and I hope this message stays in your mind...

Someone had a ‘Carcetti for Mayor’ bumper sticker this morning. I’ve been wanting a shirt that said that.  I also was a ‘Vote for Pedro’ tee shirt.  Here is where my randomness might not be for you because I’m sure I already lost a few and we just begun.

It truly tickles me when folks say YOU FORGOT TO ADD THIS TO THE BLOG!!! And then I’m like did you really want my spin on it cause maybe you don’t… OR maybe you do?!?!?  SO it is wedding/prom/graduation season.  I haven’t been to a wedding but I have been to a graduation and a prom send off.   I went all the way to ATL to see my nephew #2 graduate from Georgia State University. I did a kinda sorta embarrassing pic on the Facebook mainly because I am so proud of him.  One of the things I said was that it was expected and it was!  Graduating from high school and then going to college was always expected in my household.  I don’t even know if I knew there was a choice.  It got to a point when I was really indecisive that my mom was like if I didn’t decide I had to go to Pitt (University of Pittsburgh) which in retrospect I still would have had to apply, but I felt like she knew the right people that I could have just went.  She also said if I didn’t go to college I would have to work at Giant Eagle. All I could envision was working in the deli shaving up chipped ham LOL  I am glad that my oldest 2 nephews have degrees. Now I’m not sure what is going to happen with my nieces because they live different lives were I’m not sure if education is an expectation.  I want them to finish high school and go to college and I want them to be AKA’s (my sorority) and I want them to know there is a big world out there.  But they might not have that same expectation that I had.  The 16 yr old, I need for him to GET IT and finish high school and he will go somewhere most likely on an athletic scholarship.  And the god babies… well they have no choice either.  Onto the proms… So we have seen all the pics on Facebook and Instagram maybe even the twitter.  One of my girlfriends has a son who is about to graduate so he of course he went to the prom.  She decided to do have food and drinks at her house.  This mofo (my friend not her son) did not have a wine opener in her whole ENTIRE HOUSE!!! I don’t know how she lives her life day to day with only an electric wine opener that decided not to work when she had a house full of people who were demanding wine, but she does.  The good thing is I live literally about 5-7 minutes from her and got one for her to HAVE.  I mean the wineaux that I am I usually carry a wine key with me at all time cause you know just like condoms, you never know when wine might come up.  Did I just compare wine to sex?!?!  hmmm… YES!!!! I remember my wine key getting confiscated at the TSA one time when I was travelling a lot for work and I mean I get it, it did have a knife on it and I could have hijacked the plane and no one wants that.  So yeah…  other than that her son was handsome, he did a black on black and his date did black and white with the pink hair which on her looked appropriate.  A 50 yr old maybe not so much but then again she had a girlfriend from high school who had bright red hair but it looked good on her.  I don’t know some people can pull off the crazy colors better than others and not even crazy.  Everyone can’t pull off blond and/or red based on their skin color and tone.  I have digressed so much. LOL

This past weekend was my family reunion in sunny Cleveland!! As always I had a great time!  And not to embarrass him but my brother was having several emotional moments.  At one point it was like WTF are you crying about now?!?!? He and another cousin just had to talk out things that men sometimes just don’t on a regular basis and it was cleansing.  It’s just good to see everyone the older family members who are still looking good and the babies who just got here!

I just brushed my teeth but I missed my tongue so it really feels like I need to go redo it.  Plus I really hate brushing my teeth in the same bathroom that someone is pooping in a stall near me.  Life would be so much better if I had my own personal bathroom.  And it will happen when I start ChickiCo! 

I Binged (the same as googling) my name.  It is funny and scary at the same the information that popped up.  Nothing too crazy but if I had a stalker they might actually be able to find me.  Thankfully only one picture… Hmmm my curiosity got the better of me I just goggled and more pics popped up : O so yeah be careful what you like on all the social medias. WOW!!

Why do men become 100% more attractive when you find out they have a girl/wife!?!?  I’m not that chick to be dating married men (well you know not ON PURPOSE… I mean it has happened kinda sorta on accident… don’t judge me LOL).  They also become more of appeal when you know they don’t want you no mo which works both ways.  I am moving on and he is professing his undying love. **LOUD SIGH**

It is Capital Jazz fest this weekend. Tonight is King, En Vogue, and New Edition… I’m cueing up some King now!! Tomorrow is Lalah and Erro… hmm I wonder if they will do their duet together?? I wonder if the rain will go ahead and stop being a bitch and just let the sun come on out?!?! I wonder where my plastic wine pouch is? And I wonder if the little boys they hire for this big event will chill out and let me slip my libations in without too much hassle?  I wonder if there will be any available cuties there?  I know they exist. Single men are not unicorns!!  EWWW… I wonder if the dude from the concert a few weeks ago will be there?? I wonder if I talked to him if the cellulite girl would have got made?  I wonder why I act like I aint got cellulite?? LOL  ACTUALLY though I am pretty tight except for those few annoying dimples. My booty don’t jiggle.  I wonder if that is the problem?  But the booty don’t lie.  I wonder if I will get any work done today?  I wonder if I shoulda stayed my booty home and pretended to work? I wonder what the heck I’ma wear tonight?  AND tomorrow… what I’m gon wear? I wonder if I am hitting the right note as I sing along with King?  Prolly not!!!  LOL

short and sweet...

