Shadow Game

Shadow GameLife's just a game
a game people play,
playing's no fun
when you're all alone
I saddle these reigns of
my heart
Wanting to win
losing before I start
I get up everyday
fighting to remain
in this bright shadow
adrift away a blight
on the Morrow
walking away
frustrations sorrow
those honied lips
strips away at my peril
I pray i don't slip
but I can't see for reality
courage drained
cutthroat dresses me
hazardous love
shameful
legacy
history
so ugly
no peace
in
me....
Rydangel
07/12/07

The Kentucky Fried Chicken Coupon Scam

I'm so mad at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

They totally got over with the 2pc grilled chicken dinner coupon scam. I went through all the trouble of downloading the coupon(i had to install the kfc coupon printer and adobe reader 9) and couldn't use it. I went to 3 different KFC's and none would except the coupon. I printed my coupon out on the 6th because the website was so busy on the 5th, I couldn't get on. I tried to use my coupon on the 7, and got nothing,nada,zip. The first one I went to is the main one I use that is by my house. They said they were no longer accepting anymore coupons. The coupon is good until the 19 of May,with Mother's Day being blacked out. How can you just stop accepting the coupon after 1 day? The second KFC I went to said they weren't accepting coupons that had a bar code ending in 1234. All the coupons have that bar code! Then they said they were only going to give you 1 side order instead of the 2 that comes with the dinner and is listed on the coupon. The third said they had to many people trying to redeem the coupon and weren't going to accept it anymore. I'm so pissed I don't even want to see a KFC anymore. Now I worked at KFC in highschool and my store was independently owned.I know for a fact that independent franchise holders still have to follow official KFC promotions.So telling me they wouldn't accept the coupon because they were independently owned is a bold faced lie. I understand that there was a run on KFC stores nationwide. But, this kind of promotion has to have been planned in advanced.Everybody knows Oprah has 10million viewers. KFC should have expected all 10million viewers AND their families would try and use the coupon. They should have stockpiled supplies and informed all their stores that they were having this 2 week special before the promotion started. I'm about through with Oprah and her suppossedly "free" stuff. But what made me even madder,was they told everyone to return to UnthinkKFC.com and print out a new coupon with different barcodes, only to have the site be closed. Then they gave a 1800CALLKFC number if you had a problem using the coupon. I spent a good hour trying to get through.no such luck. I finally sent them an email. I even checked the list of participating stores,and the 3 I went to were all on the list. Today the president of KFC came on tv and apologized. He says if you take your coupon to a KFC store, they will give you a raincheck for a time when you can come back and use your coupon. That's right they want you to come back and get a raincheck. A raincheck at the KFC. What's next? I don't even want a dinner anymore. He said they didn't expect such an overwhelming response and that they weren't prepared for the increased volume of business. It's not like they are a new business. We are in a recession,and you don't think people will jump on a free meal? They need to go back to KFC College. They dropped a ball on this for real. They need to upgrade me to a bucket meal, after all the paper, ink, and gas I wasted. My Mom said it best:"from now on we are a Popeye's family"

