Frickin' Freezin'

[26 Jan 2007|12:52pm]

[ mood | cheerful ] [ music | Sunshine At Midnight - Sunshine Anderson ] Yeah it's cold yall... 2 below with the wind chill to be exact. Prince Charles & Camilla are visiting the city today to get a taste of our Arts & Culture scene... Philadelphia has one of the most amazing Mural Arts Programs in the country and the Royal's will be checking out a few of them in our Mantua section of the city. Of all the places in the city to visit Mantua wouldn't be one of my first choices... but they do have some beautiful murals in that area. The play was HILARIOUS! It was basically a comedy/musical about a bunch of geeks and how the members ended up being the creative minds behind all of the major computer companies (Oracle, Linux, Microsoft, and Apple to name just a few). The play really ends up being about the rise, fall, rise of both Apple and Microsoft. I never thought that it would be as funny as it was! I got the good belly laugh that I so needed! This theatre company was superb! Their timing was amazing. There was this one scene where Bill Gates was trying to woo the woman that represented Netscape into merging with Microsoft. She was playing along and when she had him right where she wanted him she pulled his pants down as a last "thumb in your eye" tactic. Well she used so much force when she pulled them down that she pulled down his shorts and all... LOL For a split second I was wondering if that was part of the show... seeing this big, floppy... well you know what I'm getting at... LOL. The look on his face let us all know that it was not part of the act... LOL His eyes got really big and he promptly pulled up ALL of his clothes and did a little jig... He stammered a bit with his next few lines but he found his stride and the show went on flawlessly. I bet he wears a ONESIE for the remainder of the shows run... LOL I think I'm going to see it again before it leaves Philly.

Post B-Day Bloggin...

Good Wednesday Mornin' Folks...

Hump Day and all that good stuff!

I had a blast yesterday... Ate so much food it was ridiculous!

I got some housekeeping out of the way early in the morning... Had to get some bloodwork done at the doc... Even popped in on my Twin for a little while. The children she works with are off the chain... a bunc of little people with all types of personalities! I don't know how she finds the strength to goto work everyday... and for 14 years at that. We all got gifts... and ONE of hers has always been being able to handle difficult situation... That one definitely qualifies!

After that I met a friend for lunch at Dolce this fantatic, Italian inspired spot on 3rd & Chestnut. I had chicken marsala... who doesn't love chicken smotherd with fresh vegetables and gravy... LOL (I ain't a big gurl for nothing) I even got flowers... A beautiful bouqet that included my favorite flower (Stargazer Lilies... just in case you plan on sending me some... LOL).

Now I was beyond stuffed! And I still had dinner plans with my oldest set of friends on this planet. So I decided to walk a little bit to knock the spirit of sleep off of my back! It was a BEE-YOU-TEE-FULL day! If you know me you should also know that I have only had three birthdays in all my life that it hasn't rained.... Yesterday was one of them.... I decided to walk up to this yarn goods shop calledLoop (they don't have a website yet but you know I will keep u up to speed when I find out). They are located on 19th & South. So you know I had a nice little hike from 3rd & Chestnut. Got to the shop and it was the cutest little store. The had all the yarns grouped by type then color. The people that work there were actually knitting & crocheting little projects. They have a section of books with tips, project ideas, and even starter kits for beginners like me. I have been trying to cast on since December and have not been able to do it. Well if you know anything about knitting you know that casting on is kind of essential to the whole knitting concept! If you can't get the yarn on the needle properly... You won't be knitting! I am here to say that I was absolutely giddy last night when I got home and decided to pick up my yarn and needles again. My Twin is a witness yall... I totally was able to cast on 18 stitches AND complete another two rows! I was so excited! So as long as I keep at it I should be able to create some beautiful (at least in my eyes... LOL) pieces!

After my adventure at Loop I made my way to my dinner party. I had a blast! Didn't think I could eat another bite... That was until I saw the Strawberry Shortcake! It was fantastic! Add to the mix two of the cutest 6 & 7 y/o girls and you have the makings of another faboo evening.

