2010 a Year in review

So we are right at the last few days of 2010 and I have to say I am SO FREAKING GLAD THIS YEAR IS OVER!!! Now I know.. i know; it could have been much worse, but it feels like the challenges I have faced this year are enough to make up a few lifetimes! And just recently I have decided to STOP comparing my life over the past several years and just focus more on the present. Because I honestly have been driving myself crazy... and who wants that? Not me!! That's for sure.

Jobs
I started this year with a job and I'm ending this year with a job... so that's good right?!? Again, something I am trying to do or NOT do is define myself by having a job or not. It is just soooo very stressful to not have a job and still have to maintain a living. My standard of living has fallen significantly. I have been on a 'needs only' basis for longer than I care to admit. So it has been really easy for me to talk myself out of any extras because I truly could not afford it. But I think it has made me a better person... at least I hope.

I maintained my grind with all my 50eleven jobs. Still a little discontent that I haven't found a little bar to be bartender at; but that just means I gotta get my stuff together and open my own little spot. One of my temp gigs, I sorted the little tags that they put on the hanger for suit sizes. I really almost had a breakdown as I laughed about how the hell I was gonna put that on my resume! It was funny, sad, and very humbling.

This year I have worked with some GREAT people and some horrible people and I always wonder how the horrible ones got to be where they are. Yet another thing that could drive a chick crazy. But Karma, as I always say, is a bitch, so I believe I am making up for something(s) I have done but I know my reward will be great at some point.

Travel
I am a chick who likes to travel several times a year so the fact that Pittsburgh, my home town, was a major destination was sadder than sad!! LOL Not that I do not enjoy being with my family and specifically my mother, I needed a beach! And I am going to make it to at least one beach next year so that is something to look forward to. I did make it to Atlanta this spring, and I had a blast that weekend as I helped celebrate my cousin soror's 25 distinguished years in Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. I need to get my butt active again so that there will be a celebration for me in about 10 years... oh wait... 9 years!! I been a soror for 16 years!! WOW!!!

So the destination next year is Dominican Republic. I have a big cheesy grin on my face as I type about all the beautiful men that are going to be there. Me gusta un latino!! See I gotta get my Spanish together!! I would also like to make it to Miami and Chicago and New Orleans... but the budget may only include 1 good trip, and that is really ok with me. As long as a beach is involved, OH and some fruity libations, it's good!!

I just tortured myself by watching the Best Beaches in Mexico and now Jamaica undercover is on. It is nice to look at a beach even if it's just on the TV

Family
All of my nieces and nephews are getting SO BIG!! I even kept my littlest nephew at 2 even though he is 3 because I just couldn't keep up with all the... well I don't know what my excuse is for that one. My oldest nephew is 22 and that make me gasp when I say it out loud. I mean he is legal and EVERYTHING. I just can't take it all.

We had our family reunion this year and it was great to see everyone and meet family members I had never met before. I enjoyed the weekend but I was one of the hostesses so it was 'working' vacation. 2 people who came didn't make it through the end of the year. You just never know when sometimes the last time you see someone is really going to be the last time!

Music
I didn't buy to much stuff this year, but I did just get Fantasia and Kem. Both cd's are pretty darn good. It just floors me when some artist 'make it' and others don't. I still don't get the whole Justin Bieber thing, or Lady Gaga which were more mainstream; as for the R&B folks... i don't get the Keri Hilson, Melanie Fiona and Ciara thing. They all are just so regular to me, like nothing all that special.
But then again I love my independent artists so i guess I like the more different people. Like who?!?! Well I'm glad you asked!! I just discovered or rediscovered N'Dambi. She is really slept on, like many artist, but that song 'Can't Hardly Wait' I just LOVE IT!! There of course is a potty mouth version that I can never seem to find... but here's the cd sampler. Now what's crazy is this is kinda how I was with Eric Robeson, although with him I saw him perform several times and then I became like a mega fan. I have yet to see her perform, but it's like I've know she was around but just kinda 'discovered' her again. What I do know is she was one of the background singers for Erykah Badu.

Nothing else happened that seemed to big on the music scene for me.

Men
**LOUD OBNOXIOUS SIGH** Ok so not one of my stellar years for relationships. I mean all I need is one good one right? One I should have just kept that nonsense right in the past, the other I think I thought I wanted to be with him... but well what had happened is we just didn't click (and that is putting it mildly and very PC).

AND... moving on!!

The System - aka trying to get over...
This was not my goal this year, but I tell you when you make a call where they either put you on hold or disconnect you altogether or give you a bad number to get to a person who never calls you back to get some basic services, yeah you feel like working the system for all it's worth. And then after a few days of cooling off and rethinking just what the hell you are doing... you try again and get someone who actually can and will help and so your issues get resolved. It's a labyrinth. What's bad is with every THING (housing assistance, taking class to make myself marketable, and most recently my janky health insurance) it can drive a chick to drink... and since I already drink I DRANK MORE!!! And each of the various services that are set in place to help people, you have to figure out what hoop to jump through and then figure where they want you to jump... it's all so very exhausting. For the house you have to tell your whole life story only for them to want more documentation only for them to lose it so you have to start the process all over. With the class, because I had a job (even though grossly underemployed) I was told I was 'employable' so the state couldn't authorize me to use money set aside for people who are EXACTLY in my situation. AND lastly the insurance... they dropped me then the labwork got submitted but now they picked my back up and to be honest I have no good idea what I'm supposed to pay; so I'ma give it a few more weeks before I call and see.

The Good and The Bad
For what it's worth as low as I have felt and been, I still think I had more ups than downs. I mean I still have my house, my health, and my sanity AND that's really saying something. My goal for the past several years has been to be a better me... and I still think that's a lofty goal, but I might need to be a little more specific. I think I'm going to start working on my bucket list. One of those goals is to run a marathon, and since i like neither running NOR sweating this one is going to be a challenge. Another one is to meet Regis Philbin... I don't know why I just want to. So I might have to go hang out in random spots in NYC.

That's it... my year in quick review format for all to see... err I mean my 5 readers to see!!

no mas!!

I am sitting here trying to get myself into the Christmas spirit so I turned my Pandora to the 'Holiday' station. I have no good idea who Olivia Olson is, but she just did the Mariah Carey song 'All I want for Christmas is you'. And then last night as I was driving home, I think it was Chris Brown's version of 'This Christmas'. Now we ALL know Donny Hathaway is the ONLY and by only I mean ONLIEST one who can do that song. Both of his versions were sufficient and then some. I only even ½ way like Luther's version and Luther can redo (or rather could) anyone's song and make it his own. Why do these artists think they can touch the originals. It's almost like HOW FREAKING DARE YOU!?! Write an original song and make that your own! OR like my nephew's music teacher does, she come up with these songs aint NOBODY ever heard before, but they musta not just caught on back in the day when they came out.

The next song on my jolly quest to insert some commercialized Christmas into my life is 'Last Christmas' done originally by Wham or was it just George Michael… now Jimmy Eat World is doing some farfanagled version… UMM I am getting slightly irritated which is defeating the purpose of trying to get in a good mood. I mean you know not that I am in a particularly bad mood, I'm really not. But hey It's Christmas not X-mas which gets more on my nerves than anything. We must not forget Christ in Christmas…

I am digging Michael Buble's version of 'Let it Snow'

Okay I had to turn off the Pandora… it was getting to be too much of what I didn't want to hear

 

random 12.15

I have 1 whole follower!!! yeah me!! Thanks Brina for always being there for me! I LOVE YOU GURL!! I have missed a whole YEAR cause my god son is 3 not 2!! LAWD I'm getting old!

ok onto general randomness and merriment... OH I KNOW

The Dominicans
My new favorite thing are those Dominican women who can roll the hell outta ya hair then dry the hell outta your hair and you leave outta their spot like DAMN I LOOK PRETTY GOOD!!! (had to pause real quick to go make a pom/lime martini... I'm feeling a little festive :) It has always been such a wonderment to me why it always takes sooooooooo long in a black hair shop. You make the appt, you get there on time and yet many times you just WAIT... and wait and wait. And who really has time for that?? I remember as a kid being dropped off by my dad in the morning and then picked up by my mom in the afternoon. And I had alot of hair so it was always a blessing when I got to go because no matter how still I sat my mom was going to find an ear or a neck to burn when she hot combed it. LOL the good old days? ANYWAYS you just show up at the shop. The woman who probably speaks the least amount of English gets you set up either in the shampoo bowl or at the chair if you are getting a chemical. Then the woman who has the license starts working on you in about 5 minutes! I mean that has been the max time I had to wait. I am going to this one particular shop on the recommendation of my cousin who has a baby and demanding work schedule and no extra time to just be waiting in a damn salon. PLUS her hair always looks good. I would take the thriving nature of a NON American to get this thing going. I just think we are so complacent as Americans. We are so stuck in mediocrity sometimes. But you know, not all of us.

Work
The ongoing joke started and perpetuated by my, is that I have 50eleven jobs, which just means I have a lot of them. And now thanks to Little Baby Jesus, I can add yet one more company to my exhaustively long list of places that I have worked. I did a kind of filler resume to include everywhere I have worked in the past 10 years, and it is slightly embarrassing. I mean to an extent that it really is a whole lot of places which can be good AND bad. So my current dilemma is that I just don't know how to take the folks I work with now. They are really a great bunch of folks, but I just feel like I am going to say the wrong thing or offend the wrong person. It has taken me several years and a few lost jobs to learn to just not blurt out everything that comes to my random mind. And this can be a task. So now mostly i just sit there with a goofy grin so as not to say anything crazy. Cause you know I have a comment about EVERYTHING but I have to remind myself that either 1.) THEY AINT TALKING TO YOU or 2.) THEY ARE REALLY NOT ASKING FOR YOUR OPINION!! So this chick has to pump her brakes more often than not.

