Tuesday Ponderings-"You Suckas!!!"

What's up you SUCKAS!!!

Yeah, I called ya'll some suckas.

Why?

Because ya'll at work today, and I am NOT!!!

You suckas!!!!

In other words, I am still enjoying my vacation.

Yes, I am OFF! This is RARE! It feels GOOD!

I'll return to suckerhood next week! Right now, I'll let you all be some suckas. LOL!!

And anyone trying to reach me, leave my gub'ment email alone. Hit up my oldgirl email address. I check that regularly...

My holiday weekend. Well, the highlight of my holiday weekend was my making a pilgrimadge up to Charlotte NC for that Original Oldgirl's Serenity's Housewarming extravaganza...

You know you a bad sista when negroes are driving in and flying in from other states to attend your party. Goodness.

Well, I showed up with a car full of stuff: her blanket, a vacuum cleaner, a gang of wine, crawfish, shrimps and about 6 dozen cookies. I had a bunch of stuff I needed to give to the LBeezy and her baby boy, stuff that's been collecting on my dining room table for the past 3 months, lol.

Let's just say, there was a huge wrapping party at my house on Friday night, i.e., I laid up on the couch with a cold bottle of beer while I watched my sister Kentucky wrap EVERYTHING in bootleg dollar store Christmas paper. American Gangster played loudly on the DVD player.

"Kentucky, you know you like wrapping gifts. I HATE wrapping gifts. I know you love it!"
"No, I don't Lisa."
I frowned. "Oh you don't?"
"No."
"Oh well, that's too bad!" I point at the tall box with my bottle of beer. "Place a little tape on the back right there. The paper is sticking out."

LOL!!

Kentucky had her chance to say no to wrapping gifts. I'd been yelling all week at her about wrapping gifts because I don't like to. She'll stand up to me someday and yell "Hell no, Lisa!!"

I loaded up the car (not my car. My ish broke down last time I was up there. I drove Kentucky's luxurious ride, lol). I yelled at her for having NO air in her tires, so I had to find some air somewhere. GEEZ!!

My ride was nice. But Kentucky has so many controls in her ride. I was freezing cold the whole drive there. UGH!!

Then she had this CD of break-up songs in her car. That made me want to pull over and slit my throat.

And make a mental note to have a convo with her later. Hmm.

But there was one song on there that I love, that I haven't heard in a long time... And it is my Song of the month.

"Bitter" by Chante Moore

Youtube has disabled embedding for this song so go over there and have a look, if you like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmh8kb0plz8

'Tis a bitter song. It should've been titled "Nigga", but I suppose that is not a good thing. But that word is a formidable part of the chorus, most important part, really. She even mouths it in the video. Heck, I even found the unedited version, which happens to be over on my playlist. (Got a phone call about that yesterday: "Lee, where did you find that?" LOL).

I've been combing through old journals and similar material lately, looking for "myself" for lack of a better term to use, and I came across an account of an old argument I'd had with my ex-husband. I was SO enraged that morning and words left my mouth that I didn't even know had been trapped DEEP in my heart.

"I f*ckin' HATE you. I f*ckin' HATE your guts!!"

I think during that argument I used the "n" word a gazillion different ways, as a noun, prononun, conjuction, punctuation- every which way possible.

I remember the look of shock on his face. Shoot, I'd shocked my ownself! He didn't know what to do. I am terribly passive agressive by nature, which means I rarely fight or argue. RARELY. (People who know me, ya'll know how quiet I am). I just don't talk to you. I disappear, almost like I've fallen off the face of the earth. I'm still like that, but I am around people who force me to talk without punishing me for it later, so I am getting better (I suppose).

My man was buffed and carried a lot of guns and knives. He could've hurt me bad that day. I think he told me to go to hell after he got over the shock of what I'd said.

