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Cursing out the treadmill
Jennifer told the treadmill to go eff itself today. She was going to walk but it started raining, so she was stuck inside on the treadmill. (Alexis said she used to run in blizzards and downpours.) Jennifer was angry the whole time because the movies on TV sucked and there was only find porn on the pay per view channel. She ended up watching The Today Show, which was practically porn, because the hosts were painting nudes. Also, Kathie Lee and Hoda Kotb were getting part time jobs – on a Broadway show… that’s realistic.
Money doesn’t grow on Alexis’s trees
Alexis had a really bad day and she was angry that people – especially people she had known for a while - thought she owed them something because her mother was Martha Stewart and she was rich. This person was coming to her for money and not their own family. Why was she the first stop?! Alexis told the person that if they didn’t leave her alone she would take her last cent and ruin them. This person had alternative means to help themselves and besides, they should have thought ahead and not used their bargaining chips in a nasty way. Alexis was wiling to go broke to f$@% with this person.
Amy called. She was a nurse but wasn’t working at the moment and her husband was a doctor so everyone at work thought she was rich. She used to work with middle class women and sometimes when she’d give someone a $20 to pick her up a cup of coffee she would have to actually ask them for the change back! There was also a woman at work constantly collecting for people if they had a birthday or were sick but when she was out sick but she didn’t get anything from them, presumably because her husband is a doctor. In any case, everyone agreed that taking someone’s change is stealing!
Sharon said Amy’s coworkers probably didn’t like her because she was a braggart. Alexis said people shouldn’t have to hide what they do. Jennifer said Amy didn’t know the girls but once sent them flashlights because she thought they were awesome. It was a nice gesture that wouldn’t come from someone who was mean spirited. Jennifer said people shouldn’t hate each other because of their economic levels and people should be able to do want they want and not feel guilty about it. Alexis said you should be able to say you went to Barney’s. Sharon said it’s a little insensitive to say so at times.
And, the money grubber has attitude!
Part of Alexis’s problem was that every time she saw this guy he made a snarky comment about her hair, her weight, etc. She thought he needed to shut up before he asked her for half a million dollars!
Karin said flaunting was in bad taste. Alexis said Amy the nurse wasn’t flaunting, she was just saying she was going shopping. Jennifer said this wasn’t a big deal and it didn’t mean you were buying anything anyway. Karin said the attitude was offensive. Alexis said she didn’t get one speck of attitude from Amy.
Alexis said her friends had more money than her growing up and she may have been envious but she wasn’t angry at them! And, for the record (and to piss everyone off), Alexis declared that she spent $4000 on two shirts the other day.
Christy said she’s had that experience where she asks for her change back and people stare at her like she is crazy. Christy worked her for her money and didn’t want people stealing it…even 2 cents! Several years ago her father died and left her some money. She was very far in debt at that point and the money helped her pay what she owed. Everyone said the first thing she was going to do was buy a plasma TV. She did not do that and was offended by the comments. Jennifer said who cared if she did get a TV! People suck.
Michelle had the new clarasonic that she got from the girls and she was talking about that and her new clothes with her friends and they started talking about people losing their jobs because of the economy. Michelle feels like you can buy things but apparently you aren’t supposed to talk about them.
Karen said everyone should go out there and buy what they can afford and get the economy going again.
Jennifer said people were running to the bank, taking all of their money and keeping it in their houses. Even if you have the highest level of security it will only take 15-20 minutes to get into a safe. The point wasn’t rack up debt on your credit card - it was treat yourself… within reason!
Evelyn said people should be spending money if they can. That’s the bottom line. And if her friends criticized her for something she bought, they wouldn’t be her friends for very long.
Brian had been on both sides of the fence. He used to make a decent living and had some free time and he had friends who had a lot of money at that level and it was easy to be happy for them. Now he lost his job and was working as a truck driver making a lot less money. He found himself having feelings of resentment and anger, which he knows is irrational. Jennifer said he can have the feelings, but it’s how he treats people that is important. The feelings come from fear. Brian said it’s not wrong to do and say what you want, but when you are going to do or say those things it might be worth taking note of who is listening. Alexis said that was hard to do on the radio because they had listeners from all walks of life. Jennifer said they weren’t saying you shouldn’t be sensitive, but you shouldn’t have to hide your life, either.
Michelle said the people calling in about spending money should get over it. She’d rather talk about yeast infections!
Alexis said someone wrote an obnoxious comment on her blog. It was from Penny who said Alexis didn’t have a means of income independent from her mother. Alexis said she did indeed have income independent of her mother and she had already said that new apartment she was moving into was not her apartment, it was her mother’s apartment. What’s the big deal? Jennifer said Alexis can’t win for losing. No matter what she says, someone will be pissed off. Alexis said it didn’t matter anyway, she was moving into the giant apartment that was paved in gold.
