I'm by no means a stupid person...but once in a while (though more often that I would like), I end up having these Homer Simpson "Doh!" moments. Let's just point the blame to me being somewhat of a FOB ok?
So here go...
For a while now I always had the assumption that the term Pump and Dump meant that moms feel like they have to take a dump (poo) after pumping. Pump...and Dump! So I told one of my friends who then corrected me.
[Oh it doesn't mean that?]
Doh!
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
10 Things Asian Girls Like To Do On Facebook
Guilty as charged...I've done pretty much most of these.
1. Take webcam pictures with maybe a couple of other girlfriends. Make sure faces are
right up against the camera, head tilted down slightly so that eyes appear bigger than they are. Don’t forget to throw up the peace sign or make a kissy face
2. Post status updates on how awesome their boyfriend is for buying them a gift or sending them flowers.
3. Post pictures of her and her friends doing multiple poses at the same venue. Photoshoot!!
4. On the same token, an Asian girl will most likely have an album with pictures of just her in it titled “simply me” or “just me”
5. Post pictures of food. Pictures are either ones that she cooked, ate at a fancy restaurant, or food from a popular food truck. She looks like she eats ALL THE TIME…but she’s skinny as hell!
6. Profess her love for a celebrity on face book. “OMFG, Bradley Cooper can speak French!! Drooooool”
7. Makes sure that her facebook persona is perfect. Perfect boyfriend, perfect job, perfect clothes, awesome friends, and makes sure to untag any incriminating and non-cute pictures of herself
8. Jumps on the wagon with her boyfriend's sports team and post status updates of how awesome or bad they are doing during a game. “ WTF EAGLES!! SMH” . Next year with a new boyfriend "WTF REDSKINS!! SMH"
9. Has a drunken status update accidentally left on facebook for an hour on a Saturday night. If you check the next day, she’s realized it doesn’t go with her perfect facebook persona and immediately deletes it.
10. “Likes” pages such as Gilt, Allure, and any other fashion related page.
10b. Proclaim on facebook that she's fat and that she needs to go on a diet. Then post pics of food...then checks in at the local gym..then posts more pics of food.
10c. Never a debbie downer. Something fun is always going on. "I found my favorite candy!". "Next vacay booked! Woohoo!" "Having an awesome hair day. That is all".
10d. Almost every Asian girl has a hater and will passively call out her hater via status update. SOmething like "haters can hate. I'm fab and you know it". "Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind".
1. Take webcam pictures with maybe a couple of other girlfriends. Make sure faces are
right up against the camera, head tilted down slightly so that eyes appear bigger than they are. Don’t forget to throw up the peace sign or make a kissy face
2. Post status updates on how awesome their boyfriend is for buying them a gift or sending them flowers.
3. Post pictures of her and her friends doing multiple poses at the same venue. Photoshoot!!
4. On the same token, an Asian girl will most likely have an album with pictures of just her in it titled “simply me” or “just me”
5. Post pictures of food. Pictures are either ones that she cooked, ate at a fancy restaurant, or food from a popular food truck. She looks like she eats ALL THE TIME…but she’s skinny as hell!
6. Profess her love for a celebrity on face book. “OMFG, Bradley Cooper can speak French!! Drooooool”
7. Makes sure that her facebook persona is perfect. Perfect boyfriend, perfect job, perfect clothes, awesome friends, and makes sure to untag any incriminating and non-cute pictures of herself
8. Jumps on the wagon with her boyfriend's sports team and post status updates of how awesome or bad they are doing during a game. “ WTF EAGLES!! SMH” . Next year with a new boyfriend "WTF REDSKINS!! SMH"
9. Has a drunken status update accidentally left on facebook for an hour on a Saturday night. If you check the next day, she’s realized it doesn’t go with her perfect facebook persona and immediately deletes it.
10. “Likes” pages such as Gilt, Allure, and any other fashion related page.
10b. Proclaim on facebook that she's fat and that she needs to go on a diet. Then post pics of food...then checks in at the local gym..then posts more pics of food.
10c. Never a debbie downer. Something fun is always going on. "I found my favorite candy!". "Next vacay booked! Woohoo!" "Having an awesome hair day. That is all".
10d. Almost every Asian girl has a hater and will passively call out her hater via status update. SOmething like "haters can hate. I'm fab and you know it". "Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind".
Monday, December 5, 2011
Taking some advice from Sugar
Blogging is something that enjoy. It's fun for me to write about an experience...check my stats and comments to see if at the very least, I've provided someone something to do for 5 minutes on their otherwise monotonous day. Maybe I've made you laugh, maybe I've angered you, and maybe you're even judging me through my posts. No matter that your reaction may be, I held your attention even for just 5 minutes...and for someone who sits in front of the computer analyzing excel spreadsheets and grinding out slide decks, yet yearns to have more people interaction and be more creative, well, that's pretty freakin cool.
However....
1) My long work days and a long commute home leaves me little to no time to keep this thing up 2) I honestly don't do alot of interesting things to even blog about
3) As much as I wanted to originally have a bargain/fashion/relationship blog, I'm constantly questioning whether my posts are PC or even something of interest to others.
And hence, my less than one post a month isn't exactly going to take this blog to some top 10 blog list.
But is that really my ultimate goal? Perhaps the most interesting blogs that I subscribe to were started by people who simply wanted to get their ideas out there...no matter how random...how un-interesting...how completely un-PC. In the words of Sugar by the Rompus, Write like a MotherF*@&er and I intend to do just that.
One blog post a day either here or my wedding blog is my goal. I think I need to give myself the time to do at least one thing I enjoy everyday...
However....