I would really like to go into some juicy detail about some of the extremes I have had while working, but i guess that would be kinda crossing a line. BUT here's a few... being told I had to take my acrylic nails off because the were too wild (I was the only black chick in the office... come to think of it only black PERSON including the maintenance dudes... do you smell discrimination?); being written up for non-verbal communications (I still scratch my head about that one... which I guess is non verbal LOL); having a weekly meeting with my supervisor who then said we didn't communicate enough (too much weirdness in that office); only being able to use blue ink pens because EVERYONE knows it business blue not business black :/ ooookay!!!

Yeah...

Housewives
nothing really to report other than I guess now Cynthia is saying the friendship contract was a joke, but both she and Peter went out of their way to appease Ne Ne and that heifer still acted a fool!! Good girlfriends are hard to come by so I get where Cynthia was coming from. OOOOHHH and Sheree... acting?!?! Come on really? And how you just go out and buy an Astin Martin?? If you really got it like that, why are you being wasteful?? Cause she mentions err chance she gets that she doesn't get child support. so I just wonder where all this money is coming from, and clue a chick in so I too can be all willy nilly with my funds too!!

The Singoff
I am in freaking LOVE with this show!! It is featuring all acapella groups and now we are in the voting phase. I am voting for Committed, they are church boys who now are singing 'worldy' music. It's funny because they seem sooooo virginal, but I wonder a few things, cause they aren't the most masculine men, BUT they are all cutie pies (ESPECIALLY the one with the gap (LAWD gap tooth men LOVE IT!!) and the bass dude who kinda looks like a dark skinded Hill Harper), and hopefully just pure at heart, but we all know church boys/men can be worse than the ones you find at the club, but I do wonder if they have girlfriends. Their 1st song was a song by Maroon 5, which sent shiver down my spine...leave it to youtube to hae what I need. HERE look!! As Shawn Stockman (Boyz to Men)... or the pussycat doll chick said, he had a musical orgasm!! And I guess maybe I did too!!!

So yes there are other groups who I also adored. The Whiffenpoofs were the team from Yale, whose, song the 1st show was just sickness!!

Groove for Thought were the team of music teachers and 1 of their daughters, who were just so jazzy. The competition was really stiff cause I was hoping they would be in the top, but they had a few missed notes.

On the Rocks... if I was a dude, I would totally want to hang out with them. They seem like a great bunch of dudes to hang out with. The started with a Lady Gaga song and got kicked off with Kyrie which I thought was really good. Actually their Swan Song was really good too... which I can't seem to find so here's the Elton medley... ENJOY!!

Then you got Street Corner Symphony who are in the top 4. the lead singer dude had a record deal, but he just got dicked around, by the record company. So probably when a young teeny booper was being promoted his talent got lost in the sauce. So this was my favorite, Everybody Wants to Rule the World. It's Tears for Fears!! I realized how big an 80's geek I truly am; i passed this little test with flying colors:

You might be a child of the 80's if...

You have seen at least 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock. (I've seen them ALL and I own several VHS copies)
You know that another name for a keyboard is a "Synthesizer."
You'll always hold a special place in your heart for "Back to the Future." (1.21 jigga watts!!! have the 3 DVD set)
You know where to go if you "wanna go where everybody knows your name." (I might as well be cliff clavin)
You thought Molly Ringwald was REALLY cool. (Was there an 80's movie she WASN'T in?)(cause red hair was cool!!)
You know what "psych" means (always spelled it sike though LOL)

OH wait... where was I. The other top groups are Jerry Lawson and Talk of the Town and the Back Beats. Not really feeling the Back Beats although they ae the only top group with women in it. Talk of the town is good in an old timey barbershop quartet kinda way.

I will be downloading ALL the songs I like!!

I did not realize the hyper links took you completely out of the blog into the link... hmm how the heck do I fix that?? Or is that just a Google Chrome thing? Well so for now... watch the link the hit the back button to continue getting your dose of randomness! I just looked at a previous post with a Monica video in it. She had a lot of lightskinded men in her video... and then the dude from Ordinary People (John Legend video... whose real name is John Stephens LOL)is in that video. And where exactly do you go to find out the people in commercials and videos? The At&T Taco Party commercial makes me laugh just thinking about it! Eric does NOT seem creepy to me.. in fact I would like to know Eric and his taco eating self LOL.

funny random shit...
Meltdown

If you don't go to any other link... go to this last one!!!

thanksgiving and other randomness

thanksgiving
I'm always so grateful to have a place to go and a family to go to for all major (and minor) holidays. And it's great to add new people to the mix... in-laws, new babies, special friends (as my mother like to say). But THANK YOU LITTLE BABY JESUS when it's over!!! We managed to go through 2 boxes of wine and 2 regular sized bottles of zinfandel. And it wasn't bad it really wasn't but I just am reminded of why moving home not Pittsburgh necessarily, but specifically my mother's house. I love her so much but I just don't think we could ever live together for very long and on purpose.


Oprah
I am tryna catch up on my Oprah's that have been dvr'd over the past week or so. right now playing in the background is the one with Garth Brooks. I'm not a big country fan, let alone a Garth fan, but who doesn't know/love I got friends in LOW places?!?! It is a classic. And to be honest all my friends in HIGH places can't seem to help me so sometimes having those friends in LOW places is your best bet. The show before was a woman who married a convicted felon in prison. I really couldn't watch much of that because it was just tooo stupid. Now I am all for love in all sorts of circumstances, and having a connection with someone that you really just can't explain, but to marry someone with no chance of parole who killed people execution style is just a bit much for this chick to handle. And then she has a teenage son and I was like COME ON?!?! Then theres the Favorite things show **LOUD SIGH** I really just couldn't watch the first one. Oprah's rationale for not doing it last year just went completely out the window this year in an effort to make every show so freaking big for her final season. And I know she doesn't buy all this stuff, these companies give it to her and I'm sure they makes tons of sales after the fact so it all evens out, but sometimes I wonder where is MY fairy godmother?!?? Who's gonna grant my little measly wish. I just get so frustrated sometimes because I'm not really asking for much and yet I am in a pickle!! Some of it self imposed MOST of it because of this horrible economy where I have to interview for a lowly temp assignment that may pay 10 bucks only to smile and look great and tell these people my whole life story which may be too much because they think I'm not a fit and what the hell does that mean anyway?!?

housewives
now I know new parents are clueless and not having a child of my own I can only imagine what foolishness that I will impart on my own child, but Phaedra takes the freaking cake. She is so concerned with the little crocheted outfit that she puts the modesty cover over her backwards. she is a little to materialistic for me. I feel so bad for Ne Ne. Only she and Greg know what the real deal is, but it seems to me that reality shows do a disservice to the institution of marriage. Keep yo shit to yourself. I think they maybe would have made it had it not been for the show... maybe. I know there are various levels of payment in the music industry, but couldn't Kandi have sued Kim? And I know she is trying to be cordial and help out a friend, but business is business. Mr or Dr Tiy-E LMBAO he looked like a scam artist the first time they showed his thinning s-curl. But Sheree was tryna give a brotha a chance. OH WELL.

I have tried to watch Beverly Hills, they are just sooooooo over the top with the spending on the kids; $60k for a kids birthday party?!?! REALLY... you coulda paid me 10k and they actually would have had a good time!! And then the plastic surgery/botox thing is so gross looking. First off, if I can tell you had some work done, then it's prolly not a good job. Second, who are you fooling with those duck lips?? Who woulda thunk having full lips would be something people paid for? I myself have a pretty full set of lips AND dark skin which is another thing people pay for. I guess I take it for granted. OH and that whole Jersey thing (Jerseylicious and Jersey Shore) have taken the tanning thing to a WHOLE NUTHA LEVEL!! I am tempted to drive up there to see if the regular folks are really like that. It's almost like they are ok with creating a stereotype specifically for Italian Americans. Most of them are Italian (which is why they probably tan pretty good) some are not, but they still wear way to much make-up and manscape a tad bit too much... I'm jus sayin!!

general random
Every single leaf has fallen off my tree and of course it rained today so even if I had it in my head to rake I can't (or won't) now. Someone said that was why we had so many stink bugs this year because they nested under all the leaves people didn't rake. I don't really buy that, but it is a theory.

I cooked eggs this morning and now my house smells like EGGS!! I attempted to find a odor neutralizing candle at the SUPER Wal-Mart I even asked the cute little dread loc'd guy who was stocking the shelves. I remember they sold them at Bed Bath and Beyond... I guess I need to go there with one of my coupons. Just slightly pissed that the SUPER Wal-Mart did not have all of my needs!! Actually I could hit there and then swing past Caribou for a latte... hmmm if it didn't get dark so early I would do just that right now. Maybe tomorrow.

I have the TV on the 'Throwback Jamz' station... is it witha Z?? Ok I got all kinds of distracted cause Perculator is on LOL!!! That was the jam back in the day... hence it being on the throwback station LOL. maybe I should just leave this station and shake my booty for the rest of the day :)

moscow mule!!!

WHY?!?! because Oprah said so, and you know I listen to what Oprah sez... Ms WinAfrey!! So i'm sitting here thinking about my day... all in all not a bad freaking day. I did a tour of Baltimore today because of all the construction all over freaking town and I underestimated the traffic so even though I thought I gave myself an extra 15 minutes that was eaten all up in traffic. So I guess it was good that I allowed for that buffer. So I interviewed for a bartending position and I got excited when the dude opened the bar up and I saw the Frangelico. NO ONE ever had Frangelico!! I'm doing good if I got some Malibu or Amaretto... but Frangelico!! I actually went to bartending school... umm ok a 2 week certificate program.. but I really enjoyed it. I already knew some stuff and had some serving experience so for me this just enhanced what I knew. What I didn't know is that going to 'school' in the industry is kinda frowned upon. So basically they (whoever the hell they are) would rather throw you to the wolves instead of you having some basic knowledge. In fact some more seasoned bartenders I have worked with are shocked that I went to 'school' because I'm good and fast... I mean you know not to toot my own horn, but sometimes I'm the onliest one that will so TOOT TOOT!!!

