Monday 9.30.13 random

Wrote this part last week…

I know I can’t be the only person who has that one co-worker that when you see them you instantly think ‘what the fuck do you have on?!?’  so this one person I have in mind actually has many nice things that if worn separately might actually look good.  BUT NO!!  This chick has to wear everything all at the same time and you just be blinded by the tackiness so I try not to look directly at her when I don’t have to. 

I have only worked 2 days this week but you would have thought I just did 3 doubles and triple shifts!!  I am so glad its Friday!! Actually yesterday after I read the menu for the cafeteria I marched to building 4 all ready for a chicken teriyaki sandwich, but that’s what they had on Monday; I misread, so I got lasagna instead.

On Wednesday I got my hair braided. Mainly because the fro is just getting completely out of order and I need more help than the little hair care products that I have currently at my disposal.  It’s not that bad, but I just don’t feel like doing it. I need to get it cut and maybe have some shape to it.  So now I have 50 pounds of hair on top of my head.  Well ok that is a bit of an exaggeration, but it is heavy compared to what was previously on there.  Getting your hair braided at the African shop is always an adventure.  First off I can never understand why they all have to talk so loud and at the same time.  Usually I have my lil iPod ready to go and stick in my headphones in and I’m good to go.  But for some reason the iPod was basically dead and the kindle had just a little bit of life. So I was NOT prepared!!  I was the only client for a while and they just seemed to talk nonstop.  I always wonder what people are saying in their language.  There is only so much they can say about me.  I mean, all I’m doing is sitting there, not really giving them too much material to talk about, well at least I think.  And then they always have their kids coming in.  There were 2 little girls, a baby boy and then the owner’s son who need to be enrolled in my boot camp immediately because he has a horrible attitude.  So the 1 little girl was 2 and she basically ignored me that is until I pulled out the candy and she was instantly my best friend.  Now if you know anything about me, I’m not the world’s best sharer even with small kids but how can you NOT offer some candy corn to a little African baby whose eyes are so big and cute.  Thankfully her mother said no because she was eating grapes and that was enough.  I put my little candy away and was good.  The other little girl was about 7 or 8 and she is in the third grade.  I know this because she said a few times ‘THIRD GRADE IS STRESSING ME OUT!!’ Every time she said it I had to look at her and be like da hell is so stressful about third grade!?!?  She went on to say she had reading group AND spelling AND math.  Well that does stress you out when you’re 8… I guess.  Third grade for me was Ms. Kendrick who I loved so I guess I wasn’t stressed out.  Now the owner’s son is a special kind of horrible.  He talks to his mother any kinda way and I always have to do a double take like HOLE UP you gon let this lil fool talk to you like that?!?  I have to refrain from giving him 2 chops to the throat because he is not my nephew or family but give me the opportunity and I would straighten his narrow behind out REAL FAST!!  He is a little spoiled suburban kid.  OH and he hums while he plays his Gameboy or whatever you call it these days.  I’m almost 40 I can’t keep up nor do I want to!!  Another reason the headphones were sorely missed.  The baby boy was the 2 year old’s little brother so every so often she would wave at him which was so cute.  He was a little butterball with a big head that I’m sure he will grow into.  If my oldest nephew who almost toppled over because his head was so big thankfully grew into his head, this little boy can too!

Wrote this TODAY…              

I like the braids but they are making my head HURT!!  I have been popping ibruprofen all weekend.  And they are so freaking long and I don’t know how to do the bun thing that all the chicks seem to do.  Maybe I should watch a youtube video on it.

It is not helping that Party up just came on on the iPod… DMX Y’ALL GON MAKE ME LOSE MY MIND UP IN HERE UP IN HERE!!! This is how I feel today.  I got a case of the Mondays and the really-don’t-F***-with-me!!!

