political random & other random

In 1992 I voted for the first time. I can’t remember which fraternity (probably the Alpha’s) did a voter registration drive on the campus of Virginia State University and I registered. Because that’s what you do when you turn 18, you register and then you vote. I was so very excited when the right Rev. Jesse Jackson came to our campus to head up yet another voter registration. The rally was held in the open space behind Foster Hall (the student union) and the really handsome man with the short fro who sings for all those types of events sang. I was moved to tears. And then Jesse said GET ON THE BUS!! So even though I had already registered and had a very important class in less than an hour I was stirred, ready and willing to get on the bus to go register… BUT I didn’t! I’ll never forget that moment. My mother who is a retired social studies teacher always made an impact on being a good citizen and doing you civic duty. So it was never a question of whether or not to vote, just like it wasn't an option to not go to college. Those were just givens. I was probably well into my 20’s before I realized that not everyone’s parents are like that. Even to this day when I meet people who are able bodies crime free and yet do not vote. I almost want to be like ‘is ya crazy or is ya stupid!!!’ It absolutely galls me that 2008 was the first time so many people, especially Black folks, voted. Like all of a sudden because the choice was for a Black man to be president you decided that now is a convenient time to exercise your right. I mean, I’m not mad, but it is very interesting to me. In 1992 when Bill Clinton was on Letterman, and Arsenio it just sealed the deal that he was the coolest man alive. On the day I walked to the elementary school near my dorm and voted. I was excited and happy to be official!! Fast forward to 2008 when it was cold, and just 4 years prior when I attempted to get John Kerry in office, there was no line. I was in and out and no one really had much to say about the whole process. But in 2008 there was an energy the spurred everyone to be on one accord. I didn’t buy any tee-shirts, but I do think someone gave me an Obama button. I was almost afraid to wear it for fear it would jinx the process. At this point in my life all of my grandparents had been deceased and my father, but my mother shared the same awe as I did. On that night we sat on the phone well after 11 after the official announcement had been made that Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States of America we were unable to put into words the magnitude of what was really happening. The Obama Family came onto the screen and tears flowed. Flowed for everyone that came before us who suffered to even be heard all the women and men and not just people who looked like me, people who were interested in everyone being equal and having a voice. So again fast forward to 2012 on election day as I sit at my desk not doing any work, but encouraged by all of my online friends and family who are energized! Some of them voted early. Some of them are for or against various measures on the ballot. But what important is people are talking about it and that makes my heart so very full and happy!

Ok… now onto the shenanigans at the polls!! So my neighbors are not very attractive, in general. I kept looking around for a cutie to get in line but alas, it didn’t happen. The really big dude behind me was not very chatty and had a red face. I wanted to engage him in conversation but he really didn’t wanna talk. The 2 couples in front of me, well one almost knocked me down to get to steps in front of me, the other had snacks, but I resisted the urge to ask for any. I was glad I made the decision to make coffee. I was hungry also, but I really thought getting there at 6:45(ish) would mean I would be in and out. SO that was not the case. I had to stand in line, but only for about 1 ½ hours which was not bad at all. Basically there was only 1 bonnet which I was expecting more. On any given day I can see about 8-10. There was this baby who looked like Big Baby from Toy Story. And then there were these 2 guys who were talking about not being that old but they were not good representative for early 40 somethings. So what confused me the most is that there was this big thing about having a photo ID. Now this may have been in other states, but it was news across the country nonetheless. So as I attempted to had the pollster my drivers license he looks at the screen and says ‘how do you spell you name?’ And I say uuuhh… just like it says here on my license. So perplexed I say ok so you don’t need my ID?!?! Cause the woman who is sitting near you almost snatched it out my hands for the primary. SO OKAY that kinda baffled me.

I am so tired of the political commercials. This is one thing I will be happy to go away as of later today/tomorrow. Although my favorite one was Mayor Rawlings-Blake and Jonathan Ogden ‘West Virginia, Don’t make me send Jonathan Ogden over there’. This was for the gambling expansion.

Ok so, I am a proponent of staying in you lane and I veered out of mine last night. After seeing everyone’s dismay on facebook about T-Dawg or T-dog (not sure which is right) being killed off Walking Dead I say to myself SELF why are you missing out on this teevee adventure? I’ve been hearing about this show, so I go to my on-demand only to find out, this is the 3rd season! I don’t start shows if I missed the pilot let alone the 3rd season. But I’m like well I can start and if it’s good I’ll get the 1st 2 on Netflix or something. So for the 1st 5-10 minutes there is NO dialogue. You just see people coming into a house trying to see if any zombies are in there and they are looking for food. Tame enough right? So then the zombies come out of NOWHERE and the people run and jump into cars and motorcycles and leave. At one point there is another story line where this Black Xena princess woman is fighting off the zombies. There are 2 chained zombies with no mouths in this store or something and I’m like HOLE UP WTF IS GOING ON HERE?!?! So in general zombies get shot, bashed in the head, head cut completely off and just they die! And then one who the old dude thought was dead grabs his leg and basically bites him. Well then instead of killing this guy which is what you do when someone gets infested is to kill that person RIGHT?!?! So they proceed to chop off his leg and THAT is when I said ENOUGH! I have had enough!! And went back to my on-demand and watched Bob’s Burgers which is so freaking hilarious!! The kids started working on a weed farm which they thought was a blueberry farm… WHEW I might have to watch it again!!