I just watched Twilight and I kinda get the hype and I kinda don't. I mean talk about freaking teenage angst!! High school was a great time for me. But then again I guess I didn't have a Vampire trying to suck or not suck my blood because he was soooooo in love with me. And Robert Pattinson is alright, but that Taylor Lautner is a CUTIE PIE!! If I was 17 he could GET IT for real!! And then the onliest black dude Laurent (Edi something(he's from Kenya))... OH a chick appreciated the scene where he is walking out of the woods with the bad ass vampires with no shirt!! Yep I had to rewind that part a few times **big cheesy grin**. I mean I guess everyone has their teenage movies. For me, since I am an 80's baby all the John Hughes movies (Pretty In Pink, 16 candles, Breakfast club... I did not know he did Ferris Bueller!!! i *heart* IMDB for this new found information; cause who didn't like Ferris?!?!) and there was plenty angst, but we laughed I think a lot more than the kids today. Pretty in Pink in fact was on the other night... got the song from the end stuck in my head. I totally thought it was Thompson Twins... NOT It's OMD... 'If you leave' Yeah... I'm tripping a little. And there really weren't alot of 'black' movies so we just kinda had to insert ourselves into the white ones. Which is funny cause I just read 32 Candles by Ernessa Carter. Oh the girl gets the boy.. but damn it takes a long time. Basically the main character was pretty messed up for the Molly Ringwald movies of the 80's thinking the her life should mirror that of the movies, but does it ever?!?

We all know by now I am a Housewife of ATL fool. And I am catching myself up on season 2 on NBC. When it originally aired I had Dish Network ( I soooo hate them don't ever ever EVER go to them if you can help it) and I downgraded my packed which did not include Bravo. OH it had 20 ESPN stations that I could choose from but no freaking Bravo, so I missed the bulk of the season. So I am for the 1st time seeing the whole Sheree scence with that idiot party planner. WHO ACTS LIKE THAT?!?! I mean even if you don't agree with someone if they are paying you money to provide them a service indulge them!! That Anthony dude was a pure mess. You just can not lose you're cool like that, and really unless they didn't show what really happened, Sheree was asking regular questions, and had regular concerns so how he gon call her mama a bitch?!? 'Who gonna check me boo?!?' STILL the most hilarious thing (a close second followed by 'I like to eat chicken' by Kim's daughter). And he said to google him but clearly his team is not doing a good job of keeping the negative stuff off the Internet. There is no way in heck, hell OR hades I would hire him. There is not 1 positive thing. ANYWAYS!! So I goggle Kandi because surely 'No Scrubs' (even though she mentions it more often than I think the law should allow) was not her only song she ever wrote. She wrote this one by N'Sync - It Makes me ill. I think all writers have a sound... and if you listen real close you'll hear 'I don't want no scrubs'.... N'Sync used to be HOOOOOOOTTTT!! I still like Joey Fatone :) But so ok... she wrote more than one song and I am glad of that!! A chick gotta eat!!

The Video Vixen - ok so the other night (notice how err thang is always the other day the other night LOL) I was flipping through my premium channels that I SOOO need to cancel and happened upon a special narrated by Wendy Williams talking about that Karrin Steffins chick. I must say I had no desire to read that 1st book nor the 2nd or 3rd installment. And I know she named names. I also know we all do things we think we have to in order to survive and in her case provide for her child. But my theory is she played the game all wrong. I'm sure there are plenty of video chicks who do things that the either are proud or at the time and then some time goes by maybe not so much. And I'm positive you don't have to suck anything to make a success of yourself. BUT if that's how you gonna play your game then I mean you know do you!! I watched the Life after thing on TV One and I was scratching my head after and then this thing Kiss and Tail (great title right?!?!) and if everybody is saying the same thing... that this chick is crazy... then it just might be true!! I mean even the porn people were like SHE IS CRAZY!!. Even Bobby Brown, well at least what Darius McCrary (you know Eddie Winslow from the Urkel show) said leave that chick alone!! Ya might wanna leave that chick alone. On the few occasions I have seen her on TV she seems a little detached from reality. I just think she could have done it with way more class than she did. And what about her child.. he will suffer!!

Rocky Horror Glee Show - Can I just say that my girl Mercedes tore up Sweet Transvestite. Can you believe she was an American Idol reject?!!? Well yes... they reject alot of great talent so yes I actually CAN believe it. Ok so you know I had to youtube the original with Tim Curry I just love Glee!! I *heart* GLEE!!!

my moscow mule is wearing off...

i am pack rat...

for some reason today my alarm was extra loud!! which prompted me to jump out of my bed and start cleaning. STILL not sure why but I did. and even though I claim my house is a wreck, I am way more organized than I give myself credit for. HOWEVER, there are always a few lingering things on the floor that I just don't know what to do with. Can't throw it away, doesn't really have a place in the house, but it can just hang out on the floor indefinitely. This morning (well ok it's been there for a hella long time) was a pink notebook, I think it was Spanish from 1989, my 50 state quarters in a ziploc bag (still need a few more states; after 2008 I got a little lazy with the collection) a typed paper from college and my journal entries from 1990. 20 years ago WOW!!

so these entries were for my English class. Mrs. Parschall... and where the heck is she now?? Probably retired. I could do a quick face book look up... but I forget what her first name was (maybe I didn't know it?) was it Linda?? nope Cheryll... dag this technology is a bit unnerving to be finding shit so fast. My general rule is to not friend old teachers though... Even as a grown up (yep at 36 3/4 I am a grown up) I still can't separate the teacher student thing. And my mom was a teacher; I met one of her old student's who was tripping about meeting a person he had only heard my mom talk about (non stop I suspect), it's a really close 6 degrees because he is the cousin of a cousin who lives right near me... but I digress

I was reading these entries it was about 12 of them and I was a pretty funny chick even at 16. One of them was about being older and what's funny 25 was MY AGE I wanted to be it was the 'perfect age'. And that feels forever ago. And then one was about how I was bored and I was dreading going to me grandmother's house to hear the same old stories she always told. What I wouldn't give right now to hear about how they had to lance Ant Lizzy right on the forehead because of all the pus because she fell or something... dag I can't remember the story. The things I took for granted. And then one was about how bad my summer of 1990 was. I really didn't remember that. But what had happened is I was in an architecture program at Carnegie Mellon. I was the ONLY black person. There was one other chick who was bi-racial, but you only knew if she told you, cause she looked white, and she was from Flint MI. I remember stuff like that. There was an Indian guy who I thought was black... but he wasn't. His name was Hishesh or Hitesh. I can't remember where he was from. I never really got the architecture stuff. It was very mathematical and I was clueless of what they wanted me to do most of the time. We did art in the morning and design in the afternoon... or vice versa. I took to the art, because I can draw and sketch and paint. OH this was the first time I had a live NUDE model and as a teen it was just embarrassing. I just getting used to my own body and then they had us looking at these nude people?!?! They started with a woman which was hard enough then they brought in a MAN. I had to look at and sketch a completely naked man. mostly those were just stick figures.

I do try to throw things away. When I watch Clean House or Hoarders i get into a massive throw away mode. But this stuff is priceless and I am glad I didn't.

i believe the children are our future...
yesterday for some crazy reason I watched the Willow Smith video I Whip my Hair... which was followed by the Justin Bieber song that featured Jaden Smith followed then by Jerk. LOUD SIGH... yeah I musta fell and bumped my head. And I'm not hating but it must be REAL nice to be a Smith kid and get a record deal and/or a feature spot with an up and coming artist. As for the Jerk, I just didn't know where that dance came from. The song is more than annoying but the dance is cute I mean I can't do it, probably it has something to do with me not being under 15.

Them Housewives
this week it took me forever to watch the DVR of the most recent show. And they had the regular amount of hilarity. But the FUNNIEST SHIT EVER was Kim's little girl when asked what she like to do my girl said "I like to eat chicken!!!" SCREAMING right now thinking about it. Let me set it up... Kim was trying to redo her daughter's bedroom and they went to this furniture store and the sales lady was trying to get a feel for what she might like in her room. Little girl was liking the baseball chair and the football chair and Kim was like no that's not happening. so then the saleslady is trying to help the child out by asking her what she likes to do and home girl said I LIKE TO EAT CHICKEN!!! LAWD I am searching the Bravo website now and I can not find it. THEN little girl said I want a chicken wing on my wall. I was sooo through It was one of those little extra... WHEW I found it!!!

House Husband/Fiancee (kinda sorta) Peter... let me just say that dark chocolate skin and that white beard make me feel all warm and fuzzy!! He is a sexy older man. And then we go to Apollo and he too gets the warm and fuzzy's started :)MMMMMMmmmmmmmmm

Sheree is definitely more likable this season. And Dr. Tiy-E making her lick something off his finger SOOOOO not cool. He's a cutie (kinda balding and is that an S-curl??) but come on.

