I am so hooked on Facebook. I am enjoying re-connecting with people that I knew from High school and playing around with people I know from work or wherever. I love that it is free. I get so many emails from places like Classmates that tell me people are looking for me or have signed my "guestbook" but I can't see the messages or know who thepeople are until I pay them a membership fee. WHY when there are all these free sites out there do we have to pay to see stuff. Lord knows there are enough places willing to pay for web advertising space that probably Classmates and others of their ilk could be making even more money offering their services for free and raking in advertising money from the thousands of hits they would be getting... That's one of my soapboxes.

Here is another. I used to "own" a cross stitch oriented BB. Had it for years. Got tired of the triviality and such so eventually I just let it go. Now I "lurk" at a couple of other boards. I don't post because I just don't want to be a part of the angst. One of the boards owned by a cross stitch shop has some really wonderful stitchers and I have found some really delightful patterns and other interesting information there but there is so much junk there that it becomes hard to even find the good stuff. It is a huge bunch of vicious bck biters. OMG, election time was horrible. There is no tolerance of anyone elses opinions and no matter what the topic, someone HAS to flame. Whatever happened to if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all?

My last point isn't so much about a soap box as it is just about the questions that people can ask. I work in the meat department now nd I love it but sometimes you just have to shake your head... I had one woman ask me if we carried Angie's beef. I said to you mean Laura's Lean? That is only brand name grind that we carry AND frankly the only woman's name I have heard attached to meat. She replies "no it is Angie's..you know A-N-G-U-S" It was hard not to bust out laughing in her face. Yesterday I had a woman ask me if we carried round steak. " Yes we do, top round (london broil), bottom round and eye round. Which one do you need?" Her answer "the flat one" !!! Hello, they are STEAKS, they are all flat. Don't you wonder what her reference point is?? And lastly the man who asked "Do you have any turkeys so I can have one for Thanksgiving?" that's just how he asked it. I wanted to say we have them but you can't have one for Thanksgiving. Oh well. Like Gilda Radner said "it's always something!"