Things that make me sad for mankind....

I feel I am a fairly optimistic person. I try to always see the good side of people and situations. But every so often you see or hear something that causes your faith in people to die a little bit. Here are somethings I've seen and experienced that make me sad for mankind....

BridalPlasty Reality TV


I mean come on people!! Brides to be compete to win free plastic surgery for their wedding!! So wrong on so many levels! Who comes up with this crap!? Who actually sat in a room and said..."Wedding shows are huge, but lets have them compete for something other than the wedding of their dreams....let's change how they look permanently!"  Ugh. I mean I'm all for makeovers and believe that on your wedding day you should feel like the most beautiful woman in the room. But to get plastic surgery....I mean that's a way too extreme makeover. Aren't you altering what your partner fell in love with in the first place?! Not only should the people who came up with this concept be tarred and feathered, but the willing participants of such a show deserve a good mocking from the likes of Conan or Chelsea Handler. I hope this show doesn't see the light of day!

Jersey Shore

Ok, I must admit I've seen the show....not some of my proudest moments. It has it's entertaining moments. What makes me sad is the pop cultural phenomenon it's become. I am sad that the cast members get paid $30,000 an episode to act like fools. I dislike the fact that they are considered...."celebrities." The whole 'I'm rich and famous, but I don't really do anything' trend....is wearing thin on my patience. It's almost encouraging the younger generation that if you act like a fool or a slut, you too could be rich and famous.

Parents who don't say...

I've seen these parents with their kids, coddling them. Letting them get away with things for fear of saying 'No.' God forbid your children have boundaries. They are afraid to say the word 'No' because it supposedly affects their self esteem or something...ok great job parental units, you will have very confident sociopaths. They let their kids run a muck in public, without so much as a single effort to gain control over them. Oh, you've seen them....in restaurants....they're the kids that are allowed to freely run around a busy restaurant like it's a playground. Heavy trays, hot plates, sharp corners, slick floors...sure it's totally ok for your kids to run, skip and jump around. Oh and please let them spill their entire meal all over the floor, it's ok, because you don't have to clean it up! I think that if a child isn't able to behave for a public meal then maybe McD's is as fine of dining as you get until they can....they have a play area.


These are a few things that make me sad for mankind.....what about you?

Bad Face Day

Everyone is familiar with those crazy bad hair days. The days where you just wake up to a nest of hot mess. You shower, wash and condition your hair. You dry and try to style it, but nothing. Nothing you do to it seems to make it look any better. Well, I'd take a bad hair day over a bad face day any day of the week, thank you very much!

Bad face day? What's that you ask....well it's simply those days that you wake up and look in the mirror and startle yourself, then groan.Yesterday, I had a bad face day.

I'm pretty confident in my make up skills, I enjoy having fun with make up, using pretty eyeshadows and glosses. But no amount of make up could do anything for my face that day. I had two little, lovely visitors on my nose and dark circles under my eyes. I put on my make up for the day and found that my face still didn't look right :(. So I wiped it off and started again....and again, and again...oh ya, and again. It took a great deal of self control to not throw my foundation across the room.  Oh and did I mention I used three different kinds of make up...ya, three. Nothing I did seemed to make my face look any better. I felt like I was going crazy....and maybe I was. The only reason I stopped was that it was going to make me late for work. Then you leave the house, self conscious about your face for the rest of the day...convinced that everyone is noticing each, obvious to you, blemish. You're sure they are all commenting about how much make up you've caked on to hide everything....you're sure they care. Then you realize how self indulgent and vaguely narcissistic it is of you to think that anyone cares a smidgen about your face, so now you're bummed that you were so self involved....and the sky starts falling all around you and the beginning of the end spirals all around you!!!! Dum dum dummmm! 

That's the curse of the bad face day.