Friday, January 25, 2008

THINGS

pSerendity had this on her page (go check it out here http://pserendipity.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/4-things/. She's always sending these things through the email, so here goes...my "fours"....
Four Jobs I have had in my life:
1: Sandwich maker and cashier at Bassett's Original Turkey in the Gallery Mall
2: Sales Clerk at Eddie Bauer
3: Manager of Chess King (ya'll remember those paisley print shirts and rayon shirts, illg)
4: Youth Court Counselor

Four Movies I watch Over and Over:
1: Love Jones
2: when I find it on DVD, I will watch Mahogany over and over
3: High School Musical 2(my kids lawd...it was a good movie)
4: The Wiz

Four Places I have lived:
1: Irvington, NJ
2: Lucedale, MS
3: Philadelphia,PA
4: Oxford, MS

Four Shows I watch:
1: Heroes
2: Run's House
3: random shows on Sci-Fi channel
4: The Today Show

Four Places I have been:
1: Houston, Texas
2: Miami, Florida
3: New Orleans, LA
4: Pensacola, Florida

Four of my Favorite Foods:
1: Cherries
2: Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream from Baskin Robbins
3: Potato Salad
4: Watermelon

Four Places I’d rather be:
1: in Spring (instead of this cold damp Winter)
2: in St. Louis with my family
3: in New York at a fabulous show
4: at park with my kids feeding the ducks

Things I am looking forward to this year:
1: A new job
2: Voting for a new president
3: Relaxing (I plan to finally learn this year how to...)
4: Spending more time with friends and family

What about you?

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Pastor Gone Wild!



Courtesy of Mom365...this is a damn shame...I got too much time on my hand. I'm sick, so don't hold this against me. Check out the man tryin' to fight the pastor, he keeps saying, "That's mine...naw, that's mine!" That must be the lady's husband...crazy ya'll.

Anybody got a good church fight story?

Oh my aching head...



I am sick...last night pSerendipity, Dr.J and their kids came by to visit. The kids had a good time and it was nice hangin' out with my girls pSerendipity and Dr. J. I was feeling just fine until they left my house. Almost immediately, I got fever and my body started to ache. I tossed and turned most of the night. I finally got up and tried to pull it together and decided to just stay on the couch only to get up when necessary. So I guess I will sit here, watch "Boy-ance" get his groove on, cruise the Internet, "medicate", stalk my sister's (mom365) raggity phone until she answers, all while taking random naps. I need a good book to read...any suggestions?

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Boy-ance does it again!



courtesy of Tanyetta from ova at Creole's blogs...ya'll know how I like a good dance off (see previous dance off post). You's a bad motha when you dance off with yoself. I love this guy. He is so serious wit it. Check out the left Boyance does the wahp.

Who's your "Daddygrandpaw"?


A man called with questions about his wife, who he says is a Kleptomaniac. Not like that cousin we all got in the family that steals from everybody and you call him a klepto...no mam...for real...like she gets a check...a disability check, social security for being a kleptomaniac. Isn't that the ultimate hustle? You're basically pimpin' the government. You gettin' paid 'cause you steal! OMG.

The story gets betta. Come to find out, she's got deeper probs. Turns out, her mother is her sister. Yep, you read that right and it is possible. Work it out in your mind for a minute. Nasty! Just plain ole nasty. So she is a "chromosome disaster."

It don't even matter at this point what legal problem the man had questions about, 'cause it's some weird mess.

My sister went to school with a guy who was a "chromosome disaster". His daddygrandpaw had children, plural, with his daughter. About 3 of em. The first one was a total science fair project. He was so messed up. He might've had an extra finger or toe or something. Just a mess. He was about 25 years old when they told his mother he couldn't come back to school 'cause they couldn't do nothing for him but feed him. The daddygrandpaw lived a long long time and never went to jail or got charged with anything. Isn't that crazy?!

