street.
My father passed away last year and my parents' house is about to be put on the market. Last weekend I sold my father's motorhome. We as a family, my parents after retirement and my father after my mother passed away have always owned a motorhome. Seeing his house now without one in the drive way is a shock to me. I then realize that soon the house will be owned by another family. My family has lived there for 50 years exactly. My friend Connie's mother will now be the longest resident of the neighborhood. I will pass the house often once the new people move in.
It is very emotional. I moved so close to my parents to be near my mother, who watched my children and with whom I spoke every day. There are some darker reasons I'd rather not go into here, but I wanted to be near my mother. A month after I moved in my mother found out she had cancer and she died within ten months. So, that was a difficult change. Now the house will be totally out of the family and I am having a hard time some days with that.
All neighborhoods change and grow. I hope that a young family buys the house and enjoys living there as much as our family did. Unfortunately, I don't think they will have quite as much fun. There aren't as many children there now, kids don't play outside as much.
I am getting old. I'm starting to sound like those stereotypical old people: "Why, in my day…."
Helter Skelter
Merry posted a contest with a Beatles theme. She is asking readers to pick from a list of Beatles songs (all Paul songs, I notice) and write or draw a post based on that song. Well, Merry is my Beatles Buddy and this was hard to pass up.
I considered the songs listed and vacillated between Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Helter Skelter. MSH would be easier I thought….but then I do love Helter Skelter and that song, in a twisted way, helped introduce me to the Beatles.
I was about 13 years old, I believe when I started liking the Beatles. My friend and I had listened to Ringo's solo albums for a couple of years before this (my friend's aunt's records). I had listened to my aunt's Beatles albums when I stayed with my grandparents once. But we were just casual about them. Oh the band Ringo used to be in.
This was all in 1976 when, as I said, I was 13. A friend and I were voracious readers. We both had seen the made for tv movie "Helter Skelter" that year and decided to read the book. We read all about the Manson family's twisted interpretations of the Beatles songs. Helter Skelter in particular seemed sinister after reading what the song represented to the Manson Family. (I could go on forever about the whole Manson family thing, but that's a whole post) We had to hear more of this song and these Beatles.
We must have borrowed the record album from the library because her aunt liked the mop topped early Beatles and although my aunt had this album I did not have access to it. Anyway, we fell in love with the Beatles and became lifelong fans. It didn't hurt that there was a second smaller wave of Beatlemania that year as rumors swirled that the Bealtes might get back together for this or that charity or show. They had only broken up six years earlier.
Years later, I met another life-long Beatles fan, Miss Merry. We became fast friends bonding over the Beatles those first few months. We now attend Beatles related shows and got to see Paul McCartney live in concert together! He played Helter Skelter that night, too.
This summer we are going to see Ringo Starr and his All-Star Band. We can't wait!
The song was written by Paul McCartney. It is one of Paul's most rocking Beatles tunes. He puts loud almost heavy metal guitar in this song with a driving vocal, almost screaming, "Helter Skelter, we're comin' down fast!"
Paul has said that Helter Skelter is an amusement park ride in England and also means topsy turvy.
The song certainly takes you for a ride. From beginning to end this song rocks out. It also has one of the first fake fade out endings in rock. Give it a listen and take a wild ride courtesy of Sir Paul McCartney.


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Turbines on the up at Hoprigshiels
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Massive turbine deliveries have been successfully completed at the Hoprigshiels windfarm that CES is jointly developing with Berwickshire Housing Association.
One turbine has now been erected and two more are soon to follow. Members of the CES Board paid a visit to see for themselves how well the construction is progressing.
CES Board member, David Newman, at the foot of Hoprigsheils turbine 3, with T1 behind.
To see more pictures of the amazing machines – and skilful people – that transported the turbine towers, blades and generator unit to the site in the Scottish Borders, take a look at the windfarm's blog site Winds of Change.
