New Tattoo's and my take on all these protests

Ok I'm getting allot of questions about my 2 new tats, so I'm going to explain it. I never get ink just for the sake of getting ink. Each one has been done when I've recovered from a significant event in my life. It's to mark my survival or my strength.

Forever Broken means exactly that. To steal a line from She Wants Revenge, She will Always Be a Broken Girl. My heart has been broken by many people, many times and has never had a chance to heal. I've broken my own heart, my family has broken my heart, false friends, people I've given my heart to. The list is endless. I have yet to find someone to help me mend it and have come to the conclusion that there is a distinct possibility that there is no Sally for Jack, Maybe there is no one. It will remain Forever Broken until someone loves it to mend it.


I believe that all of these ousted leaders of Middle eastern nations are suddenly going to appear and conquer Wisconsin. If a protester dies in Wisconsin it will be your first clue that it has been over run. That's my theory, enjoy it.

Till next time, Faithful Readers,
BEX!

Best Buy Geek Squad in Clay NY

Last weekend I finally went out and bought my new laptop. Decided to go with another HP instead of getting a Macbook like I originally wanted. I figured my last HP lasted 6 years and I couldn't beat the deal on it. Went through Best Buy at Carousel Center (Our massive monument mecca of mass consumerism for all those that don't dwell in the Central New York Region) I had pretty decent service, not outstanding but not terrible. If you go there ask for Howie, he's a pretty cool cat. I spent 24 hours trying to get my iTunes library from my old HP to the new one before finally giving up and calling Geek Squad. By then I had attempted an external hard drive, cd's, etc. And all of it had just led to my inevitable breakdown in sanity. Going against my instinct, I called the Best Buy in Clay NY because it is nearest in distance to me instead of the one in Carousel Center where I purchased the laptop. I dropped off both laptops at 11:56 AM on Sunday. Paid $158.56 after being told on the telephone by Chris that this particular data transfer would be $100. Fine, whatev as long as you transfer my 15.52 GB's of iTunes I really don't care just make it freaking work! Called Sunday evening before they closed, was told "Sure should be done tomorrow morning!". Called Monday morning "I'm sorry we haven't even started it yet but it is next on our list." ??????? Wait, last night it was almost done and now it hasn't been started?? Now I'm getting angry. Tuesday I call and they say it's done. At 11:30 I arrived to pick it up. Against my instinct (AGAIN) I just took it home. Get all the way back home, get settled open up the new laptop and try to open my iTunes library. There's no music. In fact there isn't 1 Gb of music on the new laptop. I went from zero to nuclear pissed off in no time at all, in about the same time it took me to get that pissed I was already on the phone with the Store Manger Shawn. He said to bring everything back and now I'm even more pissed because that's a 10 minute trip so now we are rocking 40 minutes of drive time for 2 separate trips back and forth to this place, especially since they've had the damn laptops for 2 days! I arrive at what we shall ever forward refer to as the realm of the life force sucking demon store manager Shawn of Best Buy in Clay NY on Route 31. Now Faithful Readers, I have in the past cautioned you about choosing your words carefully as they may influence another person to take some sort of negative action. Having reminded you of this, I am also compelled to say that the following 2 sentences are not meant for anyone person to take seriously. Life force sucking demon store manager Shawn of Best Buy on route 31 in Clay, NY should be put into the hell of the upside down death from Big Trouble in Little China, Shawn should be dropped into a well with some manly cross dresser standing over the top screaming down "IT'S PUTS THE LOTION ON IT'S SKIN OR IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN!!" Shawn should be sent to Shepherd Book's "Special Hell". That fake, no social skill having, unintelligent, incompetent, passive/aggressive, flaccid, impotent, small minded, ignorant, unhappy little balding wretched excuse for a male should be beaten with an Emily Post book of Manners and etiquette! Avenge me, Faithful Readers, avenge 50 hours of my life that this little goblin and his minions stole out of my life! My son B went with me this time to insure that no one got hurt and/or insure my credit card got to Dave to bail me out. He only had to stop me one time from going over the counter at the putrid freak, right after Shawn decided it would be a good idea to stand in front of me and say some smart ass remark about rude customers. On with the story. So I get in there and putrid freak, SHawn is at the front door waiting for me, after sitting watching them mess with the 2 laptops for 30 minutes the irritating little fuck laughs and says "Oh we just forgot to complete the last 2 steps and move it from the external hard drive to the new laptop." Your laughing because your Geek Squad is full of incompetents that can't follow a list of directions, wtf?? I told him straight out, "I want my money back. This is bullshit! 2 days You guys had these laptops, 2 damn days, today I get home and have to come all the way back out here because you didn't do the job I paid $158 for and now after a half hour you stand in front of me laughing because the idiots didn't finish the job and sent the product home with a customer?" He looked me right in the eye and said "You have no reason to be this pissed off, I said we'd fix it and I'll refund you $42, that's half the labor you paid. Go home while we fix this." I said "hell no, last time I went home, you didn't do the job, I'm sitting right here." 45 minutes later, the cocky little flea walks up, turns the new laptop to me and says "See all fixed." Smirking so much I had to put my hand in my pocket to keep from bitch slapping him because I looked down and there were 4 GB's in the iTunes, mine has 15.52 remember? "So what did you do with the other 11 GB's?" I asked him. I turned on my old laptop to show him the music library in iTunes, it was empty. After another hour, they finally found all the music and replaced it on the new laptop however my old laptop is still empty. I'm freaking out now. I called the 1-800 customer complaint line somehow got transferred to their Geek Squad, told the dude what was going on and he attempted for 35 minutes to connect me Customer Relations, at last he comes back on the line to tell me that Customer Relations will not accept my call because I'm in the Store and there is a manager present. Shawn, the monumental mistake in Darwin's Theory of Evolution tells me to take my old laptop and go home, the files will continue to transfer back to the iTunes library when I plug it in and turn it on. I walked out of that store telling everyone I saw "Do not shop at this Best Buy in Clay NY, Don't go to their Geek Squad they'll erase your files, etc."

