#NoTeenPreg ... AKA: A lack of common sense.

#NoTeenPreg

Common sense for dumbasses... 

Apparently, this is a thing. Kids now have to be told by celebrities that it’s a stupid as shit idea to get knocked up before graduating high school. When I was in school… we called this common sense. It was common sense to not get knocked up in high school.

It’s not about being judged, it’s about not rewarding when a teenager does something stupid, sometimes on purpose, and changes their own life, the life of the other person/parent, the child itself, the parents of the teenager… the whole FAMILY is uprooted.  But, you know, saying that teenage pregnancy is a bad thing is so wrong…

See? This prick wouldn't be calling people beached whales
if his mom had just swallowed... #NoTeenPreg!!

Anyone else seeing how stupid that is?

Honestly, think about it. I have a friend and an acquaintance who has had children in their teens. One of them is doing very, very well… she lives on her own, her son is 13, she’s an A student in college and she graduates with me in  May as an Early Childhood Educator. The other person I know, and many like her… well, she works minimum wage, parties all the time, shirks her child off on others, does poorly in school, gets all welfare she can get, etc. How does her life sound to you?

I know it doesn’t sound great to me. That’s why I did all in my power to keep myself from becoming one of those statistics.

But apparently, people think this campaign, the NoTeenPreg campaign, is shaming young mothers.

The minority in Teen Pregnancy. Not the norm. 

Really?

It’s not SHAMING the ones who already HAVE children… what’s done is done. It’s telling those who could possibly be trying to conceive on purpose or not using protection or thinking that it will never happen to them, that there’s so much MORE they can achieve than changing diapers. There’s no crime in that.

With shows like 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom glamourizing pregnancy for teenagers, they NEED the truth about teen pregnancy, or hell even pregnancy in general. When, on these shows, do you see just how bad the early pregnancy can be? Do you get to see the puking at all hours of the day? The shooting vaginal pains? The feeling of having a head pressed against your innards and making you ache? The sciatica, the swollen ankles, the peeing yourself when you so much as laugh too hard or sneeze or hiccup? No. You see girls who are getting some form of support, who usually have their basic needs met, who often do not have to work, who have HELP.

The Truth about Pregnancy. 

Ask any mother. Pregnancy sucks ass. It sucks HARD. It’s a lot of morning sickness and pains and aches and being kick-boxed like a MMA fighter is trying to break a record inside of you.

And the post-pregnancy? Motherhood? Oh don’t get me started… It’s a joy, don’t get me wrong, I love my snotface to death. I’d do anything for her, make any sacrifice I needed to, including my life, willingly. But it’s HARD. The infant months, the newborn months… Newborns are up half the night, you don’t get to ‘train’ them to sleep through the night like some people say. It’s tough. It tests you, tests all of your limits. And teenagers are mentally not developed enough to deal with all of that.

Think about it, teens brains are still developing. We don’t fully develop until we hit our 20s. Being a parent is an adult job, it’s something you expect of a grown-up, with a fully developed brain.

 

The truth about parenthood
summed up in one image...
MESSY!

So why would anyone expect a teenager to be capable of doing what an adult would?

And that, by the way, does not include the obvious thoughts of who is going to watch the child while the mom works, is the mom going to graduate high school, or go to college, how is she going to become self -sustaining?

And people are still defending teen pregnancy? Maybe if teenagers listened to their parents and stopped listening to the ‘stars’ of Teen Mom, they’d be making better choices. I don’t know about you, but a pothead mother who doesn’t even have custody of her own child and gets into physical fights with her mother and others (Jenelle) or one who wants to star in pornos and is more worried about plastic surgery and getting her kid’s eyebrow’s waxed versus her child’s well-being (Farrah), are not the best role-models for my child, or any child.

This is not a role model. This is a Porn Star.
There IS a difference, people.

So, I stand behind this campaign.

#NoTeenPreg 

Who enjoys the Holiday Hassles? Not me!

It’s the holiday season!

So grab your wallets, push those shopping carts.

Don’t forget to see what’s in stock.

And remember to drive like someone’s biting your c*ck,

Because it’s the season of sales and dumbasses!

