so strange

I don't know why I have shades on.

I'm lying.



I said, "I'm going to be a diva a wear shades ALL day, starting riiiiiiiiight now"

That was at 930am, in bed.

Got over that real quick.

That's all! back to a regularly scheduled day of NOTHING!

Turkish Fest!!

Aww yeah! You know we love us a fest!

So Friday night, I'm driving down 95 south when I see flashing... lights... flashing... lights (sung like the kanye song... love it!) Apparently, Turkish Fest is this weekend! So there!

Saturday morning, we get up and eat crossaints. I have to have my crossaints. I start to do Drew's laundry and I realize how much doesn't get done if I don't do it. My new philosophy on life BTW. Anyway, I'm sorting and drying and folding and hanging and before you know it, I realize its 11am and I didn't tell Drew about the fest! He gets sooooooooo excited and looks up the pertinent info. It happens to be in the same area where the LasOlas Art Fest was and it ends at 6pm. We are soooo there! before we leave, we try and figure out what Turkish fest would be like. Should we make shirts that say, "I *heart* Turkeys'? Would we be foolish to go up in there and ask, "Where all the Turkeys at?!" What exactly are Turks? Are they Middle Eastern? No cause Turkey is in Europe. What do they speak and there's going to be food there but what kind of food? Come to find out, they are Baltic and are a mix of Russian and Mid East. There was hummus and gyros, but the music had the accordion sound of Russia and the traditional dance/rs looked more 'Russian' than 'belly dancer'.

Anyhoo, we watched a marbling art technique that was awesome,



heard the from the DJs of the only Turkish radio station in South Florida (who knew they were that deep?) and Drew got accosted several times. I SWEAR this boy can pass for anything!! he looks hispanic, he looks, white, he looks black, he looks Arab, he passes for every fest we go to! Bet. Japanese Fest won't be so fun for you Drew...



and i want a relaxer. just thought i'd throw that in.

the pic

i got it today. My RH ring was waiting for me. I haven't gotten my nails done to properly showcase the ring and i am too tired from all the v-day hoopla at school. speaking of which, i got FIVE mylar balloons!! who doesn't love getting balloons!??! too much candy and some cute cards. So I make less than 26K (after taxes) a year, the intrinsic value of being a teacher is worth more than ANYTHING in the world :-)

KDY et al

Lovely Ladies on the couch


Our very own Clu and CC


Birthday Girl and I before we headed out on the Philly town (she's transitioning to natural!!)


3/4 of the Nats (although my Kanekelon doesn't look it!)


3rd Floor Kennedy Queens '00!!

Toilet Tales

In case you don't know, I teach kindergarten. Right now, the babes haven't been conditioned to think that elimination of any sort is gross to speak about. With that said...


Last week on the carpet, Jaquan lets one out from the tootah. My students are unaffected and even go as far as to tell me, "everybody does it, you should hear my sister's fart."

Today in lunch, "Ms. Kutieboots, I can't drink my juice and my milk cause I'll pee in the bed"

Yesterday at dismissal, "hurry up Enrique! Its time to go!" from the bathroom, a little Mexican voice, "I ceeeeeen't! there's so much poo! I have so much pooooooooo Ms. Kutieboots!"


I love the honesty. I think its so cute

pinky on the brain

so we know what my favorite color is. i decided to take a picture OPPOSITE my accent wall.

I should've had my phone in my hand.

look at the lamp I got (on my dresser). I am in LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE with Tiffany-style lamps, but all I could afford was a faux one. Its painted.

Las.Olas Art Fest

you know we love us a fest. this weekend, we hit an art one up.

inside the MOA Ft. Lauderdale

What's Wrong with this Picture?

(L) Megan von Kutieboots, Cab.bage Patch Doll 1984
(R) Mimi von Kutieboots, Cabbage Pa.tch Doll 2007

Do you see what they consider "black" now?? Now granted, we come in all delectable shades of goodness; ranging from the ebony to the ivory on a piano but come on!! Mimi should not be the darkest shade of CPK! Its like how InSty.le magazine be trying jameil and I. "If you're dark..." then they show us pictures of JLo, Bey.once, and Halle Be.rry.

