Incessant Ramblings
This post isn't about anything particular. I just have so much on my mind:
1) I couldn't do it. I knew for months that election day was coming up and I should make a decision between the lesser of two evils. But I just couldn't do it. Don't get it twisted, I went to the polls after another trying day at work. But I just didn't pull the lever for mayor. I guess everybody has what's important to them. For me, it's being able to make some sort of a living in the city of my birth, my childhood, and my early adulthood. I'm a New Yorker for life. I want to be able to live here, perhaps at some point buy a home here, raise my kids here (if I have some), etc. That's what's most important to me. Education and health care and quality of life are all important as well, but what good is it if you can't afford to put a roof over your head. I didn't feel like Ferrer has the mojo to run this city and Bloomberg has widened the gap between the haves and the have nots and as I am clearly fitting in the latter category, he is just not my candidate of choice. So four more years of buying my groceries on credit...
2)I've got to find a new job soon before one of us kills each other. Nuff said!
3)I need to write a stern letter to Kelly Ripa ASAP. On the morning after Rosa Parks' memorial services, I happened to have her show on while I was preparing to go into work. She and Regis were incessantly rambling about hybrid dogs and she made a very unfunny joke about how a friend of her's had named his dog Rosa Barks. Now I don't know if I was more offended because I had watched her service the day before or if it was just a really stupid, useless and insensitive joke.
4) I'm really appreciating the new Floetry album right now. I think it definitely trumps the first album. I see it getting much play in my portable CD player. Cuz thanx to Bloomberg, it's either buy the iPod or pay my rent. The landlord is on the winning side of that debate!
5) My sorority's annual Founder's Day Party is happening this Saturday. I'm looking forward to it. I had much fun last year. I wasn't able to get tipsy as planned cuz I was chosen as the designated driver last year. Not this time. Folks have been put on notice that I plan to be a little tipsy. But then again, the last time I got drunk, I caught a case of loose lips. I'll try to be a happy drunk instead of drowning my sorrows.
6) My mom let it slip the other day that she doesn't think it's in the cards that I'll ever get married. She tried to clean it up but my moms mouth is like Niagara Falls. Every now and then her genes rear their ugly head in my personality too. It's kind of depressing that my mother doesn't think I'll find someone to settle down and make a family with. I'll never tell her how much that comment hurt. Especially considering I have this new found obsession with everything bridal. If I had TiVo, I'd have every episode of Bridezillas on that sucka. Which reminds me, I need to boycott TLC for cancelling/moving/showing less of "A Wedding Story" in order to show countless epidsodes of "A Baby Story."
7) T-minus 12 days (7 working days) until a sista takes a much needed 2 1/2 week vacation from the slave ship. Me and mom, who seems to have pegged me as an old maid already, will be getting pampered up in the Poconos. Massages and facials and mani/pedi's and I can't wait. And outlet shopping!
Ok, I think that's enough random thoughts for today. Tonight it's all about a new episode of Lost. And somebody kicks the bucket. Me and my inquisitive self already knows who. But it should be an interesting episode all the same.
1) I couldn't do it. I knew for months that election day was coming up and I should make a decision between the lesser of two evils. But I just couldn't do it. Don't get it twisted, I went to the polls after another trying day at work. But I just didn't pull the lever for mayor. I guess everybody has what's important to them. For me, it's being able to make some sort of a living in the city of my birth, my childhood, and my early adulthood. I'm a New Yorker for life. I want to be able to live here, perhaps at some point buy a home here, raise my kids here (if I have some), etc. That's what's most important to me. Education and health care and quality of life are all important as well, but what good is it if you can't afford to put a roof over your head. I didn't feel like Ferrer has the mojo to run this city and Bloomberg has widened the gap between the haves and the have nots and as I am clearly fitting in the latter category, he is just not my candidate of choice. So four more years of buying my groceries on credit...
2)I've got to find a new job soon before one of us kills each other. Nuff said!
3)I need to write a stern letter to Kelly Ripa ASAP. On the morning after Rosa Parks' memorial services, I happened to have her show on while I was preparing to go into work. She and Regis were incessantly rambling about hybrid dogs and she made a very unfunny joke about how a friend of her's had named his dog Rosa Barks. Now I don't know if I was more offended because I had watched her service the day before or if it was just a really stupid, useless and insensitive joke.
4) I'm really appreciating the new Floetry album right now. I think it definitely trumps the first album. I see it getting much play in my portable CD player. Cuz thanx to Bloomberg, it's either buy the iPod or pay my rent. The landlord is on the winning side of that debate!
5) My sorority's annual Founder's Day Party is happening this Saturday. I'm looking forward to it. I had much fun last year. I wasn't able to get tipsy as planned cuz I was chosen as the designated driver last year. Not this time. Folks have been put on notice that I plan to be a little tipsy. But then again, the last time I got drunk, I caught a case of loose lips. I'll try to be a happy drunk instead of drowning my sorrows.
6) My mom let it slip the other day that she doesn't think it's in the cards that I'll ever get married. She tried to clean it up but my moms mouth is like Niagara Falls. Every now and then her genes rear their ugly head in my personality too. It's kind of depressing that my mother doesn't think I'll find someone to settle down and make a family with. I'll never tell her how much that comment hurt. Especially considering I have this new found obsession with everything bridal. If I had TiVo, I'd have every episode of Bridezillas on that sucka. Which reminds me, I need to boycott TLC for cancelling/moving/showing less of "A Wedding Story" in order to show countless epidsodes of "A Baby Story."
7) T-minus 12 days (7 working days) until a sista takes a much needed 2 1/2 week vacation from the slave ship. Me and mom, who seems to have pegged me as an old maid already, will be getting pampered up in the Poconos. Massages and facials and mani/pedi's and I can't wait. And outlet shopping!
Ok, I think that's enough random thoughts for today. Tonight it's all about a new episode of Lost. And somebody kicks the bucket. Me and my inquisitive self already knows who. But it should be an interesting episode all the same.
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2:37 PM
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