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Into The Arena demo 2008
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A free-to-download demo of Hollands top-coverband INTO THE ARENA
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Recorded live at "Jack's Place", December 23, 2007
Mixed in January, 2008
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First or all, let me say I don't really believe in Karma. Well not the whole eastern religious, second life, return as a snake or a king, kind of thing. But I do believe that to some extent, what goes around comes around. The way you treat people is a reflection of yourself and your values. Showering love on someone and being loved in return is definitely no bad thing! I have coined it " LOVE KARMA"
The Christian concept of reaping what you sow from Galatians 6:7 sort of talks about the same thing.
Galatians 6:7-8
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked.
A man reaps what he sows.
Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction;
whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
This last two weeks, I have really felt overwhelmed with love karma. I spent several days with Ramatou and her family, visiting the hospitals, getting the actual surgery done and then follow up appointments. When I saw Ramatou wheeled out of the operating room and across the courtyard into the patient wing, I had this strange sense of strong emotion sweep over me and I got all choked up. I felt so grateful. I was so excited for her new lease on life- pain free! I hope to see her grow and be happy and walk freely and run. When she awoke from her anaesthetic she asked for me. I went into the wing (it wasn't yet visiting hours but I was lurking around anyway) and came over to her. She was groggy. She grabbed my hand and pulled me in close to talk to me. Her first words were not poetic, they weren't deep heart touching words or anything. She said " Chantelle- I want a banana. Or an Apple!" and she said it with such clear longing and force that it made me smile. Then she said "Or maybe a mango, or some fruit juice – I am sooo hungry Chantelle!" I asked the nurse if she could eat yet and was told the lunch meal was about 30 minutes away and she would have to wait for that. I sat on the edge of the bed and held her hand and chatted with her and her mom while we waited. Once she dozed and her head faced her mom and suddenly she said to her Mom- "Where is Chantelle????" Her Mom told her I was right there and she moved her head and saw me sitting on the other side and gave me this big smile and squeezed my hand. She was so funny and candid for the next few hours as we ate and then waited to be released. Her Mom kept ssshing her for being so blunt and direct with me (which did not bother me one iota but her mom would have seen as her being rude to me) and we just laughed. I told her Mom it was just the medication talking. We joked that today she was crazy, but tomorrow she would be back to normal Ramatou. At her insistence, I promised to buy a bag of mangoes on the way home to quench her mango craving.
When we arrived back at her house, a crowd of people came running to welcome her back. They gathered around her and helped her onto a padded mat on the ground. Of course she asked right away for a mango. They will take good care of her for the next week while she heals and doesn't do any major lifting or running or anything. The incision is only 1.5 inches long, but she still needs to be careful. A few of the older women came over to talk to me. I love the old women here who have seen so many things in their lives. Their folds of weathered skin and sunken eyes tell the story of hard times and their nomadic lifestyle. One of the old women blessed me. I mean actually blessed me. She kissed her hand and then touched it to my forehead, all the while asking for her Allah's blessing on me and my life. She did this several times in a row and it was all I could do to keep tears from rolling down my cheeks. Everything I had given to Ramatou she gave me right back in that love, that kiss on my forehead and her blessing. Love Karma.
I asked Paul when I got home if it was wrong to love the love in return. I don't do it for the return love and often here in this country our love can be met with spits in the face, but we keep on loving anyways. But those times when our love is returned with love, my heart is glad. I told Paul, it might seem crazy, but maybe I would do this job forever just for that love. I don`t need accolades, recognition or awards - I can live on those little bits of love karma alone. So yeah….maybe that sounds a little bit crazy :) .
It was another day that I was reminded that I am so thankful to be in this place, at this time, doing this work, to be God's hand to her. Let's make it clear- I am just the tool. We don't celebrate a hammer in the Master's hand, we celebrate and are thankful to the Master himself. Let me tell you, I am one happy hammer!
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?" -Henry David Thoreau
If this is what love karma is…bring it on!
Ramatou back at this school Wednesday- pain free!!


