Hard to believe that we are down to the final week of play in the SEC, America’s premiere College Football Conference again this year.

I had another very good week and this will be the next to last post of this nature.  I’ll shift to basketball in late December to prepare for the upcoming SEC conference season.

I am soooo looking forward to the Florida-Alabama game on December 5.  It is too bad that Bama will have their first loss prior to that date!

Note:  If you have not seen “The Blind Side” I highly encourage you to take the time and go see it.  Take some Kleenex along also-it is that kind of movie that makes you feel good as well as think.

Week 1:  9-3

Week 2:  4-2

Week 3:  7-2

Week 4:  7-1

Week 5:  6-1

Week 6:  4-3

Week 7:  4-2

Week 8:  4-2

Week 9:  5-2  (Gena’s picks)

Week 10:  8-0

Week 11:  3-4

Week 12:  5-1

Total:  66-23  (79.8% accuracy-maybe I have found a new living!)

יום שישי לפני שבועיים היה קריר ומעט גשום בבוקר.
ממש ככה ללא התראה התחיל גשם וברור שלא הייתי מוכנה… נרטבתי…
נכנסתי לסניף שופרסל שלי.
בכניסה – מעמד מטריות. אין כמו מעמד מטריות בפתח חנות כדי למשוך צרכנים שלא הקשיבו לתחזית יום קודם, יצאו מהבית בלי מטרייה ונתקעו בגשם (כמוני).

בהמשך מעמד של קלינקס עם מבצע שהיה מאד רלוונטי לאותו בוקר גשום:
קנה 2 אריזות קלינקס, קבל מטרייה. מענה מיידי לצורך צרכני קיים.

האריזה מאד יצירתית ומגניבה.
בחלק הקדמי שלה, מאוייר רדיו רכב או שעון. כך שהיא משתלבת מצויין על השולחן במשרד או על הדשבורד ברכב.
נחמד מאד!

Enquanto eu fazia uma pesquisa de referências de verão/tropical/natal para a festa de final de ano da empresa me deparei com esse post num blog que não conhecia. Achei bem legal, ao estilo do MKT na cozinha – se bem que não sou tão assídua para saber se eles não publicaram isso também.

Bom, segue por curiosidade mesmo:

bless you! …why you scream?

sry. wuz xpecting sum puffz plus.

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I have been home sick for the last few days. Here are some of the exciting things I’ve been up to:

I’ve been drinking lots of this:

and this too, 

By the way, did you know that you can go visit the Celestial Seasonings Tea Room in Boulder, CO? First you take a tour of the tea production plant and try free samples, and then you can visit the tea shop or eat at Celestial Cafe. It’s a whole tea experience. I think I need to go visit some friends in CO and take them out for tea.

I’ve been eating this:

Sadly what I’m eating  isn’t homemade; but it’s from our grocery store deli and tastes very yummy right now. Here is the recipe for this soup – Tuscan White Bean soup.

What I really want is homemade chicken soup. Maybe I can get my hubby DA to make me Fast Chicken Soup Base – it’s made with a rotisserie chicken.

I’m also using these – lots and lots of these:

Did you know that you can design your own box of Kleenex? For 4.99 you can get your very own personal box of tissues. How cool would it be to put your kid’s artwork on a box? Or how about designing a holiday box with all of those family Christmas photos? What a great gift for the person who has everything!

I’ve also been taking these:

Say it with me – Riiiiiiiiiiicola!

And I’ve been watching this:

Colin Firth – be still my heart!

and this too,

Josie Grossy, Josie Grossy!

And now I think I’m going to do this:

Except I’ll really be sleeping –  instead of laughing and looking cute.

I’ll be back to regular blogging in a few days.

Aunque no he comprado souvenirs ni regalos para nadie, parece que yo sí me he traído algo de Brasil. En el taxi de ida al aeropuerto empecé a estornudar y así sigo desde entonces. Compré unos kilos de paracetamol y hoy he ido a  por quince paquetes de Kleenex y un termómetro. Seguro que con tanto beso de bienvenida le he pegado el resfriado a toda la comitiva que me fue a esperar al aeropuerto (madre, hermana, sobrinos y Miquel, con cartelería incluída).

Tiene guasa que los paquetes de pañuelos estén decorados con chancletas ahora que llevo los pies oprimidos por las bambas.

Aunque tengo cosas que hacer, hoy es día de reclusión, a ver si así mañana estoy mejor. Ni siquiera he deshecho las maletas, pero eso es algo que siempre me da pereza. Los viajes no se acaban hasta que devuelves la maleta vacía al hueco que dejó en el trastero.

