Empress Sassy

posted by EmpressSassy on Nov 7

I’m not a sandwich person so it’s not totally fair for me to bash a sandwich shop, this I know.  However that being said, Panera Bread is just too over the top for me.  It’s just so “trendy” and I swear people go there just because they think you are “supposed to go there.” 

It’s not like you can walk in and order soup and a sandwich.  You have to answer a million questions about your choice.  Do you want this kind of bread?  Do you want a bread bowl?  Do you want a combo with soup and half sandwich?  blah, blah, blah.  Can this be like taking a test?  Then the bread they give you with your soup is as hard as a rock.  I told Wendy today, it must be like Jesus at the last supper pulling apart the bread and passing it to his men.  It’s just not good bread, but you’re paying a fortune for this healthy, fresh baked bread.  Whatever.  The soup is good, but if you get the half and half combo you only get like an ounce of soup, that cracks me up.

This is just not a place for me thank you very much and I just can’t take it.  I love ya Wendy, but we are going to have to get our soup at McAllister’s from now on. At least they have better selections to go wth our soup!  Items with substance and I don’t have to take a quiz at the counter.  AND Wendy can reach the straws there too!

posted by EmpressSassy on Oct 31

It was our turn to take Noah to story hour last night (yes we all take turns because he has a fan club!).  Anyway, there are about 12 kids in the story hour group and one teacher.  One child is Gabriel.  This child, I had heard from prior weeks was disruptive. 

We do in and the librarian begins to tell the kids her first story.  Sure enough Gabriel starts roaming around the room just talking and walking in front of the teacher.  He even walked up and tried to take her book.  She said nicely, “Gabe can you sit down for me please.” The Dad grabs him and sits him down.  4 more times this kid runs around, jumps on the rocking chair up front, bothers one kid next to Noah who is listening quietly and then runs to the back because he wants to wash his hands. 

Now, is it Gabriel’s fault that he is disrupting the class?  No, his father needs to take him out of the class and why doesn’t he.  First of all you are in a library and your kid is making way too much noise.  Before the story hour even started he came running in the place making way too much noise for a library. Everyone looked up at this man like, “OK dude, do you NOT know you are in a library?

This parent should know better and instead of taking care of his disruptive child he is just chasing him around the room and allowing all the other children to be disruptive by this little monster.  Even during the craft the child was off in never, never land and the mom (yes she was there too with a newborn baby) was doing the craft all by herself and she kept yelling for Gabriel to join her (as if). 

By the time the hour was over several parents were looking for the head librarian to complain about the situation and I must admit I don’t blame them.  Again, not the child’s fault, he is getting away with it so why not continue.  We got in the car and Noah said, “That boy is bad in story hour.”  I said, “Yes he is and you were very good not to pay attention to him.” 

What a shame that the parent is an idiot and doesn’t have common sense to know the rules of etiquette in a situation like that with children and quiet time.

posted by EmpressSassy on Oct 22

I told you it would happen and I swear it’s like they do it to mess with my mind.  I went to Kroger and Wal-Mart this weekend and there were no Taco Doritos to be found. 

I also stopped by a second Kroger - NONE.  Now, what is up with that crap?  Do I have to tell you how devestating this is to me?  I have a bag left at this point, but being a trusting soul I decided to believe they would continue to sell them.  Now I’m just ticked off that I don’t see any on the shelf.  Did the sign not say “Back by popular demand?”  Yes, it did!

I’m going to look around this week in Louisville on my lunch break and then I will know if this is a community crisis or just a New Albany crisis.  Talk about a fate issue, how is Prince Charming suppose to show up with a picnic basket if he can’t even fill it with the right chip?  ha ha. 

