POSHMARK RIP-OFF! & MONTHS (basically) to even FIND OUT i'm ripped off. not instant like usual rip-offs :P

yes, poshmark. lovely poshmark. my very FIRST time buying off poshmark. i've been on there of course & browsed but never felt an urgent need to buy anything i saw. until now. or recently, that is.

 wth? after waiting what? 6 weeks AFTER i placed order it is FINALLY shipped. never showing it to even be received, just tracking # obtained. then once i FINALLY am supposed to be waiting for shipment (more than month after the fact) u then CANCEL IT? wth? what is going on. again, i could have purchased this elsewhere & received it 100 times over by now. is THIS what i can expect from poshmark & it's sellers? ridiculous! 

Amazon rip-offs, including Prime! an email i composed to them. says it all really.....

Hello Amazon,

i JUST received notification that my sub & save orders that were due TODAY, that you've had & always have MONTHS to prepare for, that i was WAITING on specifically to receive today, as promised, are now "delayed". suddenly. HALFWAY THROUGH THE DAY ALREADY!! seriously? WHY is that? once again, some unforeseen occurrence, some unfortunate delay, that i, the customer, has to suffer again for.  that always happens w/you guys. WHY?? why is this constantly happening to me w/amazon??
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. 

sometimes it's weeks late or months late, or never to be received at all! my personal fav is "will be delivered on wednesday", that wed, next wed? who knows? that wed sits there FOREVER, never becomes THE wednesday. something i just bought from you a month ago, that TOLD ME I WOULD RECEIVE IT THE NEXT DAY: after i ordered it, i then went back & saw i'd get it in weeks or months! wth? that's not what it said while i was buying it. i bought it for Halloween, I haven't received it yet, it's now 11/2/22, still no purchase. i called, tried to cancel it, was told i couldn't. what? again, i suffer for bad service!

the ONLY "free" movies on prime are movies i've seen, movies that are already FREE on my cable subscription, etc. or movies that are pure crap, that no one wants to see.

the ONE thing that i DID watch on amazon prime videos was "i love lucy" & only SOME of it was free. btw, i can record & also own lucy & do, & it's FREE on tv everywhere & has been since it aired in the 1950's!

Recently you removed that "free" i love lucy & now every episode has to be purchased or rented. what the hell?

WHY am i paying for prime? what am i getting out of it? certainly NOT movies or tv shows, certainly NOT fast shipping. certainly not any favors or specials in any kind of way. so why have i been paying for this for years? what is the point?

the world is expensive enough these days, w/out me paying for a service that is NO service to me!

i can't even find your email addy! why should that be so impossible? i had some saved in my email of course, but i googled it, to make sure i send to a live person & guess what? the link takes me to your site & then 500 different pages i need to go through & still NO help, no email addy, just more bs. i went back to google. screw 5 minutes of your site taking me around a merry go round, preferring me to call or chat!

Yes, indeed, I think i need to cancel my Prime. I also think that i need to be refunded for a good years worth of my paying a billion dollar company money for nothing! no wonder your owner can afford to go to space! on MY dime! 

if you want to remain a billion dollar company, i suggest you make a LOT of improvements & think more of your customers instead of yourselves. 

Sincerely,

Julie Trotter

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. 

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! :)

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 :)

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!

well...….here we go.....
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

okay, i need to come back to this & finish my diatribe. 

just let me say this now: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG W/THE MAJORITY OF DOCTORS OUT THERE?? THAT DON'T WANT TO DO SHIT FOR THE PATIENT (OTHER THAN WRITING AN RX, OF COURSE) THAT DON'T WANT TO PERFORM ANY PROCEDURES ON PATIENTS, THAT TELL THEM THAT WHATEVER THING THEY HAVE (LET'S SAY A GROWTH, A CYST, A LIPOMA, AN ANYTHING THAT U WOULD SEE ON DR PIMPLE POPPER FOR STARTERS, WHOM I ADMIRE GREATLY FOR HELPING PEOPLE DAILY, WHERE NO OTHER DRS WOULD!), IS FINE OR WILL GO AWAY ON IT'S OWN, OR THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS (BULLSHIT!) OR THAT THEY CAN'T DO A PROCEDURE ON IT (BULLSHIT!).

they r trained for ALL of this stuff, to recognize it, to DO procedures, to HELP patients but they don't WANT TO! they are lazy? they are above it? they don't give a shit? they just want your $$??

these people SUFFERING greatly for yrs & yrs, decades, on & on & they won't HELP THEM! that is what they DO! that is what their profession IS! that is what they supposedly GOT into their profession to DO! other than earn the big bucks of course. 

i'll also say this, for now: GREED in this world REALLY pisses me off. i'm not talking about normal or general capitalism, normal "love"- i guess of money. normal desire or liking of money, i'm talking about straight out greed. trying to rip people off purposely. putting all other concerns aside for money. for greed. 

how many deaths/murders are caused by greed? oh god, UNTOLD, countless, possibly, murders! we see, hear, about it daily. greed, greed, greed. money above ALL else! i loathe that. 

am posting this now, as a reminder to myself to do so & to come back & finish it. i couldn't get back on blogger for AGES, couldn't remember my password, tried & tried. there were tons of things i would have posted, alas i couldn't. really, have been trying to put my writing efforts into my BOOK! & other writings. 

ok, cheers to all. would LOVE to hear your thoughts on this or anything else! ty

few thoughts on REMAKING MOVIES? what do U think? is it...GOOD? BAD? WHO CARES? haha

oh, i was reviewing a film for Amazon, "I Orgins", when I thought why not share this on blogger too. don't really know if anyone reads what I write, so i don't come on often, if ever. trying to put any writing time into getting my book done already, sheesh!! takes foreveeeerrr…..
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  :)

humanKIND!!! & mouse running the world & rude people aka assholes! people behaving badly.

it would be GREAT if human beings were great at being humans. and if all of mankind were made up of kind women & KIND men. it would be WONDERFUL if common knowledge was knowledge commonly known & if the light from being ENLIGHTENED into every heart was shown. it would be GLORIOUS if neighbors were neighborly and indifference a forgotten word. it would be AWESOME if we shared everything & being greedy was absurd. it would be SPECTACULAR if the golden rule was golden to every man. and the GOOD things that we ever did was EVERYTHING that we can. treating others as we'd like to be treated.
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 :)

when MORE IS MORE (in others opinions), instead of LESS BEING MORE..........

was just reading review about ovaltine. does it really get smaller every year? that's what the reviewer was saying. i haven't drank it steadily, though somewhat so, so i don't know. this led me to writing my own review on ovaltine & the more is more philosophy, instead of the less is more deal. i barely touch on it, but u get the point......anyone reading, IF anyone is reading?
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  :)