Por más coñazo que sea estar resfriado, hemos salido a dar unas vueltas en moto para reconocer la ciudad. Me han asustado los contenedores nuevos, parecen inmensos. Me han recordado a esculturas de Botero. También, por supuesto, he ido a desyunar y no podía ser en otro sitio que el Don Teo. El mejor croissant de chocolate de la ciudad.

Mi americano con hielo y mi croissant. Sólo me faltaba El País, que lo he comprado más tarde en la Ciutadella. El País en papel, un lujo.

Suena Fama. Desde que he llegado no he puesto música, sólo Cuatro. He echado de menos la tele. Sólo un poco.

Hasta mañana, penúltimo día de El Desayuno Saludable. El lunes empieza http://lavidadificil.wordpress.com.

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Finally, we got to the last game, which was in Sendai, which is a couple of hours north of Tokyo by Shinkansen.  We got to Sendai in the early afternoon so I had a chance to wander around near our hotel for a while before we could check in.  There wasn’t too much to see in the immediate vicinity, but I did get a chance to have another Japanese hamburger.  If you read my earlier posts, you’ll remember that the Japanese hamburger is more like meatloaf than a traditional hamburger.  You can get American burgers at McDonalds, but I didn’t see any, plus the Japanese hamburgers are not that bad.  While deciding what to order, an old lady got into line behind me.  Since I didn’t really know what I wanted to order (and I knew I’d need some extra time since I would have to point to what I wanted), I let her go ahead of me.  She thanked me profusely right then, and again later when I went to sit down, and then again when she was getting ready to leave.

Our hotel, the Hotel Metropolitan Sendai, was the nicest we stayed in during the whole trip.  It also just so happened to be the hotel that the Chiba Lotte Marines were staying in.  We saw a couple of them when we finally checked in (but alas, no Benny Agbayani) as they were preparing to go to the stadium for pre-game activities.

The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles are a recent expansion team (5 years old) that entered the Pacific League when the Blue Wave and Buffaloes merged.  Rakuten is a company that runs a diverse amount of online businesses, including e-commerce, portal, travel, and others.  They play in Kleenex Miyagi Stadium is one of the newest stadiums in the league, and I think one of the nicest.  The seats were a little close together, but it was still a nice place.

Since we saw the Marines the night before, I decided to root for them again (I also didn’t feel like buying an Eagles hat and I was already wearing the Marines one).  I had been hoping that Agbayani would be playing, but unfortunately, he didn’t play.  I think that’s why they lost 9-5.  It was far from a pitcher’s duel.

As I’ve said on numerous occasions, the Japanese love their mascots, and in some cases, they love the mascot more than the team.  In the US, other than college mascots, I’m not sure there is as much love for mascots other than the San Diego Chicken.  Japanese baseball teams have at least two mascots, at least one male and one female.  Some teams have a younger mascot as well, and others have a huge family of mascots (the SoftBank Hawks have 7 or 8).  The Eagles have three main mascots:

The above pictures are of a small trolley that is set up at the stadium that shows the names of the mascots.  I’m not sure if you can read them, but there is Clutch, Clutchina, and (for some reason), Mr. Carasco.  I have no idea why a mascot would be named Mr. Carasco, but he seems to be the “villain” of the group.  The Marines has a similar “bad boy” mascot, but I don’t remember his name.

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Why doesnt Kleenex market them better here?

Jane

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They should sell half-size Kleenex.

A lot of times when I blow my nose I only need half a Kleenex. And then I have to either toss that half-used Kleenex or save it.

I have to choose between wasting and allowing snot to fester.

This is a choice I don’t want to be faced with in the a.m.

p.s. Don’t you dare say something about how it’s not Kleenex, it’s Kleenex brand tissues, because everybody knows that already. Why don’t you also tell me that Prince wrote “Manic Monday”? Hey, guess what, shithead? I KNOW.

Our media sure does like hype and drama … and this hype has now spread into the school systems. Yesterday, I received an email advising that flu shots will be administered at the school for ‘only’ $25 per vaccine. It looks like the drug companies have found their own stimulus package.

Now, I am not a doctor, but neither are 98% of the people you see on TV telling you how bad and scary the H1N1 flu is. Anything to keep us as one scared mass, tuned in for more reasons to be scared. Is the flu dangerous? Yes, to those in high risk categories. For the rest of us, if you get the flu, stay home and get well. We will see you when you are back to normal and thank you for not infecting the rest of us.

I plan to treat this like any other flu season… wash your hands, use hand sanitizer as well as a bit of common sense. We will leave the flu shots for those who need them.