MLK Parade

Just came back from the MLK parade on MLK Drive. When we got there, I told my daughter to wave and smile at the cars and floats that go by and they will throw you candy. She did pretty good too. She came away with several beaded necklaces and enough candy for her, "brother" and cuz Aideeboo. But you know at,umm, ethnic parades, you ain't gonna get too much candy 'cause they savin' it to take back home. You know I'm tellin' the truth.

Some of the "floats" were just Gangsta baby. (Do you call cars with T-Shirts of Martin Luther King hanging out of the windows floats?). Oh, and the mayor was there, fresh off of heart surgery, walking down the street with a gang of cops and kids swarming around. Someone asked the cop that was riding in the car behind the mayor to throw some candy and he said, "You know we in a deficit, we ain't got no candy." My baby says, "What's a deficit mama?" I said that means don't waste your time looking cute and waving at that car 'cause he might ask you for some gas money to get back to the station...lawd please deliva my beloved City out of this mess we in....

My Son and his Jedi Mind Tricks

So while readin jden's fab blog...I came across her post about her son. This got me to thinking about recent events in my house...

My son is smart and extremely creative...he can learn new things without effort. He can do just about anything he sets his mind to do...if only he would use his powers for good! I'm thinking about surgery, 'cause there must be a calcified ulcer on his "truth gene". He is able to tell lies and manipulate like a champ. Let me tell you 'bout the Jedi mind trick he played on his science teacher...

My son has basically been on chill mode in school. This is his first year on the school basketball team. So now he a "balla" right? He skinin’ and grinin’ with his team members after school when he ’sposed to be in study hall doing work. He lyin' bout homework and assignments...so his grades are in the toilet. So he ’bout to git his black azz “traded” off his basketball team and kicked out of his advanced placement program...Not good. Sooo his clever azz tells his bleeding heart science teacher, who thinks Babyboy walks the water, when he asks, "What's going on, is there a problem...at home?"...Babyboy goes into full "tiny violin playin'" mode and jumps at the opportunity and tells the teacher, “yes, that's it, problems...at home even!”… Yes? What? Like a fish taking bait, he goes…”Well my mom used to work for a law firm but it went out of business (he left out the part that that was 2 years ago), then she started her own practice. She is thinking about working from home”...So ScienceGuy decides since “he” is having problems at home, to “work” with his azz. Babyboy might as well have put a swinging piece of jewelry in front of ScienceGuy's face and said, “You are gettin’ sleeeepy, when I snap my fingers you will be under my controoollll…”

So, he gets a pass! No getting benched, no getting put out of advanced placement...nothing but sympathy. For what? Because I’m unemployed? What the fu*k?! What that got to do with him? His lifesteeloo ain’t changed. He ain’t got to pay no bills. He ain’t got to rob Tyrone to pay Tyreek. This ain't no poor kid trapped in an after school special (Ya'll remember those shows!). He don't have to go to the sweatshop and pump out 114 knock off bags before noon and sleep on a cot in the back to make $1.25 per hour to send back home. He done played them fools at school!

So I find out by mistake that all this has been said. I show up at the science teacher's room to drop off a science fair project that we slaved over for days (when I coulda been reading a book or bloggin'). The science teacher is all nice and like, "Hey did Babyboy tell ya that we had a conference and everything's o.k...wink, wink..." I'm like, "What are you talking about." I know his grades were nasty. I know he is on punishment. I know his Dad had an, umm, "talk" with him. But I do not know what this man is winkin' and talkin' 'bout. So he tells me all about how him and Babyboy had this "talk" about the situation at home...you know about the problems he's having at home. Situation? Problems? What are you talking about. He says you know with your practice.... He says Babyboy told me 'bout you closing your practice and all. I’m looking at the science teacher like “What that got to do with Babyboy?” and he lookin’ back at me like...(long pause)...”Well, I don’t know mam” all confused and discombobulated like. My ears are ringing now, 'cause my presha done gone up. I can't hear this man talking anymore and the room is spinning. Babyboy got me out here bad. I am having a video in my head of me attacking Babyboy. The video is called something like "When Mommies attack"!

