random hooky day

I woke up this morning at 5:45 a full 1/2 hour before my alarm goes off and I was not a happy camper... but I also wasn't mad either because I was rested. So I go to open my eyes and the left one is oozing something. I have been having an issue of redness and not only did I diagnosed myself with pink eye but I also started taking antibiotics as a proactive approach. So there I lay and pull out a tissue, dab my eye and throw it away because WebMD had told me that pink eye was highly contagious and you don't want to infect the other eye. So at work I been sanitizing myself silly washing my hands (even more)and just trying not to touch anything that could infect either me in the other eye or anyone else. So this morning as the ooze comes out and i'm in pain and it's sensitive to light and there is this fuzzy film over my eye AND I look like a complete one red eyed freak I was like OH SHIT I can't go to work like this and be infecting the world. So I called my manager and co-worker and let them know that if i did come in it would be late in the day. So I go to the appointment ready for them to tel me it was pink eye, get some more antibiotics and be on my merry way. Well no, it never can be that easy for me!! My mom has eye issues, but it never occurred to me that I would inherit that. I mean I have jacked up eyes and astigmatism which I never feel like the eye doctors other than Dr. Mike and the one in VA (I forgot his name) get correct. So Dr.uuummm it started with a W but honestly I keep thinking they said Wazowski and then I kept saying to myself MIKE WAZOWSKI!! You know from Monster Inc. (stay with me). So anyway he and his nurse/tech who had on this horrible perfume AND can you say to someone can you please leave cause you are offending my nose right now!?? No I guess you can't... He says something to her in medical-eze and I said Ok I need ENGLISH!! So he tells me I have retenitis and uveitis which are both inflammations and I will have to do drops every 1/2 hour for the next 3 days while I'm awake. So it's the middle layer of my eye that is inflamed and has protein build up on it. So it's not contagious, I didn't do anything to cause it except get older. He said it was pretty common. So Stink Tech printed out some information and went on my way. So I'm in the car with my classy dialated plastic sunglasses debating do I go to work or do I just go home? And then I started having this pity party like WHOA IS ME!! I even think a tear feel as I conjure images up of my eye never healing and then eventually just falling out! I can get real dramatic real fast LOL But just as fast as i can get dramatic, I can get it together.

So last night I was watching Eat St on the Cooking network and they are showing the Gypsy Queen Cafe food truck. Now normally all the food trucks they feature are in Santa Monica or Ontario or everywhere but Baltimore!! So I was excited and they did the 'this is what we have' and I sat on my couch and salivated. So I had said last night I'ma take a few hours off from work one day and go find the truck. Well in the midst of my pity party (see above) I was like... well i have chicken and salad I'll just go home I don't need to find the truck today even though I had already mapped it and knew they were gonna be on Hopkins campus from 11-2. And then I said HOLE UP!! I can go find the truck and then go to work! So I went got cash and went on my mission. Baltimore has this whole Food Truck phenomenon going on and I have been to a few events called 'The Gathering' where they all park in a central location and you are just in food heaven. I have seen this truck and I have seen the line wrap around, but for whatever reason I never made it to this truck. I have made it to Grr Cheese Truck where I had this wonderful Caribbean mango grilled cheese sandwich made with guyere(sp?) cheese! And then there is the Chicken and Waffle truck which has... well chicken and waffles but they are so good!! And I have dreams about them. And then there is the Cupcake Runner which has... well cupcakes run by one of my friends/former co-workers. It's always a nice sweet end to the day. So on the TEE VEE last night they show this crab cone from Gypsy Queen. It's a waffle cone filled with fries topped with old bay and then topped with the crabcake which is then topped with this aoli sauce. And you see all these doctors and nurses and techs in scrubs at either University of MD hospital or Johns Hopkins lining up to get either that OR that macaroni and cheese cone OR the fried soft shell crab sandwich. Everyone looks happy! SO TODAY after I talk myself into going to find the truck I got the crab cone. Let me point out that this is my time of the month that I am PMS'ing so I cry literally at the drop of any random hat. So the lady in the truck gives me the cone-o-food and after one bite I have to fight back tears it is so freaking delicious!! So instead I nod and point and say this is really good. I go to my illegally parked car and do loud mmmmm's and ahhhh's!! 1/2 way through this culinary adventure I want to get out of the car and find a sign like one of those sign dudes and point people in the direction of this truck!! The only and I do mean ONLY thing that would have made it better is if I had a jumbo 1/2 n 1/2 which is one of the few b-more things that I have adopted! The crab cake was CRAB with not much filler. It was just so good! and I am anxious to go try err thang on the menu!!

On my quest to find the truck today I passed Hopkins Hospital and a woman who is clearly a patient is standing on the sidewalk in her hospital gown and house shoes and is coughing up a few lungs. Now try as I might NOT to stare... that's exactly what I kept doing. And the more I stared the more she looked back at me and the more I kept willing the light to turn green. It did finally after like 20 minutes LOL

I am convinced that if my cat could talk, every other word would be bitch. So I got her some food that she likes and eats ALL of it and on the first day she looked at me as if to say 'FINALLY bitch you got me some good ass food!!'