If the white dolls can have blond, black, red, dirty blond, brown hair; straight, curly, wavy... freckles, different color eyes; then the black dolls should come in varying shades!! work with me here!




and who told them to stop using yarn for hair!?!?

so much done!

we woke up at 617am. Why? We both usually wake up at this time. I start getting ready for work, he falls back asleep, usually. Yesterday, we went to Fi.restone bright and early (8am) to get my car worked on. it was pulling to the right something serious AND I needed a new air filter.

I HATE taking my car into the shop cause the mechanics always try and whoop on females. I went in there with the extra assertiveness.

"Good morning, my car is pulling to the right so I need an alignment. I called yesterday and that'll be $79.99. I didn't get my air filter changed when I got my tires balanced and rotated in December so I need a new one for $19.99 and that's all"

You know they still got me? They sold me on the life-time alignment for $20 more. I am an advertiser's DREAM!

I'm also fucking up some speed-bumps on purpose... get my alignment done every THREE months!! and don't let me buy a new car in within 18 months? (Looking at some new Al.timas.) Transfer please!!


Seeing how I had a jamaican mechanic, my car was worked on in a leisurely time. For real. The mgr told me to wait cause it'll be done in 20-30 mins. I don't want no rush job so I said I'll be back in 45. Drew and I went to Cra.ckerbarrell... drove there, found parking, sat down, waited on a server, etc... yall know the drill with Crack. After we had the most GLORIOUS breakfast ( OMG the ish was good) we looked around the country store and then drove back to the auto shop. Still not done. Fine, we'll wait for best.buy to open (10am), go in, return a camera I bought, look for stereo docks for my iPod and walk around the hi-def tvs in amazement. When we hop back over to car place, I'm done. Yay!

We come back to my place and fall dead asleep. I ate all my food so I was planning on hitting the bed. Drew with the apetite of a 25 year old woman, drank all his liquids. wasting space in your stomach man! Country ham, biscuits with gravy and apple butter, grits, eggs, hashbrowns? awww man that ish was good!

wake up aroud 1pm and we're bored. Ho hum, check out what's going on online. Their new video was the 90th watched video on y.outube yesterday :-) The haitians either love them or hate them cause so many people tried to upload their ish to haitian websites and "administrators" take them down after 5 minutes. M.awon has tried to join several music spots for haitian music and they never get a e-mail to confirm them joining, meaning they haven't joined. Some haters out there. Come to find out, its only the haitians in america who are perkin with the new music. In Haiti, their vid is blowing up.
1) it doesn't look like some haitian video and
2) its what's hot!
on the island, they welcome new ishl can't WAIT for it. its only here that M.awon and their camp is running into problems.


we watched 'or.ange county' with jack blac.k and colin.hanks. seemed funny but i don't like the quick wrap-up in the last 10 minutes; when he realized he doesn't have to go to stanford. that movie had potential. jack was great. physical comedy at its best with him.


reno.911 is starting their new season! who's excited!? I AM!!! We are waiting for football to start!!!!! 430 finally gets here. Green Bay vs. the Sea.Hawks. How ridiculous was that game? BLIZZARD!!! and the weatherman said about an inch of snow. Yeah, fcuking right!

One thing I don't understand is how white people don't get cold. Did you see mike.holmgren with notta scarf, notta earmuff, notta bubble jacket in sight?? Snow justa landing on his cap! They make scullys in seahawk blue! somebody get this man a wool hat please!!! I can understand the players wearing a turtleneck underneath their jerseys but that's cause they're moving! they are actually sweating! You mike? I didn't get. Maybe the extra layer of body fat did him good...

so after the game drew took me someplace new to eat! OMG, FABULOUS!! ooooooh! and I can hyperlink now!!! ECHO in Palm Beach; a part of the Breakers.

I can't even make a comment to talk about how fab it was. But, can I talk about how I LOVED getting lost on the island? Those houses there? I need one in my life. Think the mansion the villian in bad.boys2 was building. The Mi.zer architecture has got to be my fave.