I had to do a little goggling... So the roommate was having a very lucid night. Her days are always a little off and it’s really ok.  So she said with great authority well tomorrow is Monday and I said no it's will be Thursday. And I’m always curious as to why she thinks it will be one day over another. So I say well what’s happening on Monday?  She said I want to see the show with Art Linkletter. NOW this threw me ALL THE WAY OFF!!!! Art Linkletter?!?!  So she’s like yeah you know the show with the kids.  I really have to think I said you mean Steve Harvey!?!?  And she said YES!!! I love that show!! Her night caregiver watches with her and she really looks forward to it.  So then I’m like well why Art Linkletter?  I didn’t know he did the show ‘Kids say the darndest things.’   I knew Bill Cosby did back in the day but Art did it waaaay back in the day as part of like another show he was doing. I had to ask the goggler. That was my laugh for the night.

 

I’m still in a bit of shock about the passing of Prince.  Mainly because even though they say he is gone it has been a nonstop barrage of videos and interviews and concerts he did OH and can’t forget Purple Rain. It has been a whole lot!  And I know a few die hard like for real FOR REAL Prince fans.  But please all you people who just know Purple Rain GTFOH!  AND THEN you don’t even know all the words to your supposed favorite songs!?!? yeah… so miss me with that HE WAS MY FAVORITE!!!  So yesterday I say if I hear Purple Rain (the song) one more time I’m gonna scream.  WHY does the roommate instantly go into PURPLE RAIN PURPLE RAIN!!!! Then she said that’s all I know so then my sister attempts to finish and I just look at them with a blank stare. 

 

I guess I need to keep saying it cause mofos keep trying to check me (or at least they be thinking that’s what they doing)… but what you WILL NOT do is presume to know what I am about to say.  You don’t!! Hell I don’t know what I’m going to say ½ the time.  So just let me say whatever the hell I need to say and then if it aligns with what you thought I was going to say well then good for you boo boo!

the good, the bad and the RANDOM!!!

I was driving in my car when I came up with this title… The Good the Bad and the Random and was so pleased with myself at coming up with a title of my unwritten blog post that I was going to write about my vacation in the Abu Dhabi.  And then as the days have gone by I’m like I really do need to start writing some shit down because I’m going to forget.  My mom gave me a travel journal about 10-15 years ago and my last entry was 2011 so I have a little catching up to do. I do need to segment my trip out because I heard myself talking about it to people and it sounded hella negative when I talked about the actual travel experience even though I had an awesome time once I finally got there.  Wanna hear it?  Here it go…

 

The GOOD!!