My office is a campus set near a lot of trees and there is a family or families of deer that live and eat in the back of the parking lot. So one day, there were about 4 deer eating grass and one sees me in the car and then starts running around like OH SHIT SHE CAN SEE US!!! Now this must have been a young deer because the other deer look at here like BITCH CALM DOWN!! And then she does! I'm assuming she was a she cause there were no antlers.

There was a stink bug in my car the other day. I had to pull over because if I swiped at him and he landed on my leg there would have been an accident involving me and a pile-up of cars. They are indeed the stupidest bugs. I mean a roach, an ant, a WHATEVER scurries when you try to kill it. Today one is walking across my TV and I go get it with a magazine to flush it. It's almost like they say oh you want me to get on that magazine and NOT fly away even though I got perfectly good wings?!?! NO PROBLEM!! Then they swim around in the toilet like DAMN I GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE!! THAT BITCH SET ME UP!!! LOL

I think ima go get an eyepatch and say ARGH alot even though we are way passed 'talk like a pirate' day. Hell I can barely see out the left eye... that's a good idea

i aint got time for all that!!

I have just been in a complaining space. And I HATE that!! No one wants to hear that. Hell I hate thinking it!! So my blogs have been a little scarce lately. I wrote this long one out and then re-read it and it was just so dark and full of rage. And that’s not me so let me rebegin (hmm word does not like this word... but Words With Friends do so I’ma keep using it!!)!

Actually today is rather gloomy, but as soon as I put my obnoxious rain hat on I feel better. I got it the summer I was working back in DC and I saw it at the 9West store. It made me think of my grandmother! She always had a ridiculous hat for rainy days and supermarket days; ANY day! She was what folks call people a hoarder but we didn't really realize it then. She kept everything and it was a fight to have her throw away the smallest things. And true to form her hat collection (and shoe, and make-up, and perfume, and clothes) was big. I miss her so much! It’s funny the small things that remind me of my family that has passed away. On Friday I looked down at my outfit and had on about 5 shades of brown, my dads favorite color. Sunday as the critter ran behind the breakfront (or china cabinet) that belonged to my grandmother (oh wait this is my moms mom, the one with the hats is my dads mom) I thought of how this neighborhood group came around with these mouse flyers, well to kill them. I remember when she got the glue traps and I remember her killing a few with the shovel (Lawd she was so old school!!). And then there's my granddad who would let me clean a chitlin (yeah I know but that's what we ate) and then he would re-clean it and throw it in the pot. I didn’t mean to get so sentimental. I just feel so bad for folks who don’t have and/or get along with their families.

Sometimes I really have to question if I am asking to much from my service providers. Most days I really don’t think I am, but I do try to put myself in their shoes. Today after I was ready to write the manager and owner and whoever else would listen a letter about how bad their service was, the service guy who handles writing up my car comes and gets me from the waiting room and has the valet take me to work! I had just missed both shuttles and I already told a few people (the one service tech with bad skin and hair (she needed proactive & Wen LOL) pretty much ignored me) that I wasn’t happy and he tried (and succeeded) to make me less annoyed about the whole situation. I still might write a letter (no really I won’t) but it would be far less angry.

Last week I really wanted to put as my status that I just pooped and felt better about the whole day! But that would have been way to much information. Even right now it’s a helluva overshare!!