I love that my iPod has a good mix! I was rocking out to Radio Head and then Nas came on and then Faith!!

So I haven’t bartended much this year and my story are really lacking. But I DID bartend last week for a friend’s birthday party. His ‘people’ are not big drinkers so I really did not expect them to do much damage. BUT THEY DID! But what was really funny is… well ok let me back up. His party was a masquerade party. Just wear a mask, not a costume. So this Queen came in with a toga type sheath thingamabob with a gold leaf Olympic like thing on his head! Everyone was like DA HELL HE GOT ON?!?!? Along with his house boy whose costume no one could really figure out which also did not have a mask. I had a mask that I had had for years so the feathers were going every which way.

I am no officially addicted to YouTube! I have more subscriptions than I care to admit. But some days I just need that mindlessness. I am amazed how much content people really have on this. I mean there are whole series of scripted shorts that are on here. I am partial to the vlogs… or video blogs, like Funky Dineva, Kid Fury, Issa Rae’s RatchetPiece Theater and Jenna Marbles. But the series I love are The Mis-Adventures of an Awkward Black Girl (created by Issa Rae), And now the Unwritten Rules, and Number. These are the ‘black’ shows. What is even more hilarious are the comments. People get so amped about what someone else said and there is a great ease at calling someone everything but the child of God. I don’t say not a thing I wouldn’t to your face! It doesn’t even occur to me to hide behind the computer.

3 in one!!

I wrote this part a few weeks ago and I aint changing the tense...

Some days I just about bust a lid because folks do not read the email I have sent them. So I send a message to my bank about a feature and they send me to the exact location I already looked and didn’t find the answer hence I sent an email to get further information!! I sent an email to a manager and said “when you get a chance…” so that means DON’T read and respond right now if NOW is not a good time. It means when you get a chance to fully read, comprehend, and are able to respond then get back to me and let me know what you think. I too am guilty of this. I will skim an email and then just miss the whole point and respond. But then once I realize my error, I let the person know and re-respond. And saying please and thank you are niceties that need to good in every email. It just is common courtesy and good business practice. Also, phone manners are so very necessary. I had a manager who often complained about her director not saying good morning or thank you but she was notorious for saying not even hello but YEAH, I need to speak to… It grated my last nerve to be on any kind of conference call with her. It also bugs me when the folks don’t greet the security guards. You job is not that important nor are you that focused that you can’t say hello. I sit near a bunch of ‘office’ people, I guess I’m a ‘cubicle’ person now and there is only 1 of the 6 people who will actually go out of her way to speak. What’s funny is as a consultant I probably make more than them and I’m way cuter!!

Are we just a society of un-nice people?!? We want what we want so quickly that we can’t even bother to just be nice to each other? I mean I truly hope that is not the state of affairs. But I think we are slowly but surely losing basic social skills. We put on a front online and say whatever it is we need to say but then face to face we don’t know how to interact. I see this mostly for the younger generations. But even folks my age act like they can’t put the phone down or have to constantly check stuff.

I am taking prednisolone (a steroid) drops for my left eye and I just finished reading on WebMD, you know the foremost authority on all things medical, that people who have take these drops experience the same as the oral drug which is mood swings, rage, and hungry all the time which is NOT a good thing since I already have rage issues. The hunger part is interesting because I knew I couldn’t start my day without eating this morning. I kept trying to rationalize with myself that if I came in I could just go to the caf and get some food. But the next thing I knew I was in the Dunkin Donut drive through line AND they got my order correct even though I questioned the lady. My pumpkin donut was really good.

I am playing random songs… DMX just came on. I really be wondering who he’s talking about. Y’ALL GON MAKE ME LOSE MY MIND UP IN HERE UP IN HERE!!!

I wrote this section last week...

If you say you don’t watch a show and can’t provide any valuable insight I am DONE with the conversation!! This happened a lot when I was obsessed with Lost. Folks would try to say oh yeah I saw like 2 episodes and THEN have the gall the absolute GALL to try and spar with me. No ma’am… NO!!! Or they say something like oh yeah I used to watch it. Now for me ER just got boring, so I was one of those people who said yep I used to watch it but I don’t now. Sometimes I just have to wonder in silence about whatever until I find someone who actually knows what I’m talking about. Take for instance Lost Girl on SyFy, no one I know watches it and honestly I have fell off because it kept going and I got stuck somewhere in season 1. I probably would have a field day if I go to one of those ComicCons. It would be a nerd fest but somehow I think I would fit right in LOL. Hmmm maybe I should join one of those blogs? And I could be all random and anonymous as I am.