I am not an idiot. Those files did not and were not going to magically transfer as soon as I plugged the old laptop back in, c'mon be serious. However in the time it took me to watch a Youtube video I had all the files transferred back to their original position in iTunes. Hey Geek Squad, if your so smart how come you didn't realize to do a System Restore? Files were right back where they belonged, working just fine. The best line out of Shawn the impetuous, balding little twat was this "No I don't believe it was an act of God that erased your old music files off of your previous laptop, I don't believe in God because if he existed customers like you wouldn't be here." I'm not lying Faithful Readers, he stood in front of me and said those exact words. Dave found me a number for Best Buys Corporate office of Public Relations and a polite woman named Erin listened to my full story, took all my information again and promised to have Customer Relations contact me in 24 hours or less. Not one word from Best Buy since and that was Tuesday.

I do not think that I will voluntarily step into another Best Buy again ever and I humbly request that you boycott this business also as it is nothing but a big business bent on nothing less than maximum profit and minimal customer satisfaction.

I was treated appallingly by not only a Best Buy manager but by their Customer Relations Representatives and their Public Relations woman Erin who blatantly lied to me. Not to mention Matt and Chris from the Clay, Route 31 store who according to the midget Shawn were responsible in the first place for not completing their job on a simple data transfer.

Stay away from Best Buy in Clay, NY Route 31 as it is one of the 7 levels of Hell and Shawn will gladly, with an annoyingly obnoxious smirk push you over one of those edges of that level.

Till next time, Faithful Readers,
BEX

Saint Valentine's Day

And yes this is going to be a snarky blog.

After doing a bit of research, it kind of gave me a case of the giggles that there is no definitive explanation of St. Valentine's day. First because there were so many St. Valentines and secondly because they each had a bit of a tragic end. Now there are some that believe it is yet another one of those holidays created to cover up it's original Pagan roots stemming back from the Romans and Greeks and before even those societies. Then there's the popular belief that it's a holiday mostly propagated by Greeting card and Chocolate companies to create an astonishing an insane amount of revenue.