I am so lost in music right now. NeoSoul Café is where I go to listen to more mellow stuff. But some days can be really rap heavy. I mean of the neo soul variety, but you know some days I just don't feel like it.. So after I heard Jose James today I hopped on YouTube and been listening to just his stuff pretty much all day. His voice does not match what I thought he would sound like. First off he is this cutie patootie from the Midwest he looks like he might do a freestyle rap but then he opens his mouth and sings with this voice that just doesn’t fit. It’s not a bad thing in fact I would love to see him in concert which is why I gotta open my lounge for artists just like this! I keep telling myself it can’t be that hard. I just need a sponsor or 2! Maybe I can call Ray Ray up and see if he could throw $50k my way!! LOL I love how I think I can call Ray Lewis up on a whim. And his band.. back to Jose James... is freaking amazing! I need to get his cd’s. Most recently I got Elle Varner, Nas, Mary Mary, and DMX all on the same day. I know the cashier was looking at me crazy. But the goal was to get Elle Varner and Nas, but Mary Mary and DMX were like $5.99 so I just grabbed them. What’s funny is I already had the Mary Mary cd. As I listened I kept saying hmmm this sounds sorta familiar. And then sure enough when looked there it was. Now the explanation for DMX, I just like him. Always have! On the radio, versions of the song they are far less gritty. But actually listening to what he is saying is sometimes hilarious! He completely and totally disrespects his wife, I mean that’s not funny but some of the lyrics are. And then when I watch those shows like Rehab with Dr. Drew or that couple show he was on, I mean he went through some stuff! And then there is Nas who again the only explanation is, I LIKE HIM! I can pinpoint the exact time and place where I became a fan. It was the summer I worked as an intern at State Farm. I carpooled with Fatima (Lawd what was her last name) and our compromise was, her music on the days she drove, my music on the days I drove. Well she pumped Nas the entire summer!! I was more of a happy rap (you know like Kid N Play, Heavy D) kinda chick. But that summer Life’s a Bitch and then you die that’s why we puff fly cause you never know when a gonna GO was my mantra!! Mind you I didn’t puff then nor do I now, but the essence of it is life is short so you might as well have fun. I have pretty much every Nas cd to the shock of many. This new cd "Life is good" while good I’m still trying to figure out how much has he really grown up. I mean the N word is dropped without much care and the constant reference to ‘puffing’ is kinda... ok so I KNOW people smoke regularly but that shouldn’t be your whole life and it seems a little stuck to me. But his one lyric he said ‘like he must got naked pictures of God’ had me howling!! He is a true lyricist, he doesn’t just talk about bling and booty which is what we have an abundance of now! Onto Miss Varner! I first heard her on the radio but didn’t even know it was her. That first song ‘I only want to give it to you’ was so infectious I hated to admit I liked it. But every time it was on that was all I sang for the rest of the day. And then I heard the next song on NeoSoul Café ‘So fly’. The lyric that got me ‘ I got a beautiful soul but only 4 people know... they knew me since I was 10 beauty did not matter then!!’ I was hooked. What I didn’t realize it that she was so young (20 something) and she wrote all her songs! So it is staying in constant rotation in the hooptie!


The Wedding of the year was a few weekends ago!! I’m not sure why I thought I wasn’t going to have a good time but I had a freaking blast!! Open Bars bring out the best in me LOL And I managed to not drop kick any family members which is always a good thing. There were not really any single men. Honestly I have given up on trying to meet someone at a wedding. That has not worked for me thus far. All of the bride’s brothers were from the West Coast and kinda had their girlfriend’s there. All of the groom’s (my cousin... well the bride is now officially my cousin!) boys were married; and the ones that weren’t I either went to school with them or maybe I just wasn’t paying attention. I tend to have this fantasy about ‘Some enchanted evening!!’ which ended up not happening so I danced and drank... drank some more... danced a lil and then drank some more!! Sobieski vodka is NOT to be messed with which I knew real well the next day!! The DJ was great! He was of a blued eyed soul nature BUT HE was rocking!! The happy couple had a good time too! I had to let them both know how janky I can be with gifts, but that they would get it before the end of the year and ON THAT NOTE I still need to get a gift for my girlfriend who got married last year. It’s year 1 so it’s paper... not sure what I’ll get them but... My camera was acting shady that weekend (prolly the family $ brand batteries!) so I literally have 7 pictures but I need to download those. Thank God... errr I mean LBJ that folks are more technologically advanced than me and have posted stuff on facebook. They had a picnic the next day which was really nice. I was REAL glad when I actually had an appetite!! One of the brothers made pulled pork and beef OMG it was so good!! I had to take it easy on the beef because I wanted it to stay in my tummy!!

I talk about food a lot. I’m like Jill Scott not a blog goes by where I have not mentioned food! And I really enjoy eating. I mean it is an event sometimes! I recently tried the crab poached egg at Duesenberg's!! ___________________ this is me on the floor cause it was so freaking delicious. It may just be the time of year, but I have not tasted crab so sweet in a long time.

I have buyers remorse for this hair cut... and it’s GONE!! So now I just have to wait patiently for it to grow to the length I had wanted it cut to in the 1st place. Thank LBJ my hair grows somewhat fast!! But was rocking a crazy comb-over and i must not got no friends cause no one tole me how bad I looked LOL Actually i got more chopped off and just today I said I was rocking the Gwen Ifill... not good but I just gotta comb it differently and not as a middle aged white man aka THE COMB OVER!!

i really need another glass of wine and some apple jacks and think my evening will be complete!!

olympic edition

I really need for my doctor to stop prescribing me the crazy pills I clearly keep taking. And here’s why… These Olympics have been really good. What is really driving me bonkers right now is the silver and bronze medal. Everyone who is there is an Olympian. Just to make the team, whatever team, is a feat in and of itself. Most people let alone athletes can’t even say they are or were an Olympian. So why in the heck are we tripping… or I should say the commentators tripping when someone comes in second or third. SERIOUSLY?!?! Last night I watched the little girl on the vault. #2 is not what she wanted, but dammit #2 aint bad!! She fell and she was so GOOD that she STILL came in second. The little Dominican girl fell too, but she didn’t even place. And don’t even get me started on Michael Phelps coming in #2 and #4 that one time. And the dude on the men’s gymnastics team came in third. The USA men’s team did not do all that great, so they were a little more happy about his bronze medal.