We spoke about it a couple of days later, ironically, after his Mama's funeral. We both apologized for our behavior. I remember standing in the yard, thinking of how pretty his brown eyes were in the afternoon sun...

...And how the relationship, and the marriage were indeed over.

Hard sigh. Big tear.

I think every sista has gone "there" before, where you are saying stuff that you didn't even know was in your heart, whether your goal was to hurt your man's feelings, or whether you REALLY hated dude. I am terribly violent, so I've thrown a punch or two in the process. We've all gone "there" in some way or another.

I like Chante's song, because she goes "there" in a very nice and loving manner. I don't remember a song being sung so lovingly about bitterness. Hmm.

Try that with your man, ladies! You'd get laughed out the frickin' door if you do!

Me and ATLien Nikki were wondering what Kadeem Hardison did to ol' Chante. She got a couple of crazy songs out there. Funny how everyone thinks of her "ex" when she sings. I know that trips him out!

Okay, enough of my meanderings...

Let's end this on a smurfy note. Since Chante Moore is one of my favorite singers, here's a couple more of my favorite songs by her.

"Love's Taken Over"



"Love's Taken Over" Quiet Storm REMIX!



"Chante's Got a Man"



You all have a great day... AT WORK!!

LOL LOL!!!

Holla at cha!!

Blanket Watch - "The Serenity Special"

Alright, I know ya'll have been tired of me hemming and hawwing about my current crochet project - a chocolate and crimson red blanket for That Original Oldgirl Serenity 30, on the occasion of her official housewarming.

As you can see, I think she may be already adapted to using it as her "cover of choice" while lounging and enjoying a glass of Boones Farm Reisling!

That's how you do the darn thang, Oldgirl!!

I've started naming these big adult blankets, lol. This one is called the "Serenity Special"


Man, I ain't NEVER had to make a LARGE blanket that fast. Most of it was my fault. Goodness. I have WAAAAAY too much stuff going on. Way too much. I must plan my time much better. I'm a lot better than that. I need to make these a 12-16 week projects, instead of an 8-10 week project!

And what was terribly crazy were the following repetitive IMs over the past week:

serenity23: hey chick
original_oldgirl: sup gal
serenity23: you working on my blanket?

Dooooohhhh!! I wanted to throw my laptop across the room. It was if she knew that I was sitting on the bed crocheting, listening to my blog playlist, and working on HER blanket.

I wanted to strangle her... But baby sisters don't know no better. Have to let it go. I kept her updated over the past 2 months ("I'm on square 368", "I'm on square 661", etc.)

My last IM, after being asked umpteen times over several weeks.

original_oldgirl: yeah, I'm done. I washed it, and it's in the dryer right now.
serenity23: yippee

Humph.

I must admit, it came out nice. I wasn't all that happy about the color combos (these are the colors of the accent pillows for her tan sofa), but after I did test strips, it was cool. I like that color combo, and these colors come in bulk and are not hard to track down. I plan on making a couple more as gifts in the next couple of years.

Since the detailing is a bit hard to see, I have a couple of close-up pictures that I took at home with the blinds open and a bit of sunshine to boot.

760 red squares/flowers instead of the 836 the pattern calls for. I got enough dayum sense these days to tailor these blankets to the recipients height or size. Bout time I got some sense in my head concerning such! STILL took 125 hours, due to silly mistakes. I need to cut that down to 120 at least.

The discussion about this blanket in advance were something else, especially since I ususally crochet a blanket as a suprise. These were the test strips for Serenity's Original blanket.

She had this GRAND vision of how she wanted her bedroom: all white, with tan walls. So I crocheted test strips and photographed them for the LBeezy's thoughts. There is a subtle difference between the top and bottom strips (pure white vs. soft white). LBeezy preferred the soft white. I liked that one a whole lot better also. Problem was, it looked dingy against the pure white. (We had thrown a bunch of white labcoats on the desk and threw the soft white on top. It looked dingy. Even our resident dude, Hen-Dog, was a bit disturbed by the dinginess).

