#one long rant

[a-romantic-no-one]

So, I know I promised pie, but honestly this was more awesome to post so bare with me.

Because I am a fine young teenage girl in a world where I can do anything and be anybody. While I choose to be a writer now, I may choose to be a botanist later and that's OKAY. I cannot think of any other country so open to young people changing their minds and that's amazing. That utterly astounds me. When people ask me why I want to become a writer and study English I tell them this: "What astounds me is that we "smother" things in a lot of things. We can smother things in honey, jello, goop, and even with a pillow, BUT we do not smother things in water or water-based things such as coffee and kool-aid. WHY? We "DRENCH" in water bases.We can drench people in coffee, water, and kool-aid! THAT'S AMAZING. There's so many amazing things out there and so many words. There is a large vocabulary I could build up. I know Shemozzle, which means a state of chaos and confusion; a muddle. Eclectic means deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources, so I could have an eclectic set of teacup or a shemozzle including teacups. How awesome is that!?! I love the English language. Which is why I want to be a writer because I can become a part of that and live life through my books and in the real world. That's just amazing. Why choose now when there are so many amazing choices I can decide from and bounce around?

[crissgilmore]

I wouldn't normally do this, but I am upset with Forever 21, and I really just want to tell other people. 

I have never shopped at Forever 21. I've never really had an interest in shopping there. But for Christmas I got a sweater from there from my mom. I wore it to work on Friday for the first time. When I got to work I noticed that the seam in the pocket was coming apart from the sweater -- basically there was a 3 inch hole. It was defective.

I went there to bring it back today. They basically said they couldn't do anything. Their return policy is 21 days (apparently they had an extended Christmas policy, but that was over too).  I had also removed the tag (I did have it with though). If the tag had been attached, it would have been fine??? The sweater was defective. I didn't do it! A manager came over, looked at the sweater, and walked towards where they were. "If we have the same item, we could probably exchange it," was all the cashier said.

I will never shop there again. Seriously, your item was defective. I've worked in retail. Where I worked, if you had brought the item in even 6 months later, we would have let you get a new item (not even the same item). We would have wanted the receipt, but even without it, we would have done something (like 30% off). 

Forever 21, you are ridiculous. Your staff was rude, and I won't ever shop at your store again.