Time to get off the raggedy troll hype and talk about something else. I’m not investing any more time into mentioning her or anything related to her on my site. So…moving right along.

This diet is killing me today. I’m hungry, my mouth is dry as hell and my patience is extremely limited. I have been on the phone with this customer for 35 minutes now and all she is doing is yelling. As soon as I say something she just yells “alright alright okay okay i got it“. If you got it, why the hell are you on my phone? This is likely the most annoying part of my job. It’s hard as hell to instruct someone when they already think they have all of the answers. I always want to say “If you know how to do it, why are you calling technical support?“. Some of these people are just entertaining. I put them on mute and let them ramble along while I cuss they asses out via the mute button. One day I’ma slip and not push the button correctly. *crossing fingers* The worst is the one who tells you that they don’t think that’s going to work or they think thats the wrong answer. Umm…did you go through 3 weeks of training for this job? Have you been working here for 2 and a half years? Do you get the same repetitive question 30 times a day? Then how the hell do you know? Cause lets not forget…you called technical support!

I have promised myself that no matter how easy the job or the money….this will surely be my last position as a phone representative. I don’t see how people do this for a life time. And I’ve been doing it for 10 years. SMH. I need a position where I sit at my desk either doing paper work or logging information into the computer. Ooo..maybe something out in the field to make the day go faster. I’m really trying to consider what career I may tackle once I get back to Atlanta. Cause this shit right here…this shit right here </Katt Williams> this ain’t it!

Have you ever had a job that made you wanna pull your freaking hair out?
What kinda of techniques did you do to stay calm?
Better yet, do you call technical support and go off on the reps? LOL!!

50 mintues later and guess what…she still running her mouth. *rolls eyes* I don’t think I’ve said anything outside of “Mmhmm…Okay…Sorry to hear that” in the last 15 minutes. This is insane. I want a cupcake! (hella random)

Oh yeah, I added the option back on the site to register for updates. It’s in the sidebar.

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One day I would like to understand what goes thru people’s mind when they decide to copy someone else’s hard work and claim it as their own. I have been in the website & design game for nearly 9 years. I have never (not even one time) taken something from another site and claimed it as my own work. I have never copied website codes in order to have my site look exactly like someone else’s. I have never duplicated any design, codes or layout from anybody then said I made it. NEVER! As designers, and I use that term so loosely, we all feed off each other. It’s called “inspiration”. Sometimes we see things that we like and want to learn how to do. So we try to duplicate it to learn the technique. Most designers will never duplicate anything then post it like they came up with the idea. It’s usually for reference or to earn how to do more. I for one, always give credit where credit is due. If there is something on a site that I like and the site owner is offering it as resource item, I will credit the source. Seems like the right thing to do right? It is. You didn’t make it, so credit the person who spent their time creating it.

This bring me to this…my site has been duplicated several times in the past. I had one e-pal copy my Biography page because she liked the setup. I was a little disappointed but we discussed it and in the end, she changed it up as much as she could. But because she and I are cool, I just gave up on the thought of asking her to delete it and left well enough alone. A short time later someone else in my blog circle had went to the site I got my toon from for my “Riding Hood” theme. The person who informed me was madder then I was. I couldn’t get upset considering I didn’t make the toon. Sure I was annoyed that she was using the same thing I was, but I didn’t make it and I listed the resource, so she was free to do what she wanted to do. Plus, her site looked nothing like mine. Case closed.

Not long after having my “Riding Hood” theme up a certain someone who shall remain nameless (take a wild guess) decided to put up a layout after she and I had a major e-beef. Her layout looked so much like mine that she might as well had just slapped my name at the top and said I did it. She tried so hard to copy my layout that it was obvious to anyone who saw it that she was biting my style. It was downright disrespectful. She even had the nerve to put my name in her credits and say she was “inspired” by my layout. Inspiration is one thing, trying your best to duplicate my whole site is another. Because we were already beefing at the time I don’t even think I bothered mentioning it. I just let it go because by then I was sick of reading about her and/or talking about her. And I just wanted to get online without drama.

So today…I’m chilling online and get an IM from this chick I’ve made e-pals with. She informs me that the previously mentioned biter has taken a bite out of my site once again. Actually this would be the 3rd time because she also stole my entire banned page. Which by the way I confronted her on and she admitted to stealing it but said she’d take it down. I dunno if she ever did cause I’m no longer banned from her site. I’m sure after she reads this I will be tho, so we shall see. So anyway, I go to the girls site to see for myself. Mind you I haven’t spoken to this girl since we killed our beef months ago, and I damn sure haven’t been to her site since then either. But low and behold…there is my entire Biography page & Domain page duplicated and replaced with her own info. Even the sidebar has been stolen and looks exactly like mine minus a few things. GRR! I decide to IM her hoping maybe if I step to her politely she’ll take it down.

