i am a prime member, yet i don't seem to receive ANY benefits from that! i'm supposed to get next day shipping, never happens. it's 2 days or more. my subscribe and save is almost always late, though u have MONTHS to prepare.
I am here to write, I'm a writer and I need to get around to writing on HERE more! I started this page initially because i'm a Makeup artist/Esthetican/Hairdresser and that's one of my passions and i would love to give advice or answer any questions to anyone who needs it. So, if you have any, don't be shy! Thanks :)
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Nov 2, 2022
Amazon rip-offs, including Prime! an email i composed to them. says it all really.....
i am a prime member, yet i don't seem to receive ANY benefits from that! i'm supposed to get next day shipping, never happens. it's 2 days or more. my subscribe and save is almost always late, though u have MONTHS to prepare.
Jul 7, 2022
WHY is Muscle Milk suddenly in Earth destroying PLASTIC BOTTLES? Also, Amazon "subscribe & save" are we REALLY saving??
Again: why are these suddenly/recently in PLASTIC BOTTLES that are ruining our planet worse than it's already been ruined?? they are heavier, more unwieldy period & WORSE: taste different, not good! that's the plastic effect. before they were in nice, light, lovely cardboard (or some form thereof) & they still are at Walmart etc., but on amazon, it's the HORRID plastic. WHY did they change it?? as if it's already not expensive enough! it's going for $40 a 12-pack half the time! i signed up to buy these from "subscribe & save" a year or so ago? for like $14!! now they are like $27, if i'm LUCKY! (ha, see: not lucky). wth?? my sub & save really offers me little to no savings at all. a couple pennies at that. & i many times see my items suddenly in stock, once: the shakes of which i speak, for $13 & something & i had been stiffed on my subscribe & save (though you'd think i'd have 1st priority, having had it set up for months & yrs right?), as in NOT Receiving them at ALL! not for weeks & weeks & months. yet my order page showed them as arriving every upcoming Wed. nope. never came. or i'm sorry, DID start to come once they could charge me astronomical prices for it, after months, randomly. so it's retailing on here for $13 something & I'M charged $26 at least!! again, wth?? so much for sub & save eh? so yeah, the badness (word?), to sum it up, is: PRICE! stop being so greedy muscle milk & u amazon billionaires! PLASTIC: planet, taste, etc. & being screwed over when i'm supposed to be like a "preferred customer" having it on constant order yet i'm NOT charged or treated that way! it's frustrating. yes, indeed.
ok this is a quick amazon/muscle milk review i was posting, so i didn't get super in depth w/it, or the ongoing theme of GREED that i've been thinking about a lot lately, w/our gas prices, the inflation thing & basically the increased & increasing cost of EVERYTHING these days, though people don't get paid MORE, so everyone (except those that are rich & wealthy) is suffering even more.
as if COVID & all it's changes & hardships weren't bad enough. deaths, sickness, loss of loved ones, isolation, people dealing w/depression, their children, hardships & shootings going on left & right!! (oh i could write a symphony of blogs on that topic!), everything is now overpriced & hideous. anything or place that wasn't already, is now jumping on the band wagon. i had a conversation w/someone who works at a store i frequent, where i bought a few vitamins regularly, cuz they were a great, low, FAIR price! then they started going up (as the rest of the world started raising prices), then they more than DOUBLED in price! that is INSANE to my thinking. i asked the familiar employee why they were now more than double the price. he said "well have u been to ralphs or any of the other stores?" i said yes, of course. & he replied "well their prices went up, so we raised ours too". great, huh? what better reason! the bandwagon. they're greedy, so we want to be too! they lost me as a customer. they were no longer cheaper than ANYONE! LOVE IT! ha, not ha
even Walmart has lost their minds & overcompensated: i.e. OVER-raised some prices where it doesn't even compete or make any sense at all. weird.
Apr 18, 2022
Eve Ensler & a review of her book "the Apology", pedophiles/rapists, GUNS, etc. Oh Eve Eve Eve, what u have endured! as w/ur namesake, the 1st woman (if that's accurate that is)
the book, it's excellent, of course, but ouch!, it is painful & really rough at times, yet, also very beautiful. her descriptions & means of expression are quite lovely. i hope & pray that this "apology truly freed her. it's abominable what was done to her! oh God, especially the descriptions of what her father did (thru his eyes, per Eve), to her. the pedophile thought train truly made me shudder & squirm, was SO uncomfortable & disgusting to me that man/any men, can think that way, about a innocent child! It makes me SOOO bloody angry! So angry! I want them all to be castrated. Not all men, all pedophiles & rapists & child "seducers" (see also: RAPE!) & it IS a choice! everything is a choice. it is their choice to allow themselves to go there! & once they do, forget it, all bets are off, they can justify anything in their minds & words from then on. that is why once 1 is caught, they need to be locked up & throw away the key. those desires & so called needs never go away. there is NO rehabilitation. at least, not from what i've ever read, heard, understood. besides that there are God knows only how many women/girls/boys/men that are forever destroyed or DEAD now because of these monsters who were LET OUT! for good behavior or some other asinine reason. again, men protecting men. especially white men!
