Charter Television is run by the devil.

I know not that many people read my blog but instead of going on a rampage I'd rather publicly review Charter Communications.

They are from the devil. Only the devil would charge me $60 for basic cable and internet. And only the devil would bully me over the phone and make me out to be a liar. You see, I chose Charter two months ago for the $29.99 deal that includes basic cable and internet. Over the past two months they've sent my bill on a roller coaster ride ranging from $56 to $63 for the same damn services. Then they cut off my access to downloading because I downloaded one episode of Weeds.

One good thing about Charter, however, is that every time I call to complain they DON'T send me to India. Don't get me wrong, I like Indians. Outsource all you want. Those people need the jobs too. But I don't like being sent to India to complain because I feel like an obese, smelly American complaining to a person who probably can't afford cable or high speed internet.

I'd rather to complain to Yolanda, a real American telemarketer, who I had the pleasure of speaking with today. I didn't feel like a jerk telling her the company she works for is a rip off. She barely listened to me and was a bully. In the end, I told Yolanda I'd keep Charter until I found a better, less Satanic company, but I'd be back with a vengeance.

I'm writing those jerks a letter!

Amending my Opinion on Sister Wives.

I've changed my opinion on "Sister Wives" slightly, after watching the first episode in greater depth. I still despise this yucky Kody fellow, but I really love the wives. Even though it's easy to pass judgment on these women and say they are unhappy people with low self esteem, I like them. They are open minded even saying that they don't care what religious and marital decisions their kids make as long as they get an education of some sort and become  productive members of society. I wasn't expecting to hear that from Mormon fundamentalists. It seems like these women love each other more than they love the man they share. I wouldn't mind being a part of a 3 woman marriage (sans men) where we'd live and raise our kids. However, I have no warmed up to the newest wife who has tacked herself onto the right end of this group hug.

Now that I have my amendment out of the way, I will write about what I came here to write about. And that is that I hate pimples and the hormones that conjure them. They are the same hormones that are making me feel like I need to kidnap newborns cause they are soooooooooooooo cute. They may also be the hormones responsible for bookmarking "puppy adoptions in my area". Damn it hormones, stay off of Google.

THEY ARE SO CUTE.

Watch this video...this baby is the sweetest!

Real Life Big Love.

So, it's Sunday night right now and this new show "Sister Wives" is on. Basically, it's about a family that consists of 1 husband (Kody), 3 wives (Sister Wives)- Meri, Janelle, and Christine), and 12 (almost 13) children. After 16 years of 3 wives, Kody has decided he wants another wife, Robyn who has 3 kids. I'm trying to keep an open mind and think polygamy might be right for this family but it's not for me. But honestly, I don't think it's right for this family or any other family. After seeing three episodes of this show I think these women are lying to themselves about how they're okay and supportive of this. They are used to the three wives..and now a fourth is coming in and they all seem to have problems with it yet say "But it's the right thing." I don't get why it's the right thing or why Kody is so special that he gets to sleep with three different women? I have trouble not seeing this dude as a creep. That being said, the friendship these three ladies have is really special. It's a deeper friendship and love than blood related sisters....because they're all canoodling the same dude every week. It makes me wonder if married orgies are against Mormanism? Things could get real kinky in Utah. It reminds me of Hugh Hefner and his mansion of Bunnies. Except for this is Creepy Kody and his suburban home of house wives.

Anyway, everything revolves around this creepy Kody fellow. He deserves another wife. They're giving him more children. Gross, I hate men. I could never live like that. I get all hopped up when other girls comment on Brandon's Facebook. If he asked to move to Utah and take on another wife, he'd have to get penis reconstruction surgery because I'd cut it off with a dull knife while he slept.

Sorry for the graphic penis talk, Grandma.

Booze fueled sex romp where anything goes.

I am going on a cruise to Cozumel to see the Mayan ruins where I will sacrifice myself to the sun and die happily.

Fall.

Fall is here. It's my favorite season because the weather is colder rather than hotter. Less bugs. Less moisture in the air. Better holidays. My 21st birthday is in 69 days (I still get excited about my birthday). I just did the math in my head and got 100 days but I doubled checked this at a website called "Days Until Next Birthday Calculator" and it said 69.. This is why Basic College Algebra was difficult for me (I got an A though). Other events will be: seeing Brandon some time in the next 75 or so days. Lillian's 2nd birthday. Finishing this terrible semester. Halloween! and finally, all of my favorite shows are back on.

Speaking of favorite shows, I recently realized that I watch way too much TV. This is a relatively new development because I used to be too excited about living to watch TV. Now I'm grown up and going through my mid-life crisis stage. I keep getting the urge to change my hair back to blond as it was in my younger years and I really want a new car and boobs. The plight of the middle aged woman. Ugh.

But anyway, these are the shows I'm watching this fall:

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Weeds- Monday..Charter revoked my downloading privileges so now I have to watch pixeleted episodes on skeevy japanese websites

  

 Glee- Tuesday. Finn and Rachel are finally together. Sue and Schue are/were "friends". Quinn is back on the Cheerios and evidently Britney Spears is going to ruin an episode. There are two new cast members one of which I already hate, Sunshine something or other, and then this good looking guy with a giant mouth. I think Finn wants to see him naked.