I wanted to tell that dummy, “well, Sir, it wasn’t any problems at home ‘fo you told me what this knucklehead done said, but there definitely is gone be some problems at home now….”

So later, in the hall when I'm walking him to class, I'm like what did you tell this man? And he says some dumb stuff like he asked me what was going on at home so I told him that. I'm like what that got to do with you and your grades? He just looks at me..."I didn't tell him that it had anything to do with my grades...(he's about to cry, cause he can see that glazed look in my eye)! I go, "Then what was the point of telling him that?" He just basically looks at me and says nothing that makes any sense...I walk away before I crush him.

So now I got a psp, a playstation, a bunch of video games and a cool new phone…’cause Babyboy is on lockdown...

***Girlfriendtionary...For those of you who don't know, now you know...
Jedi Mind Trick (per Wikipedia) In the fictional Star Wars universe, the Jedi mind trick is a Force power. Jedi who know the power can, by using the Force, influence the actions of other "weak-minded" sentient beings.

Jedi typically perform this ability with a wave of the hand and a verbal suggestion (for example, "These aren't the droids you're looking for"). If the trick is successful, the victim will reply by restating the suggestion ("These aren't the droids we're looking for") and will immediately think or do whatever the Jedi suggested.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Has Mississippi declared war on lawyers?

What's up with all these gazillionaire lawyers gettin' all caught up in the game? And really, why are you still practicing after you already done got all the money? Is Ed Peters like, the Don? Who's next to fall? This is not cute.

Freakum Dress, I mean Pants Suit!


My girl PJam sent this to me with no explanation...I guess none is needed.

He actually has, like, choreographed moves at the end.

One of my imaginary boyfriends



I hate Hoda Kotb...beatch! That should be me backin'it up on John "sexy bedroom face makin'" Legend

Who's one of your 'magination boyfriend's?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

I need an attitude adjustment

My Wednesday legal briefs...

Free advice seeker #1 says...I wanna know what my rights are...I owe this man some money and he told somebody that I owe him some money, what's my rights?

Me: You have the right to pay him his (damn) money.

Free advice seeker #1 says...Didn't he violate my privacy? Ain't that private personal information?

Me: Nah bruh! It ain't never private when you owe a nigra money, you know that!

Free advice seeker #2 says...While I was eating some candy, a piece of glass or hard plastic got stuck in the top of my mouth, what can I get for that?

Me: A refund.

Free advice seeker #2 says...It stuck me like a needle in the top of my mouth. Did something get injected into my system from that?

Me: Greed.


lawd...there are too many legal shows on t.v., really, people think lawyers are clairvoyant magicians that can make money rain from the sky...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Daamn, Daaamn, Daaaamn...


So, I've been having one of those Florida Evans, "damn, damn, damn" moments for the last, say 12-14 months or so. Yes a looong moment. But, today I realized I ain't doin' so bad I guess....

A woman who called me for advice today about all her legal woes basically says to me (no lie, I can't make this stuff up), "I am not doing so good these days, I'm on my way to visit my granddaughter who was taken from my daughter and who is in foster care about 100 miles away from my house so we don't get to see her much, she ain't allowed to come to the house, but they are about to foreclose on the house anyway cause my husband done up and left me for my friend and won't help me with the bills on this here house, and I am disabled, he knows that, so I can't get a job and can't make enough money to pay the bills, and I'm sick, been sick for a while, and I don't expect to live long, I'm sure to die soon, even though I thought I would live longer than my 19 year old nephew who died in a car crash 'round the holidays, and we didn't even have enough money to bury him, so I've already called the University up in Jackson and donated my body to science so my kin won't have to pay for no funeral when I die...

I'm thinking, am I being punked? Someone had to put her up to this. (I have some crazy former classmates who like to set me up with fake azz, crazy azz callers with bogus legal "situations"). She said it all fast and "jumbled" just like I wrote it up there.

I wanted to ask, "are you serious?" "And, you managed to get out of bed this morning?" Now that deserves a damn, damn, damn....