The whole pickle picture thang... ummm WEIRD is alls I got to say. Phaedra is weird to me in general. And Ne Ne broke it down even a ghetto girl who may not even know who her baby daddy is knows how far along she is and when she is due. WHY is Phaedra actin like she don't know what's going on in her own body!?!?

err thang else...
I broke SOOOOO many freaking dishes and glasses at 1 of my 50eleven jobs today. I don't even know what was going on but one wine glass a champagne glass a plate a saucer... sooo embarrassing

I am dealing with soooooo (ok yeah I know overboard on the so's a lil dramatic) many personality types with all the managers I have on all my 50eleven jobs. Today the dude had to be military and I would venture to say Marine Corp... Yesterday the dude could barely speak English and I can get my Spanglish on just as much as the next person but you gotta speak mas lento por favor!! (that means slower please!!) Senora Rodriguez would probably think I should know more than I do but I do understand more than I can actually speak it. Random thought DAMN all of my Spanish teachers from middle school and high school have died... let me google Mr Huber. He was in his early 20's when I was in high school so he probably is still alive. but Senora Rodriguez, Mr. Fabus, Dr. Kasacavich (I know I just jacked up spelling her name... even when I skipped class I could convince her that I was in class the next day and she would mark me down as present ALSO, on our trip to Mexico she was a bartering QUEEN!! she would be like NO that is to much and walk away and the little vendors would be following her trying to sell her stuff it was amazing; if they said 20 pesos to me and my mom we would be like OK... but she would get them down to 5.... ahhh good times!!) and what was that other ones name... actually there were 2. One was from Cuba and she always had a horrible red/tan thing going on even in Pittsburgh. The other one looked like Frida Kahlo with the whole unibrow thing. I totally lost my train of thought... IMAGINE THAT!!

political nonsense...

is it me?? or do you hate turning on the boob tube (haaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaa I said boob!!) and seeing all the mud slinging campaign ad? It's like WELL who the hell do I vote for if EVERYONE has something bad to say about someone else?? We all know that the person we thought would do what we wanted may have voted a different way. But as an average chick who does not make it her priority to know every little thing my elected officials are doing what Am I to do??

Senator Barb
I will say this Barbara Mikulski!! I love her ads; waddle and all!! (that would be all her neck fat... made famous (or more noticeable) by the dude from Ally McBeal) She is like the grandmother you never wanted... but you still can't help but love her!! It's almost like Barb said Martin O'Malley is ok SO.. that's who I'ma vote for! I am trolling youtube for the ad with the yutz in the background. Sober OR a lil tipsy it is HILARIOUS!! She is BALWMOR at it's finest! I can't find it. : / Well... let me describe it.. she is walking thru a school and random (yet very diverse) kids are in the background. At the end she says something like 'will we work for you' and the kids pump one first in the air and say "YEAH". I FOUND IT!!! it is on her home page. You might gotta watch it a few times to see what I mean about the fist pump. Maybe it's just funnier on a TV screen.

Question A
I don't live in Anne Arundel county so I don't think I can vote for the whole slots thing, but I would SOOO vote for Question A!!! DO a little shopping, play a few slots!! Sounds win-win to me!! Plus it will add jobs to MD and people will be less inclined to go to West Virginia (maybe... maybe not) to spend their mullah.

Kratovil and Harris
I know Kratovil is A Democrat and Harris is a Republican( or maybe the other way around) but they have done a GREAT job of not making me want to vote for either. Both of them portray the other as lying, conniving, backstabber. But again I'm not even sure I can vote for either one. And to be honest I might just leave it blank on election day (or the week prior since we can now vote early; but for some reason I don't feel like my vote really REALLY counts unless it is on election day)



I am a good citizen. My mother was a social studies teacher who still get excited about 'map skills'. My people (both Black people AND women people) have fought so that I could have a voice. but I'm just not sure I want one! It's almost like hey we got Obama in the White house WHAT ELSE do we need to do!?!? I know it's very passive and I will cast my vote but can you people PLEASE just stop slinging all the freaking mud?!?!?

10.20.10... just an ordinary day

there are at least 5 squirrels scampering around my backyard. Is it mating season? At least someone is getting some! LOL OR Are they storing up nuts for the winter? Here they are leaving off what God gave them... and they are nice and plump! Not missing no meals and they look happy and healthy.

OK so my general thoughts and ranting are of such little consequence these days I even wonder why I bother. I mean yeah I know there is a greater good (oh damn I just stole a tagline from TIAA CREF those sons of bitches that wont hire me back... yeah ok I didn't give 2 weeks but the chick who was in charge was MAJOR beeeyotch... BTW did you know Martha Stewart came up with that?!? I overheard someone say that recently and I just LOVE how white folks actually think another white person came up with something that is clearly from black culture and/or hip hop; i actually almost said something to the woman but i really didn't feel like going there that day...where was I OH yeah end parenthasis).

Atlanta Housewives
I ALWAYS have something to say about them. The sheer hilarity in each show. SO this week Dwight... I really want to know what he really does. Supposedly he has a salon, but I have NEVER seen him do no ones hair. He and his "PR" guy go to Sheree's house to clear up some things. Allegedly he spent $30k for her show last season. NOW I KNOW for a fact that when you put on a show/party/family reunion/whatever there are extra expenses that may not have been budgeted, but I also know that you keep receipts because it can either be returned or you might need to get reimbursed. Not one time has anyone asked for NOR produced any receipts. I mean I don't have an extra 30 bucks let alone 30 thousand so really Dwight?!? Are you really gonna stick to that story?

Phaedra and Apollo... is it me or do they act like they just met and are dating?!? I know they are married and expecting a baby but they seem SOOOO detached from each other. And what does HE do?? We all know she is this high falutent lawyer cause she says it EVERY chance she gets, but he just seems to do not much if anything.

Kim... you are singing your ONE song at a gay event. WHY was she flirting?!?! they don't want you!! If anything they prolly think you are another drag queen. And Bravo y'all aint slick I saw 2 of the chicks from Rupaul's Drag Queen show AND Kim Vo from the Sheer Genius show. I know this because Reality show are my guilty pleasure!!

My cat
If I could read her mind I really think she is saying 'Bitch can you please leave this house already?' In fact I think most of her sentences begin with BITCH. Like 'Bitch not there... aahhh... there RIGHT there NOW you stroking me right!!' or 'Bitch can you please clean this damn litter box!! It's been 2 weeks already!!' or when I turn on the light 'BITCH don't you see me sleeping!!??' or 'NO MORE pictures Bitch NO MORE!!' LMBAO I don't know why that's what she looks like she is saying. I'm so glad I got her though. I mean granted it was for the critters but now I don't know what I would do with out her.

Men
LOUD SIGH... My sister and I had a little misunderstanding about men and not to go into detail because she is one of my loyal 5 readers (LOL). I just thought she putting up with crap she shouldn't have to. I am all for people getting what they want and need out of life, but you know looking from the outside that's not what I thought was going on. I will say I am sooooooooooo done with all the bull shit and I am ready to be wooed!! I am tired of not being the special one or just being the chick on the side no real time invested. When I think back to everyone I have dealt with since I was 15 (15 cause that was when I had my 1st 'real' boyfriend) i just have accepted some... well BULL SHIT!! The guy then, who is now happily (i guess it's happy...) married with kids, he lived on the other side of town AND went to another high school. This is before cell phones and face book. He never called and probably had another girl at his school. Even though at 15 my mom found her 'soulmate' (that would be my father) I truly did not. Fast forward to college where I really didn't date that much and GOD forbid I get pregnant, so I was pretty guarded with myself. But then I grew up a little or at least I thought.

My 20's I had FUN!! LOTS OF FUN!! Maybe too much fun!?!? I don't know... I know it all boils down to my expectations and what I actually got. I can remember saying that I wanted a relationship and the dude was like 'nah I just wanna chill' SO chill is what we did. I still can't believe I just accepted that nonsense. And then one time (at band camp LOL) a guy told me he hit a deer and that was why he didn't call for like a month... CRAZY yeah I know. One guy who was only a few years older than me told me I was too young to understand what a real relationship is/was.

And very recently one of my girlfriends was tryna do the hook up... and thanks cause a chick NEEDS a hook-up every now and then and she asked if I gave him my number was I interested yadda yadda yadda. All I could say was NO cause he didn't ask and I'm not one to be thrusting my number on someone (been there done that) who aint gonna call anyways. I was not wooed!! I don't have any fantasies about prince charming riding up on a white horse or any other colored horse for that matter(ok yeah I used to but now.. not so much). I just want regular stuff... you know like how Theo broke it down to his dad on the Cosby show. I AM REGULAR PEOPLE!! I got a house, a car and no kids. I would like for my man to have a house(not living in his mama's basement), a car and no kids... oh and not be allergic to my cat. My credit used to be good, it's not great now... but I can pull myself out of this situation so his credit doesn't have to be A+, he just has to be willing to work on it. I graduated from college. He doesn't have to be a rocket scientist, but I was seeing this one guy and he didn't have a good excuse for not even getting his GED. I will work with a brotha, but COME ON!! Have some ambition about bettering yourself. Did this just turn into a match.com or eHarmony ad?!?! LOL

hot housewife madness...

so last night was the premiere for the 3rd season and I really have to question why I sat there and tried to catch up with season 2 AND stay tuned for season 3... it's just a MESS!!

so here's a quick recap/breakdown. I was really trying to think of any of these women that I would actually like to be friends with and really NONE of them except maybe Kandi and I have a small degree of separation (you know the whole 6 degree of separation thing!?!?) to her but that's a story for another day. I will say she held her own when Ne Ne had the gall to say to her the she owed her an apology. Whew that woman is a mess and a 1/2. She is just sooooo confrontational and then think NOTHING of it once she has been all up in someones face. I guess she does now know who her father is cause that man looked just like her son... or rather the other way around. It's just kinda sad, I mean I know who my mother and father are. I guess they explained why Lisa is no longer on the show cause she 'moved away'. But she did move but to another part of Atlanta I thought. I hope she is able to get pregnant though.

Onto Kim... LAWD i don't even know what to say about her. It must be nice to change wigs EVERYDAY. I mean COME ON who does that?!?! Even the fabulous stylist in his heels... WHEW he looked a mess... was like REALLY BITCH COME ON!!! And then her daughter who was like talking and eating so food was all falling out her mouth and Kim was like 'don't kiss any boy' and I was like NO little boy is gonna want to kiss her with all that gunk coming out her mouf!! YEAH I SAID IT M O U F!!!! And then her whole lesbian thing. Yeah I have no words for that but media whore does come to mind.