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No puedo evitarlo. Sven me cae bien. Considero que algo debe tener como técnico y, ahora veo, como actor. Vaya forma de dominar la bola de papel en este anuncio de Kleenex.

Y por si no bastara, el Detrás de Cámaras:

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My husband did our laundry last night. Didn’t check the pockets. What do you think was in them?

Of course, Kleenex. I couldn’t find a lint roller this morning, but I wasn’t willing to go out into the cold without my trusty fleece jacket, so I showed up at work looking like a giant pink-and-white pill ball. I figure people don’t really look up from there desks enough to notice a pill ball.

Many who have been in a relationship know that the hardest part is overcoming the break-up.  However, the real newsflash is that your ass just won’t let go.  Therein lays your problem. 

Dealing with a break-up isn’t that difficult if you know the two basic rules of “getting over” it.  (1) Letting go and (2) Moving on.  When you are hung up on a relationship, you automatically sabotage any chance of new love.  The best kind of love is a new one.  You have to let go of the old so you can welcome the new.  

I know it’s hard.  You’ve had to endure a lot of ‘almosts’ in your love life and you want to know why you’re having such bad luck in love.  The answer is simple.  You have dependency issues.   For some odd reason you can’t seem to cut it as a person with your own purpose to exist, so you must latch on to someone else.  Well I’m going to help you out.  We’re going to talk about the two basic rules of “getting over it”, so you can get on with your life and stop being a nuisance to anyone else. 

As an abstract concept, getting over a broken relationship usually refers to a deep transgression of a failed attempt of caring for another person – most common in intimate relationships.   This limited conception encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from regretted post sexual intimacy to just plain crazy. 

Pay close attention.  Eventually you’ll be lucky enough to get yourself hitched.  In the meantime, if you know the two basic rules of getting over being dumped, you can save yourself a lot of misery and Kleenex.    It’s simple.  Follow along:

Step #1 – LET GO

The first and most important part of getting over being dumped is to keep busy and let go.  Lock yourself in a room and duct tape your eyes open long enough to preview the entire ‘Fact of Life’ series.  I don’t know exactly what this will achieve, but it’s sure as hell going to keep you from bugging the sh*t out of anyone.  Your ex doesn’t want to hear from you and your friends smelled your break-up coming a mile away.   Face it, you’re a loser.  It’s in your DNA. 

Take up a hobby.  Go bungee jumping.   Whatever you do spend all of your quality time discovering what it’s like to get on your own nerves.  You’ll be so consumed with learning that you annoy the hell out of yourself that it will become increasingly difficult to get on the nerves of others.  The point here is that you can’t overcome a break-up if you continue to deny that something is wrong with you.  By the time you’ve realized how crazy you are, you will have forgotten all about whatshisname. 

Step #2 – MOVE ON

After you’ve dealt with the fact that you’ve been dumped, it’s time to move on.  It’s the common phrase in every bad ending relationship.  “Move on you jerk!”

I know everyone says moving on too quickly is not a good idea, but no one says you have to get into a serious relationship right away.  That’s what got you into this mess to begin with.  Stop being so clingy and needy, you wuss. 

Seeing new people will keep your ex off your mind, and it’ll do your ex an even bigger favor (because they want you off their back).  Chances are they’ve told you to take a hike, kick rocks, play in traffic or pull your own tongue out so you can never speak to them again. 

Don’t get angry or be hurt by the rejection.  You should be used to it by now.  It’s probably not the last time you’ll be dumped.  At least you’ll be prepared for the next rejection if you’re lucky enough to get into another relationship. 

***

Before I let you go, I’m going to give you a word of advice. 

If you’re still single or have been dumped from every relationship you’ve ever been involved with, then your ass is in trouble.  Otherwise, take a look at the list below for tips on assessing if your relationship is taking a nose dive.  These tips will save you a lot of time in collecting a bunch of rocks to put in your pockets before you decide to jump in the nearest river. 

Signs Your Relationship is on the Rocks:

• Lack of Respect.  Your partner realizes he/she can do better.  Bow out with an ounce of dignity. 
• A One-Way Relationship.  If you’re putting your all into your relationship and your partner isn’t, chances are they’re totally bored with you and are exploring other options…or hiring a Hitman.  In any case, run!
• Ignored Phone Calls.  There are a couple of reasons why your mate is not returning your calls.  The sound of your voice is annoying and your address book entry has been changed from your government name to “DO NOT ANSWER THIS DAMN PHONE.” They’ve found something or someone else better to do with their time. Or, they just don’t want to talk to you.  A word to the wise: calling someone excessively is not going to make them answer the phone. 
• Pleasant Company Excluded.  If it’s more of a relief to be apart than together, take a damn hint.
• The sex has stopped.  Uh oh.  You’re in trouble.  You have been reduced to a friend or associate.  You are no longer “get it” material.  Buy a lot of porn. 

