I want a FAN CAN!

Recently- Bud Light has come out with a new campaign- Fan Cans. Fan Cans are designed to kick off the beginning of football and baseball seasons...You can now celebrate watching your favorite college team all decked out you know, hat, jersey, pants, socks, flip flops, ear muffs, face paint, and BUD LIGHT CANS! I have never been a sports fan, really, I mean just to watch the hot sweaty guys but I will sit down with a colorful can of beer to watch a game. Can we get pink Bud Light cans? I asked ChaCha- who apparently didn't have answers for me, where I could get said Bud Light cans.

Cuz' here's the kicker- colleges are ENRAGED about this campaign. They think that Anheuser Busch is supporting UNDERAGE drinking by releasing these cans aimed at fans of college sports teams. Two things should be addressed:
ONE: When people didn't want people drinking, people smuggled moonshine- and so came NasCar (or so I hear). People have been drinking underage since there has been an age given to permit drinking. People will continue drinking and binge drinking for as long as time allows. Hello???? Don't act like you didn't binge drink a time or two before you learned your lesson. Beer goggles, confidence, everything is more attractive- of course young people want these things- life is hard enough as an awkward tween-

I am not supporting underage drinking- but I am not going to act like the color of the can will make underagers drink more or less. Honestly- underagers will drink anything they can get their hands on - usually out of the parent's liquor closet or the cheapest thing at the gas station (remember Madd Dawg?). Colorful cans are for the more educated beer drinkers- I can almost guarantee that most underagers don't even know about this campaign- why? Because like I said before- they just want to get drunk- not know what they are drinking. My concern is more about if the cost of the cans will go up...and/or our failing public school system that could prepare these tweens for the public pressures of binge drinking and drug usage.

Second- Don't more than just underagers watch college football/baseball. Really- I mean the ages could range anywhere from 10 to 99. Notice- A small percentage of that are underage. Kids drink because of friends, parents, and social influence other than ads. Haven't we learned anything about the smoking phenomena?

Anyways- that's my gripe of the day- WTF? CAN'T I JUST PURCHASE A FAN CAN? or 24?

Are yall ready to order? -Yes- pause pause pause

I am sure that almost any server can tell you that it is really obnoxious when you walk up to a table after they have read the menu for about 30 minutes and you say, "Are you all ready to order?" They quickly answer, "yes, we are." As they begin to order they start discussing or looking at other things on the menu...This ordeal takes about 3 minutes but usually more. People with children are my favorite, because I say, "and would you like anything for the little one?" (I learned my lesson genderizing children ONE TOO MANY TIMES!) Anywho- they quickly realize they hadn't even looked to see what their child should eat. They start asking the kid, who doesn't know, keeps looking at me and just wants something fried. SO I end up standing there, listening to this jibber jabber for about 10 minutes (which in restaurant time is close to an HOUR!) and look around- all of my tables need drinks- they need napkins, just got sat again- TWICE!- it's like- if you say you are ready to order- then know exactly what you want. You have time to discuss when I am not there. Do you want a little extra input?
This could be because I am impatient- I dislike serving where I serve- and the customers are anything but classy (normally).

Yesterday evening there was a child who came out to eat with the fam. They let him get Sweet Tea. I set it down in front of him, by the time I was done taking the order he had drank all of his tea (which as an adult size cup). So I refill it, he sucks it down again after I have taken an order. For an appetizer they order cheese/bacon french fries and spinach and artichoke dip...Right before the meal comes- their kid gets sick. THey have no idea why.
HELLO?!?!!? You just fed your kid a heart attack plus the 3 glasses of sugar water probably DON'T help at all. Hello, America, WTF?

Let's take out vending machines in public schools because they allow children to make bad choices- but instead we will take our kids out to eat on a strict fried diet and sugar water.

Does this make sense?

Next thing- I saw on the news the other day that "organic" is pretty much a joke. I never buy organic stuff anyways but regardless for all of you out there determined that organic is much more healthy than regular produce and food. See this is the deal, there has been no defined guidelines for what constitutes "organic." It may just mean they don't use pesticides. They label things "organic" and jack up the price 3 to 5 dollars and we buy it because we believe the big corporations are not screwing us. How many tv shows/documentaries/news stories will we need before we realize- they just want our money (even though we don't have any right now).

That's enough of my ranting and raving. I have to go to work again tonight- should be interesting.

Gripe of the Day- Captcha

Okay- I have pretty good eye sight- actually perfect eyesight if you want to get technical. I have maintained above a 3.0 avg in my college career- people would say that I am analytical, a critical thinker, and I can usually solve my way through problems by reason. But everytime there is something that makes me type in the letters the "Captcha" if you will, I have to enter it 3 or 4 times- it makes me frustrated. What does "captcha even mean, anyways? I know they use it so a virus can't just hack into whatever it is you are doing but even when you click the little handicap button so you can hear the captcha letters out loud it still throws in static and random sounds to throw you off- so really- that doesn't help at all! Does anyone else have this problem with captcha?

Gripe Of the Day- Highlights

My hair is originally blonde- dirty blonde. One summer I literally spent all day every day outside at the beach- not only did this make people question my race- it bleached out my hair. Since then I have had to get my hair highlighted because when it grew out in the fall and I had a two tone head of hair it just seemed necessary. Now I find that I have to get my hair highlighted every 6 weeks or so. But here's the cycle- my hair cut doesn't really sit right for the first week, middle of the second week to the fourth week my hair looks good- the color, the cut, everything. Fifth week we are really starting to run into the roots coming out and showing their ugly head! Then it just gets worse from there- hair continues to grow out, darker and darker roots- can't wear pretty lady poofs, cant' put my hair put without the roots smacking people's eyes in the face, can't wear it half-up or tease it because then I have a crown of roots on my head.

So- all in all- every month and a half or so I am spending 90dollars on my hair that looks the way I want it to look for a week and a half or so.

I made the mistake of going too short- so now everytime I go I am like, "just literally pretend you are cutting my hair so I feel like I am trimming it." Just so I can grow it out longer-
DAMN HAIR!

Gripe of the Day- Tunics

Okay- so my gripe of the day for today are clothes labeled as "tunics". Occassionally I have been known to wear leggings (okay- three times my sophomore year and once my junior year) but none the less I own some. I bought a shirt called a "tunic" at Target the other day. Since the purchase I have seen 3 other people wearing it (in White). One wore it as a dress, one wore it with leggins, and one wore it with skinny jeans. My question- is a tunic a dress, shirt, or a combo of both? This said tunic does not look good with leggins on me, and you say- "well, then why did you buy it?" and I answer back to that- I have no flippin' clue...It was a smart purchase at the time. Maybe I should give up the dream and realize- tunics are a bad life decision for my wardrobe. Until then- I'll hang it next to the other three items labeled "tunic" on the tag.