OK, so I’m over dramatizing my chip issue, but then again they haven’t sold them for 10+ years and I was very excited to see them on the shelf again.  Do I ask for much in the food world?  No, just some nice cheese dip once in a while and some Taco Doritos……………Geesh!

posted by EmpressSassy on Oct 21

We all know I’m not a big feminist right?  Yep, I’m the girl that has yapped about women cops and whatnot saving my butt in a time of crisis.  If my house is getting broken into and I’m getting raped or beaten by a big, burly man, I just don’t want a woman rushing in to save me unless she has a good, man cop right behind her to help kick this guy’s butt or shoot him.  Also, I’m the one that has said we (I’m) not ready to put a woman in the White House for various reasons, mostly I think they are just too emotional to handle the job.  that being said, I feel I can make the following comments fairly.

I know we all know this guy, and I’m sure maybe you have worked with him before or you have served on a committee with him.  Someone today called it “short man syndrome” and I’m OK with that and I also call it “accommodating for the lack of something syndrome” also!

Anyway, don’t you hate the guy at work that really doesn’t have a lot of authority, but takes the little bit he has created in his mind and tries to make it huge?  (This would be Dwight from The Office by the way!).  Yep, this person is a LOSER.  Let’s just try to throw around our authority and belittle people with ridiculous big words and stupid emails (that people read and make fun of by the way) and act like we are important. 

It tells you one of two things about this person; he is also a complete ass at home OR he has NO power at home and his wife calls the shots so when he comes to work he has to push his power on his co-workers to feel important.  Either way he is sad, pathetic, loser and we have to deal with his issues daily.

At any rate, at least its comedy relief for the rest of the group that is all I can say about this type of person.  Still, on some days you want to just walk up to him and say, “Seriously dude, do you know how a complete doofus you are making of yourself and guess what?  No one cares about your pretend power trek that you are on.”

One can only hope that he’ll take his self-righteous, egotistical, pathetic, attitude and try  to find what I’m sure he would call a “higher position” with another company sometime soon.  Until then…………let the comedy relief continue.

Side note:  Of course this entry is purely hypothetical and refers to no one that we know specifically! 

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 23

This is what I thought I was going to end up like this morning on my way to work.  I’m crossing the bridge and I’m next to a semi-truck.  He flips on his signal and I’m thinking, “OK, he’ll come over as soon as I pass.”  Wrong, the SOB just comes over and I guess I was in his blind spot.  I blow my horn, doesn’t hear me (or ignores me) and totally pushes me into the shoulder of the road.  I guess it was a good thing I had a shoulder to go to and I wasn’t going to another lane, as I would have hit any oncoming traffic.  I, of course, kept blowing my horn and he, of course, just kept right on driving.  I LOATHE semi truck drivers. 

Don’t give me this crap that they are all so important and they have to be respected since they have deadlines, blah, blah, blah.  A lot of them are just assholes and that’s, that.

Then I’m on 71 right before the Watterson split and all of a sudden this man in a yellow jacket jumps (I’m not lying) into traffic.  He wants to stop us so this big truck and turn around to tow this other big truck.  He literally lept into 71 and me and about 20 other vehicles had to slam on our breaks.  #1, he almost got killed and #2 had he waited about a minute the road would have been more clear.  I didn’t have to beep my horn, as about 10 people did.  What a moron!  He was just the truck driver of one of the cars and he almost lost his dang life this morning.

I’m not done………..then I’m driving down Shelbyville Road and this idiot in front of me slams on his brakes.  There was nothing in front of us, no light, no other cars, no turn issues, and I can’t figure out why he did it.  He stopped and then waited about 4 seconds and then started back up.  I’m looking in the car for a child, an issue and I see nothing. I blew my horn again.  I’m was all about the horn this morning.

It was like taking on the enemy to get to work this morning.  I can’t lie, I was a little stressed when I pulled into the parking lot.  People just crack me up on the road!

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 17

How would you like to be Ed Hochuli, the ref that made the bad call against the Chargers?  Here is the thing; did anyone stop to think how this guy feels?  There is an interview and this is what he had to say, “I’m getting hundreds of emails – hate mail – but I’m responding to it all. People deserve a response.  You can rest assured that nothing anyone can say can make me feel worse than I already feel about my mistake on the fumble play. You have no idea …  Affecting the outcome of a game is a devastating feeling. Officials strive for perfection – I failed miserably. Although it does no good to say it, I am very, very sorry.”

