ok soooo... I had to really think about this whole Trayvon Martin thing. And right off the bat, it's much bigger than just some 'thing' and I am not minimalizing it in the least. So let me break it down how it has been sitting and digesting with me.
I had been seeing the buzz on FB a few weeks ago but since I'm not a band jumper-oner it took me a few days to really look at that little boy (who was 17 not12 like he looks in most of the pics they show) and say. 'huh an injustice has been done but SURELY they will arrest that dude so this will pass soon' and then several more days went by, and I stared seeing it on the NATIONAL news. And again I thought 'tragedy in the black community, but I KNOW they will arrest this dude so it will pass'. And day after day after week has passed and this dude has NOT been arrested.
One thing in my mind I know for sure, if it was reversed, a little white kid got shot by a black man, there would BE no question of self defense and that black man would be in jail. But then I look at the dude who did the shooting and he is not necessarily white. What the heck is he? I almost doesn't matter except for the fact that he is not black... or African American if we gonna be PC and he is of some other persuasion. I just goggled and the consensus is he is Mestizo which I've not heard before, but it is Latin person or mixed descent or heritage. maybe the same way we use mulatto. Well we meaning black folks.
If one more person says we are living in a post racial American I am going to scream!!! Racism is alive and well and even though we have a black president the good old boys use that as a reason for doing and saying whatever they want because it's not racist anymore. But it is! I have a running bet with myself because I am just waiting for one of my co-workers to say something out the side of their neck about race relations and then i will be the angry black chick... but anyways I digress
So I sit and watch the news both local and national, and the police chief stepped down and the city manager who looked scared as hell on whatever CNN type show I saw him on is still working and trying to explain why the dude was NOT arrested. And then I thought where the hell is George Zimmerman?!? Don't he have a job? Why hasn't TMZ followed him to get the real story?!? Why cause his ass is in hiding!!
I listen to Michael Baisden and what has troubled me the most to me is that, well first off this Trayvon was only 17 so he was still in school, one of his classmates called in to say that they can't even talk about it in school. There were no grief counselor dispatched and the teachers have been told not to talk about it. I'm not sure how true that is, but the way this whole thing is going, I believe it. I remember when I was a junior in high school and my favorite Spanish teacher killed himself, they had counselors for at least a week if not more because kids were freaking out! Parents don't always know what to say or how to handle it.
This morning as I laid in bed because it's Monday and the body was refusing to move, and then my cat does her intoxicating purr thing and my eyes go sleepy time and I see this dude who is trying to explain the actions of GZ. What he said made only a slight amount of sense. The main thing he said was that we do not have all the facts nor have all the 911 calls been made public. To that I said you know what THAT IS TRUE. So when will we have all the facts?!? When will the investigation begin so that we know what really happened?!? I have such a sneaky suspicion that GZ will never see the inside of a jail.
I am sad for Trayvon Martin's family because he truly died to soon. But I pray for them to be able to make sense of this and be able to move on, not to harbor ill will or grief, they need to let it go. And as easy as that was for me to type I know letting go is not easy and this will always be on their hearts and minds but I pray for peace for them and all that are affects because even though this tragedy is still on the front page, many of our youth get killed senselessly and justice does not prevail. And because I am in prayer mode and I am a Christian, I pray for George Zimmerman. I don't understand how it seemed to be easy for him to take a life, but he has to live with that everyday. I pray he is able to make peace with himself however this case ends up.
Yesterday at church I didn't get the dress down memo. It took me a minute to 'get' that the pastor and his assistant and a few random people in the audience wore hoodies for the million hoodie march out of solidarity. The only hoodie I have is a BRIGHT green with pink letters (I know go figure)which I do not think I would be seen as a threat to anyone anywhere LOL. My friend Ben (Cardin... oh and after that commercial wit the kid doing the narrating about how his friend Ben has dental vans coming into the neighborhoods he is my friend too... cause you KNOW how I feel about teeth) was at church and is starting a bill to ends racial profiling.
Another real random thing was on the radio it was 'classic' Monday where they were playing Fight the power by Public Enemy, U N I T Y by Queen Latifah (you aint a bitch or a HO!... my favorite line is that YOU put hands on me again I'll put yo ass in handcuffs!!!) A few songs by Nas... and then it hit me WHAT rapper today aside from the independents like Pharoah Monch (WE ARE RENEGADES THIS MEANS WAR!!!) and damn who else?!? has anything better to say in their rap than about bling and booty?!? whew I just took a BIG swig of vino and I totally forgot my train of thought... OH I was saying I need to be a spoken word poet and come up with a Bling and Booty ode LOL. no but really no one says anything worth anything anymore.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
79 down/287 to go
I have so much to do today. But it’s Monday and I don’t feel like doing a THING!!! It’s actually a good thing I even made it today. I am not feeling a 100% and if my stomach has 1 more cramp, I think I might just hafta go. Yesterday I woke in plenty of time for church, but after a bowl of peanut butter cheerios (which are just OK, not freaking delish like I’d hoped they would be) I went back to sleep and slept until about 2:30. I hope whatever I have is not serious. I thought it was PMS but I really don’t know. My body just feels out of whack and now that I have paid my doctor I guess I could go to the doctors which I know should not be a reason to not go but they could be like FOOL you haven’t paid us in a year what you want us to do for you? Damn that would be so embarrassing. Here I am dying in the waiting room (ok yes that is a little overly dramatic) and they refuse me service. I should have gone to the hood and went to one of those sliding scale clinics, but those thing creep me out (just like erik LOL). I feel like I am so above clinics, but my poor butt needs to be the first in line at ALL of them for teeth and health!