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Chris Dent's AOL cityscape
Illustrator Chris Dent has drawn a cityscape mural featuring iconic landmarks from eight locations for AOL's London office.
Illustrator Chris Dent has drawn a cityscape mural featuring iconic landmarks from eight locations for AOL's London office.
Dent's mural represents the eight cities AOL is based in and features 15 landmarks from London, New York, Paris, Toronto, Madrid, Stockholm, Berlin and Copenhagen, including the CN Tower, the Empire State Building, the Shard and the Eiffel Tower.
"It was important to have a variation of architecture within the piece to provide balance but also to make it visually stimulating for the people seeing it every day," says Dent.
"The process for the AOL piece was very much similar to my normal working process, just on a much larger scale: I collage together a landscape on the computer, then work it into a sketch which forms the base of my final drawing.
"All of my work is hand drawn with rapidograph pens, which are extremely delicate but for this piece, I had to use posca pens, which are obviously thicker and more durable," he adds.
Dent has specialised in architectural and cityscape illustrations since graduating from Camberwell College of Arts in 2006. "Ever since visiting New York as a child, I have been fascinated by the workings of cities and how they adapt to the world we live in. As much as I find cityscapes beautiful to look at, it's the construction of buildings and their context which gives me such a passion for this subject," he says.
He has previously worked with AOL on smaller-scale canvases and was commissioned by the AOL Artists programme, an initiative that funds original art, exhibitions and installations. The programme recruits a different guest curator each month and now has a collection of 150 artworks – you can see more of them on the AOL Artists website.


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7 great Latinx-owned eateries in Portland
Portland is home to plenty of authentic eateries from every corner of Latin America. Read on for some of the best Latinx-owned eateries in Portland.Read More »
Portland designers of color
Ready to upgrade your wardrobe, Portland-style? Turn heads with the latest fashions from these celebrated Portland designers of color.Read More »
Outdoors opportunities for people of color in Portland
These five fantastic local organizations are helping people of every culture, race and ethnicity experience the Pacific Northwest's natural beauty.Read More »
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Eat your way through nine countries (Cuba, Korea, Ethiopia, Russia, Mexico, Sweden, Lebanon, Germany and Argentina) at Portland's international restaurants.Read More »
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Portland's murals serve as an introduction to the city's rich multicultural history, as illustrated by some of the world's most accomplished muralists.Read More »
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Mack's Split Rail Bar-B-Que
In Wyatt McSpadden's book Texas BBQ from 2009 there are two evocative early-morning photos of the tall smokestack at Mack's Split Rail Bar-B-Que in Mineola. Other than these photos, I hadn't seen or heard much about the place and wondered if maybe it had closed. On a trip to Tyler for a barbecue festival, I …
Foster Mother Whose Children Testified in the "Mineola Swingers Club" Case Now Accused of Abuse
Eight years ago Margie Cantrell pushed law enforcement to investigate allegations of abuse by a group of adults in Mineola. Seven people were convicted of child sexual abuse, and the scandal rocked East Texas. Now, two of those same children are alleging Cantrell physically abused them.
Reversal of Misfortune
New trials for two of the Mineola Swinger's Club defendants.
An Absolute Honest-to-God Texas Frame-up
The "Mineola Swingers Club" cases come to a disgraceful end.
The Verdict
Another defendant in the Mineola child sex ring crimes is found guilty.
When DAs Attack!
The Mineola child sex ring scandal keeps getting weirder.
Sex, Lies, and Videotapes
The Texas attorney general takes a second look at the Mineola child sex ring cases.
Trial and Error
The wheels of justice (or injustice) continue to turn in the shockingly bizarre Mineola swingers club case.
Across The Line
Was the quaint East Texas town of Mineola home to a horrific child sex ring? Were the three people sent to prison last year for running it guilty? Was justice served? Depends on which district attorney you ask.
