FIELD DAY!!

if you are on spacebook, you'd know i wasn't too geeked abt today. it started off slow... we lost to the same class TWICE in tug of war but...

















we beat the ish out of everybody in relays and standing long jump!!

on 3, Go Team!


GO TEAM! (they did this on their own; no coaching from me whatsoever!! As usual, I was just there to take pics!)


Pumping themselves up!


Won the Boys Relay!


My winning girls relay team!


we won the class relay too! look at my SOLDIERS!


standing long jump action shot


my mad rapper/boston celtic 2020, straight out of highschool! OMG! My 1st class is The Class of 2020!!


i made the comment that kids today only know how to play video games and wouldn't know what to do with a jump rope. Your honor, may I present exhibit A to the jury?


All in all, today was FUN!!! Guess who loves being a teacher!?!?!?!?

i did nothing

i lied.

friday night. drew had show in hollywood beach. a tedturner-like person of haiti wanted the band to play at his b-day bash on the beach. it was at a tapas restaurant and ask me if i made it there?

NO!!

I was dead tired in westpalmbeach!!! so pissed cause i ALWAYS miss the good, ritzy shows and make it to the hot raggedy shows!!! case in point, saturday's event.

h.o.w.. haitian org of women was having a banquet?? no, not a banq cause there WAS NO FOOD... *side eye, digression*

in homestead, florida. homestead is about 1.5 hours southwest of miami. if you're thinking mexicans, rednecks, and ten gallon hats, you're right on the money. not that anything is wrong with an agricultural town... it just seemed... anachronistic. yeah. we'll go with that.

do you know how hungry i was, in the middle of nowhere? i would've torn up some griol and rice, i was so hungry. and i had to watch Mani, the 3 y.o boy who belongs to the female singer. hard.headed aries.

oh. they only got a chance to play 4 songs. and they played them super fast b/c the drummer who is a gigger (as opposed to an actual member of the band), had another show and he had to leave by 830. the band was supposed to play at 645...
ended up being 815...
colored people will be late to their own funeral...

on a brighter note, sunday was spent at the park with lena and her son. drew thought he was going to the beach but forgot he lives in south florida on a perfect memorial day weekend. no parking for you, join us at the park. it was nice watching kids play and parents lounge. i did fall off the merry-go-round... twice. drew was pushing mani and he fell off. lena and i told him he was pushing too fast but drew didn't think so. i got on to see...

drew was pushing too fast.
he's like a labrador or great dane puppy playing with miniature pinchers. yeah, we're all 2 months old but you are waaaaaaaay too big and clumsy to play with us. go find a mastiff.

CAN YOU TELL THAT I'M HUNGRY RIGHT NOW? CRANKY AS I TYPE??

Monday was the best. i finish all of drew's dishes (3 day process. soak them bad boys... in chlorox if he had some) and we watch the last episode of dexter. that show is AWESOME!! and totally plausible!! then we're pretty much chillin, went to target, went to lena's went out to eat at this ital. rest nearby... we're watching jeop.rdy when his landlady texts him to come over.

drew is now a daddy!!!

he has a two month old kitten that jane found hanging around her store since friday!! she gave the kitten her lunch of white albacore tuna and snatched her up. seeing how she was 5 cats (emma, mogwai, dude, dipshit, lea) takes care of two strays (groucho and broke-ass kitty [her tail doesn't work]), it was only right for the ONLY person who doesn't have a cat at their place to adopt her! enter, drew.

he hasn't come p with a name yet. she is soooooooooooo little and cute! varying shades of gray in faint stripes all over, but her belly is spotted!!


drew is going to be an AWESOME daddy! you should've SEEN him cuddling and cooing!!! AWWWWWWWWWWWW, IT WAS SO CUTE!!!!!
just don't ask him about names. b/c she's gray, he said, "tungsten".

i don't like him sometimes.

at Merr/ick + Eola

here's the band playing at that high end mall I was talking about.

action shot of me and drew and I leaving his place for the park


Drew was hotter than a bi... he is too fine!


i put my aviators in front of the lens to see how it would come out... I LOVE IT!


aerial shot that cause me to trip and fall backwards and made my card fall out and made 4 shirts jump on me and look so good on me and made me spend too much money at ebeb. all that.


desy, see what you missed? y'all check out utoob for the rest of nowam (reverse the spelling) music and vids! also, check them out on itoons

the last one!

one more child in the Kutieboot household has graduated from Suncoast High School, the NUMBER 3 school in the NATION!!!

my godbro and mom holding up a 1 cause steph is the last ONE!


