Consumer #1

Dear anyone who knows how to read.

Here I am reading an eBay sellers Store page where she has to use her page in order to defend herself against "negative" transactions.

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People are People, to be human is to err

Don't take it personal

How about don't get so bent up about stupid shit? I guess that's equivalent to Don't Sweat the smalls things?

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I think that anyone who is intelligent (meaning able to respond and interpret their surroundings) i.e. emotionally, verbal, mentally will most often say hey, I want to be good, I want to do the right thing, I want to help another human being.

Then you as a "good" person want to help your customer and then the customer takes you for an idiot or treats you like shit.

Example: Tonight, going to pick up Chinese food my bf walked into the place, with a guy arguing with the owner about how he didn't get what his order came with. The owner came out and told him he had ordered an appetizer and it didn't come with broccoli.
But finally the owner said you know what, I'll give it to you anyway (being a good person trying to please their customer) and then the guy said forget it and left.

Where did our culture learn such horrid manners? Is it so hard to take a step back and say, my takeout Chinese isn't a perfect meal, these people have to have a life too oh and its fucking New Years Eve dickwad.

Then my bf's response was to the owner after it ended, how the guy needed to chill out and take it easy, ended with us having lots of soy sauce and fortune cookies, because this is a family business and these people work every day, when do they go on vacation?

You lowlife/working stiff have the audacity to be rude to these people where do you think you have that right? None of us have the right to treat anyone so cruelly no matter how shitty our day was.

We are not feral correct? We aren't Mogli in the Jungle Book and yet we can demand, yell, act like children, like zoo animals that need to be kept on leashes and not on the streets and you still have faith in humanity?

Too many people are asleep when they should be awake, stop getting upset about minutiae and honest mistakes. Stop being so self-absorbed, when you are vain and empty and have nothing to offer the world. Nothing worse than being aware of how you are just a spoke in the wheel of life. Nothing worse than having a job and being unappreciated and undervalued.


CONSUME.MARRY AND REPRODUCE.OBEY.STAY ASLEEP


My New Year's Resolution isn't very common it is to be less distracted by buying consumer goods, it is to stay awake not asleep and to waste less time, since time is all we have until we don't.

Create more! Love More! Buy less! Waste less!

Tru's Amazingly Delicious Masala Tea Recipe!

10 green/white cardamom pods, cracked, seeds removed, and pods discarded, or 1/2 teaspoon cardamom seeds or ground cardamom
1 (1 1/2-inch) piece cinnamon stick
4 peppercorns (I used black, you can also use white)
1/4 teaspoon fennel seeds
2 Bay Leaves
4 - 8 Full Cloves
1/3- ½ cup Milk (you could use condensed also)
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
6 cups water
5 full tea bags of English Breakfast Tea or other Black Tea
For loose tea use 5 teaspoons of Black Tea
Sugar or Honey to taste

Note: You can also add to this if you want: Anise and any of the above ingredients in smaller/larger quantities



Preparation Instructions

Combine all ingredients except milk and sweetener and boil for 10 minutes.

Once the pot has reached boiling point, set to simmer and add the milk and sugar.

Strain and serve



Yield: 1 Pitcher/ 1 Kettle Full

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Reading most people's tweets is as interesting as overhearing conversations on the subway

Let me preface all of this by saying, sure I live with a curmudgeon hermit.
But as time goes by I see more and more evidence that he isn't so wrong about the way he sees some things, especially his ideas about people and interactions he has with them. I can wholeheartedly relate to most of them.

I grew up around poor, uneducated people.. suburban nightmare
same old story... i was weird, smart and a bitch

(as you might have noticed... none of those things have changed about me)

so now I live in a city of people encroaching about 9 million

I get less and less tolerant of people as each day passes

I want to be a good person, I want to be nice to people, I want to have no prejudice and I want to not assume; but if I don't have any sort of inclinations towards animistic reactions, I won't survive on my own. Paranoia keeps you safe, naivety leaves you for dead.