I found myself watching fencing for longer than I care to admit and not really knowing what the hell was going on. I did catch on though, so if both players hit at the same time that is considered a ‘double tap’. And the USA was ahead so much that it was ok that the double tapped a few times. I felt bad for the Korean fencer who sat there while they reviewed the tape (I guess) and she was contesting the ruling. Basically if she left the court (or stage maybe?) she would have conceded. So she sat for like an hour and a half waiting. Now here again this was for the gold, but sweetie… SILVER aint bad!!

Onto track a field. Some random dude on FB said he didn’t really want to see the men’s ‘junk’ when they run and that they should have a better uniforms. I like the ‘JUNK’!! And all the muscles. Last night that little boy from Jamaica…WHEW LAWD!! Yohan what they call him! He was the cutiest patootiest!! Now he could stand to get some adult orthodontia but other that that ***THUMBS WAY UP***Even the dude from South Africa with no legs… who I didn’t even realize didn’t have any legs until they focused on them prosthetics, he was a cutie too!! They flashed the dude from USA, all smiles my way!!

I don’t know why, maybe in some parallel universe but I think I can be an Olympian. What sport I have NO GOOD CLUE!! For a while I though maybe softball, but those chicks are serious!! You don’t just walk off the street and start throwing a ball. It would have to be some off the wall event that no other American exceeds like…. HANDBALL!!! I am looking at my app for the Olympics and there is no American team. I have no idea what it is but I’ma start training for it!! Now see I could had said badminton or table tennis, but the Asian got that on LOCK!! Hole up… are those 2 things the same thing?!? Oh my bad the Canadians… wait a second their players have Asian names. OK as pc as I try to be… CLEARLY I am not doing a good job right now, so I’m gonna move on. (LOL). FYI… cause I just googled it, badmiton and table tennis are 2 separate sports!! Now I gotta go google handball… ok it’s kinda like soccer and basketball. Yep I’m starting me a team!! Oh wait, hole up THERE IS A Team USA handball team. I’m gonna go get on it!! Cause I’m sure it’s just that easy!! IJS

my thoughts exactly... humpday edition

i really have no complaints about my job... love life could be better, well I mean it would be nice if it existed LOL and if I can stop kicking or stepping on my cat in the middle of the night life would be grand!

but here is what's baking my noddle. The bathroom!! THAT'S FREAKING RIGHT the bathroom. I posted one day how anyone could get the liner from the dispenser, put it on the toilet, you USE said toilet and then get up without the liner flushing!! That is so gross!! Just doa quick look back. I blame the automatic flushers cause if you had to lift you foot to do the flushing, you would see.. OH YEAH THE LINER... let me make sure that thing gets flushed. The other day everyone's poop schedule was 1:25 that bathroom was STAAANKIN!!! I stood there for a sec to decide if I was going to hit up another floor... but my schedule was the same and when I gotta go I GOTS to go!!

ok ok.. that was a bit much of oversharing!!

I am trying so hard to pretend like my WEN-less hair does not look like a bail of hay on top my head. my co-worker spent a ridiculous amount of money on a keratin treatment, but I really wanted to tell her...all you need is some WEN. By now everyone knows I am an infomercial/QVC/HSN junkie. I try so hard not to watch...no wait, I try so hard not to BUY!! but here lately it be calling my name!! My most recent purchases (not including today because I AM getting ret to get some WEN) but a few nights ago I got a smart phone :) YAY I upgraded... well the phone. Cause it's still a pre-paid phone. A few maxi PETITE dresses cause this chick is tall... but I needed a shorter maxi dress!!

i don't like learning things about people that are negative... actually I'm really ready to whoop some ass. But instead I'll Chill!

I LOVE the Olympics!! when they cry I cry. I am just so (word for the day) INVESTED!! Ummm has anyone noticed Ryan Seacrest's hair?!? It is a person all by itself. It just sits so loftily atop his head perfectly coiffed!! OH and the Proctor and Gamble commercial saluting the moms... I get chocked up just thinking about it. And Gabby... FREAKING Gabrielle Douglas. She is a beast!! OF course she is in the all around but the other little girl in it deserves it too. They ALL work hard, they ALL sacrifice, just cause the other OTHER little girl was the favorite... well and the reigning world champ... didn't make it SHE JUST DIDN'T!! I need for some focus to be on Gabby and that cutie patootie Ryan Lochte!! And did the black dude swimmer from Charlotte (can't remember his name) get a medal??

Target, I know you tried but the commercials for back to school are just not as good as last year. Stop trying to FORCE the song. denim... denim...denim... BACKPACKS!! LOL

LAWD I have been so sleepy... I do not think I will make it ti see Soul Man with Cedric and Niecy tonight :/

hump day random...