The Nissan commercial where it beeps to let the man know he is going to far is hilarious. It beeps and he’s like OH OK too far!! I just ‘got’ the Target falling into fall commercial, they fall from summer to fall… I was like OOOooohhh I get it now the other day.

Like assholes, everyone has an opinion about EVERYTHING!! Which can be very tiring sometimes. Let’s just agree to disagree okay?

Sometimes it takes a lot of effort to do nothing!!

I just let a little girl with a bad weave and about 3 different shades of hair cut my hair at the Hair Cuttery. She actually listened to what I said and cut what I needed cut. I am just so sick of people not listening to me!! My current hair stylist who I LOVE really dropped the ball this last go round. When she was done she held up the mirror and I said to her is this what you thought I had said I wanted?! Followed quickly by “you’re lucky my hair grows fast” cause what I didn’t say but I so wanted to was is “cause I’ma about to kick your ass for this mess you just did!!!” I am such a gansta!! LOL

Courtesy flush is so that the stink don’t linger. It’s for you as much as everyone else entering the facilities.


I wrote this part tonight 10/15/12...

I am listening to the debate in the background. My mind is made up about the President. OBAMA ALL DAY ERR DAY!!! I keep trying to hear what Mittens has to say but it sounds like the adults in Charlie Brown... Woock woock woock woock!! Here in Maryland we got like 50eleven questions that we have to vote Yay or Nay on. I keep waiting for my specimen ballot so that I can read them in full. Honestly on Nov 6 (or earlier if I do the early vote thing) It's gon be a quick Yes or No and I want to make educated decisions about the 'Questions'

This time of year i go into pumpkin MANIA!! I bought pumpkin soup, waffle and pancake mix AND pumpkin butter from the good Trader Joe's just today!! And then I try to hoard stuff like the waffle mix because in a few months they will take it away and I will be sad :(

Revolution is a new show on NBC where the people are living in the future and the electricity has just gone out... BLIP it is no more! No TV, no cars, no iPods, no running water... anything powered by electricity is gone. And as much as I like the sci fi stuff I can't help but just ponder the smell. They gotta be some funky folks!! I mean if all you have to rely on is fresh water and you live in the middle of nowhere how do you stay clean?!? And who makes the soap so you can stay clean?? And I won't even go into the whole women's cycle thing because it just boggles my mind. And then there is the transportation thing. I get that there aren't car, but why come no one has a bike? Or skateboard? Or scooter?!? OR those damn heelies (which I still do want btw)?!? Everyone just walks around with their bow and arrow AND who makes the clothes and if food is in shortage HOW do fat people even exist?? like Aresnio... things that make you goo hmmmm...

my cat has an a fixation with paper and because my house is a wreck she has ample opportunity to lay on it, wipe the kitty litter off on it, and scoot it to different locations around the 1st floor of the house...

I took great pleasure in watching the foreigners in Florida at the mall look befuddled and confused when dealing with American money! I just now know they feel like how I felt when in Europe and trying to figure out how the hell the Euro worked. Well not 'how it worked' but more what it was worth without getting completely taken advantage of. My favorite story is when I was in Greece and the shop keeper said I need 25 cents and I handed him and American quarter and his hand went limp like I stuck a pile of poop in his hand! Well excuuuuuuuuuuuse me Mr. Man!! the $ I know aint worth much but did you really have to act like that?? So this weekend in the Ben & Jerry's line (cause who doesn't like an overpriced ice cream cone) the B&J little dude said you owe me $20.80 and the guy from... let's just say Italy holds a 20, a 10, and a few singles in his hand like uuuuhhhh uuuuhhh... thank goodness B&J dude was honest, he took the 20 and a single and gave him change. He really could have taken the 10 and the man would not have known the difference, but that is bad karma.

So after a few stores on the 'high end' side of Sawgrass Mill outlet mall I sat my happy ass down and had a great time people watching. So this mall has the airport luggage baskets so people could roll around their goods. Folks were shopping like their life depended on it. I had my lil bag from Coach and was slightly pissed when they added tax. I usually go to the outlet store in Delaware, so if it's 80 buck it's 80 bucks, not 80 plus 6% tax. And for some reason I could not wrap my head around paying $200 for a purse... so I didn't. I'm a QVC chick I like flex pay!! Somehow paying on something for 6 months just sounds more right! Now don't get me wrong there were some thing I coulda had bought. But like at the Michael Kors store the little girl got way too close for comfort. NO I don't need help I'm good. Go stand you happy ass over there and let me breathe!! And i'm not big on other people's initials. At least Tory Burch has a T on most thing which is my initial.

I am always mad when I realize there is NO MORE WINE!! Well no more white wine I do have a few bottle of red... but I already started drinking white and what really needs to happen is I need to go to bed!!

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