How’d you like my rendition of that holiday classic? Because that’s how I feel right now. I had to go cash the other half’s check today, so I decided to finish off the holiday shopping. I did really well, too. Got him his gifts, one from me, one picked out by the snotface, got my parents a gift, got my grandparents a gift. Only spent 24 bucks. Not bad at all.

The DRIVING that people were doing though… Oh my GOD, it was horrible!! These people seriously cannot drive! You do not stop in the middle of a lane to cross 2 lanes and turn just because you forgot where your turn was! You do NOT do a U-turn in the middle of the road! You do NOT cut off someone who is attempting to go around your slow ass, for no other reason than you don’t want someone to pass you.

I cannot stand how bad the driving is this time of the year! It’s like watching the stupid people, the lemmings, try and interact with everyone else. Children screaming at their parents, the parents not doing anything about it… The shitty drivers attempting to drive like the other people, and failing for that matter. The adults acting like children about various sales and coupons. It’s silly and ridiculous.

Do I shop during the holidays? Yep. Do I go nuts? Hell no. I went to Bath and Body, ONLY because I had a 25 dollar gift card, and shit was buy 3, get 3 free. That has been the ONLY major sale I hit up this season. Everything else has been normal clearance. Hell, I had my daughter’s Christmas all bought before Thanksgiving, with the exception of a tricycle, which we got second-hand, looking like brand new, for $15… That’s about $30 cheaper than the stores, mind you, $45 cheaper if you go to Toys ‘R Us. (She got a Radio Flyer, those things last forever) 

So why kill each other? Why can people not get a few things here and there as Christmas gifts for the year? Why buy all after Black Friday? It’s so much hassle! Count me glad that I planned ahead. I’m glad I’m not stressing like the people I see on a daily basis, figuring out how to cram a basket full of gifts into the budget with bills and food.

Screw that.

Screw the hassle.

I’m content just relaxing and enjoying the end of the semester with my kiddo and other half, and not stressing about going to the store for the next sale. You can keep your holiday shopping, I think it’s for the birds. 

Justin Bieber strikes again: Calls a 'Belieber' a beached whale. But, it's ok, right??

Well, here I am, at class, dolled up for a mock-interview that I have to do today for class. I’ve been trying to figure out just what to write about today…

 

 Do I write about the stupid woman who brought her half-smoked joint into the classroom and forced the rest of us to smell it?? Nah.   

 

How about the idiot in my first aid class who cannot shut up and stop asking stupid questions, taking up everyone’s time?? Meh, nah.

 

Paul Walker? While tragic and ironic, it’s not something I need to talk about. And I don’t blog just for views.

 

So what?

 

Well, I read an article on The Stir, a Cafemom site, and it really, REALLY pissed me off. Here’s a link, in case you’re curious.

 

http://thestir.cafemom.com/entertainment/165256/justin_bieber_reportedly_hurls_cruel

 

Apparently, the Biebs has called one of his fans, a lovely curvy girl who is a size 14, a ‘beached whale’, while lounging poolside with his entourage. Really, Bieber? And people are ok with the shit he says??? Hasn’t that little mouth-breather, bottom-feeding jerk dug his own grave yet??

 

Are teenage girls REALLY still head over heels over this loser? Come ON ladies! Have some self-respect! I can see being a fan of his music, but saying he’s a decent person after his recent behavior… no. He SPIT on his fans, and laughed about it! He’s a little lowlife!

 

People like him make girls think that being treated like that is ok, and it’s NOT. If anything, it’s a detriment to society… It gives an unhealthy ideal of what a relationship should be, and that’s wrong.  Guys are not supposed to act like douchebags and get away with it, it’s NOT ok!

 

And yet, people think he’s above reprieve. That he is untouchable. That what he does is acceptable. It’s not. And the sooner we make him responsible for his actions, the fewer a-holes there will be in the world, thinking the behavior of these hip-hop / pop / rap musicians is ok and the way to act. Forget that. Hold these people to some standards… otherwise, you can’t complain about the jerk who cuts you off in traffic or the buttwad who gets in front of you in the check out lane. Either all jerks are bad, or none are. There is no middle ground.