(12:22:58 PM) ME: yo
(12:23:17 PM) HER: hey
(12:23:31 PM) Monika: you there?
(12:23:51 PM) HER: yah i am here
(12:24:16 PM) ME: wassup with your bio page yo?
(12:24:21 PM) ME: “HER NAME seems to have copied your biography page on your website http://HERSITE.com” (I pasted what I had been told via IM)
Monika: wtf
(12:24:31 PM) HER: omg i had that there
(12:24:42 PM) Monika: no the hell you did not
(12:24:42 PM) The following message could not be sent because the user is offline: no the hell you did not

So much for trying to resolve it quietly. Still, I try to convince myself not to blog about this. So as I’m about to close her site, I notice her theme is the same theme I have. So I start looking at it harder because I want to see what she’s changed. Reason being the last time she used the theme, when she tried to copy my “Riding Hood“, the coding was all the original defaults and it was messy. I literally said out loud “Yoooo! WHAT THE FUCK?!?“. I immediately recognize my shit. She has copied my CSS code. I know this because I sat at my computer for 3 days coding the free theme the way I wanted it. I had saw the theme on a resource site for free themes but the fonts were very big. So to make it my own, I changed every single detail of the codes. Not only that but when I view the source of her codes, it’s mine. There are things in my code that are NOT included in the default code. There are things I inputted myself that she would not know how to do or what they are for. Some of the codes are for some plugins I have that aren’t even in use. How dare this girl creep through my website and steal my entire fucking code!!

Woo-fucking-saa! I cannot understand for the life of me how you call yourself a designer yet you steal everything. And to purposely keep duplicating my site is way beyond admiration or inspiration…its stalkerish as hell. To have absolutely no creativity of your own to the point where you have to steal someone else’s hard work is truly pathetic. I’m throughly disgusted by the whole thing.

What happened to the days when people actually designed their own sites? Coded their own shit? Got insprired but not to a point of duplicating? Since when did it become common practice to copy someone’s entire site then brag like its all your work? How old are you? Geezus!

I need a drink…this girl done irritated me.

And since I know you will be here to read this, I mean you love my site so surely you must be here everyday, feel free to comment and explain yourself since you decided to signoff when I came at you directly. Don’t be scared now. You remember when you told me you were scared to comment on my site…this time, I invite you to explain yourself. Like seriously…kick back, get your thoughts together and EXPLAIN.

(081308) Word is she’s talking about me on her site.  I don’t know cause I’m not looking.  Something about me “stealing a wallpaper to make this theme”.  I didn’t steal anything.  I know the artist on Deviant Art and checked with them prior to using it.  Show me where I have claimed that as my own image and I’ll hand you a mirror and show you a liar.  Its even credited on my domain page.  Oh and I have a man.  You will never see me discuss my personal love life on the internet.  That’s our business…not anybody else’s. Everything is not for public consumption. And why are you worried about who I chat with online?  Mad because nobody is talking to you? Hmm..jealous much!!

OMG everytime I think I’m getting better with this blog thing, it takes me forever and a day to update again. GRR! Blame my schedule not my heart. I’ve finally moved out of my apartment on August 3rd. It was a hectic ass weekend yo. I swear I thought I wasn’t going to make it. I spent the entire day Friday and Saturday packing up last mintue items and arranging stuff for the moving guys so it would be easy to load the truck. I was totally pissed when Saturday afternoon my mover arrived and hour and a half late. The storage company where I was taking my things closed at 6pm and he got there at 430pm. I was looking at him like “What is the fucking point?”. I had so much stuff. It was going to take way more than an hour and a half to move me out of my place into a storage unit. So he had no choice but to come back the next day. Which meant not only did I have to call off work (I work every Sunday), but I also had to get a new storage unit cause the one I paid for was closed on Sundays. Annoyed is an understatement. But finally at about 330pm I was done. I finished getting last minute little stuff and locked the door for the last time at 11pm.

Now I’m at my moms house. So far so good. We are a close family so we haven’t had any major arguments yet. It’s only been a week so I’m still crossing my fingers that we’ll be ok. I’m not too worried tho. Kimoni and I are coolio! My mom and sister enjoy having us around and I do little stupid stuff like call my moms cell from the living room and ask “Ya miss me?” LOL or I’ll IM my sister from my bed knowing she less then 10 feet away in the office and ask “Whatcha doin? Where Mommy at?” LMAO! It’s dumb but we laugh so whatever.

