I have long been deciding whether or not I would actually ever do this. Congratulations, you figured out that I chose to go ahead. The only intention I have for this blog is to enhance my writing skills. So please, feedback will always be welcome.
My life consists of a plethora of annoying and trivial occurrences, accompanied by the only thing keeping me sane, while simultaneously driving me insane: my family. This family, at the core, consists of my husband Jesse, daughter Shayne Elizzebeth, and dog Sir Steven Quincey (Q daddy for short). Do not be mislead to believe that insane and annoying means discontent. I love them all very much, despite my regular campaign to skin the dog.
My current situation: student/stay-at-home-mom/graphic artist/searching for a bit of extra duckets to contribute to my families 5 year plan. Some people think I'm funny, others think I'm a bitch, but we all tend to agree that I'm pretty crazy. My thought process is rarely linear, I articulate those thoughts in my own whimsically loose version of the English language, and I've got huge balls. Or at least I used to, before I became a mom and transformed into a whole new type of crazy.
I am very opinionated and a part of me feels like the world would be a better place if more people knew what I thought about things. Call me narcissistic, but my upbringing in rural, conservative, super scary Republican west Texas (my grandparents are active members of the Tea Party) one would think my salvation hopeless. Rebirthed into a place where trees grow tall and water sightings are opposite of rare I was plucked from a potentially bland fate. Combining this place of open mindedness with a dash of some hazy college days I have developed a unique perspective of this map that we live in.
The other part of me knows that this is true. So for starters, I present to you my company boycott list. Feel free to join the cause.
1) WalMart: I'm pretty anti-corporations exploiting cheap labor to make cheap things; and those that perpetuate hyperconsumerism, all the while treating their employees incredibly poorly. Not to mention they destroyed small town USA and caused thousands of locally owned places to go out of business despite the many years they had spent serving their community, resulting in an even further economically crippled rural society. I could go on, but I won't. Nazi's.
2) Time Warner Cable: charging more for less with crap customer service while attempting to obtain a monopoly of media in Central Texas. AT&T is cheaper, and they have fabulous customer service. If you find yourself to be a TWC customer, never fear! Chances are you are not under contract and you can drop 'em!
3) Bank of America: anything they can do for a dollar. Like withdraw surprise fee's (after speaking to a representative and a branch manager whom ensured the fee would not post) leaving your account negative and all of your bills to bounce, ending up in hundreds of dollars in overdraw fees and return check fees, and then making you pay it all back with interest. In 2009 45% of my income brought home was spent on BOA fees and accrued interest- my account had overdrafts in only 4 of the 12 months. Thieves.
4) Sprint: selling crappy phones, charging $14/mo insurance to cover the crappy phones (that have since been discontinued because they suck so bad) but forcing you to pay $100 each time you want to replace your phone if "you" break it, and then $50 each time to replace it even when it is a known manufacturer's error (the reason it was discontinued). THEN, sending you a replacement phone that is a rebuilt same phone that sucks worse than your last one rather than the upgrade of the phone that you payed $400 for in the first place! We are on phones 3&4 (and both are already malfunctioning) in 5 months. Thieves.
I'm sure the list will grow as our economy continues the downward spiral into the kingdom of ripped-off-over-exposed desensitized consumers. Ahhhh America.... we suck.
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