AM in the PM

Santa’s Snobs.

Let me tell you how sick I am of hearing about Holiday Weight Gain..you know why you gain weight, because you look forward to eating in the holidays. What happened to those childhood wishes, the magic of Christmas that fills your hearts and not your tummies.

When have you heard kids in the school yard saying, omg I’m so excited for the holiday turkey I hear the stuffing is going to be divine.

Kids don’t look forward to food; instead they want to toboggan and open gifts. I say stop baking cookies for “santa” and feeding yourselves. Instead, bring the childhood magic alive, get out and play.

WARNING:

Toboggon-ners please Toboggan on a snowy hill. Injuries may be determental to major and special areas.

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-M

Lesson # 2

How to end a Conversation.

Simple, say Goodbye or Talk to you later, but don’t just cut off. OK so u did say bye, but hold on a sec for Joe to answer. I’ll tell you, the older you are the faster you hang up the phone. It’s like once there is a pause in the conversation, well that’s the queue to hang-up. Next thing you know I’m talking uber fast, but ladies and gentlemen, do you remember rule/lesson #1, Stop Talking Fast?

Now see, the conversation just ends awkwardly. Believe me when I say that even if you are having an amazing conversation a convo minus a goodbye equals disaster (convo – goodbye = disaster).

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-M

Is it me or does every single Pink song sound the same. It may seem weird, but I feel that artists should grow and change as people through their career. I’m not saying that they should adopt totally different music styles to entertain us – put something new must happen in their lives.

Are you telling me that pink hasn’t experienced anything new for the past five years. Are you telling me that she has been in a continuum where she constantly falls in parties like a bad girl, then ditzy falls into teenage love, gets treated badly, and then has an empowering/emancipating moment.

Some may argue that its similar to modern hip-hop and why not comment about that. True, but atleast the cars they speak about change with the times. Atleast I know they didn’t record their whole music career in the span of one day.

I’m not even sure her songs use any new words. Frankly, I think someone should checkup on her. Perhaps she is suffering something similar to “10 second tom” in the movie 50 first dates.

You be the Judge.
-A

Amsih.

I never understood it until I became an adult. How unnecessary technology can be sometimes. I mean I love my phone for example, but that’s it, I don’t have data or any apps. I don’t experience the “suckface” as I would like to call it, like the majority of the population. Secondly, I don’t care much to use technology for the purpose of retaining memory. I still like the old fashion paper and pen and or the master of all, my brain.

Alzheimer’s has increased and well I blame that on the GPS.

Okay, GPS can’t take all the credit for Alzheimer’s. But I know if I need to get somewhere I friggin look at a map. Slowly but surely I’ve finally understood my whereabouts in the foreign land I call home. I bet 60% of us “citizens” panic when they’re at a crossroads that the GPS could not recognize.

 Take that technology. I don’t rely on you because I’m in control.

So, does that make me a little Amish? I don’t think so.

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-M

Back on the topic of stories. I really don’t want to get too much into the stories people tell, because I feel that its a pretty mundane topic. But, there is one story that annoys me almost everytime I hear it.

The back home story is one where the teller states how difficult/better/complex their experience was in their original place or origin. In university, I often hear this story from people that come from other countries or transferred from another school.

What upsets me most about this story, is that people often tell me is when they are fucking up. If you learned conics in elementary school Japan please tell me why you haven’t memorized the quadratic equation. If you learned exergy calculations at your first year of Harvard then tell me why your fucking up now.

Give me a break and go back to your special place.

You be the Judge.
-A

Who is the mystery guy?

While sitting in the library, I overheard a story that I’ve heard many times before. I then began to realize that most people probably hear this same story.

First you need to be part of a large group of people, such as a university, church or large company. Next you need a fantastical story involving an amazing feat of excellence or disaster. The third thing you need is a mystery person nobody has ever heard of or seen.

Why do we always find ourselves listening and believing such stories that we clearly know are rumours. Have you ever tried to gain more information? I did and all that you get are awkward sounds and random excuses.

Mystery person I salute your success.

-A

Employment advice to my fellow generation Y’s – start doing you. The baby boomers have been the most dominant generation. With said dominance, society has catered their every whim. They needed family transportation – minivans became prevalent. They needed to finance their retirements – RRSP’s became prevalent.

As children of the largest generation, we have had things easy because our interests have been the interests of the baby boomers. This unfortunately is no longer the case. As the boomers age, their incomes decrease and they begin to look for ways to settle in for the rest of their lives. That means that greater burdens will be placed upon our future societies to support these individuals that are contributing less.

In short, the future can seem very uncertain or limited. Don’t wait for that promised job occupied by the boomer. Don’t put off your personal goals to gain a lower salary in the present. Taxes will be higher and government services will decrease. The once lucrative monetary rewards of a dead end job will be less lucrative in the future as your income diminishes with excess tax to support the boomers.

Get out there. Enjoy today and leave nothing for tomorrow. Because you never know if you’ll be able to afford it by then.

You be the Judge.
-A