When adults are accused of unthinkable crimes against children, what's fact and what's fiction can get lost in translation.


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Pages: 144
Publisher: Matador (January 15, 2008)
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The 4 unlisted endings all involve a direct trip to the after life. Failing to disarm a bomb, touching poisonous powder, getting a grenade lobbed at you, and allowing your hut to be blown up will all get you killed. Days you can be ended are 15, 20, 21, and 31.
General Imprisonment
The easiest way to lose the game is to fail to process fast enough or accurately enough and go into debt. This is a pretty bad ending. Other reasons you can go to jail include failure to bend the rules for your supervisor, being a little too honest with a government agent investigating your ties to the rebel group EZIC, and tranquilizing civilians or rebels. You can be sent to prison at absolutely any time.
Poor Parenting
You will be immediately fired from your job if at any point your family all dies. Most of the time this is due to not being able to afford your bills at the end of each day. The game will punish you for not being very efficient and quick with your processing skills. Coming home after multiple days of being unable to afford heat, food, or medicine will result in the health of your family failing. If you cannot prove that you proliferate and care for your family, you'll be shown the door. Arstotzka is a land of prosperity after all.
Hit me with your Best Shot
Once you get weaponry available to you, You'll be expected to defend your booth from insurgents, terrorists and malcontents. Using your weaponry on others is a quick way to end the game. Depending on who you shoot, and with which gun, you will be either imprisoned or scheduled for execution. Your family usually gets questioned about their involvement. Is it too soon to make a water boarding joke?
Getting out of Dodge
If you can manage to get yourself and maybe your family members out of the country, you get one of these endings. You will have to illegally confiscate an ID and $25 for each family member you can manage to bring along. Hope you weren't emotionally attached to too many of them. Doing or not doing EZIC tasks has no impact on this win condition.
Being a Rebel
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If you ignore the rebels, put your head down and do your job, shoot the terrorists, and refuse to run to Obristan, you can unlock another of the few good endings with the unlock to the endless mode.
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Watch for the Pitfalls
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Leave Room for a Mulligan
I get it. You don't want to be a slave to the rules. It has been said that this is an Empathy game. I like to think of it more of as a psych evaluation. Maybe you will have empathy and maybe you won't, but the behavior you exhibit in game will tell you more about yourself than pretty much any other game out there. Did you bend the rules? Who did you bend them for and why? You almost feel like the game plants you into a psychiatrist chair and demands you answer for your failure to navigate the murky moral and ethical soup of Papers, Please. Be sure to give yourself enough leeway to throw the occasional mulligan and get cited without penalty. After you get dinged twice in one day, having a big heart will mean pain for your family. You monster.


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Generally, I stay out of religion and politics.
I have to.
It's a matter of maintaining my sanity and a healthy blood pressure level. I used to write for the news, now I can barely watch it. My blood pressure literally soars and sometimes I get so frustrated that I can't express myself right.
FYI: I'm all about full disclosure and disclaimers. So, here it goes. I am a Christian girl. In fact, I'm an Arab Christian girl. I have absolutely no right to speak about Sharia Law, which is practiced in Saudi Arabia. I am not an expert; I did not get a PhD in Islamic studies. And to be honest, I don't even think it has remotely anything to do with religion whatsoever…ahhh…buuuut that's another blog. At any rate, plain and simple, it is not my place to comment. So, as a general rule, I usually keep my mouth shut about things that I don't know about—and only talk about the things that I do.
But every once in a while, I just have to put in my 2 cents.
By the way, that would be MY 2 cents.
Yup, all mine.
So, if I've overpaid, well then, I guess I just have to slap myself.
Let me also say that I have a couple of very good Saudi Arabian male friends. Friends of my own brother, who are like brothers to me, who I know, would NEVER slap a woman. EVER. And would literally beat a man silly if they ever laid a hand on me. They are honorable, good men, as so many are.
But I feel for my Saudi sisters in this predicament. I really do.
