Live Free or Die Trying

Yeah, I'm so not eating beef anymore. Solely based on this clip. Wouldn't you run for your life?

not the one

let me find out Easter is the second biggest shopping holiday after Christmas. i am sooooooooooooooooooo annoyed right now, you have no idea.

1. i had a hair appt at noon. just wash and set. $50 to wash and flip my hair?? not even a conditioner under the dryer?? never again

2. the bitch didn't do a good job this time. my hair is so not shiny, and she didn't bother to bump the top.

3. in her haste to get all the easter walk-ins, she had me sitting under the dryer longer than i needed to be (pet.peeve). i read the entire inst.yle march issue and was half-way thru a second time when she decided to stop washing hair and put me back in the chair. oh but wait, i finished it when i was just sitting there as she color rinsed a chick

4. also in her rush, she burned me. twice. talking bout, "i didn't burn you, it was the heat"

lets see. if you plug an iron in and it gets hot, what burns you? it damn sure isn't the COOL!!!

then, the receptionist didn't want to punch my card for the $140 i spent last time. seeing how THEY didn't have cards last time, last recpt told me they'll do it next time. two weeks later, (today) is next time and bitch pulls this, "i can't do that for you. that was her who said it"

bet.

I need a personal hair dresser. i can't be with the irritation every two weeks! now i'm going to give jcp the benefit of the doubt and say its Easter. everyone is trying to get right and tight for church. miami is full of haitian and hispanic catholics and tomorrow is Ressurrection Sunday. Fine.


Y'all know how i feel when i drive. imagine that in the mall. instead of school buses, its strollers. OMG, they were EVERYWHERE!! Everybody and their mama was in the damn mall strolling with a stroller. 3 wheeler, tandem joints, children who look like they can tie their own shoes in them bitches...

speaking of strollers, does Angie Joli.e own one? every single pic of her, she's carrying one of her litter. pax, maddox, and zahara are too old to be picked up!! even shiloh can walk now and if not, throw her in a carriage. i hate seeing 5 y.o. being carried around!


oh well, a little retail therapy never hurt anyone. esp when you get 25% off. I copped some basic Steve Madd.en peep-toe pumps in brown. not so basic in that they're basket-weaved leather. they look KILLER on. and they'll go with my pseudo cargo pants I got from Exp.ress. Safari is making a come back. stock up on your khaki, olive, and brown.


okay. i'm done ranting. holla

side eye

i 1st peeped it on B.adGirlsClu.b. tanisha's crazy ass loves to give it. i personally call it "face" but my 'face is different in that i don't look side-ways. just dead on with the squint. oh yeah, i say 'face'.

so, i've been giving the face/side eye to ladies at my school lately. why? several older black women feel its their place to tell me about my look.

1- your hair looks so good! it looks like a wig. can I touch it?
I'm used to that question; no matter the length so its not a problem. Here's where she stepped out of bounds
Nice, nice. Now about your skin. What are you doing with that?

FACE


2- right before i relaxed my hair, i was flat twisting it over the weekend and wearing it crimped thru the week. one monday afternoon, OBW came up to me and said, "i don't think i like your hair like that"

I don't think i asked for one and two, i KNOW i don't like your SCALP like that...coming over here with the scraggly hair... shoot. For that, you get the FACE


2- same OBW saw me the monday AFTER my transformation and said, "i see church was good to you! you look so good!"

really? so because i received the body and blood of my Lord Jesus Christ, I got a relaxer and look good? bet that and a.... FACE.


3- saaaaaaaaame OBW LOVES to NOW tell me, "i love your outfit! you've been shopping haven't you?"
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!
ummmm, no. i've had this outfit since December and I DEF got the pants over the summer. I've had this outfit (wrap shirt and pants you can't see) since before her graduation (dec).

Today, I got on her when she told me I'm too cute today (with the old outfit on). i said, "See, don't do me like that. I've had this outfit and worn it several times since I got to BF Elem. Just come out a say you like my hair, I look much better with straight hair, I'm not so cute with natural hair." She starts giggling.

I'm sorry, did I make a joke?

