The Devil Wears Prada

oh, she really does. gosh that movie was dope. I know I'm later than a pregant woman but...so.

How far are you willing to go for that thing?

Eh? I'm not as willing to sacrifice friends and family as I would've for my own childish ambitions as I once used to be, but what's in my way now? at what cost do I stop identifying things as pawns and see them as people...or vice versa.

I hope I still don't have the "eff em" attitude in me. That ish can really bite u in da ass...I have the scars to prove it. But at the same time those scars were healing I was learning.

Now again...How much am I willing to sacrice to acheive my goals...ask me again tomorrow.

Let's see...

I did some traveling this year, but nothing outta da U.S. Let's see what this summer has in store for me...Italy or England is on my list:::crosses fingers and says a quick prayer:::

Amen


gosh I wish I could find that power point presentation i did for our costa rica trip...hi-la-ri-ous!!!!!

da memories of the real world crew LMAO

I started going though some pics I took this year...I can't believe it's almost over.

New Year's Resolutions?

none for me. i try to be a better person each day. sometimes it works. sometimes b*tches be making me...well u get it.

back to da pics...haha..just a few

New Years...I've blurred the faces to protect the guity...oh, i mean da innocent




LMAO...on blast, ya heard?

da damn best pizza eva!



Saw this lady at the rally, we had a conversation...hope was restored



oh, i gotta go...i got some work to do

later

"I don't know much about cards, but I bet these 4 5s beat a full house" (c) Omar

Ah ha! i found a cheap flight to houston for christmas. I never thought I would get tired of driving to houston, but the blowout experience isn't a good look. Plus, i still didn't get my extra tire fixed yet...I'ma get to it.

For those keeping count: I DON'T NEED ANY SEASONS OF THE WIRE. I HAVE ALL 3!

I want a dog, but I need a yard to make the experience a success:::insert sad face::::

I've been complaining a lot lately. It's not you it's really me. Things aren't the way i want them to be. I let people get under my skin (which isn't as thick as i advertise). I need a change...QUICK!

I gotta start reading my Bible again...Daily. I stopped about a month ago. I'm not trynna say my reading the Bible is the cure to solve all bad attitude ailments...but it sure does help give me focus.

dang, it's almost 1am and I'm still up!?!?!?!?!?!?! ha i took a nap earlier...so i cheated???? Actually, i thought i was in for the night until i realized i forgot to turn my phone on silent and was awakened by some randomass number. I didn't answer. They didn't leave a msg. I guess it wasn't important.

Wendy Williams was on the tv when i was rudely awakened. I have come to this conclusion...u ready. YEah, so I don't like carmen bryan. It's not even on some black feminist, support vixens, equal rights for sexing type stuff. She's a stupid girl. She says stupid things. She has NO personality. I just don't like her. Now is she going to lose sleep over this?

Probably not.

eh.

well, it's been on in demand for the past week so I feel I'm not spoiling anything...so....

R.I.P.


damn HBO. the new season isn't suppose to air until 2008!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!? ya'll straight trippin. and don't think i forgot how upset i was at last season's finale for the sopranos. Calm before the storm my arse!

i'm out!

Keys open Doors

Today someone asked me why I identified myself as Black and not as an African American...well, cause she's an African American and I don't think we look anything alike (though I wish our bank accounts were somehow related)

no disrespect and all, just keepin it real

saving a egg....LMAO!!!!

Damn, can I please sleep past 8:00 am on a Sunday morning...specially since church doesn’t begin til 1pm.

I'm up now, so I guess not huh?

Why every time I go out I feel the need to blog about the weird ish that happens but I can't ever remember what it was?

Oh, for one. On the real. Why does Congressman William Jefferson always pass by the Hookah Cafe every time I'm there? It was real weird cause I went with my girl and we sat at the bar cause they had seats available (oh, and what the hell? do you have to get there at 4pm on Friday to get a table. when we went the girl asked us if we wanted to put our name on the waiting list, saying the wait would be 30 minutes or so. I guess "or so" translates to a little over 3 hours). So we all know sitting at the bar ain't the best place to be if you trying to lay off the fish mentality huh? So let’s just say a couple cuba libres later here comes Bill. He walks past us and my friend's like "why does he come every time we're here?" Idunno :::half inebriatedly (I know this not a word but…eh) shrugs shoulders::: oh shall i mention my hearing is severely affected when consuming alcohol. In other words, I can't hear ish...don't be mad when I'm all "que??" i bees serious!

So on his way out Bill recognizes my friend and gives her a hug, and then he turns to me and does the same. Then I ask him, "Why is it that every time I'm here, you're here" Refer to the previous section to see why my response was a shake of the head and a smile. yeah, okay. I feel like I'ma see Karen Carter in Dreams or at poetry next week. ha. I wouldn't be surprised.