Trust me, the list goes on.  But if you haven’t gotten the point by now, then you are doomed to your dependency issues for the rest of your days.  Good luck, kiddo.  I want you to take these helpful hints and go get yourself a little self-esteem.  Life is hard but doable. 

All jokes aside.  Take a little time to get to know yourself.  Find out what makes your inner jack ass tick.  The more you know about yourself, the less your chances are of being a fool for love. 

Until next time my little barbarian fallopian sacks! Remember – 90% of any effort is getting started. 

Quote of the week:     “The more you know about yourself, the less your chances are of being a fool for love.” 

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I’m endlessly fascinated by badvertising, especially the spots you see that make you exclaim, “what were they thinking?!” My latest contender for a badvertising award is the newest campaign from Kleenex, “Get Mommed”. This is wrong on so many levels that I don’t know where to begin. It stereotypes gender, race, religion, and even lifestyle. The Asian mom is a scold, the Latino mom says nothing more than “Hola”, the WASP mom is self-involved, the Jewish mom is endlessly encouraging, etc.; need I go on? I get the premise that the man-child traveling from house to house stays with each mom while they pamper him but leaves the moment they perform an unspeakable “mom” act such as serving a green vegetable or trying to spit-clean his face. But this alienates female consumers, Kleenex’s key demographic. It also fails to put the brand in a good light. If these women fail at being moms then why would a marketer want them associated with their product?

When female consumers connect with a brand it’s because they see themselves exemplified in the campaign. That’s why Target’s “Essentials” ads are so successful; they show smart moms saving money by shopping at Target without sacrificing their family’s quality of life. If you want moms to aspire to buy your products, pay homage to their success at selflessness, the thing that makes all the hard work they do worth it. If Kleenex wanted to create a scenario typical of Kleenex users, a better and more plausible approach would’ve been to depict the nurturer moms that have a seemingly endless supply of tissues at the ready in any and all situations, proving how necessary Kleenex are and how resourceful mom is. A face full of cupcake in the back of the car? Pass the Kleenex box. A scraped shin on the soccer field? Take out the pocket-size tissue pack. Possibilities are endless, just like a supply of Kleenex.

An alternate approach would’ve been to show some key movie footage of famous criers such as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind; Rhett Butler saying, “Never in any crisis of your life have I known you to have a handkerchief” or Diane Keaton as the jilted playwright during her crying jag in Something’s Gotta Give. An anonymous hand holding a Kleenex box comes in from off-screen with the tagline, “There when you need it.” Women would identify with those scenarios, maybe because they’ve experienced something similar. The new play, Love, Loss, and What I Wore is enjoying good reviews and a full house because women identify with many of the sentiments expressed by the actors. Getting your key demographic to identify with your brand is the key to brand identity. And that’s nothing to sneeze at.

I r so sick. I r not well. BLEERRGEHHH *hauuauacckk…POO*

It just flared up over the past 24 hours. I do not think it is swine flu. I just have a runny nose and clogged sinuses. It sure is annoying though. I cannot afford to miss classes in college like I did in high school. I’m actually paying for my tuition with money I don’t have. I took tissues to class and ran out in 20 minutes. I had used about 30 tissues. It’s that bad.

My friend’s dad said he was sick. Naturally, my friend said that his father was just being a baby. I now beg to differ.

I had Pneumonia when I was…12? I think?  Anyways, great summer. My sister’s went to a summer camp and I went to see my relatives twice that year. Once with and once without my evil siblings, not sick, and sick, respectively. I acquired a 100 oz. super glow-in-the-dark mug from 7 eleven. I still use it and can get 50 cent refills when I go to the gas station.

My mother is afraid to even look at me. She’s afraid I have swine flu. I agreed to go to the doctor, just in case it is the dreaded swine flu.

My Computer science teacher admitted she was a professional computer nerd, and realized she had set herself up for crude jokes. But what she didn’t realize is that we refused to take up hypocrisy by saying said crude jokes. Lucky for her there are some decent people in that class.

On my was home I bought proper Kleenex, the ones with the lotion, and cough drops, just in case. I think I might be halfway through this box already. It’s ok though. It’s for my comfort. I also freaked out debating whether or not I should put vapo rub on my chest. I don’t like it cause it sticks to my shirt. I’m so congested that I cannot smell it. I think it’s working though, because my nose begins to drain when I breathe in.

I hope we find life on another planet. If we don’t, I will never get the chance to live out my sci-fi fantasies, such as becoming a smuggler for an obese worm or befriending a wookie pilot.

