Thursday, November 26, 2009

A Bit Disturbing...

So, I was feeling sick and I wanted decongestant to make my lungs happy. So I went into our bathroom to look through our medicine cabinet.


And lo and behold, we did have have many medicines in all shapes and sizes. We even had organic "natural stuff" too. Like arnica gel! Which is magical.



It makes owwy bruises go away into never-never land. Anyway. So I was there in the cupboard (well, not really in it, but my hand was in it... Okay, my fingers were in it, alright?) and I pulled out the bottle of decongestant, and it looked a little strange so I peered my buggy eyes at the bottle and what should I find but a very interesting expiration date:


And in case you don't believe me I have a second, nearly-exactly-the-same-but-not-quite, picture.



Yes, you saw that correctly my friends. Unless you didn't, which I can't tell, so I will say it aloud. And in print, since you can't hear me. That date clearly says that it expires October 2006. Oh, lovely, I thought to myself. Now I can go die a horrible death. But I wasn't serious so I made my mum and dad buy me new medicine and I ate pie.



It was a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

NaNoWriMo!

I meant to write about this at the beginning of the month, but hey, it's been a busy busy month. SO.

There is this amazing thing called NanoWriMo where you write a novel in a month. It stands for National Novel Writing Month and it is some very super cool organization. So far I am about 60% done with my novel. Which, I was hoping to be mostly done by now, so that I could focus just onschool during Thanksgiving Break, but agani, shas la na. (Which is a saying that sorta' means 'ah well, come what may' or something.)


Anyway :D


That is all.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Things I Should Not Shout...

This is why I should not be able to speak in public:

The other day a man came into the store that I work at. It was kinda' wet outside and he had a shiny bald head and I nearly shouted out, across the crowd of customers, "Whoa! You have a shiny head!"

Oh. My. Garland.

I should not be allowed in public.



Then there was a young lady who came in. She was wearing a long flowing skirt and looked kinda' what I'd call girly girly, and when she came up to the register and spoke I again almost shouted stupid things.

"Man! You have a deep voice!"

As if that weren't enough. THEN I'm standing next to an older lady and I almost breathe out these words:

"Awww.... You smell like my grandma."

Which, I love my grandma, but I think most people would think that smelling like a grandma is a bad thing.


Which makes me wonder if I should become a nun and make an eternal vow of silence.


But then, of course, I wouldn't be able to randomly start singing in the grocery aisle.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Why Retail is Sucking Away My Soul

I think the time has come to take a serious look at how retail affects people. For today we will look at how retail affects the Customer, an important, but annoying factor of the shopping experience.

RETAIL!



1. Retail makes people suddenly and completely devoid of a brain.

Customer: How much does this cost?

Me: Um....$9.97 (said awkwardly while pointing to the giant sticker that says $9.97)
2. Retail makes customers view cashiers as non-people

Customer: Excuse me, I want you to give me this giant stack of stuff for free and then I want you to wrap it, carry it to my car, and be my slave. Can you help me with that?

Casheir: No.

Customer: Uh!

3. Retail makes people FREAK OUT! and want everything now, now, now, or they'll have an epileptic seizure and DIE!

Me: If you give me your number I'll ask my manager and then call you back.

Person: But I need to know know. I'm getting ready to go Now.

Me: Well, I just told you he's on the other line, so... If you give me your...

Person: But I need to know NOW, or I'll blow your face off.

Me: Riiiiight, now that you've repeated yourself three time, I will listen whole-heartedly to you.


4. Retail makes people stare at you....


And then you stare at them back...


...wondering what on earth it is they want.

5. They will also invade your space, telling you ridiculous stories you could never even begin to care about...


"Look at my doll collection!"

6.They expect you to have magical powers...


Customer: What do you mean you don't have thirteen of these very specific hard-to-find books?

7. And they will call you a fish


"Fish!"


Coming Soon! How Retail affects You.

P.S. Yeah, I feel like I should put up a disclaimer: None of these pictures are mine. That's what google is for, right?

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Post Number One

So, I can't think of anything to write about, so in honor of the title of this blog I will do something random to generate a topic. First I will pick a book at random off of my shelf. "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan.


