I woke up, got dressed and decided it was time for me to finally go through my starred email. I had a number of emails that required responses and I couldn’t let them sit any longer. Because I am involved with C4L, I had a number of emails from people inquiring about upcoming events and projects. Here’s a couple examples: “Where can I get more information on the 9/12 PA Project?” and “I heard there’s going to be a march in DC on September 12th, can you give me more information?” I have no clue about any of this stuff but I Googled it, got the information and sent it off as a response. Why didn’t the people writing me just Google it? Why did they email me? Weird.

At any rate, I worked my way through my emails… I still have some stuff left to do but the major items are accomplished. I glanced up from Gmail and noticed the clock on the wall said 2:00! I started at 9. How could this have taken me 5 hours! I am beginning to wonder if all the frustration I used to feel had more to do with my penchant for underestimating the time it takes to complete most tasks? My daily task lists were just too long. That’s why I could never finish anything in enough time. But now I wonder how other people do it. There are people out there who get a lot more emails than me! And they have families and lives and work…. how do they accomplish it all? I don’t know. Days speed past me. Books remain unread. Work is not done. How can I accomplish what I want to accomplish, especially when it takes me 5 hours to respond to a handful of emails?

I spent Friday and Saturday in New York City. My cousins were visiting and I accompanied them as they attempted to take over NYC. They were pretty successful, too.  Looking around at all the local New Yuckers, I couldn’t help but feel tremendous envy– almost all the women were wearing BEAUTIFUL dresses. Made me want a new dress. And then yesterday I finally got my mail and found the Johnnie Boden catalog had arrived.  I love this catalog.  The clothes look like stuff that Emma Peel, second (colour) season might wear.  I immediately fell in love with this dress to your left.  I want it so much!  Unfortunately it is $128.00 and I have never spent so much money for a single article of clothing PLUS I am in spending freeze mode.  I think I will keep my eye on their clearance page and hope it makes an appearance (in my size and color preference).  While we’re talking about clothes, Boden also had some really awesome boots.  Check ‘em out!  You can’t tell me that Emma Peel would have turned those babies down!  It’s funny how as soon as I get into spending freeze mode, that’s when I suddenly start wanting things. 

Ray ripped down the tiles and found….. NOTHING! No mold! No deterioration!  Mesa happy, Master Anakin! 

I think I learned a lesson here.  There’s a lot of drama queens out there in this world.  And they want to scare the bejesus out of you.  “Oh Donna!  Once they rip down that tile, there will be so much mold and they will have to rip down the entire wall!”  It’s hard but you must be able to pinpoint these individuals and take what they say with a grain of salt.  It’s not too hard to see them, really.  They’re the ones that actively seek you out and tell you about all the horrible things that are going to happen.  WHY ARE THEY SO DANG FRIENDLY?  That’s’s how they get close enough to scare you.  BOO! 

The new 2010 Ikea Catalog is out! Unfortunately it is only available online. I am going to hold off on perusing it. Last year I went buck wild checking it out online and when it finally arrived in my mailbox, there was no surprise and I felt like the moment was spoiled.

Ray’s coming over today. He’s gonna tear out my disgusting tiles and shower basin. Although I don’t think he’s going to put my new shower in until later in the week. I can hardly wait. I’ve been told by other owners of similar units that there is a possibility that when the tiles come down we will find rot. Apparently the builders of these units cut costs and built poorly. My fingers are triple crossed that everything is going to be OK. The tile will come down and everything will be fine. Yes, everything is going to be fine!

I had a weird ass dream last night. My mother told me that my old Elementary School nemesis had asked me to be in her wedding as a bridesmaid. She wanted all of us to wear white wedding dresses and so my mother gave me a box that apparently held her old dress. This seemed very odd but I decided to go with it. I drove to this strange museum-like building where my old enemy was getting ready. When I got there I learned it was a mistake, I was supposed to wear a bridesmaid dress not a wedding dress. Ms Nemesis told me I would have to go out and buy a dress and hurry since I was holding up her wedding! I approached the other bridesmaids hoping to learn where they bought their dresses. The two girls turned around and my eyes almost fell out. They were wearing pastel pink and pastel green LACE dresses that went down to the floor. There were two holes cut out of the dress that exposed their ginormous breasts. I didn’t know what to do! I can’t wear a dress like that! I started to panic! And I woke up right as they told me that I could wear pasties with tassles if I wanted since I was clearly shy.

Where in the world did that come from? So freaky weird. Freud would have a field day!

In Latin Impact class tonight, Glenda had us dance to a song by some group called The Soca Boys. It’s called Follow The Leader but in the middle of the song they start singing “The Roof, The Roof, The Roof is on FIRE! Never mind the water, let the ____ – ____ BURN!” I always feel really uncomfortable because I want to sing the bleeped words but it’s not really appropriate, is it? Did you know that the Bloodhound Gang did not come up with the whole, “The Roof is on Fire” bit? I always thought they did! I knew it was about the MOVE incident and the Bloodhound Gang are from the Philly area, so it made sense. The song came out in 1984 by Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three. Not The Bloodhound Gang. The lead singer of the Bloodhound Gang is named Jimmy Pop. I met him years ago. We worked on a movie together. He acted and I held a boom mike. He tried to steal my car. But he apparently felt bad and brought it back. Or maybe he just took it for a joy ride. I don’t know. It was weird.