As usual, the ceremony was boring but you know what? i've been to waaaaaay worse. I think its worse when they bring some dignitary or person of "importance" to speak. Whatever. just the val and sal spoke and they were good.


you know i have to upload a sample of pics!!

pops and i looking for mom and bro... well he was looking and I was snapping shots!


FAMU College of Ed grads of yesteryear and today :-) also a church member AND we work at the same school! she told the principal to grab me up when I was excessed from my school!


brothers of the grads. we're also neighbors!


my uncle who comes to EVERYTHING we do!!


family shot. oh yeah, that's one of the 4 shirts i got from baybay

The Weekend Wrap Up

let me break it down for you.

Friday. leave school and come back around 545 for Family Fun Night. Tons of indoor activities and food. I was the sole cashier for food where the most expensive item was $1.00. I don't want to count money anymore!!
leave there around 9pm. Go home to defrost from hotdogs, popcorn and limbo; call drew and tell him i'm tired. he says i don't have to drive down tonight but the tone in his voice said otherwise. that's when i changed my spacebook status to 'love = sacrifice'. i crawled out of bed, packed a bag and drove to hollywood. mind you, i've been up since 630am and its now 11pm. lane closures on I-95. gotta love that ish. i make it there and hit the bed. oh but wait, there are no sheets on the bed! DAMNIT DREW! Fcuk that shit, I used the comforter as a sleeping bag and fade to black. then here he comes... with sushi! ok, i'm not mad anymore! eat and go back to sleep.

saturday. he's playing at merr.ick park again. i take pics of them during their 4 hr gig during the hottest part of the day (2-6pm) it seemed. then i made the mistake of getting an aerial shot of them and "falling" into be/be where I spend too much money on 4 shirts. the minute i signed the slip, my feet turned to lead. i trudged out with receipt in hand, str-8 dumbfounded. harry dred already knew the deal and said, "you spent too much money didn't you?" it was written all over my face! dreezy tried to be supportive and say, "you earned it! when do you ever go all out and buy whatever you want? that's your tutoring money right there!" sheeeeet, that's like 3x my tutoring money... i always buy what i want and that's the problem! i justify it with, "i ain't got no kids or major bills, so why not?" but that mini spree hurt my heart.

saturday, we pack up and leave merr.park. we're to meet at harry's house at 10pm so we can road trip to orlando for a show. 1248am, we finally leave! make it to o-town at 430am and hit the telly on i-drive. i have no idea what we're doing, i just came for the (come to find out, uncomfortable) ride. i'm lying. i'm "on staff" as the photo/videographer.

sunday. haitian flag fest!

we're at eola park and i was just hoping i'd bump into a haitian chick with box braids who lives in orlando named desy. maybe she was there, idk was busy taking pics and didn't have her # to set up a play date.

whatever the case, the event was nice! the most fun i've had at a haitian event cause for real, kompa.s fest was NOT getting it, nor were the lil gigs ma/wo.n has played at... no offense to any haitian reading this. y'all actually remind me of ghanians. way too aggressive over the little things.

anyhoo,
we leave there and try to find a place to eat. a place that devout vegetarians, lacto-ovo veggies, and 'only fish' veggies eat. lena, ralph and i were the meat eaters who could eat anywhere whereas the 'tarians were being mum abt where to eat! ralph said, "i will eat some griol (sp?) and not feel bad right now, speak up!" i picked an italian rest and told the vegans to eat some 3 cheese tortellini and holla back. i was hungry, hot and tired and they were perking. we order, eat on the road and make it back to s. florida at 1230. back to drew's where we hit the sheets only to be woken up by an alarm at 545am, seeing how i have to drive an hour to get back home and get ready for work. you already know today was a movie day. that was the plan. i saved it for the last 30 min of the day. even when i'm dead tired, i can't try my students' lives with a movie! we have addition and subtraction to master! books to read! kindergarten to conquer!! ha HA!