I like dudes with a lil hood in them. They seem to give the damnest compliments. Last week it was "Damn, I like dem jeans"...I did too! 7 jeans on sale are always the ish!!!! and I love the way they fit! This week, dudes was really feeling the hair, and letting me know?.? Idunno what's going on, but I'm much obliged, as Bubbles would say.

Oh yeah, so I stay in Greater New Orleans, and there's no reason why I should be seeing raccoons, right? Yeah, so last night I thought I was tripping. My girl was dropping me off at home and we thought we saw a thunder cat run across the street and it jumped like to the middle of the phone pole. She just stopped the car. It WAS a friggin raccoon, or a cat that had two black eyes.

man idunno.

oh, watch the wire tonight!

dueces

does the boondocks finale make u have a feel good moment?

Oh this is some bullish!!!!



no further comments.

ima definitely be a hooksta tonight!

see ya there!

oh, and since its an away week, I'll be seeing YOU tomorrow huh? hey cuz, u wanna go see venus and serena tuesday?

a bad note, ain't no bad note, if it's a good note

The blogger "MAN" keeps trynna make me switch to beta blogger...change...eh. maybe for the new year.

So hurricane season is officially over!!!! and the temp. dropped bout 30 degrees over 3 hours last night. It's New Orleans cold outside brrrrrrrrr. I ain't goin nowhere this weekend...well to church. but i'm chillin. cleaning the crib. finishing my schedule. blog a lil. catch up with some peeps on my lil space and read a book...well at least start on one. the ratio of how many books i buy to the ones i actually read and finish are disappointing at the very least.

I done effed up and saw the finale for the wire. i won't ruin it for ya'll, but in two weeks let's have a convo. okay?!!?!

so what's really going on?

WORLD AIDS Day. As Bush highly promotes abstanance in 3rd world countries where people live on less than a dollar a day, Peter Piot sums it up for me "Twenty-five years into AIDS, nations rich and poor still think about the pandemic from an emergency perspective of quick fixes and short-term goals"


Apologies are having the Best Week Ever

I think Ima enroll in a pottery class...oh no, no link for this. I'm serious.

Killa Sham gets no time


"now sleep on it, that's why God give us night" (c) Lupe Fiasco

her favorite colors be platinum and gold. she only loves in stereo

"The things we'll do
will make you feel
like a woman
falling in love
with a man
she doesn't even know" (c) The Tony Rich Project

I forgot how much I loved his first cd.

So what up fam? You had a good Thanksgiving? I did and since you're here ima hold u hostage and tell u all about it.

Well I drove many many miles on Thanksgiving morning to make it to Houston by mid-afternoon, after that I ate a bit much and found myself catchin the itis.

friday began at 5 am at Macy's and ended somewhere after a relaxing pedicure.

wait, I must pause this j. depps version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this joint is hilarious! I watched the first one for the first time about 2 weeks ago, but I'm loving this one. sorry, cause i know ima get some ish about this.

awww what the heck, i really only wanted to tell ya'll bout the concert, oh and melting pot...
the concert was dope. john legend and robin thicke! whoooooo "my hands up. my hands up. they want me with my hands up...shooter!"

here are some pics







concert was dope but it my feet were killing me by begging of robin thicke's set so I took my chances and removed the killer shoes. I thought I was gonna be the only pair of deerrty feet in the house but I was wrong, I went to grab for my shoes at one point in the night but had to search for them amongst all of the people who were standing around me shoes.

Oh yeah, this one girl fainted. I hope she's alrite, they were between sets at the time. You know we were all plottin to faint once john legend came on so that we could've been rushed backstage only to be greeted by johnny once his set was over...what???

eh

oh The Melting Pot. dope. great date place. though i went with my favorite cuzins. we stayed there for like 3 hrs. omg, the dessert. here are some pics


why won't the rest of my pics post???? Huh???? HUH????? oh well i should be finishing my schedule for next semester anyway. gotta hurry, i missed the wire last night i gotta catch up tonite.

Happy Early Thanksgiving Day ya'll!!!

i gotta hustla's spirit. period.

after I listen to this

"Gravity is working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down

Oh I'll never know what makes this man
With all the love that his heart can stand
Dream of ways to throw it all away"

(c) John Mayer

I always listen to this

"Are we gonna let de-elevator
Bring us down
Oh, no Let's Go!"

(c) don't evenmuch play, u know who

I'm sick ya'll. I feel horrible. I'm trying to get over this by Thursday cause I'm not trying to do my cross-south-country if i'm sick

Oh, go see Deja Vu. dope. saw it last week but forgot to blog about it

Paula Patton reminds me of Halle Berry in some scenes from the movie.

