AlterEgo909

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Monday, 09 November 2009

  • Google makes you annoying to me

    Our organization's general info e-mails get forwarded to my e-mail address. When I get mundane questions like "How do I get there?" or "Where is there to eat around there?" I usually think Hellooo, thats what Google is for! I work in marketing, so general inquiries really aren't my job, but I don't mind answering, I just think Google makes me annoyed because I feel like if I'm Googling to get the answer, so the person can google to get the answer. lol

    Today I had someone e-mail and ask for nearby hotels. I Googled and replied to them with the closest hotel. They replied back to me, via iPhone, saying that they hotel was booked and they needed another suggestion.....

    Now, normally I give people the benefit of the doubt. I don't mind helping people, even when they could have used the time it took to e-mail on a google search and found the information themselves. I have to keep in mind that not everyone is familiar with seach engines (shoking isn't it?). However, if you are e-mailing via iPhone the phone comes with a Google Maps app. You could have put in "hotels" and the zip code and got all the area hotels.

    I mean, you have an iPhone! You need to e-mail someone for hotels with an iPhone? I'm sure there is an app for that....

    Happy Monday

Saturday, 07 November 2009

  • I never fantasized about my knight in shining armor, although I am much a princess.
    I never imagined my wedding day.
    I never doodled my name, adding the last name of some sought after beau to mine.
    I didn't like relationships.
    I hated being a girlfriend and found myself easily bored by boyfriends.
    With a career high of 2 months being my longest relationship I entered into a courting on 06/15/06.
    I had no doubt this would end the same as all the others, me disinterested and him broken hearted.
    A few months in I even tried to force the termination. Why get attached when things will just end badly?
    Somewhere between 06/15/06 when you asked for the 50th time "Will you be my girlfriend?" and I answered "Ugh. Fine!" and 10/18/09 when we both said "I do," I fell in love.
    Fell in love with you and the way you make me feel.
    Suddenly I couldn't picture a day without you, or my life in my absence.
    I love you.




Thursday, 05 November 2009

  • White Beauty


    The cosmetic company, Pond's, has the above commercial out in India. I watched the commercial three times to make sure I was getting the right message. I determined that I am seeing what this commercial is saying, loud and clear: Dear women of India, if you want to keep your man, you need to be as white as you can be, because white is beautiful. As the commercial says, their product can give you white beauty, in either a pinkish-white glow, or a pale white.

    As a person of color this upsets me. Not because I don't think white is beautiful, but because I think all colors are beautiful, and marketing a product that attempts to sell one type of beauty over another is shameful.
  • Ewww, you like Obama?

    Why is it that people see other country's like of our president (Obama) as something negative? Whenever non-American support of our president is mentioned its always something bad. Why?

    I think its because American's are so xenophobic that they think other countries should have nothing but fear for us and our president, as we seem to fear other countries. Yes, we fear other countries. This war wouldn't have been supported as long as it has if people didn't think that we needed to bully other countries into our way of thinking in order to keep them from attacking us.

    What about friendships? What about positive relationships and positive perceptions between nations? I've always thought that positive begets positive, and negative begets more negative. One day, somebody will have to step up and be the bigger person, to say "we were wrong, what can we do to make things right?" (yes, I know it is not as simple as just saying that, but the sentiment of that statement is what I mean).

    I think President Obama has made good strides into "marketing" the U.S. in a more friendly way, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

    We don't have to rule by fear...then again, why do we feel like we need to rule?

Wednesday, 04 November 2009

  • So you want to be cool?

    Let me tell you what the cool people on Xanga are doing, or should be doing...they are participating in the Brain Fried Network Calendar Contest! You can get all the official rules and details HERE. To simplify, here is how it works:

    1. Go to the BFN Store and purchase an item from it. Items start at about $4, and you can have a nice piece of Xanga swag.
    2. Take a picture of whatever you buy (either solo, or with yourself) and send it to
    webmaster@brainfriednetwork.com
    3. Make a post with your pictures and make sure to message or tag edlives.xanga.com in the post.

    If you are one of the 12 people selected for the calendar (this is a contest folks, so make those pictures creative) then you receive a free year of Xanga premium or the credit equivalent!

    THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 21, 2009, SO GET THOSE ENTRIES IN QUICK!!!!

    Who doesn't want to be a part of a Xanga Calendar?

