You Need More People!

I finally forced myself to sit through this painful video and its not convincing. Mariah...everyone knows that you weren't born with a 'silver-spoon' in your mouth. However, 'hood chick' is not a believable role for you.





Sigh...

As a complete sidenote: if anyone can name ANY instance in which "the Dream" nailed (hell... or just did moderately well in) a live performance I'd really appreciate it.

Remember the Time

I haven't spent much leisure time with 'little people'(kids) in quite some time. I occasionally stumble on Nick or Dis.ney, when I can't find anything to watch, but that's pretty much it. Yesterday, we had a family join us for Sunday dinner. The family included a 15-16 year old boy and a 8-9 year old girl.

After dinner, the boy went to play with my cousins. The parents went their respective ways...the dad was on the patio chatting it up with my uncle and the mom was chatting it up with my aunt & mom. The little girl got the family room to herself, while my Gramps lounged in the living room.

The little girl quickly pulled up Nick on the computer and had the TV on the Dis.ney lineup. It was a whole foreign world to me. Forgive me for aging myself, but I remember when Dis.ney didn't even have commercial breaks. I also remember a time when Saturday morning cartoons were not to be missed. The new programming was a bit off-putting...

So here are the questions for the morning (an ode to Kiddie days)....What are your answers?

1. What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?

2. What was your favorite TGIF Line Up?


3. Can you finish this song? "It's Friday night/And the mood is right/Gonna have some fun....."

4. What cartoon character sheet set did you have?

5. Did you have a character lunch box? If so who was on it?

6. Do you know what these are?



7. Did you have a slap bracelet? If so what color/pattern.

8. Did you see any of these movies in the theatre? Who Framed Roger Rabbit, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Land Before Time, The Goonies, Short Circuit, Any of the Back To The Future movies.

9. Did you have sneakers with a pump or lights?



10. Name the Artist for these lyrics:

A. You got the right stuff, baby
Love the way you turn me on
You got the right stuff, baby
You’re the reason why I sing this song
All that I needed was you
Oh girl, you’re so right
And all that I wanted was you
You made all (my dreams come true)

B. You got to cool it now
You got to cool it now
Ooooooh watch out
You're gonna loose control
Cool it now
You got to slow it down
Slow it down...
You're gonna fall in love

C. Girl, you know it's true.
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh I love you.
Yes, you know it's true.
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh I love you.
Girl, you know it's true.
My love is for you.
Girl, you know it's true.
My love is for you.

Enjoy your morning :)

False Sense Of Blogging

I've realized that my posts have become erratic. When I used to go a few days without blogging, I'd have a sense that something was 'not right.' It felt as though I needed to purge my brain. However, I don't have that feeling anymore. Last night I figured out why. I get my "instant, say what needs to be said fix" here. (Sigh) I'm addicted and can't help it.

So now that I'm cognizant of the problem I'm working to get back on track. Wish me luck.

Damn

My sweets and I are off kilter. I think we had an argument about last night's argument, apologized, went into our own separate corners to cool off and still haven't gotten over it all by 7:11am.

My stylist thought today's 7am appt was tomorrow. So I'm sitting here at the shop....with my whole day's schedule thrown off.

My eyebrow lady took off this week to spend spring break with her kids.

My brows are braidable.

It was cool this morning, I put on sleeves and now that the sun is up its already 10,000 degrees.

My sister is coming home this weekend! But I think my weekend is all booked up(sigh).

Because we were arguing(and by arguing I mean not talking to each other) I didn't get to debut the original Easter dress for Sweets and now I'm having second thoughts.

Banana is holding my Easter dress runner-up until 10:30am....I'm not going to make it.

My boss gave me an assignment yesterday and I wrote it down somewhere and lost the paper.

I'm having an internal battle about my nails....AGAIN.

I talked to my stylist yesterday about my haircut....the consensus is that I'll need to go back to a relaxer....I have been relaxer free since 2003.

I've been up since 3am and my day won't end until 9pm ish.

This 'momma' in the shop smiled sweetly at the receptionist in the shop and looked at her girlfriend sitting next to her and said while smiling "she (the receptionist) is so ghetto, bless her heart, she is the new work force and its a shame."

Then smiled even harder and let out a small chuckle and said: "giirrlll, my 11-year-old could do a better job...bless her heart"

I think the shop owner walked by and gassed me ....while my mouth was open.

I'm dyeing my hair medium/dark brown....while reading reports on light brown being the color of the season.

Malawi officials deemed an orphanage a better place to raise a child than Madonna's care.

Why?

Lil Wayne & Pharrell-Yes

[Lil Wayne]
yes i do it big
call me little astronomical
weezy f baby and the F is for phenomenal

(Sigh) Why????.....This is why kids can't spell!

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T.J. Hol.mes on CMM[sic]

"Christiane, How rare is it for the Queen to call Obama up and say come on over for some tea..."

[Pause]

Christiane: "I don't think she said come on over...."

Why is it that some anchors are unable to 'turn off' their 'lax-ness'????

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Why is it that when you delete a post from blog.ger the post still appears in Google reader?

Hmm....