According to recent news reports, a Saudi Arabian judge told a group of women attending a domestic violence seminar that under the Law, a husband has the right to slap his wife if she overspends his money. He reportedly said ""if a person gives SR 1,200 [$320] to his wife and she spends 900 riyals [$240] to purchase an abaya [the black cover that women in Saudi Arabia must wear] from a brand shop and if her husband slaps her on the face as a reaction to her action, she deserves that punishment."
Let me repeat.
"…she deserves that punishment."
What's a girl to do?
What's a girl to do?
Suppose she is given $320 to go shopping, say for example for an upcoming wedding. By the way, who does that boy think he is giving out a mere $320—and he's a SAUDI? Is he crazy? What kind of budget is that? What in the world can you buy for $320 in a Kingdom where floor tiles are made of gold? Clearly, Saudi man is NOT doing the shopping around the house. Plus, for him, isn't that like equivalent to $25 bucks to the rest of us?
So anyways, girlfriend is given $320 to go shopping for an upcoming wedding. There's a huge blow out sale at Saudi Macy's and she discovers that these gorgeous to-die-for Louis Vuitton handbags, normally going for $250 are selling at 50% off! She buys them, but discovers that she doesn't have the right shoes to match! She just can't go around with mismatched shoes! So, she shops and shops and shops, exhausting herself, searching around for a bargain. She's an Arab chick, so naturally, she's going to WANT to get a bargain for her own satisfaction. It's just naturally in her blood, plus, being an Arab girl, she instinctively knows how to bargain down the price (as I explained in my last blog, Restaurants, Real Estate and Retail).
So girlfriend, is out in the mall, truly working it; trying to find the best deal that she possibly can without overspending. She's working hard, out there trying her best. She's eyeing some $795 Christian Louboutin's but forces herself to look away. The temptation is too great. A $350 pair of Cole Haan's is calling her name—impossible! That's more than her entire budget! She silences its voice. And the $820 Jimmy Chos is just enough to make her scream and pull every hair out of her head! She's about to lose it! Her mind races, the pressure is on! Talk about torture! Where is she going to find a pair of stilettos to fit in her budget? Girlfriend is panicking inside. She dashes out of the store. Just half way down the mall, Nordstrom's has these killer stilettos with rhinestones laced up the side going for 75% off! Prices are slashed! Normally selling for $125 but on sale—TODAY ONLY—for a whopping $31.25! Unbelievable! It's a miracle! Finally! So, now she's got the handbag and the matching shoes.
So, let's see, $320 minus $125…equals $195… plus the shoes at $31.25… $163.75 okay…that means we've got…let's see…$320 minus $163.75 equals…Wait did I do that right?
Wait…hold on… $320 minus $163.75 equals….okay, I think I got it…. equals $155.
UGHHH! It's not fair! She's out shopping all day running from store to store to store trying to find the best sale! And it's not fair! Because if she does get the handbag and shoes, then what about her hair? Because now Reema, her friend, just got new highlights and if Reema has new highlights, and she just has her regular old boring hair color. Well that's not right. Highlight treatments are expensive! Plus you gotta factor in the tip for the hair washing girl. That's at least $7 bucks there. Then another separate tip for the eyebrow waxing girl—at least $10. And yet another tip for the actual hairdresser! So, we got the hair washing girl tip…$7….wax girl tip comes to $10…plus hairdresser tip…$20…So, let's see….7 + 10 + 20 …THAT'S $37 IN TIPS ALONE!!! THAT'S INSANE!
(Isn't there some kind of reality shopping show like this out there? I swear, this sounds too familiar, there's gotta be one!)
And what about a pedicure? If all the women at the wedding are going to be dancing and showing off their new stilettos, they've gotta show off their pretty toes! What if all the girls have French manicured toenails, except her? That's not right! And we didn't even get to the dress, yet! The DRESS! Let alone the freekin' wedding gift!
It's wrong! Just plain wrong!
