Kaitlyn MacKenzie

New haircut

Kaitlyn — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:35:18 +0000

I’ve been growing my hair out for the past two years now, with the goal of growing it long enough to cut it and donate it to the Locks of Love organization. That’s something my aunt inspired me to do a few years ago when she did it herself. She’s growing her hair out again to donate it again, she says she’ll be able to cut it again next summer if all goes well. She told me that hair grows about 1/2″ a month. I don’t know how she knows that, but I think she’s right! Locks of Love wants ponytails of hair that has NOT been dyed or permed and they want them to be at least 11″ long. My aunt says that they even accept gray hair.

Anyway today I went to a local cosmetology school and had them put my hair into a ponytail and cut it off and send it to the Locks of Love. Then I had them style my hair in a cute “do” that will be easy to maintain all winter long. They only charged me $10 for the hair cut and style, which I think is very reasonable, and they did a good job too! I feel so good about donating my hair that I think I’ll do it again in two years, and encourage my friends to do it too!

Demographics

Kaitlyn — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:02:22 +0000

I have been interested, and surprised, to see the demographics results of the presidential election. The experts are saying that although the “youth” have voted in record turnouts, the way they voted really had no significant impact on the results of the election! That really surprised me because I had kept hearing about how the youth vote was expected to heavily favor Obama! I’d be really interested to hear more about the youth that chose to vote for McCain, what their reasons were for voting that way!

Still undecided?

Kaitlyn — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:51:02 +0000

I cannot believe how many people are out there claiming to be undecided about who they are going to vote for in tomorrow’s election! I suspect that they really already know who they are going to vote for and simply want to keep that information private. I can’t say that I blame them, really, because I have seen a lot of very spirited arguments between close friends and family that have ended up with really hard feelings.

Our office has a policy that no politics can be discussed, upon penalty of being fired. I think that’s a good idea, but have noticed that a lot of people try to discuss it with me anyway. I just smile and remind them that it’s against the company rules to talk politics. Mostly I do that with people who have already broadcast that they are supporting the candidate that I’m NOT supporting!

I’m planning to vote, and I hope you are decided and that you go to vote too! Most elections don’t have a big turnout, so the results don’t really represent who the people really want and need. It would be really nice if this election really DID represent the people who live here!

Seminar dinner

Kaitlyn — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:22:52 +0000

I went to a seminar and dinner last weekend that was put on by my company last weekend. They hyped it all up as educational for planning retirement strategies, and that it was at a fancy restaurant and we were going to have a gourmet meal. Well, the fancy restaurant stuck us in the basement which wasn’t fancy at all, and the “gourmet meal” was a piece of chicken cordon bleu that is exactly the same as the Barber brand frozen chicken cordon bleu that I buy for $2.00 at the grocery store. I swear it was the exact same thing! I was quite annoyed that they tried to pass that off as a special “gourmet meal.” Not to say it didn’t taste good, it was terrific - the Barber chicken cordon bleu is one of my favorite “whip up fast and cheap and easy meals” at home. But that is the point - I know how fast and cheap and easy it is and was annoyed that they tried to convince us that it was a big fancy deal.

Tried the new McDonald’s chicken sandwich

Kaitlyn — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:18:46 +0000

I was out on the road and it was lunch time; I was hungry so I pulled into a McDonald’s restaurant. I saw that they have a new country-fried chicken sandwich at a reasonable price, so I decided to order it. I ordered it as a value meal, with fries and a drink. I was surprised when I got it that the were no condiments on the sandwich at all, just a hunk of fried chicken and a slice of pickle on a bun.

There were no packets of mayonnaise “out” for the customers to grab a packet, and there were no salt packets out, either. No salt or pepper shakers on the tables, either. That was a little bit annoying because I had to get back in line to ask for mayo and salt! The sandwich was “ok” but nothing special. I could see that they were trying to compete with the chik-filet chicken sandwich, and I have to admit that it seemed to be just about the same in taste, although I think the piece of chicken was smaller.

Job hunting is a chore

Kaitlyn — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:53:28 +0000

I have been helping a friend of mine look for a new job over the past couple of weeks. It seems that for all of the “hype” that job search companies “put out” that for the area in which she lives, there really is no great job search engine. She apparently lives in a “black hole” because whenever you type in the name of the nearest “town” where she lives, all of the results that come back are at least thirty miles away from where that town is. That’s really a shame because the town is a faily large one, with a lot of businesses in it. I would not have thought that those local businesses would not be participating in the large search engines that are available on the Internet, but the proof is in the pudding. If she wants a job in that area she needs to KNOW what businesses are there and go to them directly, which is a pain in the neck to have to do!

Got that resolved

Kaitlyn — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:16:01 +0000

Well, I didn’t have time this week to go to the Post Office about that postage due request until today. I was running some errands and was driving past the Post Office so I swung into the office and went in. Fortunately for me, the same clerk that waited on me when I brought the letters in to be weighed was the clerk working there today! So I asked her to please explain how it could happen that they wanted twenty cents extra for the one letter. She remembered me, and explained that the scales in her office are “light” and that some offices are “heavy” and one of the letters must have gone to a “light” office and one to a “heavy” office. She took the postage due notice from me and told me not to worry about it.

I have to wonder just how efficient the post office is, for them to weigh the letters more than once!

Postage

Kaitlyn — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:12:45 +0000

Well I was quite annoyed today when I got home and discovered a note in my mailbox that I owed the Post office twenty cents for a letter. Why was I annoyed? Because I had taken that letter to the Post Office to have them weigh it and paid them with cash the exact amount of money for THEM to put postage on the envelope!

By the time I got home the post office was closed for today, so I will have to go to the Post Office some day next week to ask them why I got this request for more money. What was so very strange was that I also mailed a 2nd letter at the same time, weighing the exact same amount, but they didn’t request extra money for THAT letter! The two letters were going to two separate towns, twenty miles apart from each other, in the same state. Is that weird or what?

The big bailout has failed!

Kaitlyn — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:14:58 +0000

I could not believe my ears today when I heard on the news that the big bailout that the US Government was putting together to save our economy has not passed the House of Representatives! What a complete disaster! I don’t know what President Bush can do now, I hope he can do SOMETHING, this is a huge crisis for our country! I have to say that most of those people who voted against the bailout will probably NOT get re-elected! What a huge mess!

Just exactly how stupid can you be?

Kaitlyn — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:06:30 +0000

I’ve heard of doing stupid things, but having sex on railroad tracks when a train is coming has got to be just about the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard! I was reading about the incident (that happened in South Africa last Friday) on the BBC website, and it really made me wonder what in the world were these people THINKING?

I almost have to assume that this was maybe a suicide pact? Maybe they were both dying from AIDS and wanted to end their lives doing something they really liked?

Crazy, stupid people!