I don't comprehend the way most general people think, it bewilders me. I either have to assume they are:
1- a robot who can't make their own decisions or wont make them
2- someone who is aware of what is going on but refuses to accept it so just goes with the crowd
3- actually a zoo animal in human form, with an IQ of around someone who has a brick to the head

and then there is that small percentage of people who think for themselves, question authority, analyze, investigate, challenge everything and who can hold up an interesting conversation.

All this from reading people's twitter feeds... seriously no one reads them, we are all stupid, self-important assholes, who should fight for freedom and get out of this rat race alive. I'm sickened by the inane conversations, I almost want someone to say Im wearing something weird so I can tell them they should read a book or do something else more constructive. It's harder not to stereotype except I see it all the time on the subway. I listen to loud music on the subway just to drown any knowledge of uselessness around me.

I consider myself to be an open minded person, but its hard. I went to a Sikh festival over the weekend and had an interesting conversation with one since I wanted to know more about their culture and practices, since I had no idea. While we were waiting in line for free Indian food, a group of about 10 Indian women, cut us in line and looked down at us since we were white. I really wish we were all one color, so then it wouldn't be about skin tone, it would be about who is polite, kind or intelligent.

For anyone who thinks living in new york is awesome, its not, please don't move here.
Thanks

Does anyone out there in the world, use their brains at all, if so please feel free to tell me your thoughts, I'm listening

Excursion, Subversion & Obscure Cure

Hello there valiant readers! It's been far too long since I've written anything for more than a few reasons but now seemed like a good time. Finally wrote a blog after 9 months of nothing!

Update Time!

I'm entering into my 4th week at my internship with Betsey Johnson.
I've had the delight of learning new skills and running odd errands.

Here goes...

1. Ms. Johnson's occasional coffee wench!
2. Going downstairs to get a vitamin water, only to be dumped and used to conceal Korbel Champagne
3. Having to find Hi Loft Batting (Had to go to a quilting store)
4. Color matching yardage/pieces to fabric we have or samples
5. Helping the trim coordinator keep updated with email
6. Going to the flower district to buy roses for a photoshoot
7. Free books when Betsey cleaned out her office
8. Hanging Vintage clothes on clear hangers
9. Dropping off/Picking up (Patterns, Samples, yardage) to domestic factories
10. Having Snap Tape custom made
11. Normal things (filing, cutting fabric, getting lunch etc)
12. Organizing the entire Lace Trims by size and type (Ongoing Project)
13. Getting swatches from companies we deal with directly
14. Sourcing trims and fabrics
15. Modeling Prototypes for Design and Retail Staff
16. Inventory of shipments received
17. Fabric Dyeing (making yardage darker, custom made colors)
18. Having Betsey come in and teach me her dyeing method :)
19. Working on projects all associated for Show aka Fall Fashion Week
20. Helping backstage at Show on Feb 14th
21. Steaming wrinkles out of Tulle Dresses

I'm sure there are more but these are the ones that came to my jaunty mind!


***Notable Events***
There was a box marked FREE in the kitchen area and I snagged 2 dresses!

I found a piece of fabric awhile ago and it had an interesting pattern on it so I brought it in with me to show the designers. Everybody loved it! and it was approved by the Pattern making Director. I can't wait to see what they use it for!


Last weekend I went to HOUSING WORKS (the warehouse in LIC) for the "ALL YOU CAN STUFF" Sale and got a discount, $15 instead of $20. You have to dig but I found some cool stuff.===> 2 Tights, 1 pair of socks, 6 Dresses, 6 skirts, 7 Blouses, Nicole Miller Leather Jacket, pair Black Velvet Pants, Tapestry purse, Mustard Dress Jacket, Winter Knitted Hat, Vintage Velvet Hat, a scarf, lace collar and a black cummerbund all for $15.00!

I'm cleaning out my closet and perhaps will post pics if anyone is interested in anything let me know.

Last night I hung out with a friend who said this internship is akin to the Harvard of Fashion and he's right!

It can only get better as time goes on and I'm pretty happy with everything in general. :)

<3 moi