Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Friday Night Fights: The 50 Edition

 Another week has gone by... 

And I am still at the house. And I am at the point of just accepting things right now. 

This pandemic is NOT my fault is my constant mantra. And I think it is sinking in. 

You know what felt good this week? It is that I have my work review coming up and I had a FULL page of accomplishments. A full page. I got work done while teleworking. And that made me feel good indeed. 

Also, I had some good meals this week. I am working on my meals being 75% vegetables. Not sure how that is working out. All I can do is TRY. 

Happy 50th Birthday! Two Icons celebrate birthday #50 this week... 

Mary J. Blige and Regina King! 

I knew they were close to my age, but I didn't know they were 50 like me! OH JOY!

I so look forward to what the future holds for both of these ladies! 

Meal of the Week: Another juicy salad. 

This is one of my go to meals during the pandemic. And it is not only tasty, but so good for me :)

Glory!! 

Song of the Week. I haven't been listening to to much music, as my eyes have been glued to the television like everybody else. All this ish going on is BANANAS. Ugh.

Anyway, more Busta Rhymes... with Bell Biv Devoe

 

I love the '90s feels I get from this video.

So everyone in this video is 50 years old or older. Why do they all look so young!? 

Oh what a joy to be 50!

That is it for the week. My goal is to post more this year. I have been very bored, and I am posting on Facebook, which means I need to pay more attention over in these parts!

Have a great 3 day weekend! On purpose! 

Christmas Dinner 2020 Revisited

 I meant to post my Christmas dinner for last year.  It has been on my mind because it was unusually simple.  

And I was alone.

I made two pans of dressing. 

I only wanted a small side of dressing, but I don't know how to make a small amount.  Those are 8 inch pans, and the dressing is only a half inch thick, so I guess that is small. It was chicken and sausage dressing. I gave some to a friend, and froze the rest. It was SO good. 

I had baked chicken and a salad. 

This covid season, I have loved what I call a "juicy salad". 

That is a salad made with baby salad greens, blueberries, blackberries, diced green apples, and nuts and dried cranberries. I squeeze the juice from half an orange over it. It was so good. I really enjoyed it. 

That was my meal on Christmas. Alone. I say that because I remember Christmases with family, and due to covid, that's not possible. I enjoyed it, nevertheless. I don't remember much else about the day. I think I worked on one of my crochet projects and watched television. I think I watched the new Wonder Woman movie. 

I remember it being a nice day. 

And I am thankful for that.  

Wordless Wednesday: Impeached... AGAIN

 

Ten Tuesday Thoughts

 Ten thoughts! On a Tuesday!

1. The plot thickens with this whole siege on the US Capitol. Things are much deeper than we thought.

2. It has been an extremely dreary day in the ATL, one of those days when I wonder if the sun will ever shine again.

3. I had a two hour class today, and it was the longest, most boringnest two hour class EVER. I believe I walked off a couple of times. Played on my phone. Even put it on mute and watched TV. When I came back in at the end and was actually paying attention, something about homework was mentioned. 

Homework???

4. I had to list out all my accomplishments for my year end review today. Sigh. Interestingly I had a page of accomplishments. Not sure how that happened.  I know one thing though: my major accomplishment was to live to see 2021. Have mercy. Amen. 

5. On my midyear review in July of 2020, my boss said "You've done a very good job!"

6. My response... "Sir, what the world are you talking about? I been at the house for four months!"

He laughed. 

I didn't see anything funny.

7. I got a couple hundred bucks and 20 hours of time off for how great I did.  Okay Sir, I will take your word for it. I won't forsake a blessing. *ladylee snatches money and time with the quickness*

8. Where's this fly guy? Where's Damien from Omen III, I mean Jared? 

That dude... SMH... that's who has me worried. 

9. Whoever came up with this combo must be a pure genius.

Y'all try that out and let me know how it is. I ain't there yet.

10.  I wish for a day when all of my days don't meld together. I find that I have to really concentrate really hard to remember what day of the week it is.

That's my 10 thoughts! On a lovely Tuesday!

Enjoy your day!! 

Monday Night Musings

 Whew wee! This year has started off with a bang. Literally.

My sister called me on January 6th, and ask if I was alright. It was about 1:30 pm in the afternoon, and I'd just finished up a workplace zoom meeting. I turned on the television and the folks at the capitol were breaking in. Ugh.

"Lisa, are you alright?" my sister asked. 

"Girl don't nobody care about that! Damn them rioters! We took the Senate!"

"Oh, right," she said. 

THAT was the big news to me that day. The state turned completely blue. The state went blue for the presidential AND the senate. Who would have thought that could happen. That was like threading a needle.  And it was completely overshadowed by the terroristic activity at the US Capitol. 

They couldn't' even celebrate their wins, with the mess and the covid going on. But that ain't all that  important right now. Georgia is BLUE.

Then the president called and tried to shake down our Sec of State. And that didn't work out well at all. 

Then the weekend came and we saw what was happening, with all the cellphone footage. This "insurrection" (gee, a new pretty sanitized word), is much much deeper than it looks. Man oh man, this felt like an inside job. Will we ever know?

This could have been super tragic. SUPER tragic. I really think they came to hurt some folks, or worse. 

I mean, they constructed some gallows at the Capitol.

Ands someone brought a guillotine to the Arizona Capitol.. 

Ugh.  You got to be real entitled and crazy to bring a guillotine out. 

January is going to be a long month. The goal right now is to get through the Inauguration.

The President said he wasn't attending the Inauguration.  GOOD. Go wherever you are going to go. Go away. 

And what's CRAZY is the shutdown of ALL his social media. ALL. Wow. 

Even Pinterest. How do you get banned from Pinterest? Is there something going on on there that I don't know about? Because I usually just look up recipes on Pinterest. The president can't look up recipes? OH MY!

Let's get through this time. 

Hopefully getting control of the pandemic will become of importance once the new administration takes over. 

I pray it will. 

Happy New Year 2021!

STAR DATE

 

2021.01.01

Here's to a better Year. 

We made it...

Let's KEEP making it.