Spending time with my BFF and my god kids! In the past it has usually been just the 2 (or 3) of us so having the kids there was an interesting dynamic.  I went to visit them while they were on spring break so really where else would they be?   But it was for the most part good.  When I finally got there we went to a poetry slam.  Now I can probably count on one hand how many poetry slams I’d been to including the 2 I went to there… I’ve been to 2!!  What amazed me the most, was the amount of American Black folks that were there.  There was even a chick from my plane.  The only reason she remembered me is because I’m pretty sure I stepped on her foot but then again I am me.  And me and the girls are always memorable LOL So we did the slam thing and then went home where I slept for most of the next day.  I only woke up long enough to eat some pancakes and turkey sausage which were actually pretty good and then went back to sleep.  My body was all kinds of outta whack.  The next day was Easter and we went to this fabulous brunch at the Hyatt.  I never feel like I get my money’s worth at buffets.  In addition there was all you can drink wine.  When we told our waiter we wanted mimosas he said we have sparkling wine and red and white wine only.  BFF kept tryna explain that all you need to do was add oj but he was pretty insistent that they didn’t have what we were asking for.  So we ordered oj and sparkling wine separately and made our own mimosa.  He came back and was like OOOOHHHH is that what that is?!? It all worked out and the food was great.  The next day we went to Dubai.  I really thought it was a lot further away but it was only about an hour and a half.  We stayed at this wonderful hotel that had this horrible egg sculpture in the lobby.  I kept trying to get a good angle on it but never could.  OH and there was a Caribou coffee shop right up the street walking distance (although I never made it there) which both excited and pissed me off.  So you close ALL my Caribou’s in Baltimore but you leave it open in Dubai and Abu Dhabi?!?!  You sons of bitches… I digress. The next day we went on a Safari.  I don’t know why I thought this meant we were going to see elephants in the middle of the desert but what it actually was was sand dune bashing.  What THAT is, is going very fast over the ever shifting sand dunes in the middle of the desert.  In our truck was a family from Canada with a little 4 year old named Zara who was very cute but she talked NON STOP!!!!  I sat in the front passenger seat and the bff and the kids sat in the last row.  The little girl at one point tugs on my braid and said IT’S SO CURLY I REALLY LIKE IT!!!  Her mother was like please don’t do that Zara the lady doesn’t like that.  The nephew was not really feeing the speed and the angles of the truck and he basically was freaking out as his mom and sister tried to reassure him that we weren’t going to flip over nor die.  At one point we stopped and took pictures and he calmed down.  There was sand everywhere! as far as the eye could see.  After that we went to a desert camp where they had the camel rides and vendors and a woman doing henna.  I’ve done the camel ride in Egypt and that is all I ever need to do in my lifetime.  SO I had a pic with the camel.  We then got henna done and sat at these tables to watch some of the most unenthused belly dancers and traditional dancers.  Can I just say that walking in that much sand which was every freaking where wore a sister O U T!!! Sand will work you out even if that is not your intention.  We got back to the hotel and we all had to shower before getting in bed.  The next day we went back to Abu Dhabi and slept.  Like I said that sand wore us all out!!  The next day we went to the spa.  I LOVED THAT PLACE!!  The main thing it was a women only spa.  Because we were in a Muslim country many things are women only men only and I am SO ok with that.  Men throw the balance off for me.  When I am tryna get a little mani pedi and a man with his big ole hairy feet next to me never sits well with me.  So anyway my massage was wonderful and they had this lavender sitting room.  OH and I forgot about the brow threading.  THE BEST!  Sometimes it can be painful even though I’m used to it but this was the best threading experience I’ve had.  I’m getting a little fuzzy on the days.  I think we went to a lady’s night at Catch…. No I’m missing a lot.  At one point we went to Catch for a ladies night and I totally drank too much and danced and flirted with the DJ whose wife I met at another event (there is no shame in my GAME when I’m a lil (or a lot) drunk).  But then we also ate at Catch twice (no 3 times) and the food there was AMAZING! I think maybe went there after the spa? Also there was Asia de Cuba and I had this seafood thing with saffron rice that was so good and someone I won’t name no names threw away the rest of my rice LOL.  And then we went to Saadiyat Beach which was a public beach and the water was COLD!  I still enjoyed it but I was told that the water in the middle of the summer was hot.  Then we went back to the Saadiyat Beach club… wait we went there 2 times…. Getting fuzzy!!!  1 night was a lounge singer and the other was a party.  Had a great time both nights!! OH and Kevin Hart… LAWD how could I forget that?!?! I think Kevin Hart is hilarious and the funniest stuff were the jokes about his family.  We went to the restaurant/bar he and his entire entourage went to afterward.  I didn’t see him, but honestly I was tryna get a chicken wing. I think I saw his fiancé and she was tiny with a big butt, pretty girl though LOL  And this is why I need to write everything I do on a daily basis because I am drawing a blank… I’ll move onto the Bad and maybe come back.

 

Emirate Palace we went there for tea.  The place was opulent; beautiful with gold and shimmery tile and walls, just wonderful.  I got some good pics of the inside and outside and all the architecture of the buildings surrounding, which as an almost architect major was stunning.  The architecture was very symmetrical. 

The other spa where we had a Moroccan bath… everything is out in the open and I was scrubbed down with a loofah. It felt wonderful. I’m lying… it hurt a little because that little Pilipino woman was earning all of her pay that day.  Skin and dirt was was everywhere.  Actually it was pretty gross. LOL

The BAD!!!