Hobby Lobby vs Free Birth Control

Ok, so this is a topic that I’ve noticed a lot of mixed opinions on. Heck, my other half and I had a 30 minute discussion about this the other day and what we thought about it.  Hobby Lobby is fighting the Affordable Care Act and trying to make it so that they don’t have to cover Plan B and other similar forms of birth control. They say that, based on their religious beliefs, they should not have to cover this.

This time, I think religion should win.

Now, I’m not for having religion in schools and stuff like that. I don’t think kids should be forced into a religion at birth, and should have a broad exposure to religion as children to make their own choices when they are old enough to understand it.

But I am so against making a company, knowingly run by Christians, cover something that their religious beliefs are so completely against, that it’s not even funny. I could not even fathom forcing someone into doing what I think, just on the guise of ‘it’s the law now’. Just because it’s law, does not make it right.

Note, I’m not against ALL of the Affordable Healthcare Act; Just certain parts of it, like forcing people to get insurance, or else… and this… and other things.

I am huge on freedom of religion. I’m not a traditional religion myself, so seeing something forced on other religions really pisses me off. I even hate seeing things forced on Christians, and that is exactly what’s happening.

Tell me this… why do you NEED free birth control?

It costs 10 bucks at Walmart for the pill. The health department or Planned Parenthood has bowls of condoms to grab, for FREE, in their clinics.

Why should your Nuva-Ring, or Implanon, or other convenience birth control methods, be free of charge? Cheaper, yes, it should be cheaper. But not free.

My grandmother pays out the rear for her medications… and you think that your free birth control is more important than her getting her heart medicine for the same? Why should your convenience medication be free, when her life-sustaining medicine costs so much?

It shouldn’t.

And that is my biggest issue with all of this. We’re being entitled again. We think that our medicine to make us have safe sex, is more important than the elderly getting their medications with the same price tag. Why is no one protesting the fact that heart medications and diabetes medications and things of that nature are so expensive that our elderly are living in poor conditions and scrounging to get by? 

Because it doesn’t affect us directly, so we don’t care.

It’s wrong. And I personally am tired of it.

Do I think Hobby Lobby and Christianity has some tired ideals? Oh you better believe it. But I do think they should have the right to refuse paying for some birth control options, and I do think that we need to worry more about the elderly before we worry about something as trivial as birth control.

One day, you are going to need these expensive, life-saving medicines… and  then you’ll understand the reason that I’m so heated about this. Then, you’ll be protesting about those medicines going up in price. 

More Black Friday Rants...

So, yeah… more about Black Friday.

Screw this stupid piece of crap event. It’s leaked over past Freaking Friday now, and it’s started on Thanksgiving day now. THANKSGIVING DAY, PEOPLE! The very day where we’re supposed to be THANKFUL for what we already f**king have! For the love of he-who-must-not-be-named, people, seriously?!? Thanksgiving day is about family! Not about you getting your laptop at half price, or that TV for $600 bucks instead of $1000. It’s about being with your loved ones. MOST of us should know that.

So WHY are we so intent on prying people who work in retail away from THEIR families, just so we can get a chance for a cheap Ipod or new sneakers??

I’ll tell you why, because people nowadays are greedy f**ks who are incapable of being grateful for what they have.

In my hometown, someone got into a fight over a misunderstanding about a TV. The man got punched in the damn face over a TV the other man hadn’t even PAID for yet. And he had three new TVs in his shopping cart! THREE!!! So WHY is it a huge deal when someone mistakes your cart for an employee cart, and grabs ONE TV, thinking you’re re-stocking shelves? Why can you NOT say, politely, ‘Excuse me, that was in my cart, please give it back.” Why do we resort to violence and anger and hateful words??

Ugh.

We’re a society of entitled jerks. Look at things. We feel like our birth control is a right, that we shouldn’t have to pay for it. We think we NEED cable TV or satellite, and at least 50 channels to choose from. We NEED new game systems, phones with GPS and internet and other things.

Do we really NEED it though? No. We don’t. We think we do, and we think it’s our right to have those nice things. It’s a bit sickening to be honest.