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Where it happened last Saturday; the courtyard beyond the fence on the campus of Richmond High School (Courtesy: Contra Costa Times)

The sixth suspect in the Richmond High gang rape incident has been identified as Jose Carlos Montano, 18. Montano, who resided in San Pablo, was arrested Thursday by police. He is described as playing a significant role in the rape of the 15-year-old student who was raped at last week’s Homecoming Dance at Richmond High.

More information about the girl herself was released yesterday as well.

Kami Baker, one of the victim’s close friends, said the girl came to the dance Saturday evening clad in a sparkling purple gown, diamond necklace and matching silver shoes.

“When we walked in the dance together she said, ‘I can’t wait to get my dance on!’” Baker, 16, told ABC News.com.

[...]

“She was perfectly sober at the dance,” said Baker, who saw the victim just 15 minutes before she left the dance. “She was bubbly, and kept saying how happy she was to be at the dance.”

Baker said that the victim had many close friends who weren’t able to attend the dance because of the $10 admission fee. She described her friend as an outgoing student who was enrolled in an honors English class.

She had a long distance boyfriend, according to Baker, and although she had always wanted to join the school’s photography club, her parents didn’t like her to stay after school and her church commitment took up much of her time.

It was also thought that the victim was having problems “fitting in” at the school.

They’re going to make hash with this development. A “good Christian girl” and a possibly white girl being ravished by…well, take your pick. Animals. Saracens. Unwashed Heathens. Neanderthals. Native Americans. Arabs. Mexicans. Bad Negroes.

Frankly, she was raped and tortured by young men who had little respect for themselves much less than for her. Let’s leave culture and color out of this for a moment. Because no individual respecting the name of man would do such a thing in a so-called civilized country in the 21st century, whether it is in Bosnia, Sudan, or in the United States of America. Rape is a hate crime, a terrorist act visited on women, girls, boys and men, but mostly on females.

We’ve become more united culturally than ever. However, the proliferation of films, videos, cable networks and music–and just plain everyday behavior between and among adults demeaning women–has led to a new, underlying disrespect for women, reducing them to just a body to be used and thrown away like Kleenex. Add to this any cultural predispositions about women and girls, and in the hands and minds of the youth of our country, such views could be detrimental to their development if nothing and no one provides an alternative.

One predisposition I would like to see hammered into oblivion is that the honor of men–and of white men–is more important than that of women and children.

One or two respondents yesterday asked me what I felt about the arraignment of Marcelles James Peter, identified as the only black male suspect in this mess. I think that he’s an idiot, much like those who have been caught and charged or about to be charged. I don’t buy his contention that he was only walking by the incident and didn’t do anything. Again, why didn’t he report it? I think there were people who were participants, and those who walked by or watched and then, had their turn. Let’s see what evidence comes up that exonerates him by his defense attorneys. A sure sign of his complicity would have to come with any DNA found from a rape kit.

Peter’s cousin and her friend have been shown as overcome with emotion. Sistas, I grieve more for you, but if he did it, then he did it. And he was wrong if he did it. This is not the real bad old days when people would immediately be looking for rope and wood. I will agree though, that some things that are even more insidious has been added to today’s mix. The authorities may not say it, and they might not be wearing white sheets, but they will use the wheels of justice to crush all truth and fact but their own. There will always be people who’ll say, well, you know they’re all like that. Excuse me, but no, they aren’t. According to lesbian separatists, all men are all like that.

Peter’s cousin Monquasha Peter of Richmond burst into tears upon seeing him, and her mother, Monica Peter, dabbed her eyes.

Peter’s family accused prosecutors of having racial motives. Peter is the only black suspect named in the case. Smith is white, and the other suspects are Latino.

Peter “didn’t have anything to do with this,” his aunt said. “He said everyone was just walking past, and he just kept moving when he saw something was going on.

“He’s a good kid with no criminal record who likes to play soccer,” she said. “I am going to prove his innocence.

“My nephew is scared,” she added. “He is the one they’ve arrested who is black, and if they give my nephew a life sentence, I will sue Richmond. There is no way in hell I will see my nephew blamed in this because he is black.”

I find it interesting that the $10 admission fee (…good lord!) may have kept some of the good friends out as well as the bad who might have disrupted the dance. The bad could also include the young men standing about in that darkened, secluded area, who were probably drop outs or former graduates of the high school.

Three defendants, all of them juveniles charged as adults, were wearing bulletproof vests when they were led into Superior Court by a corps of Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies. The three – one of whom had a black eye – looked morose and said nothing as relatives wept in the gallery.

