sponsor overload

I know I am not the best, nor most consistent, 
blogger in the world. 
And I am not trying to criticize other bloggers. 
I am definitely in the "to each his own" camp. 
But I have noticed an uptick in the sponsored posts 
in the blog world. 
Maybe it is just the blogs I read. 

I understand wanting to make a little money off of blogging. 
I will never make 10¢ off blogging. 
That is not one of my goals either. 
But when every single post is a "sponsored" post. 
I get a little bored. 
And honestly start skimming that blogger's posts in the future. 

I like many different kinds of blogs ... 
lifestyle, photography, food, etc. 
Heck, I even like "mommy" blogs and I have no children. 
I love reading about other people's lives. 
I love reading about our differences and love when I find things in common with complete strangers. 
And I really do not mind sponsored posts, a lot of times I find some good products or ideas from those posts. 
But I still want to see the normal posts as well. 
If that makes any sense! 

I know, I know. 
The easy fix is to stop reading those particular blogs. 
And I have done that occasionally. 
But I always feel bad when I do. 
I start following blogs for a reason and it always makes me a little sad to stop reading someone I once found interesting. 

I know this is rambling all over the place. 
And I am not meaning to criticize or offend anyone. 
It was just something I have noticed quite often lately. 

drama drama drama

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Warning: Venting Ahead! 

You know those people who 

thrive on drama?! 

I really do not understand them. 

If I can help it at all 

I live in a drama-free zone. 

I try to give people leeway, especially 

on Facebook. 

We all have those moments when we just 

need a "woe is me" moment. 

But if you start clogging up my feed 

with those moments 

all the frigging time 

I am going to either unfriend you or block you. 

I never say anything to that person 

because hey it's her page 

and if that is what she wants to use 

her page for I do not have a 

problem with that 

I just do not want to read it. 

What I do not understand is how 

some people 

surround themselves with drama 

and then 

complain about it. 

I think my head would explode 

if I had to deal 

with that stuff all of the time. 

I'll give you an example of someone I just blocked today. 

She apparently had a tooth pulled yesterday. 

And this was her status today: 

"Hurting today :( thanks to those who checked on me the rest of ya who i thgt wld well whatever." 

That is just asking to start crap. 

I do find it 

the tiniest bit amusing. 

Because tomorrow her status will 

probably be about how much 

she hates drama. 

This post may be considered drama. 

So I apologize. 

I just had to rant 

a little bit ;) 

a little thing called...professionalism

What happened to professionalism?

Did they stop handing that out with realty degrees?

My current roomies, aka the two best friends sisters EVER, and I have decided to rent a house in August. We are just tired of living in an apartment complex full of crazy college kids. We do not drink or party and we go to bed at a reasonable hour because we work for a living. So, the music so loud the actual lyrics are crystal clear throughout our entire apartment until 3am and the drunken parties every other night of the week are getting a LITTLE old. 

We made an appointment with a local real estate company to view 3 available houses. We decided to use this company because they were signing leases for August now. Which is a good thing, right?!

 First, the lady is 20 minutes late to the first house. Then she does not "show" us any of the properties. She just kind of wanders around saying "oh yeah, this is the living room."

Really, we did not know that, how could you tell?!

She had never even been inside 2 of the 3 houses we looked at today! She also made the comment several times, "we really want to place a family in this house." She basically had the attitude that we were typical college kids and were willing to live anywhere, so she did not have to make an effort AT ALL.

Attitudes like that just piss me off. I am a grad student, A* is graduating from grad school in May {so techinically she will not be a college student in August}, and M* is a junior in college. A* & M* are sisters and A* & I have been best friends since we were 10 years old. We are family. Not just 3 kids who want to party and trash a house that does not belong to us. I know that I live in a college town and need to expect a certain amount of this kind of thinking. But I already have 2 degrees and I am in no way typical.  

Needless to say, they lost 3 clients today.

I will have to tell you about the 3 houses another time.

Let's just say...

IT. WAS. RIDICULOUS.