WHY did the skinniest person in this office just turn the heat up to 73??? NO Wonder I’m about to pass out I’m freaking HOT!! We gave his lil ass a heater last week and I have on a sweater because in general even though it’s nice outside it can be a little chilly in the office. But I’ma need for him to use his heater and not make me about to pass out up in here!!
I power washed my sidewalk yesterday or at least made a very good attempt. At one point I turned around and my neighbor was just standing in his doorway watching me. I think he is a nice enough guy, I can’t tell if he is attractive, but sometimes him just BEING there creeps me out!! Like DUDE how long have you been standing there? And aren’t you married?!? WITH kids?!? And why are all his friend toothless older men? Why he can’t have some cute young single friends WITH TEETH?? Ok so back to power washing… I was wet from the butt down. I did an ok job but I know I need to go and redo some spots. What was bad is some of my sidewalk had places where it just puddled and now it’s clean but with mud on top which kinda defeats the purpose. I bought the power washer before I moved into the house or maybe right after I moved in. Either way I have had it for a while. And of course I have NO instructions but I don’t need no stinkin instructions! I did ok without them. Now onto the rest of the house!!
WHY do people not realize how loud their voices are? A little self monitoring goes a long way. Then again if you don’t realize it then how can you monitor yourself?!?
While I think we have a little bit of all the characters of Desperate Housewives in us I do not know why I have been identifying with Bree here lately. But let me clarify ONLY in the cooking dept; not in the going to bars and bringing a new man home every night dept. I’ve been cooking cuisine not just regular old meals then again maybe they are regular old meals BUT they taste pretty damn good to me. I guess I am feeling sad that this series is coming to a close. I think Susan has always been silly acting, but I really did’t see myself in her. Lynette has made some really bad decision here lately but I really do think her husband who know has a girlfriend is just bizarre. As a single chick I try to stare (or stair?) clear of men with kids and who are recently separated. You just never know, and as a (future) married woman I would hope all the other women out there would give my marriage a chance before claiming an unavailable man. Gabrielle is just so selfish. I know people like her and they don’t even realize how selfish they are. As for Renee I just wish I had the ends to just sit at home all day and do nothing! Well hell they all sit around all day and do nothing!! No one actually has a job hmmm. Well Bree had the catering company until she got black mailed into selling it. And Lynette did used to work at the advertising company and Susan used to illustrate kids books and used to work at her sons school. OH and the lingerie cleaning sorta porn site. Gabrielle never worked and I’m not sure who they were kidding by saying she used to be a model as short as she is but you know whudeva.
Just had an office lunch, but this time it was with a vendor so we err I didn’t get stuck talking business the whole time. It’s really interesting what you learn when you let people buy you lunch LOL
I got a flyer in the mail from my old hair stylist. She is the onliest one who could cut my hair and it looks FABULOUS!! I have been on such a ‘needs only’ basis that unfortunately my hair is not a priority and it looks it LOL I need to at least run a comb or brush through it. It’s been hit or miss (mostly miss and actually if someone gives me a compliment on my hair I always want to be like YOU TALKINAME?!?). The Dominicans do an ok job but they use soooo much heat and my delicate tresses do not need all that (cause I got Indian in my family). I have even tried a few people at the Salon suites, but the one lady who actually could have made the cut was a little too pricey (but then you get what you pay for) and the one whose prices were more reasonable she was on the phone most of the time she was doing my hair talking about how she wasn’t going to go to the Windsor to get no drinks but THEN the chick in the nearby suite came by with some wine and filled up her cup. Now I like wine just as much as the next chick (probably more) but you are NOT going to be sipping on some wine and then expect to put chemicals and cut my hair NO MA’AM!! And whatever she used was cheap, I could tell about a week later. JC Penney and Hair Cuttery type places are also just ok. I did however have this little white lady who did a pretty good job, but I could never figure out her schedule or remember her name and then the place closed down (freaking Owings Mills mall). I just need to go back to my old girl who I know will do a great job.
I am about ready to crawl under my desk and take a nap ala George Costanza. Lunch was a salad so it’s not that. But I think I might take my temperature when I go home. Something just aint right. Ah just remembering I missed taking my allegra err Wal-Fex (cause you know the store brand is just as good) I’ma pop a few Tylenols I can make it another 45 minutes.
WHY did the skinniest person in this office just turn the heat up to 73??? NO Wonder I’m about to pass out I’m freaking HOT!! We gave his lil ass a heater last week and I have on a sweater because in general even though it’s nice outside it can be a little chilly in the office. But I’ma need for him to use his heater and not make me about to pass out up in here!!
I power washed my sidewalk yesterday or at least made a very good attempt. At one point I turned around and my neighbor was just standing in his doorway watching me. I think he is a nice enough guy, I can’t tell if he is attractive, but sometimes him just BEING there creeps me out!! Like DUDE how long have you been standing there? And aren’t you married?!? WITH kids?!? And why are all his friend toothless older men? Why he can’t have some cute young single friends WITH TEETH?? Ok so back to power washing… I was wet from the butt down. I did an ok job but I know I need to go and redo some spots. What was bad is some of my sidewalk had places where it just puddled and now it’s clean but with mud on top which kinda defeats the purpose. I bought the power washer before I moved into the house or maybe right after I moved in. Either way I have had it for a while. And of course I have NO instructions but I don’t need no stinkin instructions! I did ok without them. Now onto the rest of the house!!
WHY do people not realize how loud their voices are? A little self monitoring goes a long way. Then again if you don’t realize it then how can you monitor yourself?!?