Nelly furtado reminds me of Madonna, idunno why. but I'm watchin the american music awards and she just does

I thought this was the best source of KKKramer news

damn, and i was such a Seinfeld show fan. I was flippin channels last night and I saw Seinfeld was on Davie Letterman so I tuned in only to see KKKramer there via satellite. He caught me off guard by saying "I'm not a racist, yet I found myself saying racist remarks" This is where I insert the spade calling quote.

Why is this always the first thing people who use or are about to use racist remarks say "I'm not a racist but..." But nothing.

That's the same foolishness we all say "I'm not trying to be messy but..." That's B.S. Yes you are the biggest ____________ that you are claiming not to be.

that's all ima say bout that

I could sure go for some homemade gumbo right about now. Let's play "who's moved back to new orleans and has a fully working kitchen" damn. some of ya'll don't know the half. It's during the holidays that I fully notice the long lasting effects of Katrina. Of course I pass devastated areas EVERYday, neighborhoods without electricity, more than half of the schools in Orleans parish failing to reopen, sky high rent, electricity bills, price gouging at its best in the grocery store, fights with the insurance company, nails in my tires from the construction or lack of within the entire city (and let me remind u how expensive suv tires are...i'm ride dem thangs til the wheels fall off), sky high non moving vehicle violation fees, later hours of parking meters so that they can give you a ticket resulting in you having to pay the previous mentioned ticket fees.

but i miss my family being five minutes away, instead of the 5 hr ride to houston, i miss my family being in a comfortable house, instead of cramped up in a small apt or a fema trailer, I miss the smell of gumbo, stuffed bell peppers, shrimp and crabmeat dressing, sweet potato pies, pecan pies, red beans on Monday, greens on Wednesday, catfish on Fridays with a lil potato salad on the side. I just miss the lil things u know

I can't believe the day for givin thanks is this week! plus the 5 hr drive to h-town that morning. ughhhhhhh

I'm watchin this jay z diary special now on mtv "we claim we from the hood. we're not from the hood. this is the hood"

h2O

is memphis bleek still rappin? just askin. i think i just saw his signature wavecap and oversized cap. i wasn't a real makin eazy money pimpin hoes in style fan

ehhh. what more can i say?

I went to support my neighborhood community big/smalltime broadway play

those kids were ridiculous, if ya'll get a chance to peep it on BET, please do, but don't leave it on that channel once the show is over. thanks

I promise PSA is my fav song on Black Album, everytime I hear that joint I wild out.
ridiculous

Just in case ya'll keeping count, I ended up getting season 3 of The Wire, so all I'm missing is season 2.


this my fav. scene from this season:



Omar is a fool. so gangsta. i think? lol

"everything that happens
happens for a reason
and one man's forever
might be God's season"
(c) Common

I've probably quoted this at least 3 times in my blog alone, but, how do you know when the season has past? God's will is a strange thing. Not strange in weird or abnormal but strange in the way that it will be what it is, but it's on us to accept it.

I've been dealing with some issues of "am i staying in this one place to long" It was decent when it started and I've reaped tremendous benefits from it, but I think it's time. But here's where God's will comes in. Release from one situation to another won't always be mutually agreed upon. Trust. Sometimes you do have to go through that valley to get to the other side.

I guess I just need to reassure myself that it's gonna be alright.

I just get disappointed in how low people actually stoop for self gratification, and the means in which they justify their actions.

To you I say, "Dig a hole, go head & bury yourself!"

i mean that.

i still got some growing to do. i didn't say i was perfect!

U think the bet h.h. awards are rigged?

i do

were u not like "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
when lupe, papoose and styles p were freestylin

i was

i got stuff to do. i shouldn't be watchin this.

but my tivo broke

i'm really cryin. ugly cryin

Finally....the breeze of below 60 degrees has returned south!

Happy B-day Sol

Doesn't direct tv have the best concerts...john legend, corinne bailey rae & john mayer....but they don't have in demand...damn damn damn james

arite i'm bout to be out like a repubilcan majority...


I'm a hookStar tonight!!!!! puff puff give nicca!

advice

best advice i ever got was
live
best advice i ever gave was
give
best advice i ever gave
to the one
who got between my livin and givin

get the fuck on

and gimme ur lunch money

hahahahahaha



someone told me i had plenty of time to change
into the person i wanted to be

i was on my way to a funeral

i wonder if the celebrated followed the same advice?

i hope not.




don't worry. I won't quit my day job. :-P

3 little birds sat on my window, and they told me i don't need to worry

as soon as i Really learn how to use photoshop, ima be a beast

nothing much to blog about

got some estimates...~$800

i promise, i experienced mini katrina today. where did that wind and rain come from...hey, hey, hey, that was a rhetorical question

i love chicago in the winter time...i wanna go...i might go...any volunteers?

that might've been a rhetorical question tambien

i got absolutely NO work done today...at work

i absolutely loathe arrogant people

absolutely

if they stone people in other countries. do they consider throwing pebbles at someone’s door a drive by???

i brought a cd today!!!

oh, u wanted to know which one. corinne bailey rae. i saw her concert on direct tv yesterday morning. i heard her name mentioned here and there. she's dope
thanks

does everyone hate chris now?

i don't

i tell lame jokes that people think are funny

"it smells like up dog in here" "what's up dog?" "nothing, what's up with u?"