But don't forget, Ladies…Whatever you do, whatever happens…Don't swear or use offensive language to your husband…No matter how utterly frustrated you might get.
I swear, what a world of difference a Dollar Store Chain in Riyadh would make. Imagine that? No one would ever get slapped! And if she did, then she really WOULD deserve it. $320 in a Dollar Store, and you're still coming out short? Sorry girls, I'm siding with the guys on that one. I'd slap her my damn self.
But girls don't fret.
We can get through this! Don't be discouraged! I'm here to help. We can work around this silly little male-egoI-own-you-and-you-are-like-a-child-not-a-life-partner budgeting problem. We're strong women, we're smart women, we're bargain queens—and we're not going to crumble under pressure! Let's show 'em girls! We can play just as hard!
If you return the 2 shirts that you bought last week at Nordstrom's—actually if you just present the receipt itself—you can keep 1 shirt and the sales lady will just discount it to the original sale price, which was 50% more. So, you can keep that extra money. And the extra shirt.
Plus then if you charge it on your department store credit card that's an additional 10% off, plus with the store coupon its 35% …but you have to use the coupon between 7am and 9am — on Super Saturday only. Plus with the Mother's Day Sale it's an additional 15% off—Doors open at 7am sharp, ladies!
You can do this! You can do this!
Keep thinking positive girls!
Plus, if you go to "Saudi Supercuts" instead of "Salon De Marie Jean", and you wash your own hair at home by yourself first, and then just have them cut it. You can cut costs there, too. And, if you leave the salon with your hair still wet, you know, not styled or anything, I think you save an additional $10-$15 bucks. Plus think of all the money you'll be saving in tips! Whoa! You could probably afford buy a second pair of stilettos! Because in Saudi Supercuts, the hair washing girl, wax girl and hairdresser are all the same people, so you only have to tip once!
Pretty savvy, huh?
We're getting there, girls. We're getting there.
Here's another really important bonus tip:
Not only can you do your husband's laundry…But you can also launder his money!
Betcha didn't think about that as a super-savings tip, now did ya?
And believe me, girls, all that pocket change adds up real quick. When you go to select supermarkets, ask for cash back, that way you keep like $50 in your pocket and the withdrawal just shows up on your statement. And, come on, your husband never actually READS the statement, he just looks at the final total, and screams his head off about it, so he'll never know. (wink, wink ;)
We're making progress!
Okay … $240 minus $85 with the coupon … plus with the Special Mother's Day Dollar Discount, you get an additional 15%….Okay, so that's $125 minus $50…Okay…let me see where we're at here…we got the shoes…hair's done…and the pedicure….what are we missing? ….Something's missing… Something's definitely missing….Hold on…Wait a minute…hold on…..Shoes…pedicure…oh yeah, the highlights …Okay….Wow! We've got $60 bucks left to go…WOW! WE DID IT! WE DID IT! WOW! THIS IS GREAT! YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN! Honey, after all that work—plus, coming in under budget with $60 to spare? Unbelievable! You go girl!
I say, go treat yourself to lunch with the girls! Blow all $60 on the Chinese Buffet!
Jeez…doesn't that make you feel better? I know I do.
It's just a good feeling not to get slapped, isn't it?
And men should feel good, too. At least that one guy who just divorced his 8 year old wife, should. He's actually coming out ahead. Way ahead. He has no idea of how good he has it now. I mean, if you think about it, the overall financial burden of being married to her would definitely have cost him way more than the divorce itself.
I mean, come on, after all, no doubt, she would have spent money like crazy! 8 years old? Are you kidding me? All that ever comes out of 8 year old mouths are "Can you buy me this?… Can you buy me that?…I want this!… I want that!…" Being 8 years old and all, she just might have wanted to buy a pretty flowered pink scooter…
Oh wait…I'm sorry.
Silly me, that wouldn't happen.
What am I thinking?
Women can't drive.
By the way…
The first time a man ever touches me like that…
will be his last.