It's killing me to watch the News right now. All anyone can say is Happy Valentine's Day!!!! All other news is unimportant next to the headlines of how to get a last minute gift for your loved one, the right cards to buy, how to get a last minute flower delivery. Even the Weather guy is wrapping his forecast around Valentine's Day hints at romantic dinner plans, "So be both Chivalrous and cautious tonight guys" Yep that's what he said.

Did you know that Arizona rep Gabrielle Giffords is lip syncing easy tunes and beat a nurse at tic tac toe and can use a walker now? Do you know how huge that progress is for a victim of being shot in the head???? That's the equivalent of standing up and then flying! Nope Mrs. Giffords was wedged in between jewelry and flower stories, she was given 15 seconds.

Egypt is celebrating being under Military control. Yeah, you read that correctly. Egyptians are CELEBRATING being under Military control. There's no way I'm touching that subject quite yet because I can see where it's going to go however, even that got 10 seconds in between stories of lasting loving couples.

And on the topic of lasting loving couples, Jenna Bush interviewed George and Barbara Bush. Evidently George wrote love letters to Barbara every year on Valentine's Day. Ok I'll admit that I was touched by this. But the truly poignant moment for me was when jenna and grandpa George were crying and Jenna, through the tears "Grampa why are we such cryers?" Barbara answers "You could be Speaker of The House." OH MY FUCKING GOD THAT WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT EVER!!!

I bought my "friend" a gift but decided to give it to him Saturday instead of today. For a couple reasons. One because I didn't want it to seem like a forced gifting. Secondly because I was excited to give it and couldn't wait. And also because he's not one for the traditional relationship rules and regs so didn't want to push the boundaries.

I digress. Here's my point: There is way too much stress on this day as I've said time and again. Show the person that you love, that you Love them on a Saturday not because Hallmark Cards says that you HAVE to on February 14th. Now I'm not saying it's not nice to see effort on Valentine's Day but effort should be there 24/7 365. Put forth effort on the 27th as much as the 14th.

So I will leave you with this,

HAPPY MONDAY FAITHFUL READERS
BEX, NOW AND FOREVER!

Why I HATE UPS

I've just sat around for the better part of a day waiting for the UPS guy to bring me my new cell phone because as always happens in Bex Universe, I lost mine. Actually to be more specific, in a 72 hour period I managed to break my cell phone and then lose the damn thing. I'm absolutely horrible with cell phones. Cell phones and sunglasses have a snowballs chance in hell with me. But I digress. So after waiting half my day, Dave out of the blue says check the tracking website. Yep great big yellow Exception notification, stating that they attempted to deliver the package but couldn't because apt # 21 doesn't exist. NO SHIT! That's because our apartments are alphabetical!! Apt 2i you retards!! It's not like UPS isn't aware of this, I've had 3 packages delivered in just the past month. Per month I usually get 3-6 packages delivered from UPS. And every single time, the same thing happens. Every single time I have to explain apt 2i. I've requested that UPS make a note somewhere in their Universe that Breckinridge Apartments are Building numbered and Apartments listed alphabetically.

Whywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhy????????????? Why is this such a difficulty? Why do they not understand i instead of 1? With the amount of crap I receive from these assholes why is it impossible for them to just deliver my packages? And it's always the same guy!! Why does UPS not ensure that their drivers can read the English Alphabet?

So now that I've wasted an entire day waiting for the UPS package that isn't going to arrive, I get told that I will be sitting for a second day in a row waiting for a package and hopefully (fingers crossed) this time the guy (same guy) can fucking read!

This is 48 hours of my life I will not get back. So thank you UPS, from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU for killing my soul in a 48 hour period and sucking out my will to live. Thank you UPS because I've been kicked in the head repeatedly this week. I've had my taxes fucked with because of a crackhead and his fat lazy wife, I've broken my phone, lost my phone, had my side mirror ripped off of my truck by some bottom feeder that couldn't even leave a note apologizing in my own damn parking lot. So for that last kick to the balls, Thanks UPS!