Kandi who I might actually like as a person for real. I was sad to hear about her fiance being killed, but she is onto some new dude who has VERY NICE TEETH!! Well I mean she has nice teeth so I guess she can't be paired up with no yuck mouth. He's a Raven... Really Bruh... there aint no one in ALLLLL if the Baltimore metropolitan area that you want to date so you gotta go to Atlanta?!?!? Yeah whudeva. Dag I can't even remember his name.

Sheree who I never really liked... and I'm sure she is losing SO much sleep knowing some chick in Baltimore don't like her

I will say this. I don't know if it's a Southern thing or they really just don't know how to use the king's English with correct verb noun pronoun etc usage. They just be jacking some words up!! I mean, my grandmother who was from a small ass town in Mississippi... she spoke VERY WELL so it can't be a Southern thing. And that new housewife WHO ACTUALLY IS A WIFE seems to be able to formulate coherent sentences. SO maybe NeNe, Sheree Kim and that Dwight dude just can't fucking talk!!. HE said something and I had to rewind my DVR and to make sure I heard what I thought I heard. To many wif instead of with of done and did instead of does. I am a stickler for nice teeth and correct language usage. Now this here blog might have you scratching ya head cause I do make up some words regularly and I know my conjugation can use some help most days... but if you are claiming to be SOCIETY and creme de la creme THEN TALK LIKE IT!! Dats alls I'm saying!!

Reality shows in general are just making me so disgruntled, frustrated and any other word that might help to describe my state of disgust. They just aren't REAL. I'm not sure if they ever were. At least the competition shows were entertaining at some point but for real, after Fantasia won (although that season I voted for both her and Jennifer Hudson who's husband looks very Jonathan-esque (Terry MacMillan)yeah go google him... but she does look good from the weight watchers) well no wait I did watch the season Elliot Yamin was on... dag who won that year, but I pretty much stopped when he didn't win. And I never was a Dancing With the Stars fan cause they aint really stars. I WAS a big Amazing Race fan but got mad at them when some whiny ass couple won (glad when the black couple won... not cause they were black but more cause of their situation). Project Runway COMPLETELY robbed Kara Suan and Korto Momolu on their respective seasons ( I still think that was racial). ANTM was just more of the same each cycle. I want a nice little fake TV show about fake people like Wysteria lane!!

But the shows supposedly about people's REAL LIFE... it's not really real.

Is it really real SON!?!?!?

random chick's TV review

yesterday was a hellified day... but you know, i have to take it in stride and keep it moving. I went and got some Yuengling, Merlot-Cab from 2 vines Columbia Crest, AND some vodka. I drank the beer which always gives me a sinus headache if I have more than 1... I had 3 LOL

So what the hell is up with this fall line-up?!?! I am a little disgruntle that the only show that has black main characters is the Undercovers show with Boris Kodjoe and the lady who I have never seen before... hole up let me google it right quick. OOHH she's English so she's been in shows I've never heard of. And then all the new shows are really hard pressed to have any more than 1 black cast member. Remember when we had Living Single, Martin, Different World, Moesha, Half and Half, Fresh Prince of Bel Air and I won't even mention Cosby because that was so main stream... BUT DAMN!! Where are all the black shows. I know many are in syndication on TV One or BET and I know a few still exist like Lincoln Heights (which I can never remember it's on). And let's not even go there with the whole Tyler Perry nonsense. I'm just not going there at all.

So since there aren't many shows with black folks I guess I'll go ahead and talk about the show I like or want to like that are new or newish...

Mike and Molly - This show so far is kinda cute. You have 2 overweight people who are wookin pnub and they just might find it in each other. They do have a black factor. Mike's partner way back when used to be Theo's friend on the Cosby show. And then some random African man who talks about how the people in his village are hungry... I have it set on my DVR and so far so good

GLEE - I like musicals!! Or musical related shows. And even though Rachel annoys the hell outta me, all the other characters make up for her annoyance. The Britney character has a dry subtle humor, but I was literally LOL last night from everything she said.

The Event - I feel like my feelings are going to be hurt by this show. It has some many high hopes, but then I don't want it to be like Lost... it drags you along for soooooooo many years and then just lets you down. I feel so let down by Lost, so many questions unanswered. And Blair Underwood, I WANT to like him, but he just plays these roles that borders on crazy OR is he just crazy?!?! So he is supposed to be a Cuban I guess born here cause he is the President. His wife actually is Latina and the kids is lightskinded... he could go either way. And then they keep jumping back 18 months, 8 days.. it's already getting exhausting trying to keep up. But again it is set on my DVR so we'll see.

Outsourced - the premise of this show is hilarious and so true. So many US companies have sent call centers (and other businesses) to India and other countries overseas. So maybe it's not so funny because I cringe when I call and Gupta answers the phone. And jobs have been lost, but there is something endearing about something that is facing the world as we know it and making it into a sitcom. One other thing I have a great problem with the whole THE BLIND SIDE thing where we have to leave it up to white folks to solve the ills of the world... or run a call center. there was only 1 show but so far so good. It come on after The Office... I think I'm kinda ready for that show to just wrap it up. and what happened to Parks and Recreation?!?!?

Hawaii 5-0 - Any show with Daniel Dae Kim (he was on Lost) is alright with me!! LAWD he is one sexy man! I'm just not sure I need a cop drama in my regular TV show watching line-up. I watched the pilot and it was aiight, but it is not set on my DVR.

Parenthood - As I watched it last night I fussed at the TV as to WHY I was even watching this show. It's about a pretty tight knit family and all the drama and struggle they go through. 1 sister wants to get pregnant again, 1 brother has an autistic son, 1 cousin slept with the other cousins boyfriend, OH and the got 2 black folks... the chick from Antwon Fisher who slept with 1 of the brothers 5 years ago and has a son Jabar who she just now told the dude about but then they get back together. So it's not horrible. But the main annoyance is the chick from Gilmore Girls (which I didn't even watch that show) who has 2 kids and had to move back in with her parents. She just... I just DO NOT like her. Probably the main reason is her daughter who was finally taking an interest in school and a teacher (played by Jason Ritter) the mother goes on a date with the teacher and is oblivious to the needs of her child... iono it just rubbed me the wrong way (that was last season btw). It Is set on my DVR and I keep giving into the nonsense.

Detroit 1-8-7 - NOPE no gonna watch a show that I KNOW is gonna be about murder

Grey's Anatomy - this is a staple. and I LOVE it soo what else can I say OOOHHH except that I think I might woulda had to work it out if I were Bailey and stayed with the Jason George character.

Private Practice - the white folks REALLY love Taye Diggs. I'm not sure how I feel about ALL the interaccialness on this show. I mean I have several multiracial components in my own family. It's just nice to see black folks with other black folks. And then the whole teenage pregnancy/mother with the only black child on the show... Was that really the only storyline they could have come up with??

Desperate Housewives - another staple. I LOVE it... Glad to see Vanessa Williams on it. Curious to see what they will do with her. Where do I sign up to do some housework in my lingerie and use a webcam?!?! I am short on cash too OOOOKAAAY!!!! LOL

Lastly and of course not least Oprah!! Australia?!?! COME ON!!! I was watching that mess like WTF is going on here! Mz Winfrey (who my mama believes is related cause they are both from the same small ass town in Mississippi) is doing it SO freaking big this season! I am so mad that I never scored, well nor did I attempt to score tickets to her show. She had Terry McMillian and her gay ex-husband on the show yesterday. And as much I LOVE Terry (oh yeah I gotta do book review) what happens in Jamaica or ______ fill in whatever blank you need to fill in, STAYS in Jamaica or ______!!! I said it then when it happened and even now, she should have sexed the hell outta him when she was there and kept his butt there!! There was NO reason to bring his lil young and apparently gay butt to live with her and then marry him. NO no no no noooooo!! I'm just sayin.

So that's my review. A chick is having a much better day today!! And in about 20 minutes I about to be hella busy...

pms is a BITCH!!!

so I just got over not being invited to lunch... what had happened was; well ok I'm not in the little clique. But I literally have 2 more days with these people so who really give a good rats ass. So I'm looking on facebook (cause even though a chick will be hella busy tomorrow... she's not really today) and I see my little cousin in a picture with his brother who he only met a few years ago (yes my family too shares a LOT of dysfunction) and I just lose it!! i know my grandmother would be so happy to know that despite her son who was really shitty to pretty much ALL the women he came in contact with, the 2 boys have come together.

I'm eating my oreos and drinking a madarin orange juice and i KNOW I shouldn't use food or alcohol but to be honest, it's not even really doign the trick. Maybe if I added some vodka to it?!? ADD to that my ass is getting bigger. I caught a glimpse of it in the mirror and I was like WHOA... WHOSE ASS IS THAT?!?!!? I'm almost at big booty girl status and that's not neccesarily a good thing.

I am so emotional right now. Nothing is going right, nothing nothing NOTHING!!! the only bright spot today is that i may be getting my free massage from my girlfriend who just started massage school. So WOOO HOOO for that.

church...

I really am a church kinda chick. I think it helps in your relationship with not only little baby Jesus, but grown up Jesus as well. this year I just have not been making it like I should. I work 50eleven jobs and I KNOW that shouldn't matter, but when I get home at 3 in the morning after having stood on concrete for 10 hours, my body says CHICK KEEP YOUR BUTT IN THIS BED!! So I do.