But uh, i saved that soft white... will use later. I actually started on the tan and pure white.

Biggest problem: Serenity's doggone painter painted the bedroom walls the wrong color (gold instead of tan). She decided she liked the mistake. The whole idea was lost. Man, if I lived up in Charlotte, I would've gone over to that house on the low-low, make a few threats, and MADE that dude paint the ish right.

So, I ended up telling Serenity that I was crocheting a blanket for her, and that she should just pick out the colors from other tests strips, which were from the following...

I ain't sure what was up with the yellow. It said "gold" on the yarn package, and I decided to get a roll of that and make some testers to see what she thought.






After much discussion, Serenity decided she preferred the deep red and chocolate.

We went through the whole go-around of me yelling "ARE YOU SURE, CHICKEN[HEAD]?" She said yes, and seemed excited. I had to trek my ass all the way back down to the Southside to Union City and trade that doggone white and tan yarn in for the red and chocolate. Hard SIGH.

We found out later that the red was the wrong color. She said deep red, which means dark red to me. What she meant was the red of the color of her dress pictured above.

I called her a blind one-legged chicken[head] and kept it moving. HUMPH. I was NOT going back down to Union City to trade up yarn. The chicken was gonna have to take the dayum blanket and DEAL WITH IT.

Well, as you can see, she was quite happy with it. So much so that she didn't wait to open the gift with her other gifts. She opened it soon after I got there.

And she seems to be happy with it.



Well, I am not sure if she was happy, or if she was a bit tipsy off that wine she's drinking.



To tell the truth, I couldn't tell if she was giddy about the blanket, or just straight up lushed out.
I like to pretend she was a happy chicken because of the blanket!!

So Serenity...

You Original Oldgirl you...

I want to say congrats on your new house!

Just wanted to give you a small token of my appreciation.

I hope this blanket will be something you cherish always.

Hopefully as much as I cherish the freindship you've given me over the years...

Sarah Palin?

The Republicans played a serious card today, do you hear me?

I mean, they had five Aces in their hand. And they threw all that ish down.

I myself DID NOT expect for the Republican Party to pick a woman for the vice president nominee.

WOW!!!

So, I can breathe a sigh of relief. I can vote for McCain. Afterall, there's a woman running mate.

Yeah right.

I don't care if she is a woman. Whatever. I will still be a responsible voter and continue to study everybody's record and let the chips fall where they may.

This is some serious politics at it's best. And probably the reason I can't stand politics. It's all a game, and I just don't want to play.

There are a large amount of toss up votes at stake, however. And the key is to appeal to the toss up votes.

Let's see, there are a bunch of pissed off women out there who were Hillary supporters. Sara Palin is a HUGE worm on the hook to hook them in. She's a working class woman with 5 kids. That DEFINITELY has the Moms.

What else? She was raised by blue collar parents. That takes care of that demographic. You know, working class white folks want NO parts of Obama.

She just gave birth to a downs syndrome baby back in April. That takes care of all the voters concerned with disability issues.

Her oldest son is about to be deployed to Iraq. That takes care of some to the war dissenters. (Remember, McCain has two sons fighting in Iraq, so ya'll can't holler about that.)

Downside: Joe Biden is going to whop her arse in the Vice presidential debates. And rightfuly so.

Another downside: Republicans can stop hemming and hawwing about Obama not having experience. Shut the hell up with all that noise ya'll making, because it don't matter now now this chick is in the mix... Don't nobody know anything about her, and she has been govenor of Alaksa for less than two years. Although, she ran up into that office and left bodies laying all around, i.e., she is a bit crazy about stomping out folks...

They don't call her "Sarah Barracuda" for nothing.

Yep... They shook up the game with that. Even stunned the media with this one. The media isn't even focusing on Obama's acceptance speech last night as of now.

Obama has his work cut out for him. And he's run such a polished campaign that I'm sure he will work it all out.