Got home last night and pretty much crashed (after being able to cast on... I was spent! LOL!

Thumpin Thursday...

So ya gurl had a wild day yesterday…

I forgot what it was like to be around a bunch of hormone raged children who don’t know the meaning of restraint.

I have witnessed 11 y/o children with makeup, acrylic nails, tongue and chin piercings (yeah man… freaked me out!). I even played double-dutch with my client today…

That was until all the damn helicopters, from every network imaginable, began swarming the neighborhood. I TOLD YALL TO PRAY FOR ME AND MY CLIENT… Didn’t realize how much we would need it. We (the students and staff) didn’t know what the hell was going on… Come to find out… two students got shot just a half a block away from the school. Next thing we know people are coming out in SWAT team suits trying to escort us all inside.

WE WERE OFFICIALLY ON LOCKDOWN

All the students were ushered to their respective classrooms and not only did they lock all the perimeter doors (like Crazy Joe in Lean On Me) but they also had the teachers lock all the classrooms so you couldn’t get in or out… It was a mess.. The kids were terrified (the helicopters sounding like they were about to land on top of the school didn’t help). All in all the two high school student that got shot were able to be released from the hospital later yesterday afternoon.

MAN TALK ABOUT A HELLIFIED FIRST DAY AT WORK!

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In other news....

C.A.K.E. has made a return with an event at North By Northwest (In Germantown) tonight at 9pm... Come on out and party at one of my favorite hangouts... I'm gonna kick off my birthday celebration a bit early... LOL After the day I had yesterday I need it!

Make the most of your Thursday people... I plan to
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Hump Day Haps!

Well today is the day folks...

What day is that you say???

IT'S WEDNESDAY!!!!! (SHEESH! can you say INTERVENTION)

(seriously man... you need to stop smoking that stuff if you didn't know it was the middle of the week!)

Naw but on the real... I can almost see the end of the week!

Saturday is gonna be a blast! But before we get to there...

I'm about to get ready for my new gig... I'll be providing behavioral health services to school-aged children in their schools and in their homes. Pray for me yall... And seriously pray for them... I don't do the little people often. So this is a switch for me. This is just temporary ( and by temporary I mean that I'll have if for as long as it takes for me to find a different gig or complete graduate school... whichever comes first... Hell maybe both! LOL).

So no links today kiddies...

Well maybe I'll give ya a lil one... LOL ( you know I've never met a link I didn't like... LOL)

Check out these dumb a$$ criminals below (you might spot one of your relatives up in there) Check out the rest of the page HERE http://www.dumb.com/dumbcriminals.htm

Chicago: A man was wanted for throwing bricks through jewelry store windows and making off with the loot. He was arrested last night after throwing a brick into a Plexiglas window...the brick bounced back, hit him in the head and knocked him cold until the police got there.

Portsmouth, RI: Police charged Gregory Rosa, 25, with a string of vending machine robberies in January when he: 1. fled from police inexplicably when they spotted him loitering around a vending machine and 2. later tried to post his $400 bail in coins.

When Stan Caddell wanted to wash his Chevrolet, he backed the car into a foot of water in the Mississippi River at Hannibal, Missouri. When he got out to clean the car, it floated away. Police were able to retrieve the vehicle some distance downstream. According to an officer on the scene, no action would be taken against the driver because "you can't ticket a guy for being stupid..."

Kentucky: Two men tried to pull the front off a cash machine by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the front panel off the machine, though, they pulled the bumper off their truck. Scared, they left the scene and drove home. With the chain still attached to the machine. With their bumper still attached to the chain. With their vehicle's license plate still attached to the bumper.

