First of all, I wrote an article called "America's Next Mediocre Model."  It was published with "The Spiteful Critic", a website which has got some great articles!  If you want to check it out:
Link to Article

I've got riddle for you guys:

What does the 4th of July, Patriot's Day, Anniversarys, Birthdays, & Christmas have in common?

Answer: To the Navy, they're all work days!

My husband and I recently celebrated our 4th anniversary.  Like any other day, he had to work late and got home at about 8:00.....oh, well, being prior active duty myself, I'm not surprised.

I actually wasn't too upset.  The wife of one of my husband's co-workers recently had a baby.  He had to come in on the day the baby was born so he could get permission to go on "baby leave."  Yep, wife has the kid...husband has to go into work.

Oh, I love the Navy.

On a different note, someone asked me what "WTF" stood for.  It stands for "What the F"....you have to fill in the "F" yourself.

As always, I love input

As I've been looking through blogs, I've seen lots of "cute" names for the days- mysterious Mondays, wordless Wednesdays, etc.  None of them really seemed to sum up my accurate, but cynical, view of life.  And then I realized there is one thing that I think all of the time!

"WTF!?"  If you are offended by the "F" pretend it stands for frak (as on Battlestar Galactica) or for "freezing Popsicles in Hades"....though if you're offended by the "F", you probably don't visit here very often (ha-ha).

So, this weeks, WTF moments:

On America's Next Top Model, the girls were having trouble using those ancient things called maps and by the boggling little metal boxes by the side of the curb called parking meters.  I kid you not....people should need a license to breed.

People who put "I love whoever" stickers on their cards.  Didn't we grow out of that in 7th grade or so?

People who put "My child is an honor student at X middle school."  Hey, when they make the Dean's List at a REAL college (aka- not online), brag about it.  Until then.....try to bump up your self esteem with YOUR OWN achievements.

People who go back and forth to the fridge ten times...the contents haven't changed.  I promise.  All you have in their is ketchup, mustard, and a wilted head of lettuce.  Fresh based risotto Florentine is not going to appear.

People who dress up their pets.  Leave the poor animal alone.  It's happy with it's fur.  If you have one of those funny hairless cats, then you can put clothes on it.  Otherwise...(this counts for family members too....you know who I'm talking to!)

Spandex.  Repeat after me: Swimmers.  People under 110 pounds.  Swimmers.  People under 110 pounds.  Otherwise, NO.

To prove this last point, I cordially invite you to visit the best blog I have found on the internet so far (barring my own, of course).
It's called "People of Wal-Mart" and I credit the creator as a genius.  Check it out:
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/


If you have any WTF moments for me, please leave a comment!! I would love to add it to next weeks list, and I will credit you (and your blog/website) if you have one!

Spooky (the cat) here again.  Jennifer is putting together a blog for later this week about the stupid things that smart people do.  She'll explain how it fits in with the Navy.

I'm pretty cynical myself, and
I'm betting there is one story she's not going to share, though, and
I thought you had a right to know.
Miss Jennie is very proud of being in Mensa.  But, she can sure do some stupid things.
For example, when I was about a year old, she wanted to weigh me.  She was boggled about how to get me to stay on the scale.  (I know what she was trying to do, but no need to actually help her by holding still).

She came up with the genius idea of putting me in a box to weigh me.  She got me in the box, and tucked the flaps down.  Right when she set the box on the scale, I jumped out.  She then tried holding the box tops down, but, of course, that screwed up the weight.

George, her husband, who doesn't pet me nearly as often as he should, stood there laughing.  It was he who finally suggested she weigh herself, and then weigh herself while holding me.

While annoyed that I couldn't keep screwing with her, I did hold still for that.
Just watch, though, when that blog comes out about smart people doing stupid things, I bet this story isn't included.
Until next time,
Ignore Bob Barker & leave our privates alone,
Spooky

Don't know the answer?  Here's a surprise...neither do I. 

My entire work history has been spent either working at small firms or in the Navy, so I don't have a lot of experience with large firms or corporations.  So, I'm throwing this question out to everyone who reads this:

When someone at your workplace gets a DUI (or DWI, depending on where you live) or gets in an accident due to drinking, is there training for every person at the workplace? 
Or are DUI and accidents from drinking just not that common?

Someone on base got into an accident from drinking last weekend.  This is not an uncommon occurrence.  Yet, EVERY SINGLE TIME, something like this happens, everybody has to go to another hour or two hours of training on not drinking or not drinking and driving.  Yet once again, this training is taking place on my husband's day off- so he has to go into work to get lectured for two hours.  Even though he has never had a DUI and certainly doesn't drive drunk.

When I was in the Navy, they did this same thing to us students.  I mean, the training was so common that we used to count how many times they said certain words during the training....one person would pick "DUI", another "alcohol", another "tragedy".....whoever ever got the most points won. 

Clearly, this training isn't doing any good. 
And it is wasting time, not only of the sailors, but of the people giving the training. 
And it's wasting money. 

Okay, everyone, repeat after me: Don't Drink & Drive.  Spend Taxpayer Dollars to repeat this 100 more times.

