This blog post is all about how I try to be funny, and end up annoying my sister. I had accidentally offended my friend by trying to be funny, and end up offending her. This is to show I am only annoying and offensive to my big sister and no one else.
This will be Part 2 to this:
This is from Aug. 2013:
joke flops/ funny and annoying/ funny wedding video
Tracy's blog: joke flops/ funny and annoying/ funny wedding video (badcb.blogspot.com)
This is from the Aug. 2017 post "summer 2017 TV shows":
Aug. 4, 2017 People annoying their siblings: I wrote about this before:
Jul. 21, 2017 Argyle Sweater: This is a comic I cut out on Jul. 14, 2017. I can't copy and paste it here. Click on the link and the date and you will see 2 bears fighting each other. It's about sibling rivalry.
Bear: Hey, Benny, why ya mauling yourself? Huh, Ben? Why ya keep mauling yourself?
Caption: Ben hated being the youngest of the cubs.
I don't find it funny because it's about bullying and beating up your sibling.
I find it funny because it's about bears acting like humans.
http://www.theargylesweater.com/
You guys don't know this, but this is the most read blog post of all time on my blog. It has 9093 page views:
"Aug. 5 Joke flops: I've been thinking about how I unintentionally offended my friend in an email. I thought I made this light joke, and she would either laugh or be indifferent. Instead she was offended. From now on, I will be more careful, and stick with jokes that have been confirmed that there were some laughs by some people. Well, I will admit that I have told jokes that have flopped. These are dark ones, so I'm forewarning you right now, they could be offensive."
joke flops/ funny and annoying/ funny wedding video
http://badcb.blogspot.ca/2013/08/joke-flops-funny-and-annoying-funny.html
Tracy playing with a panda bear: I have written about this before, but it wasn't on that blog post. It was that time when I was 13 and my sister was 15:
S was reading a magazine and Tracy was playing with a panda bear.
Tracy puts her thumb on the panda's nose like the panda is giving S an angry and dirty look.
A few moments pass as the panda continues to give S a dirty look.
S angrily snatches the panda out of Tracy's hand.
Tracy: Hey!
It's funny because it's about a panda acting like a human.
Aug. 6, 2017: If this was a comic, the caption would be: "S hated having a little sister."
This is from Oct. 2017:
"In Brazil, Class C now stands for 'crisis'"/ "I'm not cut out for this"
Oct. 20, 2017 Pooch Café comic: On Oct. 14, 2017, there was this comic.
Panel 1: The dog Poncho and a Bird are watching TV.
Bird: I don't know how much more TV I can watch.
Panel 2:
Poncho: Hey, if you're gonna be friends with someone, you have to respect the
other person's interests.
Panel 3:
Bird: Worm chip?
Poncho: Get that outta my face.
My opinion: It reminded me of the friend I had accidentally offended when I made a light
and fun joke of one of her interests. I do respect her and her interests.
It also reminded me of my sister. I wrote about this before:
Tracy playing with a panda bear: I have written about this before, but it wasn't on that blog post. It was that time when I was 13 and my sister was 15:
S was reading a magazine and Tracy was playing with a panda bear.
Tracy puts her thumb on the panda's nose like the panda is giving S an angry and dirty look.
A few moments pass as the panda continues to give S a dirty look.
S angrily snatches the panda out of Tracy's hand.
Tracy: Hey!
S might as well be saying: Get that outta my face.
Dec. 23, 2021: This is:
A. Annoying
B. Funny
C. Both
D. Neither
S gives school advice to Tracy, and Tracy doesn't listen and instead makes a stupid joke about it:
Cut to Tracy is 15 and S is 18, and they're walking to school.
S: And if you don't go to college, you might as well be working at retail for the rest of your life.
Tracy: Fine, I'll just go and work at a tire store then.
S laughs for a moment and then regains her composure.
S: The point is, to get more than just a job, but a career.
The "tire store" was from the TV show Angel. Wesley was pretending to be Angel and he meets a woman named Virginia who says: "Maybe I'll run away and work at tire store."
This is the episode:
My opinion: This is both mildly funny and annoying.
S gives job advice to Tracy, and Tracy doesn't listen and instead makes a stupid joke about it:
Cut to Tracy is 17 and S is 19. They're sitting on the computers in the home office.
Tracy: Vivian from Youthone.com says I should write an article for the website because I already write so many polls for them already.
S is happy and excited.
S: Oh what? Really? That's so cool, then you can put that on your resume that you got an article published on a website. So what are you going to write about?
Tracy: "Oh, I don't know. Something along the lines of: 'Why some people run track.'"
Tracy emphasizes each word of the headline in the air.
S burst out laughing and hits her hand on the table.
S: Shut up!
