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Lucky No. 7

11:17pm

I just realized something.

While sitting, thinking about my past "loves" which were really likes, lusts, conquests and defeats, trying my best to remember every "oooh" and "ahhh" that brought me closer to what I thought would and should be love, thinking about the nonchalance of that summer day to the cool and calculating night of two can play that game, what they meant to me at the time, every emotion from unadulterated joy in knowing that I got him where I want him to the deepest, darkest melancholy blue melodies, seeing that look on his face when he realizes I'm a bad, bad chick or the double take when I pass him by for what he hopes isn't the last time... with all these thoughts and numbers and dates running thru my head; first phone conversations to last text messages, I realized something.



Drew is the black man I've always wanted.


He lifts me up, always. he picks me up when I'm too gone to stand on my own. he compliments my personality in his exact oppositeness. When I cry, he doesn't get scared. When I laugh, he doesn't get insecure. when I shine, he glows. he's not afraid to talk about the future. he's a man without being an asshole. he's sensitive without being a punk. If I have a need, he has made it his MISSION to meet it. he fills out a boxer brief, rocks a button down, and sags his jeans just right.. he loves me so good, so well, so complete...


he is more than ANY of them will ever be.

I cook for Fun

I'm bringing it back to the Tally days when I used to cook for fun and not neccesity. I made the requisite pssgetti (spaghetti. that's what i used to call it.) with tons of veggies, turkey sausage, and ground turkey. While that was simmering, I tossed some bella mushrooms into a pan of hot olive oil and made a breakfast soufle' that consisted of mozz cheese, minced garlic, and fresh spinach leaves. cracked two eggs in that pan and mixed it up. Ate it with crossaints and fresh salsa. Hmmmmm, hmmmm, hmmmm, hmmmm, HMMMMMMM!

Two weeks ago, I did it big in Hole Foods, Aventura. seafood pasta in alfredo sauce made from SCRATCH. That's where I saw Carmindy!! she looks soooooooooo much better in person!! her dark ass eyebrows don't look as dark in real life. anyway, your girl had scallops and two kinds of shrimp in that bi...then I made a ceviche medley with some of the seafood I put aside + tuna. you already know how that came out!

Two days ago, I made peach lemonade. My brother was trying to peep my technique but he made the mistake of turning his back and never got to see how much sugar i put in the pot for a simple syrup. MWA HA HA HA!! My mom who reconstitutes EVERYTHING with water was drinking that thing straight! Do we have a winner??? We do! Next up, raspberry lemonade.


can i talk about something i never thought I'd do?




i

fried

chicken.

and




it

was

good!



I think i'll post the recipes on Record Dish.

Later.

Registry

So as you may or may not know, I will be attending 4 weddings these next four months. The one in october is this couple I wrote about so long ago.


yeah.

But can I tell you when the wedding is??


a tuesday evening.


in jacksonville.


so... even if i leave work an hour early (2pm), I will get there JUST IN TIME (6pm)?!?! Does that mean I have to wear my clothes to work cause I sooooooooo won't have enough time to change!?!? Boy, Kitty and I cussed that boy OWT!!! "WTF is that about?!? who gets married on a Tuesday evening?!!? Naw I ain't coming to that ish!"

But its Mike so we have to go. We love him dearly. Plus, its a post bacc reunion of some sort and is he the first friend of mine to get married?? No, an ex of mine got married like, 4 years ago (sheesh!) Kitty will be missing a once a week lecture and I will miss 1 AND A HALF days of work!!! I'm leaving at noon on Tuesday and taking Wednesday off cause there is no way in hell i'm going to the wedding and reception and driving home only to get to West Palm no earlier than 4am...! we are going to be talking ish the whole time...


2nd wedding is in November. It's actually to a middle/high/college classmate of my bro that i know as well. Very nice fellow, his pops is a doctor friend of my dad, yada yada yada. this one should be cute! its down here in south florida and I think it's going to be outside but NOT at the beach.


3rd wedding is in december.

fave ex's.

*inhale deeply*

am I a starter wife or something!?

naw, it's all good. I am truly happy for him and this is the wedding i'm most excited about!! Fave X is one of my favorite people and he helped me a lot when i transferred to FAM. This one is on the beach in Daytona. on his birthday *eye roll* such a typical move for him. I am mad that that day has been taken though. I was going to use it as mine cause it's the inverse date of loving day. 6/12---> 12/6. oh well, we'll see when that time comes.


