I'm Not Feeling Too Good... Tomorrow

Well it's about that time again. Calling off from work. I happened to do this at least once a season. Last time I did it was just beginning of fall, it's now END of January and I think it's about due. I'm achy from all the working out, and I went to a salsa dancing class last night and wore the highest heels I own when everyone else were wearing tennis shoes and jeans. Who goes to a SALSA dancing class in sneakers? When I go to the Latin clubs I'm wearing my heelz and a breezy skirt.. you have to feel the music, and I feel it in my heels..lol ANYHOW long story short my calves are on fire. Maybe that's the reason they wore tennis shoes..lol

Work has been just demanding, I was asked to work over time on a Sat twice. Usually I don't care, but lately my husband has been getting the weekend off and it's nice having the time to spend with him so I've been saying no and then I start getting the guilty glare now and then. Plus, tomorrow is Friday.. and High of 57 degrees Friday at that. I said I was gonna do it last week, but I chickened out. Don't know why, I have almost gang of sick time.. I think I was starting to care for a second?

How do you spend your personal day off?

Even though I'll be off tomorrow, I'm gonna be kinda busy through out the day. Joining the hubs to get his hair primped & faded in the early morning. Maybe get some gym time in the afternoon, then helping a friend that I mentioned in this blog.. Abuse. She's actually getting married to him on Saturday at the court house. We've talked, she knows how I feel yatta yatta, but you can't change people's minds. They have to experience things for themselves sometimes. But I still got love for her, touchy situation it is. (but that's another story, blog story rather)

So, For tomorrow I gonna just do to the sick thing, that's really all I have to say. You don't have to be all descriptive and super informative. I don't make my voice groggy cause this lady does it here and it sounds so fake and "lets see how deep I can make my voice with as much crackle as I can" sound. lol An interesting finding I found was a WikiHow on how to do it.. It's pretty funny actually because I really think somebody thought long & hard about how to do it.

But I don't blame it though can you? Sometimes you just need a break of SANITY..I gotta re-group without worrying about spending 8 more full long hours with the same people I see everyday, all day..it makes a better employee. Heck come Monday, I'll be back mentally clean as a whistle with a smile on my face..

If I Have To Eat Another Salad...

So it's been 4 weeks now and I've been on the crusade to better health. I've joined every online web calorie keeper, every weight bar tracker and blog you can find. BTW SparkPeople.com is just the greatest. So is Calorie King if you want to know down to the digit on what your putting in your mouth. The first 3 weeks I probably cared, but this week..hellish isn't even the word. I've worked on every muscle on my 5 ft 2 inch frame.

I visited the gym awhole lot and played a couple of basket-ball games with my husband. I love playing with him. Usually I'm breathless as a whore on a hot day, so I know I'm getting a good cardio's worth. Sometimes we wager a little bit. Whoever wins gets to have oil a massage. And he's serious.. like if I don't win I don't get nothing! I guess it makes getting one that much better. Plus I don't mind.. I try harder next time.

So I get to the gym, and do my thang. As I start wasting down and doing weights I people watch a tad.. I don't stare like the guys do at the skinny mini's who actually go to the gym wearing the tightest booty crease plastered leggings and just a sports bra. Hence why I don't wear that stuff to the gym, your asking for it. Plus I don't want to see where you are sweating..ugh.

You see the men and their waste belts pulling truck loads of weight, the evening office workoutters with their work sock creases on their calf (me included). My gym even has some of the cutest little old people trying to get their fit on. Hopefully I can keep this up.. I ate bad on Sunday because my husband through a dorky "XBOX Land Party".. I just recently found out what that was all about. He told me my services were only needed in the kitchen. After a few slaps upside the head I was able to get in some vocals on Rock Band. That is really a cool game. I listen to all types of music but hopefully they will make one with different genre's that would be so awesome.

Anyway.. (that went totally off the subject) In tyring to keep up the positive weight loss and tone up plan, I vow to get back on track and hit it harder this week. I just need to think of some better food options while trying to do so. Salad is no longer an option.. lol

Dewey Cox Cracked Me Up..

Usually, I don't watch the over exaggerated re-make of a popular movie, but over the weekend I was channel surfing through the cable channels and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story was coming on so I decided to watch it. Yes, it was soooo silly and had some crazy parts like the naked man in the hotel with the incredibly smallest penis I've ever seen in my life.. *ahem, however.. It was really funny.



What made it so funny was the songs, that John C. Riley was really singing, and they were half way decent.. The whole movie was derived from Johnny Cash's story, Walk The Line with Joaquin Phoenix & Reese Witherspoon. Which honestly I've never seen.. didn't look that great from the trailers, but after this satire, maybe I'll see it..

Tim Meadows is in it and he plays the druggie, stolen from the scene in Ray.. he's always funny..He's a different kind of humor with a straight face.