Since we have established my heathanistic ways as of late when I do actually go to church I notice everything. It was youth Sunday, thank God for that cause when I see the men's choir up there behind the pulpit, I'm like UGH not the men!! I never have really like mens choirs, they just always seem like they need just 2 more rehearsals and then they might get the song right. AND then they keep handing the mic to this one dude who does not hit the right note for the entire song. And then I feel bad because he is praising the Lord and I shouldn't judge yadda yadda yadda, but DAMN can't they give it to someone who can sing?!?! So ok youth Sunday. The youth sing and usher. So i come in to the little girl who is supposed to be ushering but she is singing at the top of her little lungs... dag I can't even remember the song... and not directing me which way to go. She has downs syndrome so her song is pure and innocent and off key and sincere. I know she has a special place in heaven where as God might be directing me to the janitor closet. So I sit down about 3 rows from the band and BOY is it loud!! The cutie pie drummer is drumming himself silly (see how I am already distracted) the guitar and bass player are doing there thing... and hold up so now we got 2 keyboards and an organ. Where the heck did the 2nd keyboard come from and that new dude playing?? Maybe he ain't so new since I ain't been in a while. The little kids start to sing and why is my eye zoomed in on the 2 littlest girls who are clapping to their own little beat. I don't know why this makes me chuckle. I am also thinking of my nieces who often times have their own beat when they sing and dance.

The message was actually very good. He spoke on obedience (which I know I have not been) and doing things the right way (which I strive to do). So the invitational song. Now the dude who usually plays the main keyboard is on the mic singing and I had to look away cause he looked like Cephus of Cephus and Reesie... In Living Color. I am trying so hard to stay focused. His eyebrows kept lifting up every time he sang a new word... so it was like he was surprised the whole song.

The whole time I am sitting next to a married couple and they are holding hands... IN CHURCH. I thought this was a kinda weird, but maybe it helps them bond to each other and again, who am I to judge?!? He did drift off to sleep a few times, so maybe that's her way of keeping him up! LOL

The only other thing I noticed were hair do's and don'ts. There's always an abundance of weave, some good some bad. And the jherri curls which I always wanna be like you do know it's 2010!?!? And afro's from the older dudes who refuse to cut their hair. Although, they might be I got it AND I'm flaunting it!!

HELL NO!!!

i'm feeling pretty intense about this right here. I got a letter from the gubment the other day, I opened and read it they said they was SUCKAS!! Yep see... feeling REAL Public Enemy about this. Bout to go get the S1W's!! Ok and yes it's only $40 but it's the principalities about it!! You feel ME!?!? oh wait you don't. I haven't even said what the heck is going on...

I got a letter from the Maryland 'Safety Zones' saying that I was going to fast in one of the freaking speeding zones and hence I need to pay the state of Maryland $40 for such an infraction. Now usually on principal when or if I get a ticket I feel it's karma. You know the universe has seen fit to issue me some type of warning that hey maybe I do need to slow down. But this whole speeding trap thing just gets under my skin. For one thing there is construction all up and down 695. They set up these random trucks that have all of the photo equipment at various points at random times. A chick has 50eleven jobs so I pretty much know where all of them are because I use 695 a great deal. I am all about slowing down for ACTIVE work sites because I would hate to think me driving too fast could injure not only me but one or more of those workers who are along the road. But even then I pretty much have to jump one of those concrete barriers and do a whole lot of damage to get to one of those workers.

#2 Where all these traps are set up about a 1/2 mile to a mile alla sudden no more work zone!! So you mean to tell me that I'm only an endangerment right before there is no more work zone? Yeah right!!

#3 It's just another form of bullying. The rules were made without my general input. 60MPH in one location 65 in another. But for a small section of the road where we (whoever the hell WE are) decided to put 50 MPH signs up AND a camera to make sure you keep you ass in check... that is emotional bullying. Emotional because I feel bad about having to slow down when I wasn't even speeding in the first place. I slam on my brakes, everyone around me has to do the same creating even more tension on the road and a hazard.

#4 and probably the MOST important reason as to why I feel as though in my onliest personal opinion the state of Maryland and all their affiliates are NOT getting an extra 40 bucks outta this chick... it was 2:45 AM. I was the ONLY chick on the road. I was in the center lane. So how was I endangering anyone? OH and per the letter I was going 64 which on any other day without the bully signs telling me I gotta go 50 would be ok.

I might break down and send the $40 but I already sent it back that I was contesting it. And it said it wouldn't be more than $40 and no points either way. I'm just in general mad at the whole damn state of MD. I know I have applied for several jobs with the state even though they furlough everyone pretty much every other month. The pay sucks but I know it would be steady, or at least I assume it would be. Also, I attempted to get money to take a class that would allow me to get a certificate to help in my general job search/marketability and I was told that since I had a job (a job where I am grossly underemployed) I didn't qualify. OH and I'm not displaced!! I have a job and a degree and I'm employable... which still makes me laugh because any bum on the street is employable to do something or another.

I flexed my civic duty and voted today... well it was the primary. But let it be known I am a disgruntled citizen and I need for something big to happend so I can get gruntled again!!!

general ranting and bambozzlements...

ok so after having finished my chicken biscuit and continuing to slurp my Caribou Mocha Java I sit and I ponder this week... as with anything some were good days and some were not. But the good ones outweighed the bad (isn't that a song??) so it be aiight LOL

I was thinking...
Who get to decide to drives the garbage truck? Is that a position you apply for? OR daily do they just flip a coin?

Except for my nephew (of course) why are the dudes that work at game stores so nerdy/geeky and/or have a bazillion tats that show which game they like?

How is it you are the manager and have 5 different shades of brown and blond in your hair?!? But I have to constantly make sure I fit in and not be labeled too ethnic to fit in with the masses?

Am I supposed to feel sorry for you cause you have to go to Miami for work? I mean REALLY?? I am craving some sand between my toes, I'm the wrong chick to feel bad for ya!!

It's called small talk for a reason, it doesn't mean anything and I probably won't ever see you again. So lighten up buddy! I'm saying hello not flirting (cause ya teeth are jacked up), nor trying to bear your first (or 5th) born!!

Why is it that the dude (or dudette) holding the sign to let you know that it's ok to pass, slowly of course, always in a daze? And then they look at me like OH YOU WANNA PASS? I have zipped past many a sign holder recently because there is a water issue of some sort... hmm maybe I should google it now that I'm thinking about it... ahhh just finished my coffee and I can't find anything on the water situation.

Why do all the stars either singing or acting say they do it for the fans?? NO you're not!! You're doing it for you!! So that you feel better, so that you can make more money or whatever... it's for you! One of my guilty pleasures is reality TV and last night I was watching Mel B aka Scary Spice on some random cable channel on her reality show talk about how she has to keep her website in tact for the fans. I have not bought a Spice Girl record, tape or CD nor will I buy anything she puts out as a solo artist. The biggest thing she did was Dancing with the Stars and get knocked up by Eddie Murphy who we all still wonder if he is or is NOT romantically involved with Johnny Gill. OH and that whole thing with Babyface's ex Tracy Edmonds, I was not fooled one bit. She was arm candy to get him through the whole award season. And then somewhere along the way he did it with Mel B. UNPROTECTED I might add... and so that is my rant on that!! LOL Another singer who said she was doing it for the fans was Monica. Again on her reality show i think on BET or VH1. And again NO what you do is for you! I am actually a fan of hers and she came out with this song a few years back with a video and err thang and then the damn song was not on the CD... hold up let me you tube it right quick. I am not having lots of luck today with the goggle and the you tube. The name of the song was Get it off. Actually that's not it but it was a faster song. I FOUND IT!!! All Eyez on me!! This was the song that came out before her After the Storm CD that I bought cause I thought it would be on that CD, but it wasn't so let me make this full circle. I'm her fan and she didn't do what I needed for her to do which was put that one song on the damn CD. She did what she or the record company told her to do which had nothing to do with me the fan!!

Bamboozled...
The other day my little baby cousin asked that I come over to watch the baby baby cousin so that he could fill out some paperwork. But what actually had happened is I helped him write what he needed to write. So I got bamboozled. But I also sang to her which was a horrible little make-it-up-as-you-go kinda song that that little chick went to sleep on. Which was good cause she needed a quick little nap.

In general i have not been doing much work. Not that I don't want to but because there really wasn't much for me to do. But alla sudden I have not only my work but some work from someone in Colorado. And yesterday I sat in my chair and rather loudly said HOW DID I GET BAMBOOZLED INTO DOING THIS?!?! My supervisor the most non-PC chick I have ever worked with just kinda shook her head and said 'Yeah that does suck!!' But she's the one who did the bambozzlementing and it's really not that big a deal which is why I've been sitting here all morning writing my blog!!

It's Friday and I am so glad I get t sleep in tomorrow. I am hosting a Mojito Madness party at my house... umm ok it's only gonna be me and the cat; that is me drinking the mojito and scaring the bejezzus outta my cat. OH and on this the eve of 9/11 i want to say the whole Qur'an burning, not sure what that is going to prove, but my Jesus didn't tell me it was ok to do stuff like that especially not in His name so that quack down in Florida, there is a special reserved spot for you in hell!! Any form of religious radicalism is NOT OK.

thrifty chick

In these times of economic turmoil I really do have to pat myself on my back and say GOOD JOB CHICK!! for sticking to my 'needs only' budget. One thing I decided when I lost my job a few years back was to do away with paper products... errr not toilet paper, but paper towels and napkins. So a chick is trying to save money AND be green. I buy in bulk. Like my cat for a long time enjoyed the Sam's Club Cat food. Now she turns her nose up... but I had her fooled for a while. I go to the library for books, and I joined freecyle to get and give away stuff. And just today instead of paying 3 bucks for an iced coffee, I came back to the office and made my own free iced coffee. All coffee tastes good with 5 splenda's and 3 creams!!

There are however a few indulgences that I just have to have, Caribou Coffee, Miss Shirley's and wine (no link for wine LOL).