OooOOoo… I’ve started a weight loss program. I actually started on August 1st. (I knew I forgot to blog about that here.) I made a Video Blog on YouTube about it. I was planning to do it everyday but I’m way too busy to remember to do it every night. So now I’m vlogging via YouTube every Friday. So far ya girl has lost 6lbs. Might not seem like a lot but it’s such a big deal for me. I followed my diet plan last week and lost 6lbs. Shit…I’m happy!! So this week the goal is to stick to the diet and introduce a real exercise regime for at least 30 minutes a day. My job has a free gym so I’m going to start using it today. I’m headed over there at lunch. i might record a little if no one is over there but me. LOL!

That’s all for now…I shall return! For now, www.dopemb.com XOXO

Let the ranting begin.  I really don’t know why I do this to myself.  I have a ton of things to do and not much has been done. I am supposed to move out of my apartment by Friday August 1st and I have only packed 6 boxes and cleaned out my room and the little room (spare bedroom used for storage).  Here I sit at work like thinking I should have called in.  I’ma be up all night doing Kimoni’s room.  Grr!! I didn’t notice before when people would tell me that my son was spoiled.  It took me cleaning up the little room to realize he gets any and everything he wants.  I found toys not even taken out of the box.  There were 3 larger boxes full of toys…just nothing but toys.  Things I haven’t even seen in years.  Toys I didn’t even know he had.   Who knew that we had Connect Four and Operation?  I sure didn’t.  I don’t even remember buying them.  And one had the nerve to have a Christmas bow on it.  LMFAO!!!

I’m so glad I’m not taking all this junk with us.  My goal is to get it all boxed for donation to Out Of The Closet.  I’m a little excited about that.  After seeing it on mutiple TV shows I decided to check it out to see where the money goes.  I was elated to see that Out Of the Closet is owned and operated by AIDS Healthcare Foundation.  Absolutely perfect!  Anything I can do to help right.  That’s another thing I’m procrastinating on…its time for my 6 month check up and I have yet to make to appointment.  I hate going to the OBGYN.  It kinda grosses me out for some reason.  I could never imagine looking up in coochies everyday for a living.  YIKES!

The other thing I definitely keep lagging on is this site.  As you can see, rather then create a new look, I simply recycled an older one.  I actually love this design.  It’s always been a favorite.  That and I’m all out of creative juice.

I’m off to listen to some music.  It’s very slow here at work today.  Be Easy!!

Hey Bitches! I know I have been super neglectful of my blog.  I’ve been all wrapped up into DopeMB that I honestly forgot about this place.  LOL DopeMB is moving along GREAT!  So if you haven’t joined…hurry the fuck up and join dammit! I’m such a sweetheart aren’t I?

Well.. I have finally decided to cut the crap and move back home.  I have been procrastinating for 7 years on moving back to Atlanta. Here I sit, 27, single & a mother. I may be a few years late but I’m ready to live my life the way I want to. I’m not exactly living up to my full potential here in Cali. At the end of the day I’m not happy. So I’m going back to were I know happiness awaits me. My plans are already in motion. Kimoni and I are moving out of our apartment and back in with my mom for a few months. Most likely, no more than 2 months. I’m selling everything I own except our clothes and miscellaneous junk we love. My best friend is moving too so we are going to rent a house together for a few years then branch off and do our own thing. I’m hoping she moves before me just to make it easier but if not I’ll go first, get a house and then she’ll come down. I still have to decide if I’m going to drive my car home ($2000 for a U-Haul w/car track) or just have it shipped ($1200 to ship car). Depending on who moves first will probably determine this part. Cause I have to ship all my stuff back to Atlanta. So I’ma need somewhere to put it since it’ll be in storage til we leave. But, it’s looking like mid September I will officially be an Atlien again. OMG that sounds so bliss! I’m extremely excited about the change. Plus my mom and sis will move in 3 years when my sister graduates high school. It’s going to change a lot of things for me and Kimoni but I couldn’t be more ready to take on the challenge. I’m ready. I keep saying that and I never thought I would mean it so much.

Other then that, not much is going on with me. Enjoying life and whats its offering me at the moment. I really didn’t have a whole lot to blog about. I just kinda got sick of people asking me why I don’t blog anymore. I do people…just get caught up sometimes. I’m go check out my blog fam and see what I been missing. In the meantime…be sure to check out DMB. Click the banner!