While I think we have a little bit of all the characters of Desperate Housewives in us I do not know why I have been identifying with Bree here lately. But let me clarify ONLY in the cooking dept; not in the going to bars and bringing a new man home every night dept. I’ve been cooking cuisine not just regular old meals then again maybe they are regular old meals BUT they taste pretty damn good to me. I guess I am feeling sad that this series is coming to a close. I think Susan has always been silly acting, but I really did’t see myself in her. Lynette has made some really bad decision here lately but I really do think her husband who know has a girlfriend is just bizarre. As a single chick I try to stare (or stair?) clear of men with kids and who are recently separated. You just never know, and as a (future) married woman I would hope all the other women out there would give my marriage a chance before claiming an unavailable man. Gabrielle is just so selfish. I know people like her and they don’t even realize how selfish they are. As for Renee I just wish I had the ends to just sit at home all day and do nothing! Well hell they all sit around all day and do nothing!! No one actually has a job hmmm. Well Bree had the catering company until she got black mailed into selling it. And Lynette did used to work at the advertising company and Susan used to illustrate kids books and used to work at her sons school. OH and the lingerie cleaning sorta porn site. Gabrielle never worked and I’m not sure who they were kidding by saying she used to be a model as short as she is but you know whudeva.
Just had an office lunch, but this time it was with a vendor so we err I didn’t get stuck talking business the whole time. It’s really interesting what you learn when you let people buy you lunch LOL
I got a flyer in the mail from my old hair stylist. She is the onliest one who could cut my hair and it looks FABULOUS!! I have been on such a ‘needs only’ basis that unfortunately my hair is not a priority and it looks it LOL I need to at least run a comb or brush through it. It’s been hit or miss (mostly miss and actually if someone gives me a compliment on my hair I always want to be like YOU TALKINAME?!?). The Dominicans do an ok job but they use soooo much heat and my delicate tresses do not need all that (cause I got Indian in my family). I have even tried a few people at the Salon suites, but the one lady who actually could have made the cut was a little too pricey (but then you get what you pay for) and the one whose prices were more reasonable she was on the phone most of the time she was doing my hair talking about how she wasn’t going to go to the Windsor to get no drinks but THEN the chick in the nearby suite came by with some wine and filled up her cup. Now I like wine just as much as the next chick (probably more) but you are NOT going to be sipping on some wine and then expect to put chemicals and cut my hair NO MA’AM!! And whatever she used was cheap, I could tell about a week later. JC Penney and Hair Cuttery type places are also just ok. I did however have this little white lady who did a pretty good job, but I could never figure out her schedule or remember her name and then the place closed down (freaking Owings Mills mall). I just need to go back to my old girl who I know will do a great job.
I am about ready to crawl under my desk and take a nap ala George Costanza. Lunch was a salad so it’s not that. But I think I might take my temperature when I go home. Something just aint right. Ah just remembering I missed taking my allegra err Wal-Fex (cause you know the store brand is just as good) I’ma pop a few Tylenols I can make it another 45 minutes.
Monday, March 12, 2012
general randomness 31212
WHY does Lionel Richie keep showing up as a thing I should 'like' on facebook?!?
How do blind people get jobs at the Social Security?
why do dirty vendors always want to shake my hand? eeewww I don't want to touch you EVER!!!
why do those same dirty vendors think I can't smell the 3 packs of cigarettes they just smoked before coming into my office?
why do cute guys not realize they are cute but the ugly ones think they are God's gift to the female kind??
why do smelly BO dudes not know that water and soap are their friends?? Dude really you left you house smelly like that?!? SERIOUSLY??
neck tattoo's are wrong. There is just no rational reason for it. And just let me clarify SIDE neck not back neck.
why is Bob's Burgers so damn funny?!? And why does Tina who is a 13 year old girl sound like a 65 year old man?!? Oh because a man is her voice...WHY??? bwaaaaaaaaaaahaaaahaaaaaaaaaa
why can't it ever just be easy?!?! why does it (whatever the hell IT is) require more thought than I was willing to give it??
a little research goes a LONG way!! I'm not asking you to split the atom just find out the basics before you ask me that dumb question that you already know is dumb!
simple food is always the best. Big shout out to Golden West Cafe for providing me with my Saturday breakfast (mom's bean pie... which looked not so good but OMG it was so freaking delish. and you know MY mom never made a bean pie but whoever's mom that was that provided that recipe, YAY!!) i was gonna go with the elvis pancake but the mom's bean pie was talking to me!
oh and since we're on the subject of hipsters (oh we are just stay with me mmkay?) how do they know that a pair of purple jeans and a red hat make them look cool? Or courderoy and a scarf with butterfly is in fact hip? i know their dress is supposed to be sarcastic and not to much thought, but I think they think long and hard about thier attire ijs...
now back on the subject of food yet ANOTHER shout out to the Artful Gourmet in new Town in a building I didn't even know existed. mmmm that was good!! I don't get why it's artful because all the art on the walls were cheap prints of like van gough and monet... but gourmet indeed because everything was freaking delish.
FREAKING DELISH is a high form of praise for food... FYI
i was watching kitchen nightmare with Ramsey Lewis... no wait Gordon Ramsey (who the heck is ramsey lewis??) why was everyone crying?
what happened to flight of the concords? That show was funny... Leggy Blond!! ok y'all know I'm on you tube totally distracted. My name is hiphophipottamus my rhymes are bottomless!! Who's the BOOM King?
hmmm and that's it!!
