JournalStone will be moving forward
August 1st is coming very soon. I am pretty sure it is this Saturday and with that we will be launching our new website. We have linked in other sites, revamped the layout, added a search engine; provide links to some interesting stuff and our sweatshirts and t-shirts are now available for sale. All of this after setting up our company and opening a checking account. Might seem like small events but in the end every little piece gets us closer to operating like a real business.
One of the exciting things will be our blog register. Anyone who signs up will be automatically entered into the free t-shirt give-a-way that we will be doing monthly. I know everyone out there has just been dying to get a JournalStone shirt. It will be on all the magazine covers as soon as we get Eliza Dushku to be our spokesperson. Excitedly we have already sold two shirts and I just picked them up today. We also earned our first 32 cents in advertising revenue. 32 cents. I bought everyone lunch just to celebrate. All of this and the site is not even open to the public yet.
Our monthly hit count has gone up every again and I thought it might not be possible to top June when we had the influx of traffic from Farrah Fawcett’s passing away. I have always been a fan so I had done a few blogs on her over the first few weeks. We not only met the monthly total but have now surpassed it. Every month seems to bring new milestones achieved in the business endeavor. Still can’t seem to get the book published. Those damn editors have to deal with a lot of grammatical mistakes on my part. Good thing I am not paying them by the mistake. I might not be able to afford it.
So give us the weekend to work out the quirks and starting Monday tune in for the launch of the month. August should bring more excitement. With all of the additions I am hoping our content and traffic continue to grow.
If you have any suggestions send them in to duncanmoron@journalstone.com. If they are good I will post them and if they are not then I will mock you and put you down publically.
Sorry, it just seems to be the way I work.
Vanity at a cost
We all want to look good. It is just natural. Some of us look better than others (not including myself in the former for sure) but in general we all want to look our best. Interestingly enough what is somebody’s best? It is different for everyone right. We all have different tastes and the flair for style is as wide as the nerdy engineer down the hall to the good looking marketing person in the next cube. Why is it that the good looking people are always in sales or marketing and us average slumps are in the engineering and finance areas? Is there some written rule that I was not aware of.
Along with looking good there is the gambit of devices to help us achieve the best that we can. Make-up, earrings, tattoos, hairspray, curlers, blow dryers etc. etc. At the top of the echelon is perfume. It creates the atmosphere and sets the tone of what we want to project. What happens when your perfume turns lethal? At a Texas call center an innocent woman sprayed a waft of perfume and the people around her started dropping like flies. The place had to be evacuated, several were sent to the hospital and well over a 100 complained of illness. What in the hell are you talking about. Is this for real or possibly the stupidest thing you have ever heard of?
We have all dealt with the office person (some male some female) who walks down the hall and you can smell them about 500 feet in advance. The guy or girl who sprays the entire bottle on every day before they venture out of the house. We all know them but do they make us nauseous? They might make me a little queasy at times but I don’t think I would call 911. Has everyone in Texas lost their mind? It is almost as crazy as………….wait for it……………..those Catholic people. hahaha, haven’t said that in a few blogs have I? You know those Catholic people who dress up every Sunday and go to church or Mass. What is it called when you dunk people in the tub of water, smashing their head below the surface? When I was a kid I always thought it was cool to see the swimming pool right there in church until I saw the Pastor trying to drown somebody.
It is all fun and games until somebody loses an eye. Yes, I know that is not the Catholic religion but you are missing the point. When I say the word Catholic it is simply using the sect to represent all religions so I can make fun of them as a group. Not that I am Atheist. Those people creep me out. You have to believe in something. Who in the hell makes that toxic perfume in Texas if we don’t have a God and a Devil. Somebody has to make the stuff smell sweet and then somebody has to pour it on so thick that you suffocate from it. You get both sides.
Fort Worth, Texas. If I remember Texas that well everyone wears the caked on make-up and the bottle of perfume and what about that hair. Is there something in the water that makes every woman’s hair in Texas stand about 3 feet above her head? Working in a call center in Texas must be like working in a whore house without sex. You get the entire plastic facade without the pleasure. OMG, that sounds again like Catholics. hahahaha, does anyone get this stuff.
