IF I HAD IT IN ME

So here I am about to post some exciting news on my facebook page when I get a message saying that my account has been disabled.  WHAT IN THE WORLD!!!

First someone hacks our MinDog & Metch pag after hacking MinDog's personal facebook account and then they idable mine and send me the following email:

Your account has been disabled for violating the Facebook Terms. We have determined that your profile does not authentically represent you, which violates our policies. According to our policies, your profile:


• Must list your real name and date of birth


• Cannot impersonate anyone or anything (for example, profiles created to represent celebrities, pets, ideas, or inanimate objects)


• May not be used to contact strangers for business or dating purposes


Facebook is a community where people connect and share with friends using their real identities. Claiming to be someone else, creating multiple accounts, or falsely representing an organization undermines the trust and safety of the community.


We enforce our policies when we encounter violations on the site or receive reports of violations. If other inauthentic accounts currently exist on the site, it is only because they have not yet been reported and removed.


Unfortunately, we will not reactivate your account for any reason.


For more information about our policies, please read the Facebook Community Standards:https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/


Thanks,
Facebook Team



I can't with facebook.  I really CAN NOT!  After being on the site for years my account has now been disabled and a hacker has taken over our facebook page.  GREAT!!!

I really think it may be time to end this relationship... except that may not be an option... UGH!!!

If I had it in me I would launch a campaign.


UPDATE:  The powers that be over at facebook reactivated my personal page.  Now all I want are the MinDog & Metch page and the gWeiChi page returned.  Fingers crossed and hoping...

Facebook IS KILLING ME RIGHT NOW

Someone hacked into the MinDog & Metch facebook page. They posted over 30 pictures of their stupid sneakers. Okay fine, if I was a hacker I would go around hacking pages with tens of thousands of likes and/or fans. If I was a hacker I wouldn't hack a page with 67 likes and/or fans. What sense does that make?

 67 isn't a lot but since we aren't famous basketball players, movie stars, a chain store or coupon sharing mamas it took a long time and lots of effort to get those 67 likes and/or fans. We were beginning to build!!! Dare I say we were on the verge of having 70 likes... a milestone here at ShittyFab headquarters.

 Am I annoyed with the dumb hacker? HECK YEAH!!! More annoying than the dumb hacker is facebook's help department. Apparently there is no way for us to get the page back. More than annoying!!! Why doesn't facebook have a forum or something to help users in this type of situation? This only happens thousands of times a day.

 My true love for facebook never existed but now any inkling of love, like even, that I may have had for the social media giant has been turned to dust.

 KILLING ME! FACEBOOK IS KILLING ME RIGHT NOW!!!

UPDATE:  A while after posting this  I got facebook to remove the photos that were added by the silly hacker/spammer .  That's a start... now to reclaim the page...

G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S

Isn't she lovely?

To see more pics and read a bit CLICK HERE or check out the Los Angeles Times magazine.

In 58 Days...

Did you know we have a facebook page?  Stop by and hit the "like" button!

I'll be Rocking The Red Pump

As I was doing my blog stroll I landed on Looms, Lids and Layers.  A badge on Rhonda's side bar caught my attention and next thing I know I was signing up and grabbing a badge for our side bar.

Readers, followers and anyone who landed on this page  by mistake click here and sign up! We all know how devastating HIV/AIDS has been to the world community so let's add one more way to the list of ways in which we are already working to increase awareness, find a cure and be in support of those affected (that would be all of us).

Ladies, let's ROCK THE RED PUMP!

 

"While great progress has been made in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, women still represent 27% of all new AIDS diagnoses, with African American women accounting for 66% of that group." -theredpumpproject.org

Are you willing to ROCK THE RED PUMP?

Alright

Do I even need to comment?  You already know how happy we are for Aunty/Cousin/Sister/Mentor/Friend/ soon to be scene partner (in our heads) Viola Davis.  Doesn't she look gorgeous?  I wonder what the shoes looked liked...

Congrats Aunty (in our heads).  I'm dreaming big and fierce!  Shout out to Octavia Spencer and all the other beautiful actors who showed up and out at the SAG awards last night.  WEERRKK!

Real Thoughts

Sometimes I'd like to be an asshole.  It's easier to be an asshole.  But assholes ain't pretty and I'm striving for gorgeous here.

Don't judge my real thoughts...

Getting Ready

We are getting ready for season two of Shitty Fabulous Lives THE SERIES so please pardon the lapse in eventful, thought provoking blog posts (yeah I'm stretching it with those adjectives but that's how I do)...  Everything about season two of THE SERIES is going to be so good... at least we think so...

Photography by Lelund Durond Thompson

Metch is wearing Peaches Earrings, the Queen Mother Necklace, the Sweet Thang Ring, and the Pickaninny Necklace (as a bracelet).  All of the fab pieces are original designs by coal-scuttled-blondes and can be found in The ShittyFab Shop.