I spent some time looking at other Website affiliate programs and found one called LinkShare.com. They have a list of companies and you can go through and apply to become an advertiser.  The company checks out your Website and then decides if they want you hawking their wares and if so, you then get to paste a link to them on your Website.  I went through their list of advertisers and submitted donnaville to a ton of different companies– companies that I shop at and buy things from such as Shutterfly, SiriusXM, Match.com, etc…  I did it mainly for sh*ts and giggles. One of the companies I picked was Walmart.  And you won’t believe this but Walmart TURNED ME DOWN!!!

Dear Donna,

Thank you for submitting your application to the Wal-Mart.com Affiliate
Program. We appreciate your interest in our program.

Wal-Mart.com carefully reviews each application to our program. Unfortunately, we do not feel that your Web site meets the criteria we have established for acceptance. At this time Wal-Mart.com is looking for affiliates with high traffic sites that have the potential for high sales volume. In addition, Wal-Mart.com will not accept into its affiliate program sites that fit the following descriptions:

1. Promote sexually explicit material
2. Promote violence or hate toward any persons or groups
3. Promote illegal activities
4. Promote alcohol, tobacco, gambling/lottery in any way
5. Promote the use of pyramid, ¿ponzi¿, or similar investment schemes
6. Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
7. Contain, in our sole judgment, material that is defamatory, fraudulent, or harassing to us or any third party
8. Are known as ¿blogging sites¿, defined as sites that contain only blogging and no other form of informational content
9. Include ¿walmart¿, ¿wal-mart¿ or variations or misspellings thereof in their domain names
10. Otherwise violate intellectual property rights of Wal-Mart.com, Wal-Mart Stores or its suppliers
11. Disparage Walmart.com, Wal-Mart Stores or their suppliers
12. Are under construction or not live at the time of application
13. Require a username and password to access
14. Are non-US based or are sites that primarily serve a non-US based audience
15. Any other reason based on Wal-Mart’s sole judgment.

Sincerely,

The Walmart.com Affiliate Team

I can’t believe I offended Walmart!!!  I mean, did they even look at my page?  Actually, I think they did.  Donnaville falls right into reason #8.  Yes, I offer no form of informational content.  Just my rambling drivel.  I also have been consistently spelling it wrong– I always thought it was Walmart.  I was wrong, it’s Wal-Mart. The thing is, I still love them and their cheap products and I will continue to shop there until the world becomes nothing more than a huge landfill full of their products. Their decision? It’s business, and I can accept that.

I had a guy come up to me after the meeting I led last night and tell me that I am not accomplishing enough. I need to do more, he said! It’s not enough to just educate! I need to make change happen in other ways!
“I agree but I am doing this all alone and I need help.”
“Why don’t you join me and we can implement change together?” I said.
“No, sorry. I am too busy”

Isn’t that hysterical? I love people like that. I run into them all the time. They just love to tell you that you’re not doing enough or not doing whatever right but they won’t lift a finger to help. I wonder if there is a word to describe them? Non-actionable critics? Critical do-nothings? Stupid jerk heads?

I think it’s the same (or very similar) personality quirk that makes people go to blogs and write invalidating, weird, argumentative comments. If we were to remove it from cyberspace and place it into a real world setting, it would be like a person coming to your house and taking a huge stinky dump on your front doorstep. No one has yet taken a dump in my living room (not including Bobo, but he’s a dog so he doesn’t count) but I have cleaned up many stinky dumps from my comments section. I don’t get it. I don’t understand it.

Here’s an old pic of Bo looking guilty…

It’s been one week since I loaded ole Donnaville with advertisements. In that one week period, I made $5.73. I was about to say that I saw my readership plunge but I just remembered Dustbury linked to me on the 21st and that always gives me a little traffic lift and that’s the reason why it looks like it plunged… it just went back to normal.

I watched Malibu Shark Attack last night. I am very worried for Peta’s career. You see, Peta was very… chunky. I tried not to care because aren’t I always railing against weight obsession? But she was so pudgy! And big time producers don’t cast chunky leading ladies! And her beautiful hair was cut like Moe Howard’s! Bowl-cut, parted in the middle. In the very first scene, upon seeing her belly, I exclaimed, “Maybe she’s pregnant!”
Pookie Bear said, “You said she was in La Femme Nikita?”
“Yeah”
“Don’t you mean La Butch Nikita?”
“POOKIE! I love her!”
“La Femme Dyke-ita”
“NO!”
“La Chunky!”
This went on throughout the entire movie.
The movie was schlocky which I can appreciate. I was sad to find that the Goblin Sharks were really a species of shark. I thought they were going to be supernatural gremlin-like sharks! No dice.

I want Peta Wilson to star in movies like the Bourne Identity as a Jason Bourne-like character. She could be a thief working for the government or a renegade spy or a regular person in need of clearing her good name. There would be lots of European locations and chase scenes but limited gun battles. Maybe she can star in a remake of Bullitt as the Steve McQueen character! Or The Ipcress File? Or Three Days of the Condor? Or Le Cercle Rouge. I would actually pay to see movies like this and not wait for them to hit Redbox.

Unfortunately I am not sure this will ever happen now. I did notice that her name is not listed in the movie’s credits on IMDB. I wonder if that was intentional on her part?