On a serious note. I immediately got out my "gratitude rock" and began to say my "thank you's" so effortlessly about so many things in my life, specifically the ability to be able to pay for life insurance so I won't have to donate my body to science...

Friday, January 11, 2008

Team Work

I've made a decision. I'm not going to go through all the stuff in the BIG BLACK TRUNK until my sister comes and we do it together. She said she's gonna try to come down in February for an extended weekend. We'll order pizzza and movies and sit in the middle of the floor like kids and go through all the stuff together...just the way we did almost 3 years ago at my mom's home.

'Glamour' Editor To Lady Lawyers: Being Black Is Kinda A Corporate "Don't"

'Glamour' Editor To Lady Lawyers: Being Black Is Kinda A Corporate "Don't"

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Are you...serious? Are you...gay? Are you...gonna git that fixed?

Sooooo, I was talking to my sister last night and she is telling me about a conversation she had with her daughter B. This has got to be the funniest shyt I have heard this entire year (all six days of the year to be exact). I keep telling people my sister, her husband and their kids should have their own reality t.v. show. It would be a cross between show's like, Run's House, Everybody Hates Chris and the Biggest Loser (my sister is always losing weight these days and she claims she's working out, but if you ask me the weight is coming off kinda fast. What are you really doing to lose the weight Shuga, huh? She is looking good though.)

Anywhoo, my niece is crazy and has an equally crazy friend S. So my niece is telling my sister a story about how S has an, umm, deformed pop-pop (a family term for a girl's "privacy"). She's telling my sister 'bout how S basically showed it to her to prove what S has been telling my niece for so long...that she has a deformed pop-pop. So my sister at this point in the story, just interrupts my niece and ask, "Are you Gay?" My niece of course responds "no." To which my sister responds by saying, in matter of fact fashion, "Oh, cause I thought maybe you were tryin' to tell me something, you know between the lines, and I was going to be o.k. with it after the initial vomit in the mouth moment passed." Lawd, my sister is crazy.

So, after my niece B assures my sister she is not gay, she continues to tell my sister that she asked S if she lets her umm, suitors look at her pop-pop all deformed as it is (there apparently is a gigantic flap of extra skin on this girl's stuff, like the elephant man of pop-pops I'm assuming). So S says yes, she ain't shame of her pop-pop (of course not 'cause she showin' it to you, right?). My niece says she is like, "oh" looking all crazy as if to say, "and they still have, umm, "relations" with you?"

We all know the answer to that. As long as it ain't gonna eat the peni, they will do the do with deformed, disabled, disgruntled, whateva pop-pops...right?

This is too much for me...this is a new spin on the old school "you show me yours and I'll show you mine."

Saturday, January 5, 2008

You Got Served...(the dance off)

You remember when things were settled with a "dance off"? Please do not ask why, but I was sitting here thinking about classic dance offs from back in the day. Wouldn't it be cool if everything was settled with a dance off...war, court battles, divorce settlements, any kinda dispute. You had to go get your peeps and get your routine tight and then come back and "challunge" it's on...the classic dance off...

Could you imagine Condie in a dance off with some miscellaneous Iraq extremist? You know Condie still got some hood in her somewhere, huh? She at least knows how to moon walk, right?

Obama vs. Hillary? Who would win? Hillary proly break out with some ole Rosie Perez poppin', like in "Do the Right Thing", and would Obama break it down with a centipede move on the ground or break Hillary off with a "head snatching" poppin' move. You know the one where someone pretends they took your head off and then they toss it on the ground or pretend they swallowed it? That was so...umm, dope!

Some of my favorite dance offs include;
1. Breakin' 2 Street Battle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPn4BM-EBhk
2. Bad (MJ) video dance off (that was hot)
3. House Party dance off between Kid-N-Play and Tisha Campbell and that other girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFSyBBglmpI
4. The dance off me, P and S had with our cousin H and her friend that came down to visit in
the summer of...umm, maybe 84? Yeeeeeeeeah baby, I was poppin and moon walking like it
was no tomorow...don't hate...

