Cosmetics, My Dad and Me

My mom came to visit me and brought with her 3 boxes from my dad's old company. There are three things you should know. My Dad was founder and CEO of the cosmetic company, the company traded on Nasdaq and the company was named after me. Which is why mom gave me the stuff. There's so much to say. Let's start with the annual reports. The 1970 and 72 ARs I found have the pink and orange company colors. Since they already established their brand they could move away from the Monica Simone colors and do something cutting edge. And I wonder how I came to work in branding and advertising.

Rich People Need Poor People to Stay Rich

The thing about blogging is that you can be brutally honest. The rich people tell poor people that they too can be rich with the mobility of the American Dream.

More on this later.

No Longer Trust Obama

At first I didn't care - Obama or Clinton. I was going Dem. But now I'm starting to have trouble with Obama. The article about his wife in "The New Yorker" did not make me like her or him. I was impressed with him before I read it. And I'm still impressed with him. But it's a matter of trust. I no longer trust Obama to protect things I have or care about.

I once read an article about why working class Americans voted for Bush even though he would make their lives worse. Things like the Estate Tax bothered them and Bush was going to get rid of it. Abortion bothered them and he was going to only let rich people get them and allow them to ruin their daughters chances of upward mobility. HELLO - the chances of them being touched by an estate tax was tiny. Outsourcing and health care was not on their minds even though those things had a great chance of touching them.

What the article insinuated was that Americans vote for what they think is good for the country rather than what is good for them. I now have the wisdom. It's time to vote for someone who can protect the things I have or care about - not necessarily in that order.

XY and BB

I've been thinking about trends lately. What commonalities will we find with those categorized as Gen X, Gen Y and the good old Baby Boomers. And where do I net out. In a nut shell:
Gen X (30-45) are seeking spirituality. Gen Y (14-30) like Authenticity. Baby Boomers (45-65) wear their beliefs on their sleeves.

I'm a Y and BB. It's funny. If you think about it, they are sort of the same thing. They say things skip a generation. It's starting to make sense to me. Is true wisdom close by?

Are They On Drugs?

Paulo and I went to the school dinner and dance. Ballroom dancing I thought. Ha! Was I wrong. It was Israeli dancing with unbridled passion. After a few horas with "real steps" as he refered to it, he asked me if everyone here was on drugs.

Most schools make the dinner mandatory whether you go or not - you still have to pay for it. They offered first year students a free pass for the dinner. Not everyone took them up on it.

Purim was interesting this year. As my dear readers know, I'm not a fan of holidays or vacations. I sort of have to play along for Cutie. She's on this Star Wars kick with her friend N who was the only one who guessed her costume correctly as Princess Leah. OK it was a white flower girl dress with a white turtleneck, necklace and silver belt. The giveaway was her hair in loops around her ears. It was the best I could do. The battery in the camera wasn't charged.

I So Fucking Love This House

So the Supreme court has agreed to rule on broadcast indecency.

Singer Bono of U2 exulted upon winning a Golden Globe for an original song, calling it "really, really f . . . brilliant."

The use of the word in that context was not "obscene". It was appropriate for language use today. We make words mean what we want them to mean. If someone thinks that context was obscene, they are probably Clients 1-8. (Spitzer was Client 9.)

About the House.
Today we had the file cabinet delivered. It was a Yellow truck. I worked on the merger of Yellow Trucking and Roadway Trucking to make Yellow Roadway (YRC). YRC is just the holding company. I was't impressed with them 4 years ago (I left Interbrand when I was 3 months pregnant with Cutie). However, I really liked the service and driver who dropped off the package. Just goes to show you that CEOs come and go and steal all the money, but your business is really your employees. I was glad to hear that his daughter was in law school and was hoping to buy an apartment in NYC. I won't be buying their stock - it's tanked in the last few years do to higher fuel prices. But I do hope they deliver stuff to me again. I wonder if IKEA uses them. We need to build some closets.

We've been having contractors stop by to look at the house supports, bathrooms (we don't have a real shower, and roof. My favorite thing is when they like using email for communication. I'm waiting for the bids. Then I have to design and pick stuff out at the stores. Yuck.

Can You Spell...

I stop by the Kindergarten class at Cutie's school to pick up some "work" for a friend's daughter who was sick. As I'm waiting there, three children were coloring at a table. A child asked his friends "can you spell ____". Then the child said "Can you spell Shabbot?". His friend challenged him "In Hebrew or English"? The child who asked "in Hebrew or English replied, "In Hebrew it's "shin, bet, taf".

Gotta love this school.