Well, since I've personally declared today "I Can't Stand My Sister Day," I'm going to use this opportunity to pick on her one last time and hope she never has enough brain cells to find my blog and read this post. Otherwise, it's all together possible that she'll kill me in my sleep. What's the topic of this complaint? Her MySpace page. I hate it. It's all pink, glittery, and upbeat, which is so not her. She's a lot closer to the Princess of Darkness, not Marcia Brady. The site also has a ton of advertisements, widgets, and YouTube videos so it takes about five minutes to load. When you're spying on your sister and you're scared she's going to walk in at any minute and catch you looking at the page, those five minutes could very well mean whether you live to see your 33rd birthday. Worst of all, 99 percent of the pictures show her drinking alcohol, usually with some misspelled, drunk sounding caption below it.
Why does that offend me? Well, try my sister doesn't have a job. She's not trying to get a job. She never cares to have a job. However, my mother cares that she does. In fact, she dreams of the day that it's just her and her 14-year-old blind dog sitting on the couch watching Bones and House reruns again. That day will never happen if my sister's future employers check out her MySpace page either pre- or post-interview. They're going to see that every single thing on there is about her getting drunk, and they're going to assume one of two things. One, she's going to be calling in "sick" a lot, when all she really is is hungover. Two, she could potentially show up for work drunk. Thus, they're not going to give her the time of day.
Oh, and I did I mention that one of the YouTube videos is about this guy who used to have a job but he drank so much that he got fired, and now all he does is drink all day? Well, it's on there, right under the category "Heroes." That video explains my sister in a nutshell, not the pink, glittery decor and certainly not her motto at the top, "You only have one life. Live it to the fullest." Thanks to MySpace, we all know how she's doing the latter--one shot at a time.
