January 2010
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I got invited to an anti-Superbowl party yesterday. Neighbor: Hey girlie, watcha doin’ next Sunday night? ME: Watching the Superbowl Neighbor: (scoffs) Well, my girlfriends and I are having an Anti-Bowl party. We are fed up with men who year after year act like we don’t exist when the “big game” is on. We’re having cocktails, and will play some board games, and are...
small-town dilema
Back in August I moved to an extremely small city in eastern NC. I’ve got a major city one hour away, and “home” (Richmond) is just a two hour drive. For the first time in my life though, I’m having difficultly establishing new friendships. It’s weird because the people here are quite close-minded. Here everyone knows everyone else and they don’t take too well...
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Girl: So, do you have any kids? Me: No. Girl: (with a shocked look) Why not? Me: o_O WHY NOT?!? What kind of question is that? Why not? Are you implying that you expected me to have kids? I notice that I usually only get asked that from someone who has children… so I smirk and sweetly reply “because I don’t have unprotected sex”. Then I sit back and watch their expression...
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I'm going to make a conscious decision...
to work towards being more personal in my blogs. It’s the entire reason I started blogging in the first place. I can’t promise this will be a smooth transition…
“most of the lies told in relationships are people lying to themselves”
The Roots - You Got Me
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I remember when I first moved to Virginia from Philly… I started my new school the week before MLK Day (or so I thought).
I remember the teacher talking about Monday being Lee-Jackson-King Day. No one in class seemed confused but me. So I raised my little sixth grade hand and asked my white teacher who Lee and Jackson were. She stared at me like I just spoke in some foreign language and...
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“I believe music rearranges the molecular structure of the mind”
– Carols Santana
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youngins'
You guys have certainly stepped up your game as of late. There used to be a time where you couldn’t pay me to talk to a guy who was my age or younger. (I had a strict rule that an interest had to be at least 4 to 5 years my senior) Lately I’ve been getting hit on by guys that are younger and they are coming at me with some hard-to-deny swag. I haven’t gotten any digits yet, (this...
tossed around the idea of moving my re-blogs to their own tumblog… pigged out on buffalo wild wings (i remember when they were called BW3)… watched dallas get their chaps handed to them (highlight of my day)… drank some beer. yeah, sounds like a productive sunday to me
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for you fakers out there...
The other day I overheard a woman say to her female friend that faking an orgasm is necessary. Why? I can’t think of one situation where faking an orgasm would be beneficial to either party. All you are doing is ensuring that the person you faked with will never be able to actually give you one. You’ll wonder why the sex never gets better, and why it has become routine. You will become...
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non-locals...
When you go shopping in a place you are visiting and the cashier asks you for your zip code, please don’t turn to your relative, friend, or whomever you are visiting and ask “what’s the zip code here?” then gripe about how my company has no stores where you are from. Why the h*ll do you think we asked you for your zip in the first place? And to the conspiracy theorists, we...
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Faking orgasms is necessary...
Overheard just moments ago in Barnes and Noble
For the record I completely disagree with this statement. (so much to say… so hard to blog about on an iPhone)
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BLACK WOMEN...
… please stop throwing black men under the bus. I’ve noticed that black women are the only race in this country who publicly complain about the lack of good men of their own race. (I’ve NEVER turned on the TV and seen a woman of another race say “there are no good White / Asian / Hispanic men) Black women go on Oprah, Tyra, CNN, Dateline & BET and rant about every issue...
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I love how I can go more than a decade without hearing a song, then hear it and in the first five seconds recall every lyric, chord modulation, and how it made me feel the very first time I heard it
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Leela James - Don’t Speak my favorite cover
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Enunciation and the Elderly
I’m an assistant manager for a national retail chain. Yesterday I had the pleasure of traveling to the middle-of-nowhere (Tarboro) North Carolina to help out another store. Whenever I go to stores in similar places the staff (which is usually made up of minorities) makes fun of my accent. The really bold ones come out and tell me what they are really thinking… that I talk white or I...
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Lunch Time Blues...
I hear my screen door open and close. After a quick investigation I learn that a Papa John’s menu has been tucked in between the front door and the jamb. Elated that my “what-to-eat-for-lunch-because-it’s-too-cold-to-go-outside” dilemma has now been solved, I look the menu over for a telephone number. It must be here SOMEWHERE. I spend the next couple of minutes searching...
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I just don't get it...
I don’t get women. Okay, let me rephrase that… I don’t get women’s standards when it comes to the guys they choose to date. I had a conversation today with a friend about men. She told me about this guy she’s been talking to for a couple of months now and how she thinks they should move their relationship to the “exclusive” category. (she’s NEVER...