Another OBW tells me, "I like it when you dress like that"


For the love of Christ!!! Do you know how many editor pants I have??? I basically wear the same thing EVERY.SINGLE.DAY!!! editor pants, short sleeve wrap shirt, and then I flip the script with some bomb shoes!! This is my M-W look! Th & F, I bust out a solid colored For.ever 21 tee (Jameil, remember when we ransacked the table for every color?) and some jeans!! Flip-flops, wedges, flats or sneakers depending on my mood! Sheesh!


a snippet of my Express wardrobe. pants, button down shirts, and jersey dresses not included.

long sleeve white, long sleeve black wrap; sleeveless red wrap; magenta, purple & white, turquoise & silver short sleeve wrap; yellow, eyelet, white eyelet jacket, black city shorts, black with white points city shorts; leopard button down dress, magenta button down dress... do you see a trend? i have the same thing in AT least TWO colors!

I'm bout tired of these Old Black Women coming up to me with the comments. Only ONE of them has said, "your hair looks so healthy! I like it like this. I did like the natural and thought it was so you, but you are working the relaxed too"


Awwwww! Thanks! That's what I'm talking about!!

The Weekend (+ 1) in Photos

She turned 99 years old on Palm Sunday.

I'm so glad I'm black cause you can't sit here and tell me she looks just about a century old


Her big card (among the over 100 hundred she got, each with AT LEAST $1 in it)


Today at school...

Before


After


If that was not the most annoying arts and crafts project to make... ugh!

But they did it :-) and had so much fun with it. Learning vocab (shamrock, clover, leprechaun), geography (Ireland, Chicago [we looked at the river online]) and history (St. Pat, religion)!!! YAY!

WPBNTM

Me in my palm frond dress for Palm Sunday :-) and in case you can't decipher, the title is West Palm Beach's Next Top Model.

LMAO!!!

Look pretty for the camera!


Pretend its Senior Picture Day!


You just found out ANOTHER one of your exes is engaged!!



Can I say that my hair is FANTABULOUS?!


Its Fantabulous.

*sigh*

"One day he will wake up and realize just how amazing she really is... and she will be waking up next to the guy who already knew."



damn.

ho.hum.

I am soooooooooooooooooo bored!!!

I don't want to read. right now, I prefer to read in downtime as opposed to bored time. Like, right before bed and during my planning period or Saturday morning. Right now, I'm reading The Sun Al.so Rises by Ernest He.mmingway. I like it!

I've cleaned the kitchen INCLUDING the nasty ass linoleum floor... UGH! Tiles are the way to go. Lino is soooooo 1987.

I could indulge in some retail therapy but it hasn't even been a week since i got paid and I know I've spent too much money already.

I could arrange my shoes.

Please notice that those are only the NON stilleto shoes. basically your sneakers and flats. There are like, 3 different Jorda.ns, some shell toes, 2 different colored nik.e jet streams, converses; God knows how many flip flops, some sand colored noise making flats, and my two latest rubber soled flats (see below). some wedges (see the pop of turquoise in the corner? it goes with the TWO items in my closet that you actually see the ties hanging down from) and a kitten heel. damn, I haven't worn two shoes in here since FAM.U days (as if that's soooooo long ago. early FAM.U days)

Drew has some snakeskin AF1s here... and my latest Steve Madde.n addition. What?? I needed bright blue shoes!



I need a shoe rack. The hanging one behind my door only holds 12 pairs of shoes. That's where most of my stilletoes go.


When I got my radiator fixed, I was wearing heels. I walked str-8 to DSW and bought TWO pairs of flats.

the blood ones cause they have the spectator tip which is sooooo in right now, but since its monochromatic, it won't look foolish 2 months from now. the hershe.y's syrup shoes cause i used to have some brown leather flats once upon a time time and i figure why not upgrade to patent leather, you know its my fave.

NOTE TO SELF: like grocery shopping while hungry, never go to DSW after working in heels all day.


I need to clean out my closet. There are clothes I haven't worn since... my HU days?? Dare I say it? Yeah, everytime I think to give them away, I'm like, "no... these still fit and I'll wear them one day"

1,825 later...

I'm going to do it. Clean my closet it is.