I'm not even sure how I stumbled upon Caribou Coffee and specifically Mocha Java blend. What I do know is that for years doing the DC commute I totally found it necessary to indulge in some caffeinated form of beverage. At Union Station there was Cookie Cafe, Au Bon Pain, and Buck's County. Well there were more, but these were my usual haunts. It was always a little too bitter, a little too strong, or too weak, never quite right. And of course I made my own. Had some Cafe du Monde with the chicory, and then your random Folgers and Maxwell House. But then one day my eyes were open!! I really wish I had a better story, but probably being anti-Starbucks led me there. People just FYI Starbucks is not the end all be all in the coffee world. Now I do on occasion have a caramel frappucino, but waiting for a pumpkin latte in Phoenix Airport made me miss my flight home. I have been mad at Starbucks since that fateful day. For me Caribou Mocha Java just has the right blend of dark roastyness with a hint of chocolate and it just fits! Now though, being thrifty I only buy it when it's on some type of sale which is usually 2 for twenty. Back at Thanksgiving I bought 4 bags that lasted almost right up until the Father's Day sale they had which has led me right up to the current sale they are having now 2 for 20... (a little pluggeration which I really wish I was being paid for).

Miss Shirley's ***ahhhh**** I mean what can I say!?!? I think I have always been a fan of breakfast food in general. Who can mess up eggs, bacon, and pancakes?? PLENTY of restaurants I'll tell you that. They use poor ingredients or the chefs/cooks do not have a love for the craft so what you get on the plate is non crisp bacon, runny eggs, and just nasty pancakes with sub par syrup. I will say there are some pretty good breakfast spots out there. Courtney's in Charlotte (which may be closed). They had these potatoes that were soooo good. Plum's Cafe in Orange County, CA. I do have a story behind this one.... I was working in Orange County and I had been IHOP'd out. I asked the concierge where a close diner was, and I guess being from the East Coast I knew exactly what I meant, but she was from Cali and she thought I meant Johnny Rockets. After I explained that I needed a place for breakfast she gave me the map to Plum's Cafe. Now this place is in the most unassuming strip mall. You would pass it if you didn't know it was there. So I get there and there was a wait, however, I was offered a mimosa immediately. ALWAYS a good sign. So I finally sit down and order bacon and eggs and toast and potatoes, BUT WHAT I GOT were rosemary infused potatoes, applewood smoked bacon with the peppered edges, and multi grain toast with raspberry jelly. I need to make a trip there just for that!! It was pure heaven! As you can see, I take my breakfast foods very seriously so when I read an article in Urbanite that described Miss Shirley's I knew I had to go. Now being the pack rat chick that I am, I ripped the article out of the magazine and held onto it for a few months before I actually went. But now I 'can't stop going. And although my money is alot tighter now than it has ever been, I try and fit it in at least once a month (or talk about it enough that my friends take pity on me and take me LOL). Many times I go by myself and just enjoy. Just this past Sunday i got the cinnamon danish pancakes and the Miss Shirley's Sampler. I eeeewww'd and ooooohh'd so much the ladies sitting next to me had to stop and stare at what it was I was eating. Several times as a plate of food passes by with a delicious smell and if the table it went to is anywhere near me, I ask what it is they are eating. I 'found' the crab cristo that way. Ok I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.

Last, but certainly not least, at all times there must be some form of wine in my house. Wine is so very necessary. I really do not like to spend over 20 bucks (and that's on a very good day) on any 1 bottle of wine. I mean come on, I like what I like but I tend to err on the side of inexpensivesivity for wine. I like my Boordy Liganoire , and Elk Run, Maryland wines I try to support oh and this NEW one I just found St. Micheal's. They have this wine called Golly Wobbler, with a name like that!?!? GRAPEY GOOD!! But I am not immune to buying a box (yes a BOX, it's economical and preserves the freshness) of Corbett Canyon chardonnay, or the big jumbo bottle of Sutter Home white zinfandel, or white merlot (for sangria of course). My reserves are a little limited now but trust and believe I will carve out 15 bucks for some wine when the need arises!

For some it's clothes or shoes, or for that matter, kitchen gadgets I do still watch QVC and HSN it just has to be a heck of an item for me get. I mean I REALLY want the Temptation dinnerware in cranberry, but I don't need it.

got me working working DAY AND NIGHT!!

literally... I am sitting here with my coffee. I took vitamins this morning cause who can afford to get sick right now. But I just can't get it together. Last night was the first night I made it to bed before 2AM. A chick is tired!!

I did a Greek wedding Saturday (a chick has 50eleven jobs) and it lived up to whatever stereo types or truths the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding established. I went to see that movie with my girlfriend and we sat there and cried about how we couldn't wait for our day to come. Neither of us has had a big fat ANY kinda wedding but it is nice to still hope that our prince charmings are out there. Ok so the wedding. So me and one of the other bartenders watched in amazement as the people showered the bride with money. They made it rain and then some!! SO much money was spent on this wedding I just pray they stay together. The only thing I did not appreciate were the pretty men whose eyebrows and manicures were better than mine. They were manly men... the one guy looked like he was about to burst out of his shirt, but they were also VERY metro-sexual. The women were ultra femine though, so it all evened out. And I was called babe probably more times than I care to admit. They OPA'd until about 2am. At one point the groom made everyone within 10 ft do shots of Metaxa which is this Greek brandy. I got some last year when I was in Greece (oh yes the chick travels) although I always mix it with something. One of the unfortunate women who was forced to take the shot said 'I'm Italian we don't do this shit at our weddings!!' It was all in fun though and she drowned several glasses of water and Pepsi. I was actually a pretty fun wedding. I have done so many that are sooooooo boring, but not this one.

My mom celebrated her 50 yr High School Reunion. If you're still alive after 50 yrs after graduating from High School YOU SHOULD go to your reunion. She said it was awesome!! I still can't believe I will be out of High School for 20 yrs next year. Damn I feel so under accomplished... I mean comparing myself to... well I know I shouldn't compare. I've done more than some and less than others. And for whatever reason 40 is my magical age. Like if I haven't done it by then, then I can just go ahead and shrivel up and die LOL. I have 3 1/2 more years to go :/ OH yeah one of the few black guests at the wedding was also getting married he said he was 40 and his fiance was 39 so they were going to have a huge wedding party. I guess I should set my sights higher than just successful dates. I should say out loud and to the world I want to get married and have some kids. But who really admits that these days!?!?

This is a slight homage to Michael Jackson who was VERY accomplished but still had so many demons. See here I go again comparing. I always wanted to be part of a sibling singing group or at least family. But I guess that would require the siblings and/or said family to have some iota of talent which we do, just not in the singing arena. My sister sometimes can't find the right key to save her life. And I can carry a note but usually not the right one.

montana and fantasia

i was trying not to have a comment on these 2 subjects but I really REALLY do.

Let's start with Montana Fishburne aka Chippy D. Now you know my ignorant butt had to go see the porn that she just HAD to do in order to start her career. All I have to say is EWWWWWWWW!! It's not even good porn. It's a rap video for who ever that dude was and it was just a mess. I didn't, rather I couldn't watch the whole thing... I had to fast forward through most of it. It was just so bad. And I am not a porn aficionado, but COME ON!! This young fool is in the kinda porn that is like the last resort. Like your rent has to be paid or the sheriff is coming. I guess this industry is not really glamorous but could someone have done her make-up? And would it have been to much for her to get her nails done? And her butt... one blogger referred to her as Cheetah booty. 19 with bad skin in ya butt?!?! I had to take a mirror and look at my own bootay this morning. I mean I have eczema but not lesions like that. She just looked beat up.

At 19 the worse thing... if you can even compare... I did was my one and only tattoo. And my rationale was dumb, I can admit that now. I had a car and my dorm mates needed a ride to the tattoo dudes house, so one time when I was taking them I got one myself. My dad nearly passed out when I came home and showed him. He literally had to hold onto the kitchen counter he was so shocked LMAO!! And that's when I felt kinda bad. I mean there wasn't anything I could do at that point. It was a done deal. But my tat is strategically placed. You only see it if I want you to see it. And my dad was a mailman. No one was reporting on me and my tat, nor did I shame the family. I just think this little girl did not think it through and I sincerely hope as she matures and grows wiser that this was not the best move to make.

Now on to Miss Fantasia ***LOUD ASS SIGH*** REALLY?!?!? You have a beautiful little girl, a singing career, you were on Broadway, Oprah likes you (that in and of itself is a measure of success)and you have a family that needs you!! To a certain extent I will buy that she didn't know he was married and/or separated, but as a woman, YOU KNOW!! Things don't just add up and you always have a gut feeling that something just aint right. But to attempt to take your life because?!?!? Well she said a lot in her interview with Robin Roberts and the tipping point I suppose was the man. My mantra is you always have a choice. ALWAYS!! And when you think things can't get any better, they really do.

Now I thought I had had my mind made up about her until I saw this interview. I am one of those people who actually voted for her (well her and Jennifer Hudson... I was torn that season) on American Idol. She was AMAZING on Broadway. But this little girl is just confused and just needed to take a step back to see what she had was going through and what she had done. I wasn't going to buy that new CD but I now I most certainly am!!

We all make mistakes or decisions that we regret or have consequences that may follow us for a long time in life. It happens. That's life. I truly do wish the best for both of these young ladies!

monday...

ok so some of my best ideas come to me while I'm driving and then I sit down to write it and I just draw a complete blank____________!!

Adventures at Chic-Fil-A
I went to Chic Fil A today. It is truly one of my favorite fast food spots. And I still am trying to figure out if it is because the food is good (the peanut oil does make a difference I think) OR the fact that they believe in great customer service. I love the 'Does that complete your order?' question when you go through the drive thru instead of the 'Is that it?' from every other fast food joint. OH and the 'My Pleasure' when you say thank you or whatever. I just love it!