Sherry, a truck driver, said she would be glad to have Alexis’s hand-me-downs. Alexis said she always gives her clothes away if she is not going to wear them anymore.
Toni said Alexis could be an in demand escort at night for all the listeners know. Toni said she was in a similar situation because her parents lived on a beach in Florida. She wasn’t getting any money from her “rich parents” but she was not poor and if someone asked her about her life, she wasn’t going to act poor! Toni was taking half of her tax return and getting the Louis Vuitton duffel bag.
Facebook "Friends"
Alexis got a friend request and a message from someone she didn’t recognize and she did not look at his picture. She friended him and let it go. Last night she got a “Hey, what’s up?” message from the guy. It turns out that he went to school with Alexis and was the first person she shtupped in college. They knew each other for two weeks. He was the guy with the crooked penis. Alexis said they weren’t friends after that and she thought he dumped her so didn’t understand why he wanted to reestablish a connection. She never would have remembered him and now she had to remember his crooked penis. Jennifer said Facebook is a one stop hub where everyone can virtually congregate and for some, it’s all about the nostalgia.
Jackie found her oldest friend’s boyfriend that she had back in high school. He had pictures of his daughter and grandson on Facebook and she called to tell her friend about it. The friend ended up telling Jackie that the pictures were of her daughter and grandson as well. She had given the kid up for adoption and they hadn’t told him she was pregnant back in the day. They both found their daughter this past November.
Deb was an only child and both her parents passed away. Facebook helped her find family and friends that were scattered all over the world and she is so excited to be back in touch with them. She was even going to a party one of her cousins was throwing in France! Alexis said that was her worst nightmare. Jennifer said Alexis didn’t have fond memories or nostalgia. She liked to live in the here and now. Alexis agreed. If she didn’t like people then she wouldn’t like them now.
Leigh wondered why Rosie made Jennifer change her photo. Jennifer said Rosie just got on Facebook and started trouble, saying that Jennifer’s press photo was not indicative of what Jennifer really looked like. Leigh said her own profile photo was retouched within an inch of its life and it was a kind of cheating. Jennifer didn’t think so.
Alexis said there was not a single person from her past that she would want to know more about now. Martha, on the other hand, loves keeping in touch with people. Alexis said maybe that’s why she hates it.
Jamie was miffed because she liked Facebook for talking to the friends she had now and there were a handful of people from way back when that she kept in touch with but now it felt like a gigantic high school reunion that she never wanted to attend.
Alexis wanted NOW friends – new adult friends because she had really asinine friends in high school and college and got rid of every last one of them. Jennifer said Alexis was probably a lot better off than the rest of us who obssessed with nostalgia.
Marni loved LinkedIn. She used it for work. She didn’t care about what her high school classmates were doing.
Phyllis said she still had her BFF from high school and one other friend she cared about. People were organizing a class reunion and she didn’t even want to be invited because she didn’t have anything in common with those people now.
Tara agreed with Alexis. Her solution was that when she got requests from high school people, she would accept them and then defriend them a week later.
Alexis said she went to a friend of her friend’s house once where there were a bunch of people he went to college with. They spent 8 hours there and she was so bored by their conversation. She knew she an outsider but she thought the people were boring.
Tara said there were people that genuinely gave a shit even if you just got a brief comment from then and then there were the people that just wanted to accumulate numbers and those people had thousands of friends. Those were the losers. Jennifer said she liked talking to tons of people on Facebook.
Rhonda agreed with Alexis. She’d rather poke her eyes out than accept a friend request from a high school friend.
Erin had a college friend that she loved but only saw him once or twice a year and every time it was a circus. She just wants to see him, not a ton of other people that she didn’t even know!
Jamie resisted joining Facebook for a really long time and then she hooked up with all of these people she was friends with in elementary school and she was loving it. It was retro! It wasn’t about hanging out, it was just reminiscing about fun stuff that you can’t share with that many people.
Kathy said Facebook was superficial and just like high school. Many people are ‘friend collectors’ and everyone is lying about everything. Jennifer didn’t agree. Alexis said one of the problems she had was friending people from her past was that she didn’t want them to know anything about her. There was no relationship anymore so it was just creepy and voyeuristic.
Donna said two weeks ago her granddaughter got to meet her father who she found on Facebook.
Paulie liked Facebook but didn’t want to talk to people from high school anymore – especially people who were nasty to him!
Stay tuned!