Till next time Faithful Readers,
Remember to support FedEx,
BEX

Don't dare listen to that iPod while walking and Drug testing

I found this article on Syracuse.com a week ago however, Faithful Readers my life has been a little bendy in the past week so you will please excuse the lateness.

Since 2007 New York State Senator Carl Kruger has been trying to get backing on a law to ban, wait for it.....Texting, talking and listening to iPods while, wait for it........WALKING!

Yes, you read that correctly. A ban on texting, talking and listening to iPods while walking. UUUMMMMMM???? Isn't that one of the main reasons the iPod was invented? Senator Kruger (Yea, I got a chuckle out of that too) is convinced that it's way too dangerous to be doing any of these activities while walking. Talking on a cell phone while walking is endangering yourself and those around you, texting? OMG, you could take out a whole crowd of fellow pedestrians. Listening to tunes while jogging, oh the humanity!! We won't discuss the Chernobyl size calamity you could cause while listening to some tunes!

I have a very obvious question, who is this guy and how the hell has he been around since 2007?? Who's been voting him in?? I'll find you, I will. All of the problems in New York State and this is his main concern? I can't be the only one that wants to go punch this guy in the head.


New York is considering Senate Bill 174 currently. It's a bill to submit Welfare assistance recipients to drug testing to qualify for benefits. If they fail the drug test they're required to undergo drug treatment before eligibility for NYS benefits are reinstated. Senator DeFransisco believes the amount of money we save from people who will not apply for benefits because of their drug habits, those that fail to undergo treatment, and the weeding out of the abusers of the system will in turn pay for the treatment centers and save the State millions.

I back this for 2 reasons. First because it's about time we followed other States precedents in controlling our welfare system. Our welfare system is so easy to abuse it's not even funny and I'm sick and tired of working people in need getting shafted on a legitimate need because the budget was used for trash with 7 kids and no will to work, just to sit around and smoke crack all day.

Second, We the working class have to submit to a drug test to EVEN get a job and alot of employers submit their employees to random drug testing. If we have to go through this to earn a paycheck to feed our families why not ask the same of the people living off of our taxes?? Why is it unfair to ask the same of the bums living off of my money. I know 3 people personally that are addicts living off of the system and do you know what happens when you report them? NOTHING!! The system is too backlogged to do anything, so I say drug test their lazy asses and get them off our dollar! There are jobs here in NY, don't tell me there isn't because when I set my mind to it I found a decent paying job in 24 short freaking hours! There are no more excuses, let's pass this Bill 174 and prove that we as a people in this State will not make any more excuses!!

Till Next Time Faithful Readers,

BEX

An open post about friendship and loyalty

I fully expect backlash from this blog for the simple reason that the people I'm taking aim at are too freaking ignorant to stop and think about the contents before reacting. They will take it at face value rather than realizing the truth behind my words, do some introspective soul searching and fix the wrongs that they've done.

Dave moved to New York. He's living in Syracuse with me. For those not familiar with Dave, he's my best friend/brother/half my brain. Not everyone agrees with our friendship and that is fine mostly because they don't understand our friendship and in all fairness neither do we. But we accept it without having to explain it. Certain people can't accept it at face value as we do.

Now here's where I break 2 of my own blog rules. I'm going to write about personal stuff here instead of the other blog and I am going to call people out by name.

Dave and I at best have had a turbulent friendship but as much as we've disagreed we have always without fail had each other's back, no questions asked.

Recently Dave had a breakdown of sorts, he hasn't been happy for months. No one, not one person in his immediate circle seemed to concern themselves with this very simple fact. Not one person asked if he was alright. Not one person asked if there was something they could do to help him through it. Not one person looked past their own selfishness to even see that the walls were closing in fast on Dave. Something had to give or Dave was going to crash and burn fast and hard. Didn't anyone notice that Dave, who is a drinker anyways was putting back a case by himself every fucking day?? I'm 881 miles away from him and saw this coming. Dave called me and said it was time for a change, immediate extraction necessary! I hopped a plane, we packed his shit and drove to Syracuse.