Twittering Addiciton

omg! i just discovered twitter and i'm so addicted. and that's something when you consider i don't have a cellphone. I keep bugging my sister to let me use her cell once she is home from work. she could use the house phone. nobody calls the house phone but bill collectors. i'm tweeting online. i blew the whole day sunday tweeting instead of painting the bathroom. everybody is on their,pres. obama,ashton kushton,perez,shaq,snoop, everybody. all i do is read everybody's tweets. you know snoop must be high writing some of his tweets, because he posts some off the wall youtube links.i feel bad that i have nothing to say. i've been so burned out lately. i don't think people realize just how exausting job hunting is,especially when you don't have a car. alot of companies have their offices out in the burbs, but the work site is in the city. atlanta has public transportation in atlanta. if you live in the burbs like me, you are going to have to hoof it. when i moved down here 15 yrs ago, i couldn't believe how people would talk casually about walking 30-45 minutes to the bus stop. i thought they were mad. in chicago you walked to the corner and the bus would pick you up.and that's another thing.i live in clayton county and we only got a bus system 5 years ago.the c-tran will only pick-up and drop-off at the bus stop signposts.normally you pull the line and the bus lets you off at the next corner. not here. you ride until you get to the next "official" bus stop. i shouldn't complain because it's only 3 routes. one goes to the courthouse/jail(they always put the jail in the suburbs, like we want to live next door to criminals anymore than city folk do), one goes to the college and the other to the mall. if you live on the way to one of those places and fortunately i do, you can take the bus. i still have to walk a mile,and i timed it with the car's odometer, to reach the closest stop, but it's better than nothing. i used to pay $20 1way to catch a cab to the airport for work. my mom would pick me up and charge me $50 a week to do so,(i love my mother, but you know she's half loanshark on her daddy's side and half extortionist on her mom's). my whole point is that it's hard looking for a job with no car. my sister went back to work for her old boss. he had some cash flow problems due to his second divorce and third marriage and closed the office. she lost 2 cars to the repo man while trying to find a job. now she makes him pay her in cash up front and works part-time. he was bouncing her paychecks.she's an office manager for his insurance company and she's won awards for selling the most policies in Ga, and She can't find a job either. I'm not going to lie being at home at first was fun. but once the money runs out it's like being locked up.your friends stop calling. they know you don't have money so they don't bother asking you out anymore. and when my car got repoed(i only had 4 more payments until i owned that bitch too) nobody wants to come get me because i live on the southside and they are on the northside.I actually taught my bf how to drive and took her and both of her roommates to get their licenses. didn't nobody say a thing when i was driving 90 minutes back and forth to see them or offer me gas money and gas was $4 a gallon. sometimes they would meet me downtown and we'd go out, but then i'd have to take them back home because the trains and buses would've stopped for the night. now i don't have a ride they can't be bothered because i'm out the way. you really find out whose your true friends are when hardship comes knocking at the door. well, i feel good. i must of needed to vent. i really only wanted to talk about twitter and i got side-tracked big time.lol. here is my profile, i don't really say much, but it's fun reading other people's tweets.here's the address: www.twitter.com/rydangelblessed berydangel 8p check out my music on my zune profile at www.zune.net/rydangel

