Life Advice

Zeineb's Life Advice #17: Should you ever decide to begin a non-profit grassroots environmental organization and send out an e-mail requesting volunteers to come to a meeting, you should really consider including information on the whereabouts of said meeting. Otherwise, said volunteers will check their e-mail in the morning wishing to find the location and plan a bus route only to realize they will have to stay home for the day due to not knowing where they should go. Furthermore, it would be of great benefit to perhaps answer the phone number you so kindly provide in your e-mail, so that if such circumstances should ever arise, your possible volunteer will be able to contact you in order to enquire as to where they should be going.

Zeineb's Life Advice #63: To all prospective mothers out there. Children are frustrating. I agree. They can be annoying. They can make a huge fuss about things. They can whine about missing a tae kwan do class to stay home and do chores despite you telling them they are free to go another day. It's understandable that your temper might fray after dealing with such things. Nevertheless, even if such circumstance should cause you untold frustration with one such child, it is really not entirely fair to yell at their sibling when they come downstairs asking you what they should do to help around the house. Contrary to popular belief, most children are not actually psychic and reacting with hostility and asserting that they should know what to do and you're not going to tell them despite their repeated avowals that they really, seriously don't know what you're talking about and would appreciate being told is not the best way to react to a situation. Such reactions will merely cause your child to go upstairs and write ridiculous livejournal entries, all the while trying to remember any events or volunteer they can attend in order to leave the house.

That's all the wisdom I'm bestowing today folks.

oh my gosh it is so small and stripy!

There are moments when I realize I am epically pathetic. These moments often occur when I am reading romcom fanfic and characters are embarassing themselves. At such times I am forced to scroll down quickly, go do something else, and return when I have convinced myself to keep reading. :/ It's the fanfic equivalent of covering my eyes with my fingers when a movie heroine is about to do something epically stupid. Or embarassing.

I lost my train of thought. But that's okay. I have a good distraction. http://www.cuteoverload.com/ Go look at the tiny baby kitty.