Facebook

Just about every single one of us has a Facebook, twitter, etc. so we know what it’s all about. It legitimately makes me sick that people revolve their lives around social networks. Not saying that I don’t love it and probably would have slight withdrawals if I deleted my Facebook but if you take a step back and realize what the pros and cons are, you would find that social networks run people’s lives and can also ruin them.

As human beings, we thrive on drama and what is going on in other people’s lives. Especially as females, we love our gossip, E! News, and US Weekly. So when people actually let us in on their lives on Facebook, we cannot turn away.

One thing people shouldn’t do on Facebook or Twitter is accept people to be friends with or follow if you do not know them. We all know people sit on their computers for hours upon hours “creeping” so let’s not allow them. My all time fave that people do which confuses the hell out of me is “check in” WHEREVER they go. And I mean wherever they go. I have seen people do it on both Facebook and Twitter, where if they ran errands that day and hit up ten places… well you would know. Then we wonder why we’re filing police reports for stalkers.

Here’s another one of my faves: I’m not a large fan of the whole status updating thing in general but a few funny comments every once in a while I can appreciate. People pop up on my newsfeed that have status updates about every damn minute of their lives. Did they not get the memo that no one even cares? An example from a female would be “Lunch and shopping with my besties, shower, get ready, look hot and get shitfaced! Whoo text it xoxo”. An example from a male I once saw “Protein shake, work out and lift, pre-pregame at bar #1, jam to lil wayne and pregame at my crib, go to the party pregame, go to the bar, then afties!!” Let’s just say my jaw dropped down to my kneecaps and with my sarcasm and hate for statuses, I couldn’t help to write something under it which resulted in him deleting the status. My point is if you want to put up statuses every minute, make a Twitter account.

I heard one of my friends say the other day that she loves when it says “______ went from in a relationship to single” on Facebook. Pretty screwed up, right? It is in our human nature to be consumed with this stuff. Then say you get a boyfriend or girlfriend and are officially a couple, people always ask “Is it Facebook official?” Why does that even matter. Sane people usually don’t feel the need to publicize their lives.

A tip for people in relationships that have a psycho boyfriend or girlfriend: Don’t be friends with them on Facebook. All a girl will do is creep on every female that writes on her boyfriends wall and then blame it on him. Pretty sure it is not his fault when some random girl writes “hey you’re a cutie” on his wall. Recently my boyfriend’s ex-fling went on her friends account and wrote on his wall saying “Hey I heard you drunk text ____ all the time”. This was just so I would see it and get mad at him which I did not because I know from past experiences that this girl is a lunatic.

All in all, Facebook is great for finding long lost family members, reconnecting or keeping in touch with friends in a healthy way, but watch out for crazy people like stalkers, fake Facebooks, crazy ex-girlfriends and steer clear for people like me who do not care that you just napped for 37 minutes. 

Can You Say Ridiculous?

So like my last blog, I took a break from the relationship topic because on Sunday it just so happened Jay Cutler and the Bears made me and pretty much the entire state of Illinois upset. Now this tiny situation that took place Tuesday I could not pass up to share to you. 

As I do just about each day, I go to the Union to either eat lunch or grab it to go. Well I had my lunch/dinner already planned out. I was going to eat my Subway sandwich for lunch and take my Subway salad to-go for dinner later that night. More often than not it is extremely busy in the food court at around noon so I usually forget to grab the dressing for my salad. As I do not appreciate the brand of salad dressing that Subway offers I ALWAYS pass on theirs and grab the Chick-Fil-A dressing in the refrigerated coolers. 

So as I was leaving I ran back in and grab me some Chick-Fil-A ranch. I kindly showed the cashier (who is not a student by the way) my salad and receipt and briefly explained my situation. He responded with "I'm going to need to charge you for that". I was slightly confused because as far back as I can recall salads usually come with salad dressing, silly me. Then my roomie Marie got in on the action( by saying she never once had been charged the 27 cents for salad dressing if she had a salad). Keep in mind she was not inside the "caged" food area. He refuted back by saying "I see a salad in your bag and the dressing so I need to charge you too". Blah Blah Blah the ridiculous argument went on. Not that I gave a hoot about the money, it was the fact that this man was getting all crazy about it. THEN he said "I'm going to call the cops on you two because that's stealing!!!"... I would say I am pretty respectful and I can understand rules and that people have to do their job. So after I couldn't help but laugh in his face I responded you should then get your employees on the same page so that people know and I graciously handed him my P Card to swipe our dressings. 

