Monday Morning Ramblings

Two words:

It's cold

Current temperature in the ATL: 34 degrees

I'm still waking up in the morning expecting 75 degree weather. These are winter temperatures. I am thoroughly confused.

Shoot, I may have to go buy myself a coat. Humph.

Anyway, how was your weekend? Mine was fine. I did NOTHING. I was completely lazy. And I had things to do, like book club meetings and Atlanta Wr.iters Club meetings. So I know my name is mud right about now.

This is okay. It has been mud before with people. I'm sure it will be mud again.

One of these days I'll get my reading and writing groove back.

I will have you know that I turned off the automatic music player. It is still here, in the sidebar, but you better go down there and press the play button. So all of you worker bees should be jumping for joy right about now, lol. But it now contains 200 songs. It has been approved by my blog sista ATLien Nikki (with the exception of Ashanti's "Baby" and Club Nouveau's "Why you treat me so Bad" - she can't stand those songs). So feel free to enjoy those!

I am NOT going to work today. I looked at my total hours worked last week, and it came up to 49. I had some pretty interesting training on a piece of complicated instrumentation on Wednesday and Thursday, while at the same time having to work on other things. I would've clocked about 53 hours if it wasn't for my trainer getting into a car accident (Hope you alright, man).

So right now, the job can go sit on a tack. I'll be in tomorrow.

Humph.

I wanted to paint this weekend, but I didn't. The color I picked out is supposed to be a burnt orange type color, but when I threw a patch on the wall, it was a hot mess.

I have a very small house, but a LOT of natural light and recessed lighting. My kitchen, dining room, and living room are basically one great room. So whatever color I put up, I will have to look at it ALL THE TIME. The light hits that ish and it's like WHOA! I don't think I can look at that color every day. That would drive me NUTS.

So I've decided to throw different color splotches up on the wall and peruse them. Whichever one I like, I will work it out with that. No bold colors, though. I may have to go with something neutral. We'll see how that works out.

What do I plan to do today?

1. Go get my passport picture taken and get my application done.

2. Go get some prescriptions filled. There is nothing worse than running out of medication. I think I know all that I need, so that should be quick and fast.

3. Go do some grocery shopping. I tend to this every two weeks. I only need about 30 dollars worth of stuff, mostly fruit and veggies. Yeah, I should've done it this weekend. But like I said, I was lazy.

4. I haven't been writing worth jack lately. I'm being hardheaded. Got MUCH to write. I may spend an hour today. Not sure.

5. Work on two birthday cards that need to be mailed out by Wednesday afternoon.

6. I may call my father today and stop by his house. It would have to be quick. Not sure how he would feel about that, but it's all good. I don't see myself with him all day. But I will at least call, and see if we can set up an appointment (that sounds weird, don't it).

Finally, 3 of my favorite songs.

Milira "Go Outside in the Rain"


One hit wonder indeed. She could sing, but she came out during that strange time on the coattails of Anita Baker and right before the surge of girl groups. Probably not true, but that's my take on it.

Stephanie Mills "Something in the way you make me feel"


That song along with "I feel good" reminds me of my first love. Everytime I hear them I am taken back to that time, some 20 years ago.

Don't you just love the old videos? I mean everyone has their clothes on. The songs are not raunchy. Oh, those were the Glory days!

Another one of my favorites:

"Husband" by Shirley Murdock



Now, I HATED "As We Lay", the prequel to this song. I was like, "Ah hell, now everybody gonna be cheating on their man." But Shirley redeemed herself on this song. And I especially like the well placed "dings" in the chorus.

ATLien Nikki and I discussed this on IM the other night. We decided that she probably didn't redeem herself, but was still kicking it with the married man. (That's the sanitized version of what we thought was going on, lol).

I've fooled with a married man before. There was no good conscience on my part to stop fooling around with him. It was him showing me the wounds on his chest made from his wife attacking him that uh, helped me decide to get the heck out of dodge.

He wasn't worth it. It was a curiosity issha with me anyway.

Wonder if anyone has made a song about that?

Hmmm...

Ya'll have a good week... on purpose.