Not Thinking

I am an incredibly forgetful person.  If I don’t tell someone something the exact nano-second I think of it, I’ll totally and completely forget the heck out of it- no matter how important it was.  My mom always blamed it (okay, who am I kidding- still blames it) on me living in my own world.  Apparently, my world doesn’t have any concept of remembering things.

While this is fun when it comes to people who tend to tell the same stories a billion times (it’s always the first time I’ve head it), it’s not so fun when it comes to normal things like remembering ideas, and that type of thing.

Take my memory card for my camera, I need it for updates here and at my other websites a lot- I also lose it more than anything else.  I’m pretty sure the only reason I don’t lose my laptop is due to it’s size and need to be plugged in to charge.

Somehow I do remember to pay my bills on time, which is small blessing I suppose.  In the grand scheme of things, bills isn’t as important as others.  Although, I suppose that wouldn’t matter- considering I’d more than likely just forget anyway.

What exactly was the point of this post? 

Ironically, after putting it away yesterday and now finishing it- I forgot.

Not Thinking

Starbucks: We'll Go By The Law

“I’d like a caramel Frappachino with whipped cream.”

Think of the wild west moves.  Got it?  Ok Corrals, horses and some tumbleweeds for effect.  Got it all?  Great, because that’s what some people seem to think Starbucks is about to become.  How? By layin’ down the letter of the law (duhn dun dun…).

Well, okay by actually doing what they’ve pretty much been doing and allowing customers to carry legal guns, if they have a permit (and now, they are at the center of the same debate).    Oh yeah- it’s gun control debate time!

Now, I will be perfectly honest- someone with a legal right to carry a firearm makes me far less nervous than someone just messing around with one (or, someone who has one illegally and all).  As someone who legally has the right is far, far less dangerous to me than someone who doesn’t.  I would happily quote some statistics, but I am not able to find them right this second (mind you, one’s with cited sources*).

Now, understandably Starbucks doesn’t want to be at the center of the Gun Control Debate (tm), and really- they shouldn’t be.  Yet, they now are (along with more gun puns than should be existing).  Gun control is a serious debate that rages in the US constantly, mostly with the debate over (presently) legal types of automatic weapons, which supporters of the ban point out aren’t exactly normally used in hunting (unless, said hunter has really bad aim**).

So, sound off:

Should Starbucks allow (legal) firearms? 

 

*I did however find a source that 6% of homicides use an ice pick- so, that’s something.

**Couldn’t resist- truthfully I know that automatic weapons are harder to aim and shoot correctly.

Starbucks: We'll Go By The Law

Practice Makes Perfect, Right?

Considering I mention it enough, I’m an artist. 

I love to try new things, and practicing makes perfect, right-o...  Now, really the above is one of my newest attempts at a newer (for me) art style.  It’s all sorts of uber-adorable and sure, I love it.  I’m completely digging the simplicity of it, also considering the complicated styles I’m more used to- it should be easier. 

Should be.  Should be but really isn’t.  I keep attempting to make it complicated, and that’s what I usually tend to do.  Right now, I’m just trying to go easier- similar to whenever I first started something new.

But, again- practice makes perfect (by the way: dawwwww!).   I know I do need more of a varying style for my work (ironically- my work simply looks too much like ‘my work’), and my theory right now is, considering how much Not Quite Cookie Cutter has help with my writing (considering it’s mostly daily) I’m applying the same theory with my art. 

Practice Makes Perfect, Right?