will post pics when i find my cord!

my apologies

i haven't been posting or commenting in a while.

the internet is not holding my interest as much as it used to.

it's not you, it's me.


i just don't feel like reading anymore.

i haven't played my word games in over a week.

my favorite gossip blog abt fabulous black people that are young hasn't been read in a while (except for yesterday. and i had to share the mess that is de.reon with Jameil).

and i think i've been to two, maybe 3 blogs in the past week.

What's wrong with me?




there are 19 days of school left. i've lost a student (she moved) and gained a student (today was his 1st day) in the past 14 days.

i'm retaining 3, two of them are ESOL (eng speakers of other languages). ESOL retention is one of the hardest things you have to do. so much red tape! the school and the coordinator have to CTA (think crypogram, T=Y) and make sure its not cause of the language difference this child didn't make gains... blah blah blah. NO, THE CHILD STILL CAN'T WRITE THEIR NAME! THE CHILD KNOWS 10 capital letters and 6 lower case letters! no letter sounds, no numbers, can't give me ONE sight word, doesn't know the front cover from the back, cannot even copy a sentence of the board, NOTHING!

See, the problem with America is that they worry about being soooo P.C., that's it not P.C. I remember there was some BS about not using red pens or markers cause that would offend Asian students. I would bet my next paycheck it wasn't an Asian parent coming in complaining about that, but a cauc thinking too hard!

Whatever the case, I can't believe I'm sending my babies to 1st grade! I look at them and can't believe where they came from! I look at pics I took along the school year and see all the teeth that have come and gone, the coloring and play-doh activities that have turned into independent writing, books with 4 big words on a page that have been replaced with 3 or four sentences with size 14 font...

we're doing addition now and my heart SWELLS with joy at how fast they are absorbing this concept. to think that most could only count to 10 and they were showing off if they could count to 20 when I first got them. They can count by 2s, 5s and 10s now.

One of my darlings has a pet hamster. He named it Ms. Kutieboots

My babies aren't that anymore.

hey bush, can I have just ONE child left behind??


Fine.
Happy Belated Mother's Day to me.




Taken my 1st week of kindergarten, 2 week of school.

was I supposed to know??

can I tell you how when I was walking my students back to the classroom, they told me to stay outside so they could "surprise" me as I walked in?? Aren't they the sweetest?!!?

biatch (n.)

guess what I got for my birthday?

a cake batter and red velvet ice cream cake from Coldst.one

tix to the concert of the year and a tee shirt (other pic isn't uploading)


a party with 17 of my shortest friends


a set of some beeeeeautiful blank cards

and.....

A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION!!!

seeing how I wanted to have something DvF before 2008 ends, Jameil got me my FAVORITE accessory of all time!!


I own a Dianne.vonFurstenburg scarf!!!!!!

WOO HOO!!

It is the most fabulous scarf; with its art inspired design! It looks like a Britto and I love it!

Jameil loves me!! and I love HER!!



you JAAAAM right!!


Do you think I can pull off the bandit look with a DvF?

damn sure not with that big ole kool-aid grin underneath!

Deuce Seis

or in rim talk, "hi-tops"

That's what I am today!  26!!  I can't believe it!  I love it! I love my birthday!!  There was one moment where i was like, "boooo".  This teacher said, "26?!  I had my 1st child when I was 26!"

Thank you, hater.

Now for the pix!

Our team leader brought her class to sing to me and then gave me this crown!

A shot of a couple kinders pinching me 26 times

The party has begun.  Half the little people are blurry cause they were moving too fast!

and as usual, blogger is tripping because I want to upload more than 3 pictures...

can I tell you how when I was walking my students back to the classroom, they told me to stay outside so they could "surprise" me as I walked in?? Aren't they the sweetest?!!?

IT WAS A GOOD DAY!!