4th wedding is in January. and its a girl!!! FINALLY!! she's actually a friend of several friends I have and we got cool. on top of that, we were 'talking' to frat brothers and would see eachother at events. not trying to be mean, but her wedding website is a mess. Full of speech and syntax errors. It's like it was a 'stream of consciousness post'; justa typing what came to mind!


now that the weddings have been outlined, let me address the title of this post.

You can tell a lot about a person by their registry, don't you think? registry is at JCPenny's as opposed to bloomingdales or even macy's? k-mart or crate and barrel? sears or williams sonoma?

i feel like that's 220 thread count vs. 800. I'm not being a snob or elitist or anything, I just want your honest opinion.

this is weird

how is it that i am living at home and have less money than when i was on my own? i so don't get it.

maybe this economy is really starting to hit me. things that were once $3.59 are now $5.03 (pu.blix choc chip cookies, 36 count). something that was once $3.89 is now $4.09 (6 pc mighty meal from micky d). Now i am the type of person to close my eyes and continue to buy these things despite their increase cause what is my other option? not eat?? when it comes to food, i spare nothing.

gas caught my ass off guard though. i'm not a cash person and now these people want to have one price advertised and another at the pump if you use your card. a whole dime difference. that ish adds up!!!!

of course these are just little examples of a way bigger picture. i don't want you all to think i'm complaining about the econ cause cookies are a dollar fifty more.

to give myself a pat on the back, since i'm not paying rent, i've SERIOUSLY tackled the... financial mistakes i made while in school. mbna down, citi and bank of usa to go. *sigh* they really should have credit card seminars in highschool and during freshman orientation. i do remember hearing a brief lil somethin somethin in university 101 at HU, but that was a flash of info and not important to whatever else i was doing... what was I doing? i was taking in all the different people. picking up accents and styles; being on my own for the very first time since a brownie (girl scouts) camping trip. anyway, i don't like not having as much money as i used to but i do realize i got myself io this mess and i have to get myself out.

i had to talk to myself; outloud, as i was leaving narnes and boble. i was passing by the g a p, nabana republic, gbcb, kenn cole, a whole SLEW of clothing stores that I KNEW i'd find something cute in. I was like, "no... no... keep moving, focus, budget, you don't need anything, move"


*sniffle* i feel like a junkie.



another good thing, i'm saving and investing like a futhermucker. well, i've added another company to my portfolio and then i reinvested in the stock i've had for years. hop on an IRA and my financial port should be complete.

i would do all this right when the market is about to collapse... oh well


can i say i'm "getting my life together" here? LOL La's monkey ass went to church on all of us and i can't help but to send that link to all my girls. like jameil was saying, every three months, we need that wake-up call that we are actually where we are supposed to be, no matter where everyone else is.


here it is:
i am a kindergarten teacher who's a tad bit broke for several reasons.
i'm unmarried, 26, and live at home with my parents.
i've been best friends with my boyfriend for 12 years and we've been dating for 21 months.
some days, i wish i was married to him already
other days (weekends!!) I can't imagine even living with him!
i am totally happy with the aforementioned.
quarter life crisis has been temporarily assuaged




but holla at me in december!

Party Pics

the band under the tent that was over one third of the pool

boooo, i would get a picture of the one arrangement that was pretty much closed lilies

OMG, my forehead is ginormous!  but that water and tequila sunrise shole were good!!

A piece of the limestone pool

"Por Jorge" himself and his wife

a tiny piece of landscape.  with some serious foliage in the foreground!!

the birthday girl and her wedding like birthday cake

the dance floor that was over another third of the limestone pool...

drew with more "gardens" in the background.  they have freaking hills!!

a shot of me under the music tent.  i love shadows

"this here must stop

like, FREEZE!"
name that song!!


real talk, parents over 50 shouldn't text their children. that's just my interpretation... of the situation.


BDK (big daddy kutieboots): whaaaaaaaazup???

first thought: brrrrrrrrrrrr?? okaaaaaaay... i replied

AVK (adei von k): chillin

BDK: like what??

AVK: ummm, like a villain? on penicillin??

BDK: don't you mean like a lizard in a blizzard?

AVK: get off my phone!

