Am I really asking for too much?

All I want is a hot shower and clear water. It's not like I live somewhere where this isn't available. Stupid cheap apartments in the ghetto.

No Junior Mints, WHAT?

So hung out with the little kid sister yesterday. Gretchen, now 13 wanted to see "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past," why? Because it has Matthew McConaughey in it. Ok Gretchen, that's the movie we'll go see.

First we had to do lunch. It's hard picking a place with her when she loves so much junk food and can't give me a real answer when I ask her what she wants. So since we we're going to Edwards to see the movie, I chose Johnny Rockets. We had a nice lunch and couldn't finish all our food.

Then we went to get tickets for the movie. After we got the tickets, it was of course, time to go get candy to sneak into the theatre. First we went to VONS. Gretchen wanted sour patch kids. I like them too. But she insists she hates other sour candy and that it just tastes "sooo different." Uh-huh. I want Junior Mints of course, because you DON'T go to a movie WITHOUT JUNIOR MINTS! VONS didn't have any. So we didn't buy anything at VONS and went to Rite Aid instead. Got the Sour Patch Kids, but suprisingly not in normal size or jumbo size did Rite Aid have any Junior Mints. The tag existed for the candy, but an empty shelf was in its place. WHAT? How can you be ALL OUT of Junior Mints?



So I resigned myself to pay the $4 or more at the Theatre for Junior Mints. We picked our seats and then I went back to the counter to get my candy. The candy is now sitting on racks outside the concession stand instead of inside that little glass box. Resses Pieces, Red Vines, and some new nasty candy called Muddy Bears were a plenty. I did not see any Junior Mints. When I got to the counter the concession worker told me that they didn't have any. Not that they were out, but that they don't have them and do NOT sell them. Ever.

I asked to speak with her manager. Seriously, I did.

I asked her: "Please tell me your business decision for choosing not to sell Junior Mints."

She looked at me and said "We never sold Junior Mints, and I've been here for 8 years."

Now, I know that I have some funky stuff going on upstairs, but it's only been 5 years since I've been away from Bako and I told her "I think you're mistaken because I haven't been away that long and I've had Junior Mints before..."

She went on to tell me that they just don't have them because they have a contract with Nestle and Hershey's. Who the hell distributes Junior Mints?

Ok fine, don't sell them. Your patrons are now 3x as likely to bring in their own candy from other stores, not just because they have the junior mints but all their other candy will be cheaper too.

Not smart.

So the reason for all the missing Junior Mints at the Marketplace shops is no longer a mystery.

Seriously, who makes fun of deaf people?

My daily outrage is that I can't go into great detail about what happened today because, as we all learned a few months ago, what we write on these blogs can come back to haunt us and I don't want to lose my job. All I'll say on here is that people who make fun of other people for being deaf and who yell at their server and their server's manager because their food took took long (despite the fact that they couldn't figure out what they wanted), and then claim that the food came out wrong are very, very frustrating and I am very, very grateful that once I'm a CST my customers will be unconcious. I mean, seriously? "Do you think they can hear us?" ugh.

ants

The ants are back and I have three children that shy away from cleanliness like an ant is drawn to their crumbs, popsicle sticks, yogurt containers, left over marshmallows from the ponies party, pretty much the trail of their existence. Oh how I hate the ants.....you would think that if your family invaded a country and daily a giant was gruesomely killing numerous members of your family YOU WOULD GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE. Apparently ants do not think like I do and therefor the ultimate battle of the summer has begun. It is on and and many more ants will die before this battle is over.

Dangerous Drivers

I was on the 99 heading South and taking the 58 East off ramp... At the very last moment, someone from 2 lanes to the left decided they also needed that off ramp...  Now we've all seen this a million times and some of us have done it.. Swerved to the right across 2-3 lanes only to clip the dirt that we're not suppose to be on..  But today is was an ENTIRE SEMI TRUCK!!!  Seriously people???  A number of things could have gone wrong with this situation.. starting with the size of the truck, the speed, etc.. not a good idea...    and all right in front of us (me & kids)..  

Access Denied= Poor Customer Service

Here I am at the Hilton Hospital of La Jolla, California-able to get onto the internet and update a blog, but unable to access Facebook. Social Networking is bad when your in the hospital. Someone could get offended. Nurses could sit on their bottoms all day. And Patients would spend hours online updating their friends and families about current health conditions. Stupid patients, have to ruin it for all of us.

Semi-humorous outrage

I got some new fabric so of course I start making some more blankets. Well today I started making one for my brother Johnny. My one brother that semi eats kosher and occasionally goes to the synagogue. Well look what appeared as the design on the blanket. This is what happens when you are a beginner sewer attempting to make new designs with her quilt squares. I wanted to cry but found myself laughing and the whole time I hear my mom's voice in my head saying, "I would expect this from you" so maybe I will just give the blanket to my mom. No I think that I will just burn it or take out all the stitches or.....
Well whatever I am outraged, crying inside but I think after a couple beers I will just be laughing.
Love, The Jewish Girl

Pet insects

Aiden just got out of the bathtub and came to me and said, I swear this is word for word, 

"I hope my mealworm wants some hair smell."  

And the outrageous thing is, I knew exactly what he was talking about.

Stupidness

Why is it soosoooo impossible to find a map of either the bike trail through Bakersfield or a map of the walk way at the Bluffs...  UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!  

I guess I did find a stupid map of the  bike trail, but seriously, why would the city of Bakersfield have a page "talking" about the trail and then not have a map on how to get there..  

By the by, I know where it is and where to go, but this is not my point.. What about those who just moved here and are looking for some exercise...  

Cheese conspiracy

Tillamook ran out of sharp cheddar.  Huh?  For weeks, I kept thinking that there has been someone buying all of my cheese before I could get to the store.  I had to make Macaroni and Cheese with the black cheddar...because Tillamook ran out of the red wrapper cheese, the only staple in this house.  We might run out of toilet paper, but never Tillamook sharp cheddar.  And then I find out via Facebook, via Esther Lee, via Carina, that Tillamook themselves sold out and will have it back on the shelves by July 1.  Isn't it their business to keep a sufficient supply of cheese percolating, or whatever cheese does, so that I can make Macaroni and Cheese the proper way?  And people are worried about swine flu...

State of the schools

We have been told by the superintendent that our class size will go up to 25 next year.  And I suppose we are still going to be expected to teach addition and subtraction with regrouping, fractions (comparing unlike fractions), time (elapsed time and time before the hour), money (making change), multiplication, division, possessive plural nouns, cause and effect, fact and opinion, trustworthiness, respect, fairness, responsibility, citizenship, caring...to seven-year olds. To twenty-five 7-year olds.