So what do you know 'bout a dance off?

check out Shaq over on the right in an NBA all star dance off...shyt is hilarious...he does the head snatching thing...

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Weirdo

Today, my dear friend, L tells me that I am a little weird but that it's o.k. because it's better to be unique than "just like everybody else." So I try to explain to her that weird doesn't translate to unique. Either I'm weird or unique.... I mean if someone calls you unique, that's hot, that's cute, that's sexy...you know, Puff Daddy is unique, Kimora Lee is unique, Mary J. Blige is unique! Weird is not sexy, is not cute and is not right. Weird is Rosie O'Donnell, weird is Whitney Houston (crack and post crack), weird is...well just weird. Am I wrong? Is weird, unique?

I'm reppin' first grad beatch...

Guess what was in the big black trunk...my report card from 1st grade, Mrs. K. one of my favorite teachers. The crazy thing is I have some vague memories of being in that class room. Once she had us all sit in the dark while she traced our profiles cast by the shadows, individually, onto a piece of construction paper that was taped to the wall. Then when she was all finished (after some weeks) we took them home to our parents...something like "self-portraits." I remember how excited I was about that. My mom probably threw that shit away that same day.

I remember a time when I was the teacher's helper for the day and I got to take the erasers outside and slap them together to get them clean. She was such a nice lady. Never mind the cloud of chalk dust made my asthma flare up and by the end of the day I was wheezing like a two pack a day-er. I wonder where she is now? Anyway, the comments on the report card read like this; "hard worker," "continues to work hard," "still working hard," "oh yeah, she is quiet while she is working hard"...what the hell is up with the working hard business? Has that always been my lot in life? To work hard?

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Is that a block of ice coming through your chest or are you just happy to see me?

I am about to laugh my azz into a full on asthma attack...I was busy cleaning my house while watching CSI:Maimi (a marathon, riiight) and some guy got pushed off a balcony onto an ice sculpture that was in his yard (they were having some type of uppercrust of society party, you know...). So a tower of ice is coming through his body right, so Horatio (I think that's his name) is on the scene with the black coroner chick and she discovers that the guy was shot. She says all mysterious, "shot in the broad daylight in a house full of people, now that's cold blooded, Horatio." And he whips off his shades and says, equally as mysterious, "cold as ice." (no puns intended with that big block of ice coming through homeboys chest plate?) I instantly imagined Horatio in full Rick James regala, with the beaded up, braided wig and all, cole as ice!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3-THtYXC24&feature=related

Who are the writers, they must've been high! Bad, bad puns...what made it funny was that they were looking so seroius. Who in reality could keep their composure while standing next to a man with a big azz block of ice protruding through his chest? You know that black lady would've cracked up when Horatio said..."cold as Ice." Right?...lawd...I need to write for t.v.

Happy New Year!

Happy, Merry, New Year, everybody (which sadly now amounts to only me talking to myself). I managed to wake up in time to watch the ball drop....then we all hugged and sang a few 'rounds of a homemade happy new year song, then we all fell out sleep...exhausted...it's been a long year! Really, it has been a long year. I am looking forward to the next year being exciting and prosperous...


Let me get real, I really don't feel that right now...that's what I'm pos to say...right, excited...prosperous new beginnings, it's going to be o.k....yep, the politically correct thing to say...


When I really feel scared and exhausted and unable to focus and raggitty! Just plain ole raggity! Raggity job, raggity accounts, raggity state of mind...you know, just raggitty.

So, is the truth going to set me free? Proly not. (Remember, my self esteem is ragitty too)


So what do I do? I've read all the books and even saw the movie, I know where this is leading. Negative thinking equals negative manifestations riiight? I was all hyped up at the beginning of the year. I read The Secret which lead to some other books and I started like an AA for negative thinking. I was almost on step 7 and 1/2 when I started to back slide...now I am like a crack head of negative thinking...a fraud I tell ya...I just can't let it go...it be callin' me...

So again what do I need to do...damn! I'mma go clean up...cleaning the kitchen always makes me feel betta...lata