How do blind people get jobs at the Social Security?
why do dirty vendors always want to shake my hand? eeewww I don't want to touch you EVER!!!
why do those same dirty vendors think I can't smell the 3 packs of cigarettes they just smoked before coming into my office?
why do cute guys not realize they are cute but the ugly ones think they are God's gift to the female kind??
why do smelly BO dudes not know that water and soap are their friends?? Dude really you left you house smelly like that?!? SERIOUSLY??
neck tattoo's are wrong. There is just no rational reason for it. And just let me clarify SIDE neck not back neck.
why is Bob's Burgers so damn funny?!? And why does Tina who is a 13 year old girl sound like a 65 year old man?!? Oh because a man is her voice...WHY??? bwaaaaaaaaaaahaaaahaaaaaaaaaa
why can't it ever just be easy?!?! why does it (whatever the hell IT is) require more thought than I was willing to give it??
a little research goes a LONG way!! I'm not asking you to split the atom just find out the basics before you ask me that dumb question that you already know is dumb!
simple food is always the best. Big shout out to Golden West Cafe for providing me with my Saturday breakfast (mom's bean pie... which looked not so good but OMG it was so freaking delish. and you know MY mom never made a bean pie but whoever's mom that was that provided that recipe, YAY!!) i was gonna go with the elvis pancake but the mom's bean pie was talking to me!
oh and since we're on the subject of hipsters (oh we are just stay with me mmkay?) how do they know that a pair of purple jeans and a red hat make them look cool? Or courderoy and a scarf with butterfly is in fact hip? i know their dress is supposed to be sarcastic and not to much thought, but I think they think long and hard about thier attire ijs...
now back on the subject of food yet ANOTHER shout out to the Artful Gourmet in new Town in a building I didn't even know existed. mmmm that was good!! I don't get why it's artful because all the art on the walls were cheap prints of like van gough and monet... but gourmet indeed because everything was freaking delish.
FREAKING DELISH is a high form of praise for food... FYI
i was watching kitchen nightmare with Ramsey Lewis... no wait Gordon Ramsey (who the heck is ramsey lewis??) why was everyone crying?
what happened to flight of the concords? That show was funny... Leggy Blond!! ok y'all know I'm on you tube totally distracted. My name is hiphophipottamus my rhymes are bottomless!! Who's the BOOM King?
hmmm and that's it!!
Thursday, February 23, 2012
tidbits from the day
• I hate silly acting for no good reason people; sometimes there are valid reasons to act silly; but it should not be your daily MO
• if I said I created a recipe don’t say OH I HAD THIS SOMEWHERE ELSE… but it didn’t have this or that in it… Then doesn’t that mean I created it?!?!? you had to much wine anyways so : P OH she knows who I’m talkinabout : )
• don’t let people steal your joy! no matter how minimal it is at times joy can sometimes be a hard thing to acquire so enjoy your joy.
• make-up can be your friend…or lack there-of can make you look crazy
• I love reading about folks from high school and college doing well!! There is still hope for me because I am clearly a loser LOL dag I can’t even type it without laughing… BUT seriously I do like hearing that people are doing well!! One of my good friends from cheerleading (of course high school; I have not seen the inside of a cheerleading uniform in many many MANY years) is the editor of Pittsburgh Magazine! And another girl who was on my floor when I was a RA (resident assistant at VSU, I always liked her and her crew of friends they were pretty nice girls… well actually most of them are all AKA’s now too so naturally I would like them) is like this big time make-up artist who I can call upon for my wedding makeup (which will happen IT WILL!! just as soon as I club Mr. Right LMBAO)
• The magnums car is a STATIONWAGON!! I love how folks try to explain how it’s a crossover vehicle. Yes it crossover from being an old stationwagon to a new version of a sationwagon. And buddy you don’t look cool in it neither you NOR those fuzzy green dice that would look better in my car because I’ma girl
• And while we’re on the subject of cars PT cruisers and HHR’s look like hearse cars and the onliest reason I would rent them back in the day when I rented cars every week for my consulting is because they had XM radio. Otherwise I would march back into the rental place and get another car.
oh I lost my bullets when I copy and pasted... but that is pretty much it TTFN
• if I said I created a recipe don’t say OH I HAD THIS SOMEWHERE ELSE… but it didn’t have this or that in it… Then doesn’t that mean I created it?!?!? you had to much wine anyways so : P OH she knows who I’m talkinabout : )
• don’t let people steal your joy! no matter how minimal it is at times joy can sometimes be a hard thing to acquire so enjoy your joy.
• make-up can be your friend…or lack there-of can make you look crazy
• I love reading about folks from high school and college doing well!! There is still hope for me because I am clearly a loser LOL dag I can’t even type it without laughing… BUT seriously I do like hearing that people are doing well!! One of my good friends from cheerleading (of course high school; I have not seen the inside of a cheerleading uniform in many many MANY years) is the editor of Pittsburgh Magazine! And another girl who was on my floor when I was a RA (resident assistant at VSU, I always liked her and her crew of friends they were pretty nice girls… well actually most of them are all AKA’s now too so naturally I would like them) is like this big time make-up artist who I can call upon for my wedding makeup (which will happen IT WILL!! just as soon as I club Mr. Right LMBAO)
• The magnums car is a STATIONWAGON!! I love how folks try to explain how it’s a crossover vehicle. Yes it crossover from being an old stationwagon to a new version of a sationwagon. And buddy you don’t look cool in it neither you NOR those fuzzy green dice that would look better in my car because I’ma girl
• And while we’re on the subject of cars PT cruisers and HHR’s look like hearse cars and the onliest reason I would rent them back in the day when I rented cars every week for my consulting is because they had XM radio. Otherwise I would march back into the rental place and get another car.
oh I lost my bullets when I copy and pasted... but that is pretty much it TTFN
Friday, February 10, 2012
dialation...