Only one, 15-year-old Cody Ray Smith of San Pablo, entered a plea – not guilty – during the brief arraignment in Richmond.

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Smith and two other defendants, Marcelles James Peter, 17, of Pinole and Ari Abdallah Morales, 16, of San Pablo, are juveniles being charged as adults. They all face felony counts of rape in concert, otherwise known as gang rape, and penetration with a foreign object. Morales also is charged with felony robbery for allegedly stealing the girl’s jewelry.

The boys are being held at juvenile hall in Martinez on no bail.

The fourth suspect, 19-year-old Manuel Ortega of Richmond, is charged with rape in concert, robbery and assault causing great bodily injury. He is being held on $1.2 million bail.

All four face potential sentences of life in prison if convicted.

The hearings began at 9:50 a.m., when the three boys were walked into court by an uncharacteristically large contingent of five deputies. The defendants’ hands were shackled to their waists, and their chests bulged from the bulletproof vests.

Court officials said the vests were needed because of the potential for vigilante violence.

The newest revision on what happened: It was probably Cody Ray Smith, the white teen, who beckoned to the victim and lured her over to the area where the drinking was occurring. Smith was an acquaintance and a student at Richmond High. Ortega, however, dropped out of Richmond High in 2007. Morales was attending continuation school.

They were getting the girl high, but then she refused or rebuffed their advances to result in sex. That’s how the rape began.

Meanwhile, students at Richmond High are undergoing counseling and are part of discussion groups designed to ‘let students vent their despair over the crime and the damage they feel it has done to their community’s reputation.”

The district”s Safety Subcommittee moved its meeting to the auditorium at Richmond High to accommodate the public and a large contingent of regional and national media that have focused on the school since Saturday”s gang-rape of a 15-year-old girl outside the homecoming dance.

Many who attended Wednesday cited ongoing deficiencies in campus facilities and security, in particular the lack of a secure fence around the school and inoperative security cameras that already have been brought to the attention of the district.

“Why has Richmond High School been waiting four years and why does blood have to be spilled before you give it to us,” teacher Lorna McClellan said. “If students aren”t safe, students can”t learn.”

Teacher Jessica Price was “not surprised that something horrific” occurred in the secluded and poorly lit campus courtyard, telling the subcommittee, “Something horrific has happened before.”

There is a climate of fear on campus, she said, adding, “I have students being threatened for coming forward and speaking the truth.”

Richmond High students Kami and Barbie Baker are friends of the victim. Kami Baker said she looked outside the dance in the gymnasium Saturday night “and saw 12 or 15 guys sitting there with no IDs.” None of them was checked by police or campus security, she said.

The girls” mother, Linda Baker, said, “They noticed that (the victim) disappeared “” nobody else did.”

Linda Baker also addressed the way the victim”s reputation has been treated following the attack.

“Do you realize how much derogatory comments have been said about this young lady?” she asked. “She”s a beautiful young lady, and it has to stop.”

I just wonder, though, was she looking for Smith or looking for her father? Why would she disappear from the dance without telling her friends where she was going?

About kids threatening kids about security concerns and possibly other misbehavior, and about derogatory comments about the girl and her reputation, let me say that, while shaking my head, I figured this was going to happen, and that it’s only the beginning. Only just the start.

El papel higienico es un producto super necesario para la casa…

Hay varios tipos de Papel higienico…

Y no me se el precio exacto de cada uno.. pero estaria bien investigarlo para hacer esto un post mas completo.. pero que hueva!

En lo personal Kleenex se me hace un buen papel..

Y hay varios que son buenos..

Hay algunos que nunca tuve el honor de utilizar..

O unos que de plano.. no me gustaria usar… (dar click a READ MORE)

hay un chingo de Marcas, Diferentes texturas, Perfumados, colores, decoraciones….

Hay hasta uno que tiene un SuDOKu para que mientras haces “tu obra del dia” te entretengas o desarrolles tu mente…

Bueno.. me debraye un poco.. A lo que iba…

Hoy me dieron unas ganas increibles de #&$/#  …. Ir al baño..

Que??? ya van a empezar a hacer caras! es normal! todos cagamos!

“si, pero no me interesa saber que vas a cagar!”

TODOS CAGAMOS ES NORMAL DESCOMER!

Con lo que iba porfavor señoritas….  Entonces dije “voy al oTTZoO, ya que en mi casa no hay papel”

y Me lleve una buena sorpresa al llegar al oTTZoO …

“Solo tengo del economico”

“como crees?”

“solo de ese tengo joven”

—- y pues como dirian algunos… A falta de pan… tortilla

Y al comprar mi papel de 6.50 por paquete me puse a pensar… que tan importante es usar un papel de marca?