no, i'm not a man hater. i DO consider myself a feminist, but i also LOVE MEN. but here we (I) are talking about pedophiles/rapists/soul murderers. not the general population of men, but think about all the men we DON'T know about or haven't known about, that have gotten away w/all of this & DO currently get away w/all of this. it's disgusting, reprehensible! This & guns, our 2 biggest problems in this world currently, diseases aside. Well, I consider the above diseases as well, of their own kind.
Back to Eve, i was only familiar w/the Vagina Monologues, thus far, as her other works go & that is amazing as well. what she has endured! what she has overcome & survived (make no mistake, it IS survival to the nth degree, to survive this. i was told by a dr, many years back, that when u are abused verbally, physically, mentally, whatever, ESPECIALLY by someone u love, who supposedly loves you, that they "MURDER YOUR SOUL"!) to become the amazing, charismatic, supremely talented, far reaching, SUPERHERO of a woman & she is, a super hero of a woman. bless you Eve & may every dream u ever dreamed come true & all the happiness that u can stand as well. U are a true survivor! thank you for sharing your love & your talent w/all of us. :)
Julie T. (trotter)
ps. i didn't edit this or anything, don't have time. just typed it up, started as an amazon book review & voila, here we are. or i am. cheers! :)
Feb 7, 2022
My semi review (finally!) of "Outlander", the BOOK, not the series (though it's based on the book. I read it back when it came out & the WHOLE series of books too!
First, it is NOT a "glorified bodice ripper" at all! (As a review I glimpsed stated, though they still gave it like 4 stars!) so wth?) Yes, there is romance, love & lots of sex, but that is the least of the story, really. Well, it's the root of the story, but it's NOT danielle steele or barbara cartland, thank God!! I couldn't stomach that, let alone pick it up. There is so much history in these books (yes, i've read the entire series) & at 800 or so pages a pop (a book), u really think she is or could spending 800 ish pages bodice ripping? c'mon. Gabaldon is an intricate & detailed storyteller, but she keeps you interested & intrigued. you don't have to be an avaricious book lover like myself to get into the Outlander books. the friends i've recommend it to, some who aren't even readers at all, have told me things like "thanks so much for telling me about this/these, which one do i buy next, i need to get it FAST, before i end this" & "thanks for keeping me up all night, i couldn't put it down", on & on. that should go to show you how in depth you fall into these books. let me back up a bit, "Outlander" being the first book in the series is 1 of the best, the origin story, after all & granted I DID start reading them in my teens or 20's, a much more naive, innocent time for me, but I've re-read it at older ages & it holds up. Some of the others can drag a bit here & there, but many people just browse thru those parts they find boring, i.e. endless descriptions of battle scenes (the book before last comes to mind, the Revolutionary War, that went on & on & on & on), then the NEW book comes out & it's been so many yrs since the last (& her show got purchased in the meantime & she's been busy w/that i presume), that i forgot what the hell was even going on the in the last book & i've read 60 books since then. She starts in on Lord John shortly after the auspicious beginning, in the new book & i have almost zero interest in the topic & also what was even going on w/him in the prior book. so yes, that can be irritating & patience testing, for me anyway. i digress, I'm not reviewing the series or book #7, #8, whatever we're at now. So, I will restate: "Outlander", book 1, is a GREAT, entertaining book. I am a bit of a cynic when it comes to love, but oh I so believe in the love in this book & aspire to it as well. As we all do. Cheers :)
ps. as i said, just a semi review, i have so much more to say re outlander, big surprise huh? moi, having more to say? NEVER! haha. so yeah, just happened to glimpse some reviews of it whilst on Amazon & was like oh damn, i have to respond to that person who said it was a bodice ripper. glorified bodice ripper, though she STILL gave it like 4.5 outta 5 stars!? really? i think she doth protest too much. who rates something that high after dissing it? even i don't do that & i diss a lot of stuff. i can't help it. i'm very observant & picky & visual & like quality & we live in a crazy, violent, fucked up world! so sue me. well, don't sue me, but u know.......ciao :)
Mar 4, 2021
email i just sent to MODEL CO. (US) re their HUGE shipping prices! $15 to ship like 3 oz & that's just STANDARD! unbelievable!