A bank robber in Bumpus, Tenn., handed a teller the following note: "Watch out. This is a rubbery. I hav an oozy traned on your but. Dump the in a sack, this one. No die packkets or other triks or I will tare you a new naval. No kwarter with red stuff on them, too." Dr. Creon V.B. Smyk of the Ohio Valley Educational Council says such notes are, lamentably, the rule. "Right across the board, we see poor pre-writing skills, problems with omissions, tense, agreement, spelling and clarity," he moaned. Smyk believes that the quality of robbery notes could be improved if criminals could be taught to plan before writing. "We have to stress organization: Make an outline of your robbery note before you write it," he said. "Some of the notes get totally sidetracked on issues like the make, model and caliber of the gun, number of bullets, etc., until one loses sight of the main idea -- the robbery."

A lawyer defending a man accused of burglary tried this creative defense: "My client merely inserted his arm into the window and removed a few trifling articles. His arm is not himself, and I fail to see how you can punish the whole individual for an offense committed by his limb." "Well put," the judge replied. "Using your logic, I sentence the defendant's arm to one year's imprisonment. He can accompany it or not, as he chooses." The defendant smiled. With his lawyer's assistance he detached his artificial limb, laid it on the bench, and walked out.

A man in Orange County Municipal Court had been ticketed for driving alone in the carpool lane. He claimed that the four frozen cadavers in the mortuary van he was driving should be counted. The judged ruled that passengers must be alive to qualify.

A man was arrested for stealing a car. When he was taken to court for his arraignment the judge asked, how do you plead? Instead of saying guilty or not guilty the man said: "Before we go any further, judge, let me explain why I stole the car." The judge ruled in record time.

A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers. The first one shouted, "Nobody move!" When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him.

After drinking a little too much, Stewart Butcher went to sleep on a West Virginia railroad track. A while later, something woke him-- a 15 car coal train. "I raised up," said Stewart, "and it knocked me out..."

An Australian man accused of murdering his wife can't seem to get his story straight. June Mathew, John Rushton's second wife, testified that Rushton told her his first wife died of a heart attack, ran off with a Baptist minister after committing 55 acts of adultery, and drowned after being washed overboard. Rushton also claimed he was a nuclear physicist, a naval commander, and had been knighted for saving the Queen's life. Mathew, who was married to Rushton for five years, believed him because he was a "good talker..." but those pesky microtremors finally gave him away...

An off-duty police officer in Newark, NJ, had a pistol-shaped cigarette lighter, which he had been using all night while drinking at a local tavern. After many hours and drinks, he apparently mistook his 32 revolver for the lighter. When he went to light his cigarette, he shot and killed John Fazzola, who was seated 5 stools away at the bar...

Conspiracy Theories...

I told yall that I was a bit off the beaten path... This entry will solidify that...

I have long suspected that our gov't while publicly wrestling with the morality of cloning technology has been privately experimenting with it. It is my honest belief that they have cloned many people but one in particular... Heart Attack Jones... umm yeah... you know who I'm talking about... G Dumbya's sidekick... umm Tonto... naw I can't even taint Tonto like that... (He was a cutie... made me want some "Indian In My Family" but I digress... LOL).

I'm talking about the Dick. I mean the Vice-President... Cheyney. Where the hell has he been with all this shit going on down in the Gulf... of Mexico that is. You couldn't turn on any available media with out seeing his ass defending our Pres with good ole' Colin and we can't forget Dr. Rice... on every decision that has been made regarding foreign policy... namely the current endless war we are in.

Yall ever see the Manchurian Candidate? It was a movie with Denzel Washington (who just gets sexier with time). Essentially the movie was about a group of people who funded the programming of an individual and then guided him into making life choices that would land him in the White House as VP. I think that Cheyney has long since kicked the bucket and that the board of Halliburton took some of their year end bonus and funded a "special project"... called... You guessed it... Heart Attack Jones...

Just imagine them (the financial backers for this project) lying in wait... for what you may ask... For G. Dumbya to bumble up enough times to get his ass impeached... Yeah I told ya I was off my rocker on this one... How in the hell else can you explain the fact that SOMEONE convinced him that HE should conduct an investigation on why there was a delay in the response to the victims of Hurricane Katrina? At first I thought that it was because they wanted to be able to spin it in their favor... Now I'm thinking that's what they told HIM in order to get him on board...

