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This morning I was listening to a local radio show, Chris & Mel in the morning…funny people. I flip radio stations because I am a music lover with ADD, once the song is over or even once I’m bored with it, I’m on to the next station unless I’m interested in the conversation. Which I’m not usually.

Today though, they struck a nerve with me. I am really getting tired of seeing tip cups in certain places. If you make minimum wage, and I’m not talking about waitress minimum wage, but if you make over $5.00 - 6.00 an hour, I’m probably not going to tip you unless you’re bringing food to my door. Yes, I tip the pizza person, nicely too. And waitstaff, very nicely.

I’ll drop a $5 tip on a $12 tab if it’s just me and I didn’t have to ask for anything, that’s service I don’t even get at home. Yep, I’ll pay for it.

On the radio they were discussing tipping for maid service in hotels. I think that when you sign all your crap for your room, they should make mention of the maid service and how they’re paid, if it’s up to you to make they’re living for them they should let you know that.

A lady called in and she and Chris agreed that you choose your job. This is where I totally had a moment and wanted to call in, but I have this so it’s better.

I totally think you choose your job and you can make your life better and move up the ladder. Trust me, I used to work in a gas station after high school. I’ve worked my way into the medical field and now into the legal field, it is possible you just can’t be an idiot.

I’ve seen tip cups at A&W where all they do is grab your food off of a line and stick it in a bag. Come on!

What do you think about all this, is tipping going too far?

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I vowed not to forget this week and seven hours ago wrote the title….and that’s all I’d done on this post until just now. I was working on a site for work. So now I’ve taken a break from that so that I can put this up here for you lovely ladies.

Some of you may be getting dizzy with all the design changes, I just can’t seem to find one I like, this one will do for now.

Never one to give myself a second look
Entertain the possibility
That maybe I’d catch the eye
Of someone else

Naive and unaware
You were watching me
With those eyes so curious
What lies beneath my thoughts and goals
Has surprised you

These eyes look forward
To the doors coming up ahead
To you I’m a curiosity
An idea that forms in your head

A person to conquer
You quest for realism in my dream world
You bring my dreams down
Picking over them with your words

You stand back in mock surprise
When my nature shows it’s wild
Crying hurt and innocent
After the drama you created

Behind these eyes is a fire
Like none you’ve ever seen
Flames that swallow me
Burn bridges not meant to be

Shooting spears of stereotyped words
Expecting them to pierce me
Using my own historical pain to punch me
Right where you think it might hurt

I am stronger than you’ve ever been
I am weaker than you’ll ever be
But neither feeling belongs to you
They are those you’ll never see

My struggle is within
You bring yours to my front door
Thinking yours is mine as well
But I can’t be the warrior anymore

I’ve been where there is to be
I’ve seen what there is to see
Memories are a motion picture to me
In the back of my eyes I always see

Push me harder and just get meaner
You know I come from sin
Say things you know nothing about
You could become what might’ve been

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I have two tats, one on my right shoulder and one on my lower back, where they’ve dubbed those tats a “tramp stamp”. So here locally they have a contest where if I get the most votes I’ll win $250 towards another tat. I’m stoked and really want to win it. I want one more tattoo on my left shoulder, the Japanese symbol for power.

Vote here

The tat on my right shoulder is the Japanese symbol for endurance. Yes, I know this for sure.

The tat on my lower back is a sun.

I like it, there’s a fun story that goes with it. I was on campus at UNT with my friend Monica and we passed the tattoo parlor and of course a few drinks later I was feeling froggy. So as I looked over the wall of tattoos that have been done before I found this one, but it was in color. I’ve always thought color would look cheesy and it fades so I asked if he would do it in black and white, and he did.

This is where it gets interesting. He’s a biker, all the artists there are bikers and they’re trademark has traditionally been that they hide skulls in their tats, this is their signature. So all the time I’m getting my tat, talking with this guy and my friend and trying not to focus on the steady tirade of needle on dermis.

After the tat was done, I walked over to the mirror and turned my back to myself and tried my best to be a contortionist and see my tat. From what I could see it looked incredible. He did an amazing job and now I would forever have some interest in searching the tat for a skull.

He said he didn’t do it with mine but I don’t believe him. I just haven’t found it yet. I’ve considered going back and having some things added to this tat like a white or silver if it’s possible outline of the rays..

I have lots of ideas for tats I want, but the one I want most and would settle for it being my last is the one on my left shoulder of the japanese symbol for power.

