I know I said that I wasn’t going to post anymore of my Dollar Store Makeup Challenge videos, but hear me out… I wanted an excuse to buy a new dress and necklace… and a purse. Whoow. Glad that thats off my chest because… WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE?!?! No seriously, I end up explaining myself a little bit. Just a little though.
Category: Too Political
Can I look Womanly?
So, I tried to put on makeup for the first time ever, and umm… yeah. Here’s a video. Nuff said, I love you goodbye.
Donald Trump is what happens when you dress up a Bulldog like a Pitbull and call it a Great Dane
I was raised in a conservative household with conservative values. I was told that The President of our country was supposed to be the moral leader of the free world. That wasn’t Donald Trump. The grab ’em by the pussy, cheat on your wife who’s in labor with a porn star, and extremely nepotistic 45th President of The United States, Donald J Trump.
The same man that raised me as well as my older brother who I would look up to both have said similar things: While he has done some great things, I don’t like him as a person, and I can’t stand what he says.
Donald J Trump, a well known person since the 1980’s, never hid who he was, unlike his supporters. He’s that inner voice with a thought you dare not speak in public, and that new car you buy yourself despite not knowing how you will make the payments on it. He is unpaid credit card debt. In short… he is the worst parts of ourselves that we are supposed to be ashamed of.
While some people have argued that he is not an Anti-Christ figure spoken of in the book of Daniel, I’m not sure which of the seven deadly sins he is not guilty of, if any.
Donald Trump refused to be or act normal, and because of this, there has been four very stressful years which will make Joe Biden’s next four years difficult.
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Today is the day we remember people in the Transgender community that have been murdered due to transphobia as well as to shine a spotlight on the continued violence that the community is facing on a regular basis.
LGBTQ rights are very important to me, and Trans Right are Human Rights.
In college, I wrote a paper in my English class concerning giving the LGBT community protections under the law, and how important that was. I got a bad grade for it when I went to my first college, but I slightly spruced it up when I transferred and got my A for it, despite that it was mostly the same.
I fell in love with this community in the early to mid 2000’s before any other letters were commonly used. A few years back, I remember a gay friend of mine explaining that they were just one letter away from the acronym being Quilt Bag, and that must have resonated, because that’s how I still remember it today.
As far as the T in LGBTQIA, I feel like I should share a little more than I normally do. When I was in Kindergarden or First grade, I was sexually abused a few times by a neighbors son. I mostly blocked this out later. In High School, after learning how to make primitive websites but before I was a part of Livejournal [Remember Livejournal?!?!], I tried to have a timeline on my site year by year of stuff that happened, and included that. Well, my dad found it in the search history and made me delete it, and shamed me for it as if I was proud of what had happened.
I had some nightmares about it in High School, although I largely do not remember the content of said dreams, and I would wake up in a cold sweat. I was left wondering about my sexuality a little because of that.
I also discovered a webcomic called Bridges, chatted with the webcomic artist, and was introduced to a couple of her fans that were gay but also lived with people in the L and even T camps.
In my first year of college, I questioned if I was transgender or not, and told me then sometimes on and sometimes off girlfriend, who then outed me as gay to the Wal*Mart I had worked at the summer before college where she too had worked. Awesome, and not even accurate.
I’m becoming more comfortable with the label of Gender Queer or Gender Fluid, in general, to describe myself. I feel that if gender were a spectrum, I’d be placed at 30% Female but still… you know, 70% Male? I enjoy doing some feminine things. It’s weird to wrap my head around ideas and terminology when I’m used to the idea of “You either are or aren’t, or possibly just a crossdresser?” and now there’s 30+ identities out there that we were never taught that just feel as if they suddenly appeared.
Transgender is both an umbrella term, and a specific term… so yeah, a little bit, here’s to Evelyn. Be safe everyone.