So I'm there today mainly to get myself out of the self inflicted funk I put myself in and because I have some extra cash from my tips from last week. A chick knows how to hold onto 20 buck for a good long time!! It's lunch time so you have your usual suspects, office workers, mother's with kids, senior citizens, and everything in between. I sat inside and people watched the folks outside. One family in particular had a mother and 3 boys with ultra blond hair. I watched the mother just be oblivious to the kids. The little one may have been 3 or 4 dropped his nugget and proceeded to go pick it up and eat it off the ground. Now I'm all for the 5 second rule but the outside ground I think has a different set of rules. Then the father, or at least some man that appeared to be the dad, comes up and the boys are sooo happy to see him. SO the mom and dad are talking and the kids are just doing there thing. I guess i always focus in on the youngest because I am the youngest. He has his nugget sauce and is liking the hell out of it. It had to have been sweet cause my boy liked that thing dry. And neither the mother nor the father said anything... matter of fact they probably didn't even see him. Which is kind of sad.

WTF!?!?!
Said not spelled out. Kind of like Things that make you go hmmmmm...
1. Fitted shirts. Not really a fashion statement if you have belly and back fat; on men OR women. It's just a bad look!! Muffin tops are just never acceptable. I say this knowing I myself have to purchase tops (being the chesty chick that I am)in my size or higher. And you men, just cause you wearing the Under Armour gear does not mean you look like Ray Ray. Let me note here that I got distracted by the thought of sexy NFL players who do in fact wear Under Armour and do it justice. NFL Hotties as a google search unfortunately brought up alot of scantily clad women which must mean that this is what the sexy NFL player likes?? Hmm I don't know. and being the Steeler fan that I am Hines Ward could most DEF rock some Under Armour. AND coach Mike Tomlinson. And as much as I love The Bus, Jerome Bettis might need to pass on wearing a fitted shirt.

2. Bonnets and sleepwear. I understand not doing your hair, really I do. But a bonnet?!? Really your lazy ass is leaving the house to do whatever it is you gotta do in a bonnet? And I guess I was getting used to the black ones but PURPLE!? REALLY your countrified bama butt is leaving the house so EVERYBODY can see you in a purple or pink bonnet? And sleepwear is just a big NO!! If you can't find a pair of pants to put on to go walk around in, then you need to keep that bootay indoors!! Is it for attention? Did you not get enough hugs as a kid? I just don't get it. And I'm not talking about keeping up with none of the Joneses just regular common sense here! Oprah call this being a shlumpadinka! Here's my PSA to all: DON'T BE A SHLUMPADINKA!!

3. This Economy. It's getting better for some, I'll even venture to say MOST... just for some reason not me and alot of my friends. I am positive and I am keeping my head up but some days I'm like WHY ME!?!?! I'm still trying to understand the lesson in all of this hoping that I at least serve as a cautionary tale. Well maybe not that, I mean except for in good times leaving absolutely good jobs for reasons I question now, I really haven't done things too wrong. Right now I know my resume must read like I'm grossly overqualified. I'm not saying that as a pat on my own back, I've done alot in my years here on earth except figure out what I really want to do when I grow up, which is kinda sad.

4. Workplace bullying. There was a story on this morning news about a man who committed suicide because basically he was being bullied by his superior. My heart goes out to anyone in a situation who thinks they can not do anything about it. I mean granted the economy (see above) is the pits so maybe he thought he had to hold on to his job and take whatever he got from his asshole boss. The boss knew the dude was suffering from depression so how uncaring can you be to push someone further in a hole of despair. There has to be a special place in hell for him. My immediate reaction was to go find that bully boss and kick his ass. Some people need a good ass kicking and that bully boss tops my list. Now I sound like the bully, but I think the world would be a better place of certain people got their asses kicked when needed. FOR INSTANCE, (off the top of my head) Clarence Thomas, yes the supreme justice for saying affirmative action didn't really help him, AND for all the stuff you know he did/said to Anita Hill; Big from Sex in the City, prior to the 1st movie before he married Carrie who's dumb butt waited for him to finally come around; and speaking of sex... Ciara for being a hyper sexualized singer who is not really anyone to look up to. Come on ma really?!?

Parting thoughts/rants...
I am glad it is cool today. I can go finish mowing my jungle of a yard. Although as I sit here I really want to go home and get in the bed watch whatever is on the DVR and just chill. And I might just do that. I am hanging on by a thread here. The way my life has been going here lately, everything just seems so surreal. I will eventually get it together and things will get better because honestly, what other choice is there!!

Did you ever want to...

be in one of those games where you race to get a million dollars? I don't mean a TV game show but you know like in Midnight Madness or Rat Race ?? None of these are Oscar worthy movies. They had some people who won Oscars in other movies but not these 2. There was another one I think it had Sammy Davis Jr and Burt Reynolds (who was a 80's movie staple) and a whole lot of big named folks... well you know for the 80's. Kinda makes you wonder where are they now like the main dude in Midnight Madness was also the American Werewolf in London although I'm looking at his (David Naughton) IMDB profile and he is working so OH YEAH... race to win millions!!

That would be so cool. You get a letter in the mail that says meet me at the location at 1:15AM. And then you get there and you see people you know like your sister, hair dresser, deacon from the church, the trainer from the gym you had your eye on, all in a quest for something. They give you a car like a Porsche or Camaro (i know I KNOW 2 different cars... but I'm thinking sports models here) and a map; not a GPS but a map, so you do have to have some skills in that area. You have 24 hours or a week to find whatever it is you need to find or get to where ever you need to get to and then you win the million dollars. Now there would be obstacles like maybe the state troopers are tipped off that this gang of people will be doing this so their are speed traps every step of the way. Yeah I think that would be cool.

I don't know why I was thinking about this. I mean even for me this is pretty darn random!! And for some reason I was convinced Jeremy Piven was the main dude for the Meat Machine which was the green team (they had color teams) in Midnight Madness but it was a dude named Brian Wilkin I think. They were the jocks and everytime they went on the quest they would do this chant spelling out M E A T M A C H I N E then saying MEAT MACHINE 3 times or something like that. There were jock, nerds, sorority girls and then the loveable team who has the adorable kid (Michael J. Fox in this case). I know I remember specific stuff about movies but I have not seen this thing since at least the late 80's. The other thing I remember is one of the clues was at the Bonaventure Hotel which had these glass elevators. And when I went to Los Angeles (oh yeah that's where this movie took place, it was a race across the city) I stayed there with my mom and grandmother, so I had a connection. I went up in the elevators and wondered even then how it would be if I were in this race. From the beginning of the movie you knew who the 'good guys' were and that they were going to win but you still have to watch the whole movie just to see how it all ends up.

Rat Race was just a bad movie, well bad in a I'll-watch-it-on-a-rainy-day-and-NOTHING-else-is-on kinda way. It had Whoopi Goldberg (who should have won her Oscar for Color Purple), Cuba Gooding Jr (who really hasn't done anything good since Jerry MacGuire... well I mean if you consider his role in that good. He should have won an Oscar for his role in Men of Honor which I don't even think was nominated although I have some thoughts on the whole military/war movies that focus on black people... a blog on that later), and Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean, whatever happened to THAT show?!?!). They go to this hotel room and have to race across the country I guess to this location that has the million dollars in it. It was 2 person teams and different things happened to different people. Like Rowan Atkinson's character had a sleeping disorder so he would fall asleep and miss out on clues. That part was funny!! There was this team where one of the guys just got his tongue pierced and it started to swell and turn purple so he couldn't really talk. And Whoopi was in the race with her daughter and their story line was kind dumb. To be honest I can't remember if anyone got the million bucks in the end which kinda sucks. But there was a parade so maybe they shared it or something? No real loss if you don't see it.

I think I single handily upped the percentage of Midnight Madness on IMDB. Had to check some facts. I wan tot have a factual blog here!! Granted most of it I pulled right out my ass but you know some things should be accurate!!

next blog...

It probably would help if I remembered my password everytime I come in here. But I have had to reset 2 times already. Just a testament to how random I can be. But actually what's not random are my passwords. Since every site needs a password and/or a site key and/or the catchpa thingy my passwords are pretty much the same and I just keep recycling them and add a 1 or 2 or a capital letter here and there.

So the reason for today's blog kiddies is the NEXT BLOG>> button. I love love LOVE that thing. Look it's right at the top next to the Follow Share Report Abuse links. You never know what you're gonna get. Kinda like Forrest Gump and the whole box of chocolates. One of my favorite artist's Eric Roberson does alot of video blogs which I guess is easier than the typing ones. And then I guess technology makes it easier to do stuff like that because they have those little flip camcorders that I saw just this morning on HSN for the low low price of $79.90... i am digressing (a normal occurance). OK back to the blog. The next blog when I clicked this morning from my blog lead me to something about Laundry Mats which was slighty weird. And then it got me to wondering how many times people click on my site from the next blog>> and how random that function really is. There is somewhat a method to the madness like because Eric Roberson is an musical artist the next site is usually music related. Or if someone is an painter the next site is usually related in that way. I just wonder how 'it' decides what is next!?? I sometimes just keep hitting the button to see what's next.

There are a few things to this feature:
1. Sometimes you may click on it and it takes you to a foreign language (like this one). This makes me feel very small in that this whole BLOG thing is a global dynamic. And then back to the whole existential nature of things where one thing you do has an effect on the entire universe. Or at least that's how I always remembered the theory from Mrs. Parshall's English class, I think 10th grade.

2. If you like the site, it may be hard to go find it again on some rainy afternoon when you think hey remember that blog I went on 3 weeks ago?!? And I guess you could bookmark it. You could have a whole blog bookmark section on your computer. If that's what you do, do you!!

3. Having 3 points is always a good round number for having points but I can't remember what my 3rd point was... so If I remember before I hit post I'll include it. Other wise point 3 will just be random ramblings.

So ends my random thought for today. Come back tomorrow (or maybe even later today should the mood hit me) for a new fresh random topic!!