Okay.....this might be a train wreck post.....but man.....all I can say is that Paula Deen told the truth....companies are dropping her like flies....and she could have lied but she told the truth. And I for one...still have much luv for her. FACT! I have never considered myself to be a Racist but realize that I am 52 years old and times have changed soooooooooooo much since I was a kid...but guess what? I changed with them.
My niece Heather asked me today..."What did Gramma and Papa teach you?"( because I do have a lot of people who are a different color than me group of folks that come into the store and only want to deal with me and they have been doing that for years. ) And I don't think I was really taught anything about this except to look at the situation and to move on past that and try to make a change.
I live in Bakersfield California....I live on the outskirts called "Oildale"....where there seriously as legend goes....used to be a sign on the bridge as you were crossing over that said something like "N" don't let the sun set on your butt...there are still groups here of "white supreme-ists" (sorry don't quite know how to spell that one even with a spell check.) But finally in this day and age...Oildale is not a segregated area.
When I worked at the post office in the late 70's my best friend and confidante ....was "Rodger Dodger"...black as the ace of spades...and I even bowled on a bowling league with him back then called "The Black People's League" yep there were a few token white people on that league...but can you .. imagine for a minute... even at that time era if someone had started a bowling league called "The White People's League"....???????? Major Drama I would think.
Rodger used to come over to my house about twice a month and visit....and he would seriously actually "duck" every time a car drove by if we were standing out in the front yard...kind of as a joke....but it was real to me....and imagine my sadness and dismay a few years later when he was actually killed at a very young age in a drive-by shooting gangster style in his own neighborhood... where he was an innocent victim....in front of his home ? My best friend was an innocent victim of violence. And violence does occur in every color of the rainbow.....it is what it is.
My hubby grew up on "the South Side" and has more friends that aren't exactly white..and the neighborhood that he grew up in as predominately "black" is now typically "brown" and to me....it's a bit ironic about how many of the people still living there in that neighborhood are hatin' on the brown town (that today they are suddenly in the middle of)
All I can say is that today most of my customers in my day job seem to like me..they trust me... and I myself am not a saint....yep..years ago I probably used the "N" word...the same way I used the "FAG" word..the "Retard" word etc.etc. It may have been in a joking manner..or a wrong manner..but yep....I did it and am not ashamed to admit it. Thank GAWD I won't have all of these companies no longer endorsing my products because of this :)
At the same time..today one of my long time customers brought in his Mother -in-law who just moved back to Bako.... they brought with them the cutest little girl I had seen all day....I was talking to her....she was ignoring me like she was afraid to answer or talk to me and customer says "It's not just you....she ignores everyone even me when she is in one of her moods"..and I told her.."Come on girl...can't a silly old cracker like me at least get a hug?"...And at the end of it all....we became girlfriends :)
I know that there are indeed a lot of people out there who are still racist and (maybe we all have a bit of that instilled in us if we truly look inside.... ) but this is how I think....
In today's age..I would not look at certain people and call them the "N" word...but if it is truly an offense..(I think it is in my world at least) ---- In my opinion STOP! STILL using that word with each other and think it is "okay" to use that word and keep using it. STOP!
I myself did not put anyone on a boat and ship them off to America to become slaves. That wasn't me. And I think this might be why so many people in this country get so upset about being "blamed" for what our ancestors have done. And continue to keep on "hating " certain groups of people.
At the same time....many many of these people who tend to fall back on that "race card" are probably not aware that many many "crackers" view corporate America in the same way that they do. We feel they are not on our team or our side....we feel that the "lobbyists" and the people with money control the country and the government and that "they" are against "us". We feel like we are getting "taxed" and "hosed" every time we turn around or bend over.
In my opinion and the reason I chose to post this post that may be unpopular with some---ThisTOPIC has no "issue" or "color" story. I come from a family of "melting pot Americans"..we are all mixed something. And once we get past that and stop trying to blame someone else for what happened all of those years ago....we might be able to overcome the fact that we all are a beautiful rainbow.
And I only wish that the person I will go to my grave "knowing" as my best friend "Rodger Dodger"..was still here to hold my hand and tell me that "no matter what happens...we can get thru this together"
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Peace Forks and morning glories
I just got a dozen of these peace forks in from Zulilly...I stuck a few out in the yard and a few in the house
don't stay off of it :)
Anyone can be meaner than someone else if they work at it and try to be :)
So a couple of days ago someone starts this train wreck thread in the Etsy Forums saying something like "Regretsy should be shut down". And she was saying some strange stuff about the threats they were supposedly making to her ....and I was like "Wow.....has it gotten that bad?"
Regretsy has made me laugh so many times...I fell in love with the site the first time I ever entered. I used to go there 2- 3 times a week...mostly lurking....I commented in the forums a few times...but was never part of any crowd that frequently hangs out there. I have some friends there and I have some frenemies there and I don't know a lot of the other people there.