So we finally find the place and come to find out, Drew has made grand plans already. while i was sleeping, he googled a sushi rest., made rez, and pre-ordered everything! i got a 'mother of pearl' which is champagne, pearl pomegranate (pom vodka) and cranberry juice,. he got 5 elements with Goose. then the best miso soup WITH scallops and needle mushrooms came out along with the best shrimp dumplings i have EVER tasted. That was followed by a Spider roll, lobster tempura roll which was STRAIGHT lobster; freaking thumsized pieces in between seaweed, and the grand finale?






bluefin Toro and caviar roll.

and i'm out.

the latest

so Drew's band (M.awon) has another video out. They're trying to get picked up by Haiti's Karn.aval officials and they have submitted their carnival track and video to the proper authorities. The song was written by ralph (of course); he and Drew sat in his kitchen with a make-shift studio and recorded it bit by bit with drew's keys (keyboard) and some conga drums Finally, they got in a studio and worked it out with actual female vocals, cuss, drums, bass, lead guitar, etc. The video? shot in, on, around Ralph's showroom. The guest guitar player is haiti's jimi hendr.ix (Dad.ou.Pasqu.et, one of the greatest to touch the axe). He wrote a carnival track, heard this one and refused to play his again. Then he asked if he could play on theirs :-)

I have NO IDEA what they are saying but the beat is catchy as hell!



and check out my Dreezy looking like a white Rick.Ro.ss.

ugh, not again + foodie rant

the fleas strike back.

Kitty bathed and gave her cat some advantix right? she forgot that you have to apply it outside OR apply it and let the pet go outside right away because... all the fleas jump ship the minute the medicine hits the host (pet). yeah, them bitches tore up my booty and arm. That's what I get for being laid up watching ANTM allllllllll day. I had to pull myself away at 1am cause I'm trying to get back into the teacher way of things. whatever the case, I will be getting the Arm&Ha.mmer carpet flea powder stuff that surprisingly, works VERY well. Sprinkle it and sweep it in, let it sit for about 8 hours, then vacuum it up and all them measly bitches will be gone! MWA HA HA HA HA!!

So let me tell you about love. Drew is here right? we went to a mall out west and walked around... i tried on some dresses in Beb.e and Forev.er 21, he was disgusted at the "urban" section in mac.y's, yada yada yada. Then I start to itch. I'm thinking its the cold and I need to put some lotion on but come to find out, it was the flea bites acting up! We stop at C.VS and he gets me some hydrocortisone cream and rubs it on my back and booty.... AWWWWWWWW!! Of course that was some symbiotic relations going on right there; get got to touch my booty and i got my bites soothed.... AWWWWWWWWWWWW!!

No but for real? Ask Jameil what it sounds like when I start scratching. Its DISGUSTING!! Like sandpaper against rougher sandpaper! and my legs? WHATABOUTMY LEGGGGGGS?? white. beyond ashy, just white. See, ash looks like you sprinkled some powder on yourself. My actual epidermis looks like someone put raggedy, chippy white paint on black skin; like powder was pushed in between scales.

Wow. so graphic.

I need to gon head and invest in that eucerin 'pathetically extra dry' formula "for the '08" nah mean??

* * * *

So yesterday, Drew and i went to this BOMB sushi restaurant right near my place. We had garlic sauce calamari, bean sprouts in ponzu sauce, a shrimp tempura roll and a roll named after the restaurant that had tuna inside and out the roll with a garlic butter wasabi sauce AND

toro. blue fin toro.

if you know about sushi, you know what that is. if you don't, let me tell you that blue fin toro is the big O in your mouth, like no lie. I wish I could hyperlink!!! DAMN IT!!! Well look it up for more detail, all i know that it comes from the underbelly of the blue fin tuna and that shit is BUTTER. The Moet, the Maybach, the HEAVEN of food! How fierce is the tiny piece of sushi (or sashimi ---->without rice)????

$8.00 per piece.



We went to Publix before lunch and I was about to get some tuna fillets to make for dinner. $6.99 for a pound of FROZEN tuna.

Yeah, toro is the mutherfucking shit. Its good sex, good food, good music, getting out our dreams all in a piece the size of a man's thumb.

Never would I have IMAGINED something so small, can bring so much pleasure *sigh*

I am in LOVE with toro. It's 'Drew' in fish form.

Alright guys! Go eat something fabulous today!

the menu + some

homemade inside out cheeseburgers, with A1 on the fries

jameil's with chopped pickles

i'm telling weather, can you tell?

at sevi.che

shrimp, ahi tuna, hamachi, DELIGHTFUL

pulled pork and hash

looking down on my serfdom

"you know who you remind me of?"

"that Chinese bitch from old school Soul Train"


one of MANY memorable quotes from Sunday night!






