Saturday, December 4, 2010

Blog #38 - What the Fuck and Henna

So, as I sit here with this henna in my hair for like an hour and some change (wtf), I decided to blog as it has been a minute since I HAVE blogged. Let's see what's going on in life, shall we?

So, Mr. CT Man and I (because I forgot what I called him) have called it a quits. Well, he called it a quits and was just gonna let me figure it out on my own if I didn't call him on it. But, I think we had this discussion. So, anyways...he's back with his ex-fiancee. Like I didn't see that one coming. But like I told him: I wish him well.

So, I was bored tonight and decided to put some henna in my hair. I have been contemplating this move for a really really long time now and just said fuck it. I was at Whole Foods to see if they ahd the Kinky Curly hair products (which they didn't), but I saw the henna and said "why the hell not?" My head is hot. I have it wrapped in saran wrap and then have a plastic processing cap on top of it. I look like a plastic conehead. My head feels like it weighs like 80 pounds. Kinda like it did after they gave me Demerol in the hospital for my appendix. Fail...lol. Here I am thinking I'm like the cute little natural chicks with the short hair and that I can just schlack the shit on my hair...sike MY mind. I really should have just done what I was going to do and do it piece by piece, section by section so that I wouldn't fuck shit up. But CLEARLY I fucked it up. Oh well...I can wait 6 months :) So, here's the process: Put the henna in your hair, section by section, making sure to coat all of the hair in the section with the henna and to not waste henna because this stuff is thick like mud and will clump and fall around you like mud, too. My henna was green, so it looked like a gerbil was running around by my mirror and pooped on my floor...lol. But I think I got most of it up. I then wrapped my hair in saran wrap and put a plastic shower cap on it and here I am now :) I think I'm gonna wash it out at 12:30ish. I think I was done with it at 11, but I'm not really sure. I figure 12:30 is a safe bet. So, that's it for now and I'll be back to edit later!

Monday, November 15, 2010

Blog #37 Irritation and Gaianyx

So...this goes back to that paragraph about Luis from yesterday/this morning. So, after trivial conversation (again...I'm pretty sure we have a 4 bbm maximum now), I hit him with "I think we're drifting apart" message and he hits me with "I been feeling it for awhile but I blame myself for that", to which I ask why. I think that's a reasonable question. Apparently it's something he does while "attempting a long distance relationship"...but I'm only 2 hours away and I was making the effort. At any rate, the end result is that we're now back to being "non-kissing friends". And I'm pissed about it. I pretty much wasted time, gas, tolls, stupid ass sap tweets/bbms and more importantly, more time trying to take something to the next level on someone who knew that it wasn't gonna work on his end. Wasted energy on my part. I hate it.

Now I feel myself getting more irritated because there I was at some party he invited me to so I could hang with his friends, and all that other stuff and sitting there boo-loving with someone who knew it wasn't gonna work. I think that's why I'm so irritated...because he knew his track record and 1) didn't tell me and 2) didn't tell me so I wouldn't put so much into it. I wouldn't have wasted my time driving to CT and be willing enough to drive the 2 hours back home that same day. The more I think about it, the more I feel blinding rage and fury as opposed to hurt. I'm pretty sure if I was a cartoon character right now, there would be an epic transformation right now.

I feel the rage of Gaianyx taking over ala Jean Gray vs. The Phoenix. As a Libra, we have two sides...one side is our best/most frequent side, when we're happy and everything is magical clouds, unicorns, rainbows and love. But then again...as the scales of balance...as one side is happy...there is a darker, more evil side to us. My evil/ruthless side just happens to have a name - GAIANYX. Gaia is the goddess of the earth and Nyx is the goddess of the night - Gaianyx = goddess of the dark earth. I feel the need to transform myself. Maybe I should thank Luis for this. Maybe...just maybe...he pushed me over the edge to do what I want to do. Again...I feel like an epic transformation is in order or...is already happening inside and I need to bring it outward. Maybe I need to follow the dark rules of survival:

1 - You can't hurt when you're driven by rage/pain (yeah, I borrowed this from my frat brother).
2 - Look out for self.
3 - Never let the wall down.

We shall see how this turns out over the course of the next few days/weeks. I shall be cleaning out my contact list in a few minutes. Let's see where this rage takes me.