For me...visiting Regretsy 2-3 times a week eventually turned into once a week and then once a month towards the end....there just didn't seem to be a whole lot going on and then one day I looked and saw that April had shut the site down.
Okay..so having been one who drove a train wreck thread on Etsy.....I simply had to go and see what this gal was talking about over there on the dark side. When I went to the forums it had been so long since I signed in that I forgot the name I used the last time I signed in there. And it turned out that someone must be sprinkling some crack in the gals Cheerios...cuz there wasn't any type of threats going on in that thread about her. Some really funny stuff tho and I ended up having a weird dream about a handy clown. :)
And that's the deal I guess. Humor always seems to be at the expense of someone else. You're making fun of someone or something...and sometimes it's lighthearted and sometimes it's just down right mean. And certainly it is hurtful to the one being talked about regardless of whether they are thick skinned or sensitive.
So when I was over there I started reading some of the "reseller" threads...and hey! There I was in one of them. I remembered this gal Andrea who had some sort of a boner against me and kind of evident in the thread she started. Back when my train wreck thread happened.. for a couple of weeks I was going back and forth with some of the people who had said things about me and then it finally just got old. The only thing you end up proving is that yah anyone can say mean things about someone.
So last night I was like..."Okay Andrea....it's a free country....you said what you thought about me and here's what I think about you". And I posted and did it prove anything or make me feel better? Nope of course not. Will she maybe think twice before saying mean crap about someone she doesn't even know? Maybe. I took the post down pretty much because there wasn't any point to make. Someone named "potato" or tater spuds or something like that came over from the Regretsy forums and said something like..."You haven't been a lurker...you only came to the forums 2 days ago" or something like that....and there again....proof that anyone can say whatever they want but it doesn't make it a fact. Fact is that no one really knows what anyone is doing all of the time. Fact is that someone could sign in under 3 or 4 different "names" in that forum and other forums and talk back and forth to themselves in the same thread.
Bottom line....I know how much fun it is to poke fun at other things. I also know what it feels like to be in a train wreck thread where you are the one steering the damn thing crashing into the boonies. You get caught up in the heat of the moment and say stupid things. Sometimes people misinterpret what you are trying to say and sometimes you can just be dead wrong about what you are saying. Fact is we all make mistakes. Fact is we all get our feelings hurt at one point or another. And the fact is that the Regretsy forums are still pretty dad-gum entertaining. If there is something there that someone wrote about me and I don't like it..... I don't have to read it right? No one is forcing me to "click on it" right? And I don't have to be all "Bischhhh you said that about me...well here's what I think about you". right????
Heck I could be doing much more positive productive things like making more crap that someone might buy and if not....someone might get it for Christmas hee-hee. After spending 2 years going back and forth with a certain gal who stalks my blog...she says something...I say something back kind of thing.....and finally....I was able to do a pretty good job of keeping her on ignore LOL! I should have probably already learned a lesson that at the end of the day....you don't really win when you answer to what someone else is saying. All it does is validate that you might care what they are saying. And I don't know this Andrea chick and don't really know why she picked a boner with me.....but at the end of the day...why should I care what she thinks and why should she care what I think when we don't even know each other and will never be friends?
As long as I am able to get my arse out of bed each morning and keep driving my train....and manage to keep it on track most days.....then I'm doing pretty good. :) In my world at least...and speaking of my world.....damn it's hot today. I need to go find a block of ice to shove down my bra or something.
#about some train wrecks #lurkers #train wreck threads #I gots no Regretsies #mistakes I've made a few #I did it my way
CF4L sniffin foo
So when I got this tote some people were giving it some not so great reviews.... I had to go in and add a 5 star review :)
"CF4L LOVE Lub Luv Toten taller now 4L"
Reviewed by rhonda hood morrell 7/11/2012
Product Quality: Excellent
Print Quality: Excellent
Print Quality: Excellent
Recommended: Yes
Recommended for: Myself
Recommended for: Myself
Shipped on time: Yes
About the product:
I was amaaaazzzzzeeed balzzzzzzz at the quality and durability of this fabulous item........I was clustered and flustered all at the same time... seriously ranks on my top ten list (right behind best orgasm ever) .....the great price..the great product.....I immediately wanted to stuff it full of wonderful things and just carry it around and never let go of it! CF4L bissssssccccchhhheeeeessss...you got that right! You see me with this tote....you see how I roll and how I tote with a taller stride in my step now that I have this tote to tote????? Hollah! I want one in every color.
About the print:
C above 4L C above 4L C above 4L CF4L
Monday, June 24, 2013
glass pendant necklace made from an old vintage playing card
I love Lucy Peanuts vintage recycle one of a kind rainbow colorful hearts necklace
Thanks for looking! Spanky Luvs vintage and Spanky Luvs Lucy :)
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