So the next time you see good ole Dick.... Be certain to check for any abnormalities... Or actually if he looks just TOO symmetric... we just might have a cloner on our hands... LOL

A Note To Black Conservatives

This is from a black blogger to conservative black bloggers.

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/09/letter-to-black-conservatives.html

Dear Black Conservatives,
I would laugh at you, if thousands of dead didn't litter the streets of New Orleans.
Have you read what your conservative allies have written? How they regard black people?
To all you black ministers doing "outreach" with Bush: as Dr. Phil says, "how's that working for you?"

Seen enough dead black corpses yet to get the point? George Bush is incompetent. He kills Americans with his slovenly ways. Sure, he talks big, but underneath is a tiny man, a man who cannot see beyond his nose.

Sure, he talks about being a God-fearing man, but when it comes to Jesus's good works, he could care less. He did nothing to allivate their suffering.

How can you face your congregations now? How can you look them in the face, after your betrayal of them is in such stark relief. The man you thought would help you has done nothing but let people suffer and die. How will you explain that to your parishoners? Getting government funding is more important to me than my soul?

To the lackies like Deroy Murdoch and LaShawn Barber: your God, George Bush, has failed you. Have you seen what they think about you, Powerline, Instapundit, Ben Stein, they all think those black people deserve to be dead. The people you suck up to, the people you rely on for praise and support , they hold black people in contempt, in disdain. In short, they are now saying what they have always thought, always believed as they smiled in your face. Deroy, how can you stand to fetch Jonah's coffee, when he suggested the women and children in the Astrodome grow gills. Doesn't it make you ashamed, as you shine his shoes and fetch his laundry, to work with such a man.

LaShawn, after all your praising of Bush as a good Christian, is this what your Bible says: let the meek drown beacause it isn't my fault. I am not responsible. Is that how Jesus would act. How can you look in the mirror, knowing you defended these people, people who mock the suffering of your people.

Armstrong Williams, you knew your conservative friends would abandon you at the drop of a hat, now they abandon an entire city of black people to drown and starve. They blame them for their opwn fate, even laugh at them, insult their intelligence. How does that make you feel? How can you look at yourself and realize you have not only defended, but promoted these people and their agenda, and when your people were in trouble, would rather toss insults than offer help. Doesn't it prove the bankruptcy of your life so far, the waste it is?

John McWhorter, can you look at the faces of the dead and dying, the suffering of the victims and justify your subservience to whites? Do you now get the reasons for black anger, human anger. It may make you uncomfortable, but do the dead make you any more comfortable? How can you serve the people who would mock the fate of your breathern.

Black conservatives must face the reality that they have been lackies to some of America's bitterest racists, people who would mock the suffering of children because they were the wrong color. Doesn't that trouble your sleep?

Black conservatives have betrayed the community and must now come to account for their treason. How can they face themselves, much less the community. They have been the allies of racists and those who hold even black children in contempt.

The dead and suffering of New Orleans demand no less.

I often find myself wondering what goes through peoples heads when it comes to love sometimes... Men in particular. Women as more of an afterthought. We all say we want the dynamic and fulfilling relationship but don't have a damn clue what to do with them once they have have it in front of them.

Now I'm not talking about taking care of your business in the bedroom. That goes without saying. I don't know many people who would be willing to stay in a monogamous relationship where they are not satisfied physically (at the very least), who would be willing to keep the relationship monogomous if at all.

What I'm talking about are those things that NURTURE a relationship from infancy far into maturity. Why is it WE are quick to pull out the stops to win someone's heart & affections... But fall short on the followthrough.

So Tell Me...

WHAT QUALITIES DID YOUR MATE EXPRESS IN THE BEGINNING OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP THAT YOU WISH THEY WOULD RESUME?

WHAT HABITS HAVE YOU NOTICED IN YOUR MATE THAT YOU HAD NO CLUE WERE THERE IN THE BEGINNING?