Hello,
I just placed my first order w/you. I
have received a few of your products via Allure, some I like, some I don’t. I’m
a Makeup Artist/Esthetician/Cosmetologist/Writer, not that that matters here.
Anyway, I was really surprised &
taken aback by your astronomical shipping prices! $15 for STANDARD SHIPPING?!
Really? Geez! For that price, I would think that my order would be shipped next
day air. I’m only partially joking about that. Seriously. I was pleasantly
surprised by the low cost of some of your items & flabbergasted at the high
price of others. I know that many companies & sellers “make up” for their
low prices by slapping you w/high shipping.
I purchased from the US site, had it been
coming from AU, I could understand, but honestly, these items are almost
weightless. You could practically stick them in an envelope w/a stamp, that’s
how light they are! I’m very familiar w/shipping prices, as I ship frequently.
So, yeah, for what it’s worth…. I know
you probably couldn’t care less about my email & comments, regarding this,
but I felt the need to share them. And you truly should care about your
customers thoughts & feelings, of course, as you are in the customer
service business, or you need consumers to make & keep your business in a
healthy standing.
PS. I REALLY, truly hope that I, at the
very least receive some samples w/my order! A primer would be great, for one!
Sincerely,
Julie Trotter
ps. (this is not in email, just me saying here now), my personal FAV is when u see shit for sale on sites, amazon, ebay, wish, whatever & the item is VERY cheap, just cents or a few dollars, right? & ur all shocked & like "wow, how cool, how lucky am i to get this deal"? right? THEN u see that their shipping is $30.49 or whatever. so THAT is why the item is so cheap (even if it's a cheap item that SHOULD be cheap. say ur buying a plastic plate that's worth 5 cents. so that is then how they gouge u, or get greedy or try to TRICK u (which pisses me off even more than the straight out in ur face greed, cuz i never fall for it, but i have sweet friends that do! so it makes me angry! they think they are getting a FREE item or some dirt cheap deal, but they aren't. i don't say anything usually, as i'd prefer them to keep their positive outlook as opposed to my more cynical one. :)
DR's NOT being Dr's, i.e. HELPING/DOCTORING PEOPLE, not caring, being above it all!
I have a bone to pick, a rather LARGE bone, & it's about doctors being assholes, thinking they are GODS that we mere mortals are lucky to touch the robes of, 'cept not.
NOT all Doctors of course, just many, most. There are always exceptions to the rules & good dr's or even PA's which aren't doctors at all really, right? so they don't count for this
Nov 17, 2019
few thoughts on REMAKING MOVIES? what do U think? is it...GOOD? BAD? WHO CARES? haha
so yeah, "I Orgins" w/Michael Pitt (of my beloved Hedwig & the Angry Inch" & the uber talented Brit Marling, & a gorgeous French girl, whose name I can't recall at the moment & I've not seen her before in a movie. I love this film! it's thoroughly engaging, thoughtful, provocative, well acted. great script, great premise, I've never seen this particular plot before, which is RARE!! almost everything these days is a remake, a re-boot, a regurgitation of former work. even films that people have NO clue that are remakes, ARE remakes, unknown or forgotten films from the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, on & on. a lot of the former works being ruined for viewers in the know, or of super popular films, 'cause the re-done film eclipses them or leaves a bad taste in one's mouth, so to speak. it's so disheartening. a huge pet peeve of mine is remaking 4 star (or 5 star on here(amazon)) films. u DON'T DO IT!! that's absolutely the dumbest idea ever! u can't improve upon perfection! the remake of "psycho"...what was even the POINT of that? I have no clue. remake the film by copying the original VERBATIM! wth? if ur gonna do that, why not just play the original in a theater & film it in a high quality way & re-release it. makes as much sense as their stupid idea, right? just don't do it! sheesh! like an "ocean's 11" type deal is fine. ur copying/updating a so-so original & ur doing it w/fun & a funny take on it. tongue in cheek. there u go.
as i was saying....I know there are tons of original ideas, scripts, stories out there (I have 1 (in a book i'm writing), in fact many, myself), but they are mostly untapped for whatever reason? the "sure thing" of a regurgitation, a remake, of course! money in the bank! "hey, if it sold once, it will sell again! a big hit=another big hit! right?" like all of the sampled songs. take ANY formerly popular song & then rap over it, or add some other element & voila! u have another hit! also, aren't most creative endeavors, i.e. studios, production companies, in this case, helmed by business men, not creators? the bottom line. facts & figures, not creation or art. so, there u go w/that I suppose. oh, lest I forget, i'm a big fan anyway of mike cahill & brit marling, the writers/co-writers of this story & also "another earth", another fav of mine, created by this pair as well, & others too! other films, I mean. "another earth" is another inventive, unusual (in that it's not some old topic matter seen a million times),provocative, thoughtful, great film. so yeah, long story short, this is a fab film & check out cahill & brit's other works, together or separate, I also saw her in another fantastic film, not affiliated w/cahill: "arbitration".