So... if you weren't interested in McCain as our next president before, are you interested now that he has a female, blue collar hockey Mama as his running mate??

Is the choice THAT easy?

Hmmm...

I am OFF!!!

Guess what?

I am officially on vacation.



I am OFF!

This is RARE!!

It feels GOOD!!

I turned in my request for leave back in early June sometime. I didn't want ANY issues with some of the more "vacationing" members of our group who basically get to take off any time they please getting in my way of being off. I wanted first dibs on Labor day vacation and I GOT it!!

So yesterday, I was supposed to work a 10 hour day, from about 6:00-4:30 (I get to work at around 5:30 in the morning). My interim boss told me I had too much time in, and I had to leave around 12:30 p.m. This was an issue, as I had to compress all I had to do into half a dayum day.

My regular boss, the Darth Sista, is back from maternity leave, and we were trying to make some corrections to some paperwork for our audit last week. She has that awful lost "deer in the headlight" look, since she's been gone for 3 months. I didn't feel sorry for her. Whatever. I did what I had to do, but uh, she got a pretty blunt email around 11 a.m.

"Look, here's the stuff you want, I got stuff to do in the lab because you know I'm gone for a good week and a half! I AM LEAVING AT 12:30. I wrote everything up, you figure out the formats, blah, blah BLAH."

I know she kicked the hard eye roll after reading that email!!

I wanted to yell "Welcome back to work, Darth Sista!" with the HEAVY foot stomp!

LOL!!

At 12:30 p.m., after cleaning my desk, I stood in the cubicle area I share with so many and yelled...

"Ya'll have a FINE FINE holiday. Have a good one. I'm outta here."

I got a few strange looks.

"Let me tell ya'll something," I continued. I got real loud. "Don't NOBODY call me about nothing. I hope ya'll work it out with the Mass specs [equipment I'm in charge of]. I made sure it was working, so don't nobody bother me!"

I pointed hard at my coworker Hen-Dog, who lives on my street, a few houses down.

"Look here, boy, do not knock on my door. The cats will be staring at you through the window, singing 'Lee said we can't open the door, Hen!' The only way you'll see me is if you squeeze down my chimney. That's IT!!"

Hen talked a little trash. I walked off, singing:

"I'm walking on sunshine... YOOOOO-WAAAAAAAY"

(Yes, I changed up them lyrics).

I stuck my head in several labs and yelled for them to have a FINE holiday.

I was even nice to the old creepy flirty janitor who thinks he still got some rap left. He likes to corner some of us in the halls and elevator and talk game. Dirty ol' man!!

"Where you going, girl? You going to class!?"
I usually work to dodge his rolling garbage can, but I marched straight at him, as he was in front of the elevator I wanted to catch. "NO! I am OFF!!"
"Well you have a good one."
"You too!!"

I almost yelled "You too, you Dirty Ol' Man, you!!"

(Humph. I must blog about my run-ins with that fool.)

I woke up at around 4 or 5 this morning. I got up and IMMEDIATELY started crocheting.

Kentucky came downstairs around 5:45 am. She leaves around 6 in the morning, and she was looking me with the hard side-eye.

"How you gonna be off, and be up so early, Lisa?" she asked as she dragged the ironing board out of the laundry room. "I'd still be in bed."

"I got crocheting to do. Plus I am too EXCITED to just lay in the bed. I am OFF!!"

Kentucky said nothing. Just ironed her clothes. No telling what that gal was thinking.

LOL!!!

I've been watching television and trying my hardest to finish this blanket. I took some breaks to do some housecleaning. Yacked on the phone with LadyTee and The Cowgirl Cre. Writing Class starts tonight so I have to get my notebook and a writing sample together to turn in.

But that's about it!!

Maybe I can catch up on some of my posts. I am terribly behind!

~sigh~.

But all I know... I am just glad to be OFF!!