This story is really just getting to me for some reason because I’m sorry, yes again, this was a mistake, a human error, but has no one else on this planet made a mistake?  You can never prove that it made a team lose the game. Games are won within seconds on the NFL fields.  It happens; skill, fate, chance, weather, mistakes, fumbles, whatever, but this guy made a mistake and do we stop to think how he must feel?

Now he has to “earn” his way back up to being considered a good ref, when in reality he already is a great ref.  We are too hard on people. We demand perfection, yet we suck as people because we are hypocrites. 

Think about the other guy and how he feels.  He is actually getting hate mail - hate mail and that is sad.  We have war, world hunger, raped women, abused children, but we have to send hate mail to a ref over one football play.  Hey, why not use some of that pent up energy on a good cause and help someone? 

People are just so pathetic!

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 15

If you watch “That 70’s Show” you have heard Red Forman use the greatest word ever - ‘dumbass’.  Yep, it’s just a great word and it can be used to describe so many people.  Jerry brought it to my attention on our trip this past weekend (See, I told you I didn’t feel well; it was a dark weekend!), but it’s true!

There are dumbass people that drive all over the road.  Then you have the dumbass people that walk in front of you while you are trying to drive through the streets of Gatlinburg, TN.  I’m sure you work with a dumbass, just think about it!  You might even know more than one.  It’s not a totally horrid word, as bad as some others that we could be using and it sort of has some humor to it once you begin to use it.

It’s just a fun, little word used to describe so many people in our society that we encounter daily!  The dumbass that takes 20 minutes to wait on ONE fast food customer???  The dumbass that pulls in the wrong direction as the gas station when all the other cars have obviously pulled in the same direction and now he has caused a major traffic issue in a parking lot??  See how easy it is to find examples?

It’s fun kids, just think about it and I’m sure you know a few as well! ha ha

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 8

24-19, I THINK THAT’S A WIN!

BRETT WHO?

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 6

We went to Incredible Dave’s after the Noah’s soccer game today and of course, its still a great place to play.  Noah had a great time. 

The thing is though, there are so many unsupervised kids at this place at any given time.  Is it the kids fault?  No.  It’s the loser parents that let their kids do any dang thing they want.

There was this one “pack” of girls around 8-9 years old playing in this bouncy toy that was blatantly for the younger kids (2-5 yrs old) and they are in there rough housing, talking trash and knocking over kids.  I wanted to put my hands on these punk-ass kids, but of course you can’t and is it really their fault they are brought up to be hoodlums?  I guess not, but if they aren’t taught to behave are they EVER going to get any better?  (The correct answer is NO).

Then in the big climbing tree there are these boys (old enough to know better) climbing through, knocking over kids and when the young girl in charge told them to get out they just ignored her.  She had to go get the manager to get them out.  Their dad walked up and yelled for them in the meantime and I would be embarrassed to yell for my son in a climbing tree that was built for small children, but was this guy?  (The correct answer again is NO).

People get on my last nerves not raising their kids. Did you have sex?  Did you conceive this child?  Did you think they just get let loose in public with no rules or responsibilities?  (The correct answer is NO).  You dumb ass teach your kids some respect and some manners, but oh wait I can look at you and see that you too are a trash bag and have little respect and manners yourself so what am I talking about seriously? 

Anyway, just needed to vent this because parents get on my nerves!

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 2

Well the dumbass is going to Veto this ban.  Nice to see he takes commerce over health.  What a dumbass.  So we continue to allow smoking in our restaurants, while the city of Louisville successfully did this without any issues.  Does he pay attention to what goes on across the bridge?  Did I type dumbass yet, oh wait I did………..

New Albany Mayor Doug England said today he’ll veto an ordinance that would have banned smoking in restaurants, bars and other indoor workplaces in the city.

But England said he would sign an amended ordinance that exempts private clubs, bars and restaurants with bars that employ people 21 and older, if the City Council passes one.

The council had passed the smoking measure last month by a 5-4 vote. It wasn’t clear immediately how the council would respond to the veto.

The council’s next meeting is Thursday night.