Addiction Anonymous

i have a confession to make...i'm addicted to starbucks. i know, the shame...oh, the shame! how can i continue to indulge in these pricey caffeine-riddled sugary cups of deliciousness on a frequent basis? its simple...i love it. they call my name. and whats worse...if i am in an unfamiliar place...i'll search for one thru my navigation. its like my crack. it calms me. it soothes me. it tells me everything is a-ok. my fave drink of choice is the tall 2% sugar free vanilla latte with 2 splendas. and CURSES! i tasted the iced lemon cake last week and now, my eyeballs water at the thought of its lemony goodness.

and i don't even LIKE lemon cake. my mum took offense to this because she makes a homemade lemon cake with the same icing that people seem to rave about, but i hate it. but not starbucks lemon cake...i love it and it loves me. there's a spell on me. those coffee beans must be magical...

***WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE UNNECCESARY THING TO INDULGE IN?***

Embarrassment Personified

as we all know, i love reality tv. i watch a show on the WE channel called bridezillas. and last night a woman named brandi was featured. brandi is from texas and her accent is reeeeeeeeeeally thick. but it was her dollar-store taste that made this episode hilarious. check her out:





she never ceased to amaze me....from requesting a vagina-shaped grooms cake, implementing a booty dance for herself and her bridal party at the reception, her obsession with fried chicken (even while at the spa), and of course, her request for monetary contributions from her guests. i was embarrassed for her, but i was on the floor laughing nonetheless.

***HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO AN EVENT WHERE THE GOINGS-ON EVEN MADE YOU (A GUEST) EMBARRASSED? NAME SOME FOOLISHNESS THAT YOU WERE WITNESS TO THAT REALLY ENDED UP BEING HILARIOUS!***

PCD IS BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!

au revoir my darlings! i've missed you so! i will share with you just a snippet of pics from my holiday and a funny story. its friday so it'll be light.




a shot of some palm trees...


some demonic spider spinning his possessed web...isn't that design funky?



ok, me and these little guys are NOT friends. there were a ka-zillion of them and they jump around like spider monkeys on crack. just from everywhere...from buildings, bushes, whatever. and they always wait until you're close until they make their presence known-BLEH!



i just thought these were beautiful. they lined the walkway up to our villa...



this was our backyard...



this was our enclosed pool. AH! privacy is a beautiful thing. it was so relaxing. i never did seem to catch a pic when the waterfall was on tho...



this was our pool at night. SEXY!!!



i just liked the fans. they looked so....cool & tropical, lol!



my sexy bed. what some good lighting and netting does....



and just for a small dose of cuteness, here's lil' PCD having fun at some gosh-awful place i found for kids to run around in...she had fun so it was cool, but i am still struggling with disdain for other people's children...


so we had a great time. i seem to only be in pics with a bathing suit on, so that will absolutely NOT be displayed,lol!! i am totally relaxed, even tho being back home kinda threw us back into our crazy busy schedule so my head is starting to spin again. otherwise, we had a great time!

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so i was walkig around the store minding my own business. i had lil' PCD with me of course and this older woman starting jumping up and down shouting how cute she was. i thanked her for her (over)excitement and kept walking away. at this point i was at least 50 feet away from her when she shouts to me..."YOU SHOULD HAVE JUST BEEN AT THIS STORE I WAS IN. YA KNOW, I'M WHITE AND YOU'RE BLACK (duh!) AND THERE WAS THIS LADY STANDING IN FRONT OF ME TALKING ABOUT THE BLACK PEOPLE AND I JUST FELT MY FIST BALL UP!! YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!"

ok, i really had to laugh out loud at the ignorance of her statement. first and foremost...

-why are you shouting so loudly in public?
-why did you feel it necessary to give me a brief synopsis on what you observe to be my race....maybe you thought i woke up that morning and forgot?
-who exactly are THE black people?
-WHY, oh why do you feel i should have been there? my skin tone does not make me the ambassador, army, defense team, or mouthpiece for ALL black people
-and what, my dear, would you have been expecting me to do if i HAD been there? like i was just going to launch into spider monkey attack mode on her or something and you would have loved to be entertained with such buffoonery?
-why am i still walking away and hearing you shouting about God making everyone and she was such an _____ for saying that and you want to go back and sock her in her racist eye?

i tell you...some people are just funny!