Never fear, I will be posting...

Ya'll have a FINE holiday weekend!!

I know I will!!

Monday Morning Randomness...

Happy Monday Morning!

Ready to crank up a new week?

I am!!

(No, I haven't been drinking too much coffee. I ain't high either. Just glad my audit crap at work is over, and we can all return to being calm).

LOL

Nothing but randomness today, just to get me started...

My weekend. This was a slow weekend. The only reason I left the house was to go get some medicine. That's IT. The satellite repairman came over on Saturday morning. My living room reciever hasn't been working for about a month, and I uh, been too lazy to call them. Dude went outside and giggled a wire outside which ran up to the satellite, and then had the nerve to look at me like I was crazy for not doing it myself.

Humph. I don't care. And if it happens again, he'll be bringing his behind right on about to giggle the wire again. I ain't touching a doggone thang!

Somebody remind me to switch to Comcast because I am sick of DirecTV.

Kentucky gave me a pedicure on Saturday night. I've been a crocheting fool, camped out on the couch, trying my BESTEST to finish up Serenity's blanket for next Saturday's housewarming...

The convo was interesting.

"What color you want on your toes, Lisa?"
"Dark red."
"I don't have that. How about pink?"
"NO!"
"You want a french manicure?"
"NO!"
"Do you want a design? Some little flowers?"
"Hell NO!"

We squabbled about that design craziness for a good minute. I threatened to kick her in the head if she DARED paint a dayum flower on my toenail. UGGH!

I know I got on her nerve, though, with my yipping and yapping.

"Kentucky, you pulling my big toe too hard! Whatchu trying to do, break it?"
"Gal, do you know what you doing?"
"Are your pedicure tools clean? Because I don't want any of your toe jam fungus near me."
"Watch Kramer! He looks like he's about to jump in the water bath!!"
"DO NOT let anything splash up on my white furniture!!"

Humph. I don't know if she's going to do my nails again. I know I wrecked her nerves good fashioned!

But free is good. I will make her do it again in a couple of weeks!

I missed a Financial Freedom Fighters meeting on Sunday. My gang leader called and was like "Lee, you gonna make your meeting?" I hemmed and hawwed about not knowing. So I know I am in trouble. Wonder what the punishment will be. I mean, I just didn't know. I had a couple of questions about a debt that I have. I was even thinking about it on Saturday, wondering when we'd have a meeting.

Humph. No excuses! I need to buy a calendar! My social schedule is getting ridiculous, lol!!

I'll be there next month, Tiffy D!! I surely will...

Olympics. The Olympics is over. Now, we can get back to our regular programming...

There were a lot of events I liked, among them, that Synchronized swimming. That was something else...

It don't look all that hard.


Attention, 2nd 68 Blog harem!! What's up, ladies?

Check it out! Meet me at the swimming pool behind King 2nd 68's palace today! We gonna start practicing! I think we can compete in the 2012 London games!

Man up, ya'll! We can do anything if we put our minds to it!

Presidential Election. President Obama finally picked his running mate, Senator Joe Biden.

I don't know what to think of that. I'm just glad he didn't choose Billary. You know First Lady Michelle probably had something to do with that, lol...

Joe Biden talks plenty of trash. That's all I know. Wonder how that's gonna work out? I have banned myself from ALL political TV lately, since it thoroughly depresses me. I MAY have a look at this Democratic convention. I WILL watch the debates. That's it. Anything else is a bunch of mindless whining and speculation about who said what and how they held their mouth when they said it.

Must be nice to have that to whine about! Doggonit, there are people out here who are having trouble making ends meet. I wish they would talk about THAT!

Okay

Video of the week: Courtesy of That Southern Black Gal...

Yeah, uh... you make your own mind up about this one.



Yeah, I can't get that hook out of my head. Thanks alot, Southern Black Gal. HUMPH!!

That's it for me... Have a nice day:)