Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. We were supposed to get up an hour ago and drive to Savannah to hang with my family, but umm errr.. you see that didn't happen. Jameil is in there washing dishes, and I'm typing a blog post. Eventually, we'll get on the road and I'll get to see my grandmother who I haven't seen in 8 months. And we'll get to have a our non traditional Thanksgiving dinner. I don't know what is on the menu this year, but I do know it involves shrimp and oysters to go along with the turkey and/or ham. I'm getting hungry just thinking about my grandma's mac and cheese. I should probably get off the computer and make sure I'm ready to go when Jameil gets finished, so I'll end this now. I hope everybody has a wonderful day and is thankful for something in their lives. Wait - I just thought of something. Remember a couple years ago when people would do Thankful Thursdays on their blogs? If not, basically every thursday they would say I am thankful for... family, friends, etc? I HATED THAT!!! It was a cute idea at first, but then everybody would be thankful for the same things every week. I mean, sure you can be thankful that God blessed you with great friends you love,  but do I have to hear about it every week? Or other people would use it as a way to take shots at other people passive-aggressively. Like "I'm thankful that I'm not so cynical that Thankful Thursday means nothing to me." Why they gotta talk about me on the sly? LOL I don't know why that popped in my head, and now I'm sure somebody who likes inspirational posts is going to bring it back and it'll be all my fault. Anyway.. like I said, let me get up out of here and go see my fam. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

The Can't Sleep Randoms

1. Is it wrong that I have my ringer off on my phone and would just prefer people send me a happy b'day on facebook than actually call or text me?

2. Why are both Jimmy Swaggert and Jim Bakker still on TV? And at the same time on different channels? Weird to me.

3. I've gotten a lot more rational about sports - except the New York Knicks. What I mean is that previously I would be ready to curse out the entire Falcon's organization for being 5-5, now I'm like oh well. The Knicks still get the full wrath of my fandom.

4. I don't understand why people interact with celebs on Twitter. They got 376,332 followers. Do you think they are going to respond to each message? And if they do, that doesn't mean that you are actually friends.

5. Just a thought... when vegetarians talk about being ethical to animals, do they ever think that animals would not be ethical to us if given the chance. I mean, its a food chain for a reason. They would totally eat us and not think twice about it.

6. I was watching "Lopez Tonight" the other night with the stone face. That dude is just not funny to me. But at least he has lots of latino and black guests.

7. By now, everybody knows I'm old. And everybody knows I have a crazy musical memory. The other day at Jameil's classmate's party they were playing some old 80's pop music. I was pretty much identifying all the songs and thinking I need to add them to my iPod. I'm about to have a crazy mix of hip hop, British glam rock, hair bands, doo-wop, emo alternative,  and books on tape on my iPod. I'll listen to pretty much anything but country. Actually, by the time I get back home to my computer, I'm going to forget to download all this music again.

8. I know they are film students, but Jameil's classmates don't talk about ANYTHING other than movies. I've seen a good bit of movies too, so I did join in, but I was wondering what else they could possibly incorporate into the conversations.

9. I asked this on Facebook a couple of weeks ago, but nobody could/would give me an answer so I'll try again: What qualifies a person to be called a prophet or prophetess. And no, this is not Rashan being a sarcastic jerk. I actually would like to know.

10. Lady GaGa concerns me.  I just think anybody that tries that hard to be weird, has a dirty secret that is going to come out one day. I think hers is that she used to be and/or is still a man. LOL

11. Paula Deen getting hit in the face by the ham was hilarious to me. Not so much b/c of her getting hit, but b/ of the black guy's reaction. Take a look at bruh. He looked like "I can't believe y'all done hit this white lady in the face."

12. I hate when my birthday is the day before or the day of Thanksgiving. I'll have to curtail the drinking to make sure that I make it to Savannah at a decent hour. I have a tendency to lay around and do nothing instead of getting on the road anyway, so liquor will just make that worse. Oh well. I'm not a drunk like I used to be, so I'll be okay.

Who, What, Why, Where

Jameil's favorite thing to say to me is "what are you..." Fill in the blanks. What are you typing? What are you eating? What are you watching on tv? Where are you going? Whose blog are you reading? Why did you leave the lights on? Question after question. Half of the time I don't even answer. It's only if she asks more than once, does she really want an answer. I don't do well with being questioned. I've lived on my own for over a decade, and I'm used to doing things my way. If I want to leave the TV on all night, who cares? I pay the bill. If I drop crumbs on the couch, I'll clean it up eventually. If I choose to watch a stupid tv show, it's my own brain cells I'm killing. No big deal, right?  I can't necessarily do that when I'm at her place for a week. Well, at least not without being questioned...

Something inside me just cringes every time I get asked a question. I know it's a fact of life, but it's definitely something I have to work on. I think it's just because (CHEAP PSYCHOLOGY ALERT:) I've always been a middle child that no one paid attention to. Nobody was worrying about what I was doing. Or (INFLATED SELF WORTH ALERT) it could be that I've always been so independent that my opinion was always the only thing that mattered. I don't know the real answer but I do need to find a way to not let questions bother me, since Jameil and her questions aren't going anywhere.  Either that or I could turn it around and start asking her questions all the time.. Any (non-serious) question suggestions for me? LOL

P.S. - By the time most of you read this, it'll be my 35th birthday! 11/25/1974 - God's "You're Welcome" to the world. LOL!!!