***I'VE MISSED YOU GUYS AND I'M GOING TO TRY TO GET BACK INTO THE SWING OF THINGS....IF I'VE MISSED SOMETHING, FEEL FREE TO LEAVE ME A NOTE IN THE COMMENTS CUZ IT'S REALLY HARD TRYING TO GET CAUGHT UP 2 WEEKS WITH ALL OF YOU GUYS, BUT I'M TRYING...(MWAH!)**

Going On Holiday....Again!

hi wonderful pretty circlers! PCD is going on holiday for two weeks....sooooooooooo, i shall not be posting, but i will read and comment at your spots when i can. i will be back on AUGUST 1 so don't forget about me!

have fun and sprinkle prettiness all around!

Open Letter To REVEREND Jesse Jackson:

**please excuse my vernacular, for a lot of it is related to direct quotes, nonetheless inappropriate**



dearest messy jesse,



this is in response to your foolish behavior & comment being expopsed yesterday. i hope this letter finds you in good health and with your nuts in tact...being that you want to cut barack obama's "nuts off." i wouldn't want you to suffer in such a way...even after your extra-marital affair in which you created a child a few years back. no, that's not a reason to go ball cutting all willy-nilly.





but i do wonder why such hostility? you SAY its because barack obama has been "talking down to black people." but jesse, let's keep it real honey. that's not it. you're bitter. be honest. you're mad because you couldn't get half as far in your presidential campaign. you're mad that you're a friggin joke...you have the word "reverend" in front of your name...but look at how you act. and for those reasons, not many take you seriously...unless its time to shuck and jive, crying foul. in that case, people call you so you can look silly jumping up and down about everything and watching that wonky eye of yours twitter about.

well messy, you've messed up royally now. your hypocrisy has reached new lengths. let me first say that perhaps you should stop babying black folks and hold them to accountability...just as barack obama had been trying to do...especially black fathers. WHOOPS! accountability isn't your cup of tea, now is it? you speak about talking down to black people, but you lied to black people. you cheated on black people. you abused your power and position and became an adulterer and absentee father. is that how you build up black folks? is that your way of investing in the black community? well, i'll pass on your charity penis and old man sperm. thats not an investment that interests me. neither is your rhetoric, rhymefest poems and overkill of the once-impactful "march."



you my dear are wonky...and so is that eye. focus your one good eye on not being such a judmental p---k, REVEREND.





sincerely,





one who opposes noice-making negroes with empty actions, wayward weiners and jealous hearts a.k.a. PCD

Movie Manners

UGH! this was the sound i made as i sat and tried to watch HANCOCK the other night. i always try NOT to sit relatively close to anyone and my mum and i had found the perfect seats, not too close, not too far, centrally located with people dispersed at a comfortable distance.





so of course, you could imagine my chagrin when a portly man who looked like he just rolled out of his bed wearing yesterday's clothes squeezed himself into MY aisle. he huffed and puffed and sat on down. then began his eating....*stomach turning* he crunched so loudly, and hand shuffled his candies like he was about to roll dice. then he'd turn the candy box upside down and shake them into his mouth making this rumbling noise....oh, and he'd hit the bottom of the box like a drum so as not to miss the most microscopic of crumbs. every time he did something, i'd just look at him like he was crazy. but it got worse!






he started burping...not belching, but BURPING! like a freight train...and it was continuous. after the 7th one, i was said, "REALLY? you're for real? this is a public theater, not your home!" his girlfriend sat up and looked at me like i was insane, but at this point i didn't care. if either one of them were gonna get tough, then whatever-whatever.



i am so sick of being at public places with nasty people. seriously, is it too much to ask that you act like you weren't raised by pigs for a couple of hours? like when me and lil PCD were at her music & dance class....two kids kept licking the drums that kids were trying to beat. they were so gross, lil PCD just backed up and stared at them like the hogs they were and gave up on trying to make music. and their mother was just chillin! not saying a word.....





***WHAT'S A RECENT NASTY OR RUDE ENCOUNTER YOU'VE HAD WITH SOMEONE OR AT SOME PLACE?***

OH MAN!!! PCD is About To Jack Up Somebody's Kid!!

my blood is BOILING!!!!!



let me tell you what happened....lil PCD is currently enrolled in group classes, those being music & dance, along with gymnastics. all was well in the world. the summer session started a few weeks back and she was bumped up one age group for this semester. this group has a few slightly older kids. on the first day this little brat named *chad was standing by the ball bin and as my baby walked by to get a ball, he hauled off and slapped her on her back-HARD! she stopped dead in her tracks and looked like-WTF!?! as i've stated, we don't hit/spank her, so she is not in the habit of having ANYONE put their hands on her.





after he did this, i was rushing over about to do lord-knows-what. his mother saw me and she yanked him up, slapped him and sent him in another direction. altho i was still mad, i shook it off. the following week, here comes chad again, this time he slapped her on her torso. i shouted "get away from her!," as his mother came to get him. after class, the teacher gives the kids stamps on their hands, so as lil PCD was coming back to me...some other little boy named *raul was sitting in his mother's lap, having his shoes put on. as she passed them he slapped her in her face. I LOST IT!