This was a couple of weeks ago, but we found some video clips of this old PBS kids TV show we used to watch as kids called Ghostwriter:
"A group of kids solves local crimes, capers, and mysteries in their neighborhood, with the help of a ghost who can only communicate through writing and words."
This is from the mystery "Building Bridges (Part 1)":
Cut to Jamal at his locker. Rob walks by.
Jamal: Hey Rob, where are you going?
Rob: Oh, I'm going to track practice. I'm on the school newspaper and I have to write an article about the track team.
Jamal: Oh, cool. So what are you going to write about?
Rob: "Oh, I don't know. Something along the lines of: 'Why some people run track.'"
Rob emphasizes each word of the headline in the air.
My opinion: This is both very funny and annoying.
When S asked me what I was going to write about, that reminded me of Ghostwriter so I quoted from it.
Also I never wrote an article for Youthone.com. I didn't know what to write about. I continued creating polls for them. The website closed down in 2004 or 2005. That's okay, because I started Tracy's blog in 2008 to present.
Tracy gives job advice to a sibling, and S says Tracy shouldn't be giving job advice.
Tracy then quotes from The Simpsons:
2010: S has a Bachelor's degree in business and a law degree from the University of Alberta. She has a career in business. Tracy has a 2 yr college diploma in Professional Writing at MacEwan University. She has a regular job at a restaurant.
S is talking about this job ad and maybe applying to it.
Tracy: You should write a list of the pros and cons.
Cut to the next day.
S: "You should write a list of the pros and cons." I'm not going to take job advice from you.
Tracy then quotes from The Simpsons where Homer becomes obese so he can work from home:
Marge: Con: You're setting a bad example for the kids.
Homer: Pro: Uh, I love you?
Tracy gives school advice to a sibling, and S says Tracy shouldn't be giving school advice. Tracy then quotes from The Simpsons:
2011: S is an honors student all her life and you can look at the above paragraph.
Tracy is good in English and Social Studies like gets Bs. She is really bad in math and science and barely passes starting since gr.7- 12. She needs to go to a math tutor weekly and has her sister help her 20-25 hrs a week tutoring her in math in high school.
Applied Math (the 2nd to lowest math class):
Applied Math 20 in gr. 11: 52%
Applied Math 30 in gr. 12: 50%
Pure Math 30 (grade level) in Centre High: 63%
P is studying to get this certification and he can only take it twice a year.
Tracy: You should take the exam in July. If you don't pass, then you can take it again in December.
S: Tracy, you're the last person to be giving school advice.
Tracy then quotes from The Simpsons where Homer bowls a perfect game.
Cut to Lisa doing her homework.
Homer: Lisa, honey, do you need some help with your homework?
Lisa: Yeah, sure. You can help me find 3 words where they use the letter y as a vowel.
Homer slowly backs out of the room.
My opinion: Yeah, well is there anyone here who thought this was bad school and job advice?
Dec. 24, 2021: If you need help with math and science homework from gr. 7-12, don't ask me for help.
If you need help to write, edit your essays, short stories, scripts (for the Screenwriting Meetup) group, you can ask me for help.
Who to ask for help?:
School advice: I remember telling this to Angela and she said something like I was qualified to give school advice because I struggled so much, especially in high school. However, I struggled, but I wasn't exactly very successful. I graduated out of high school in 3 yrs with some grade level classes like English 30, Social Studies 33, Applied Math 30, and Biology 30.
If you want to be successful in something like school, ask for help and advice from someone who is very successful in that thing like my sister.
Marriage advice: Do you go to someone who has been divorced twice or someone who has been married for years for marriage advice?
I would ask them both. Why did the marriage not last? Why did your marriage last?
I talked to my counselor-in-training C at Cornerstone Counseling. She is doing her practicum
there and she said "both."
Angela's job advice: This isn't funny, but this is good job advice. She has a Bachelor's degree in business and has a career in her field. She is an honors student. In 2008, I asked her to look over my resume.
Before the resume looked like this:
Call Centre #1: The description of duties.
Store #1: The description of duties.
Call Centre #2: The description of duties in the same words as Call Centre #1.
Store #2: The description of duties in the same words as Store #1.
This looked repetitive. I put this in chronological order of the dates I worked.
She changed this from the dates and grouped the similar jobs together. Now this doesn't look repetitive. I emailed the old and the new resumes together to all my friends to show how good this looked:
Call Centre #1 -the description
Call Centre #2
Store #1 -the description
Store #2
Ask good questions: In 2009, I passed my resumes to 80 offices in 7 months and only got 1 call back. I asked Angela for advice.
Angela: Were they even hiring?
I thought about it, and they weren't hiring. I was passing out resumes to places that weren't hiring. If I applied to places that were, I would be getting callbacks.
