King Kong aint nothin' on me

You know that scene in Training Day where Denzel is ranting? I feel like that. Today is not the day and I am not the one.

Still Hustling

I'm tired and I think I need a bigger apartment. That is all.

Florida, Road Trips and Hustling

I've returned. Last Wednesday I left for FL for a callback interview, to celebrate my sister's 20th birthday and to pick up my "new" car. The weekend was busy but very good. I first would like to say GO GATORS! They beat Georgetown to advance in the NCAA tournament. They are playing George Mason for a chance to play in the finals. The last time my boys were in the Final Four I was a junior in college and they lost to Michigan State. My Gators need to take a chunk out of George Mason's ass.

As I said before, I had a busy weekend. I am hustling like Nino Brown to find a job by this summer. I had a callback interview and managed to get 3 other meetings for a total of 4 meetings in two days. It was rough, but I did it. I must be giving off the interview vibe because a firm in DC contacted me about wanting to talk to me. My mom says that if I keep hustling, I'll find something so I'll keep up the Nino Brown act for a little while longer. I also hung out with SD and DS as I always do when I'm home and had great sushi. I have to give a shout out to SD for driving me the hour to see my sister's awesome apartment and to pick up my car. She will get good Karma for that. My sister had a birthday party at the house Saturday night and it was fabulous. The Sensation flew down for the party and to help me drive the car up and we had a really pleasant time. It is really comforting to see how nicely he is meshing with my family. I feel comfortable leaving him alone with my parents. I haven't felt like that in the past. We stayed up with my mom cleaning and talking and laughing and it was just great to see how good they get along. The drive up was FANTASTIC. I think that the Sensation and I are suitibly matched because we spent 12 hours in a car together and not once wanted to choke one another. I can't do that with very many people. I'm now back to reality and work but the glow of the good weekend is still with me. I feel like this is going to be a great week!

A Weekend of Fun

The weekend begins
This weekend was filled with tons of fun. My weekend began on Thursday night when I went to see Billy Joel with my sister. He was fantastic! Our seats weren't as good as we thought they would be, but the show gets 2 thumbs up and 4 gold stars. My only sadness was that he didn't do "For the Longest Time." Other than that, I was satisfied.

Friday
Friday was good because my sister and I went shopping and she clued me in to the secret to shopping for great stuff, especially earrings. My sister has a way of finding stuff that you would never even look at and making it work for you. I purchased 8 pairs of earrings on Friday. Good stuff! Friday night however, was a different story. My sis the fashionista went through my closet and throw away all of the stuff that in her words, "does nothing for you." I trust her judgement because she's been personal shopping for almost a year and does a great job, but I was sad to see some of the items go. I took four big bags of clothes and shoes to charity on Saturday. At least people will benefit from my fashion mistakes. *sigh* I'm going to miss my grey cuffed pants though.

Saturday
My Saturday began at 3:30 am. My sister had to be at BWI airport for her flight at 6 am, so we were in the car at 4:15. All I can say is OUCH! I get up early, but 3:30 is a bit much, even for me. I dropped her off, came back home for a hot minute, then headed to work. A friend of mine is turning 30 in May so a bunch of us are headed to Vegas, thus I have to work some OT in order to fund the trip. I was at work by 7:30 and out by 12. I like working early, don't have to deal with the crazies. SM was at work with me and then we proceeded to have Brown Girls' Day Out. Basically, BGDO is the running of all of your errands in one day. I provided the transportation, SM provided our list of things to do and good company and it was on like Donkey Kong! It commenced with a yummy lunch at Gordon Biersche and continued from there. One of our stops was David's Bridal. Let me just say that David's Bridal is of the devil and when I get married I will not frequent them at all. I am going to be a bridesmaid in a friends' wedding in August so I had to go and try on the top to our dresses. First of all, sizing for wedding apparel is FUCKED UP! The sizes run small. Very small. Like 2-4 sizes smaller than your regular size. That made me feel like they were trying to fit a hippo in a skirt. It angers the hippo and the hippo looks bad. While I was at work, I called David's to see what sizes they had before I made a trip for nothing. The fact that I was on hold for an HOUR (you can ask SM, I was angrily emailing every couple of minutes) should have told me I didn't need to set foot in that place on a Saturday afternoon. SM and I waited for over an hour before I got to try on a top that didn't fit. I was LIVID!! Luckily, SM is good at keeping folks from freaking out and she talked me out of stabbing the saleslady with a hanger. Bottom line- David's Bridal SUCKS. Anyway, after that we frequented some more places and I ended up buying $140 worth of shoes, which kind of made up for the horrible experience at David's Bridal. The rest of the evening went well. I came home, the Sensation came over and we watched TV. Fabulous day, nice night, yay Saturday!

