30/12/2003
“she got a dark skin friend – look like michael jackson. she got a light skin friend – look like michael jackson” – kanye west, twista, and jaime fox: slow jams
only michael jackson can remind you of somebody light skinned AND dark skinned.
“It’s time to bring the emcees on, I’m sick of niggas lookin
Bitch trying to read poems and try to battle
Me with sandals and capries on, come on dog
I’m about to get hyped with this, shed some light to this
So called black righteousness
Even though ya’ll niggas might not cuss like me
At the end of the night ya’ll just trying to fuck like me
So what’s the reason for the hating, niggas with dreads
Calling they self gods with white girls named Caitlin
And I’m cool with interracial dating, but I aint about
To hear no fucking speeches cause I wanna have some bacon” – little brother: the yo yo
what’s your favorite lyrics?
23/12/2003
so every morning around 10:30 there’s a guy that walks around the entire building yelling “Laurie’s Kitchen”. He’s a big bald white guy who steps really heavy, and always has jingling change in his pocket. Every morning: thump thump thump, jingle, LAURIE’S KITCHEN, thump thump jingle thump.
I always thought he had Tourette’s. It turns out that he sells sandwiches and salads in our breakroom from a restaurant called Laurie’s Kitchen. Actually, I’m lying. I don’t know if Laurie’s Kitchen is a restaurant, or actually Laurie’s kitchen. I don’t know who Laurie is, but she makes a damn good tuna sandwhich. Thanks Laurie.
fruitcup flavor of the day: peaches in peach gel
22/12/2003
i switched the order of my comments from ascending to descending. or is it the other way around? i don’t know. which ever way it was before, it’s the other way now. so don’t get confused like I did after I switched it and forgot. I said to myself “why did justin leave the same comment twice?” lol oopsie.
fruitcup flavor of the day: cherry gel with mixed fruit
yay! my day just isn’t complete without a fruitcup.
my new favorite addiction is apple cider. the real stuff. the unpasturized it’ll get you sick if you don’t refrigerate it or sterilize it stuff. that’s what i’m talking about. fresh and natural. my parents went to julian and picked some up, along with some apple butter, which i was also craving.
speaking of food and cravings, i bought dr. phil’s weight loss book a while back. i returned it the day i bought it. it’s like “deal with your feelings deep down. do you eat because you’re depressed or bored?” man, i eat ’cause i’m hongree. i eat ’cause it tastes good, whether i’m full or not. damn. i ain’t got no feelings. it just tastes good. just get to the part about losin’ weight already. then every other paragraph is “don’t skip this section – it’s vital that you follow this book all the way through”. First of all, Dr. Phil ain’t lookin’ too slender. Second of all, a sista just likes food. is that so hard to comprehend? it’s good. dammit. in-n-out, vigilucci’s, spiritos, the beach house, anita’s – whatever. it’s good. it ain’t no deep seeded hatred toward my father, or some traumatic childhood experience with mashed potatoes. my wide ass just needs to go to the gym – i don’t need a book to tell me that. i’m glad barnes and nobles takes returns. and it’s the holidays and moms be cookin’. please.
speaking of good books, i read two this weekend (what? i’m on a reading kick).
the da vinci code: read this last sunday. the whole damn thing. in one sitting. i haven’t read 450 pages in one day since high school. it was good though. predictable at times, but interesting none the less.
my rating: 3 out of 4 back fat rolls
the secret life of bees: interesting. not usually the type of book I read. This one took me saturday night and sunday afternoon.
my rating: 3 out of 4 back fat rolls.
the 5 people you meet in heaven: awwwwesome quick read. a good 3 hour book. it really puts life in perspective.
my rating: 4 out of 4 back fat rolls
18/12/2003
i’m sure i’ve told most of my loyal readers (all four of you) about the fully stocked breakroom I have at work. so every day at about 3PM, allison (who just happens to be born on March 18th like me) and I go to the breakroom and make hot chocolate. i don’t know why it’s every day at 3PM, but it is. everyone tries to get in on hot chocolate time, too. they’ll try to change the time to 11AM or try to make it Green Tea time… but allison and I like to stick to old school tradition…even though the tradition was born on Monday.
They tried to fool us by hiding the regular hot chocolate at the back of the cabinet, but being the nosy ass that I am, I found it. All they put up front was the atkins friendly salty sugar-free hot chocolate (fortified with calcium, btw). But I found the regular stuff! … i’m sorta ghetto with it, though. y’all know me. I’m all about two packets of regular hot chocolate, 2 Equal packets and a mini one serving container of flavored creamer (french vanilla or hazelnut, i like to switch it up once in a while) for every 6 oz of water. is that bad? yeah. i know. it’s like drinking pudding. but it’s good like that. mmm!