I just read this article, ‘The top 10 lessons of career reinvention: what my 5 careers have taught me.’ It caught my eye because I can remember precisely in college a guest speaker coming to speak to one of my marketing groups. She said over the course of your life you will have 10 careers. I thought then, well NOT ME because I am getting a degree in marketing and that’s what I’m going to do. I should have known there was some validity because even at the time the professor over us had went from a BS in accounting and switched to get her PhD in Marketing. Going from numbers person to a more creative person was a big change. So in this article #8 is ‘There is absolutely no security or stability except in who you are inside yourself’ I have always always ALWAYS said there is no such thing as job security, yet I see people continue to work as if they can’t be let go, or that things may change in their lives and they may want to leave. I think we all get a little stuck sometimes. Stuck because you know for a fact this is not where you are supposed to be, but having no clue how to get out. I recently had this experience where I was just stuck. And even as I look back to the not so long ago past I cannot make sense of it. It’s funny to have my friends try and explain it to me about my life and I listen knowing they have no idea for the decision I made, but still allowing them to have an opinion as to why I stayed in position for a long ass year. Now I’m not so stuck. I’m still not completely where I want to be, but a heck of a lot more at peace. Now it’s time to work on some other things in my life.

Switching gears completely… Magic Mike made me so very happy!! I am not one of those chicks who like going to strip clubs. I know women who do and I don’t knock it, it just has never really been my thing. Even in my 20’s I went ALL the way to DC (LOL) with one of my girlfriends to see this group of black strippers. They were… BIG in a lot of ways!! And I had a good time, but that was it. I didn’t need to go to another show (ever) the next week, or travel to Philly to see them again. It was just I had fun that was nice and that’s it. SO when the previews for Magic Mike came out I was surprised at myself for showing such an interest in wanting to see the movie. They showed a bunch of buffed basically naked men. WHY should I not want to see this movie? So one of the concerns was they are all white men. My retort was AND?!?!? So as luck would have it the Saturday (opening weekend mind you) as BGE scurried to restore electric from the previous night storm and the thermometer kept rising and rising going to pay for some ac in the form of a movie was right on time. The theater was packed and I went with 2 of my GGG’s and we weren’t able to sit together, which was fine with me because they both like to talk during the movie and I’m more of a HEY let’s just watch the movie kinda chick!! I sat next to a couple and the man said to the wife ‘I’m going to get some pointers from this movie so I can start a second career!’ She giggled, I busted out laughing. They had to have been in their 50’s with most likely grown kids. Then I had to really stop and get a good look at him. They were a cute couple but I resisted the urge to say ‘buddy keep whatever day job you got!!’ The storyline was truly not that deep. You had a bunch of strippers who welcomed a newbie into the fold and they were preparing to take their ‘show’ to Miami. There was a lot of nudity : ) full frontal, side frontal, and back frontal LOL (that was from Will & Grace when Jack was describing nude scenes that Kevin Bacon had in various movies. It makes NO SENSE but I say it all the time and folks look at me like I’m crazy… which is usual for me). There was some drug use and sales. Mike’s goal was to make handmade furniture and then he had an epiphany… and then the movie was over. I sat there for a minute waiting for something else to happen. I’m not sure what I wanted to happen but the way it ended was whack! HOWEVER, it was still worth it to see that much nekkidness on the big screen!!!

I feel like the Lion in the Wizard of Oz the scene where they stole the guard’s uniforms and his tail keeps making it go up in the back. My skirt is long-ish, but for some reason I keep thinking it is not down all the way in the back. That is a horrible fear that I would walk in front of people and my skirt is tucked into my panties!!!

I have been listening to a lot of jazz lately. I go into and out of phases of what I like most at the time. The radio just doesn’t play many things I like, and if I hear that whining ass song from Usher one mo time I am gonna scream!! I even heard a house remix and I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I just feel that the lyrics should grow with you. Having sex, going to the club, drinking, and buying bling should not be the main theme of your songs. AND IF IT IS... be mature about it. I mean REALLY Mary, are you still talking about bad boys?!?!? Aren’t you married? SWV just came out with a new CD and for most of the faster paced songs I was just like UGH… no as a matter of fact I do not want to ‘co-sign’ for your love. Da hell does that even mean?!? In current rotation in my car/iPod: Esperanza Spaulding (she is the phenom who plays everything, but mainly the bass and won the grammy for best new artist the year Justin Beiber was nominated (tweens don’t like her LOL)), Gregory Porter (his voice sounds like a big bear hug. The first time I heard him I pretty much stopped what I was doing to goggle and find out who this dude was!), Robert Glasper (He has kind of been around for a while as a pianist. His new compilation cd has everyone from Lalah Hathaway to Bilal to Erykah Badu) and The Mitchell & Newbury Band (totally found this on a whim. It’s a compilation CD from 2007 with Fertile Ground on it, probably the last song they did together. But the rest of the CD has this kinda jazzy samba Latin feel to it from 2 white guys from Europe LOL). I actually throw in a little Mary Mary, Jill Scott and Ledisi for good measure.