I feel that having “Power” and “Endurance” on the tops of my shoulders will carry me into my future with the right attitude and outlook and the sun is an ever present reality. There are only 24 hours in a day and it’s up to me to utilize that time in every day to further my goals and dreams.

So please go vote for me!

P.S. make sure you check out that tat for voting above mine, it doesn’t get any trampier than that, I think it’s hilarious!

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I am trapped beneath the thumb of my employer. I am bound by the income on which I rely. I long for the day when I can say, “Take this job and shove it” and go to work at home, this has been my desire since I was a child.

I think several times I’ve gotten in my own way and hindered what could’ve been. But no more. Learning what I am is great and all, but how will it help me in the future? Will I carry this knowledge and use it beyond this place? I’m not so sure. I’ve spent a lot of years working my way into the medical world and now I’m beginning to think trading that in may not have been smart.

But then, I’m having a bad day, I’ve been talked down to, blamed for other’s mistakes and treated like a servant - all before noon.

This could very well be my just desserts for not sticking with some of the things I started. At the time I make decisions, sometimes they are emotional decisions and not necessarily logical ones. But just the same, I feel I’m paying penance for transgressions I may or may not have committed.

Is it worth it? I’m beginning to wonder.

Rest assured however this is serving as a catalyst to my seeking a WAH job as a transcriptionist, which I have the experience for, just no luck finding a full time at home job that I can live off of…I will be looking though. Greener pastures and all that jazz.

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Ever hear that? Um, how annoying. No I SHOULDN’T be more like ANYONE! First of all if you’ve ever said that to someone and actually thought it would help them in some way - hate to break it to ya…that doesn’t help anything, and furthermore, it pisses people off. No one likes to be compared to someone else, much less be expected to be like someone else.

Besides we have enough of that, people are already following the latest commercial, watching what the commercials tell them too, etc. We are an automated people with no stimulation to our brains and intellectual side unless we seek it out.

Screw following the crowd and blending in. This is my town baby and I’m striping it green!

Sorry I got a little carried away there. I swear, had I been born in the times of the Great Janis Joplin and Woodstock and bras being burned and women talking back to those men who used to think being abusive was “laying down the law”, I would have been some kind of Hell raiser!

I want a Bentley Lord, won’t ya please buy me one?

Don’t be like anyone else and give a dirty look if someone ever says that to you because they deserve it. However if you hear someone pretending to be you, based on the situation it could either be flattering or insulting.

Example…My sister in law came over Sunday and her son and daughter came too of course, during the course of them playing with my son, Alexis, my neice in law was not allowed entry to the bedroom - it was some sort of game they were playing. Anyways, I hear Alexis say at the door, “This is Sabrina, ya’ll are going to get a spanking if you don’t open this door.”

I almost fell out of my chair! I told them I was mean so they wouldn’t act up, which worked of course, but apparently came back to bite me! I really thought that it was hilarious, I am a strict mom but come on I don’t spank other people’s children! But I did go say something to her about it, because she was lying to the kids on the other side of the door and trying to use intimidation. Ha! Me intimidating. I guess to them I am. LOL.

So yeah, I thought it was cute so I wasn’t insulted. But being like someone else is ridiculous and all you’ll do is lose yourself, and not like Eminem.

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This is an often posed question, but a valid one. Do you choose success or does success choose you?

I think every bit of success is self determined. It’s totally up to you how far you go in life. Bill Gates started with literally nothing. So if he can do it - you can do it too. Check out Oprah, you can totally do what your dreams lead you to.

Your circumstances may define you at this moment, but it doesn’t always have to be that way. You may be in the worst spot you’ve ever been in and never felt so bad about you in all your life. But I’m here to tell you that your day will come and you will have that opportunity to shine. Will you take it?

That decision is up to you. I feel that perception plays a big part in how we see the world and how the world sees us and the minute you stop worrying about what other people think of you - that is the moment you become truly free from repression.

Dare to think for yourself, dream for yourself, want for yourself and yearn to see your name in bright lights. If your dream is something that other people have realized before you - even better, then you have model to follow. A working model.

The trick is recognizing criticism as just that - criticism and nothing personal.

Don’t get in your own way getting caught up in what people think of you - worry about the skills you offer the world - what do you bring to the table?

Do you choose success or does success choose you? What do you think?

I don’t do this much anymore but I can’t resist adding a video to this post…enjoy!

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