Near Death Of A Death Note Fan

I was so disappointed. I tried to go see the third Death Note movie L-Change The World. I took my last $11 and set off with 15 minutes to showtime. Luckily, I am only 10 minutes from the theatre. I had my Mom's car, and she has a handicapped parking sticker, which I shamelessly used and found a parking spot right in front of the doors. It was the last one too. I get up to the ticket counter and there is no line. It's 7:25pm on a wednesday night. But, the sun was still bright so it really seemed like early afternoon. I ask for one Death Note ticket, and the ticket guy goes $12.50. I pause. Now normally tickets are $8. I know I got $11.65. I now have to search my pockets and purse, and look for another $1. I know I don't have it, but I got to go through the motions. I then ask why so much and the guy goes because it's a special 1 day showing that's why it's so exspensive. He then says it's playing tomorrow at the same time. (It figures that I would get a nerdy ticket guy who knows about Death Note. i could tell by the smirk in his eyes. It would have been less embarassing if he didn't know the significance of this showing.) I do the let me go look in my car for change routine. I already know that the change holder(the ashtray) is empty. Normally it's full of change. Why is fate conspiring against me! I then call my bank to see if i have any money on my debit card. I don't. But, I forgot there is a charge for telephone banking,I made 2 calls because the first time I got disconnected. I'm now overdrawn, and have to pay a $26 overdraft fee, the haters. I get home and the family is like what happened, I explain and my sister is like grab a couple dollars from bank of mom, and go back, with the previews I should still make the show. I sadly explain that it's 3 hours, and that their are special behind the scenes interviews with the director and star actor. As well as the star english voice-over actor. No previews. They are like go tomorrow. I wanted to watch it in the original japanese with english subtitles!!!! I hate dubbed movies. The dub is always off. I had already watched the bootleg on the internet, but I wanted to show my support because it's rare for asian films to be shown stateside. Plus, if there was a good turn-out, maybe hollywood would import more foreign films. Also there is suppossed to be an american remake of Death Note, and fans world-wide have been petitioning for japanese actor Matsuyama Kenichi to be cast as L. He pwned that role for real. I can't see anybody else being L. So now it's thursday and i'm trying it again. I'm mad because my Mom went to get her hair done and it was after 7pm when she got home. Must buy a car, need job to buy car. Of course it's the end of the month and the po-po are out in force. I can't speed. And for some reason there is a long line of traffic. I don't know why all those people were going to fayetteville at that time. normally it's a relatively empty street.I get to the ticket counter and the girl acts like she doesn't know death note is playing. i'm highly annoyed, i get the ticket and run down the hall looking for the theatre. i go in the wrong door. i picked the side that leads upstairs. if i had know i have to do all that running and stairclimbing i would have worn sneakers. I take the first empty seat on the aisle. you know all the good middle seats are gone. everybody is spread out, and just because it's not a packed house they act like they're at home. people kicked off their shoes, put their feet up, they have a seat between each person. You know I'm just mad because i'm stuck on the end and there are people in front of me, so i can't put my feet up. The last movie i saw in the theatre was the transformers. i took the nephews. Tinseltown must have upgraded since then. The seats were leather and reclined. It was nice. i was afraid I would be the only black person there. i wasn't I was one of four. black people represent! woop! woop! So the lights go down the movie starts and there is NO SOUND. we're all WTF! They stop and try it again. Do you know the movie is a dvd, and the menu screen pops up. we were all mad. we could have watched the dvd at home. it took them a half and hour to fix. first they get the sound going then there is no picture. murphy's law was in full effect. everyone was yelling at the projector guy. tinseltown has gotten smart, there is a wall between the seats and the projector window. if we could have reached him, it would have gotten ugly. for $12.50 I expected more than this. Of course you know I had to go to the bathroom. I had cooked barbecue ribs,grilled chicken breasts, brocoli, and rice and deviled eggs for dinner. The deviled eggs did me in. i'm allergic, but i loved them anyway. it was good. but i got the bubble guts. so i'm trying to hold it, because at the beginning it was announced that a keyword would be displayed, and if you went online and entered the code you would win Kenichi Matsuyama's autograph. I know that with my luck, the word would be shown while i'm in the john. now i don't know about you, but after paying $12.50 for an $8 movie, i'm going to stay until the lights go out for real. People were leaving once the credits rolled. At the beginning it was announced to remain in your seats until the credits finished for bonus material, and sure enough there was an extra scene. just like the x-man movies, that extra scene gives you a hint about the next movie. they must not have been true die-hard death note fans if they didn't know about it. The special feature starts, and i'm praying i don't have an accident because i haven't seen the behind the scene features, and can't possibly leave for a bathroom break. It was very fascinating listening to the actor and director's insight on the development of the movie and it's characters. and the boy who played near, this was his first movie. he did really well to be a newbie. at the end they showed the website for the contest. I run out of there, trying to get home to use the bathroom. i didn't want to go in the movies, because i knew i would have to sit a spell. it was 10:30 when i got out of there. i'm glad i'm only around the corner from the theatre. in all the rush to get home and use the bathroom, i forgot the website to enter the contest. my mind drew a complete blank. i got the answer, but can't remeber the entry site. that's the story of my life. i'll have cereal and no milk, kool-aid and no sugar peanut butter and no jelly. typical it's just typical.

Got Gas?

I survived the 2008 southern states gas shortage.
I have never in my life experienced something like this. I mean this is America. Land of the Free,Home of the Brave. Why can't I get some gas for my car? It'sbad enough I had to stop riding with the air conditioner on, and in hotlanta it's still 86F in October. Why no air? I CAN'T AFFORD IT BECAUSE GAS IS $4.29GAL!! I used to be able to fill my chevy cavelier up for $20, now it's $50 a week. But even still, I could at least find the gas when I needed it. Every place you went it was empty. Shell, BP,Quicktrip, Citgo,Exxon,all empty. And when you did find a place with gas, you had to wait forever to get some.I actually, had some old lady cut me off(after i waited 30 min) in her big old hearsemobile. I was too salty. All the stations looked like ghost towns. I mean what are we in Iraq for? And don't tell me it's to liberate the Iraqi people or to find weapons of mass destruction. It's all about control of the oil fields. so why don't i have any gas? The powers that be claim hurricane ike caused Texas to stop production in their off-shore refineries. Texas supplies all of southeastern america. I don't believe it. When Katrina struck, we still had gas. Katrina hit states from Texas to Alabama. It' a plot by big business to prevent environmentalists from lobbying for governent sponsored alternative fuel sources. It's funny how this happened right before the presidential elections. hmm. What I really don't understand is why gas couldn't be shipped in from other parts of the country? This lasted almost a month. People were running out of gas by the side of the road. Is it too much to ask for some gas?
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