I cut the top of my foot about 2 months ago. It was healing pretty well now it’s just a little black mark on my right foot instead of the hug gash it was. So last week why did one of those sonofabitch mosquitoes bite me right on the sore?!? It was puffy and painful and now I am back to wearing open in the center shoes, but of course no today!! I need some new shoes. Because the ones I have on today are not only old, but they really hurt. I need to keep a pair of flip flops in my desk. These were already in the ‘goodwill’ pile and they are going to go right back in it!!

So when I get an invite to have cupcakes for someone’s birthday on my team it doesn’t matter if I know the person LOL I just go! My co-worker who is a lot less adventurous than me said ‘aren’t you embarrassed?’ I said NOPE I’ll meet the birthday girl when I get there! I used to get so embarrassed about so many things as a kid and teenage… young adult. Now I’m like hell no! I didn’t do anything to get embarrassed. This is what embarrassed means: ashamed of something and worried about what other people will think of you. I could give about 2 craps an a ½ what people think of me!! The cupcake was so/so (the lady who made them sat right across from me so of course everyone was like THESE ARE DELICIOUS). But the dog stories were the BEST!! They just kept going on... and on... and on... LMBAO

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I got so much trobule on my mind. I REFUSE TO LOSE!! - Public Enemy

Actually I don't have trouble I have RANDOMNESS!! so here goes:

-my co-worker said she was stressed because our manager asked her to move some things in an email account to a folder in a shared drive. I told her YOU DON'T KNOW STRESS!! This aint stress this is cake, and I will have another slice thank you!!

-the mosquitoes bit me on my FACE!! them sob's danced around everywhere I sprayed and get their blood from my face

-YES as a matter of fact I DO want to see Magic Mike. Channing Tantum!!! Matthew McConaughey!!! And that other (well several other)cutie patottie!! YES PLEASE!!!

-my doctor...well my hematologist (my primary care just wants to be sure I am close to healthy as possible because right now she says I am healthy-ISH) asks me what I like to do. So after I stop looking like a deer in the headlights I said 'well I know saying watching TV and drinking wine are probably not so good, but that's what I like to do... AND GARDEN!! because that sounds good, right?' He was dying laughing!!

-the nurse at this place took my blood and then apologized for sticking me... ummm, I didn't feel a think you did a GREAT job Nurse Katie!!

Tahj Mowery (you know Tia & Tamera's lil brother) is on a new show on ABC Family. But why does he look Asian and not black?

Why have I been watching ABC Family? I am kinda addicted to 'Bunheads'

Cedric's new show is GREAT!! I love Cedric!!

Why oh why does my neighbor pop out of freaking NOWHERE to say hello?? I really wish I could take him up on his offer to mow the lawn, but I need to know his situation. Is that your wife/girlfriend/sister/cousin?!?! And NO I am not tryna holla (why can't my neighbors look like the dude in Janet Jackson's Anytime video... or any other video she made in the 90's LOL) but I just don't wanna feel indebted. I mowed you lawn so now let's go upstairs(boooom chikka WOW WOW)!!! UUUhhhh nooo (LOL)

Ok it's not really stalking if I have no idea where the cute tall dude sits. But I was driving right behind him and I have his license plate memorized (ok yes that teeters on stalking... but only if I do something with it. It can play around in my brain forever!! LMBAO) Plus it looks like a family car... although he is TALL so a sedan doesn't necessarily mean 'I have 10 kids'.

I at least am working with men but there are really only a few cuties. One guy is still there from when I worked there in my 20's. I had a little crush on him and when I saw him again last week I was like eeeewwww what on earth was I thinking?!?!?

finding stuff out about the old job is both hilarious and confirms I made the right choice to leave.

to my dog friends, i know you love your dog, I KNOW, but can you ease up on talking about how amazing they are?!? I mean they aint got opposable thumbs which is what I tell my cat. My mom says I talk to her like she's a human. I'll say why are you trying to pick that up you aint got opposable thumbs chick!! OH wait did I just go to the dark side of talking about how amazing my pet is?!?!? (I mean she kinda is; anything that can lick their lady parts is pretty freaking amazing!!!)

if english is not your first language I am going to need for you to listen to the WHOLE question before you answer "YES"! Don't use context clues... just listen. And really that goes for native english speakers as well!

I am addicted to QVC, but don't tell anyone!! I just got my 2 petite maxi dresses and they are PERFECT!!! even though I am a tall chick i prefer my dresses not drag on the ground!

the intention was to open a bottle of Gollywobbler tonight and that didn't happen. Oh yeah the intention was also to make a lime simple syrup for the raspberry lemon drop i was going to test.. OH WAIT I have some simple syrup in the frig... hold on...hmmm maybe I don't need simple syrup since the lemonade is pretty sweet... (adjusting recipe in my head)

i am sooo sleepy right now. There is more but this is gonna hafta do for today!!

up to date

Ok so I have to bring you up to date on so many things… I have not been diligent in keeping up with my randomness. So let’s break it up into segments...