P.S. I have to finish my glowin thedark post!!

boooooo... yay!

the Madd.ens think they're slick. So I can get free shipping on all orders now thru tomorrow yet... they raised the shoe prices by $10. keep that. I'll go to the store and get them myself.

Who can I write about that?! That's WRONG!! So because I'm getting free shipping you're going to jack the price up 12.5%??? yeah, I did the math!! i know the deal! You're going to DOUBLE my tax to cover your shipping costs! keep them. i feel insulted.

I had my day in court.  Changed my plea to 'no contest' and they dropped the HOV violation  :-) b/c i've re-instated my license, there was "no adjudication" on that charge. so all I have to pay is the $76 in court fees by july 1  :-)

OMG. The biggest news this year (for me)...

I'M GOING TO THE GLOW IN THE .DARK CONCERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DREEZY BABY GOT TIX FOR US TO SEE

rihanna
LUPE
N..E.RD
KANYE


WHO IS EXCITED!?!?!?!??! I AM!!!?!?!?!?!?!?? I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE LIGHT SHOW!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT GLOWS!!!!!  I JUST CAN'T WAIT!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! I'M SCREAMING MY HEAD OFF RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

on a lighter note, Andrew had to say, "for that price, there better be a lot of glowing and there better be a lot of dark.  everything better glow in the dark!  matter of fact, i don't even want to see anything it better be so dark; DARKNESS, DARKNESSES!"

who has an asshole boyfriend?

I DO!  but I love him much!!!

So Tuesday, I will be in the MIA geeked.  and Wednesday, I will be hurting at school, hoarser than and bitch (and a bitch be hoarse) and THURSDAY...

i will be 26.

You already know I'm having my party at school, right? why did the little monchee-chees say, "you can't have cake.  old people don't have cake"

WHO SAID THAT?!  NO CAKE FOR YOU!

so kidding, LOL

Okay, must go now.  I have a funeral to attend.  Remember the pics of the woman who turned 99 on Palm Sunday? She passed in her sleep last Saturday.  We are going to celebrate her wonderful life :-)

I had to!

you have no idea how bored i am right now.

ole girl in the middle already knew the deal, hence the face

half day antics

D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything And Read)


I put my shades down for one minute...


... and little monkeys put their paws on them!

more pix

The H/ulk. Incredible we found it.


The Flame


Tryin hide from the sun. Get used to it.


Incoming Freshman


5.45 hours in the car. Are we there yet?

*smiling*

today was a good day! why? i got gangsta on my class and was changing colors left and right. For those of you who don't know, behavior modification in the lower grades is usually done by color. Green is good and it goes from there. yellow, orange, red, blue. i've only had to put one student on blue since i started and that means principal's office; a BIG GINORMOUS deal if you're in kindergarten!! especially since our prin is 6'5. He looks as imposing as his title suggests!

so yeah, i changed hella colors today. a bit sadistic, i agree. But here's the flip side. Those children who managed to stay on green got either a choc chip cookie or sugar cookie from publix, and at the end of the day, a swish cup filled with Gold.fish crackers. I LOOOOOOOOVE my Green students!! if they stay on green all week, they get treasure box which has COOOOL STUFF like glow sticks (for the future ravers, duh), mini jars of play-d.oh, sparkly pencils, watches, etc.

but here's the real reason why i am toooooooo excited.

I have 4 kids who get speech therapy twice a week. Today, my favorite girl took her mini reader we've been working on to speech to read to the therapist. Why did the therapist come back crying with joy? she interrupted my whole group reading to tell me that my heart (D.Jones), is pronouncing so well; reading with fluency, intonation and prosody, she's doing a WONDERFUL job, and she kept on going on and on. then she started welling up again and added, "you are such a marvelous teacher, oh my gosh the growth in your students! please always send the mini readers with them cause its literally bring tears to my eyes to see and hear the product of your awesome work!! I am so proud! Ms. Kutieboots you are doing an awesome job!"


*batting eyelashes* who me??? lil ole newbie me?? AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!! SHUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wait. I have one more reason to be excited. technically, two.