Sunday night, I attended a vanglorious Christmas party that re-united some of my favorite people in the whole world!! A Suncoast High School 99-2000 get together is always FOUR things:

young
flashy
fly
FUN!

I don't know anyone who hangs DEEP with their highschool crew... not the way we do! Our special mix include favorite exes, (some shared by two people in the crew), play-play enemies, homies from the neighborhood, aces from summer camps, churchmongers, BFFs from elementary school... at the end of the day, we are ONE BIG FAMILY! College grads doing big things in our respective fields. No-one is married yet but best believe we can't wait for that party! Here are some pics (of course):

sexy Taureans. One time for May babies

middle school connect

who can pose in front of a camera better than V and I?

pan hell connect

2000 chicks. we took this picture 7 years ago before I went to Hampton, Kitty went to FAM, DQ went to Howard and PJ went to Spelman!!!!!!!! I love HBCU products!!

99 guys AKA GDP

GDD

my Biggie!


p.s. looking at the pics, there are a good FIVE people missing from our core group!

the thing with teaching

you get to do silly things and its okay! The last day of school, I decided to have a Pajama Jam! I was checking my school mailbox and my principal started laughing! But even cuter than me were the kids!!

Y.on Jou

drew's group's 1st video.


.
the lead singer is also a model (ralph lau.ren shows and ads, be.yonce videos, just to name a few)
a nautical or maritime engineer
remember the showroom i started art basel out at? yeah, he also makes furniture

the dred? he's a psychologist.
the chick? opera trained vocalist, style editor for a miami newspaper
drew? math and physical sciences (bio, chems, physics, etc) genius


and all they want to do is make good haitian music. more power to the "more than meets the eye" group!

Yesterday

i love the Boyz II Men version of that song. I think it was the first I heard, off of the 'II' album, right?? yeah, can't stand the En Vogue version *grimacing*. I do like the original as well. Anyhoo

Yesterday, I got three presents out the way. Mom, Kali, and Sis down, Pops, Bro, and Jameil to go. I LOVE what I got for everyone so far :-) I might throw in something else for mom dukes since I'm getting her something she needs, and not what she asked for. We'll see how she likes getting what she needs; flipped the script on her!

Yesterday, Best Buy and the salon to get my eyebrows waxed, parents' house to chat with Pops about his iPod... *sigh* he won't hush about that thing he got. and its the first one; the size of a grown man's palm and as heavy as an old school dictionary. He wants Drew to put every single song he has on it for him. Seeing how my dad's collection is made of vinyl and NOT stored digitally, I can sympathize a bit. Maybe I'll get him a shuffle, or an iTunes card... thinking, thinking.

Yesterday, came home to go right back out for JR's college graduation! So happy for her!! She went to Alvin Ailey's school right out of highschool but missed her son (she had him when we were in 10th grade) too much. Came home, did the community collge thing, worked mostly, took care of her son. She went back to school and graduated with her B.S. in Organizational Management. I have no idea what that means (can she plan riots?) but I am sooooooooo happy for her!! Yay!!

After the very boring ceremony, we take pics and the sort, good times all around.


then we go to Smokey Bones where the sides are OFF THE CHAIN! The ribs were good, snacking on them now...
then we went home to get ready to go out and celebrate!! Yay! OMG, look at my hair!! I don't want to relax it anymore!!


We get to Ft. Liquordale and party on the Las Ola.s strip




good times. until...

these bitches wanted to start some mess.