My Crush

now that the identity crisis is over, I can get back to posting at hand. I gotta make blog, nah mean??

A crush.

Crushes.

Who HAVEN'T I crushed on?

Nah, I'm not that chick who gets to liking everything that's the opposite sex; I have had my share of crushes...

there are the celebrity ones:
Andre Lau.ren Benjamin (bka Andre 3.000)
Mark Walh.berg
Su.gar Bear (cant get enough of that golden crisp. yes i liked a cartoon)
Ice C.ube
Ches.ter Cheetah (he's still so cool)
Ke.lis (what? i'm allowed a girlcrush!)
and I'm sure there are some athletes sprinkled up in there

and there are your grown men like:
a former Rx professor at HU
this man who used to sit behind me in church... with his family and
i'm sure there are some more teachers, guy teachers are HOT.

your run of the mill crushes
I had a crush on a DJ. Cause he was from TX and played chopped and screwed music and had a drawl that was different than Georgia boys'.
I have crushes on red-heads and dudes named Sean or Gabriel. I dated a guy (fave ex) FIRST cause his name was Andre'. Andre and Andrew are cool with me.

I have a thing for musicians; esp. pianists and drummers. not really singers though. They have big heads. Them and guitar players think the music world revolves around them. Oh yeah trumpet players too. You can always tell if a guy is one of the aforementioned.

I do like lefties more than righties.

I can talk about the guy I talked to for over a year cause i thought he was my crush... I was sitting with him at his frat plot one day when my actual crush passed by and all I could say was, "BITCHES".


I'm just going to talk abt my ultimate crush.

He has the philly beard going on, light brown eyes and light freckles on the bridge of his nose and forehead. He has a couple red hairs peeking out when he doesn't shave and he stands at 6'2 weighing 240 pounds. He plays piano, is left handed and his name is Andrew.


Who'd y'all think I was going to talk about???

Welcome back, Welcome back

WELCOME BAAAAAAAACK!





SHE'S HERE!!!

who??

STACE!! THE YOUNG, FLASHY, AND FLY!!




Guess who got a bomb Mizani relaxer yesterday??

ME ME ME ME ME!!!

Guess who looked really, really, really, ridiculously good looking today?

ME ME ME ME ME!!!!

Guess who's wondering what took so long???

ME ME ME ME ME!!


Oh my gosh, this giant stress has been lifted off my shoulders. I thought I was about to have a deja vu experience with not getting my hair done when I want it but, the Good Lord prevailed and I am feeling GRRRRRREAT!!


So after church, I go to the only salon I know is open on Sunday: JCPenny's. I have no qualms with them; the last chick was good to my hair. Oh but wait, she's not there anymore and apparently, I was the only lick of color in there. Well besides Jo, the old Asian lady... and... I was the only person UNDER 40!!! So not getting my hair done here. I call Drew to gripe and he says, "Come down here. I'm sure Aventura's JCPenny will have someone."

If you don't remember last time I was at Aventura's salon, read the link. I didn't care though. I just wanted some professional grade chemicals on this "hopped on a British Airways 35 years ago" African grade hair.

I get there around 130. I call, I get an appt for 2pm. Drew drops me off and I wait. Tracy comes in with a head full of hair and tells me to take a seat. She asks, "So what's going on here?" and I tell her my story.

I cut my hair off last July for no reason. I last relaxed it in May 2007. I'm tenderheaded, I have a sensitive scalp, I have VERY coarse hair.

She said, "Your hair doesn't scare me. I got this"

Let me tell you how she literally DOVE into my hair and worked some magic.

I didn't even burn.

*cue angel choir singing Handel's 'Halleulah'*

She did slip some comments like, "You have enough hair in here for everybody" and "Am I going to have to charge you for TWO relaxers? I sure am mixing up two" and other things I've heard before... yada yada yada, your job is to check coats.


check 'em, bitch.

She lays it down. Conditions, wash rinse repeat. Sits me under the dryer and then trims like, 1/6 off an inch all around. Yeah, them ends were NICE!! Doo Gro is the shit. She flips the back and I have this bang and can I talk about how BLACK my hair is? OMG, its my fave part of my hair. I have like, 1. NOT 1B, not 2 but blue black 1 hair. LOVE IT!

