R.A.B

random ass blog

can we talk about her children's names?? track, trig, bristol, willow, and piper?? is anyone going to talk about that?

how normal can someone from alaska be? i'm NOT saying there aren't normal people there but...


maybe I am.


i'm just thinking of the movie insomnia and how 6 months of light drove pacino crazy. granted, he wasn't from there. also, i know they pay people CRAZY money to work/live in alaska so it only makes me wonder

its been said that this is either the most brilliant political move ever or the opposite. i was hoping that mccain thought, women would be simple enough to jump on his bandwagon since hillary is out of the pic, yet see right thru is ploy and vote in droves for obama cause mccain tried their lives. *whew!* did you catch that? I think, he thinks women are stupid. but then again, he's a republican. those are the craftiest people on the face of the earth and i'm almost scared to see how this will unfold.

look up judges, chapter 4. barack will come with ten thousand and destroy an army. its in the Word!!

i have a headache. i drank a glass of cheap red wine and then i had a shot after my dad's party. ask me if i drank anything the whole of yesterday besides the aformentioned.


nope. head hurts.

so glad its a 3-day weekend. i think we should make it a federal law to have them every other week. 3 day weekends are the best thing since books

ummmm, i have pics to post but for some reason, my bro has my camera. its been a looooooooong weekend! i did get a chance to hang out with drew on friday and we went to this bomb restaurant in brickell (a district of miami), florida. its a japanese-pan latin restaurant with this craaazy ceviche sampler of lobster-mango, tuna and some herb, salmon-edemame, and yellowtail-avocado. awe.some.

okay. i need to lie down for a minute or two. my weekend isn't over and i want to go to hollywood. ttyl

Speakeasy

The unabomber was seen outside Jam's place...

In front of an episcopalian church! right before birthday dinner

My Blue Period.

The matching couple who spent hours finding the same shade of blue to wear together*

Check my eye-work... eh, not the same as footwork.


American Apparel gone wrong

But they shole is fun! Pink pants kept on saying "I'm in heaven" and green pants said, "oh yeah, you like that girl"
Jam and I with our mimosas

* I'm kidding lol

you already know

I have a picture post coming up. Too bad I don't have wi-fi... and i'm on a PC... this will take a loooooooooooong time!

Anyhoo, I made it back to the Palm Beaches safely, despite the fact Fayquisha was trying her damndest to kill me... I'MA NEED HER TO TAKE HER MONKEY ASS ON SOMEWHERE!!! Who has ever heard of a storm that did NOT weaken over land!?!? She has been chillin HARD CORE in Florida for a week!! Last week at this time, school was cancelled in south florida! why are you wrecking havoc in north florida, ak, and AL?!?!?

whoa. tangent over.

so yeah, i have tons of pics coming soon! a couple of them are very artistic so be inspired to find art wherever you are!

PARTY IN THE 'VILLE!!!

I did it. I packed my bag and hopped my ass thru rain, sleet, hail, and snow to see Jameil!!! and now we're going to PARTY IN THE 'VILLE!!!

Jam being the gracious hostess that she is, has brought us to the coolest sushi restaurant in the 'Ville. Its called Dragonfly and I can't wait to INDULGE myself in RAW FISH!!!!! Ummmmmmmm mmmmmm, bitch!!

Tomorrow is Jam's b-day!! I am soooooo getting her a textbook for her 28th birthday!!

PICTURE!!


so yeah, if you're in the area, drop us a line and come on down!!

*smile*

So you know I'm a teacher and I've been out of school since June 5th...

WHY AM I TOO GLAD THAT SCHOOL HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR TOMORROW!?!?!

I was upset that broward and dade counties closed today and tomorrow and I know the only reason why palm beach closed was b/c the two counties NORTH of us cancelled!! But guess what!?!?


I DON'T CARE!!!

Now on the flip side, I do feel bad that a hurricane is the reason why school is out. I know they leave nothing but devastation wherever they hit; I personally think one can NEVER be fully prepared for a hurricane... you can have all the water and batteries in the world...

damn, now I'm sad.

while on the sad note, I called drew around midnight. I was dead ass asleep and something came over me. I felt like I was wasting my youth and God-given talent. we always talk about making a change and I KNOW I am but I want to do it on a more meaningful level. I feel the need to leave the country and go to where destitution is a way of life, not a part of town. I did apply to Teach For Africa last year and chickened out at the last minute. I never sent the completed app in. So blessed/spoiled, I couldn't imagine being in Africa for more than a month. Then it hit me as I was crying on the phone that if I don't do it now, when will I ever do it? Not when I've put in 10 years and have been settled in my position. Not when I'm a mom of an elementary school aged child. When? I need to do it now while I'm unmarried and have no kids, just started my career and I'm young and resilient enough to handle what may come my way.

just a thought.

also, it makes me "hate" angie jolie even more. freaking ambassador.

It's The Most...

wonderful time... of the year!

That's a Stap.les commercial.  It shows a dad riding on a shopping cart throwing school supplies in it; joyfully skipping and picking up notebooks... then you see the kids in the background looking like, "yeah? it's the most wonderful time of the year?  bet."