Now I will open to a random page and read the first word: "I'd." Okay, bad word, but let's roll with this. Now I will open another window and google.

"The blogger is somewhat of a free-roaming analyst, at liberty to write about any topic, from any perspective, without any obligation to corporate requirements." Tom Johnson (found at: http://www.idratherbewriting.com/)

Now, I know nothing of this website, so don't kill me if it offends you. Of course, it would be difficult for you to kill me considering you probably don't know who I am or where I am. So it would be most surprising if you did find a way to kill me. Anyway.

It is true that bloggers are supposed to be sort of, I want to say soul-vomiting, but I know just how wonderful that sounds. Ah well, too late. So bloggers are known to be as people who "soul-vomit," which consists of being honest about what they are writing about. A fake blog is the equivalent of of a man who has lied to you for five years and you thought he was a man and he turned out to be a gnome and he was just waiting to jump out and attack you at any moment. That is not a nice thing to do. And secondly, it's just not something that happens. Ever. Now, if somehow you have been attacked by a gnome in this matter please let me know so that I can laugh at your face.

Next: This reminds me of a thought which I thought with my brain the other day at work. I was organizing the section of books about parenting when (quite randomly) I thou... Oh wait! This is all wrong! I was organizing the section of Love & Marriage and I saw this book about eHarmony, or something, honestly I can't remember. But it was a book written by some dude that has put together this internet thing where you can meet people and fall in live and all that. Which is when I discovered how tempting it would be for me to go on to something like that and pretend to be someone else and just play around with some poor unsuspecting person (like some creeper you read about) and it reminded me of Pendragon, LifeLight, and Gloid.

Gloid is describe here: http://hallawiki.a.wiki-site.com/index.php/Gloid and would look something like this:


And the fact is living in a virtual world, whether through a game, through a book, or through a dating website, is a very seductive thing. Like high heels and fish net stockings.

So it was very disturbing, looking at that book while sitting on the floor at work, realizing that I really am insane. Very much insane. And then I was very glad that I grew up in a family where I was taught that it's NOT a good thing to go around pretending you are a thirty-pound dog when really you are a little girl.

Which leads me to believe that one should be careful of losing one's mind to a world that does not truly exist. Like Middle-Earth...
YoVille:
Naboo:
Gaia Online:

Ooh! Ooh! Which reminds me! I've been going on Gaia Online to make avatars. Which I actually do through http://www.tektek.org/dream/ and it is so much fun! It's a great way to create characters that are not real. And I think it's a healthy (as long as I'm not doing it for days on end) way to create characters that aren't real that I can pretend are real.
You see, this is the reason that I am a Writer: because if I wasn't I would become a creepy stalker person.

*P.S. I know Middle-Earth is real, but there are those who don't believe and I feel a strange urging to cater to their whims.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

What Does This Mean? What is This For?

I have many random thoughts about the world and earth at large (and at small?) and so I've decided to blog about them because that's what people have deemed as the "cool" thing to do. Okay, not really. I'm just totally making that up.

So what does Slumpvis mean? I did look this up, and as far as I have been able to tell it means "random" according to http://www.brainyquote.com/words/ra/random210060.html which I will quote here: "Random: force; violence. A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard."

That is what this blog is for. (Oh, and if anyone stumbles across this and is like, whoa, Slumpvis does not mean that, please, random Swedish-knowing person, please let me know.) (Oh, and if I'm right let me know too, or else I will always be wondering, plus I think it would be super cool to meet a Swedish-knowing person. Or a Polish knowing person, just because I have a ton of Polish friends by ancestry. Not that that has anything to do with anything. Anyway.) I will use this cyber space to write down my random musings. Mwahahahahaha... >:)

Continuing on...

I am not a big fan of stalkers, but if you stumble across this and like it and want to "follow" me (as in on blogs, not on the sidewalk) that is fine with me. I am down with that. Feel free to comment as well. I like comments. Comments rock like potatos in a sock! :D

One more thing: I don't like using my real name on blogs, just a random quirk I have that I am unwilling to part with. So I will make up a completely not my real name name. I haven't decided on one yet, and I'm at work right now (shh, don't tell) so I'll come up with one later when I'm not being a lazy bum worker.

Hope you enjoy!