I'll Take Things Black People Don't Do For $800, Alex!

Saturday, as soon as I touched down in Gainesville, Jameil took me to a party that was being held by one of her classmates. It was supposed to be a vegetarian barbecue and home beer brewing party. That's right, one of her classmates likes to brew his own beer. Let me just say upfront, it was a good time. It's just that's some stuff that black people don't do. It was different, that's all. Let us continue in the form of pictures, which will not be in the order I want them to be b/c Macs are stupid or I'm stupid. One way or the other, I cant figure these pics out and Jameil is sleeping right now. Anyway, there's me smelling hops and posing with Jameil. And the rest of the pics are of the beer making process which apparently takes months. I know I don't have the patience for that. I'll just go to the citgo and get me a 6 pack of Yuengling. Enjoy!

  

You May Lie

Remember how when you were a kid, there was always a kid that had a girlfriend who lived by his grandma's house. You know, nobody ever met her, but he swore that she was giving up the booty all summer vacation. Everybody knew he was lying,  but that didn't deter him from sticking to the story.

That's how I feel about some people on the internet. Aside from the obvious liars, there are certain people that I just don't believe. It's not that I'm cynical, its that they don't have offer any evidence to make me think that they are anything more than talented liars. For example, if you are so fine, and dudes always try to get at you, then where's your picture? Why should I give your story any credibility when I can't judge for myself how sexxxy you are? Or if you constantly talk about your significant other, but nobody on Facebook knows what he or she looks like or his/her name?  Or how come every one of your stories sound exactly the same. If you pay attention you can see the same recurring themes over and over again (like with my blog, every story involves some crazy person) I'm not saying you are lying, but you may lie. How do I know? I don't know you.

I guess the reluctance of some people to be forthcoming, and some people being intentionally cryptic got me thinking of this topic. I understand the need for privacy, but if that's how you wanna roll, then perhaps you shouldn't tell all your business on the internet. I don't get it. It just gets me thinking, it may not be real. Some of you may lie.

Why You Bringing Up Old Stuff?

I got my haircut this morning and there was this dude that was bringing up the OLDEST gossip in the world. The thing about it..nobody was listening to him. Nobody was engaging the conversation. He just was talking and talking and talking... I have to hit the road before Jameil curses me out, so I'll just jump right to it, instead of giving you a long rambling preamble like I usually do. Here are some old stuff he brought up.

"You know Johnny Gill is ghey. All those good songs he had, and he was singing about a man. You know he and Eddie Murphy are ghey together." (Did you just discover the internet and find a gossip site from 2 years ago?)

"Ol R. Kelly got away with that statutory case. Did you see the video?Did he really pee on that poor girl? (How long ago did he get acquitted? Even Chappelle's skit was like 5 years ago.)

"You know, Rick Ross is fake. He was a prison guard. And Plies went to college. How you gonna go to college and be a goon." (Obviously, he's never heard of FAMU -  take that Stace and Aretha. LOL)

"Gucci Mane going to jail again. You know him and Jeezy got beef. Gucci shot one of Jeezy's homeboys." (Yeah, back in like 5 years ago, before anybody outside of Atlanta knew who they were. How is that relevant to him going to jail now?)

"Bobby Brown got a bunch of kids out there." (Who was talking about Bobby Brown?)

The Exclamation Point Post!!!

Son, I’m on vacation for a week!!! I need this in my life!!! I need to not come to work for a week!!! Time to get my mind right for one glorious week!! Nope, scratch that; Let’s count the weekends and say I’m outta here for 9 days!!! What am I gonna do? Well, first I’m going to drive home and wash my dishes and take out my trash, so when I get home I don’t have bugs and funk in my residence. But then I’m going to Florida to see my Jameil, (not the fake Jameil LOL!!!) Don’t know what I’m going to do, but I imagine I’ll rest and relax and eat good, and drink up her red stripe. Red Stripe – HOORAY BEER!!! Then my birthday is on Wednesday!!! I already told you how I felt about that, but whatever I do I’m sure it’ll be fun!!! Thanksgiving, Jam and I are going to drive to Savannah to hang with my family!!! She already knows everybody, except my grandma, so I’m happy for them to finally meet!!! Maybe I’ll take her on the Rashan tour, of all the places I almost got shot, or where I was drunk, or where I was smoked out!!! Nah, that’ll take too long. So maybe I’ll just take her on campus and to Paula Deen’s restaurant, although I may be way too full after Wednesday to want to go there!!!

Honestly, I don’t really care what I do as long as I don’t have to go to work!!! Did I mention I need this!?!? Hopefully I come back refreshed and raring to go, but more than likely I’ll still hate everything and everyone at this place when I get back!!! I’ll still be posting everyday even on vacation. I sure am not going to lose this posting everyday competition to the likes of Diva and Ms. Behaving!!! LOL!!! Just kidding ladies. You know I just said that to get you mad!!! (MA$E – 1994). Anyway, I’m so out of here!!! Be cool!!!!