I am kind of excited to go back to school but all the preparation is stressing me out.  Word walls, behavior charts, number lines, random ass posters of bears wearing certain colors, rules, code of conduct, center signs...

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

Nevertheless, I will do what I got to do before "Meet the Teacher" on Thursday night and work it out from now till June.

180 days left

I'm late

I meant to do a Thursday 13 but I had too many things to do today and never got around to doing the list. Its barely Friday so how bout this, Friday Fourteen?

damn. I forgot what I was going to do my list on. Okay 14 things i'm obsessed with.

1. patent leather
I got a winter white mupa grip bag in patent leather. I bought some flat mary janes in black, red pumps and gray d'orsay peep toes. Let's not talk about the shoes I already own cause the aforementioned were bought in D.C. this past week. I bought the bag to have something to carry my overflow luggage... yeah. Seeing how I'm a person of few patterns, I let my solids talk with their texture. The slickness of PL has always piqued my interest.

2. judaism
no, that's not why I'm with Drew. I am obsessed with knowing who is Jewish, what percentage of hollywood is Jewish (shia leboeuf, natalie portman, joan rivers, michael douglas, etc), synagouges (I saw a chinese one in D.C and Drew told me that there are Chinese Jews!!!!!), all their rites and rituals, Maccabi World, oh yeah, have you heard of Jewbans? Prolly not cause you're not from Miami. a Jewban is a Cuban who is Jewish. That synagouge was CRAZY! I like trying to classify the Jewish people I know as either Sephardic, Ashkenazi, or Mizrahi Jew...

okay, let me stop


3. dirt under my nails
you'd think I'd keep my nails short but, I won't. so, I take whatever piece of paper is lying around, fold it up a couple of times and go to work under my nails. if that isn't the case, i use my own nails and flick the crud off when I'm done. Its usually from scratching my scalp that I get gunk in my nails. All that hair grease and product...

4. taking pictures.
you kinda know that already. i take my camera EVERYWHERE and take pics of everything. I may take several pics of the same thing but I don't care. Maybe I want a flipbook effect of a baby eating a cupcake, thankyouverymuch!

5. facebook
do I really need to explain this one? i live for being in peoples' lives without being a perp. i love looking at their pics (duh) and just seeing what's going on. You can find out soooooooooooo much by a status update or mini feed. you see weddings, births, funerals, school, graduations, LIFE!

6/7. diane von f./wrap dresses
she's my latest obsession. so far, my collection includes an orange suitcase, a vase tote, and a scarf. you know what? this number should've been wrap dresses. the universally flattering piece of clothing that EVERY WOMAN should own! wrap dresses are the 'oh baby' MAC lip lacquer of dresses, EVERY WOMAN SHOULD OWN ONE! but without DVF, we wouldn't have wrap dresses.

8. celebrity gossip.
i get it from my momma. she used to -wait-still watches entert. tonite religiously and I know i've been knowing abt celebrities since i was at least 6 y.o. but, i LOOOOOOVE black gossip. true, i do hit up OMG! on yahoo to see what who was wearing where and why.

9. fashion
i know you'd think this is a given for any woman but it really isn't. what not to wear and instyle, red carpet shows and the rundowns that follow for the next week, anything that has to do with wearing something is all me. not reeeeeeally into designers that much, I just like seeing the color, texture, print, shape that whoever used for whomever.

10. sushi
you have no idea. its been since december 2006 that it was introduced into my life and the ONLY time i haven't eaten it AT LEAST ONCE in a calendar week was when I went to Ghana. and that's only cause i couldn't look up a restaurant online from out house in the mountains. by the time we were hanging downtown at internet cafes, it was time to go. i'm sure that fish would've been BOMB AS HELL!

11. ceviche.
maybe i should've done a raw fish number.... I LOVE CEVICHE!! I had some key west pink shrimp, alaskan salmon, and scallops from whole foods the other day... threw some lime and red onion in that b!tc#...

OMG, I'm salivating. i think it may overcome sushi this year

12. texting
if i could "talk" to you using my thumbs, I would. it sucks that most people i talk to aren't texters... well drew is. joy, need a new best friend? jameil's phone charges her $7,390 per text so she yells at me :-(

13. angelina jolie.
i have a love hate relationship with her. i think she's pretty but i don't see the big deal, my lips are that big! she's supposedly a freak but why can't she be liberated? she's adopted kids and had her own and looks good all the while.

SHE HAD TWINS!! I WANT TWINS!! SHE HAD KIDS WITH BRAD PITT! AND THEY ARE SO DAMN CUTE!!!
Poor Jenny.

I'm done.

14. sweats/gray
i'm not letting them go. i have gotten better in not wearing them EVERYWHERE. I'm trying to impress my boyfriend by looking good all the time for no reason (mom hint). he likes dresses so i copped a couple from forever 21... it takes just as long to throw on a cutesy dress as it does to put on sweats.
as for gray, i reaaaaaaaally want my wedding dress to be gray. i want my wedding to have gray as a color but, its considered such a drab color. plus i am such a BRIGHT and CHEERY person that gray for my most joyous occassion seems paradoxical (or is it oxymoronic?). mom thinks i should have a gray sash but that's not the same *pout*

Okay, that's it. must go to bed now. i got a trip to go on! O-Town, here we come!