Now do I think if you can afford these things, that you’re some nasty person? Not at all. But I do think that when you’re so desperate for a deal that you’ll throw punches over a TV or shoes or other MATERIAL items that you don’t need, then you’re pretty much a materialistic jerk. It’s not about THINGS we want, like I’ve said before… it’s about being grateful and thankful for what we already have. Period. And the people who are forcing others away from their families for a damn sale on Thanksgiving day?  SHAME ON YOU!! I doubt YOU would be as keen to spend time away from your families. So why force others away from theirs?? If it’s not a necessary business like a gas station, or grocery store, then you don’t need to be open. And even those places should be open only half a day.

Remember, you are NOT the only person on this planet, and others would like time with their loved ones as well. Be THANKFUL. Not GREEDY. 

Happy Thanksgiving, WTF is up with early Christmas stuff, and Black Friday

Well, it’s the holidays… Happy Holidays people! Long time no blogging! I’ve been so damn busy lately that it’s not funny… Yay for senior year of college, being pregnant, chasing a toddler around, and keeping up with the house.

So, this is my first Thanksgiving where I have been graced with the chance to make dishes for the big meal! I have been asking for YEARS to make dishes to go with Turkey Day for over 6 years, and have always been turned down. Well, this year, my grandmother is hurt, her back is messed up, and my mother has a broken ankle and leg. They can’t do a lot of cooking. Hence, I have been tapped.

I’m pretty excited, I have 3 dishes I’m making. One is my own take on my mother’s broccoli and cheese recipe. Another is homemade pumpkin pie. And the last one is a sweet potato casserole. And they look and sound delicious. I have been waiting to try and make some sides for this holiday for so long… I’m starting to bake around 3, since each pie takes an hour and the casserole takes an hour and 45 minutes total to finish.

I’d be panicking, if I wasn’t all but done with my college work. I mean seriously, I have my Reflection packet and my Presentation to do this weekend in my Internship class, and a book box to finish in my Teaching Literacy to Young Children class… other than that? Done. All of my other assignments are all finished. That stuff will literally take me 3 hours to do. Mind you, the month before that, before I sat and busted  my ass to get all of my assignments done, I had a TON to do. But, that’s the way senior year goes. Always busy.

Anyhow, has anyone else noticed that Christmas has already hit the stores?? Jeeze… a little early, people! And I admit, I get annoyed with Christmas coming as early as October 20^th. And yes, that’s when it hit the stores here. You know when, traditionally, my family puts up the tree? Black Friday. The day most hypocritical people are out trying to fight and bicker for the best deal on a TV, or an Ipod, the day after being thankful for what they already have. That’s the day I spend time with the family and put up the tree, decorate the house, etc.

So, is it that hard to go and wait to put up Christmas things? I don’t think so.

Do I wear Christmas shirts before December? Yep. But my house stays bare of all holiday decorations. Hell, I found a radio station that I usually listen to ALL the time, playing nothing but Christmas music. A week before Thanksgiving. Ugh.

Anyhow… be thankful for what you have this holiday season. Be grateful, if you do go out for Black Friday, or worse, Thanksgiving Day Shopping, that there’s anyone willing to take time away from their families to make sure you get that Xbox or PS4. Tell people Happy Holidays if nothing else. Be courteous. Don’t be an asshole and get rude to people who you’re never going to see again. But all in all, spend time with your loved ones, be merry, and enjoy your turkey, tofurkey, or whatever you eat on Thanksgiving. 

RoseVoxBox- Rimmel London Retro Looks

Ok, so after a long day of stuff, I've finally worked out the cutest retro look to discuss about. (Mind you, this is pretty much just a filler post... I've been pretty busy lately and have had no time for anything blogging related.)

So, Step 1. Foundation.

-Cover up those problem spots. This look requires a face that looks like porcelain almost.

Step 2- Eye shadow.

-Be very light with it, and use mostly white/pale colors. For the edges for a more smoky eye, use a grey.

Step 3- Eyeliner

-Lightly line the upper lashes ONLY. Nothing on the bottom unless you want a more dramatic look.

Step 4- Mascara

-Apply 2 coats of Rimmel London's Scandaleyes mascara. This stuff is badass, the brush is unique and the formula lengthens without clumps!

Step 5- Lips

-Apply a thin line of Lip Liner, in a bright red or pink. Then with a matching or slightly lighter shade of pink/red, apply lipstick.

Add your accessories and style your hair, and BOOM. A retro look that takes 10 minutes or less!