Photography by Lelund Durond Thompson

Evan Xavier and Mommy MinDog.  Amina is wearing the Peola Earrings by coal-scuttled-blondes and a C. SNUG LOOP by C. (Period).  Both items are original, handmade designs and can be found in The ShittyFab Shop.  

Photography by Lelund Durond Thompson

MinDog is wearing the Peola Earrings; Metch is wearing the Market Woman Necklace and Sweet Thang Ring.  All three pieces are original, handmade designs by coal-scuttled-blondes and can be found in The ShittyFab Shop.


What's going on in your world?

A BANG

A bang that's  fireworks worthy... This is what the new year started with- A BANG!

Or should I say a blast right into business?  There is so much to do and so much to tell...

We are twenty days into the year and I feel like it's already 2013.  It should at least be February considering all we've had to accomplish in the world of Shitty Fabulousness...



In twenty days this is what I have learned:

• Being self taught is so overrated- every time I turn around I need to learn something new because if I don't I'll have to pay someone to do it and you can't pay anyone when you don't have money so it's best to teach yourself and pray for the best... but ugh contracts... it's best not to be self taught in that area...
• Lawyers exist for a reason
• Becoming legal can make one feel as if you could be/ should be locked up at any moment
• Doing business with friends is better than people say it is.  When I get cranky I don't have to pretend I'm not... energy saved when you don't have to pretend
• I am so tired of fuschia but I can't seem to let it go
• Get people to sign on the dotted line ASAP
• Budgets are never correct, I mean even ones that are revised 10 times
• It is possible to do 9284.3 things all at the same time
• Smiling is not overrated

2012 is already showing itself for what it is!  FRUITFUL.

How have the first twenty days been for you?  

P.S. - so many good things are about to be put on sale in The ShittyFab Shop... you are going to want everything in there!  Also season 2 of THE SERIES is going to premiere on April 1, 2012 so watch season 1 while you can...

It's The O One Two (2012)

Do you feel like you get a new start when a new year begins?

Is 2012 a chance to do things you've always said you were going to do but haven't done yet, another opportunity to see the best in others and give the best of yourself, a time to make new commitments and check your progress with those already in place, a moment to get rid of the "ish" you no longer want and embrace all things you do want?

That's exactly how we feel...

Happy New Year!  Looking forward to all that 2012 will bring and all that we will get to share with you... I think we might be feeling change... as in we might be making a few changes very soon.   Stay tuned.

Clink your imaginary glasses with our imaginary glasses and let the twenty twelve festivities begin!

...oh and how did you bring in the new year?  If you tell us, we'll tell you what we were doing...

Merry Merry

Things Mommy Said/Says

Many have heard the phrase, "I brought you into this world and I'll take you out."  Maybe your mom or dad said it.  Maybe you remember when Bill Cosby said it to Theo in the clip below (one of my all time favorite episodes).

Today, after hearing a parent say that phrase to her misbehaving child I got to thinking about all the unintentionally funny things my mom said to me in my younger years... and now even.

Oh, how my mom loved to turn things into people or parts of people; it was usually my father and occasionally a cousin.  Her own grand form of personification.

Once when she saw me litter she said, "if you don't pick up your father's nose..."  I never littered again.

When I forgot to put my books away she said, "Gwei, come here and put your  father's backside in its place."  Didn't leave a book out for years.

When I would cry starvation in an attempt to get her to buy me outside food before we got home she'd ask, "are you really that hungry?"  "Yes," I'd reply.  "You'll be just fine.  You have enough adipose tissue to sustain you for decades."  The first time she said that I found my face in a dictionary reading about adipose tissue.  My mom had effectively played me.

"In histology, adipose tissue or body fat or fat depot or just fat is loose connective tissue composed of adipocytes. It is technically composed of roughly only 80% fat; fat in its solitary state exists in the liver and muscles. Adipose tissue is derived from lipoblasts. Its main role is to store energy in the form of lipids, although it also cushions and insulates the body."    - from Wikepedia

Mommy had a knack for playing me and fooling me too.  Every time she asked if I was really that hungry I would think when I said yes she was going to give in and get me a Happy Meal.  That never happened.  And every time she mentioned adipose tissue and made me wait to eat a home cooked meal I thought I was being punished.  Didn't know how good I had it...

When I would forget to close a door she'd ask, "did you mean to leave your father's mouth open?"

That woman is funny.

As a child I want was my favorite phrase.  Still is.  I want so many things...

Every time I would ask my mom for something if her answer was no I would say, "but I want it."  Her response was always, "lucky for you, you're old enough for your wants not to hurt."  Hmmm... I still don't know how I feel about that one.

Has your mother (or father or guardian) ever used any of these phrases?  Similar ones? Does she, he or your family have phrases that only they use?  Please share.