I didn't ask him, didn't cry and devise some evil plan to get him here, I don't need his help financially, there was no planning on my part and this was not my idea. Plain and simple do you understand that simple, drawn in crayon sentence, Kim, Tree and Tiff?? Not my idea or plan. Dave is living his life according to his plan, his needs, his wants and his way. This was all dave, I was just the wingman.

Yeah Kim, when it comes to me, Dave will bend himself like a pretzel to help me out if I need it. So will my other brothers. It's called loyalty, look it up. And as I remember it you were the one throwing out ultimatums left and right trying to control his contact with me. How did that work out for you sunshine?? It didn't have to be that way, you made it that way. You made him choose so you can't bitch about his choice. You sabotaged yourself with your own insecurities, not his fault. You don't have to like me, tolerate me or anything else because frankly darling you have never existed in my universe and never will. But you were supposedly Dave's friend when all was said and done. He cared enough about your friendship that he was worrying himself into a tizzy when you got fired, he sent you that Robert Jordan book just to maybe put a smile on your face because you were having a hard go of it. Just because you don't agree with his actions, you dump the friendship. That hurt him. Friends don't have to agree all the time dude. But it's not your place to judge either. You are not a higher power and your life is not so pristine perfect that you can afford to tell Dave where his life is wrong. You support your friends, you don't berate them. Unconditional love, support and loyalty that's what a friend is. Try to think about that please.

Tiff, I really don't get you at all and I don't care to either. You were one of Daves oldest and best friends. You got pissed because he wasn't there at Halloween and had said he would be. Did you know that he had promised me the same thing back in July? Did I throw a tantrum and unfriend him because he was going to see you instead? No. In the end he made the call based on what he wanted to do. Be upset that he lied that's fine but come on, you all have known each other for 20+ years. How many times have you been there for each other through some pretty tough shit. He replaced the hematite that you sent him because the one you gave him broke. You know as well as I do when a charm like that breaks it's for a reason, it's work is done. To ask for it back afteer he had put his energy into it and it broke, yeah I have an idea what you were planning to do and it wouldn't have worked sister. Keep in mind that I am not some Buckland reading, tree hugging Wiccan. And I am slightly pissed that the only reason you had me on Facebook or anything else was to keep tabs on Dave. I honestly enjoyed having an open communication with you because of all the detractors in Dave's life you were the only one that made an effort to speak to me rather than just an assumption and some make believe definition of me. But hey it is what it is and that's fine too. Reconsider your move of banning Dave for life, friends shouldn't ever do that to each other Tiffany.

Tree, you worthless, oxygen thieving,lazy, lying, waste of fucking skin. You go right ahead, cry to everyone about how Dave has left you hanging and wronged you and rendered you homeless. Continue to play the victim in the fairy tale you've created in your own deluded fucking twisted mind. Where have you lived bill free for 6 months? Who gave you a place to stay rent free for 6 FUCKING MONTHS?? WHY WERE YOU NOT SAVING MONEY, WHY WEREN'T YOU LOOKING FOR A JOB INSTEAD OF SPENDING ALL YOUR FUCKING TIME ON THE INTERNET PLAYING FARMVILLE AND POKER YOU STUPID FAT FUCKING TWAT??? Oh my poor back, oh my poor fibromyalgia, oh my poor aches and pains. There are plenty of jobs out there where no lifting is required but you won't put forth the effort. You say you were battered and abused, there are thousands of agencies that will help you but have you put forth the effort to contact one of them?? NO! Because you like being a leeching victim so that you can play off of everyone's sympathy. I have no sympathy for someone who doesn't help themselves. Karma is a bitch, reap it Tree, fucking reap your decisions. If you were on fire I wouldn't piss on you to put it out.

So in conclusion, if you are such a shallow, selfish, heartless person as to not stand by your friend Dave unconditionally as you should as a friend than you were never his friend to begin with. And when he succeeds living on his terms for once instead of by another's ultimatums and rules, don't try coming back.

Strength, Honor, Loyalty.
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