BDK: peace. WE DA BESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST! BDK

new author

I need a new one to delve into. My favorite author is G.G. Marquez and I'm almost done with everything he's ever done :-( Daaaah. that's sad. I know when the end of an era is coming. Well, I've been reading him since freshman year in highschool so I think 10+ years is an okay run. My fave book is still 100 Years :-)

Where is my NativeSon? I started reading that and got lost in his foreword about Bigger. That thing could've been a novella by itself!! I do like the way Wright writes; seems like I'm reading a play with all the dialogue. Speaking of which, I guess I could start reading plays hardcore again. I love TheElephantMan: APlay and of course DeathofaSalesman. There are a handful of typical Shakespeare's plays that I would read again, starting with the one I saw performed (Midsummer's); Macbeth, Hamlet, etc. While on that subject, have you heard of R&C are Dead? OMG, great read after Hamlet!! Oooh, anything by Dante is good for me! Let's gone 'head and get the whole comedy! I've only read Inferno and was thoroughly engrossed. Imagine how nice Paradiso would be???

Ooh, I think Kiss is my favorite play. That one was GOOOOOOOOOOOD! I recommend that HIGHLY! I love it cause it's world lit, meaning it was translated into English!!

Okay, nevermind. I have tons to catch up on!

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OMG

So can I tell you about the party Dreezy played at this past Saturday? The one I had a photoshoot in his bathroom for?? As you may or may not have read from Twitter, the budget for drinks alone was at least $10,000. countless bottles of Pan Sellegrino and Acqua di..., blush moet champagne, black label j. dubs, goose...

the dance floor was over the limestone pool and it lit up; Billy Jean style. Okay, okay; it had colored squares.

the floral arrangements EVERYWHERE were white roses, orchids, lillies, chrysthanteums and bamboo.

the house was RI-DIC-U-DAM-LOUS. They hired valet to park the refarris, sameratis, porches (lol)...

THERE WAS A FREAKING STEIN.WAY AND SONS GRAND PIANO IN THE ART PARLOR!! I would hyperlink but they don't even show prices on the website. I will go ahead and tell you:





$100,000



there were carved ivory tusks that i reeeeeeeeeeally think came from woolly mammoths. i tried to look that up and "potentially harmful information" was a warning. no thanks. then there was a high relief carving of the adoration of the magi. Drew and I came to the conclusion that when Jesus was born, there was a Bethlehem sculptor there who used Jesus' manger wood to mark the event, right? That piece of art was in that house. We would bet MONEY that it was an ancient relic; some Holy Grail type ish. There were various art pieces by big names of all sizes thruout but we were looking for one artist to let us know this was the real deal house. And of course, we found it.




A Picasso.





but not just any picasso







a picasso made out to the owner.





'Por Jorge'

We saw the inscription done in oil paint and wondered, "Who is George?" Oh, the answer rang out from the kitchen when a woman called out, "George!!!! Where is the key to the wine room?!!?"






*shaking my head.*

The wine room that is the size of your apartment?? Shut off by a wrought iron gate from someone's castle in colonial portugal??


I know I mentioned the limestone pool + patio, but you guys aren't from florida and didn't take Florida history in 4th grade. Limestone is basically marine organism shells that have conglomerated into a reef.



AKA fossils.


their freaking patio/pool was made of limestone!!!! Conquistadors used limestone to build their fortresses. the pyramids are made of limestone!!!! cathedrals and churches from the middle ages were built from limestone!!! If you see something "made" of limestone today, its just a thin sheet used as a facade. Did I tell you that limestone recrystallized into marble??

Speaking of marble, they had granite SLABS as ottomans and tables! and you know how on cribs, people brag about having brazillian cherry wood for their kitchen cabinetry?

These people had it as their deck.


i can't.


and the landscape on this property...

i need to get in good and have the most beautiful wedding/reception on their land. i took pictures and can only cry and the UNjustification my camera did to the place. let me just say that F. Gardens is in THEIR neighborhood

I don't even want to talk about the food that was the best I've eaten.


people are LIVING.


LIVING NICE.

