Is being illiterate cool now a days?

While I was working the dishwasher (girl who does dishes) and I were having a conversation. Knowing all too well that she and my cousin have been dating for a year she's been admitted to the cousin-in-law circle. We had a few meaningless conversation, small talk if you will, but eventually I brought up the subject of reading. Just at the word reading she responded "I hate reading, there's no point, you never learn anything.", this was an honest shock. Do young people now a days think there are no benefits to reading a book, the news paper or even an article online?

I know we hear this enough, people always putting the fault of illiteracy or of just plain ignorance to spelling towards the internet. I agree that the internet might have some and I do say SOME blame, but it's not at fault. All those acronyms and short forms of "chatting" for example lol (Laugh Out Loud), ok, kay, k or kk (Okay), OMG (Oh My God), ASAP (As Soon As Possible), BRB (Be Right Back), LMAO (Laugh My Ass Off), Rents (Parents) etc etc. I for one have no problem with the acronyms or the short forms that the youth uses today, my problem's only in the fact that some of them don't know how to spell out those words. One fact that shocks me more in more is the fact that most of our youth thinks that okay or O.K. is really spelled ok it's accepted,  I guess it's not really a big difference than O.K. and ok.

I love reading, and the only reason I can think of why I like reading is because of my mother and my father. Reading's never been a strong point to my childhood friends, they were never big on reading. My father was the one who read to me every night and when I got a little older, I'd read to him. My mother was the one who read around me, she'd have the television on but have her nose in a book, if she wasn't baking or knitting. Thanks to my father I learnt to read and thanks to my mother I continued reading through the basic instinct of "Monkey see monkey do".

But another thing that the "dishwasher" said "There are better things to do with your time, like drinking." I for one approve for the social gathering and "sloshing" if you will, but all moderated not ALL THE TIME! If you're one of those people who find reading useless ... then ask yourself what you've been doing these past few minutes on my blog. You'll be surprised by the answer.

Late night come home work sucks I know,

Believe it or not when you ask how long your order's going to take at a Chinese restaurant they wont answer "5 minute!" I'm saying this because I started working at this Chinese restaurant named La's as a waitress a week and a half ago. I'm no longer in training I'm doing my own thing, but I'll tell you the anecdote of how I got to waitress at La's.

The waitress before me had just finished her first day of training and that night she went celebrating. Although she ended up celebrating too hard, she landed a good old hangover. Her neighbor who's also one of the assistant chef's of La's and a good friend of mine, was forced to stay up all night due to the commotion.

The next day (her second day of training) it was nearing 5:30pm and she still hadn't shown up for work, while her shift started at 4:00pm. The waiter (only one male waiter) called her up asking her if she would be in, she responded with "Sorry I just woke up.". With this she calls back a half hour later telling the waiter "I'm sick I can't make it in.", so the assistant chef tells the waiter about the ruckus last night.

I get a call at 6pm I'm taking a cat nap with my hubby, it's the waiter (we graduated together), he asks me if I'm still looking for a job, I respond with a "Sort of." he tells me they need a new waitress stat. I wasn't too interested, so he puts on the assistant chef, he's plea was "Jess, please work here! It's the only time I get to relax. It'd be nice to work with you, and see you more." Still not convinced this went on for a good ten minutes, and so I caved in.

They call back the old waitress and tell her "You don't need to come back to work we've found someone else." I started the next day. The strange thing about this is that I never even put in my resume, just happen to be friends with two of the people who worked there. That's how I landed a job that pays 8.90 an hour. Not much but hey you work for tips.

The summer heat, melts my innards

I know that most people wail and complain about the weather regardless of how much we wished it would be here. I've been waiting for summer so I can buy a little sandbox and a plastic pool for my son. Excitements in my veins I couldn't wait for the season! After all this is his first official summer, I don't count the last one since he was 4 months old, hardly old enough to do anything at all. I know all too well that he won't remember this summer, the rock/leaf/pine-cone/and other various collecting adventures to come, the fact that he's trying to eat sand, his first BBQ, etc. He won't remember but I will and the memories will be all the more cherished. It's easier to keep memories/thoughts/pictures thanks to the technologies of today. I no longer have to get my pictures developed out of a disposable camera, now I can upload them onto my computer or on the net. Diaries was something all so secretive and sacred, don't get me wrong I'm not saying it's no longer sacred, I've got one (although nothings written in it). Now it's very popular although it's not called a diary per-say it's a blog, now people of all ages can write down was they fell/believe/think/remember/imagine on the net. I've got to admit though I am sweating balls ... is that even possible for a women to do? Summer is a hot time, that reveals all my freckles and shows me oh so how out of shape I've gotten. My girls still call me skinny, my man says I've got a belly, which I don't like very much ever since I gave birth ... oh so wrinkly. All in all I hope for a memorable summer with my friends and close nit family. And A LOT OF EMBARRASSING PHOTOS TO USE AGAINST MY SON! ... When he gets a girlfriend that is, I am an evil mother ... who's exhausted and sick of the heat. The beginning is hard but the rest will be hell, I wish everyone the best of luck on your summer adventures, mine will be memorable.