D.C was Great!

2nd day there with my cousins

Pom Marg in a SHORT TUMBLER!!!!

My pulled chicken dish that doesn't look appetizing, was aight, and too expensive

B-Day girl and I at Rosa Marg

The next day, before LOVE



The beginning of the end. still smiling although two on the right look RIGHT!

Those drinks were RIGHT!! It was later explained to me that white bartenders know better than to serve wack ass drinks to black patrons!

Yes. that's a whole jean outfit.  if we ride on MJB for still wearing them joints, what makes you think you're EXEMPT!?!?

The next day, on our way to POSH, an upscale lounge


In front of POSH

Inside.  Really nice spot.

Dinner with my aunt and unc at an ital. pizzeria

I'm not going to talk about how Z-Jay was not seen in the spot and he didn't even "bless" the mic.  Booooooo.  Straight goons and groupies in that spot.  Plus it was in the hood?!!? RIGHT next to a fish market smelling like thrown up sushi!?!? Flip flops and shorts?!!?  No ma'am.  I will say this, inside is really nice. Now Posh was bomb.  Although the drinks could've been better... but with no cover and people dressed to impress, I sooooo didn't complain (or pay!)

DRAMA

There's lots of it in the family. One thing the mom has said, for as long as I can remember, "Don't marry into a big family."

The dad is one of twelve. Different peronalities; favorites... compound that with children, wife, and his own life... lots of shit going on.

Someone is about to snap.

I hear it from both sides and I don't know who makes more (or less) sense. I talk to the mom and I'm appalled at the actions of the dad. I talk to the dad and think the mom needs to chill the fcuk out.

Now I'm here listening and I hear Scrappy being channeled, You on't want know no problems...

That damn BET.

YES!

The babies are gone. No, I really didn't have babies here but... I was pretty much watching my cousins who came down from New York by way of Ghana. Their dad (my uncle) is a vet in BK and they dropped down here for a few days while I was here. Seeing how my aunt, uncle, and cousin are at work for most of the day, I was a chauffeur and chaperon since Tuesday.

Well today, I'm bout to WILE OUT!!! Okay, not really but, I am going to lunch with a classmate and then tonight, LOVE for the birthday girl!! So excited and upset at the same time. Teeny has planned this for about a month and then as of last week, Z-Jay's camel looking behind decides to show up. Now the VIP that would've cost $300 has jumped up to $2500. That so isn't happening anymore!! we're going to be civilians tonight, but fly looking ones!

Sidenote: I'm watching the To.day show and I just the warmest segment!! The Purple Hea*rt Cruise!! OMG, I love it!!

So yeah, I'm leaving here Tuesday, gotta get my tourist on ASAP! I mentioned S'mithsonian to my teen cousins and they looked at me like, "yeah, no. let's go to the mall" Can I tell you about the mall that had Target as a dept. store?? We spent entirely too much time in CJ Penny and I tried to take pics of clothes that further cemented my dislike for that store. I need a memory card for my new phone, there wasn't enough memory for the garbage I saw in there. and the shoes!!!!!!! Lord, help me! *ugh* One thing I hate: ugly shoes. Ugly, bo-bo looking, fake material having shoes. Faux wood, fake cork, simulated leather... dresses made with acrylic... AAHHHHHHH! LET ME STOP!! I'M HAVING A FASHONISTA NIGHTMARE!!

There was a DSW across the way... I copped some pearlescent red patent-leather (PL)pumps by Wine Nest. I see why Jameil loves them so. I saw some gray PL peep toe, d'orsay pumps by my fave designer (steve mad) but thought, As much as I LOVE gray, I only have gray tees. I'm hard pressed to find a jazzy dress in gray, or even a button down. I think i'll go back and get them just based on principle.

Okay, I'm off Teeny's apt! She saved me a piece of Coldstone cake! We were going to eat it at Mosa Rexicana but... there was a $5 per person cutting cake fee. Even if we cut it ourselves. No thanks, the restaurant was already pricey. Yo, I spent $30 on two chicken soft tacos and a little margarita! Aren't margs 'sposed to be in these ginormous glasses?? Ours were in short tumblers. But back to the tacos. Just pulled chicken and tortillas. Can't get no pico de gallo? ($4)? Can't get no lettuce? Nothing. I will say it was topped with a green cheese sauce that almost made it an enchilada, but still. My favorite part of my dish was the fresh and abundant cilantro.

Sidenote: Watching Today's Talk. Why do people dislike Kathy Lee?? She is huh-larious to me!!! So Obama might be too thin to be prez?? Okay Fat Nation where kids are more likely to die before their parents!!! We should be more like him!! A housewife from TX tinks Obama should put on more weight and then she'll vote for him. How ignorant do you sound??? Let me go. Bye y'all