qotd – Page 16 – Crasstalk

QOTD: How Far Have You Come From The Place You Were Born?

There are so many different ways you can answer this question. You could decide it’s about a philosophical journey, about the change in your political beliefs compared to the beliefs in your parents, the movement in your socio-economic status. You could be a bit more literal and calculate how far you’ve traveled. For example, I estimate that I’ve walked, jogged and run far enough to go around the world at the equator, let alone distance covered in planes, trains and automobiles. Continue reading →

QOTD: Who Knows?

Do you share your Crasstalk identity with others? Do people know who’s behind your avatar? Continue reading →

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QOTD: What’s the Best and Worst Advice You’ve Ever Received?

Whether we asked for it or not, there’s always been someone giving his or her opinion as to what we should think, believe or do. Continue reading →

QOTD: What’s Your Plan?

While in New Orleans over the weekend one of my friends mentioned to me that she has a new 1- and 5-year plans. I was a little shocked because this particular friend never seemed like too much of a planner. She got laid off last year and instead of trying to become a cog in another machine, she decided to go her own way. I think this life change has forced her to look further ahead than she might have normally. When she brought it up, a light bulb went off in my head. I’ve been feeling sort of restless (for lack of a better word) in my life lately. Having some long-term plans that I need to hold myself accountable for seems like it will make me work for the things that I actually want.

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QOTD: What’s the Most Expensive Item of Clothing You’ve Ever Purchased?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ebBsl5WhI

On this especially, non-special “holiday”, many people will be spending truckloads of money to make their lovers happy. As a perpetually single slore, that’s not my concern. I want to know about money spent on yourself. Making you look fabulous for that mate you may or may not have/find. Continue reading →

QOTD: Lessons Learned

You’ve done the home work, the affirmations, the congratulations, the adorations. You’ve stared clear-eyed and clear-headed in the mirror, you’ve told yourself that you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like you. And yet, you catch yourself telling yourself the same old negative story. What gives?

Today, I noticed an online news article about someone I went to high school with. We were more acquaintances than friends. I think we might have hung out socially once or twice in the four years I knew him. He’s someone who was on “the slow track” when we were in high school. Socially awkward, he sort of hung around the fringe of society. He was not in any honors classes, didn’t take part in any of the “bleeding edge” things our school was doing in the sciences, never stood in front of the student body to receive a varsity letter for his jacket, or any official award or commendation for that matter, and he certainly wasn’t in the “Who’s Who in American High Schools” book. Just a normal guy, did his time and got out. Continue reading →

QOTD: Never Trust a Person Who…

A dear friend of mine swears by a book of all-natural cleaners. I didn’t care for information on her Bible of Clean because I have an amazing cleaner. Bleach and water, or vinegar and water but mostly bleach.

I have a general rule that I won’t go in a home that doesn’t the Clorglorious because said house must be icky. Only icky people have icky homes ergo I can’t trust the bleachless. I love my Organic Girl but I say she’s the exception that proves the rule.

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QOTD: What is the Worst Project You’ve Ever Worked On?

When I was a teenager, I worked for my grandfather. It was a sort of torture for us both. One year, he had to send out some catalogs and the manufacturers he worked with sent him some literature to include in the catalog. Some of the pages weren’t well made, so he decided that those little plastic reinforcements needed to be put on the little holes in the pages. This meant they needed to be put on all three holes on every single page in every single catalog. I am not sure how many of those little plastic reinforcements I had to put on, but I know that they ordered a case of those plastic rings of death and I used them all. It went on for more than a month. Continue reading →

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QOTD: Which Celebrities Are The Most Special Snowflakes

Fact: Some famous people act like fucktards. Let’s channel our regular bitching and turn it into malicious dishing! Why wait until someone’s name happens to come up in a conversation? You’ve seen or heard of a celebrity doing something that would help your fellow Crasstalkers wile away the hours until the “acceptable” drinking time is upon us. Spill it. No person is too insignificant to mention wherever they may fall on the ubiquitous “ABCD” list. And isn’t that what image search is for? You people have a gift for sniffing out the most absurd pictures and videos in existence. Do what you do best and let’s all join hands in prurient harmony! Continue reading →