Blog #36 - Untitled

So, as I sat here on my bed and drank this orange juice out of this big ass McDonald's cup, my frat brother Todd hits me up on BBM and asks me how my blog is doing. I told him I haven't blogged in a minute and he suggested that I do because "someone could be interested in the novella that is your life". One can only hope...lol. So anyways...let's see what there is to update on. I'll recall the events as I remember them, because we all know my memory sucks.

Banquet
So, my most recent even that I've gone to was my sorority's banquet last night. We had SUCH a blast. It was like short dress banquet...like 99.4% of us had on short dresses. We all got that memo...lol. We had a ringleader, a guy on stilts, a contortionist (who was OD) and a belly dancer...it was fun fun times and we took massive amounts of pics. Then we had a "party" in our hotel room, but ultimately in the end, it wound up being only the chapter room...which was awesome. We woke up in the morning and headed to IHOP and then went about our way. It was exhausting, though. When I got home at like 4, I passed out until 8...and I'm STILL tired :( Outlandish...but it was all good and well worth it. I wore a short blue dress with pockets and nude shoes and matching clutch with black jewelry...and my hair was down...which was a bad idea because it definitely got sweated out due to the dancing. And the liquor had me feeling sooooo nice. I felt no cold whenever I went outside...lmao. But...banquet did come on the heels of a sadness.

Binx
So...randomly one day this week I got an FB im from someone I hadn't talked to in a long time and apparently, he was going through some things. He said he would be heading out on Saturday and wanted me to come see him in PA on Friday. I said okay because...well...he's fucking Binx, lmao. So, I made plans to go out there and see him. I packed up all my stuff for the weekend and headed out there. On my way there on Friday, I looked at my phone and he called me like 4 times. I called him back and...they wanted to ship out that day instead of Saturday...and I was already in PA and was an hour away. I had to pull over into a strip mall parking lot and I just...cried. I think I sat there for about 30 minutes...then, defeated...I headed home...and took a nap. I really wish I could have seen him because I just felt like he would have felt better if he knew someone other than his family cared about what was going on in his life. Oh well...at least I can write him.

Questionable
So, about a month or so ago, I went on a trip to (let's call this place PA) to see this guy (let's call him Luis). Now, the last time I saw Luis when he randomly came to Jersey, it was all gravy. We were booloving and all sorts of stuff and shit was magical and fantastical...even got a few sap tweets in the mix and everything. Fast forward to me staying the night in PA. Everything still seemed sort of okay, albeit not a lot of booloving going on on his end...and whatever was done, kind of felt a little forced. And when we went to his friends house for a birthday party, that's when I kinda feel like it got really sketchy and forced. Almost like...because I was there, everyone assumed we were a couple and he felt like we had to act as such to avoid any long winded explanation of what we were (are? I don't even know anymore..not that I ever did). At any rate, since then...I barely get a BBM from him now and most of what we talk about almost feels forced and is initiated by me...I'm really surprised if we carry a conversation that's longer than 2 minutes or 4 bbms...whichever is shorter. Fast-forward to maybe like 2 weeks ago. He decides to tell me about his ex that he was on and off with for about 5 years and something about her nieces and nephews and how they basically raise the kids together and yadda yadda ya. That's cool and noble of you and all that jazz. Then yesterday...or this morning, I see a twit pic that was taken by one of his friends and it said something about the love between them being disgusting and...not that I was upset by it, but it just threw me off. I don't know why. Oh well. It is what it is. Guess he's another one to throw in the "not so much" pile now, which sucks because I really like(d) him. Oh well. Maybe this is just one of those things and it is whatever it is...which...isn't really anything, I think. And that could be why I feel some kind of way about it. But c'est la vie. Let's get the quote from last night and put it in the head :)

Omar
So, speaking about exes, I'm still talking to Omar and he still has drama which is like a novella and it almost seems like half of the stuff in his life is female related and is therefore SO preventable...but he apparently likes to gamble and then gets upset when he loses the gamble with "I'm so disappointed in myself because I didn't want it to happen this way" and blah blah blah. I just told him "yeah, but you knew what the outcome could be, you took a gamble and you lost", which is what happened. And that's the end of that...lol.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Blog #35 - Randomly Awesome

So, I am officially 27. Don't feel any different from 26 but I am getting closer to 30. I hear 30 is pretty awesome, though. I will admit that I got a lil sad thinking about what I always thought my life was going to be at 27 (married with at least one kid), but hey...I'm not even being a hater about it. Sometimes things don't go as planned and that is quite alright :) My brother and I are on the right track to getting to that relationship that we've been lacking, which is pretty dope.

