Life is Crazy

Beyond that…I got nothing.

Cheap Clothes and Stupidly Stupid Belts

Clothes are one of those things that you need to buy in order to live. Unless you’re in a nudist colony or really really good with sewing, you’ll probably buy clothes. Given that my parents have taught me good financial sense, it seems pretty stupid to be buying jeans that cost a hundred and fifty dollars. I could buy three tanks of gas for that much! On the same token though, WalMart jeans just don’t cut it. They wear out incredibly fast and the replacement cost sometimes outweighs what you can get at a higher end store on a good sale with a coupon.

So I’ve started trying to put a little more money and a little less frugality into my clothing purchases. I shop around and use coupons, but I try to buy things that are good and not thing sthat need to be replaced right away because frankly – they suck.

Only I have one problem with this. Belts.

Belts are stupid. Not the idea behind them, or the functionality of them, but the way companies think they can get off charging so much damn money for a little piece of stupid leather that may or may not hold your pants up and will definitely call attention to your waist. Even WalMart rarely sells them for less than 12 or 15 dollars. It’s DUMB. Because the fact of the matter is, they’re limited (one function), half the designs are the same, and even worse that if you are using them and get close to where the holes end, you have to buy A NEW belt for MORE money!! UGh. I hate it.

Seriously. I don’ get where belts get off charging 25 dollars when they don’t even work as a functional belt. And it’s not that it’s a fancy one – that’s the average price per belt at the standard department store (a statistic which I just blatantly made up). It’s dumb. Super dumb and I hate it.

What I hate even more however is the belt I bought last week to hold my pants up tore today. TORE RIGHT APART. Seriously. It was getting all strangely stretched where it buckled and the hole that I was using on it seemed to be misshapen and not able to do a proper job. And then today I went to undo it and part of it came RIGHT OFF. Sad thing too is that of the two belts I bought for work out here, that was the more costly of the two.

Which brings me to conclude the following – cheap clothes are cheap (duh), but belts are stupid be they stupidly costly, stupidly made, or stupidly stupid in that they’re both.

Belts suck.

Expectations VS Reality

Somehow I think I’ve blogged about this before. But sometimes you just have expectations that reality can’t meet. It’s pretty depressing sometimes when you know it’s possible to meet the expectations. But even when you try it may not ever work out.

End of an Era?

First point of interest – my phone always wants to suggest that I put era instead of ETA. It continues to try and get me to “correct” it to era instead of using ETA.

Secondly, I was going to blog about possibly stopping blogging. I’m not really sure why I continue as the decision was to blog once a day for a year and I’ve gone beyond that now.

But isn’t it always better to go above and beyond? Currently I find myself working with an individual who I have a hard enough time getting to go to the mark, let alone past it in any noticeable manner. So far I’ve had a difficult time bringing about change…but I haven’t given up yet.

In unrelated news, how does a toilet make a constant drippy noise like a leaky faucet? I’m not even sure how that’s possible.

Last couple of days

The last couple of days I’ve been blogging from my phone and have had things to say that can’t be said via a phone because it would take too long to type out a single letter at a time whilst battling autocorrect.

So I wonder why I keep blogging. Yet for some reason here I am. Still blogging. Still wondering.

Cardigan

Both times I’ve worn my cardigan in the state of Texas, I’ve slopped something on my sleeve.

Bad luck cardigan?

Phone Blog

Phone Blogging is stupid and I can never write what I want adequately. Also there’s dumb auto correcting.

So here, have a dyac that occurred in a convo I had yesterday. To be submitted to the aptly named website in the morning.

Crack

Sometimes you just have to enjoy the good times that come with absolute nonsense. It’s those “you had to be there” moments that can’t really be explained because of the insane number of inside jokes surrounding. Sometimes those situations are so funny that people outside your circle think your doing some sort of drug because how could a normal person laugh so hard at everyday things?

So I guess, you had to be there.

Blooooooooog

Why am I continuing to blog into the new year when my resolution was to blog for one single consecutive year? That year has come and gone and yet here I am. Habits form apparently.

Blackout

On this day where various websites are shutting down in an effort to protest SOPA and PIPA it seems a little like I shouldn’t be writing a blog so that I might stand in partial solidarity with those websites. But somehow on a day where free internet speech is being supported via protests against the very bills that would take it down seems like a day where it’s all the more important to blog and put my free voice to work.

Now I realize first and foremost that I don’t know everything behind these bills but I do know that their intention is not to necessarily hinder free speech on the internet, but to prevent and shut down any copywright infringement. But here’s the thing – the end doesn’t always justify the means.

So while the passing of a bill like SOPA or PIPA may protect those who have intellectual property being stolen (Film/TV producers, musicians etc) is it worth it to step on everyone else’s free speech – and thus hinder their intellectual property from ever reaching the world – in order to safe guard the others? No. Is that the only way to protect copy wrights? I’m sure it’s not.

That’s not to say I have the answers to stop piracy and infringement and honestly I’m not sure that something like plagiarism can ever be truly killed. Not that I want to look on the negative side of society, but we’re a broken people and we’ve got a lot of flaws. Copying and stealing are just one of them. No matter how much you fight something like that, there’s no guarantee you could ever completely stop it. But the last thing you want to do is stop it by also hindering others who are univolved.

Kids have copied each others homework since they’ve had homework assignments. People have taken credit for other people’s inventions. There are means (especially now) to document proper creators and help maintain a database in the event their ownership is challenged. But to go as far as suggesting a blackballing of websites who may have been involved…just because a drug deal goes down behind a building doesn’t mean everyone in the building was in cahoots. Then again, sometimes it does. This is more of a case by case sort of thing.

That’s just my two cents. Two cents that are in fact just that – mine. Mine to do with as I please, to post on the internet or to scribble on my own wall. With freedom of speech I can throw my cents anywhere I please, because I own them and no one else is in control of what I do with my money…or you know, opinions and ideas.