Anyways, after that elaborate story I just had to share, I now am thinking what if I was stubborn, didn't pay and he called the cops on us. I could only imagine my father's reaction when he would learn I was in cuffs for salad dressing. Here's the kicker... My dad is a cop. My brother is a cop. And it just so happens that I have been taking police tests to follow in their footsteps AND in the past I got stuck with a security job at Whole Foods. So after thinking of my dad's reaction I then thought what the hell the cops would actually think or say to both the cashier and myself. It's pretty safe to say I would get let go with no consequences or have to tell my future Chief of Police that I was arrested for salad dressing. 

Two Words: Cutler Sucks

I hate to say it because I feel as if I jumped on the Cutler bandwagon, but all around, he is just not the best. I’m pretty sure everyone in the Chicagoland area and Bears fans all around watched today’s game versus the Greenbay Packers. I believe since the Bears quarterback Jay Cutler has been on the team, Chicago has disliked him. The beginning of the season was somewhat of a rough start especially for Jay. Maybe it’s because of his ridiculous relationship with good ol’ reality star Kristen Cavalleri. Anyways, that’s a different story.

I believe that quarterbacks in general act like little girls because they don’t know how to take the big boy hits. Jay has sat out a few games because of his “injuries”. I say that in quotes because I am sure that many people think he fakes his injuries but who really knows. Yet again, Jay had another injury on his knee, which they are now thinking it may be a torn MCL. After his injury he sat out. It has been only a few hours since the game and many people have been saying that it is BS he sat out. My brother mentioned if it was any other quarterback in the league, say Brett Favre, age 41 would probably try to pull through for the game and his team. In a way, I can relate to injuries, not necessarily on the level of football but I have had some bad ones in my day. My injury rap sheet includes two torn ACL’s in my knee and more torn ligaments in my wrist. As a cheerleader and gymnast, these injuries affected me a lot while I was competing. I could not rotate my arm side to side and I still competed at nationals for my team. To me, that describes dedication. Jay Cutler’s dedication is something people have been questioning and that is not just because of today’s game. This was the last straw for fans this season.

The thing that probably pisses most people off is Cutler’s attitude. As you watch a struggling Bears game you can tell the team is not getting down on each other and they keep trying and all but one player keeps their confidence. Cutler’s old ways have been brought over to Chicago and I guess the saying “old habits die hard” is true in this situation.

 

No Strings Attached

Recently I have heard the new movie "No Strings Attached" receiving a lot of comments and mostly from guys. Not that they want to see the chick flick but that they want girls they associate with to be just like Natalie Portman in the film. If you haven't seen the previews for this movie yet, it is about two friends of the opposite sex, Ashton Kutcher and Portman as they agree to be "friends with benefits" and nothing more. As the movie goes on, Kutcher's character ends up wanting to take it a step further and take his friend on a date. 

So the question is... can any of us really handle a strictly "friends with benefits" situation. It seems to me that only a select few can handle it when they are on the same page. This "relationship" can go in a couple different directions.

Scenario 1: Guy tells girl he likes her. But girls don't get confused, this just means they want you to keep coming back for sex. If they had feelings for you, wouldn't that mean they want to have a real relationship with you? Sit back and think about that one.

Scenario 2: Similar to the situation above, if the girl is told they are liked, that is all it will take. If the guy is not telling the truth, which most of the time they are not, the girl will go insane. The girl will say she can handle it, but she can't. Just wait until their guy hooks up with someone else. All hell breaks loose. And by loose, I mean you will probably get cut loose by your guy because he didn't sign up for a crazy girlfriend. Sooner or later she will want more, end of story.