i stood up and screamed. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE KIDS!?!?!" LET ME LEAVE HERE BEFORE I PUT MY HANDS ON SOMEBODY AND THEN IT WILL ALL BE OVER!" and i stormed out. but i was so upset that i sat in my car and cried for a minute. the look on her face was so crushing. she had no idea why and what was going on. when he slapped her in her face, she just had this expression of utter confusion and devastation...it broke my heart....so there came the tears. i don't play that with my kid. i don't care WHO you are, if you put your hands on my kid, its going to be a problem-FOR YOU! so i called the teacher and went off on him and told him how i would tear that place up if one more little urchin touched her. so the following class (which was last week), he made a general announcement about how the parents must supervise their kids and if they get out of hand habitually, they'd be asked to leave the class. no one was singled out. but as class went on, chad's mother made the remark, "chad, put your hands down before you hit somebody and that be another issue" with a VERY sarcastic tone.





i was not there because i had an extremely important appointment, so my mum took her, she just told me of this smart mouthed wench. so you KNOW i'm about to light it up this week, right? oh, it's about to be a misunderstanding in there. but the one thing i DID notice was that she smacks her kid....and he's a smacker. smacking my kid is gonna get him and his mother in a bad place....





***HOW WOULD YOU HANDLE THIS?***

Which One...Pick One

hey peoples! how was your holiday? i think i gained 2 pounds and that friggin cheesecake will be the death of me-UGH! i feel fatter even thinking about it. anyhoo, i hope yours was fab!

now, i was thinking about something...if i could be in a movie...which one would i pick? i tried not to think too hard about it because there are a gazillion movies that i like. sooooooo, the first one i thought of was...

MO' BETTER BLUES





i just think jazz clibs are so sexy. and that daggone bleek gilliam! (bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeep) lawd, hold my mule! this movie had culture, history, talent, family, friends and fighting...but all ended well...and it's not too far from reality. its totally believable!

now, what movie would i NOT want to be in? that would have to be the color purple.




none of the women really had it together. shug was talented and semi-famous...but she was a whore with the nasty woman's disease. sophia was like a welfare mother who did prison time and ended up with a cock eye, and celie was....celie. no explanation needed. then factor in the facts that there was no air conditioning, loads of manual labor and a crap load of kids!?!?! oh, i wouldn't have made it passed age 7. nettie had it the best...but she was no where near her family and she had to go all the way to africa to achieve something. the scene when her and celie were separated is enough to make my eyes bleed. its so heart wrenching!


***WHAT ABOUT YOU? WHAT MOVIE WOULD YOU WANT TO BE IN? AND WHICH ONE WOULD YOU NOT WANT TO BE IN? WHY AND WHY NOT?***

I's Been Tagged Again! (***Music Links & Vids ADDED***)

i've been tagged by dreamy , F-it and foia. i love getting tagged so here goes...

"List seven songs that you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring/summer. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to."

1. "You Will Rise" by Sweetback (link to listen: click here)

2. "Baby I'm Scared Of You" by Womack & Womack (video below, take a listen)

3. "Sorry" by Noel Gourdin

4. "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay

5. "Love" by Rosey

i realy love the koop remix to this song, which some of you my recognize from the opening credits of the movie "something new" with sanaa lathan and simon baker. i couldn't find a link for that one tho

6. "How Come" by Ray LaMontagne

7. "Da Art Of Storytellin' PT. 4" by Andre 3000/DJ Drama

and i threw in 3 more to make it a nice round, even nimber of 10. let's call them bonus songs...and i play them a lot as well :-P

"I Belong To You" by Lenny Kravitz

"Help Me" by Joni Mitchell

"Crush" by Zhane

i won't tag anyone cuz a lot of people have done it, cus some just aren't tag-lovers (ahem, EB!)lol, but if you want to do it, feel free and let me know so i can check out your list! otherwise, i'll chill...and just ask

***DO YOU LIKE ANY OF MY SONGS? DO YOU HATE ANY OF MY SONGS?***

Your Plan For The 4th

i don't really make a big deal out of the 4th of july, but because its a holiday, most seem to be excited about it...or at least about having the day off...

anyhoo, my parentals are going to have some type of shindig and i feel like i need to contribute something. my contribution will be lemon souffle cheesecake with blueberry sauce.

and YES, i will be using the wonderful blueberries we picked this weekend.

***WHAT ARE YOU CONTRIBUTING TO THE 4TH OF JULY GATHERING YOU'LL BE ATTENDING?***