My travel days were the worse.  **loud sigh** Let’s start with the Uber.  All the rage is Uber… take an Uber. UBER UBER UBER.  I downloaded the app and sent for an Uber.  It came to my house, the car was nice, the driver was nice, smelled good had a good deep voice.  My estimate for the ride was 18-24 bucks so I was thinking at worse even if it was $30 I was still saving money.  So I told the guy this was my first time, I was an Uber virgin (LOL).  I get out of the car get into the airport on my way to the gate and get the receipt.  My car ride was $64.53.  I’m standing there like WTF is this?!?!  And then I need to sit cause I have to digest why my ride was almost 3 times more than my estimate.  I sent a note back to the driver and then just try to calm myself down and not worry because fuck it, I’m on vacation.  I get to the gate, get on the plane.  The plane is a little ass puddle jumper and my carry-on won’t fit in the above cabinet so I’m pissed and my long legs cannot stretch out.  Then we taxi and then the pilot comes on; NEVER a good sign.  We are only on the tarmac for about 15-20 minutes which is good because it could have been hours.  We get back to the gate and they tell us to get off the plane.  I am sitting next to a woman who speaks NO English so when I asked her a question she looked at me and said ‘I Nepali’.  Ok lady.  We get off the plane they take our boarding passes and then the snippy gate agent is pretty rude to everyone.  At this point no one knows anything, and that was pretty much what they should have said because we all are needing to get to JFK to get a connecting flight.  After 20 minutes they say wait another 45 minutes before we get an update.  Then after another hour or so they cancel our flight.  And I don’t know how this works.  I need to get to New York… my flight to Abu Dhabi is out of New York.  At this point I am trying to get service because the line to talk to the agents is long and the people are rude.  The one woman jumped in front of me not once but twice and you know kicking her in the ass would not have been nice.  I sat on the floor trying to get through to Etihad airways.  After 45 minutes and several dropped calls and several agents whose English was questionable I get an agent who says I need to book through American because this is not their fault **blank stare** Most of the people have been rebooked or whatever and I am sitting there like SO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME I JUST WASTED 45 MINUTES TRYING TO GET THROUGH TO AN AGENT ONLY TO BE TOLD I NEED TO TALK TO AMERICAN? I was pissed (a common theme LOL) and almost in tears.  So I get the American number and the agent was very helpful.  She wanted to put me on a flight the next day, but I was like there is NOTHING today and it turned out there was a 10:30 flight out of freaking Dulles, the airport I was avoiding like the plague.  I go get my luggage and talk to the little old man at the information booth.  I need to be sure to save my duckets and prepare for the future because I do not want to be an 85 yr old person trying to give directions from the information booth at the airport.  Initially I thought to do the metro, but that was way too cumbersome.  I had to take a shuttle to get to the green line, then to the silver line and then another shuttle.  No ma’am sir!  I then went to the shuttle place that was a direct ride to the airport for $72.  Now you know I get pissed again at the thought of my $65 Uber ride but I try to put that out my mind. I get to Dulles and left my favorite (well and only) travel pillow in the van.  I get to the gate and the line is not tremendously long but it’s not moving.  So what these mofos are doing is weighing the carry-on before we got to the gate agent.  Like really!?!  Let me fast forward to my middle seat that was actually not so bad because it was the middle middle and only one person on each side.  I didn’t really rest too well but every time I tried to watch something on the little screen my eyes would close LOL That was going.  Coming back I fly to Chicago ORD.  The flight wasn’t bad but the plan was definitely tighter.  I had a window seat which when and if I do this flight again I will get an aisle seat.  My row mates didn’t mind (or if they did I didn’t much care) when I had to get up.  The people in front however had their seat fully reclined so me getting in and out was a chore.  My legs, ankles and feet got mega swollen which was not good, so I would do compression socks next time.  We get to ORD and the instruction was that if we had a connecting domestic flight, take the 2^nd escalator and go to Terminal 3.  We were in terminal 5.  So that is what I do.  I take the correct escalator get on the train and go to Terminal 3.  The American gate is right there.  Now I should have known something was amiss because ya girl was the first one in line and I sat way back on the plane so yeah.  I get to the agent she give me my boarding pass and I say to her soooooo… my luggage is downstairs?  She said didn’t you pick it up? I said now what now?!?  Pick it up where? Oh ma’am you have to go back to terminal 5.  Its 10:30 at this point and she said you have until 11.  My flight is at 11:45 so I have a ½ hour to get my luggage and be back here.  It’s doable but I think I might have to run.  Thankfully I never had to run.  I get back to terminal 5 and the little black woman who saw me before said Why are you back over here?  I started fussing at her saying I speak English but you didn’t tell me I had to get my luggage? She is dying laughing and I am too!  So I get my luggage and I’m doing a quick walk because we all know I can sashay.  Get back on the train and chat with a little cutie who is rounding up the wheelchairs.  He was saying he needed to go somewhere warm and I am in total agreement.  There is snow on the ground by the way.  I get back to terminal 3 and I saw the a random gate woman about to fix her lips to say I need to go to the OTHER gate but I stood there and said NO she said (as I am standing there point at the woman who said I could come back to her) I need to be here before 11.  I get my bags checked and then look over at the TSA line.  The gate agent is like that line is nothing, which does not pacify me but I think ok… it is doable.  OH and then after I get through the line my actual gate is ALLLLLLLL the way down to the left.  I get to the TSA checkpoint which has closed literally 2 minutes before I get there and the man say oh you can go to the one down there (pointing to the right) I said but my gate is DOWN THERE (pointing to the left) so he sends me to checkpoint 9. The line at checkpoint 9 is considerably shorter but there is only 1 TSA agent.  It is now 10:55 I need to get through the line, go potty, get water and then sit for a minute.  They will start boarding at 11:15.  I’m standing there like ok this is fine BUT THEN all the 1^st class people and crew and wheelchair people start coming in the ‘fast’ line.  So one wheelchair lady attempted to come through but then she had to find her ID.  Her 2 daughters are looking at her like ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! She fumbled for a good while.  I watched her fumble and I said to myself, as soon as it is my turn, this fool is going to find her ID.  SURE ENOUGH… the moment it was my turn she finds her id AND then another TSA agent comes up.  And I’m like of course you come now!!  Anyway I get with the line 5 minutes to spare.  The flight was actually good.  It was a small plane but it was bigger than the other small plane (if that makes any sense).  The plane was not completely full and the seats were nice.

