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Guided by prompts from WDC blogging challenges... and of course, life |
HI! I'm Jenn - and I'm all over the place (well, at least my mind is). In this blog, I have attempted to gather my thoughts on things prompted/inspired by WDC blogging challenges from "Journalistic Intentions"  , "The Soundtrack of Your Life" , "Blogging Circle of Friends " , "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" and, well, LIFE.    |
| I'm not sure what it is with kids these days. I come across so many of them that are completely rude and disrespectful, in the workplace many of them lack professionalism, and so many of them think things should be given to them rather than them having to work for it. Maybe I was brought up in a different time (yeah, I definitely was). Where did we go wrong as a society that our younger generations could be as they are? Take for instance, in the store where I work, we have had a young lady of age 19 or 20 who was just promoted as a key holder/shift manager. She did well for a few weeks until Easter. The young lady texted our store manager on Easter and told her that she was not coming in to work. No excuse, just that she wasn't coming in. Two days ago, she showed up for her shift and walked out a couple of hours into the shift. She told the other person working that she was just going out to her car for a bit but instead, left. She would not answer any calls or texts until yesterday when I asked one of our other younger employees (and her friend) to try to get hold of her. The girl responded that "everything is okay, I just walked out" ... So, do we fire the girl for walking out, that's to say, if she was wanting to retain employment with us? I just don't understand why she wouldn't go to the store manager or assistant manager if she was having problems with someone, or with her hours, or anything else for that matter. That would have been the mature and professional way to go about it. When did it become okay to just leave in the middle of your shift? Then there is my oldest. She refuses to let anyone know where she is living. When family has gone to the city where she lives to see her, she meets them at one restaurant or another. No address, nothing. Talk about worry! And then she goes for weeks! without contacting us. Yes, I worry. I'm a mom, that's what I do! And this is the child carrying my grandbaby. My imagination is rife with possibilities as to why she is living and behaving as she is. The only time she contacts me is when she wants something - money etc. I could rant for hours, but I know you all don't want to read lengthy rants. But, if any of you know what is wrong with the kids young adults these days, drop me a line and clue me in because I have zero idea. Until next time..... Jenn |
| As my husband and I have both been working much more than usual, our German Shephard has had a lot of time to himself lately. I've been noticing strange differences around the house but had been writing them off as "maybe my husband moved this or that" kind of thing. Well, yesterday I came home after work to find the entire box of dog biscuits sitting upright in the middle of the kitchen floor. I assumed my husband had pulled it out of the pantry to give the dog a treat while on his lunch break and had forgotten to put it back up before he left to go back to work. I didn't think much more about it until he arrived home after work and asked me if I had left the dog biscuits in the kitchen floor. I responded that I thought he had left them in the floor. We then both looked at our not-so-little rascal. A little while later, I had gone into the kitchen to check on dinner and I noticed the pantry door open again and the box of dog biscuits had been moved from where I had placed them to the floor of the pantry just inside the pantry door. There were biscuit crumbs littering the floor around the box and fewer biscuits within the box. I put it back in its place and then later caught the turd with his head stuck in the box grabbing yet another treat! At least I know I'm not losing my mind! I wonder what other mischief he gets into while we aren't home... |
| Day 3343: April 13, 2022 - Prompt: Political: For national poetry month, pick one of these quotes to inspire your blog entry. “Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” June Jordan Yes, poetry is a platform where you are able to state your opinion about the affairs of the world, but it is more than that. And everyone's truth is going to be different, as their experiences within the world are different. But does that make poetry a political act? Since when did being honest become political? Telling the truth has been around much longer than politics. It is just the right thing to do. Although, in today's clime I see less and less emphasis put on honesty than in someone's personal opinions about a subject. Somewhere along the way, many have forgotten that everyone's truth is different. They are no longer open to the idea that there can be more than one "truth" about the same instance. Does an object look the same from all sides and angles? Most often not. The same is true for experience and truth. They are both as we personally perceive them. With all of that being said, many poets do not go near the political circus ring, preferring instead to keep their poetic works over matters of the heart, faith, or their personal experiences. They might differ from the norm, but this does not make them political. But that's just the reality as I see it... |
