Pet Peeves

 

I’m not a stickler for many things, but when it comes to little things, I get so annoyed. Oh my goodness and you know it’s really bad when I find it necessary to have a list of pet peeves. And I’m by no means the grammar police because I make mistakes too…but these are some of the things that really bothers me…I may be alone on this, but perhaps not. 

There, their and they’re. 

Sometimes, I know it’s an autocorrect issue but seriously, I think that all adults should know the difference between these three little words.

• Use there when referring to a place. A location. Over there. I am going there. Hint: there has here, and here is a place so there must refer to a place. Easy to remember, right? Right.
• Their, when referring to a person or possession. Their house. I’m going over there to their house. Their has heir in it. Heir is a person, so their refers to the person.
• They’re is the contraction of they are. They’re my friends from University.

Converse. 

It’s converse, people. NOT c o n v e r s a t e…the auto correct won’t let me write it. Lol. So, when you speak to someone, you converse with them, you know, like the sneakers. You have a conversation not  c o n v e r s a t e. 

Buy, bought, bring and brought. 

Buy. Bought. You buy a dress from the store. Yesterday you bought a dress.

Bring. Brought. Bring me some food. I brought you some food.

So, an easy way to remember that is the br in bring and the br in brought…see, easy to remember, right?

Regardless. NOT irregardless…although irregardless is widely used and can be found in the dictionary, it is considered informal or colloquial. So regardless means without regard, ir means not, so by using ir-regard-less you’ve added a double negative to the term, negating the meaning. 

Using you and I when you should say you and me. 

This is a hard one, but the rule is, if you can separate the sentence into two sentences and it makes sense with I, then use I, if it makes sense with me, then you use me…that is how you know which pronoun to use. For example, is the sentence: he gave the cake to you and I or he gave the cake to you and me, which is correct? He gave the cake to I or He gave the cake to me? Which one is correct? Me. Yep. That’s the one you use. So the sentence is, he gave the cake to you and me.

Not re-reading a message, before you send it, is a sin.  I’m guilty of this, especially when I’m in a rush, but for the most part, I always try to review an email, a Facebook post or a text before I hit send. Autocorrect can be a pain and change words into those you don’t intend to use, but taking that second look and time to review the message is a good idea…especially if it’s a work related message.

Oh, I almost forgot. You, your and you’re. A lot of times, this is an autocorrect issue but please… stop using your when you mean you’re. Ok. You’re is you are, so sending the message, I hope your ok, should read, I hope you’re ok. Or just simply spell it all out…I hope you are ok.

One more thing…not everything is a hashtag. # Geeze!!! Back in my day, that was the pound sign or the number sign. Lol.

That's it for now...I could go on, but I have too many pet peeves to list.

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My Stream of Consciousness

My Stream of Consciousness

I’ve been thinking about aging and getting older as I’ve noticed some changes in my body that I’m not particularly fond of like my backaches and knee creeks and brow wrinkles and memory lapses and when you work in healthcare any little ache you have you automatically think it’s something major oh my goodness I have a headache so you go to webMD to see what the hell you have and inevitably it always says cancer so you curse the website and say f*ck I don’t have cancer fuck you cancer this is a bullshit site but I must say with all these signs of getting older I’m thankful for everything and I’m so blessed to live in a country where I can say what I please even though we know that racism and hatred still lives here I am so thankful to not live in a place where I don't have to carry my children on my back or carry my belongings on my head to flee a war I am thankful that I have clean water and a roof over my head I am thankful for the blessed life that I live because when I see what’s going on in this world my heart breaks and there is nothing I can do to stop a hurricane from tearing down a home or flooding your car and leaving you homeless and there is nothing to be done to prevent an earthquake from crushing your life’s core and sucking all your belongings into it’s bosom while you stand helpless and humbled as mother nature rage on and you wonder about all the things you’ve taken for granted and the little things you’ve been upset about and all of a sudden these seem so petty and so trivial so when someone says to you go back to Mexico or go back to Africa tell them no you go back to the caves of the caucuses you neanderthal backwards thinking motherf****r and punch them in the throat we are not our ancestors who break bread with you and allowed you to kill them and enslave them and take their land and give them diseases so we can die hell no we are a new generation of if you touch me with your racism I will touch you with my hands so f*ck off you trump voting tiki torch carrying confederate flag raising hater who probably doesn’t even know that the tiki torch is Polynesian actually you know what I think it is about these racist assholes they have small penises and small minds and the women grew up surrounded by these insecure women-bashing individuals so to them all of this is normal and was buried in their souls waiting for a half black president to bring it out of them he’s not even full black lol so I really don’t know why they hate him so much but you know what they say you only need a drop anyway I digress wasn’t I talking about aging…

(This writing method is called a stream of consciousness, you simply write anything that comes to your mind. I do it when I'm stressed, sad, upset, angry or in this case, when I've received bad news. Try it. No punctuation. No deep thinking. Just get it all off your chest and let the writing takes you where it takes you... It's cathartic.)

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