More bad…

I have gotten used to all of the non-smoking everywhere.  I grew up in a house where people smoked and I hated it.  Over the years legislation changed that made it harder and harder for people to smoke inside.  I was very happy when it was banned in restaurants and bars.  So it throws me off when I still see and smell people smoke.  People smoked sooooo much where I was in Abu Dhabi.  At one place it was so small and enclosed I had to leave.  I watched people chain smoke like if they didn’t keep a cigarette lit, they might die.  I just couldn’t take it.  I just do not enjoy inhaling smoky air.  I have braids and I had to wash them a few times and spray them often just to get the smoky smell out.  It didn’t seem to bother anyone as much as it bothered me, like everyone is just used to it. 

 

The RANDOM!!!

 

·        One morning after a back and forth with Uber customer service, I got $44 back as a refund.  I had really worked myself up, because it truly was ridiculous that I paid that much for a ride to BWI which on a given day is 20 minutes.  The issue was that they said I selected Uber Black.  I let them know I did not have an option.  I sent for the car and the car came.

·        Justin Beiber has at least 2 songs that I can say that I like.  I know that R&B exist in other parts of the world but what I listened to in the car of BFF as the kids (but mainly the nephew) gave me a concert was pop music.  And the one song where the Beibs says my mom likes everyone but she don’t like you had me DYING laughing!!!

·        Traffic circles are the devil all over the world!!!

·        Caribou AND Krsipy Kreme are in UAE… I feel a way : /

·        I didn’t know there was a vulgarity law… so after I nicely cussed out that one man I really could have been shipped off to jail.  Thank you LBJ for not letting that happen.  WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS… so there were 4 of us. 2 had already passed and then there were 2 that had to pass the hotel entrance this man in slow motion mind you saw us coming and kept driving.  Like I know he saw us and all he had to do was wait a few seconds.  SO he cut us off and then parked!  I said… (LOLLOLOL) I don’t know if you understand English but you are a rude mother fucker!! And then I kept walking.  BFF told me about the law after that. 

·        I did try shisha (aka hookah…. Pass me the hookah!!) not my thing but I can now say I’ve tried it. 

·        I really did miss pork even though I had had just done a cleanse that had no meat.  I know it was mental.

·        There is more…

ranty mood...

For about 90% out of the day if someone is not standing directly at my desk, my headphones (well earbuds) are in.  I’m listening to music (and most likely singing along all off key), or a good podcast. Stop talking to me!!! I can’t fucking hear you!!!  SO now you have said nothing but I have either pulled one of the buds out of my ear only for you to say OH hey! STOP insisting on talking to me just cause I looked at you!

I sit near an island (it has the copier and drawers for supplies and what nots) in my cube village and this is the place left over shit gets put.  I have some flat coke and diet coke and ice tea that tastes really off.  SO who is going to throw is away? ME!! I am the one who it’s going to bother the most.  I sit across from a man and it won’t occur to him. And the only other person that it might bother has put boxes in the island that used to have citrus in them which I still don’t understand what we are holding onto those boxes for so I think I will spend about a ½ throwing all of this away.

I’m in a ranty mood for really no good reason.  Its Friday I am in need of a nap because I ate the chicken from the good America’s Best.  But I really could use a nap midday everyday which is why I really need to move my ass to Spain or whatever country has a nap in the middle of the day because THAT is how I want to live my life!! And I’m also very cussy!! I just got a lot of shit to say!

Where and why do you purchase pink patent leather pumps? So you go to the store SEE the shoes decide you need then in your life.  You buy or have a dress that you think the shoes will work so you put on black thick (but not tights) panty hose and rock that shit at work!!  NOW… we all know I’m random and I think about things waaaaaaay to much.  I see this person in the stall in the bathroom; or rather I see the pink patent leather pumps and the black hose and I start moving slow because I want to see the person who put this combination together, but she is doing her thing and she aint moving fast.  AND THEN I SEE HER with this hideous dress and those damn pumps and I fight the urge to scream out WHY!?!?!?!?  I give a lot of people names and when I saw her a few months ago I said OMG she looks like Tina Belcher. I hear you collectively saying WHO the hell is Tina Belcher?  Well friends she is the oldest daughter on Bob’s Burgers which is an animated show on Fox that is freaking hilarious.  She is voiced by man and she is 13 and you really have to watch the show to fully get why it’s funny.  Or NOT cause I have a specific weird nerd kinda humor. 