Jon and Tiffany got married last Friday. It was such a beautiful wedding! I had Dressgate2010, though. I bought this dress that I had been looking for for months! Bought it in September and was so excited to wear it. I go to put it on the day of the wedding and the damn thing is fitting ALL WRONG...and it was like 12 something on Friday and I had to go to the dance studio from 1-3 and then hightail it to the wedding to be there by 4. I tried on like 6 different dress and outfit combinations before settling for Banquet Dress 2008, which was a tube top dress and was flowy at the bottom. But, I didn't want to wear black to a wedding so SoSo said I could go at 2, I hightailed it over to Burlington Coat Factory and found this gorgeous dress that I wound up buying...and looked FABULOUS in! And it just so happened that Steph bought me a pair of blue shoes that Thursday so...POW!!! Awesomeness 101.

Speaking of Thursday, I met a guy that day...not that I was trying to, though. I did look pretty awesome that day :) I had on my green short-sleeved turtleneck dress, some brown heels, my brown giraffe jacket, a pair of gold earrings, a gold necklace with yellow, brown and orange gems in it and my orange cuff bracelet and gold/orange stone ring with green and brown makeup. Divalicious :) Anyways, he came to my table and we started talking...table chit-chat, or so I thought. Then he started talking to someone else and I thought that was the end of it until he handed me his business card and told me we were going out to lunch the next week...lol. We actually wound up going out for a drink later on that night after his last seminar on being Young, Black and Conscious (I would have stayed for it, but I didn't feel so hot so I went home early). But yeah...he's a nice guy...lives not too far from my chapter. Hopefully I'll get to see him when he gets back from his trip.

Trips...TEEFIE!!! He came to see me like last Monday and we had such an awesome time!!! I <3 him lots!!! ::bbm hug face:: We went to the mall and he styled me and I styled him. I actually have to go back and buy a dress that he picked out for me so I can look all awesome in it. He wants me to go to CT on Sunday; I have to see.

So, that just about wraps things up on the update for me. I signed up for shoedazzle.com, so I'm waiting to see what they have in store for me...lol.

Peace out, cubscout.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Blog #34 - We Are Family

So, this weekend was Labor Day Weekend. My Aunt Tonia invited me to a block party that her block was throwing in Brooklyn. She told me that my little brother was going to be there and you guys know that when someone tells me my little brother is going to be somewhere, I'm in there like a wedgie. So, I met up with her at her job and then we headed down. Apparently, in his heart he knew I wasn't coming so...SURPRISE!!! Lol...no one else knew I was coming, either so I'm a pretty awesome surprise, I must say. My brother brought his girlfriend with him and I wasn't feeling her attitude and some of the things she was saying, but that's neither here nor there (although she almost caught a beat down). The end result of her being there was that she left at some point. During the day, my brother and I took a walk and just talked about a lot of things - we talked about what's going on with him, what's going on in the BX with his mom, we talked about work and we talked about Daddy. But most importantly, we talked about US and our relationship and we both agreed that we can't blame our parents for mistakes they made keeping us apart and that now we're both older, we can move that to the back and move forward and love each other and develop that sister/brother relationship that we've been needing to do. It was awesome and wonderful. Of course I cried like a punk, but I couldn't help it. That's my little brother, you know? So what if he is over a foot taller than me...lol. We're supposed to hang out on Saturday and I can't wait. I really want him to come visit me in Jersey. And my mother should accept it...but that's another topic that I really don't want to put out on front street. I got to see my cousins Dominique and her man Chris, my cousin Devona and my new cousin Jasmine. My Aunt Tonia told me to stop being bourgeois because I didn't want to walk down the street with a plate of mac and cheese...lol. We had SUCH a good time that I didn't want to leave and my brother and cousins didn't want me to leave either, but I had to. I had to make sure they didn't tow my car from where I parked because that fine is a beyotch. Came home and saw that they didn't, so know I know that I can leave it there overnight. But the absolute end result of the weekend is...