Digo… en parte lo es porque se supone que le papel de baño esta diseñado para que se deshaga con el agua…

A veces se elabora a partir de reciclaje de papel; sin embargo, grandes cantidades de pulpa virgen de árboles se sigue utilizando en la fabricación de este producto.Hoy día se encuentran disponibles algunos tipos de papel reciclado más acordes con las ideas ecologistas, lo que reduce la contaminacion causada tanto por las aguas fecales como por el empleo de materiales empleados por la industria papelera (por ejemplo, el cloro que se emplea para blanquear el papel).

Pero, la mayoria del papel que utilizamos es Blanco! no conozco a alguien que utilize de otro papel, vas a una fiesta y todos tienen papel blanco,Tiendas, casas, Restaurantes.. bueno supongo que en restaurantes es reciclado… quien sabe…

El punto es…

Que tan importante es usar papel de marca? de todos modos es para el culo no? apoco con el papel de baño perfumado te va a oler mejor el culo?

como dice mi tio…    HASTA A LA MUJER MAS GUAPA… LE APESTA LA COLA

de todos modos es para lo mismo, de todos modos va para el mismo rumbo… entonces?

Que papel comprar?

By now you have probably seen the commercial for Kleenex of a man running from woman to woman looking for a mom to make him feel comfortable.

The whole campaign is geared toward getting men to go to a Kleenex website: http://www.getmommed.com/#/home 

When you go to the website,  you are given several choices of women to choose as mom.

If you choose Jessica, she stands up and says she “always likes to have fun” and likes to talk about “killer shoes!”

All of this brings up some rather disturbing questions. Do grown men really think of their mom when they need a Kleenex? Furthermore, what type of a man goes to a website to pick out a mom? And then signs up to follow her on Facebook?  All in all, it feels very wierd.  It feels more like a dating site than a site about a product used to wipe your nose.

Kleenex has launched a new website entitled “Get Mommed,” where you can choose a mom to give you “extra care” this cold and flu season. You have your choices of race, ethnicities, socio-economic statuses . . . Are you gagging yet? ‘Cause I am.

I’m sorry, Kleenex, but I already have a mom, and I don’t see her featured there. Maybe that’s because my mom uses Puffs because, until recently, Kleenex deforested virgin rain forests in British Columbia to make their product. So, I’m sorry, hippie Amber. My mom’s more socially aware about products than you, and I’m sorry, Asian Sue, but my mom is as much of a hard-nosed bitch as you (I can say that, you can’t), but she hates Asians ever since she got tired of eating at Chinese restaurants with Dad and I. And, most of all, I’m sorry, Southern Magnolia, but, while I’m sure my mom would find you as adorable as Minnie Pearl, my mom thinks any sort of dancing “conjures up the devil,” and she would find the idea of being a debutante uppity (thank god). But, if you had a tv show like Paula Deene, she would not only watch you, but dvr you and refuse to ever delete you even when the thing was full of you, Paula Deene, John Wayne, Johnny Cash, and Dad’s “This Old House.”

Where is the stereotype of my mom, Kleenex? Where is the country-Southern accented, green-eyed, gray-haired, crooked-toothed (because braces were too expensive) arthritic woman that, in my childhood, sometimes weeped uncontrollably in quiet moments over her dead son, who has a terrible Celtic temper and the best fried squash or broccoli and cheese casserole ever made; who loved her children so much that she prematurely ended her career as a teacher and a librarian to stay home with us and turn our childhoods into education-boot-camp because she wanted us to be able to have the most possibilities in life, but who was too prideful to send us to things like therapy even when she recognized how abusive her eldest son was or her after her youngest’s suicide attempts?

I’ll tell you where she is. She’s at home, in Arkansas–and you can’t have her, ’cause she’s mine.

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It’s cold and flu season again/still. Actually it seems to be cold and flu season all year long, does’t it? According to Health Canada , cold and flu season in this country is from November to April (Only half the year! Phew!)

So lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of people coughing and sneezing all over their clothing. Sneezing and coughing on your clothing seems to be all the rage this cold and flu season. The Center for Disease Control advocates using your clothing to catch your coughs and sneezes. The “Sneeze Doctor”,  Dr. Ben Lounsbury has made an entire career out of shoving the “Sleeve Sneeze” (aka “Dracula Cough”) down our raw, infected throats with his  Why Don’t We Do It In Our Sleeves propoganda.

The break-through science behind this bold, new disease-fighting technique is that splattering your germs onto fabric contains the germs and causes them to dry up and die — right there on your sleeves.