This is in the same area as Merrick Park. Remember that place where women wear DVF just to run errands and tweens wear Juicy to go to the mall?

all i can say is, "it must be so nice."

but then again, I don't know what they did for that and what they are going thru right now. on the outside, the family is so happy but the man might be having a blatant affair and the woman can be anorexic. the children are all doped up on adderall and are raiding mommy's medicine cabinet when she's knocked out on pain meds and cosmos. for all i know, daddy could be gay but stays married cause cuban catholics wouldn't have it any other way. yeah that ring was 8 carats vvs, but did she get it out of love or kobe style??? idk and will never know. i do know one of their neighbors is Phillips. As in the family of that man.

so the other OMG of this post is, I almost died tonight.

I come home from school and I lie on my bed to chat with drew. i get up to marinate some chicken wings for which I will HAVE to post on record dish cause those were the best wings I've EVER had!!! (toot, toot... that's my horn). I decide to get some water and return to my room and lie on my sister's bed. on this bed, after my mom had a hissy fit about where to put her painting, we put this piece that's basically a compilation of african stamps. mounted on red and green, in a black frame and behind glass. Now why someone would put the ONE art piece behind glass on a headboard is besides me... I lie down and the piece comes crashing down on me. Mind you, this is a 3'x3' piece (damn I wish i was on a mac and had wifi.) so 36 inches by 36 inches of glass breaks on me. I SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAM cause large pieces are in my leg and arm and smaller pieces are everywhere else. I don't want to move to agitate anything. My dad wakes up and comes running into the room; he lifts the piece and Stan comes running in to take the pieces off of me. two cuts on my leg are streaming blood and I see white meat on my arm. that blood is coming out so thin and runny; all the fingertips on my left hand are tingling cause i know i have microscopic pieces of glass in them. the cuff of the quarter length sleeve dress I was wearing is absorbing what my right arm is pumping and my bedroom slippers are catching what's coming from my right leg. daaaaaaaah. this was my 1st time wearing this dress!!

but have i told how this house is?? how we have peanut butter, no jelly? kool aid, no sugar? cereal, no milk? ham, no burger?


we had triple antibiotic and no band-aids.
cotton balls, no alcohol.







and on that note, i'm out.

chemical burn

I suffered one on the side of my face; right near my hair line. That relaxer is no joke but you already know my mantra, "beauty is pain"



Nevertheless, here are some pics from my photoshoot in Drew's bathroom :-)

showing off the earrings I got from Xpress.  I never thought I'd buy costume jewelry but it looks good!!

Semi-Candid. I took too long to pose. But it looks good.

Got this apple charm from Drew.  Rubies with an emerald leaf.  He likes it cause it has both our birthstones.  WORKS FOR ME!!

This looked cool when I took it and now it looks kind of scary...

in a cool way.

Yes We Can!

you know I'm trying to teach her the "fist bump" right?

but wait, there's more!

more crappery that is.

i called the union. he apparently has been getting hella calls from our school and called the area head honcho to find out what's going on with excessing. the area guys asks him where he got his information from cause according to their offices, my school is looking to GAIN units and NOT excess any!!




brrrrr?!



the fcuk??

so..... why would the principal ask if anyone wants to leave, let her know in TWO mediums? (white board and memo in the mailbox)

why would the team leader tell us that the super wants to excess 4 and she (prin) wants to lose 1?

why have FIVE people now volunteered to be excessed???

as my former girl used to say, "What kind of fcukery is this?"

sing, Amy! I was rocking her so hard yesterday... matter of fact, let's rock out some more. just no coke. I'm not that much of a rockstar (Rashan!! lol)

T.I.

I'm feeling him right now.

1st of all, his new song featuring 'Ye, Jay, Wayne is OFF THE FUTHERMUCKING CHAIN! and it uses a line from M.I.A's Paper Planes

No-one on the block has swagger like us

but for real, that first released album, I'm Serious is so me right now.

I

AM

SERIOUS.

If things don't fall into place, I'm out.

on a lighter note, i was looking up cities that have an Ikea nearby!!

annoyed

as much as i love football, I see why women in relationships despise it. yesterday was the miami florida game, today miami jets followed by cleveland dallas... i watched college and wasn't up to football today. drew went to his neighbors and watched brett farve do his thing then he came back to his place to check on me. we were hanging out when he realized he left pookie outside. A WHOLE FOOTBALL GAME LATER, he calls to check up on me. how long was that? an hour after he left, i left for west palm. i was actually home before he realized I left!! what happened to getting pookie?!! whatever.

next point of annoyance.

it was ass crack of dawn when i was getting ready to go to work. fresh out the shower, clothes on, I'm bout to step out the door when my mother says, "don't forget to take out the trash"

record scratched

"do what??"

take out the trash.