my eyes are dilated and I have the fashion forward sunglasses I got from the eye doctor, but I really cannot see and I am trying hard to work but let’s face it, it’s Friday 2 more hours to go I am a MASTER at shuffling paper from one end of the desk to another and as long as there are no emergencies (knock on wood) then I am done for the day!
so I’m out on a website for a local bar/grill and the latest info they have is from December 2011. It’s February 2012. SO why even have a website if you don’t keep it up? The biggest gripe I have about websites is information that is not updated. You have paid someone to have your presence on the World Wide Web and then the info is outdated!! I also hate that for musical artist. Just shut down the site if you no longer are touring or what have you. OOOH and then make sure you tell the folks to do shout outs on yelp and urban spoon and wherever so people are enticed to come to your spot. I mean that’s what I would do. I can’t be rocket science, but then again maybe it is?
Is romancy a word? Cause Dr. Bailey used it a few times on Grey’s Anatomy last night and I was like she’s not saying romantic or fancy so what the heck is romancy!?? As she stared into Jason George (I can’t think of his Dr. name which I just imdb’s it’s Dr. Warren. His real name with the whole 2 first name thing is why I know his name. I was trying to give Off the Map a chance but it got canceled but I’m glad he got his job back on Grey’s although I was rooting for the nurse to be with Dr. Bailey the cutie Daniel Sunjata who always plays the safe-black-dude-that-can- be with-white-women role probably because he is so light YES I know I hella digressed it’s almost like a blog within a blog LOL and I think he’s an Alpha cause he went to FAMU but maybe not cause I can’t find that info nowhere) eyes. He has some big ass teeth. I don’t know why I noticed that last night. Maybe because some of the other characters he has played over the years he had big afro type hair so I didn’t notice the big ass choppers. I mean don’t get me wrong, he’s a cutie, a bit of a pretty boy but I could work with that and the big ass teeth.
I keep saying how much I don’t like reality TV, but I must admit I still do get stuck on certain show, for instance, Toddlers and Tiaras. Ok so the premise of this show is beauty pageants for well toddlers and actually I have seen a show that had 10 and 11 year olds. So they put FULL make-up, hair extensions, and big poofy dresses AND false teeth (for the ones who still have baby teeth and/or whose teeth have spaces) on these babies. It is weird and funny and sad and strange all wrapped up in one. Most of these babies could careless and their beauty challenged parents (that’s my PC way of saying ugly cause that is really mean TRUE but mean) are so into it and spend ridiculous amounts of money. And I think the only get a few hundred bucks if they when grand supreme or ultimate supreme or something like that. Anyway what’s funny is when they go on stage and fall!! Again, I know it’s mean but don’t let me have had a glass of wine and be watching the show cause that is all she wrote. It’s usually the ones under 3, but it is so hilarious. That’s what I watch the show for the falls!!! And I am kinda looking forward to Celebrity apprentice. The promos with Arsenio Hall are funny. Ok so I had to go to NBC to see who all these other people are. I know who all the men are but some of the women not so much. I know Debbie Gibson (who doesn’t know remember and love Only in My Dream? the song in the mid 80’s) and Tia Carrera (from Wayne’s World and other stuff I assume; party on Garth!!) As a rule if you were on a reality show to me that kinda doesn’t make you an instant celebrity. Clay Aiken is talented and actually has a LOT of fans. But the chick from New Jersey housewives and the Gotti lady uuuhh maybe not so much. But the Hulk!! Oh yeah some days I feel like I’ma turn green if you make me angry!!
It is payday so you know what that means?!?! CUPCAKE AND WINE!!! not necessarily in that order
...update once I got home...
Driving while dilated is NOT a Good idea. All the lights were hella hard on my eyes. And the LED lights I thought were going to kill me like the vampires in that commercial. Got the S'mores cupcake which is VERY chocolaty AND my chardonnay and some golly Wobbler pink. About to go to a happy hour with some girlfriends and I'll probably be home before 9 LOL
so I’m out on a website for a local bar/grill and the latest info they have is from December 2011. It’s February 2012. SO why even have a website if you don’t keep it up? The biggest gripe I have about websites is information that is not updated. You have paid someone to have your presence on the World Wide Web and then the info is outdated!! I also hate that for musical artist. Just shut down the site if you no longer are touring or what have you. OOOH and then make sure you tell the folks to do shout outs on yelp and urban spoon and wherever so people are enticed to come to your spot. I mean that’s what I would do. I can’t be rocket science, but then again maybe it is?
Is romancy a word? Cause Dr. Bailey used it a few times on Grey’s Anatomy last night and I was like she’s not saying romantic or fancy so what the heck is romancy!?? As she stared into Jason George (I can’t think of his Dr. name which I just imdb’s it’s Dr. Warren. His real name with the whole 2 first name thing is why I know his name. I was trying to give Off the Map a chance but it got canceled but I’m glad he got his job back on Grey’s although I was rooting for the nurse to be with Dr. Bailey the cutie Daniel Sunjata who always plays the safe-black-dude-that-can- be with-white-women role probably because he is so light YES I know I hella digressed it’s almost like a blog within a blog LOL and I think he’s an Alpha cause he went to FAMU but maybe not cause I can’t find that info nowhere) eyes. He has some big ass teeth. I don’t know why I noticed that last night. Maybe because some of the other characters he has played over the years he had big afro type hair so I didn’t notice the big ass choppers. I mean don’t get me wrong, he’s a cutie, a bit of a pretty boy but I could work with that and the big ass teeth.