Now I have been on this team for going on three years as a contractor, my birthday has already passed but you are just now asking me for my birth date so the team can celebrate!?!? GTFOH!!! Nope that’s ok… you don’t have to do shit for me!!  I have actual friends and family who care about me.  We don’t have to do a fake celebration in my honor 2 or 3 months after the fact.  GET OUTTA MY FACE WITH YOU INSINCERE FAKE TEETH HAVING SELF!! **blank stare**

I HOPE that it gets to you

So today is going to be a blog day!  I am sitting here fighting the urge to lie on the floor and take a nap.  This day started off with so much hope!  I got here at 8:20 which is well before 9 which is what I seemed to do all last week.  I had energy! I was upbeat! I was ret to work!  Now I’m just ret to go home!! I just turned on some good house music.  Actually I tried to start my day off with house, but it was gospel house and that isn’t my favorite.  I need a good beat good vocals and I’m good.  SO that means not vocals that the producer is trying to work around because the singer sang in a key that is just… off.  I’m listening to Ian Friday now so I’m sure I won’t run into that issue.

I’m trying to blog more consistently random which make absolutely no sense LOL And see this is why I can’t really be a pop culture blogger because I don’t keep up very well with what is going on.  I’ve been wanting to write about Grease Live! for a while and I’m not sure why now is a good time.  Maybe because I just saw an ad to buy the dvd to buy it.  I tried really hard to watch but it just didn’t do it for me.  I stopped at the part when Sandy should have sung ‘Hopelessly Devoted’ but she didn’t and I tweeted for all my 5 ‘fans’ to know I was done watching.  There were mostly positive things that were said.  I was trolling for the bad reviews but folks were saying all nice stuff so I knew these were not my people.  Actually I’m going to twitter now; nope still good stuff.  I might have to give it a chance.  But I am a Grease purist!  I have the ALBUM folks!!! With all of the songs from the original movie!! I bought a record player a few years back because I have the Grease album (along with Al B. Sure (#dontjudgeme) Ten City (house music) and… some random Herb Alpert record I got back in the day from WAMO (all my Pittsburgh people know) with Janet Jackson’s ‘Making Love in the Rain’ and I was 14 so I ain’t know nothing about making no love (still probably don’t LOL)). I am that chick that almost hit a chick who said Grease 2 was better! I like musicals and musical movies so I should like it, but OK so we decided I will give it another shot and report back.  Hopefully it is still on on-demand.

I am excited… and I just can’t hide it!!

WHY is this woman leaning over my desk to talk to my cube mate in the next row?!?  Thank you LBJ I had my headphones on so I didn’t hafta hear that dumb conversation.

I have drunk all my water today which is about 64 ounces and I am usually running to the ladies room but I just haven’t felt like it today.  It is taking too much effort. YES, I have to go but that means I have to turn off my music and hope the podcast the music is on doesn’t decide to reset, cause it does that sometimes, close my screen so that the random passer-by can’t see that I’m writing in a non-work capacity, do some cat like stretching because inevitably my bones are going to creak an crack, thankfully I have a dress one so I don’t have to pull up anything over my midsection but I do have to pull down so that my booty is not all out and about cause who needs to see alla dat?!? Take off my shawl cause it is chilly in this office and I really am a little old lady; turn off my heater cause all this hot air up my dress is maybe not the right move since I’m already sleepy which means I then have to get on one knee…LAWD ok I’m going.

can't run from myself, there's nowhere to hide

I got straight emo when the Whitney Houston video I have nothing came on this morning... I don't know why today but this title is paying homage to her! 

There is a new guy that is on a team in cube nation and he is just so happy to have a job!  You ever see one of those people?!?  He is maybe mid 40’s (or older or younger I can never tell LOL) and he is just HAPPY!!  People can get very jaded and cynical and it is refreshing (even though he looks a little crazy some days) to see people who are happy to be right where they are. 

