Laurakah - Day 1

Welcome to the first day of Laurakah!

With so much fanfare and the constant stream of paparazzi following me, I've barely had time to catch my breath. But thanks for checking my blog.

The first day of Laurakah starts off slowly - just small gifts, tokens of appreciation and the like. As the week progresses, the gifts get larger culminating in the large party on February 8, 2008 at the Tips game.

To kick off the week, I thought I would start by giving you a list of eight things that piss me off:

8. Being hard-headed - This means refusing to acknowlege or accept that someone else has an opinion or view. Stubborn means I think I'm right - being hard-headed means that I won't even consider your view.

7. Whistling - what is more obnoxious than someone doing that to their face to make a stupid sound. Especially whistling in an elevator - maybe I like Muzak...so take the bus to shutty town - and avoid nasty wrinkles in the process.

6. Cutting your nails - the noise made by someone using nail clippers to clip their nails - URGH - so annoying.

5. Intentionally pushing someone's buttons - such a lack of respect. For instance, since you now know that nail clippers and whistling irritate me, doing it to push my buttons means you don't respect me.

4. Victim Mentality - people who think that things happen 'to them'. I believe behaviors are a choice. I choose to react - I choose the energy I put into this world - therefore I am responsible for what happens. Nothing happens to me - you make choices, therefore you are not a victim.

3. Superiority - someone thinking that they are better than someone else because of their income, their education, their skin color, their race, their gender or their title. We all have value and should treat each other as such. Period. Nothing sets me off faster than condescending behavior.

2. Defensive Behavior - if you did something or said something - own it. Trying to justify behavior, interrupting me or telling me what I should think will only piss me off more.

1. Wal-Mart - Is there anything worse than a company that lowers the standards of every community it goes into? And the people who shop there? You perpetuate the problems. Shopping at a place that pays low wages and no health insurance doesn't save you money. Your family, my family and other families are paying to subsidize every worker there who can't afford to go to a doctor so instead visits the emergency room and can't pay their bill. Don't make me list all the other stuff that Wal-Mart does to piss me off!