16/12/2003
so i’d like to renig on my post about Ruben’s album. it’s not HORRIBLE. it’s not good, but it’s not horrible. i think the problem i have with it is it’s completely radio friendly. the whole album sounds like something on the radio. that’s the type of music i don’t generally buy ’cause i’ll hear it every 2 minutes and it gets played out. anyway. i take back the horrible, but it should have been downloaded instead of bought.
next:
my sister brought over a tin of caramel coated chocolate covered popcorn. it’s good as hell, too. now, being that it’s popcorn, I would think the first ingredient in popcorn wouldl be popcorn, naturally. nope. the first ingredient in tina’s caramel coated chocolate covered popcorn is sugar. surely, popcorn has to be the SECOND ingredient, right? Wrong! The second ingredient would be partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. The third ingredient, finally, was popcorn. That’s sad when sugar and oil are the first ingredients in popcorn. It makes you think twice about what you’re putting in your body. I almost felt bad after the second handful.
next:
i’d like to introduce my new obsession:
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oooh, me and my mom love these things. you can’t eat just one. i think we went to the store and bought 5 packs of 4 and they were gone in 2 days. we love us some fruitcups. ask my sister. i’m obsessed.
…i’m off for my morning coffee.
11/12/2003
So, I’ve quit the pirating life in trade of downloading off of iTunes. Being that I now have a long drive to get to work in the morning, I’ve been downloading new CD’s before I leave so I have something to listen to on the drive up and back. Last week it was Alicia Keys’ new CD (pretty good, btw). This morning I decided to give Ruben from American Idol a try.
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ohmigawd
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it’s horrible. There’s a couple good songs, but it just doesn’t sound like “him”. It sounds like stuff R. Kelly should be doing. The thing I wanna hear about is sweat drippin’ down Ruben’s body. Sweat drippin’ from Ruben’s body isn’t from great sex – it’s just a natural occurance (standing up, sittin’ down, breathing in AND out). The boy can sang, the songs just weren’t right for his voice. The arrangements on the slow songs sounded more like cheesy christmas carols. The remakes were aight (For All We Know by Donny Hathaway and How Can You Mend a Broken Heart by the BeeGees), but other than that I want my money back. I should have listened to the 30 second iTunes samples, but I woke up late. I think I’ll download Kelis tomorrow. Or Missy. And maybe even Clay (::shock, horror::). I like that “Invisible” song, although it’s kinda creepy that he wishes he was invisible so he could watch her in her room. Other than that… Ruben, I’m disappointed. I hope it was the record company makin’ you do alla that, and maybe your next album will sound more like you.
3/12/2003
Nicole Ritchie is NOT black. Well, she might be black, but she ain’t BLACK black. We, as black folks, claim no responsibility for her actions – good or bad. She’s in that “East Coast Sniper Ain’t Really BLACK Black” category.
Have I ever expressed my undying devotion to QEFTSG? (That’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy for you ig’nant folks). How can any parent name their son “Kyan” and not expect him to be gay? I’m a little bit in love with Jai, though. He doesn’t really do much on the show, now that I think about it. He kinda buys theater tickets and CD’s. Maybe he helps Thom with the painting. Speaking of painting, all that redecorating that do can’t POSSIBLY be all done in the couple hours that Carson took the man shopping and Kyan got his hair cut and a spray-on tan. There has to be help somewhere.
…damn. I had three things when I started typing, but I’ve forgotten the third one. It’ll come back to me.
Anywho, the new Alicia Keys CD is good, although one of the songs (When Your Really Love Someone) sounds like she did a bad remix to A Woman’s Worth. All in all, it’s a good buy. Thank you, iTunes Music Store, for giving me the option to buy a CD without the cover and packaging – considering I never do anything with that crap anyway.
2/12/2003
i wish hotmail would stop changing their interface. as soon as i get used to the new look they up and change it. now when i login i get some other screen saying I have no new mail, but when I click inbox there’s 6 new messages. so …. confused… then i realize that the message on the first screen was “no new messages from contacts”. that means anyone in my address book. :::sigh::: what happened to the good ole’ days when they just told a sista she had mail.
sorry for my absence. work (and driving there) keeps me pretty busy. i’ll try to keep up.