Sunday
The Sensation and I went to a birthday brunch for TQN at El Golfo Restaurant in Silver Spring. FABULOUS! Good food and nice people. It kept me full all day. We then went to Target and then the Sensation told me my hair was getting a bit long and that I should get it cut. He also told me he could do it for me. Now, my hair and eyebrows are very dear to me and I don't just let anyone near them. This was a trust issue. I trust the Sensation with a lot of things but my HAIR?? I had to think on that. I thought and thought and thought and went back in forth in my mind. "He cuts his har and that looks fine, but if he jacks up my hair I will have to kill him in his sleep." I finally decided that I was going to let him do it. I mean, it is just hair right? (I said a prayer in the bathroom and kept a mirror in front of me while he was cutting). I am happy to say that my baby WORKED MY STUFF OUT!! My hair looks fabulous. I know now that I trust the Sensation with my heart and my hair. I will never let him near my eyebrows, but he is my new hair stylist.

All in all the weekend was great, but I'm composing my angry letter to David's Bridal as we speak. Have a great week compadres!!

Spent

Nothing earthshaking, I just woke up and I'm tired. Tired of work, tired of people, tired of everything. No one event has caused this, I think I just need a break. Sometimes dealing with life gets rough. Just need to relax, relate and release. I'm taking my ball and going home. I'll come back out and play tomorrow.

Band-aids

So I was reading my Essence magazine on the way home today and I discovered that there are band-aids that come in my color. That tickled me to no end. I'm going to have to find some to stick on my bumps and bruises. Nothing really exciting to report here. My sister the fashionista is coming up this weekend. I bought her a ticket up and a ticket to go see Billy Joel for her birthday so we are going to do it up right this weekend. Next week, I'm headed back down to Florida to continue my sister's birthday celebration and have some follow-up job interviews. We'll see what happens. Also, I just have to tell you all that you must go see Dave Chappelle's Block Party. It gets 2 thumbs up!!

More blogging due to network issues at work

I have returned from the B&B in Pennsylvania and it was wonderful! I had such a nice time just relaxing and not having to be up at a certain time to catch the metro at a certain time to be at work at a certain time. The Sensation and I just hung out. Lots of watching TV and cuddling and just being. No that is not a typo, sometimes I like to just be. No worries, no stress, just being. That's what this weekend was.

Now, this weekend I got to wondering why some people turn out to be frogs and some are princes. My dad is a prince. The Sensation is a prince. My crazy ex was a frog. My first love was a frog, but hopefully now has turned into a prince for someone. I want to know how people go from frogs to princes or vice versa? I mean, I know that some men never turn into princes and I want to know why? As it is there are too few princes to go around and women are fighting for frogs. NO! We shouldn't be forced to settle for any little tadpole who comes along. I want princes for everyone. I have a lot of friends who are wonderful women who deserve princes but keep getting frogs. I have one friend in particular who is wonderful. She is smart, she is classy,she is gorgeous and just a great person to be around. Last week she had a frog experience. This man wasn't even a frog, he was one of those big nasty bufo toads. I was livid for my friend because she deserves a prince. She deserves someone who will treat her the way her father treats her and the way her guy friends treat her. It made me angry that this horrible toad of a man hurt her feelings. Well ladies, I think the time is now. We need to make sure that the frogs know that we are mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore. We need to squish the frogs, find the princes and carry on. Maybe if we squish enough frogs they will evolve and we will have more princes. That is the message for the day, squish frogs and someday your prince will come. I believe it and you should to.

The system is down at work so I'm blogging

So this is the symbol that I got tattooed on my back last week. It is the Ghanaian symbol for strenth and humility. It is called "DWENNIMMEN" or in English, "ram's horns" I thought it was cool because I am an Aries girl and it signifies who I want to be if I haven't achieved that already. I love the tattoo and it looks great, but I forgot about the tatoo process. You get the tattoo and you are all hyped about it, but then it starts to heal and you know that it is going to be pretty when it is done, but it is a very un-pretty healing process. First of all, it is basically a big scab. I know, very gross. You also have to put lotion on it and make sure you keep it out of harm's way because if you do something bad to it while it is healing, you will end up ruining your tattoo. Then, there is the itching. It itches something fierce. Mine is itching right now and I have to resist the urge to take a back brush to it. Now there is the constant watching, the itching, and then it starts to flake. Talk about the nastiest thing ever! I feel like a big old lizard because my skin is peeling. I have a couple more days of this before I will feel normal again and I just wish it would hurry up. Now, to answer Glib Gurl's question, I have 5 tattoos and you can't see any of them, except for the one on my ankle, unless I show them to you. I think I like it that way for professional reasons, plus I don't think I'm that girl who has the big tattoo right on her ta-tas in full view of the world. That's just not me.

In other news, today we set out for the B&B and I am very excited. I've rented an SUV for our driving comfort and I'm just so happy that the Sensation and I are going to have some time away. Little does he know that he is going to be called upon to put lotion on my itchy back! Have a good weekend everyone. Ciao!