::blink:blink::

"mom, i don't do trash. and what did u mean by, "don't forget" like its my job?? when have i EVER taken out the trash? i do dishes and laundry, no trash."

so who is supposed to do it?

"I don't know!! i don't do trash and plus i'm about to go to work!

Needless to say, I am not as rude/gangsta as my brother or sister and I ended up taking the trash; pissed off than and futhermucker! I am still fuming about that shit. My mom is and has been a bully and I don't like it. plus she is hypercritical which I know has led me to my carefree attitude about everything. no matter how hard you try, it doesn't matter so why bother? pearls for a birthday get critized. shoes for christmas are met with a grimace... ooooh! while the parents were in tally checking up on mini me's finances, my brother and I pulled a while u were out. we re-arranged, we cleaned, we de-cluttered, we made our house look the way it is supposed to look. that thing was looking so good and like a place you'd invited someone to, not the giant air conditioned storage unit it was looking like for the past couple of years. pops came in and was amazed! he was like, "oh wow! oh my gosh! is this our house? Damn, we should go away more often! you guys are amazing!!" what did mom do? she got upset that we moved a painting of hers to a better location. she actually raised hell about her raggedy ass picture my dad painted of her. (its not raggedy. its actually bomb. my daddy gets it from his daddy) the pics have been off the walls for the past three weeks since we got the walls painted. you could've put them up anyway u wanted. afterall, this is your house. when stan and I finally get tired of looking at boxes of pics and paintings and do something about it, u get into a screaming match about your picture. fcuk the fact that we polished all the Damn cherrywood pianos, armoires, leather furniture, cleaned the crystal and polished the dining table and chairs!! so pissed. still so pissed.

so that's why i haven't posted in a while. plus i am not liking my job and I am actually trying to leave by excess. pray that i can leave the torture of my job. you're not supposed to hate your profession.

I'm Jealous

yeah, i said it.

i

am

jealous!

i am on bacefook looking at pics of my sister's first game (SHE STUCK ALL HER STUNTS!! HEEL STRETCH AND ALL!!!!) when I stumble across a classmate's profile.  Actually, I was side tracked by his status that said his name means 'el nino' in laotian or something like that.  So Jus is in Malay??  Cool, I guess.  I read his wall and its filled with other classmates saying things like, 

"don't forget to hit up phuket" or 

"i'm in kuala lumpor for the next 8 months, hit me up" or 

"check out the geological genitalia in samui" or 

"get out of phuket and go to koh phangan" and

"must do cambodia"

word?? that's how we get down in the streets??  we just take trips to asia like its nothing?  has EVERYONE who was not black at suncoast high school been to malaysia/cambodia/laos?  so right after college, we just do like the sun also rises and see where the wind takes us??   hmmmm, i feel like lounging in thailand today.  or  i think i'll go fishing in spain today or  i wonder what crossaints in france taste like?  I looked to see what they are doing professionally and none of them have jobs!!  

'Dad, I want to spend 6 months in Vietnam'  

'OK, son, make sure you take lots of pictures and have a good time.  This is a twice in a lifetime experience. I'll set up a job for you at the practice when you come back.  Or I can get you a stockbroker job on the Street. a buddy of mine owes me a favor, you remember Mr Cooper, right?'

ugh i'm reeling. i haven't been jealous since highschool.

I WANT TO TRAVEL THE WORLD FOR FUN!!!

speaking of well to do, has anyone ever watched bald'win hills???  I THOUGHT THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE BLACK VERSION OF THE HILLS!!!!!!!!!! IT SOOOOOOOOOOO ISN'T!!!  That raggedy ass show in the "hills" of L.A.; right outside compton or wherever the fcuk they are... please. I was soooooo not impressed with the two episodes I watched with my sister!! OMG, thoroughly disappointed.  If that's all it takes to be considered, whatever they consider themselves, SIGN ME UP! links luncheons before i knew who they were!! how long have i been in politics?  ron brown came to our house for dinner with city commissioners in tow. and invited us to the DNC. pharmacists, general counsel for giant entities, medical doctors, lead engineers for siemens... maaaaan, please.  no one on the block has swagger like us.

you know what though? if you're really about anything, you wouldn't be on B.E.T.

Rant over.