So, things are weird. Went to a therapist and a psychiatrist. I apparently have anxiety and depression? I got Prozac for that but nothing for my ADHD? Which was weird,
My new best friend who is only 20 feels uncomfortable hanging out with me, saying it’s the age gap but then saying she has trust/boundary issues with men? I dunno. A few days later I asked her her for my 2DS back, and she says she is fine texting back and forth still and didn’t want to completely cut me off… but I dunno man.
My problems with POS and Natasha are smaller? after over a month she’s back at her place and POS isn’t here all of the time? Eh.
I’ve voted already, and I’m off on Nov 3 and 4th… which I need for my mental health. Speaking of mental health, I have my second (FREE) session therapy in the morning. Anyways, this is just a little update… here’s a throwback picture for no good reason.
Is $600 a week too much?
I decided to crunch some numbers, and my numbers aren’t 100% exact, but hey… I was just curious why people were so mad lately about people making $600 a week on unemployment. This was just for fun, and I want to assure people that my job status is not in any of the examples listed below.
Start out pay for a cashier at a certain grocery store is about $10.34 AFTER increasing their wages by a couple dollars an hour thanks to the latest union contract. If someone worked 40hrs a week for an entire year (52weeks in a year) as a cashier, they would make $21,507.20 before taxes, assuming their pay remained the same.
Unemployment at $600 a week, pays out $31,200 a year… not sure if there is money taken out, and that is if they were paid all year of course.
The bottom salary for a Phlebotomist in Texas is only $24,400 and that is a skilled job requiring some education, and there is a lot of competition.
Average rent in an apartment is $900 a month. Times 12 that’s $10,800 before utilities. The general rule is that 30% of your income should pay for your rent. On Unemployment, that’s $9,360 if it was for a year. On unemployment, with NO Utilities, still really can’t afford to pay rent, yet we complain that they are making too much money.
The real problem, is that the person who has a job requiring an education that is essential right now, The Phlebotomist, can’t even really afford to live in an apartment with 30% of their wages being a measly $7320 a year.
God help the person who decided to get a job at a certain grocery store because they were out of work, because their pay is $6452.16 GROSS. And they have to pay a union fee for getting it that high every week. Also they typically do not get 40hrs a week. In fact that corporation wants ‘full time’ to be considered less than 40 with overtime only being considered after a 10hr shift instead of 8.
The real question isn’t “Is it okay to pay people more not to work than those who are still working?” It’s… “When did we begin to care so little about people, in general?”
Meanwhile, the sacker at that grocery store who makes on average $8.73 at that store has to push carts in 100°F, just hoping that someday he can just catch a frigging break, and not die of heat stroke instead of the virus.
No vacation this week for me!
Don’t you hate it when you can’t go on vacation because someone gets corona virus, so your boss goes on vacation as well? Meanwhile 3 people are out with some sort of other medical shenanigans.
Oh, and my store didn’t tell us that someone had Covid-19 this time around… because screw us, right?
C is for Corona: A Horrible Time, but Hindsight is 2020
This is going to be the name of my timeline, yearbook, scrapbook, poem, or whatever. I’ll keep people updated on it, but I just wanted to put this name out there.
Huh… I hadn’t heard this alarm from earlier on the 13th… crazy.
I haven’t posted in a while, and I just wanted to make sure that people knew that I was safe and still alive. I’ve been watching Hamilton, but it isn’t exactly the Tiger King craze we all went through in the early stages of this pandemic.
I’ve also been playing some of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild on The Switch. While it is fun, I’m not enjoying it as much because I’m trying to do other things besides the divine beasts, as I want to go up against the Ganon Boss rush first. I tried right after pulling The Master Sword, however, I forgot how to fight the second form of Fireblight Ganon.
Summer is here, and it kind of sucks. I live in an area with heat advisories this week, while I work in a badly air conditioned area. That’s when I’m not outside. It could be worse, don’t get me wrong… there are people who work for an entire shift outside, and that’s terrifying, even without Covid-19.
This year sucks man, and the heat of Texas is just making it worse.
Last Week Tonight: Police
This Last Sunday had a great video from John Oliver. I’ve included a video he mentions from 6 years prior.
NetSenshi Productions 