OK, what do you get when you combine a Texan and a Catholic? I don’t know the answer. I am asking the question.
The Divorce Saga Continues
Or does it? I guess it depends on how you look at it. If I understand things correctly and God only knows I don’t pay enough attention to the happenings in this process, I think I might be close. My attorney said that once he files the paperwork after our hearing yesterday I will officially be divorced. Holy Shit…… Can you believe that? Now for the not so good news.
It seems that I will still have to go to mediation on the stocks and retirement accounts. Apparently my wife still feels that I have stolen from her and wants me to refund her all of her money. I am not sure what money she is referring to since I don’t have any but what can I say. Logic hasn’t prevailed in this mess so far. Why would logic start now? According to my lawyer it will be binding takes about two hours and only cost $50. Now that is a far cry from the $400 an hour I am paying him so it seems like a good deal. I guess we can do this even after we are divorced which is fine by me. Having the papers saying I am free will be a day to celebrate.
The only other thing left will be going back to court to revisit the child custody payments. Jesus, I keep saying the only thing left a lot don’t I. In a nutshell I will finally be divorced but will most likely be spending the rest of my life in court with this woman. I had been thinking it was the kids that would keep us connected but apparently it will also be the family judicial system. It is too bad that we could not have done this entire thing through a mediator. It would have been so much nicer on all of us.
I guess I should count my blessings. One, I will finally be legally free and can add my name to the 50% bracket on the divorced side. Two, our house is selling and I might actually get a little money to pay some bills. Three, the court thing will keep going and that just provides me plenty of topics to write about in my blog. It seems that I am getting a following of divorce junkies that tune in just to hear the latest in my family drama.
Good news everyone. I will be divorced but the saga will keep on going.
Dollhouse (Eliza Dushku)
I wrote a blog on May 19, 2009 Melissa Rycroft (Playboy Pictures). In the blog I sarcastically commented that FOX had renewed the show Dollhouse and I had never even heard of it. At the time I must have been insane. I had no idea that Eliza Dushku was in the show nor how extraordinarily hot she is. I admit now to my folly and will make every attempt to be forgiven for my inept ability to see the facts.
The premise of the show is getting a group of people to go out and do a bunch of weird and crazy shit then erasing their memory so you can get them to do a bunch of different crazy shit the next week. Ok, I haven’t seen the show. I will admit that. I just did this morning realize that Eliza Dushku was in it and well I have missed her since her vampire killing days. Wasn’t she also in some movie “Bring it On”? Haven’t I spent enough time by now telling everyone that I love a girl in a cheerleading outfit? Those little skirts and those sweaters. Can the common man ask for anything more. It is the best reason to sit courtside at a Warrior basketball game. God only knows you are not there to watch the team.
I will be going out today and purchasing the DVD set for season one which is now available for sale. I missed the entire first season. I hope to God one of the episodes has her dressed up as a cheerleader again. It is like having the best of all worlds combined in perfect symmetry. It will be good to see something that doesn’t highlight the movie series Twilight. I am so sick of getting up every morning and seeing another article on the mediocrity of cinema. Who cares if Rachelle Lefevre was replaced? The first movie was average at best. The books were a cute teenage depiction of romantic blubbering but the movie? Please. Unless the second one takes a drastic upturn I don’t think I will be able to stomach watching it.
There is only so much high school romance one can see in a single day. Just ask Jessica Simpson and Kenny Chesney. Speaking of high school blathering crap. Do we really think that Tony Romo broke up with Jessica Simpson because she was winking a little bit too much with Kenny Chesney? Has anyone seen the pictures I posted in my last blog about her? Did you see how big those stripes were? I think we all know why Tony said no no to Jessica. She seems to have been hitting the down home Texas cooking a little heavy the last couple of years. Can you say no thank you to that second helping of home fried chicken?
I will let everyone know how the Dollhouse show plays out in the upcoming blogs but in the meantime here is my tribute to Eliza Dushku. With some celebrities it is difficult finding that right photo that is sensual enough to post but with her…… Holy shit, almost every photo she takes is smoking hot. I can’t wait to see her spread, I mean see her new spread in FHM magizine coming up soon.
