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!!