So i volunteered to do after-school tutoring with kinders who are on the bubble of promotion. All of us submitted names to the reading coach of children who need an extra boost in reading and reading skills and therefore will move on to 1st grade. Mind you, I volunteered. I went to pick up my students (who come from the 5 other teachers, we don't get our own students) and why did they cheer cause I was their tutor?? Who was feeling her head inflate a little bit?

me.

Get back to my classroom and I outline how our 1 hour sessions will be. Time really does fly when you're having fun! I wanted just 15 more minutes!!! Oh well, we did 3 out of the 4 12-minute activities I had planned but I was able to get in my read-aloud. Dr. Se.uss is an AWESOME man. Pure genius. I need allllll his books in my life. Him and eric ca.rle. Anyway, I read I Can Read with My Ey.es Shut and emphasized the part, "the more you read, the more you know". Its so true!!!! reading is the best thing you can do for a child. Even if its a book they already know, read it over and over again for fluency which is a GINORMOUS deal!

damn! in my excitement, i need to digress!!

So about tutoring that i volunteered for. Why did I find out that we get paid for this?

who's too happy to do what she loves and get paid for it? Oh my gosh, God is so good!


one last thing that is tied to this. another teacher had one of my babies. another one of my cuties who I adore. mad rapper from boston who loves to play basketball... anyhoo, she said my student was a delight and the most well mannered child in her group. so excited and driven to do well!!

guess who was beaming from ear to ear??

me.

*sigh* I love my job.


P.S. I asked my lil mexic.can what his favorite number is.

"seventy hundred and one".

I asked (to clarify),

"71?" and he said,

"No Ms. Kutieboots! seventy hundred and one! i like that number! a lot!"

FICKLE! how you just gon change up like that? what if I got you a shirt with '161' embroidered on it? how would I look now?

not the one

so remember how i hated the rigamarole of renting a car? well returning it is just as bad.

that night i put drew to work to find me some deals came to bite me in the ass. so by saving 50% off my car rental (not renting from the enter.prise at the airport which btw opens at 5am 7 days a week), i lost my piece of mind AND had to take an hour of my personal time out of work. seeing how the agency doesn't open till 730 and i'm supposed to be in my classroom at 730, i sent an e-mail thinking i'd get to work at 8 and not miss anything.

think closer to 835-840am. why? fcuking car said, "check tire pressure" and i had to put air in it!!!!!! but on top of that, we know that MY car is acting a fool lately and I had a fcuking flat!!!! AAAAAANNNNNNNNNND the two nosiest mutherfuckers in school were the people in the front office when i walked in. one of them is a guy with no real certification, but calls himself the behavior interventionist... nosy mutherfcuker STAYS in my business!!! it used to be funny but all day today, "you gonna come to school on time tomorrow ms kutieboots?" all with the loudness and announcing my tardiness to the whole world. really? REALLY?? not the one today. any other day, it can be that fake ass being in my business but today, I got in his ass and said "are you going to stay out of my business? let's try that first." GTFOOHWTBS (get the fcuk outta here with that bull shit)

my kids were alright today. they are perfect angels outside the classroom and all the teachers were dropping mad L on how quiet my class was. even the AP said, "oh my gosh, its like there's not even a class in the hallway". that was the only good point of the day.

the phone and internet lines went down so you already know how center time went with groups of children telling me, "ms kutieboots, the computer is not working"

AAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGH!


My monkey ass little sister tried my life yesterday and was seriously trying to argue the fact that getting 4 tickets is worse than getting 3 tickets. but wait. i got four in the course of 4 years. you my dear got 3 in one sitting.

1. speeding in a school zone. she said she was going 45 in a 40 but you dumb little girl, you will NEVER find a 40MPH around a school. try your lie again.

2. driving without a license. come to find out, she still has her restricts

3. according to her, the redneck police officer walked away before she could pull her insurance out so she got another tic for no insurance. sounds like another pile of shit to me. whatever the case, we got into a HEATED, nan one of us Taureans are backing down argument over which is worse. then her dumb ass closed my case for me. "well i've been driving for 3 years and one day, got three tix. you are a repeat offender!"

wait

you've been driving for 3 years and have 3 tix? as opposed to me who's been driving for 11 years with four? shut the fcuk up. at your gangsta rate, you'll get 1000 tickets a year, stupid, and i'll be getting... 0.3 a year?? the argument got heated when she was being sore loser abt it.