Some people don’t realize just how random they are.  I mean I KNOW I am but so are you!! ijs

My feet are jacked up… I mean JACK the hell up.  So basically whatever this is that coursed its way through my body left me with patchy skin on my hands and feet.  My hands are not so bad because I’m already addicted to lotion and Vaseline.  But my feet… LAWD LAWD LAWD!!!  I was really waiting for them to heal a bit more, but I am in need for a high end pedicure, not the little $20 number they give you at any local salon.  I need for the person to GO IN!! You know like Shanene on Martin did with Velma (was her name Velma?!?) nope it was Myra…Thank you GOOGLE!! I could mess with my feet more when I was at my other desk, but now that where I sit is a thruway for everybody I can’t have my feet all hiked up.  It’s kinda not a good look.  And I’m already paranoid sitting right outside of my manager’s office who is working at another office today praise LBJ.  I just don’t need the extra stress on a Monday although now that means I need to get here on time tomorrow.  WHEW.  These dark mornings just don’t make it easy on a sista.  It is already hard to get up as it is and now the sun don’t want to come up until almost 9. 

I’ve been hitting QVC real hard lately.  I need a 12 step program for real!! I have been a little disappointed with the colors though.  So I order get it and then I’m like aww man I thought it was more brown, or more yellow… or whatever.

I made corn zucchini chowder yesterday!!  I KNOW RIGHT?!?!  So I have had an overabundance of squash this year and honestly it’s not even that it was that much, they were just big as hell!! This is my first year doing my own little garden so you know I’m still in my learning curve.  The squash has been sitting on my table for about a week or so.  I gave a few to my co-worker who I wasn’t convince ate it until she just said that they (her and her husband) did last week.   So 2 of my new favorite shows on FoodTV are The Pioneer Woman and Trisha Yearwood.   Now I am a horrible recipe cook.  I just need for someone to point me in the right direction and then I can work it out.  Ummm can I just say that my digressions are crazy today?  SO I just looked up Trisha Yearwood because I know she is married to Garth Brooks who I know cheated on his wife back in the day and I was trying to figure out what his 1^st wife’s name was.  SO I Wikipedia her and learn she has been married 3 times!!  WOW ok do you girl!  Then I Wikipedia Garth.  WHY is this fools real name Troyal?? TROYAL!!!!  That is some real country mess right there!! I mean Garth is already pretty bad… Whew ok so anyway so… The pioneer woman made this corn and cheese chowder on her show and I was like ewww I can do that with the zucchini!!  Maybe not the chesse and bacon but I can work it out.  I actually made a list and went to the supermarket.  The main thing I needed was corn and cream but I ended up getting ½ and ½ and I had chicken stock in my ‘pantry’.  I sautéed an onion, added in big chunks of red pepper, cut the corn off the 3 cobs, which I choose to use instead of can corn to give it a fresher taste, cut the big green zucchini (I had a yellow one too but it was too hard), and dumped it all into the pot is usually use to make greens.  So it was way chunkier than I thought it should be so I let it all cook down and used the immersion blender that I acquired when a friend just moved out of her house!  I added some black pepper which I didn’t get to heavy handed with the pepper like I normally tend to, garlic powder, red pepper flakes (not to many just enough for a lil kick) and I think that was it. The only thing I would change would be to scoop out the seeds from the zucchini because they are a little chewy and a lot of them did not blend well.  OH and it is still chunky I didn’t blend until smooth I just blended until less chunky.  See right here is why I know I could never write a cook book LOL I must say I have made several variations on her recipes than anyone else. Like last week I made one of her 16 minute meals, stir fry beef and broccoli instead of beef and snow peas.  FoodTV has changed so much.  There are all these competition shows and I just need a regular old ‘This is what I’m cooking and I’ll show you how’ types shows.  The same for HGTV, I miss all the design shows that used to be on.  And then the main competition show they have, they only keep the winners show on for one season which really sucks.  I forgot what I was talking about…

xls break for random...

I am about to poke both of my eyes out I have been looking at this spreadsheet all day.  But it’s what I do!  If it’s not one xls it’s another.  Or documentation and procedures which I actually like doing. 

And then my sinuses are wreaking pure havoc on my face. 

So I returned the other drawer at the Ikea yesterday.  The guy asked me if I had opened the box which I hadn’t but it was puffy because it had been in my backseat for over a week.  So he asked why I was returning it and I said it was just too hard!  He chuckled because he knows that shit is hard a lot of the times.  I said he probably had many a story of people returning stuff and he said he did and his own stories too.  I just don’t know why I thought it wouldn’t be so bad….WELL yes I do everything I used to get from there really were not that bad.  And they used to give you that little tool to put stuff together and you were good.  Now you need a freaking PhD just to figure out all the parts and where they go.  It was madness.  Now that it is all put together and in my roommates room I can say with great surety that is THE LAST TIME I do that!!