Allow me to introduce myself.  I am Spooky...the black cat, obviously.  I will be writing this blog on the weekends.  Jennifer doesn't know, so I would prefer if we didn't tell her, for obvious reasons.  She had delusions of intelligence, and I don't want to hurt her feelings with the fact that I write much better than her.
I've been reading the blog, and it seems that she is talking about military life for a Navy wife.  Well, let me tell you, it's even worse as a Navy Cat!  But more on that next week.
This week, I'm just going to point out all the cool buttons and options Jennifer forgot to mention.  Everything I'm talking about will be on the left-hand sidebar.....again, obviously, as there isn't a right one.  Are all the humans following me? 
If you scroll down, you'll see a "Like this blog?  Share it!!"  If you click on that little button, you can share the blog with facebook, myspace, digg, twitter, and a bunch of other places.  So, if you run across a blog you really like, don't forgot to tell others about it!
You can subscribe to the blog via e-mail (right under the blog archive) or via RSS feed- and if you don't know what RSS feed is, don't worry about it. 
Two more quick things, and then I'll let you get back to whatever you were doing before (hopefully, it was doing something nice for a cat...or bird....just not a dog).  You can "follow" Jennifer on Facebook.  She assures me she's going to start posting jokes there, so if you want a daily laugh, I'd go down and "follow" her. 
And, last of all, don't forget to check out the Google ads.  That's what buys me my cat food. 
Until next week,
Spooky

I saw this news video on CNN-

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/10/15/riales.fl.toddler.dead.trash.can.wkrg

I can't even think of anything to say for this one.  Even I'm not cynical enough to come up with a commentary for this.  Check it out.

For those of you who aren't aware of it, women are not allowed on submarines.  Yet.  In today's news, the Navy announced that female sailors could join sub crews by 2011.  Link to news article

As a prior active duty Navy member, I have put up with my share of sexism.  Trust me.  The military is the last place a woman who believes in equality should go.  (I'll be doing a small series on this issue later).
My husband, a submariner, believes very deeply that woman have no business being on submarines.  Like an intelligent adult, I asked for his reasons.  Using that same intelligence, I not only proved wrong his arguments, I put them under nuclear attack. If the arguments had been cockroaches, even they wouldn't have survived. 
Finally, he came out and admitted it.  "We just don't want them there.  They're going to put too much stress into an already stress-filled environment."

Yep, hear that women.  We can't be on submarines because the poor boys can't put up with the stress.  Well, if they're that scared of women, I don't think we should be allowing them to operate the damn sub in the first place.  I was in the Navy.  The only reason women cause stress in the environment is because the men can't act like adults.  From personal experience, you try getting your a** slapped five times a day and still manage to try to keep the atmosphere "fun and playful."  Try getting hit on approximately every ten minutes, and try to maintain any respect for the little boys they have populating a good portion of the military.
And try studying in the office while five guys are crowded around the computer looking at porn.  If you complain, you get nagged, teased, and flat out sexually harassed.  Trust me, show any squeamishness about sex or porn or anything, and they'll pile on the stress 10 times higher.  Don't complain, and you get hit on even more often.

As always, I have a solution.

Why don't we kick the damn men off the submarines and make the crew all female?  We've been trying the whole men thing for over a hundred years.  And they still get busted on a regular basis for having porn and computer games on the work computers.  I bet a group of women could manage to do just as good as a crew of men, and if a man happened to show up to join our little crew, I bet we could keep our hands off his a**. 

Formal Review by Me

Loved this book!  It has a brief breakdown of the three major religions that believe in Armageddon (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam).  It also is blunt and cynical about the leaders of the extremist edge of all three.  But it is NOT insulting towards "normal" religious people.
It runs through the "crazy", if I'm allowed to put it that way, fringe and what they are doing to try to CAUSE Armageddon to occur sooner.  Check out the review for more info. 
I would suggest this book to anyone and everyone- if you're not religious, it has some great info that will shock you.  If you are religious, well, my motto is: "A seeker of truth should shun no science, scorn no book, nor cling fanatically to a single creed." 

(you can also see other articles I've written for Suite101 by clicking: My Profile)

First of all, excuse my language.  But I've been browsing blogs (which I often do, partly in effort to promote my own, and partly because there are some good ones out there). (That is THERE, not THEY'RE or THEIR).
And I've been on Sparkpeople (it's a free diet and weight-loss site...if you go join, credit me, Jennifer8998, I get 10 points)!

Today, here are some examples:

"I want to loose 20 pounds".....I see this all the time!  Come on people: you LOSE weight, and then your clothes are LOOSE.

"There was a seen of a cat, then seen of a dog."......Uh, did anyone go to school?  There was a SCENE of a cat (or dog).  No one has SEEN a person who can spell in at least a week.

"Then I visited this cool sight.".....No, you didn't.  You visited a cool SITE.  Your eyes gives you the wonderful sense called SIGHT. 

Saw this one on a movie warning..."scenes of grizzly content."  Yes, I actually saw this.  The rating administration apparently doesn't realize that blood and guts are considered "grisly" and that if a GRIZZLY bear attacks you, the SCENE might be GRISLY.

In a SCENE of utter irony, someone wrote that they hated it when they "mispelled" words.....well, you did it again, you MISSPELL words.

I got an e-mail yesterday from the "Microsoft Corporation" that said "Congratulation" in the subject line.  Apparently, I won some money.  I e-mail them back telling them not to e-mail me again, and that when they were attempting to pretend they were a corporation, the subject should read "Congratulations", with an "s".

Okay, enough examples.
I seriously want to know, though,
Did they stop teaching people how to spell in school?  (I mean, I'm 26, and they were still teaching it when I went).
Have all the dictionaries in the world disappeared?  (Mine are still on the shelf...all three of them...I can loan one out).
Question of the Day for all of my faithful readers:
What is your internet pet-peeve?  (Obviously, mine is when people MISSPELL words).