ATL
Went there to see my brother’s youngest son, or nephew, graduate from high school. Saw both him and the oldest nephew who has some plans for his future which is good! Graduate nephew is going to college in ATL which is good. I stayed in his room that he cleaned just for me O_o. Moving on… His grandmother made this lasagna that was sooooooo freaking good, that I have decided to stop trying!! Mine always needs ‘something’ and I never can put my finger on what that something is so I am officially DONE! She also bakes but you gotta catch her when she’s in the mode. Back to the nephews… I am so proud of them both!! They are maturing differently from a girl, but the youngest one is going to get there eventually the oldest is getting there (wherever there is) at a faster rate now that he is well into his 20's. The actual graduation was slow and when I watched the Glee season finale I was like ' Dag I wish the graduation I went to was this fast' LOL. ATL is nice to visit but I could never wrap my head around living there.

Dallas
no not the TV show. My family reunion was in Dallas and alls I got to say about that is it was HOOOOT! I don’t do real well in very hot heat. The good thing is that it was dry heat. The actual reunion it was great to see some family that I truly only see every so often. The airport was kinda weird. i walked a good while until I realized the exits were on the side. I had to ask a badged person how the heck do I get out. And that's just what I said. HOW THE HECK DO I GET OUT!!! I requested from my cousin that was hosting to provide me with a single oilman and then maybe I would stay. He did not provide said man (LOL)

Job
I gave notice and left my job. YAY!! I mean this is truly a thank LBJ moment! I would have stuck it out as long as I could but it was getting pretty unbearable. What had happened is… the quick and dirty is an old contact contacted me, I had an interview that was calm and easy and went well and then basically they were waiting for me to give them a start date. The month of May had a lot going on, mainly graduations and vacations. And my vacation which consisted of 2 days tacked onto a holiday which made for a long weekend which up until I actually took it cause great concern in my office. Now everyone else can take weeks at a time but me… not so much. I am breathing such a sigh of relief right now. I didn’t realize how exhausted I was and how stressed I was over such non-relevant things but they were relevant then I guess. The good news was that the light at the end of the tunnel was actually in plain sight; it wasn’t just a future hope! I fully expected to be escorted out. Not because I had done anything wrong, but that is how this company operates. But then I was told that I wasn’t a disgruntled employee (which led me to believe they REALLY didn't know me) so I could stay AND train the new temp that they were going to get (oh joy more like OH HELL; but that part will be in another section of this here blog). So when CR manager said I was leaving them in a lurch it took a whole lot from deep within the pits of my good, kind, selfless (humble LOL) soul to not just get up and leave right that minute (here comes another sigh!!). I guess the lurch part was because I was taking those 2 pesky days of vacation and that damned Memorial Day Holiday. How dare I give notice AND take vacation?? And couldn’t I just extend it 1 more week?? UUUHHHH not just no, but HELL NO!! I have done all the putting up with I’m gonna do up until the very last hour I was there. I should be recommended for sainthood (there goes that humbleness again :) ) My last day I knew it was going to be rough when to treat myself, I go to Chick-Fil-A and them fools did NOT have any hot beverages, which includes coffee. And I needs my coffee EVERYDAY!! Thank LBJ yet again that now my Caribou is right up the street. So NEW job which is what I used to do a few years ago, but this economy has hit everyone kinda hard so all the jobs I used to have dried right up. It’s good because I am getting my skills back up. Not that dealing with the industry didn’t keep me sharp, but dealing with the people sometimes dumbing stuff down I had to look at them like REALLY?!?!? Self improvement is important to me so it just bothers me when folks get stuck on stupid. Tweedle too was actually going back to school. She was not a tweedle cause she was dumb, she just had very comical ways (like buying a harness for her bunny!). THE Tweedle didn’t want to learn anything new, didn’t want to take a note, refused to accept that we are in the technology age and that email is necessary. She was very frustrating. So the text she sent after I left I ignored because I am not, nor have I ever been a hoarder of information. Whatever I know, you can know cause I’ma tell you! I’ll even show you my shortcuts that helped me along the way. But when your response to me is ‘Yeah ok, whatever…’ then I shut down. And I am so done. Bridges are not burned but I so do not want to cross back over any time soon (or ever). Is now a good time to talk about the temp?!?! Yeah sure why not. It was my thought for a good 2 minutes that I would help out choosing the person the temp agency would send because I know my job, and who better to decide who should replace me, than me. Well it didn’t really work out that way cause what do I know?!? So the temp was sent in and after a few hours of showing and explaining stuff to her I felt like I was wasting my time. She most definitely had the skill set, but the personality, not so much. I have a filter (or at least I hope I do) that tells me what to say and what not to say especially to people I just meet and ESPECIALLY in a work setting. I think the first day I knew she was going through a divorce, dating a dude from Miami who foots the bill for a lot of her expenses, she lived with here sister who has 7 kids, she has 2 kids (later found out it was at home with her parents), she worked at MAC and Hopkins and Victoria Secrets, she is a dominatrix who sells alcohol infused candy on the internet and through all this she did NOT find time to tighten up her weave. She had 2 phones that went off constantly. Dude you’re a temp, SURELY you can’t be that important that you need 2 phones!! Lastly, and this is where I knew my time was being wasted, her eyes were going sleepy time throughout the whole day. I even made it a point to see if this week when I was being trained how many times my eyes went sleepy time, not at all on the 1st day probably because I was excited and the person who trained me I knew so it was good to catch up with her and all the people still here. My current situation I have 2 managers (which could suck but it so doesn’t) that I have to report to but it is cool in the gang! Both are women and smart and exude confidence of not only what they know but how to get things done (another sigh!!) Also, I have 2 admins and I have been going back and forth to see who has the best supplies! On day #4 my only complaint is that the lady who sits (and she really never SITS but you know whatever) diagonal from me said my music was too loud, but really that’s not even bad because I stick in my ear buds and be jamming and singing and dancing. Me and Pandora been having a great relationship this week. And HandzOn too! Got the good house music going on. the actual work is not bad either. Quick and dirty I'm doing data collection.