The time line was cool to watch too, from the 40's all the way to present, I like time-line movies like that, that changes from decade to decade; like Forest Gump.



Don't get me wrong it has it's share of stupidity, but it's great for a quick chuckle er two..

I'm a Knit Wit...

This weekend I'm going to be all about my projects I have going on. Other than hosting a birthday dinner for my man friend's girlfriend, I also have a yarn crawl. (searching & purchasing for yarn from different LYS (local yarn stores))

Knitting is just he coolest, I learned over a year a so ago by a lady who I worked with. I have a huge passion for winter fashion and I collect winter accessories, but I always wanted to make my own instead of buying them all the time. Giving them out as gifts is always a huge plus. This year I gave out 2 scarfs and 1 hat. Really that's all I've made so far. Plus a thousand scarfs for me of course. I'm working on a thick black and purple cabled blanket to give to my bf in Cali. Even though it's 80 degrees there in January.

Here are some pics..

This is a scarf I made for my brother, he wanted to Red, Black & Green Colors


This one was for my husband, just a coal grey cabled scarf


This was for me.. just nice cozy, soft & warm


The next project I want to make is from Kinky Coils & Sting

Hopefully I'll be able to find a the yarn to make this also: THE WOMEN's RED VEST


It might seem kinda old foagy, but knitting is a great release, keeps me busy and not in the refrigerator and I can make the tightest looking stuff.. Fun shit!

Annnnnd The Survey Says...

A few of my friends: Myspace & facbebook junkies send me survey's to do here at work, I do them and use them as a little quirky way to get to know eachother a little better in a odd way.. Here's the one that was given to me today.

What time did you get up this morning?
7:32AM

Diamonds or pearls?
Both, they're both hot

What was the last film You saw at the cinema?
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

What is your favorite TV show?
The educational ones.. oh, and The Office, 30 Rock is funny too

What do you usually have for breakfast?
Banana if it hasn't gotten brown spots.

What is your middle name?
Yvonne, should of went by this all along

What food do you dislike?
Tomato middles

What is your favorite CD at the moment?
Musiq's was the last I've been into

What kind of car do you drive?
A big ass boat with sun damage

Favorite sandwich?
Turkey & Beef Solami....and Roast beef

What characteristic do you despise?
Ignorant, puffy, haughty, snotty, and throw some bitches in there too

Favorite item of clothing?
Compfy as of lately, I can't wait until I can dress right again

If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you
go?
Warm, just somewhere warm..

Favorite brand of clothing?
Whatever is good quality that fits nice

Where would you retire to?
The world

Favorite sport to watch?
Basket-ball, it's fast and makes me hype

Person you expect to send it back first?
What?

When is your birthday?
JULY 29TH

Are you a morning person or a night person?
I'm whatever Time.. if I'm off for awhile I don't mind gettin up in the morning, but I like the nite too

What is your shoe size?
9 really sux cause all the cute shoes are in the 6 7 8's

Pets?
1 Dog: Quincy

What did you want to be when you were little?
Nurse, cause my mom was one, and wore all white everyday

How are you today?
Thinking I should of called in.. I need a break of sanity

What is your favorite candy?
Laffy Taffy, or Jelly Belly's

What is your favorite flower?
Calla Lillie.. the everybody's wedding flower

What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to?
Feb 13-17 will be getting a lil Californiacation

What are you listening to right now?
Black Magic Woman- Santana

What was the last thing you ate?
Salad last nite.. I'm so tired of them but their so freakin easy n thoughtless right now

Do you wish on stars?
I don't... I pray to God

If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Brown..

How is the weather right now?
Warm today.. they say 60, hence one reason to why I should of called in

The first person you spoke to on the phone today?
Amanda Bevan.. ( my long time bf)

Favorite soft drink?
Diet Fresca- Peach & Black Cherry.. that stuff is fire

Favorite restaurant(s)?
Olive Garden, Cheesecake, Kona Grill has good sushi, my house cause I can throw down

Real hair color?
Blackish brown from all the heat I abuse to it, and right now I'm mad cause my weave don't match, I should of got a 2 (i know most won't understand what I'm saying)

Summer or winter?
SUMMER..life is just better in the summer

Hugs or kisses?
Both, I'm all for LOVE

Chocolate or Vanilla?
Vanilla.. Chocolate was forced on me by my co-workers for 7 years so I learned to like it

Coffee or tea?
Tea.. w lotta lemon & honey

When was the last time you cried?
Exspriencing all this Barackness

What is under your bed?
Storage bins

What did you do last night?
Ate salad and some other rabbit food, watched & cleaned up the DVR, watch the hub play Madden and fell asleep

Salty or sweet?
Sweeeeeetttt

How many keys on your key ring?
I am not going to get up and count that...LOL- (Funny stuff Manda..me either)

How many years at your current job?
7 Years in July (100% vested Yesssssss.. (A Neopoltin Dynamite Yessssss)

Favorite day of the week?
Friday's Saturday & Sunday... Yes. My name is overworked & I work for the weekend.