Ghost Hunters- Wednesday. On Sept. 29, 2010 Syfy is airing the GH episode where the crew visits Lemp Mansion, which is located in St.Louis, MO. And the episode I'm most excited for.

Community- Thursday. Honestly, I missed the premier and the last 5 or so episodes. But for the ones I saw, I really enjoyed it. I plan on watching this because I'll have NBC on anyway for the Office an hour later.

The Office- Thursday. This is my favorite show by loyality. But I'll admit, the last two seasons have made me sad. This is the last season with Steve Carrel as Michael Scott...and the last season I will watch. I can't bare to see it go down in flames without Michael as boss. Pathetic or not, this is worse than when I was dumped freshman year. The clip is Dwight pretending to be Jim.
 

Outsourced- Thursday. A new show that I enjoyed the first episode of. The main character is cute but there are no strong characters. My guess is that it'll last one season. But I'll be watching since NBC will already be on.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia- Thursday. I love this show as much as I love The Office. It's a lot of dry humor as none of the characters know they're strange.

Destination Truth- Thursday. This show is a mash up of paranormal hunting and cryptid hunting, both of which are very cool. I wish they'd go check out the mothman, my favorite cryptid of all time. They've visited Chernobyl and a crazy Chilean mining village, both of which had my hairs standing on end. I'm excited for this season and the host, Josh Gates  is really sexy.

So my Thursday's are pretty packed nowadays. I have to scramble from NBC to FX to SyFy. It's giving me carpal tunnel. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I remain lonely. Sometimes I find myself watching new episodes of Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta and it's always terrible.

When do United States of Tara and Dexter come back on? I don't think I have time to watch anything else right now.

Livejournal.

I have successfully and steadily been maintaining a livejournal since early 2004. For the past half hour I was reminiscing my life as a 14 year old. Life was so incredibly simple at 14 even though I had an asian boyfriend and too many friends. It was the life. I'd like to share with my friends, family, and the internet one particular entry I wrote in honor of my friend Ed, who I left out of a previous entry about a trip to the mall on accident. On October 24, 2004 I wrote:

this journal entry goes out to Ed, because I forgot to mention in the previous entry that he was at the mall with us. I feel bad, I'm sorry Ed. But this entrys all for my pal Ed.
What I like about Ed.

• He is really nice despite the intimating stares
• He wears pants with metal on them, but its not really metal. Its like metal.
• He rarely wears any other pants
• He's tall
• He's nice to hug if you can catch him
• He looked very nice in that green shirt he wore last night at the mall
• He is very good at arcade games
• He is genourous
• Hes throws my trash away for me if I ask
• He never ment to fling red jello at my butt
• Hes funny
• deep down hes quite sentimental
• He has a knife
• He has a neat lighter
• Hes like a teddy bear
• His name has only 2 letters in it
• Hes mysterious

Eds a nice guy. Standing ovations for Ed.
x sarah

End entry.
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My favorite line: He wears pants with metal on them, but its not really metal. Its like metal.

I also enjoyed my misspelling of intimidating as "intimating".

Ed's pants:

Pictures.

 

Tribute to 9/11 Victim: Jessica Sachs

"Follow your honest convictions and be strong."

~William Makepeace Thackeray 

Jessica Leigh Sachs, American Airline Flight 11

 How strange it was while I was gearing up to work on this tribute I realized I had picked a girl whose parents are a hop, skip, and a jump away from my front door in St.Louis, Missouri. Additionally, I picked a girl who died very near to the age I am now. Jessica Sach's was not assigned to me --I picked her randomly from a list of 9/11 victims who had no formal online tribute to them.

Jessica Leigh Sachs grew up in Rochester, Minnesota as the youngest of three children to Steven and Karen Sachs. Later in her life Jessica attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. At the time of her death she was residing in Billerica, Massachusetts. She was aboard the hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 that took off from Boston. In her short life of 22 years Jessica inspired hope in many people, including her parents, through her strong-held belief in God and Christianity. She helped start Mercyhouse Church near the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where her spirit remains alive today.

It's difficult to compose a memorial blog about a person I've never met. It's even more difficult to compose a memorial blog about someone who has no current memorial blog or information to speak of other than one Baptist church article and a 9/11 Victim memorial guest book. Even after "investigating" 20 pages on Google search nothing more than Jessica Sachs- 22, American Airlines Flight 11 is written. I couldn't even find her birthday. After getting to know Jessica and her sweet parents (online) this seems to be a travesty.

Steven and Karen Sachs, parents

I can tell by the comments in her guest book that Jessica was unconditionally kind and strong in her convictions. She made impressions on people that will last their lifetimes (the dean of the University Jessica attended commented that she never put her beliefs up on a shelf to hide, which was uncommon for her young age and peergroup). So I hope that these words pay a tribute, albeit small, to Jessica Leigh Sachs and the life she lived. Rest in Peace.

EDIT: A tribute/news story with more information about Jessica here.

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The Arms of Project 2,996

Other victims of 9/11, like Jessica, are missing formal tributes as well. If you or anyone you know would like to contribute to Project 2,996 please check the bottom of this list. The names without links are the victims with no formal online tributes. To learn about Project 2,996 click here.

Listen to this.

Listen to this. Just do it. Be patient and sit through it.