Why Companies Need to Fail. A Letter to the "President."

Dear Mr. President,

Please stop bailing out companies with my money.  You see, I believe it is necessary for companies to go out of business.  It's like survival of the fittest in the business world.  It's nature's way of clearing out the unproductive, and rewarding the good.

For instance, while I was sad to see Circuit City go, I have no doubt that it's competitors such as BestBuy saw an increase in their revenue.  So while Circuit City employees may have lost their job, I'm betting that Best Buy needed to hire a few to handle the additional customers.  <~~~~  Just click here if you don't believe me.

Another example is Bed Bath and Beyond.  While I loved to stroll through their aisles, they were extremely overpriced, and people knew it.  So now they are gone too.

Again, more people get their news from the internet than from print.  That doesn't mean you get to use my money to save newspapers.  Those companies will either need to adapt or move out of the way.

You see, you can't keep every company open.  It doesn't, and shouldn't work like that.  In essence, you are ruining competition among businesses.  Competition is what keeps prices down, customer service good and the consumer happy.  If you keep giving unproductive companies who mismanage their money bailouts, you are essentially making us pay twice for the same product.  First to purchase the product at an inflated price and then second when you give them our tax money as a bailout.

SO CUT IT OUT!  GO RUN THE GOVERNMENT PROPERLY AND LEAVE PRIVATE SECTOR ALONE!


Thanks,
Wendy

Talk About an AnnieTude!

Little Annie still isn't 100% pottie trained, so this morning when she woke up I noticed her pull-up was dry!  I asked her, "Annie, do you need to use the pottie?"  She simply said No.  So then I said, "Your pull-up seems dry, though.  Are you sure you don't need to use the pottie?"

This time, she looked at me like I hadn't been paying attention, leaned in towards my face, and with an inflection in her voice, says

"NOOOOOOOOO !!!"

I looked at my husband and said, "That's her AnnieTude!"

A case of the pre-teen stupids

So my eleven year old has a serious case of the "pre-teen stupids." Big Nick says to Nicholas "please go to the garage and get me two things. A bottle of water and my tackle box". So Nicholas goes down the stairs. I then say to Nick, I'd like a bottle of water too, so when Nicholas only comes up with one of your items, because we know he will forget one, and he has to go back To the garage, have him get me a water too. And sure enough, the stupids won and I got my water!


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This is How I Think We Can Save America #tosaveamerica

I actually have been considering this for a long time, so here are my thoughts...

• We must teach our children responsibility and accountability.
• To blame other people is to make an excuse for our own bad behavior.  It is a justification to continue laziness and an excuse not to work on problems.  
• We must know and understand our history and WHY our founding fathers founded America.
• We must know why government, when given too much power, will kill the spirit of it's people.  Government must be reigned in and controlled with a heavy hand so that people can remain free.  
• We must band together so our voices can be heard.
• Read, tweet, blog, meet.  Don't leave it up to others, we must all work together to turn this around. We can't think that someone else will stand up and say something.  We must all do it so that we are heard.
• We must look past headlines of ALL news organizations, do research and find the truth.
• We can no longer take news for face value.  We are no longer in the times of Woodward and Bernstein.  Today's reporters are just that... reporters.  They mind-numbingly regurgitate whatever they are told to.  They are afraid to find and report the truth.  I don't know why, but they are.  They are doing a disservice to themselves, to us, and to America.  They should be ashamed.

Colby invited his friends for a sleepover

Which normally wouldn't be a big deal except that I had told him no three times before... Oh and I had to work the next morning... Oh and I wasn't home when the boys and their mom showed up at my door!

WTHeck Colby! I was on my way home from the gym and i had company waiting for me to get home. So not cool. Fortunately the other mom was very understanding when i said i couldnt do a sleepover on a Thursday!

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Coffee. An Haiku

Oh friend, my coffee
I am lost without you near
But you make me pee

Going to run outside #c25k

Alright. I've been putting off running outside. So far it's just been on the treadmill. I think I'm going to try outside as soon as my phone charges a little more. Hope I make it back!


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Worst Mother of The Year

Overwhelmed. Sometimes I get overwhelmed, and then I just shut down. I'm sorry, but I cannot work full time and then do everything around the house. I have tried to get my children to help, but I haven't tried hard enough.  I get so tired of the back talk and arguing. Then, if (I mean when), the kids don't do what I ask and I keep on them, then I'm nagging.

So my options are:
1. stop nagging and do it myself
2. stop nagging and don't do it myself

Those seem like pretty bad options, to me.

I think if I actually ever saw a benefit from what I do around the house, it might be different. But when I finish one room and move to the next, the kids have destroyed the first room before I even finish cleaning the second room!

It's just so disheartening.  I may not be able to force the boys to have respect for their home, but I guess it's time I force them to participate in the upkeep of their home.  No yelling, no nagging.  Pick up, or there will be consequences.  Simple as that.

Time to get my dobber out of the dirt and just do it!

This Is Apple's Next iPhone - Iphone 4 - Gizmodo

Uh Oh.  Better check it out quick before Apple makes them take this down.  It's an interesting design.

This Is Apple's Next iPhone - Iphone 4 - Gizmodo

I Found My First 5k to Run

I found my first 5k to run. It's the Boulder Sunrise. It's on June 5th, & I'm in week 4 of c25k, so I really have to stay on schedule! I can choose the non-profit I want to run for and 50% of my fees and any donations I collect go to that organization. My dad was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's, so I'm really excited to be able to run my first race for him! Wish me luck! I'm going to need it!