Are you tired of this too? I can’t remember where I was a few weeks ago that asked me if I wanted to tip. It wasn’t a salon or restaurant. It was somewhere completely unexpected. And everywhere you go wants you to round up for whatever charity (DO NOT do that. Your 63 cents (or whatever) goes to the company to donate — tax free — to charity. You do not know if they’re actually donating your money and they are getting credit and tax breaks because of your generosity. It’s corporations asking you to donate and they have their own money to donate. Then there’s the survey they send you because they just had to have your email address! HEB sends me a survey each week that says will ONLY take three minutes to answer. Enough!
I’ve been a Beatles fan since I was eleven, but there are a few songs I’ve never liked. Those mainly being “I Me Mine,” “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road,” “Revolution #9,” “Withib You/Without You,” and “All You Need is Love.”
I knew “All You Need is Love” was bogus because you need more than love to have a roof over your head and food in your belly, etc. A LOT of that song is true: “Nothin’ you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time” and “There’s nothin’ you can do that can’t be done/Nothin’ you can sing that can’t be sung/Nothin’ you can say, but you can learn how to play the game” — all true. Ig truths. You can do virtually anything you can think of. But it takes more than love.
Then there are the personal, emotional things that I found in an in IG post today. It’s good stuff.
This goes with mental health as far as I’m concerned.
Girls are told from day one that they’re pretty. Put on this pretty dress. You want to look pretty, don’t you? You look so pretty today. Aren’t you pretty? And my favorite — you have such a pretty face — the BEST backhanded compliment I’ve ever heard.
So when I saw this a few years ago, I yelled a big FUCK YEAH!
I’ve worn lipstick and mascara since seventh grade. Then I started coloring in my brows, and used concealer, foundation, blush, and powder.
L’oreal. Maybelline. Max Factor. Coty. Revlon.
I wear foundation, powder, blush, and lipstick every day. For myself. Never for another person. I’m very, very pale. I have no color in my face. My eyebrows are blond. My lips are barely a tinge pink, kind of. I like the way I look with color on my face. I don’t care if anyone thinks I’m pretty, but I used to. Makeup has been for me for a long time.
The world would be a lot nicer if people stopped putting “pretty” as an expectation of girls and women. We don’t owe anyone that. Pay attention next time you hear someone on the news talk about a young woman that’s missing. Almost every time they’re called “pretty.” It’s weird. So weird.
If you’re a woman reading this, know that you don’t owe looking “pretty” to ANYONE. If you’re a man, stop expecting it. It’s not requirement to wear jewelry and false lashes to Target.
Last of all, pretty is subjective. My pretty may be your ghastly and vice versa. That’s why it’s irrelevant. Who cares? Pretty should be an internal thing anyway. But you can’t see that, so there’s nothing superficial to judge women on. Oh, wait…
In case you forgot, ERCOT (the Electric Reliability Council of Texas), runs the electricity system here and they suck. Back in February of last year, this became evident when they broke Texas. It was super cold, but the grid should be able to handle that for a few days. More than 4.5 million homes and businesses were left without power, some for several days. At least 246 people were killed directly or indirectly, with some estimates as high as 702. That’s a lot of deaths.
On Friday, ERCOT issued a statement saying “With unseasonably hot weather driving record demand across Texas, ERCOT continues to work closely with the power industry to make sure Texans have the power they need.”
Friday afternoon, the power plants that went offline resulted in the loss of 2,900 megawatts of electricity — enough to power about 580,000 homes. That’s a lot of freaking people. And it’s freaking hot.
“We’re asking Texans to conserve power when they can by setting their thermostats to 78-degrees or above and avoiding the usage of large appliances (such as dishwashers, washers and dryers) during peak hours between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. through the weekend,” the release said.
Bitch please. 78°? I’m writing this on Sunday afternoon at 5:30 pm. It is 92° outside and my thermostat is set to 72° because we pay the bill and a council that doesn’t care about its citizens and obviously hasn’t done the job of strengthening the grid (like they said they would) doesn’t get to tell me what to do. We had record temperatures last week and it’s only May. W
hat’s going to happen in August. People are going to die from not being able to cool their homes in the heat. The elderly are especially vulnerable in the heat. Every year there are fan drives for the elderly. Fan drives! But the EPA estimate that more than 1,300 deaths per year in the United States are due to extreme heat. People shouldn’t be dying in hot homes. Btw, Texas leads the nation in deaths of children left in hot cars.
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