Monday, 02 November 2009

  • I have 8 days

    I have 8 days to make 1,510 Xanga Credits in order to buy myself another year of Xanga Premium. So, I'm going to do what people usually do in this situation, ask you all to leave me a comment, and then I will return the favor my leaving a comment on one of your posts, making each exchange a 4 credit "profit" for both of us.

    This will be good for me, as I really haven't gotten into the swing of reading again since my vacation. Since I'm "comment whoring" as they say, I mine as well solicit a comment that will help me to get to know you a little better.

    In the comment box, please leave one, or all, or none, of the following:


    1. Your Twitter url
    2. The thing you feel keeps you motivated in life
    3. A dream you are determined to make come true



Saturday, 31 October 2009

  • Currently
    Candyman
    By Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley, Tony Todd, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Williams
    see related

    What's your favorite horror or Halloween movie? (warning:scary pictures)

     My favorite horror movie, hands down, is Candyman. Its my favorite because it is probably the scariest horror movie I've ever seen. I lie to you not, just google searching for pictures for this post made my heart beat speed up.

    Legend has it that if you say his name five times in a mirror, he will appear. After seeing this movie the first time I couldn't be in a room with a mirror in the dark for MONTHS, I was 7 years old, now I'm 23 and the movie still creeps me out.

    I am pretty sure that the main reason the movie was scarier to me than the likes of Jason or Freddy Kruegger was/is because Candyman is Black. Not that Black men by nature are scary, but Candyman could have been my next door neighbor. While Jason and Freddy were slashing little kids up in the suburbs, Candyman was a descendant of an abused slave killing people in the hood. That hit a little more close to home for me lol.
     
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Thursday, 29 October 2009

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

  • There are plenty of rings in the sea

    I had almost forgotten to tell you guys this, but I was chatting with Elelkewlj this afternoon and remembered the story.

    At our first port of call during the honeymoon (Grand Turk) my husband (geesh, that sounds weird lol) and I hit the beach for some swimming, well in my case, some wading, because I can't swim lol. After we got out of the water he looks down at his bare ring finger and says "Oh 'shoot,' my wedding ring! We sadly walked back to the beach so he could look around the water for it. I'm not a pessimistic person, but I told him to just forget about it. His ring came off in the Atlantic Ocean, what are the chances of finding a ring in the Atlantic Ocean? He went in the water to look, and I laid back in a beach chair to relax.

    About 15 minutes later I hear him exclaim "I found it!" and I look up to see him holding the ring in his hand with a smile on his face. He is a very determined man, and thats part of why I love him.

    The moral of the story? When something seems impossible, and everyone is telling you to give up... keep pressing on, you can find your ring in the sea.

  • Don't let "cool" take your life away

    Some are teethed on a silver spoon, while others are left hungry
    You were given the best, offered the same opportunity as those swaddled in silk
    But silk wasn't good enough for you
    Wasn't dirty enough
    Wasn't grimy enough
    Everyone knows what's cool is what's dirty right?

    So you tossed away years of work to make you the best you could be
    Brought tears to the women who worked so you never had to shed one
    Flooded them with pain as you flooded your system with alcohol

    You let the streets start to devour you


    They're eating you
    Eating you alive
    You can't see that you are walking alone, surrounded by nobodies, towards a dead end

    You are producing nothing...but a child
    A beautiful baby girl who's tiny feet have no matron's path to follow

    You chose a life that most are forced into
    For what?
    For the cool?

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  • rockstarbaby07080
    hey i was just on your page and i was wondering if you would be my friend, i got some great blog ideas!!
  • AlterEgo909
    @Despair1 - I'm glad you like it! I wish your child well, that post was about my little sister, who I hope will straighten up one day.
  • Despair1
    I am truly feeling this one. I feel my child is at this crossroad. Thanks - It's like I found someone who understands my sorrow. Simply beautiful
  • AlterEgo909
    @AmataGirl - Aww thank you! Glad you enjoy my page!
  • AmataGirl
    Thanks for being my first friend on Xanga. I love your posts! I could read them all day! They're like reading a magazine.
  • kimberlyyy17
    hi im new here.can you have friends here?
  • Complexitii
    Thanks for the add-back!
  • AlterEgo909
    @AnchorsAwayx - lol, that is pretty interesting.
  • AnchorsAwayx
    heyy girl, i saw your plug and i the first person i thought of (on xanga) was you. i thought id tell you because thats weird since ive never heard you talk before..
  • bitterbittenrockinblonde22
    No offense, but you have an overplayed plug. I do the same thing. There are many, many more people like us. There shouldn't even be an "us vs. them" mentality, but there is.

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