I keep saying how much I don’t like reality TV, but I must admit I still do get stuck on certain show, for instance, Toddlers and Tiaras. Ok so the premise of this show is beauty pageants for well toddlers and actually I have seen a show that had 10 and 11 year olds. So they put FULL make-up, hair extensions, and big poofy dresses AND false teeth (for the ones who still have baby teeth and/or whose teeth have spaces) on these babies. It is weird and funny and sad and strange all wrapped up in one. Most of these babies could careless and their beauty challenged parents (that’s my PC way of saying ugly cause that is really mean TRUE but mean) are so into it and spend ridiculous amounts of money. And I think the only get a few hundred bucks if they when grand supreme or ultimate supreme or something like that. Anyway what’s funny is when they go on stage and fall!! Again, I know it’s mean but don’t let me have had a glass of wine and be watching the show cause that is all she wrote. It’s usually the ones under 3, but it is so hilarious. That’s what I watch the show for the falls!!! And I am kinda looking forward to Celebrity apprentice. The promos with Arsenio Hall are funny. Ok so I had to go to NBC to see who all these other people are. I know who all the men are but some of the women not so much. I know Debbie Gibson (who doesn’t know remember and love Only in My Dream? the song in the mid 80’s) and Tia Carrera (from Wayne’s World and other stuff I assume; party on Garth!!) As a rule if you were on a reality show to me that kinda doesn’t make you an instant celebrity. Clay Aiken is talented and actually has a LOT of fans. But the chick from New Jersey housewives and the Gotti lady uuuhh maybe not so much. But the Hulk!! Oh yeah some days I feel like I’ma turn green if you make me angry!!
It is payday so you know what that means?!?! CUPCAKE AND WINE!!! not necessarily in that order
...update once I got home...
Driving while dilated is NOT a Good idea. All the lights were hella hard on my eyes. And the LED lights I thought were going to kill me like the vampires in that commercial. Got the S'mores cupcake which is VERY chocolaty AND my chardonnay and some golly Wobbler pink. About to go to a happy hour with some girlfriends and I'll probably be home before 9 LOL
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
monday2.5
Some Mondays take more effort to get started than others… Today is not bad but my computer was really slow and actually I need to rewind to me getting out of the bed, it was hard. My cat has a tendency (well not just a tendency she does it ALL the time) to jump on the bed when I turn the TV on. I guess that is her cue that I am up. And then I am right at the end of my mocha java caribou coffee and pay day is Friday… So I was forced to drink the pumpkin spice which isn’t bad, but not what I needed to fully open up my eyes on a Monday morning. Traffic wasn’t to bad. Wendy Williams was on Tom Joyner talking about the superbowl and the Madonna performance, which in my opinion was just alright. But to be honest no performance has be all that great in many years. I mean I do remember the whole ‘wardrobe malfunction’ incident. All I remember is I was on the ski trip (MD Ski) with 2 of my girlfriends. One was Lord knows where (oh wait I remember, but what happens on the mountain STAYS on the mountain) and me and the other were halfway watching the game and show on the TV in the room. And then alla sudden we were both like WAS THAT WHAT WE THOUGHT IT WAS?!?! Did you see a boob because I coulda sworn I just saw a boob!!! And yep it was a boob!! To this day I still think they did Janet wrong and Justin after that shallow apology got off. But whatever at least that was a good show. So Madonna had like everyone well ok not everyone but LMFAO (who are freaking hilarious), Nicki Minaj, and Cee Lo (who I always ALWAYS question his wardrobe because even though it’s not a malfunction, it should be) and some other chick who is flipped the bird but I didn’t even know until Ann Curry told me this morning. Thank you for perpetuating the non-event.
Vinegar may be cheaper, but you always get more flies with honey!! Someone recently asked me, well do you WANT flies to which I told her she was missing the point!! Being nice to people should always be the goal, not always trying to cuss and fuss them out. DATS ALLS I’m saying.
As much as I dislike office lunches, I can’t pass up free food!! Especially when the senior VP is in town. I might get a burger AND a milkshake LOL I just have to arrange myself next to ***LOUD SIGH*** it doesn’t matter we are going to talk about work no matter what.
I have a book in me, the question is will I change the names to protect the innocent?
Because I have been in the serving industry I know that I am more sensitive to bartenders and waiters and folks who like to run them to death and then not give a good tip which bugs me although I try not to say anything, but my friends know; work people not so much. so if you asked for everything on the side and that’s what they did but you are still complaining… IT’S YOU not them!! Now if they are not doing a good job then there is cause for being a grump toward them. For instance, one of my favorite restaurants is Miss Shirley’s and for the most part I have been waited on by just about everybody and everyone does a great job EXCEPT for this one guy. No matter what I asked him it was a bother for him to do anything for me. Maybe because I was solo, maybe because I’m a black chick (because we get a bad rap in the tip dept) I don’t know but he was just in a funky mood and usually IS in a funky mood when I go there. So I really thought it was me, but then a couple sat down beside me and he treated them just as poorly. So as he plopped the bill down I readjusted my tip. But this is truly the exception, not the rule. The waitress we had today, aside from needing some dental care was pretty good. I know here lately when I bartend if I don’t feel like make something I say oopss nope we don’t have the ingredients!! One guy tired to give me step by step instructions for making a martini the way his wife liked it and I obliged but that fool didn’t even leave me a tip. You win some you lose some!
Vinegar may be cheaper, but you always get more flies with honey!! Someone recently asked me, well do you WANT flies to which I told her she was missing the point!! Being nice to people should always be the goal, not always trying to cuss and fuss them out. DATS ALLS I’m saying.