1) My long work days and a long commute home leaves me little to no time to keep this thing up 2) I honestly don't do alot of interesting things to even blog about
3) As much as I wanted to originally have a bargain/fashion/relationship blog, I'm constantly questioning whether my posts are PC or even something of interest to others.
And hence, my less than one post a month isn't exactly going to take this blog to some top 10 blog list.
But is that really my ultimate goal? Perhaps the most interesting blogs that I subscribe to were started by people who simply wanted to get their ideas out there...no matter how random...how un-interesting...how completely un-PC. In the words of Sugar by the Rompus, Write like a MotherF*@&er and I intend to do just that.
One blog post a day either here or my wedding blog is my goal. I think I need to give myself the time to do at least one thing I enjoy everyday...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Couponing Adventure: Saving on Gas!
Who hasn't gotten reeled in by that Extreme Couponing show on TLC? I certainly have...and after seeing the first show, I urged Joe to subscribe us to the Sunday paper so we can take advantage of all the deals. I began cutting and organizing coupons for a good four weeks straight and then that's when I got tired of it and stopped. The wake-up call to get back into it was a trip to Tarjay that ran me up $170 coupon-less. What was I buying?! Why did it cost me so much?! And unloading the measly three plastic bags into the house made me feel really bad about wasting so much money.
So I got back in with a new strategy - take it slow and focus on one store first. Naturally, I chose CVS because well, that's where Joe works and if I ever made a mistake in using a coupon, we still had his employee discount to fall back on. I began looking out for deals for things that I always use like this:
which I use at least once a week (totally NOT working though!).
Most recently, CVS began a partnership with BP and Shell that if you spend up to $30 on certain products (the list of products rotates weekly), you get a $10 Shell or BP card. Since I buy my stuff from CVS anyway, I figured I might as well take advantage - which I did last night. My "savings", though not quite Extreme Couponing-esque, I thought was still pretty good. Using only a few coupons (I think I only had 4) and store sales, the retail price for my purchases was about $90 and I paid only $50 plus got a $10 gas card, an extra $2 of CVS Extra Bucks that I can use towards future purchases, and received another coupon that was good for $10 off $50 purchase next time. So in all, I really spent only $38 for a $90 worth of stuff that we use anyway (toilet paper, toothpaste, kleenex, laundry detergent, etc.).
Already feeling pretty good about myself, I went home and started to reorganize my coupon book. As I started looking through some of the current grocery store circular, I stumbled upon a Giant gas promotion that they're doing with Shell stations. Basically, they give you 1 point her $1 spent at Giant and each 100 pts can be redeemed for $0.10 cents off / gallon at the pump. They also run deals where if you buy 7, 6, or 3 items from a list (this week the list is pretty good - strawberries, clementines, mushrooms, salad kits, paper towels, etc.), you get 200 pts which means $0.2 off / gallon of gas. The limit is pretty high (like 2200 pts redeemed at once) so you could in theory get up to $2.20 off/gallon. So starting today, I'm going to plan carefully to combine the CVS gas card promo and the Giant gas card promo. The goal for this week - earn 600 pts at giant by buying from their 200 pts list and use that to get $0.6 off / gallon. If I fill up at my local shell at $3.89/gallon, I would pay $62.24 retail. With my accumulated deals ($10 CVS Shell card and $0.6 off/ gallon from Giant), I would pay only $42.64 for a full 16 gallon tank.
Not bad at all....
Actually, it's pretty sad that i think $42.64 is not bad for a full tank of gas. I knew I should have bought that hybrid!
So I got back in with a new strategy - take it slow and focus on one store first. Naturally, I chose CVS because well, that's where Joe works and if I ever made a mistake in using a coupon, we still had his employee discount to fall back on. I began looking out for deals for things that I always use like this:
which I use at least once a week (totally NOT working though!).Most recently, CVS began a partnership with BP and Shell that if you spend up to $30 on certain products (the list of products rotates weekly), you get a $10 Shell or BP card. Since I buy my stuff from CVS anyway, I figured I might as well take advantage - which I did last night. My "savings", though not quite Extreme Couponing-esque, I thought was still pretty good. Using only a few coupons (I think I only had 4) and store sales, the retail price for my purchases was about $90 and I paid only $50 plus got a $10 gas card, an extra $2 of CVS Extra Bucks that I can use towards future purchases, and received another coupon that was good for $10 off $50 purchase next time. So in all, I really spent only $38 for a $90 worth of stuff that we use anyway (toilet paper, toothpaste, kleenex, laundry detergent, etc.).
Already feeling pretty good about myself, I went home and started to reorganize my coupon book. As I started looking through some of the current grocery store circular, I stumbled upon a Giant gas promotion that they're doing with Shell stations. Basically, they give you 1 point her $1 spent at Giant and each 100 pts can be redeemed for $0.10 cents off / gallon at the pump. They also run deals where if you buy 7, 6, or 3 items from a list (this week the list is pretty good - strawberries, clementines, mushrooms, salad kits, paper towels, etc.), you get 200 pts which means $0.2 off / gallon of gas. The limit is pretty high (like 2200 pts redeemed at once) so you could in theory get up to $2.20 off/gallon. So starting today, I'm going to plan carefully to combine the CVS gas card promo and the Giant gas card promo. The goal for this week - earn 600 pts at giant by buying from their 200 pts list and use that to get $0.6 off / gallon. If I fill up at my local shell at $3.89/gallon, I would pay $62.24 retail. With my accumulated deals ($10 CVS Shell card and $0.6 off/ gallon from Giant), I would pay only $42.64 for a full 16 gallon tank.
Not bad at all....
Actually, it's pretty sad that i think $42.64 is not bad for a full tank of gas. I knew I should have bought that hybrid!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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