I want to get pregnant. why? my skin will clear the fcuk up.

i get my skin from my dad. mom has skin like jameil, you can look at ANY bar or soap, or even just water and its clear as the day they were born. i... have to try everything on the market to get blemished skin. i've done desquam-e before it was over the counter and what ya'll know as persa-gel (benzoyl peroxide), i've done neutrogena oil free acne wash, up and down clean and clear's line, proactive, oil of olay, salicylic acid, benz perox, zinc masks, clindamycin PO and topical, biore, kiehl's, even some high end stuff drew got from me from aventura. there was a point at HU when i was told to boil my water before washing my face and even using bottled water on my skin. i just spent too much money in publix buying some neutrogena stuff i haven't tried yet. i just don't want to be that 26 year old who looks like puberty just hit. i know i slip on the water intake but before i went to pitts, my skin has been on the fritz and hasn't recovered since.
my last resort is birth control, something i reeeeeeeally don't want to do. i know its come a long way in its purpose and side effects but too many women in my family have too many problems with periods, cysts, fibroids, ovaries, uteruses, problems at childbirth, tubes, and all that gynecological stuff. not trying to mess with nature for some clear skin, ya dig?

my phone dies at the drop of a hat now. great. something else to add to the mix.

okay, i'm over my rant. i must go cut out some center activities since school wants to trip with the internet.



P.S. one of my favorite students felt the need to share something today. i had to write it down!

"Ms. Kutieboots! I- I- I have something to tell you! My- my favorite number is one hundred sixty one. i just like that number a lot! a lot Ms. kutieboots!!"

he's the same lil mexican who told me he has "so much poooooooooo!"

guess what?

SHE MADE IT!!!!!!

MY SISTER IS A NCAA CHEERLEADER!!

SHE WAS THE 1ST NUMBER CALLED!!

O MI GOSH I WAS TOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!

OMG MY BABY SIS IS GOING TO COLLEGE AND SHE'S A CHEERLEADER!!


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

Y'all, we went to youtube last night, and played 'Scarred' till she killed that dance routine! SHE WAS SOOOOOOOOO GOOD!!

I am so excited and proud of her!!


So the guy capt LOOOOOOOVES her cause she's a solid flyer and he can't wait to do one man stunts. after they passed out shells, he intro'd her to the other guy and was like, "she's my boo. watch us do this" He is soooooo gay, but that's okay!

the girls who were already on the squad gave her the nickname 'Pageant' cause Mini Me came MAC'd out and was extremely polite!


They all have nicknames and 'Hillary Banks' is going to work with her over the summer. 'Ghetto Boo' and 'Squeak' are some of the other names that are coming to mind... Squeak looks like the OTHER sister Jameil doesn't have btw; like E & J just SPIT out another girl!! and as you can tell by her nickname, she sounds like Minni,e Mouse. GB looks like a Miami girl and has the best jumps i've seen!

WHOO HOOOOOO!

blogger is trippin. only one pic is uploading. you know i'm paparazzi in the making...

don't start

so i didn't go to bed till midnight. if anyone knows ONE thing abt me, i am an old lady when it comes to bed. i have and will go to bed right after jeopardy (8pm). i am the consumate morning person and just can't do the night thing UNLESS i'm out of town or partying on purpose.

drew is a night owl. NIGHT.OWL. He and Ralph don't get excited till around 11pm and their nights start some 30 minutes after that. not me.

he came up last night. we watched de.xter, went out for sushi, did some things that only married people are supposed to do. and then we were just up. i was actually fading to black but drew's geeked ass was pestering me. "am I bothering you? am i bothering you? does it hurt when i poke you here? are you still ticklish here?". Last time he did that, I burst into every Christian song I knew. Starting with

Yes we know that God, will always provide, He said it in His word and God has never lied, so lift joyful hearts up to the skyyyyyyyyyyy, to the God that will always provide!

this time, i put him to work and we found some deals for my trip to tallahassee this weekend. oh i didn't tell y'all?


my BABY sis is going to college! she wants to be a FAMU cheerleader and tryouts are this weekend. seeing how my parents have done the college thing since 2000, i've been elected as Mini Me's guardian thru out her FAMU tenure, a responsibility i think i accept with pride and joy :-)

the point of this post is to tell you i'm leaving this morning. enterpr.ise doesn't open till 730am.

why am i up when i don't need to be? you know its always some mess.

today, i realized its spring.

there is this one bird that's been trying to holla at another bird since 545am.