I have a lil cold right now and I’m a little pissed because I got my flu shot and I feel as though I should not get sick EVER!! It’s not that I feel bad, but my sinuses decided that they just gonna close! My right nostril has been closed since Monday.  I mean I can breathe some of the time.  I’m sitting here at work with my humidifier with eucalyptus on, my tissue (2 kinds with and without lotion), hand sanitizer, and OF COURSE Vaseline.  OH and my mirror so that I can check my nose often to make sure no snot is running down my face and that a boogie is not just hanging out.  I probably need to go get some more drugs.  AND I probably should have stayed home.  I’m not that strapped for cash but home is not really a resting place. My mother demands so much of my time with not a care… wait that’s not fair she has dementia so it’s not that she doesn’t care, but she doesn’t remember that other people have needs.  Last night I said I am going to make myself some tea. She decided she needed some tea also.  But tea for her means it has to have brown sugar and only filled ½ up and it needs an ice cube because I have to hold it so she can sip it through a straw.  Meanwhile I just want to sip on my tea.  Then she needs a piece of candy.  She has already had several cookies and her hands show it because they are dirty and so I need to clean them but she is a HUGE child so touching her hand means she has to flinch and yell out YOU HURT MY HAND!! And I just say fuck it and go lay on the couch.  She then realizes she didn’t get her candy and calls me back in the room.  And I indulge her because what is one more piece of candy gonna hurt? I know I was in a horrible mood yesterday.  I had to bite my tongue more often than usual when I talked to a few people because I was not feeling well.  But today I feel a little better so we’ll see how today goes.

I was listening to a podcast  ‘Friend Zone’ and they were talking about a version of the Meyers Briggs personality test that you can go online and get your information for free.  I went to the website www.16personalities.com and did the test.  My personality name is Campaigner and my letters (?) are ENFP –A which I know means something specific but I didn’t see what it was.  It’s a test that you answer several questions that are able to dictate your personality.  I thought it was pretty cool and accurate.  I would like for my friends to do it so we can see who’s who and what’s what.

I just bought some Allegra or at least the CVS brand and I hope this helps the dry me up and for me to stop sneezing.  I also bought more Vaseline or at least CVS brand (wow I was being cheap today LOL) because I need the moisture!!!

A girlfriend of mine who shares the same birthday as me celebrated her birthday ALL month.  Not because she was turning a particular age that’s just what she wanted to do! One of her events was a Dance Palooza or a Zumba party.  Now 2 years ago I could hang with the best of them.  I was in better shape even though I was about the same size.  But this Saturday my body was like bitch please!!!  It was so stiff.  I knew I was gonna need several advil after.  I had a great time and it was fun but I have got to get my body together.  And it’s not even a vanity thing because, let’s face it, there will always be a dude who likes the thick ones, but it is a heart thing.  I am taking high blood pressure meds and I need to get off.  And we all know I’m an infomercial junkie and if you didn’t NOW you know.  Yep I bought the Shaun T’s new video Cize!  Let’s forget that I already have Hip Hop Abs, T25, 10 minute trainer, Turbo Jam, The Firm Express and a few more but I needed the newest thing so I got it.  BTW... I love Amazon Prime! You just order and the shit comes right to your house in 2 days!! I haven’t tried out the Prime Now but I hear you can order ice cream and it comes good and still frozen within the hour. Not that you want ice cream in this weather but hey it’s an option. Ok back to celebrating random birthdays… it think we all should do it more often. Life is way too short and you never know.  A soror of mine had a 74^th birthday for her mom because WHY not?!?!  I don’t think you should wait for a significant age to celebrate.  DO it now!

WHY DON’T I HAVE POCKETS!!! Why do you designers make women’s pants without freaking pockets?!  I’m headed to a meeting and I need to stick a few tissues in my non-existent pockets. DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!!

And I’m sipping on tea.  It’s of some herbal variety not real all that good but hopefully it’ll push this bug outta me.  Why do I need to know who played the Sheila Dixon on the Wire character right this second.  Lawd I know why but that explanation will be way too long… SO yeah the same chick that is now on Chicago Med AND Hitch.   My brain is a beautiful thing!!

a buncha girls did and the shit looked fuuuuuuuuuunnnnn...

Random AF

So they said they didn’t like Jill Scott.  That right there is enough to drop everything and leave.  HOW do you not like Jill Scott?!?!? There are some things that are negotiable… Jill and Seinfeld are not 2 of those things.  If you don’t agree that Seinfeld was one of the best sitcoms (if not the best… well ok at least top 5) then we are not compatible. But then when they said oh you like Jill Scott?!?!  That one is a keeper!!

I really do feel sorry for my cubemates when I get in my singing.  I try not to do so loud but sometimes it just IS!

In addition I feel sorry for them after I had a milkshake… like today #bad

My mom/roommate has been getting quite cranky and kinda a bully when she wants a cookie. 

I have never liked the term daddy for a man who is not my daddy.  My daddy dead so I’ll just call you by your name.  How about that?!?

You should never ask a question that you really don’t want to know the answer to.  I have asked a few questions and gotten the answer and I’m like huh… yep I didn’t need to know that!  So now I have to make room in the vault to hold onto this info I shoulda just not even asked about.  What’s the vault?  Oh that’s where shit goes that only I need to know.  This is unshareable shit!!  This is take to the grave even if I’m water boarded kinda shit!

So here is something I can share… or rather ask.  Am I the onliest person who when I see pics of celebrities on the news feed on the facebook instantly think they are dead?  Usually it’s their birthday or they have done something noteworthy but morbid me thing… They DEAD!!