As much as I dislike office lunches, I can’t pass up free food!! Especially when the senior VP is in town. I might get a burger AND a milkshake LOL I just have to arrange myself next to ***LOUD SIGH*** it doesn’t matter we are going to talk about work no matter what.
I have a book in me, the question is will I change the names to protect the innocent?
Because I have been in the serving industry I know that I am more sensitive to bartenders and waiters and folks who like to run them to death and then not give a good tip which bugs me although I try not to say anything, but my friends know; work people not so much. so if you asked for everything on the side and that’s what they did but you are still complaining… IT’S YOU not them!! Now if they are not doing a good job then there is cause for being a grump toward them. For instance, one of my favorite restaurants is Miss Shirley’s and for the most part I have been waited on by just about everybody and everyone does a great job EXCEPT for this one guy. No matter what I asked him it was a bother for him to do anything for me. Maybe because I was solo, maybe because I’m a black chick (because we get a bad rap in the tip dept) I don’t know but he was just in a funky mood and usually IS in a funky mood when I go there. So I really thought it was me, but then a couple sat down beside me and he treated them just as poorly. So as he plopped the bill down I readjusted my tip. But this is truly the exception, not the rule. The waitress we had today, aside from needing some dental care was pretty good. I know here lately when I bartend if I don’t feel like make something I say oopss nope we don’t have the ingredients!! One guy tired to give me step by step instructions for making a martini the way his wife liked it and I obliged but that fool didn’t even leave me a tip. You win some you lose some!
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
too much on my mind...
so I don’t know what it is but McDonald’s McDouble is freaking delicious. I almost went the whole month without having one because just like crack to Pookie… they be calling my NAME!!! Well that and the sweet tea and for $2.12 that is a pretty cheap meal/snack… well meal because I know I won’t really be eating much else after UNLESS I make a pit stop at the Fresh Market and get a cupcake. this is usually my pay day treat for obvious financial reasons. but I convinced myself last week that I didn’t need a cupcake on Friday. and what did I think about all weekend?!?! A CUPCAKE FROM FRESH MARKET!!! I even went to Whole Foods and the cupcake they had there looked good but it was way too dense and unflavorful I think it was supposed to be chocolate with vanilla icing tinted pink… but the icing tasted strawberry-Y. I also bought cake mix and said to myself that I was gonna make my own cupcake but then you gotta buy the icing and you have all these extra cupcakes that gotta get eaten… why bother?!? So today because it was like 85 degrees outside, I went and got the strawberry filled white chocolate chip cupcake!! LAWD I just took another bite… SINFUL!!! and so very very good!! The way I am rocking this blouse today I need not eat another thing ALL week it is so tight. But me and Shaun T been working out… well I mean not yesterday cause I got home ate some chicken sausage 2 sips of wine and I was out!! I refer to him like we are buddies!! He is my imaginary friend like how Wendy Williams says so many people are her friends in her mind. That’s me and Shaun T!! Me and Hip Hop Abs gonna work it out!! I don’t know WHY I thought I was prepared for the Total Body burn after just 2 days I was so NOT and my body thanked me by being sore for several days. My other friends in my mind only are Kevin Hart (although I liked him on FB so we kinda are friends… ok ok in my mind!!) Ina Garten the Barefoot Contessa cause she be making some banging phD meals (meaning you have to have a phD to follow the madness in some of her recipes) and Will Ferrell because who DOE SN’T want to be his friend?!?!?
I used to joke that my job description was to push paper from one side of the desk to the other but today I REALLY feel like that!! I have actually gotten stuff done and even put some papers in a folder but it has gone from the center of my desk, to the right and now to the left!! LOL Throughout the day, week, month I say to myself Chick I aint doing that!! It can be a request from the CEO but some days I just don’t feel like it. And It can be something as minor as sending an email on someone’s behalf or as major as finding the exact article in a lease from 1985 to make a tenant responsible for something. But if I aint feeling it, it will get pushed to the bottom of the pile. And as much as I have been trying to not say everything that comes to my crazy mid, it can be so very difficult some days. But I think what needs to happen quickly is for folks to understand, when I say I'm DONE... I'm done. I don't wanna talk about it for another 10 minutes, I don't need an email recapping what was just said, i don't want 20 minutes later for you to come back to an item I had already said I was DONE with!! Once I said I am moving on... I'M DONE. Maybe I need a little fluorescent sign to be like MOVING ON!! LOL
that cheetos commercial with the 2 construction workers dancing and the cheetos cheetah being the DJ and then the 3rd construction worker coming up and saying ‘are you having a party’ and they say NO and close the door, but it’s an un finished house so the excluded dude looks through the walls and the other 2 dudes just keep dancing… funny!! I would like to close the door to some people when they walk up and are not invited into the convo and/or party… it’s rude but soooo damn funny!!