LMAO hahahhahaahah

Some people just don't get it, so pick your battles

im out like nagin after the election

no for real, dude is like car 54

a friday nite and i'm...bloggin??? whatupwitdat???

So after remembering I forgot to pay my car note online I left work and headed to Kinko’s to get a job done. When I finished there I strolled over to Blockbuster to view the selection. I rented MI3 and Thank You for Not Smoking. I then headed a few steps over to Stein Mart to see about exploiting my feet in some bronze pumps. I actually found 3 pairs of shoes, all for under $100!!!!!!!!

So let me formally introduce you to my new favorite pair of shoes:



Beauts.

So, I'm on cloud 9.5 walking back to my car when I notice the big ass flyer on my windshield. As I approach my car I notice that my front bumper is all scratched up...Oh, Hell ta da no!!!!

To make a long story short, the guy wants to settle w/out insurance companies involved. Cool son, but Ima need you to mosey on back in Kinko’s and make me copies of two sets of identification, and hold on...let me call this phone just to make sure this is your number...oh it is...cool. Now, I'm not upset. No use in crying over some lactose that has hit the floor, but Ima tell u what ima do:

Ima go home, cause it's been a hell of a week and my boss has already assumed I was putting in a couple of hours this weekend.

Take a nice hot shower.

Pay my car note and sign up for automatic bill pay.

Watch an episode or two of The Office

Try on my new shoes

Eat a chocolate puddin cup

tivo the best week ever

read the remaining pages of my book

get a lil shut eye

find two places around the city that will give me some estimates

and call you with my decision

Peace.

Hurt me soul (c) Lupe

"Somehow my light ya'll became my rain" (c) Common

I've been in this place too long.

I have to switch up my wardrobe, for my season is about to change.

So we got a little cool front in the area; I wonder how long this will last. Feels good though. I even took one of my scarves out of retirement. :-p (I learned this today)

OMG, oh sorry, I thought I wasn't tivo'n The Office

I over read someone’s blog discussing the ways in which we sell ourselves. It went on saying; the only reason we enroll in college, and put ourselves through unnecessary scrutiny and drama is to have an end result of more cash in da bank.

I chuckled cause I think she's young, and finds ways to justify why she's got undeniable talent and smarts but is now 19, married and pregnant. She's awesome but doesn't know her capabilities. Doesn't know that the world still rests in the palm of her hand that she's stuck in her back pocket.

Yeah, some people do equate success with wealth and hey, who doesn't want a nice salary to compensate for the hard work you've put in school over the years? And yeah, I do agree that you are selling yourself in interviews, internships, etc. but, is that where the buck stops? No, it isn't as simple as the cash transaction would like to believe...and trust, if it was about the money, I would've steered clear and far from a degree in the Liberal Arts field. No need to get on the nerd track but, school is fulfilling to me as a person. It enables me to grasp and understand theories, techniques, methods, and the history to understand the world around me. A degree in this field helps me to enable those around me...if I allow it. As we all know Cash Rules Everything Around Me, get the CREAM (c) Wu. Nothing's free, so in that mind, I have to pay to get ahead, but once I'm up there, what can I do to level the playing field for others? What are you doing? And again, what is your definition of success?

and i'm out.

i gotta book to finish and an office to watch.

holla

I heart my adidas

that's all.

my pequeno post

Omg, fall weather is taking a hiatus from New Orleans.

I know, I know. So here's what I've been up to lately:

I got into grad school!!!!! I wish I could insert that Vonage jingle that was in Kill Bill I...let me see if I can find it...I could only find it on youtube and I thought they were pretty lame.

I hate everything apple except for the ipod...oh, and itunes. What in the hell is the deal with no right and left click buttons? I feel like this should be on an episode of Seinfeld. Today’s score:
Apple - 0, PC -1

Oh, and is The Office, not one of the funniest shows on television? I've been having Dwight call all of my friends. lol, this dude is hilarious!!!!!

I've been called to finish something I've started...I got cha

dang, somewhere between the beginning of this blog and now, I’ve developed a the need to lie down and rest

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eye

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gnite