The black security guard was feeling some kinda way when I was talking a little too friendly to the white security guard.  I don’t even know how we became on a 1^st name basis.  Probably because he was like how the heck do you say your name?  And he is nice enough, but it is really just small talk.  So relax buddy and don’t be saying hello to me all loud! 

I finally watcher The Wiz LIVE!, which was a revamped live version of The Wiz play.  I thought it was really good. Although I am in need of hearing the original… not the movie the original play music.  My sister has the album but I’m not too confident in my ability to get her to let me hold it.  I even have a record player.  But of course the YouTube has everything.  I just wanted to hear Stephanie Mills.  Her voice is just ridiculous!!  I mean she can just sang.  And I’m not taking anything away from that little girl who revamped the role, but Stephanie… just no comparison.  And then more on the YouTube is Jazmin Sullivan who’s voice at 11 was just like it is now… RIDICULOUS!!  She sang home for a school play or something. 

Speaking of music I randomly bought Kenny Lattimore’s new cd ‘Anatomy of a Love Song’.  It’s random because I just haven’t been swayed to purchase any of his music.  Listening to Will Downing’s music podcast I heard his song…actually was that the same time I heard Lalah?  Or wait was it Jill Scott?!?  I gotta go back and see.  There is one song that I think they are playing on the radio, but the one on this show was ‘You have my heart’.  You know sometimes you hear a song at the exact moment that you just need to hear it.  So then I bought the cd based on that one song but I have not been disappointed by the entire cd.  He has a little Lalah Hathaway in there for good measure, but the hilarious feature is Kelly Price.  When she was on that show RnB Divas it was clear that Chante Moore had problem with her ex Kenny Lattimore.  But you know sometimes I wonder if some of that was done more for show.   One of the main reason I stopped watching the show because it was just TMI.  I don’t need to know all this petty stuff about my singers.  Anyways, I really like the CD.

I am not a gadget kinda chick, I never have been but I just made 2 purchases that might turn me to the dark side LOL.  About 2 weeks before thanksgiving, my sister was talking about the food processor she used.  I was like HOLE UP you have a food processor?  I mean I watch the cooking shows and I know how much they make life easier, but the size of my kitchen has made me rethink buying extra stuff to put in there.  AND they always have the really high end ones on the show and the kid is not shelling out $500 for one little piece of equipment. I started doing a little research, you know at work, and found them on the good Amazon for under $50 so I got one.  I like onions and I cry a total river whenever I need to cut them.  For thanksgiving I made the stuffing which called for both onions and celery.  I used my new processor and it took literally seconds what usually felt like it took all evening!  On Cyber Monday I was again on the Amazon and saw a knife sharpener which I probably should have gotten before trying to carve a turkey but I digress. I read the reviews and this lil sharpener seemed to be like a good buy.  I don’t have high end cutlery in fact I bought knives at Sam’s club maybe 8 years ago so the knives have been in dire need of a good sharpen.  I used the fine setting and my knife was sharp as… well a KNIFE!!  I don’t even remember what I cut into but I was VERY satisfied!!

This is about the time of year I do a year in review.  This has truly been a year!  One of the main bench marks for me usually is a job.  I started with one and I’m ending with one. OH JOY!  I know the parameters should be a little higher than that, like did I change my life or the life of others around me?  Did I make a difference?  Did I lose 300 pounds and become the next Iron Woman?  Did I invent the next great gadget?  I don’t know something more than just a damn job.  A job aint nothing but work (LOL).  There’s that!  And of course as the main caregiver for my mother just making sure she is ok which… well ok her general ailments really were the cause of her fall in April, but for a while I felt like I failed her.  Like why did I allow this to happen? She had a stay in a nursing/rehab facility and while it was nice enough she left a little worse than she went in… WHEW this is getting dark as hell.  Hmmm…  Many lessons were learned.  There is always a mix of good and bad staff at facilities.  You always want the best but when you get the bad you roll with it.  You make sure they know you are present and know what is going on at any given time and when something goes wrong, tell someone!  The place was going through a bit of a transition but I never allowed anything to fall through the cracks.  I brought my mom home and the search for the caregiving staff was on.  Is has been a challenge since August and I don’t want to say out loud that I think I finally have a good mix, because something is always bound to change, but am less stressed about it.  I have gotten more active in my sorority probably more as a release from stuff at home.  And then I also found some other releases J well you know not just THAT but that is always a GREAT release!  But more of just giving myself permission to live my life.  This honestly took a long time for me to do.  Asking people/family for help or not!  And then also planning better.  I usually plan things out but actually scheduling time for myself sounds easy, but doing it can be a challenge because a myriad of excuses that can come up. 

There is more to my year but I just drew a blank… DAMN WORK!! so this is my blog from your favorite random chick!