Learning Strategies: This was in 2019. I got this in my email about Marie Diamond Feng Shui free online event series. I listened to it and there was this free phone consultation.
I talked to a guy named Bill and told him about my job search. I was getting interviews, but not getting hired.
Bill: Are you even qualified?
I would say yes, because I applied to jobs I have experience in like restaurants, stores, and call centres. I attended the Office Assistant program at MacEwan in 2014 and took a computer class in Microsoft Word 2010 and a Business Communication class. I have education in getting an office career. I have worked at the home installation place for 3 months in 2015.
Ashton Kutcher's job advice: He is mainly an actor and producer. I don't know if you're going to listen to him. He's smart enough to get into university to study biochemical engineering, but he didn't graduate.
This is from Wikipedia:
Kutcher enrolled at the University of Iowa in August 1996, where his planned major was biochemical engineering, motivated by the desire to cure his brother's heart ailment.[3] At college, Kutcher was kicked out of his apartment for being too "noisy" and "wild".[11] Kutcher stated, "I thought I knew everything but I didn't have a clue. I was partying, and I woke up many mornings not knowing what I had done the night before. I played way too hard. I am amazed I am not dead."[12]
To earn tuition money, Kutcher worked as a college summer hire in the cereal department for the General Mills plant in Cedar Rapids and sometimes sold his blood plasma.[13] While at the University of Iowa, he was approached by a model scout at The Airliner bar in Iowa City, Iowa,[14] and entered the "Fresh Faces of Iowa" modeling competition. Placing first, he won a trip to New York City's International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) Convention. Leaving Iowa for a stay in New York City, Kutcher then returned to Cedar Rapids, before relocating to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting.[11]
On the TV show Punk'd, he played a prank on the rapper Eve. She was to go to a job interview for a guest- star role on a TV show. The interview was kind of boring and she didn't show any enthusiasm. The prank was the Boss was to leave, and the Assistant comes in and walks into the desk and topples it over.
The Assistant blames it on Eve, and Eve yells at him. At the interview:
Kutcher: Isn't the whole point of a job interview is to show that you're actually interested in the job?
20 yr old Tracy: When I saw this, I thought this was funny.
26 yr old Tracy: I thought about this after 2 yrs of 2010-2011 where I am constantly reading the business section of the newspaper and attending office job interviews: "That's a good job tip. I should show interest."
Feb. 13, 2022 Tru Calling:
"A university graduate working in the city morgue is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters."
I used to watch this TV show when I was 18-19 yrs old. It starred Eliza Dushku (Faith from Buffy). This was a fun show to watch. I had a crush on the character Harrison (Shawn Reaves).
There was an episode where Harrison attends a job interview with this woman boss.
Boss: You didn't bring a resume.
Harrison: And what is a "resume"? A list of jobs that didn't work out?
18 yr old Tracy: lol.
22 yr old Tracy: I had finished one year at Professional Writing at MacEwan. In the summer of 2007, I got let go from Call Centre #3 after 1 day of training. They decided to not hire me because I would need more training. In 2009, I got hired there and worked for 6 months and got laid off due to shortage of work.
I got jobs and then I quit because I didn't like it. I was a job hopper that summer.
I then thought of the above episode: A list of jobs that don't work out, are the ones that you don't put on your resume.
25 yr old Tracy: When I got laid off from the Soup Place and I was mainly looking for a job. 2010 was the Year of Unemployment.
I would say: A resume is to showcase your education and experience. Your talents and skills that are relevant to the job.
This is from my Oct. 2021 blog post. This proves and shows my education and experience about jobs and business.
After reading this, would you listen to me for job advice?
Tracy's ideal life (as a TV writer & producer, Actor, Office Career) vs. Tracy's real life (Part 1)
Apr. 14, 2021 Learning curve:
1. Jobs, careers, and business: In 2010-2012, I read the business section of the newspapers of the Edmonton Journal, the Globe and Mail, and the National Post for 6 days a week.
I felt like I went from a gr. 6 education to a gr. 12 education by how much I learned in 2010-2012.
My family stopped subscribing to the National Post in Apr. 2013.
2010 The Year of Unemployment: I got laid off from the Soup place in Mar. 2010. In Apr.-Sept, I was looking for a job.
The results:
I got hired at Call Centre #4 and worked there for a day. The boss let me go because 9 completed surveys wasn't good enough.
I got hired at Call Centre #5 and worked there for 2 days. The boss let me go because I only raised $75 for charities. This is more like telemarketing. I didn't like working there.
In Oct. I got hired at the Furniture Store and worked there for 2 weeks.
I was let go. I then got hired at my 1st Restaurant job and stopped looking for a job.