Scenario 3: The guy falls for the girl. This one is rare and is also shown in the movie. Now to some, this is shocking. Even if the girl starts to fall for the guy, I would hope she will not say it first. She will wait until the guy says it. Lets say the girl does not show those feelings towards the guy and the guy develops them first, this is when he may want more. It is called "the chase". The girl will play it cool and show no feelings as Portman does, and Kutcher began to want the only thing he didn't have yet. He had the sex but now he wanted the relationship.

Girls: If you are willing to take a walk on the wild side, go for "friends with benefits". If you are incapable, do not. If you are like any female I know, you will be stuck in this and it will be hard FOR YOU to get out of. If you are capable, do not let him get in your head and play the game right back and be the chase.

Guys: If you are like 90% of the other guys out there and solely want the no strings attached relationship, I highly suggest making the girl sign a contract. And DO NOT say the three little words that mind fuck us all, "I LIKE YOU".

Not Having a Boyfriend is Not the End of the World

I have met a lot of people that revolve their lives around having a boyfriend which I believe is ridiculous. Sure, it is nice to be loved and to share your time and love with someone else, I won't disagree with that. Again, I went to an all-girls high school and I was on an all-girl cheerleading team all of my life so I would hope you can imagine that I have heard a lot of stories/complaints about boyfriends or lack there of.

This is the best complaint about an ex boyfriend I have heard thus far . (Cue the drama and weeping tears)...
"If we don't get back together it will be the end of the world. Nothing is worse than this." Blah blah blah. That statement made me ill. I'm all about listening to people and giving advice but when people act like that it just isn't right. My response most of the time sounds much like this... "Really the worse thing? That's the worst thing that could ever happen? Did you just so happen to forget about death of a friend or family member?" I don't know about you, but that seems worse to me than not getting your ex back. But silly me I guess.

So with all the above rants and raves brought me to a video that my boyfriend recently showed me. It is about a boy who was born with a genetic disease called Progeria. With every petty complaint I hear or I say, I think about Josiah. In general, I do not cry a lot at all. You can give me the saddest movie to watch and most of my friends will say I have no soul haha. But with little Josiah, he melts my heart. I was a balling infant to say the least when I watched this video on ESPN.

I connected these two completely opposite topics together because I honestly should start sending this video link to females who complain about these relationship ordeals. Josiah is a happy boy who just enjoys playing baseball and is all smiles...and smiling and enjoying life more is something we should all practice.

Relationships. Just a few tips

I am no relationship guru but I’d like to think with a couple ex boyfriends under my wing and currently in a very happy relationship, I may know a thing or two about some of the Do's and most of the Don’ts.  

To begin, after a guy cheats on you, do not let him back in your life. If he says lets be friends, let’s get serious... there will be no friendship involved. It’s called manipulation. The second they weasel their way back in your life, the mind games begin all over again. Because I attended an all girls high school, I have always heard girls talking about situations much like this and I am sure many people have gone through a bad boyfriend/girlfriend or two… or three. More often than not I hear about these situations and I basically get a daily play by play. By all means, I have no problem with listening and giving advice because we've all been in this situation.

Soooo…by every day I mean, same shit, different day. That’s where it becomes tricky because I will continuously explain to girls the real situation going on here because I see their "relationships" as an outside perspective. This advice of which I so thoughtfully lend goes in one ear and shoots directly out the other.

Another cute scenario usually pulled is when they have moved on from a high school girlfriend to a college girlfriend and they cheat on the current with the ex. There is a clue right there that they do not give a damn about their girlfriend nor about you. They drag us on as long as they can to see what can come out of it, and then complain to us when we want something more or we are not the only one in their life.

As a female, I am obviously pinpointing males on this situation. Number one, I’ve been in both these situations and it was with the same guy so I basically hit the jackpot (sarcasm) and number two since I have gone through this I truly feel for girls stuck in this situation. BUT as a girl, I know how a girl thinks and I'll be the first to admit, WE ARE CRAZY. Here's the catch. You boys make us crazy, when, and only when, you play that little game with our minds.

Daily lesson to take away from this… Boys: Don’t fuck our minds :)  Girls: Don’t fall for their games