k, I have tons more to say on this topic, as well as others, but this was unplanned & I gotta run now. so thanks for reading, if u have & cheers :)
May 9, 2018
humanKIND!!! & mouse running the world & rude people aka assholes! people behaving badly.
yes, i like that word i just made up, except not, meaning i didn't make it up, but kinda: humanKIND, emphasis on the kind. human's being kind. kindness should b our 2nd nature, except it's not, or at least not for most. and sadly, it's not SAFE anymore to lead w/kindness. it's really not. well, it's okay in some cases. it all depends. yeah, leading w/kindness, being kind, being made UP of kindness. but we live in a dangerous world, a stressful world, a constantly changing world, changing by the moment, by the breath, we can't even keep up, no matter how hard we tried.
okay my mouse on this laptop has a mind of it's own. it jumps into old sentences as i'm typing & tries to ruin them w/my new type. it takes CONSTANT, CONTINUOUS SCREENSHOTS & saves them. i don't know how, or WHY!? i don't even KNOW how to take a screen shot let alone save it!! but it does it as i'm typing. non fucking STOP!! it just did FOUR as i typed non fucking stop. oh, there's 2 more! & then it threw me back into the top middle of this paragraph to screw up my typing there. it clicks on new pages, takes me OFF of my page, off of what i'm doing, it opens & CLOSES new things, it moves my tabs & pages, ALL w/out my control, let alone my permission. so needless to say, it has ruined my thoughts i was having & my typing experience. a slew of more screenshots just then. arghhhhhh
so, i'm off now. anyone reading this (IS there anyone ever reading this? another screenshot) oh & then off to another typed spot, anyone reading this, i apologize for my upbrupt change of subject & now departure.
and remember!!! people who behave badly & assholes who treat u badly or rudely or not at all (meaning ignoring aka: rude), it is ALL about them!! not life. the bad behavior. the rudeness, the asshole-ery, that is ALL about them, that is THEIR problems/issues/bullshit/crap. it is NOT about u, so don't take it personally okay? don't really dont. it is something ugly lurking inside of them! not u! them! i promise! as a wonderful/dear friend told me recently: don't let them STEAL YOUR JOY!! Haha :)
Dec 12, 2017
when MORE IS MORE (in others opinions), instead of LESS BEING MORE..........
anyway, ovaltine (choc. malt flavor & the others i'm sure) is flat out DELICIOUS!! only thing out there, to my knowledge, that is like this. malt, yet chocolate too, YET not all grossly sweet & so on. i HATE chocolate syrup & all those fake chocolatey things out there, but ovaltine is NOT like that. not saying it's like begian chocolate, just isn't overly sweet & doesn't have that gross fake chocolate thing. our world is "more more more/!" if something's good, add more! right? that seems to be the consensus. example: say u get a piece of chocolate cake that is divine. JUST RIGHT, right? but no, it's already perfect & delicious, so they then add (cause more of a good thing must be better is the thinking i presume) some horrible sickly sweet frosting which is gross & basically ruins it, but u can not eat the frosting, but then they add chocolate CHIPS to the cake & frosting as well. and then stick a big piece of par level chocolate on the TOP of the cake too. now u have a chocolate nightmare, but people gobble that stuff up.
so, my point was that ovaltine is delicious & PERFECT AS IS! :)
and then like fried foods, or foods that aren't so great for you, they do the same thing! like it's already fattening & not great for u, but then on top of whatever it is (which is fine at the status quo right?) they then top it w/cheese (even if there's already cheese) and sour cream & bacon & butter & on & on, you get my drift.
haha, now it sounds like i'm talking about a baked potato, which all of that IS delicious in a baked potato, though i haven't had one in a million yrs. OR even better, this recipe of my mom's that i'm aked to make for holiday gatherings, which is SOOOO delicious!! is like sex on a plate. well, maybe not sex, but something yum! it's like a casserole made out of plain hash browns (just the potatos, period, no seasonings, no butter, no nada), cheddar cheese, cream of chicken soup, green onions & sour cream, oh & butter, u mix all that stuff together (w.out the hash browns), on a hot stove & put the hash browns in a casserole & the pour the goo you've made over it & bake for an hr ish & then it's pure YUM!!!