FIVE

FORTY-FIVE

A.M.

I'm an early bird but not that damn early!!! I thought it was going to be for a couple of minutes.

no.

633am, ole girl decided to respond.

who's heated? I AM!

I don't want this day to start like this.

and now my phone isn't turning on. great.

Busy yet bored Bee

*sigh* is this what my summer vacation is going to be like? boredom followed by busyness? Yesterday, I made a point to see 3 medical professionals before noon.

drove to the intercoastal for my dr. appt where I found out that my headaches and post nasal drip = sinusitis. Got a Z-Pak to clear up that bacterial infection, a sinu-rinse to wash out my cavity and some claritin D to keep everything else at bay.

Hopped over to the next medical building and made an appt with my gyn. Yeah, gotta make sure all my pipes are in working order. Will go into detail later.

Drove closer to home and stopped by my oral surgeons. I got 5 teeth extracted my senior year in highschool and one of the molars still hasn't erupted (2nd one behind the canine). Yeah, braces money is going to waste seeing how my teeth are shifting to fill the gap. I can either get an implant or get braces with a chain to pull that baby out. I'm going with the braces. My gap is coming back anyway.

*

So now about my female parts being in working order. Last sunday, I started bleeding for no reason. I won't say for no reason... 

Drew and I had to run to the shower cause, yeah...

it looked like that scene in Godfat.her where buddy wakes up to find his horse head in his bed. Okay, waaaaay less blood but still just as shocking and horrendous. Its not that time for me so I was extra bewlidered.

In addition to last Sunday, mom and I went out for lunch on Friday. we were talking about celebrities and movies (she's watched enter.tainment tonight for as long as I can remember. that's where I get my love of Y/BF and John Te.sh from). She doesn't think Bra.ngelina are preg with twins, Jess Al.ba's fiance' is black, yada yada yada... went on to talk about hip hop wives... somehow, we started talking about our family. My granduncle has 5 grands and one more on the way... I found out my 2nd cousin is pregnant with her 3rd and she's 33...

long story short, I made the mistake of saying,
"she already has two, why should she have another at 33?"

Mom gave me this incredulous look and said,
"ok Miss turning 26 this year! you're no spring chicken and you haven't started! its so easy to talk about someone else but what about you?"

*side eye*

"What about me? Can I be out of college for a year before I start the rest of my life? I'm enjoying where I am now! If I like being able to do whatever I want when I want to, why is that a big deal? Can I get married first?"

"Speaking of that, are you going to marry Andrew?"

"That's the game plan, we've actually talked about it and children thankyouverymuch miss know-it-all!"

"Well y'all need to hurry up. it took you this long to get together, I can only imagine how long everything else will take. sheeesh. there are more things to life than music and the Knicks"

I think to myself, "wow mom. I'm kinda mad you know me like that" but say out loud, 

"Don't worry mom, you'll be the first to know the next step. Drew just finished school and should be interning at The Hit Fact.ory Mia.mi and I'm finishing my 1st year teaching. Can you and dad chill for two seconds?"

"Wat-eva"

Yeah, I'ma need her and her other half to chill out. Remember what happened at christmas? Pops said, "There should always be a baby in the family" and then the room got quiet. Not trying to be selfish, but fcuk that I AM! I am having a great time now. I have my own money and place, I can't imagine being dedicated to anyone besides myself right now! Kinders are so dependent and they are potty trained! *SMH* I can't do a child right now. I got business to take care of and just started taking care of myself!

breathe.

just making sure my parts are in working order cause apparently, I have a deadline.

SCORE!

the musical love of my fantasy life. i don't care or believe anything anyone has to say about him!! I LOVE YOU MICHAEL JOE JACKSON!!!