Just look at what they are wearing. You can tell they aren't bout nothin'; some hoodrats who come to the club to dance like they're at the strip club. Whatever the case, we club hop and eventually come back to where we started. This time, the fly bitches that are we get on stage and dance. Low by Flo Rida, Sexyback, Salt Shaker and Back Dat Ass Up, we work it by ourselves. Here come stank and stanker on the stage. Poppin, droppin, twerkin, jerkin all up on eachother. I didn't know black chicks danced on eachother. wait, they don't. These chics wanted some of the attention we were getting. A guy threw a dollar bill at the big one cause she grabbed her ankles and did something with her body... no-one made a move for it so we stepped on it. Here come BB (big bitch), snatching it up like her life depended on it. We genuinely laughed it off like, "aww man, that would've been a burger!" We get off the stage cause we don't want people to think we're one big group, even though you really can't make that mistake... its still all good. Enter Beyonce'. She wasn't there but "Get Me Bodied" came on so we make our way back to the stage. BB got all crunk for some weird reason, saying JR bumped into her. Ummm, JR is a dancer and VERY in control of her body and the amount of space it takes up. We looked at BB like she was crazy cause we saw that JR clearly didn't bump into her. She's barking at JR and JR is like, "What? I didn't touch you!" Here comes Crunk Kitty with key in hand asking, "What's the problem?" BB said she wants an apology from JR for bumping her and Kitty says, "You ain't getting shit. Do something about it" Mind you, the whole time, BB is facing JR and not looking at Kitty who's steady in her ear, "Do something. You know she's not telling you nothing right, do something, I dare you" I say nothing. I take off my earrings and wait for contact. Not a talker, I don't stunt chicks who get loud cause they are usually all talk, case in point, BB. She's hollerin at JR while Kitty and I are just WISHING she touches her. I'm not a fighter.

Let me re-phrase.

I'm not an instigater.

I will push the shit out a bitch who looks too close (or drunk) or mush her in her face. The last time I pushed someone, she got all in my face and all I said was, "i'm not stunting you. Move, I'm not stunting you, i'm not stunting you. Why are you still here? Either do something or move cause i'm not stunting you" No yelling, no finger wagging or neck rolling. Kitty talks right back, all in your face and will hit a bitch (if chick touches her first). They call her the "Heavyweight" in the band cause she boxed a bitch who bumped her. whatever the case, BB's all talking out the side of her neck so Kitty and JR start singing "Get Me Bodied" and are KILLIN it! I'm still standing there, not able to get back in the groove. I'm actually more upset at the bouncers who were just standing there waitng for something to jump off. When Kitty and BB were neck rolling, I did a quick glance to see who's around and we were thisclose to the door/the bouncer... nothing moving. bet.

them hootchies start talking about peoples shoes and Kitty wore off in her ass. "BITCH, you over there with hi- top Filas in the club! Don't nobody wear Filas! You are NOT in atlanta where that's okay!" Chick in white gets all loud, "you talking to me?!?!?" "HELL YEAH I'M TALKING TO YOU! IF YOU TAKE THEM UGLY ASS SHADES OFF IN THE DAMN CLUB, YOU'D SEE I LOOKED YOU DEAD IN YOUR FACE AND SAID THAT SHIT...over here riding on what people got on looking like that..."

needless to say, we got off the stage and exited the club. Kitty and I crunk. JR was sullen and Kel (santa pic chick) was like whatever. she left the stage when BB started mess. "I don't fight for no-one. I love you guys but naw"
My thing is, a lil moral support? You don't have to throw blows but come on... you didn't have to high-tail it. episode of "Girlfriends" when Toni ran from a fight the others got into is what comes to mind...

alright y'all. Must go watch "This Week with George Stehphanodakacidilpolos" my new obsession

The Color of Water

i read that book a couple of weeks ago and now I'm scarred. Scarred and scared.

I'm at the point where I want to know what's going on with Drew's family. Point is the wrong word... more like crossroads. I can keep on going the route we've been going; me not knowing who from what and honestly being happy (for the most part)

OR

I can find out something I'm better off not knowing about.

do i want to know why i haven't met his fam? do i want to know that his people have disowned him for dating a gentile? do i want to let my imagination keep getting the best of me?

or

do i want to be blissfully unaware? (for the most part)


see, these questions come up every once in a while. i'm chillin real hard and then it hits me, "i still don't know his mom!"


Granted, every situation is different but, a close family friend of ours, the people who got us acclimated once we moved from Boston (the Silver.steins) told my mom to tell me to be careful of the Jewish mom and her boy. Jewish women, more than dads, don't play about their family; who comes in and out of it. A mutal friend of Drew and I has a Jewish father and a Haitian mother and she was telling me her Jewish grandparents were livid, furious, ashamed of and at their son... until they saw their grandaughter (that would be her). Now they can't get enough of her OR her son, their great who is totally black (Pops is from Camer.oon).


there are so many things running around my head right now... i'm a family person and I know that he is... or was one too. it almost saddens me that he's not the family person he used to be and it might be cause of me. i may be taking it personally, but how can i not?

facebook challenged

giant sign outside it gal


me in awe of giant sign


somebody's too cool to smile in the it gal...