In my best estimate, I probably went to 5 job interviews a month, so 30 job interviews that year.
2011 The Year of the Office Job Search: 60 job interviews
The results: I attended mostly administrative assistant/ receptionists job interviews. I got hired at a 2 week temp holiday job at the Fruit Place.
2012 The Year of New Directions: 58 job interviews
The results: I attended mostly administrative assistant/ receptionists job interviews. I got hired at 2 telemarketer jobs where I call people to sell tickets to theatre plays and concerts. I was let go at each place because I didn't sell any tickets.
I worked at a door-to-door sales job where I sold the Edmonton Sun newspaper subscriptions. I sold 5 on the first day. The way they paid you was that you had to work all 4 days and then you can get paid for the all the subscriptions you sold.
I went there for a day and I didn't like it. I quit, and I didn't get paid. That's okay that I didn't get paid.
In 2013 The Year of the Office Job: I got the Office Job and worked there for 5 months. The Year of the Office Job. All the work I did from reading the business section of the newspapers and attending job interviews prepared me for this.
In 2014 The Year of Education and Research: I attended a semester at MacEwan Office Assistant program with a Business Communication class and a Computer class.
In 2015 The Year of the Office Job and Dating (and Decluttering): I worked at the home installation place for 3 months.
In 2015-2019: I was reading the business section of the newspapers and attending job interviews.
In 2020: I was mainly looking for a work from home job on the internet. There were a few interviews. I read the business section on the internet.
I read the business section of the Edmonton Journal and the Globe and Mail until Sept. 2018.
My family stopped subscribing to the Globe and Mail until Sept. 2018.
My family stopped subscribing to the Edmonton Journal in Feb. 2019.
I still read the business section on the internet.
Now I feel like I'm in post secondary education with job education.
Education: Reading the business section of the newspapers.
Experience: Attending job interviews all around town.
This week doesn't have a theme. Here are the other 2 blog posts:
"Looking to married couples for longer- and healthier-living"/ "Women Are Healthier And Happier Without A Spouse Or Kids: Expert"
"Amanda Kloots hits back at critics who say she's dating 'too soon' after husband's death"/ "'One Tree Hill' star Bevin Prince's husband dead after being struck by lightning"
My week:
Fri. Aug. 12, 2022 H- Mart: I went there with the Personality Meetup group. This was in the College Plaza building by the University of Alberta. My little brother P told me it used to be a Sobey's. This is a Korean grocery store. They sell Asian food, but also dishware and stationary.
There is a restaurant in there.
Only on Tuesdays you can buy food from the grocery store and eat it inside the restaurant.
If you order food before 6pm, there will be 20% off.
The food is good. Big portions. K ordered this, but he couldn't finish it. I tried the Beef Intestine Hot Pot for $19.99. 20% off is $15.99. It was a little spicy, flavorful with onions, and green onions.
S bought the 7 piece sushi with fried tuna. It looked good.
D bought the huge order of spicy chicken. This was supposed to be half an order, and there were 7 big pieces. He ate 2 pieces and saved the rest to bring home.
HMART
CX building: We then drove to this building where H lives. There are 21 floors and it's really modern looking. We sat on the big patio. There are 2 BBQs. All 12 of us sat around in these nice chairs.
There is a lounge suite. $1,100 a month for a room, bathroom, living room, and kitchen. There are 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms in this apartment.
I brought my digital camera and took some pics. The other took pics and I shared onto my Facebook page
Upscale Rental Living on the Edge of Downtown Edmonton | CX (rentcx.ca)
Aug. 17, 2022 "Hudson's Bay to resurrect discount retail chain Zellers": Today I found this on CBC:
Canadian department store Zellers hopes to make a comeback next year, a decade after the discount chain shuttered most of its locations.
Hudson's Bay Co. says Zellers will debut a new e-commerce website and expand its brick-and-mortar footprint within select Hudson's Bay department stores across the country in early 2023.
The company says the relaunched Zellers will offer "a digital-first shopping journey that taps into the nostalgia of the brand."
The return of Zellers comes as soaring inflation drives consumers to discount retailers in search of lower prices.
It also comes amid an ongoing lawsuit over a Quebec family's use of the Zellers brand.
Hudson's Bay to resurrect discount retail chain Zellers | CBC News
Aug. 18, 2022 TV: This week I have been watching the show Departure. I was also writing some TV show reviews.
This is mid- Aug. and TV is airing all these promos for these new TV shows coming out this fall. The "upfronts" come in May where TV networks tell about renewals, cancellations, and new TV shows coming out in the fall and mid- season. I already wrote a list back then.
Forest app: I found this on Leo opinion. I posted this on Facebook:Forest is an app that helps you stay focused on the important things in life.
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