B.ad, Be.n, Bloo.d on the Dancefloor, D.angerous/Special Editi.on (I have both), Forev.er, Michael; Got to .Be There, HISt.ory: Past, Present, Future; Invincib.le, Music & M.e, Thrill.er/Special Edition (both), Michael Ja.ckson Anthology; tapes, records, CDs, DVDs, mp3... whatever the next medium is, i'll be there!

Who gets Martin Scorcese to direct your MUSIC video??? MICHAEL JOE JACKSON!! (its not the extended version that's on DVDs)


I remember getting the 'Ba.d' record for Christmas and asking my mom why MJJ looked white. That was back in '88.

I remember standing in line and waiting to be one of the first to get Dan,gerous. I was in 3rd grade. I danced to 'Ja;m' at summer camp that year.

waiting in line with my dad for HIStory at Be.st Buy. I was going to 8th grade. I remember stalking MT,V for the video premiere of S.cream and trying to win the guitar he smashed.

Sophomore year in college, I hit up a friend of a friend to take me to the mall so I could get Invincibl.e the day it came out. There was no line :-(


Shout outs to The Smoking Section and the Aphillia.tes for this mixtape to add to my formerly complete MJJ collection!!! and I just copped that Outskirts: lost Ou.tkast Remixes!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!




P.S. peep that ring. that's the star i wanted!! ok, not as big...

Sisses

One of my favorite people in the world (unless she's making elaborate plans for tats or parties), SK3 (name courtesy of Jameil) spent the night last night. You know we love us a photo shoot!

Ghetto Barbie.  She's cute with it though.

Looking just like our Pops. Fat faces and chiclet teeth

Thermal seemed like a good effect.  Unless you're right in front of a sconce.

We Major

Church gala was BOMB! It was at an arnold palmer country club with a silent auction art exhibit.

I wish I brought the menu home to type up for yall! here's what i remember:
baby greens with a champagne vinagrette and softened warm goat cheese, a dual entree of salmon with lemon blanc sauce and baked chicken breast with tropical salsa, asparagus and baby carrots medley and potato puree (see:mashed potatoes).

with your dinner ticket, you got two complimentary drinks (I got smirnoff w/ pineapple then absolut citron with pineapple and I hit one of my old lady friends up for one of her tickets... another screwdriver).

Let me tell you about this DJ that played the entire history of reggae on wax. Starting with Sizzla and worked his way back. The old folks were doing the watusi to early early Bob... like ska/pop Bob, not rastafarian Bob. of course he played the requisite electric slide, cha cha slide (groan) and I worked it... it was a beautiful affair!



The young, flashy, fly table + someone's mama.  We are all smiling but talking mad ish about her thru our teeth.  esp me and DQ (red dress).

Afterwards, we hit up downtown palm beach gardens and I got this sushi appetizer.

That is an ahi tuna roll without seaweed, atop a bed of edemame and diced cucumber; smothered in avocado paste and drizzled with a spicy Thai sauce and wasabi mayo. It was so big, i am eating the last 2/3 for lunch right now.

So that was last night. Desy wants a morning pic to see my hair now.

I'm out!

Woo Hoo!

I found a new hair dresser!!  Woo hoo!! So excited!!

Now JC Penny held me down when others couldn't or wouldn't so I'm not going to do the "fcuk you, fcuk you, fcuk you, he's cool..." thing but...  i had to find me a real salon and not a conglomerate that happens to do hair!

I called my church homie who's hair ALWAYS looks good and luckily, she cancelled her 9am appt with Althea.  "Let me give her a call and see what we can do.  I know you will not step into the Gala looking like 'who done it?' and 'why'"  930am, I'm at the salon and 10am, I'm under the dryer.  I stayed under there a bit longer than I would've liked to, but who's complaining when you're a walk-in?  I was totally grateful to even be there!  Around 1230pm, I left with the most ginormous, 'archived wig from the Supremes' hair ever!  it looked like a wig!  My roommate burst into laughter when I came downstairs! It was funny, but luckily it has calmed down.  What do you think?