Jazz Fest
The Capital Jazz Fest was this weekend and because I am so low tech I couldn't (or didn't) 'check-in' or tweet pics or what have you. But I was serenaded by Afro Blue!! You know the kids from Howard who were on the Sing-Off. They were all smaller that I thought they would be, but they were also a very attractive bunch of people. I say this and I can't really remember who's page I was on but I looked at the people in the pics and said, 'this is NOT a good looking bunch of folks'. Anyways, they had this workshop tent where certain artist came and basically answered questions. So after I got lost, found my soror who works for the Lottery (got some scratch off and won 2 bucks YAY ME!!), got lost some more, FINALLY found the tent and it was me and 3 other people. So when they sang for the first time it really was like they were serenading me. And I loved it!! More peopel came after they heard what they were missing. The only reason why I didn't stop watching the Sing-off after they got voted off, was because there really was talent on the show and even though I disagreed with some of the choices, I am glad the group that won, won (who's name escaped me now. Had to google that... Pentatonix). The line up was not great on Saturday, but I kinda heard Frank McComb as we rushed to get in. And then I heard Afro Blue!! Kenny Lattimore and Maysa. The rest were a blurr.

Hair
I cut it all off!! That's big new in a black women's life. I been rocking the wedding hair, that's what I refer to as long hair, for a while. But honestly the only reason I hadn't cut it is cause I didn't have a reliable hair dresser. So I went back to my girl. And I can't really remember why I stopped going to her. Well yeah I do remember but the reasons were not worth me not going back. She just set up a hair salon and seems to be doing well. Now her prices are ALL over the place, but we are good for right now. And now everyone is getting all this fabulous color and now I want some color.

TV and movies **spoiler alert**
*I don't know who thought killing Lexi off was a good idea.
*What the hell is Curt going to do?!?! He can't stay in Lima.
*thank you SYFY for only playing Lost girl at 10pm. YOU know I can't stay up that late!! So now I need to catch the rest of season 1 and all of season 2. The Ash is in a coma and I have no idea why (plus the sex scenes were AWESOME for basic cable... **clearing throat** I mean you know if you like that sorta thing IJS)
* Thank you TNT (or is it USA) for putting Michael Ealy on a regular show that I can watch every week. That dude is several kinds of sexy and I don't know why I tried to resist (the sex scenes in 'Think like a man' with him... yeah i got a lil hot and bothered but it was pg-13 LAWD what would they have shown in an R movie ***SMDH***)
* The Avengers in 3-D WORTH the cost of admission
* Hunger Games - I thought this mess was a trilogy. I about lost it when Rue got killed. And was it based in the future?!? Do we really need coal miners in the future? And WHY were there only 2 black folks... oh wait I almost forgot Lenny Kravitz another just SEXY man. moving on
*Dark Shadows.... NO just no no no.
*Think Like a Man - cute but the Steve Harvey scenes got to be a little annoying. I am rocking a modified Meagan Goode asymmetrical and also taking her tip to wear sexy panties to attract the men (well ok in the movie she was wearing granny panties so she wouldn't be tempted; but the reverse should work, right?). I have already discussed Micheal Ealy. Romany (can't think of last name, but he was in Weeds and 40 yr old virgin) he is kinda cute! They had a few top off scenes with him. Yep!!
Need to see Thor, cause the dude playing is a cutie patootie AND Idris Elba is in the movie, and Captain America so I can be caught up on my Avengers


...and that's about it!!