How revolutionary! (From the root word, “revolting”)

So, here’s my thought. If you’re sick enough to be sneezing and coughing all over the place — stay home. Or, if you absolutely need to be up and about, I can recommend an amazing product generically known as FACIAL TISSUES. I don’t know what they were originally invented for, but I’ve been using them quite successfully for years to capture the phlegm and debris from coughs and sneezes[1]. And they’re disposable![2] Yes, I use them and then I throw them away like boyfriends. Then I wash my hands or use some of that hand sanitizer everyone who’s anyone carries around these days. And then I’m  good to go.

Of course  there are people who have no common courtesy and sneeze all over other people or sneeze into their hands and then go and touch stuff other people are going to be touching.  And there are people who put their hands in or around their faces without washing their hands after  touching the stuff the people without common courtesy have touched. These people have no common sense and will get the plague sooner or later and die anyway.  We are not going to be able to save them by sleeve sneezing, trust me.

I’m thinking, however, maybe I’m not the only one who grew up in Rational-Human-Being-Land[3], where we were taught to always carry tissues when we were sick and to wash our hands after blowing our noses and to not suck on our fingers after shaking hands with someone who just coughed something green and slimy into his hands.

These time-tested practices now seem to be passé. Now we can’t be trusted to retain such complex information, so we are instructed (with colourful, easy-to-remember and entertaining instructional videos produced by people much smarter than they think we are) to  just expel our germs and bodily fluids onto our clothing.

Good grief, people! Are we hillbillies? Have we really regressed to the point where we’re back to wiping our noses on our sleeves?

What if you’re wearing a tank top or short sleeved shirt?[4] What if you’ve got a mouth full of oatmeal and have to sneeze or cough? What if you’ve got a snout full of snot and have to sneeze?

Ewwwww. That’s what.

And the really extra stupid thing I’m seeing is people just coughing or sneezing into the general direction of their sleeves so, while the person in front of them is sort of safe from the spray of bacteria and mucus, everyone beside and/or behind them gets a full blast. 

At the last minute some shred of these people’s abased dignity must have surfaced and told them that clothing is not the right place for snot. They recall, perhaps, that when they eat, they wipe their hands with serviettes and not on their trousers. And then they wonder if perhaps somewhere out there is a serviette-type thing for snot so they don’t have to wipe that on their clothing either.

Once upon a time ladies used to wipe their nether regions with their undergarments if they had to do their business outdoors and/or because the toilet paper of the day was too rough for their delicate skin. If we all get too stupid or lazy to remember to use toilet paper, will there be an instructional video asking, Why Don’t We Do It In Our Underpants?

So now I have to be afraid to sit too close to anyone or accidentally brush up against anyone in case I get elbow-snot transference. AND, the cherry on top of this whole nutty meringue is that they’re also trying, as Violetsky  recently pointed out,  to get us to stop shaking hands and kissing and to greet each other instead with — THE ELBOW BUMP!   

Egads!

[1] You’re going to need one to blow or wipe your drippy nose anyway.

[2] I know, not environmentally friendly, right? And having to do extra laundry because your shirts are stiff with snot isn’t?  What about good old-fashioned handkerchiefs? Oh ya, people decided it was gross to sneeze into a piece of cloth you were going to carry around in your pocket.

[3] Just south of I-Learned-Some-Manners-Land, neighbouring Don’t-Blow-Your-Nose-On-Your-Shirtsleeve-Land.

[4] I’ve seen a woman in a tank top lift up the end of her long skirt and sneeze into that AND wipe her nose with it afterwards. I’ve seen a woman carrying a baby sneeze into her baby’s blanket because she couldn’t twist enough to get her sleeve. My nephew sneezed into my mother’s kitchen curtains once because it was summer and he wasn’t wearing sleeves. And I’ve seen people spewing things onto their clothes and then wiping it off with their hands. Excellent!

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UPDATE

The question arose: why are we worried about germs on door-knobs and other hard surfaces and encouraged to hack germs all over our clothes? The Sleeve Sneeze people tell us germs just up and die on our clothes, but this didn’t make much sense to me so I did some research and found out that in order to thrive germs need moisture and food (just like us). Heres’ what else I found:

But even frequently handled hard surfaces like water faucets and door handles are not as big a source of infections as you might think, because germs don’t thrive on, or transfer well from, hard surfaces.

Germs transfer easily from the moist damp surface of the skin. The greatest risk of infection is from your hands touching someone else and then touching your face.

No bacteria or virus can live on dry surfaces with a humidity of less than 10 percent. Any sort of nutrients-food particles, skin cells, blood, mucus-helps microbes thrive…bacterial spore can survive for weeks on dry clothing using sloughed skin cells for food.