It occurred to me yesterday that I am really not a salon chick.  I have only gotten my hair done once since I have started my whole natural hair journey, and braids don’t count because you have to go into the shop with clean hair.  I just can’t get into going to someone to get my hair done.  I used to though. I was an every other week faithful chick for quite some years.  But when I lost my job and/or didn’t make nearly as much as I used to, priorities change!  So now I just don’t trust anyone and I don’t want to try folks out.  I am done with having my hair jacked up because you don’t know what you doing.  I did see someone on the facebook that I might try but it will probably take me another few months before I actually try them.  Of course I think I can do what the chicks on the youtube do and I just can’t, yet.  I can’t flat twist or braid to save my life and most of the styles are based on.  And then my length, not quite a TWA but not quite long either.

The weather changing is does not make me a happy camper.  The blanket that I bought from the good QVC does not cover my whole body like the preview said it would.  Or wait was that the other one that I didn’t get!?  Hmmm I don’t know.  What I do know is that I needed and used the little heater to warm up the room.  I keep saying I’m going to get one of those eden pure which is the infrared heater that warms your bones!

I don’t know what it is…well yeah I do… but I am freaking obsessed (ok maybe not obsessed but really really REALLY interested) with make-up.  I used to be a lipstick and go kinda chick and maybe a few strokes of the eye shadow and some mascara.  But now I watch videos on it, I analyze what people wear and I buy so much stuff.  Mostly drugstore stuff, but I throw in some MAC and Sephora every so often… oh and Mally (from QVC) because she has a lot of good colors for a milk chocolate chick like me.   I think hair and make-up go hand in hand.  So over the years when my hair is off, I put on more make-up.  Now as I am getting a little older it feels like my skin is a little dull so make-up (and my 60oz+ of water daily) evens out my skin

WHY is one tooth deciding to be sensitive?  Have you ever heard of such fuckery!?? Just one.  The left vampire one close to the tooth that I had my first root canal which is freaking me ALL out because now I’m thinking I might need another one and this will be unlucky #4 and I aint got time for no root canal dammit!!! So now I have to chew real hot food on the right side.  **smh** as I let my food cool off.

 

This is not my favorite time of year.  I much rather prefer coming from cold to warm and not warm to cold.  But so many people are saying how they love getting a nice little chill in the air.  NOT ME!  In fact, the only thing I like about this time of year is that it's pumpkin season.  So I can get my nice pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin lattes, and let's not forget pumpkins are orange, and orange is one of my favorite colors.  So I like to get the random housewares that don't have Halloween or Thanksgiving themes.  I have banned myself from buying any more orange clothing although I did just get a little orange jacket from QVC. BUT I really needed it.  The little denim jacket I have has 2 buttons missing and that's kinda not a good look well and it's denim...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blog day 9-9-13

As suspected today will be a BLOG day!!  It has been a good minute since I haven’t written shit down and shared it in a long format.  I’ve only done a few random status updates and they have truly been random.

Let’s start with today shall we?!? So my alarm goes off at 6:15 but I did not drag myself out of bed to hop in the shower until 7:30.  I usually at very least make coffee and then scrounge to find some food.  But this morning I didn’t even have energy to do that so I think well I can hit the McDonald’s and hop on 695.  I get my usual (which really shouldn’t be usual but hey IT IS!) #2 sausage egg and cheese and a large black coffee.  NO BLACK… no sugar no cream… yes lady I’m sure!  Get to the window pay the 1^st little girl says Have a delightful day!  I say You TOO!! Next window… and see THIS is where all the franckenackle BS happens.  Usually there is an older Hispanic lady with the gold side tooth who is so happy just to be working.  She is so pleasant and so nice so I know there is an issue when the younger Hispanic girl with way heavier eye make-up comes to the window.  She is distracted by the next order or whatever folds up my bag hands it to me.  NOW I KNOW BETTER!!!  I have had issues with this Mickey Dee’s which is the ‘new’ one on Security with the 2 lanes and I always always ALWAYS check before I leave the window.  Of course I didn’t this time so I drive away get almost to the light and it’s a freaking chicken biscuit.  I almost had an instant melt down.  THIS IS NOT WHAT I FUCKING ORDERED!!!! Swung around in the gas station and doubled back to go inside.  I’m always pissed when I have to go inside because the reason I went through the drive though is cause I didn’t want to get out of the car.  I nearly knocked the lady down waiting for her food because I AM NOT waiting in no more lines and you WILL wait on me not now BUT RIGHT NOW!! So the first little boy looks at my receipt and said oh so you didn’t get what you ordered and that’s what you wanted right? It took a lot for me to not reach out and yank his so fresh and so clean braids cause they were long and in danger.  The manager then grabs the receipt and makes sure that the correct order is in the bag along with an apple pie.  Now that was a nice gesture but how about just get the order right the first time?!?

