Dear Amazon,
Thank you so much for being so great! I really cant even put into words how wonderful you are! After my children you are my 2nd love in life. As a member of Amazon Prime and Amazon Mom I would encourage anyone and everyone to join. My husband and I share a car so it is actually faster for me to order things with my free 2-day shipping than to wait until a day when I have the car to run out for things. I order my kitchen products, soaps, dog food and toothpaste from the Amazon Pantry and have all the family vitamins on a recurring automatic shipment, which I get at a discounted rate. There have been very few items I haven't been able to locate on the website. I used to order from Walmart a lot but they cant even come close to getting me things quickly. The last 2 times I ordered from them their free shipping took a week. That is ridiculous in this day and time. Of course I have heard the tales of the eccentric Jeff Bezos. Building clocks in mountains and using a replica of the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea submarine as a bar to dispense his ridiculously expensive liquors. Who cares. He has one of the most brilliant and creative minds around. Kudos to you Jeff Bezos! You have officially set the bar for all others to follow and given the world crazy high expectations. Please, please, please if you are a human in this world that hasn't used this service, please do immediately! Not only will you wonder how you ever lived without it but your memberships will also insure that it never goes away because I don't know if I could live without it!
You happiest customer,
Paula Parsons
Friday, March 20, 2015
Really Eva Mendes?!
I don't usually go on rants but today I am making an exception! I saw a story on the Today show this morning that absolutely stopped me in my tracks. Eva Mendes was being interviewed and was asked how she keeps her partner happy at home. The man doing the interview mentioned sweatpants and she immediately starts shaking her head and saying, "No, no, no, no sweatpants! Ladies, the number one cause of divorce is sweatpants!" http://www.today.com/popculture/eva-mendes-cites-sweatpants-no-1-cause-divorce-2D80561379
As a mother this absolutely insults me! I am not one to jump on bandwagons of attacking famous peoples comments. Usually I just chalk it up to the fact that they cant possibly relate anymore to being an "average" person. This one, on the other hand, rubs me too much! I am a mother of 5 and 2 of those are 2 year-old twins. I get up an extra hour early in the morning just to do laundry, tend to the pets and clean the boys playroom before they get up and destroy it again. I am lucky if I can squeeze in my morning cup of coffee before I have a lap full of babies. I shower about every 3rd day (sounds disgusting I know, but for the most part Im just home taking care of babies), if I have somewhere to go I get up at 2am to shower without babies banging on the door the entire time. You have no idea what its like to be a mom and a partner without money and help! When you make irresponsible comments like that you do more damage than you can possibly imagine. You make women that already have too much on their plates feel less "womanly" because they don't dress up everyday and you plant the thought in mens heads that a "good" partner wouldn't be a slacker and not get dolled up for them. Most women, especially stay-at-home moms, cant afford extra outfits to wear around the house everyday. You have one child that is a few months old and a fairly new relationship. To be giving advice on these subjects is completely out of your spectrum in life. Im sure by tomorrow I will be hearing an apology that your publicist releases in which you state how it was a flippant remark you made while joking around and you came from a hard working family and, in retrospect, completely understand how inappropriate the comment was. I sure hope not! You said exactly what you meant and your comment was interpreted absolutely correctly. Don't attempt a back peddle at this point just suck it up and wake up to reality. Have your maids and nannies and assistants leave you alone for ONE month with your own child and see how you fair. And don't dish out advice to women anymore unless its other women like yourself.
As a mother this absolutely insults me! I am not one to jump on bandwagons of attacking famous peoples comments. Usually I just chalk it up to the fact that they cant possibly relate anymore to being an "average" person. This one, on the other hand, rubs me too much! I am a mother of 5 and 2 of those are 2 year-old twins. I get up an extra hour early in the morning just to do laundry, tend to the pets and clean the boys playroom before they get up and destroy it again. I am lucky if I can squeeze in my morning cup of coffee before I have a lap full of babies. I shower about every 3rd day (sounds disgusting I know, but for the most part Im just home taking care of babies), if I have somewhere to go I get up at 2am to shower without babies banging on the door the entire time. You have no idea what its like to be a mom and a partner without money and help! When you make irresponsible comments like that you do more damage than you can possibly imagine. You make women that already have too much on their plates feel less "womanly" because they don't dress up everyday and you plant the thought in mens heads that a "good" partner wouldn't be a slacker and not get dolled up for them. Most women, especially stay-at-home moms, cant afford extra outfits to wear around the house everyday. You have one child that is a few months old and a fairly new relationship. To be giving advice on these subjects is completely out of your spectrum in life. Im sure by tomorrow I will be hearing an apology that your publicist releases in which you state how it was a flippant remark you made while joking around and you came from a hard working family and, in retrospect, completely understand how inappropriate the comment was. I sure hope not! You said exactly what you meant and your comment was interpreted absolutely correctly. Don't attempt a back peddle at this point just suck it up and wake up to reality. Have your maids and nannies and assistants leave you alone for ONE month with your own child and see how you fair. And don't dish out advice to women anymore unless its other women like yourself.
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