The weekend was truly met with a few challenges. Let’s start with Friday night. I get myself ready to go out get to the club
to see one of my favorite DJ’s who ‘allegedly’ got stuck in Canada **side eye
to him** He misses events often so I wasn’t shocked or surprised just a lil
pissed. But the house DJ played great
and it was good to see some folks I hadn’t in years INCLUDING 2 exes… Well it
actually wasn’t all that great to see them.
In fact I avoided them like the plague.
Thinking back one I really did like and tried 2 times (yes I gave this
fool 2 times to show me he was NOT the 1 LOL) and the other I don’t know what I
was thinking but after the infamous knee massage (did I blog about that years
ago?!? Hmmm) I KNEW he was not the one!! So that was Friday. Saturday wasn’t so bad. I picked up Girl Scout (of America) cookies,
took stuff to my sister and then took my mom to get her hair cut. The little girl that did it did a good
job. As I sat in the salon and smelled all
the salon smell, I really did crave it.
Over the years mainly because of money I only went to get a relaxer and
now that I’m TEAM NATURAL I miss going to the salon regularly. Something I that I need to start back up
because I am dreading doing my hair lately. Sunday, I get up, cook myself breakfast and plop down
on the couch to catch up on my sci fi.
So the roommate doesn’t really ‘get’ sci fi and has a plethora of
questions that I just don’t feel like answering WHILE the show is on, and of
course she forgets the questions when the commercial comes on. I use early Saturday and Sunday (you know
when I’m being a heathen a wretch undone by not going to church) to catch up on
Grimm, Dracula, The Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. and whatever else. I’m
not good into S.H.E.I.L.D. and she comes and sits down **loud sigh** so now I
can’t watch my show because even though she has a big ass TV in her room she
likes the living room one. I just turned
it off and turned on something she would like.
The goal for the day was to do not much of anything so it threw me off
when my nephew called to remind me that he needed to go shopping. He’s a little boy who tries, I mean you know
not THAT hard, but whatever, he’s a boy and auntie must do what auntie
must. On my way my freaking tire blew. And that just about pushed my right over the
edge I was already teetering on. There
were a few other things that didn’t help my already fragile state so when I got
home and yelled at my mother (the roommate) for a really dumb reason I just
lost it. She didn’t deserve that and I
immediately felt bad but yet she comforted me!
In that moment I was a kid again
with not a worry in the world just appreciating the hug my mom gave me (with
her good arm LOL)! And her solution was
for me to get her credit card and buy myself something to make me happy again. I really am not unhappy, but the stress of
caring for an aging parent can be a bit much some days. I told her I would go on QVC and she agreed
that was a good idea! And then I ‘found’ the Firefly Sweet tea vodka and that
made me happy too! We watched the Sound
of Music which maybe wasn’t a great idea because that movie is a tear jerker for
me. As Maria sang ‘Favorite things’ Mary
J. Blige version came to mind. ONLY
Julie Andrew and Luther Vandross versions
(and maybe some jazz instrumental versions) do it for me. Which brings me to the morning… Pandora is
great today! I’ve only had to skip a few songs.
I really do not like the Temptations Christmas songs. It’s like nails on a chalkboard!! I like the Jackson 5, Peanuts (the cartoon…
well the dudes that played the jazz in the background Vince Guaraldi and band),
Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey (who I actually need to get,) Kirk Franklin,
Rahsaan Patterson, Stevie Wonder and… as I’m listening to Pandora, Glee did a
Christmas cd and all the songs I’ve heard are good. And actually Kelly Clarkson did some good
renditions. I’m just sick of the
rehashed version of classic songs. How
could I forget Donny Hathaway!?!? But I only think he did a few songs; CLASSIC,
but not a whole album.
I was going to do a year in review, but maybe not right
now. Here is the quick and dirty… This
year has been no different from prior years.
I’ve had ups and downs although this year I must say more ups than downs
which is good. My mother has consumed
much of my year and if anyone said to me that this time last year I would have
a 71 year old roommate I would have laughed at them and now she actually IS
with me, I continue the laughter! I’ve said it before I need a blog just for
the shit she says. Work has been
interesting to say the least. I have
kept a job for a WHOLE year!! Didn’t get
fired didn’t even piss anyone off that much.
I flew under the radar just enough.
I reactivated in my illustrious sorority and have done not a whole
lot. Next year is the year for pink and
green. This year I had to just ease
myself back into it. I have attended
some great concerts! I finally made it
to Essence in New Orleans which felt like work but I blogged about that
earlier. I went to Capital Jazz Fest
also. What I don’t like about festivals
is that the people I like do not sing or play enough for me. Some highlights are Jose James, Eric Robeson
and Gregory Porter at the Howard Theatre; Lalah and Mint Condition at Baltimore
Soundstage; and everyone else I had seen LOL Lastly, I will speak on my
hair. I have finally come up with a good
regime which includes mostly WEN products.
QVC just did a TSV (that’s Today’s special value for the uninitiated)
and you know I bought it. YOU
KNOW!! Other than that and coconut oil and
whatever I already have, I am not buying no more products. It just gets to be toooo freaking much AND
expensive. So that’s it…
OH WAIT NO IT’S NOT… this is about hair, but not mine.
So on Sunday after taking the nephew shopping I decided
to go the Shop Rite next to the Kohl’s and did my little shopping so I wouldn’t
have to stop anywhere else. I was so
tired and get to the register and put my eggs on the belt. It felt like one was broke so I opened it and
sure enough eggs didn’t make it from the back of the store to the front. I don’t know if I broke them, but I do know I
wasn’t purchasing them. I say to the
little girl, the eggs are broken and I don’t feel like going back to get
another carton, so can you just take them.
She only ½ hears me and says OH you can just go get another one in the
back. I said NO I’m NOT going back there
so can you just take them. She then says
well I can scan them and get Elijah to go get you another one. I’m like ok that’s fine. There were 2 little random boys, 1 has EJ on his name tag and the Elijah came
into view. I don’t know about you, but
sometimes things move in slow motion for me.
This little boy (cause he surely was just a teenager) walks up to me in
slow motion with this head full of curly LONG shoulder length hair that looked
absolutely effortless AND like a fan was blowing beneath him!! Like a little black Fabio LMBAO!!! I’m looking at him like WTF!?!? This is so unfair!! He is a boy and his hair looked freaking B E
A U T I F U L!!! He looks like he
probably gets up in the morning shakes his head and leaves for the day. So I’m standing there he takes the eggs out
of my hand and then I’m like OH I HAVE TO LOOK AT HIM AGAIN!! I stare. He comes back with my eggs… same slow motion
with the fan and I get a really good look. He was a little cutie and if I was a 16 year
old girl, I would be in love!! But I’m an almost 40 year old chick but I really
did enjoy the view!!
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