oooh, love that stuff, haven't had it or made it for years. or MY chicken parmigiana. which is SO NOT the italian restauraunts version. blech! that kind is gross. all breaded w/the sauce & an inch of cheese melted on top. sooo not like that. mine is chicken breast & i make my own moistener (w/dijon mustard, worchestshire sauce, some butter, FRESH garlic, THaT is the hot ticket! that makes it, the fresh garlic! etc.) then i moisten it in there (the chicken), then i put it in a bag & shake it basically to coat it w/again: MY OWN mixture of stuff. delicious! not telling what i use for that but it's so good. the u place in a baking dish & bake for an hour, give or take. so it's KINDA breaded, but nowhere NEAR the kind of breading at the restaurants & soooo much healthier! and NOT fried! and NO gross cheese melted on top & no sauce.
it's deliciousa!
wth am i writing all this stuff? i got off on a tangent. gee, imagine that. ME on a tangent!>? NEVER!! haha.
yah, okay, gotta split. oh i know, the review thing & then it's about 2pm now & i've not had ONE bite of food or drink ALL DAY & so i'm starving. hence the writing about food & recipes. so yep. k, need to eat something. ahhhh am listening to an old, old hall & oates song "she's gone".
"i'd pay the devil to replace her", ahh now THAT is love! or lust! or loving lust. either way, all good.
LOVE!! i love love. i need love, i want love. i'm just putting that out there.
cheers! & ciao & much love to all :)
Nov 23, 2017
ADVERTISING PRICES ON GOOGLE WRONG!!! WHY?? ISN'T IT CURRENT INFO? *& instant update:BIG BROTHER!!!
this is not some HUGE, life changing ordeal or anything, just an aside really, but for once i decided to actually post something re this phenomenon (haha). so there u have it......
INSTA UPDATE: OKAY, oops caps, check THIS out, i started to write a review, only STARTED!! just a couple of sentences & a heading & i then opened another tab, went to google again, to verify the low price i had seen & was typing & guess what? it had ALREADY CHANGED!!!! in that very short amount of seconds, BIG BROTHER somehow knew what i was saying & it got updated or changed to the CORRECT price!! because what r the odds that whatever/however/whenever that stuff changes, that it just so happened to change the instant that i was writing about it?? the odds of that are VERY LOW i would say!
i've already posted (on here?) re: facebook & mark zuckerberg (burg?) & the patent application for them being able to view ALL OF US while we are on fb, or even if it's open, to "see what mood we are in, in order to put up effective advertising, for what we need/want to buy, etc" (i'm paraphrasing). and we all know that we are already all listened to, monitored through our phones (both kinds: land & cell) & cameras everywhere & so on.
a contractor i was working w/recently was telling me that his friend or relative (?) was at someone else's house, looking online at or for something, had not put ANY PERSONAL INFO ON THAT COMPUTER AT ALL....& later went home, & when he went on HIS computer, ads for what he had been looking for over at his friends house, on THEIR computer, having put in NO personal info on himself (i know, i'm repeating myself but i feel it's necessary here), immediately began popping up & making themselves known on HIS computer!!! oooooooooh!! eerie! creepy!! they r watching us already, more than we know. me NO likey this! not one bit! and NO! no chips in the arm, or hand for ME!!
PS. am on my laptop, apparently i accidentally hit or finger overshoots whilst typing & gets onto the wrong key,, at least partially right? i dont' even know what key it is. but the action it performs is to screen shot my page for the cloud, i don't even USE the cloud. this has happened countless times. God only knows (what i'd be without u...............doo da doo doo. anyway...) just happened again "this screenshot was added to your one drive" pops up in the right hand corner & there is a big cloud above this statement. i don't even know what or where my one drive IS! but there apparently are thousands, millions of these "screenshots" on my one drive.
my point is, maybe that is part of what i was speaking of as well??? hmmmm
PPS. no, i'm far from paranoid & not into conspiracy theories (for the most part, cause there are tons of things that are not as they appear or we are TOLD things that are not true or accurate constantly), that's just common sense & common knowledge, but i'm not someone who thinks about or looks for those type of things.
haha, probably doesn't help that i'm rereading "the handmaid's tale" again, for only the 2nd time. first time i read it, i was a teenager. now i'm older & i can appreciate it even more. her writing especially, she is an EXCELLENT WRITER!!! Margaret Atwood. I'm gonna have to get more of her books, her writing is gorgeous! okay, back to unpacking. it never ends. sigh