Dreezy comes back and is like, "Whoa!! I like this! The afro was NOT you!" I'm all geeked and like, "how you gon tell me that NOW??" He gives me a hug and exclaims, "Wow, its like I have a new girlfriend!"

Scrrrrrr *record scratching*

Which one is prettier Andrew??

All with the sheepishness, he replies, "the new one has prettier hair?"

You're right! Good answer.

LMAO!!!!!! I was so messing with him!! He's so funny!


But yeah, I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE my hair!!!! I'm sooooooooooo glad it got done, the hair dresser was bomb and prompt and since I go to Hollywood every weekend, I might as well make Trace my hairdresser!!! SOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!

i don't look too excited do I? every other pic i took looked contrived. lolol

FINALLY!! + Drew is a 'passer' and a poser

It is March! I think I go thru this every month, although the last time I made a big deal about a month being too long was may 2006. whatever the case, who felt like Feb was longer than usual? Well, technically, it was but you know what I'm talking about!!

So the weekend. Sushi and rest. Pretty much it. But yesterday, Drew and I went to Merr.ick Park in Coral Gables to scope out the next spot they'll be playing. This coming Sat., Ma.Won will be outdoors from 2-6. Can I tell you about Mer.rick Park? Why is it one of the most beautiful places in the world? No lie, it has confirmed my want and NEED to live the glamourous and rich lifestyle of the people of Miami. So imagine this GINORMOUS outdoor park/eatery/shopping mall. Jameil, Toni, think City Place on cocaine and champagne diet. This is the type of place where the toddlers run around in onesies more expensive than my entire outfit, women get their underwear from la perla, their "workout" gear from Juicy Couture, their everyday, "run errands and take Jose Luis to soccer practice" dresses from Diane v.on Furstenburg. Betsey Johnson is where the tweens get their middle school prom dresses and the "mini-van" is an BMW truck. The department store, the 'un boutique' store here is Nordstroms. The Roberto Cavalli boutique looks like a polished steel tunnel and the DVF boutique had all of 5 dresses in it. The only place i felt comfortable walking into with my roxy PLAID bermuda shorts was Border.s bookstore.

Why...

*deep breath*

why did Lena and I see a woman frolicking in the BEAAAAUTIFUL lawn area with her two sons? it was the cutest most glamourous sight EVER!!! She in a one sleeve pucci print, silk blouse that was billowing perfectly with her dynastic (dynamite + fantastic) hair, black slacks that fit lovingly but never tight and some Fendi backless sandals with a chrome stilleto heel?

Yes, I was that close.
Yes, she is my hero.

and her sons "just" had on Polo chambray shirts, khaki linen pants and some italian sandals.

*

the promoter came out and talked to Drew, lena and Ralph for a bit. He told them that this was an awesome spot to get some fans that wouldn't otherwise hear them and he told us, "I'm sure you could sell some CDs out here, this is a high-end latino community, kinda like Drew here."

Scrrrr *record scratching*

We all start laughing and promoter is confused. "What? I can tell. Look at him with his track jacket on, trying to look casual, this is high end latino in my face! Stace, why are you laughing so hard?"

Lena interjects, "She thought she was getting a light-skinned African but you spilled the beans on that one!!"

LOLOLOL and Drew just stood there, passing.

*laughing hysterically RIGHT NOW!*

No matter where we go, someone speaks to him in their native tongue. I asked him to speak some Hebrew and he doesn't remember any. See, if you went to Temple like a good little jew...

Speaking of Jew, I was singing little songs from sunday school right? Like, "Jesus Loves Me", etc. I asked Drew to sing a Hebrew song from his Hebrew school days. Of course, he doesn't remember any but tells me they don't have little "ditties" like we do. When they sing, its during service. well sing me a service song!! "I can't. They are prayers for service"

Fine. Stingy. Keep your lil minor key songs.


But why did he put in a Joshu.a nelson dvd for me to watch?



Not a fan.

Love y'all!

oh, here's a pic from school :-)