| Prompt - Social Aspects: How important is wealth and income disparity to you? Do you feel that our system needs an overall? While wealth and income disparity is a real thing, I don't know if it is very important to me personally. There are times when it seems unfair to me, of course. I am one of those people who makes just enough for the government to say I'm not impoverished, but make so little that many necessities go unseen to. Is that fair? Of course not! Nor is it fair that poor people have to pay more for basic things than those with money. Think about it, if you don't have enough money in the bank and you overdraw your account to pay a bill like the electric payment, you then get fees added to your account from the bank. And if you can keep over a certain amount in your account, you don't have to worry about bank charges in many cases. You have to pay more to be poor. It's like hey see you struggling and instead of helping out, they put another hurdle in your path. But should we overhaul our current system because life isn't fair? I don't think so. Is it fair to take money from those people who work their butts off and give it to people who don't want to work and would rather rely on the government to give them handouts? Nope. Yeah, there are a small handful of people who have stupid amounts of money, but those aren't the ones who take the hits when policies like this are put into place. It's the middle-class average Joe and Jill who work hard and actually earn the money they get. There will always be people playing the system, not matter what type of system is in place, but to think that taking from one who earned it honestly to give it to those who didn't is ludicrous. Whatever happened to earning your keep? And for that small portion of the population who honestly cannot work due to disability etc., help them. That would be the only system I see that needs an overhaul. But, that's a rant for another day. |
| Here's the actual history of Athens, Texas - The earliest settlers, E. J. Thompson and Joab McManus, arrived early in 1850. Matthew Cartwright donated 160 acres of his land for a county seat, and the commissioners had Samuel Huffer survey the streets, the city square, and 112 lots. The district court first met in October 1850 under an oak in the square, with Oran Milo Roberts presiding. The first courthouse was a sixty-five-dollar log building that took all of a month to build. A jail of hewn logs was built in 1856 on the same site and cost $500. Ms. Dulcina A. Holland suggested the name Athens, hoping that the town would become a cultural center. By 1855 Athens had a store, a Masonic lodge, and a Presbyterian church. Shortly after followed a pottery plant, a brick plant, a cotton gin, a cottonseed oil mill, a compress, a newspaper, the arrival of the railroads, a bank, and a telephone company. By 1901, the town was hopping. By the 1980's, the town businesses included three banks, two savings and loans, oil, gas, and clay production, and manufacturers of televisions, clothing, bricks, steel buildings, mobile homes, medical supplies, boats, and bridge bearing pads. Where corn, cotton, tomatoes, and black-eyed peas were once raised in the area, agricultural revenue in the 1980s came principally from livestock, hay, and nurseries. The town had forty-two churches, a radio station, a newspaper, and a library. The city of Athens has many stories about its history. We are purportedly the home of the hamburger, for one. A man called Uncle Fletch Davis claims to have "invented" the hamburger back in the 1880's and took it to the World's Fair in 1904. A few other cities have claimed the title of "Birthplace of the Hamburger" however, the Athens claim has appeared more legit, in part because McDonald’s Hamburger University concluded that the true inventor of their main fare was a food vendor at the 1904 World’s Fair, and partly because it was based on years of detective work by the late Dallas Morning News columnist Frank X. Tolbert. Whether this story is true or not, well, that's for history to know for sure. But does it matter anyway?! We have a great hamburger festival every year. Athens is also called "The Black-eyed Pea Capitol of the World". Lofty name, if you ask me. However, we Athens residents like to have a good time, and we have a festival each year for the black-eyed pea too. We also have a darker supposed history. One of our "Urban Legends" is that there is an underground tunnel system directly under the city. The legend is that the tunnels are in the shape of a pentagram and each of the five entrances into the tunnel system are marked by the points of the pentagram, with the courthouse being at the center of the star. Supposedly, a coven of witches created this system and imbued it with spells that keep evil and negative spirits out of the town, and others within. The tunnels are rumored to have hosted a variety of ritualistic ceremonies including the sacrifice of small animals and in some cases humans. Fuller park as been shrouded with mystery ever since Mr. Fuller erected the park in 1938 after the death of his wife. Fuller Park is said to house one of the five entrances to the tunnels. There are many rumors of this park from the Monkey Cages (yes these are real) to the grave plot in the center of the park. At one point, the city was in a state of hysteria due to the numerous animal mutilations on Hwy 19 and reports of occult activity in the city. Then there's Monkey Bridge, under which a young man was found murdered, the killer never found. Crazy things are said to happen on that bridge. In my opinion, maybe just the looks of the place gave rise to all the stories. Same with Fuller Park. But, that's the history of Athens, Texas as everyone around like to tell it. As for the present, we have the author SA Bailey here. And we still hold festivals for the hamburger, the black-eyed pea, and a fiddler's festival. This is my home. Thanks for reading! |
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