Saturday after a long day of just shopping and stuff, on the same strip of road near the McDonald’s above, I am driving, see a low flying pigeon and I hit it O_O  I was traumatized because I would have expected blood but there was just some clear ooze that was on my windshield.  What was really crazy is I didn’t see the bird on the road nor was there a crack in my windshield which is a GREAT thing cause there are no extra funds for the hooptie.  So that was just weird

On the same Saturday prior to the bird incident I decided to go out to White Marsh Ikea and get my mom 2 dressers.  I have been shopping around online, but dressers are expensive so it was my bright idea to go there and get them which I did for under $250.  So I’m shopping around the store wrote down the numbers for the aisle, get a few things for the bathroom, and then get to the aisle and it occurs to me literally right there OH SHIT, I HAVE TO PUT IT TOGETHER!!  I just don’t know why this did not occur to me until right then.  I went online the day before and decided that I would have them deliver it for $59 and then everything would be great.  So then as this epiphany comes to me it doesn’t make sense to have them deliver boxes and then I still have to put it together.  Of course my trunk is full of crap but the little guy says he can get it in my back seat and he does!!  It’s inexpensive because you have to put it together D’OH!! **slapping my head** and then sliding the little boy some money for helping my crazy self!

I’ve been trying to refrain from doing a whole lot of work talk.  Every so often there is a report about how employers check your online presence to see what you are up to.  At 39 2/3 (read two thirds... yes I am that anal)  I’m thinking this is more for younger people.  Does the HR dept really have time to see what I’m up to and then NOT hire me because I said something crazy on Facebook or twitter?!  Maybe they do?! So yeah maybe saying my manager is crazy is NOT a good idea (I mean she totally is not… other place YES! but her nah, I’m good) OR saying I haven’t done a damn thing today is just not a good look.  What I will say is that I am moving and even though I am thanking LBJ constantly for this 3 month gig turning into a 1 ½ plus stint because He knows I could not take not a month where I was, so moving is really the least of my worries.  I just don’t deal with change as well as I could.  It takes me a few days for things to sink in and be ok with it.  So I kinda am okay with it. 

I have on the worst earphones today.  There is no bass I might have to go to the Wal-Mart and get some different ones.

I am not good at reporting on pop culture things mainly because I just don’t care.  I still do not know any song that One Direction sings because every time a YouTube randomly comes up, 2 seconds into it I turn it off.  I do know a few Bieber songs not really on purpose, but I do.  And then the whole VMA twerk debacle, we get it Miley you don’t want to be associated with being Hannah Montana, but I really think Billy Ray and Tish (I just googled that) just did not give her enough hugs.  Things like that make it seem like it’s ok to just seek attention that way and it just isn’t.  I still don’t get what the hype is with Drake, he just doesn’t do it for me.  I mean in general I don’t like hip hop today because they are just not saying anything except for booty and bling.   And then Kendrick Lamar (whoever da hell he is) did this verse on a Big Sean song (he is dating Santana from Glee) and everyone was all up in arms.  He named names and basically said F*** YOU to his ‘friends’ in the game.  I listened to the song and I was like OH ok… So now I am watching the Justin Timberlake segment on the VMA’s a show I couldn’t even remember was on.  And I watched the Lady Gaga segment also.  They both did a great job.  It was a pseudo N’Sync reunion.  Joey Fatone was my dude from that group!

Someone posted an article about billionaires choosing Black women as spouses.  And I was like OOOOHHH so that’s the demographic I need to go after!!