The Inauguration: Officially

What an awesome week. Yesterday a reminiscent of honorable Dr. King, and today the inauguration of a different kind of nation. Soon I will be joining the many, and the varied few here in my office to watch this historical event. Honestly, one couldn't even imagine, even if I made up. I wish all the fallen, buried and burned could rise and experience what we all so long ago forgotten.

To all celebrating, or just tagging along respectfully, this is a shining moment for all. I leave you with these words of weezy:




Days later: I read this article and this exemplifies exactly how alot of African Americans are thinking right now.. almost to a T. This is what makes this momentous event so grand: Black First Family Changes Everything

Joseph E. Lowery had a wonderful Benediction prayer, here is the video & transcript:



Transcript courtesy Federal News Service

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, thou who has brought us thus far along the way, thou who has by thy might led us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray, lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee, lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee. Shadowed beneath thy hand may we forever stand — true to thee, O God, and true to our native land.

We truly give thanks for the glorious experience we’ve shared this day. We pray now, O Lord, for your blessing upon thy servant, Barack Obama, the 44th president of these United States, his family and his administration. He has come to this high office at a low moment in the national and, indeed, the global fiscal climate. But because we know you got the whole world in your hand, we pray for not only our nation, but for the community of nations. Our faith does not shrink, though pressed by the flood of mortal ills.

For we know that, Lord, you’re able and you’re willing to work through faithful leadership to restore stability, mend our brokenness, heal our wounds and deliver us from the exploitation of the poor or the least of these and from favoritism toward the rich, the elite of these.

We thank you for the empowering of thy servant, our 44th president, to inspire our nation to believe that, yes, we can work together to achieve a more perfect union. And while we have sown the seeds of greed — the wind of greed and corruption, and even as we reap the whirlwind of social and economic disruption, we seek forgiveness and we come in a spirit of unity and solidarity to commit our support to our president by our willingness to make sacrifices, to respect your creation, to turn to each other and not on each other.

And now, Lord, in the complex arena of human relations, help us to make choices on the side of love, not hate; on the side of inclusion, not exclusion; tolerance, not intolerance.

And as we leave this mountaintop, help us to hold on to the spirit of fellowship and the oneness of our family. Let us take that power back to our homes, our workplaces, our churches, our temples, our mosques, or wherever we seek your will.

Bless President Barack, First Lady Michelle. Look over our little, angelic Sasha and Malia.

We go now to walk together, children, pledging that we won’t get weary in the difficult days ahead. We know you will not leave us alone, with your hands of power and your heart of love.

Help us then, now, Lord, to work for that day when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, when tanks will be beaten into tractors, when every man and every woman shall sit under his or her own vine and fig tree, and none shall be afraid; when justice will roll down like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around — (laughter) — when yellow will be mellow — (laughter) — when the red man can get ahead, man — (laughter) — and when white will embrace what is right.

Let all those who do justice and love mercy say amen.

AUDIENCE: Amen!

REV. LOWERY: Say amen –

AUDIENCE: Amen!

REV. LOWERY: — and amen.

AUDIENCE: Amen! (Cheers, applause.)

New Born Baby Anyone?

Pregnancy must be in the drinking water here in Kansas. Seems like everyone and their mama is pregnant. Three ladies here at work, my youngest sister, and a couple in my husband's family. One of the ladies here at work actually got married the same day as I did, and now she's preggo. We saw each other in the kitchen, flaunting her beautiful belly. lol I asked:

Me: Wow, baby's getting bigger! When are you due?

Mrs.Glowing : March 13th

Me: Wow, hope that's not on a Friday! :: Laughing::

Mrs. Glowing: < stone face >

Me: Well, haha.. you look great, I can't wait to pop one out soon.

Mrs. Glowing: What are you waiting for?

Me: 5 years, it's what we said, so hopefully by 30.

Mrs. Glowing: 30! I'll be on my next one by then! Good luck.

Me: We just wanted a little time for ourselves. We barely like each other now, no telling if we had a baby today.

Mrs. Glowing: < stone face >

Me: ::thinking:: I don't like talking to her anyways.


SO with all that baby talk, I am kinda jealous of the new expectant mamas. I do want a little one, but aren't they like forever? No return policy with that at all huh? My husband is still playing around himself. A baby would just throw a wrench in the whole party. I have this small inclination to want to get it started though, I don't want to be old with a kindergartner, but then again maybe not. If we don't give some time to ourselves we would really want to kill each other like War of the Roses with Micheal Douglas. Watch it sometime, it's funny.

Some of you are mothers on here, and I know your children are the brightest star's in your sky. It must be an awesome feeling to be a mother. I know my mama thinks so.