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Mims-Move (If you wanna)

Model on my arm no homey I don't have to pay-her
All I have to do is tell her where I wanna take-her
Catch us out in Italy, then we in Jamai-ca
Caught up in the rapture, like Anita Ba-ker

Hmm......so if Mims records this video while singing to one of the models on Candy Girls. Isn't she on his payroll and wouldn't that be an exact negation of the lyric?

Why front? Just wondering.....Carry On....

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The NYT posted an article about Mic.helle Oba.ma, her husband and her closet:

“[President Mr. O]’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.”

She teasingly imitated him: “You didn’t need any more shoes. The shoes you had on yesterday were fine. Why can’t you just wear that for the rest of the presidency?”

Sigh...why is that so something I would say!

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Why can't I pay my Spri.nt prices with a AT.T phone with Ver.izon service offerings?

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Watching the G20 summit protests and remembering the Inauguration coverage...why is it that news agencies like to place a reporter and camera person in the midst of loud and rambunctious crowds and then act surprised when they can't hear the response, the live feed is interrupted, or the interview is as interesting as dry paint.

Reporter: Standing here in the middle of the masses.....
Audience: (that's obvious...we're watching you stand there)


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Why is this cute in print, but looks terrible on TV?


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Speaking of Mic.helle Oba.ma:

Why was I equally and instantly offended and amused when Kat Williams said that you know if you walk up on Michelle she will smell like Motions and Cocoa Butter....

Linear Posts/Weekend Recap

The last post was a random, but necessary outburst. However, for those who are regular readers you might have noticed that I fell off the face of the planet mid-week last week. I got too busy living life to blog about it, but no worries...Here's a recap....

Last week was terribly busy. We had a corporate visit (job 2) which required a week of prep work and frantic cleaning etc. The visit happened on Thursday and was successful (sigh of relief). Job 1 was filled with 8-9 hour days of scanning employee files...hundreds of files for days....sigh.....

Friday was a beacon of sunshine and Sweets and I peaced out of the Spring Bling and Boat Show mayhem and headed north to Orlando. The trip was a two-fold venture...our(Sweets and I) willing and gracious Inauguration hosts were vacationing in Orlando AND we (Sweets and I) needed some debauchery time with Sasha Fierce (pic to follow), Esteban, Ash & Brew.

The weekend was glorious! And...you'll be proud of me....Everyone has now actually received their gifts. The downside to giving everyone their gift? I don't have a camera @ the moment...but I'm working on it. Brew was on his grind and posted all of the pics from the weekend (Thanks!) so I can share them with you.

Ash, TashPash(&Noah) aka Inauguration host, Dani
Note: Noah won't be actively present in our photos until July some-time but we still acknowledge his presence/baby bump :)

The men....LOL...they refused to stand any closer LOL!!!

Brew, Esteban, Sweets, Mr. Mac
I think everyone in this pic is a 'regular' with the exception of Mr. Mac...he's Tashpash's other half....
Note: Happy First Anniversary to you both....Marriage is a beautiful thing.

Note: Yes....that is my ridiculously large bag in the shot....It needs its own seat...Blame Sweets for enabling my mammoth bag foolishness

We ended the night here:

Great food, fantastic live music, dancing all night....

Ok...so the live singer is fantastic! We saw her(Chaundrian) at the AKA Lounge and heard she was performing at BB King's and had to come and see her do her thing. To be accurate it's Chaudrian featuring Soul Kamotion.....

Note: Now....Sigh...I happened to glance over and make eye contact with this man as he was palming the bootie of his dancing mate. AWKWARD!
Chaudrian is blowing in the background (as usual....SANG!)

Oh...and as promised...Sasha (Fierce)...Esteban's leading lady (sorry Ash) was in full effect the entire trip...Gotta love a dog with cat mannerisms (lol).

Great trip & Great weekend :)

Toothless B*tch

8pm Tuesday

Text message from my brother: The internet is down what's the log in information to reboot?
Text from Dani: (all the information to reboot the system)

5am Wednesday

Dani: (Rolls over grabs computer to login and start working) Hmm...its not working....

(Dani then grabs a robe...trudges to the living room....struggles to find a flashlight....pulls all of the cords out.....struggling...struggling.....struggling.....)

Dani: (Sigh) That toothless b*tch!

Epiphany: The brother got the information that he needed and instead of rebooting the system and going about his business, he connected his video game system directly to the dsl modem and left the computer and wireless router disconnected.
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Issue #2

Now the internet is up and running...it's 5:45 am....and I'm pulling up the work logs to see what articles were covered by the night team. I'm seeing good numbers in the major categories. Hmmm....what I'm not seeing is any coverage of Obama's arrival in London.

Now...on a personal level, my interest in the G.20 Summit can be summed up by this lovely blog.

However, professionally, I need my team to be all over it. We have an article saying he's left the U.S., but nothing saying he ever arrived...anywhere....hmm....

Here's the kicker.....by the time I realized that we hadn't covered his arrival (which happened 15 hours earlier), he(Obama) was moments away from finishing a press conference with the U.K. PM......Can't cover the 2nd item until we cover the first one.....great.....its 5:53am.

Press conference finishes @ 6am. Effectively my evening team leader has left me in a position where I need to generate two major items in 7 minutes and then be prepared to account for why we missed such a major event 15 hours prior.....Toothless B*tch!!!!!
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I need coffee....and a bat....heads are rolling this morning.