As a rule I have sworn off reality shows but last night as one eye was open and I’m still flipping through channels I land upon ‘Ink Master’ on Spike TV. I’m like HOLE UP… You mean to tell ME that people are offering up their bodies as an experiment or practice so these fools can see if they do a good tattoo on their body?!?! AND it’s permanent??? Seriously??!! So like even the hairstyle shows, if the jack up your hair you can buy a wig, or weave it up or even braid it, but a TATTOO in any way shape or form is PERMANENT!!! This probably sparked my interest because the new girl at work has a lot of tats. And while I would like to see them, she does an obvious job of trying to cover them up and I think it’s kinda rude (although I’m not sure why) to be like LET ME SEE YOUR TATS!!! Cause then you gotta say OOOWWW and AHHH they are soooo nice even if they are hideous cause you don’t wanna be mean. I had one co-worker one time (at band camp) and she wore something so I would see her stupid tat on her stupid leg. I never commented…(although I should have been like get a damn pedicure before you go shoes off your crusty feet) ummm cause it was STUPID!! And Forest Gump said stupid is as stupid does.. which was really on my mind the other day when the tweedle was talking LOUDLY and I was sitting there thinking is ya stupid or is ya CRAZY?!?!? Cause that’s what Bubba’s mama said to Forest when he was giving her all the shrimp boat money… and as you see I digress. Oh yeah tats… So the main loud mouth dude takes on a big cross and pearly gates on the back of some random black guy who siad that was what he wanted. The loud mouth dude is black also and actually the only black person on the show and said I took him cause these other folks don’t know how to work on dark skin. Now to some degree I buy that, but the way he fucked up that guys back... SMDH!!! ALLS I kjnow is my one little strawberry on my left boob that I got in the back alleys of Petersburg VA is so simple I would have let an apprentice do it. But something MAJOR. I’ma need to see your work credentials ALL of that before you go and brand me for life. And his wasn’t the only BAD one… one guy got basically a half a sleeve and it was so dark you could barely see what it was. The one I did like the judges kinda didn’t but it looked good compared to the BS that was on some of these people. And then he STILL was all loud about how good his work was and it was a shame because the other dude has to live with that tat. Hell I’ve seen better prison tats than that one...
my cat is obsessed with paper! the entire floor can be clear but If there is one pile of bills or whatever she will make her happy ass just as comfortable on the pile of paper. Even right now! She sees me trying to finish my blog for my faithful readers (I'm not sure if I'm up or down this month) and she is trying to sit on top of the pile i have next to my desk in my office. Just to be close to me :)
I used to joke that my job description was to push paper from one side of the desk to the other but today I REALLY feel like that!! I have actually gotten stuff done and even put some papers in a folder but it has gone from the center of my desk, to the right and now to the left!! LOL Throughout the day, week, month I say to myself Chick I aint doing that!! It can be a request from the CEO but some days I just don’t feel like it. And It can be something as minor as sending an email on someone’s behalf or as major as finding the exact article in a lease from 1985 to make a tenant responsible for something. But if I aint feeling it, it will get pushed to the bottom of the pile. And as much as I have been trying to not say everything that comes to my crazy mid, it can be so very difficult some days. But I think what needs to happen quickly is for folks to understand, when I say I'm DONE... I'm done. I don't wanna talk about it for another 10 minutes, I don't need an email recapping what was just said, i don't want 20 minutes later for you to come back to an item I had already said I was DONE with!! Once I said I am moving on... I'M DONE. Maybe I need a little fluorescent sign to be like MOVING ON!! LOL
that cheetos commercial with the 2 construction workers dancing and the cheetos cheetah being the DJ and then the 3rd construction worker coming up and saying ‘are you having a party’ and they say NO and close the door, but it’s an un finished house so the excluded dude looks through the walls and the other 2 dudes just keep dancing… funny!! I would like to close the door to some people when they walk up and are not invited into the convo and/or party… it’s rude but soooo damn funny!!
As a rule I have sworn off reality shows but last night as one eye was open and I’m still flipping through channels I land upon ‘Ink Master’ on Spike TV. I’m like HOLE UP… You mean to tell ME that people are offering up their bodies as an experiment or practice so these fools can see if they do a good tattoo on their body?!?! AND it’s permanent??? Seriously??!! So like even the hairstyle shows, if the jack up your hair you can buy a wig, or weave it up or even braid it, but a TATTOO in any way shape or form is PERMANENT!!! This probably sparked my interest because the new girl at work has a lot of tats. And while I would like to see them, she does an obvious job of trying to cover them up and I think it’s kinda rude (although I’m not sure why) to be like LET ME SEE YOUR TATS!!! Cause then you gotta say OOOWWW and AHHH they are soooo nice even if they are hideous cause you don’t wanna be mean. I had one co-worker one time (at band camp) and she wore something so I would see her stupid tat on her stupid leg. I never commented…(although I should have been like get a damn pedicure before you go shoes off your crusty feet) ummm cause it was STUPID!! And Forest Gump said stupid is as stupid does.. which was really on my mind the other day when the tweedle was talking LOUDLY and I was sitting there thinking is ya stupid or is ya CRAZY?!?!? Cause that’s what Bubba’s mama said to Forest when he was giving her all the shrimp boat money… and as you see I digress. Oh yeah tats… So the main loud mouth dude takes on a big cross and pearly gates on the back of some random black guy who siad that was what he wanted. The loud mouth dude is black also and actually the only black person on the show and said I took him cause these other folks don’t know how to work on dark skin. Now to some degree I buy that, but the way he fucked up that guys back... SMDH!!! ALLS I kjnow is my one little strawberry on my left boob that I got in the back alleys of Petersburg VA is so simple I would have let an apprentice do it. But something MAJOR. I’ma need to see your work credentials ALL of that before you go and brand me for life. And his wasn’t the only BAD one… one guy got basically a half a sleeve and it was so dark you could barely see what it was. The one I did like the judges kinda didn’t but it looked good compared to the BS that was on some of these people. And then he STILL was all loud about how good his work was and it was a shame because the other dude has to live with that tat. Hell I’ve seen better prison tats than that one...
my cat is obsessed with paper! the entire floor can be clear but If there is one pile of bills or whatever she will make her happy ass just as comfortable on the pile of paper. Even right now! She sees me trying to finish my blog for my faithful readers (I'm not sure if I'm up or down this month) and she is trying to sit on top of the pile i have next to my desk in my office. Just to be close to me :)
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