I love my family. No matter what goes on, and what happens, my family will always be there and love me, regardless of my faults.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Blog #33 - Saturdays at the Bar

So...on Saturday, I was completely bored and didn't wanna be in the house, so I decided to go out alone. I wound up at Maritas, which is a local bar around my way...probably 20 minutes from me. I went and wound up talking to some guy named Elijah. We had a really good conversation about different things - apparently I dress like a 26 year old, but that's neither here nor there. It was a really good convo. Mr. Elijah looked at me crazy when I told him that I came by myself, I don't have any kids, I'm single and some other things. Why is that such a shocker, I don't know. But anyways, it was fun. There were no assumptions of kicking game, no macking...just honest convo. I saw Tremell, but ignored him.

I had more but this was from like 2 weeks ago and my comp kept resetting so...I forgot...lmao

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Blog #32 - The Hell Is Goings On?

I dunno, damnit. My mind is all over the place. And now I'm disappointed in myself because once again, I let my sorority life take over my family life. The first time was like 3 weeks ago when we had our chapter bbq and I wound up not seeing my cousin Raheem that I haven't seen since my grandmother died. This weekend, I was supposed to go to the Old Timers bbq in Harlem but I wound up going to another meeting and wound up missing my little brother. Fuck my life, man. I feel like such a jackass. However, I don't think I can fully blame the little brother thing on my sorority. I definitely didn't know he was going to go. Apparently he just randomly showed up. I wonder how he even found out, because I didn't tell him before he deleted his FB page. Oh, well. I guess I'll just have to stalk him somehow...lol. But Yonkers is kinda big. Might have to call in reinforcements in the name of my sister.

So, the man is gone. He left on Thursday. It was fun while it lasted. We went to a diner and just chilled out and stuff there, and then since it was hot and nighttime, we hung out on the bench in the back of my complex by the tennis court and just talked about different things. We took a few pics (even the kissing one...lol) before he left and that was that. It was really sweet and nice. I'm not even mad at it anymore, not that I ever was. It was definitely an experience I'm glad I had - shows me that there's definitely more than just "ay yo shorty" dudes out there. And being that he's older, I'm pretty sure that's where I have to look. Gotta find me a 27 and up club to frequent to get approached like that again, because dudes my age just don't do that. They suck. I just hope we keep in touch because...I wanna go to Chicago! Lolol...but I know I don't need him in order to go to Chicago...but yeah. It's the man...lol. ::kanye shrug::

So, like I said in blog...I think 28 or 29, me and Mr. Songz have been getting it in. I've been listening to the Anticipation mixtape like...steady. If it wasn't a mixtape, it woulda been a banging ass CD, mostly full of slow jams. Speaking of Mr. Songz and cd's, his new joint is coming out on September 14 (which happens to be my big's birthday...lol). I'm actually going to buy it. Like, go to Best Buy and buy the CD...only for the album pictures, though...lol. You don't get those with digital copies. The album artwork is dopeness and I wanna support an artist that I actually like a lot. I apparently have over 110 of his songs on my iPod due to the addition of 3 of his mixtapes.

In another unrelated/related field (so yeah, I think this has pretty much turned into a random rant...lol), I'm supposed to hang out with my dude Ty in a few weeks, once his son goes back home to Barbados or Bermuda...I feel like he said Bermuda, though. Apparently, I'm not allowed to play bartender though, which sucks. I like creating stuff. I'm supposed to just sit back and chill and let him do the damn drink-making. I've been relegated to just making one beverage. It is what it is, though. I'm excited about it as this will be the first time we'll be seeing each other outside of commuting on the train to and from work. Good times will be aplenty!!!

Listening to this song reminds me that I need to make a slow jam playlist. I thought I had one, but I'm guessing that was on my other laptop, which is clearly no longer in existence. This song would definitely be on there. The song I'm listening to is called On Top. Awesomely wonderful.

I'm going to go to bed now. I'm tired and I think this ponytail is giving me a headache...damn thing isn't even tight. I think it's the stuff I put in my hair making my curls hard and they were stuck going down and now that they're back, they don't like it. I'm gonna use different stuff tomorrow. This is ludicrous. And I still need to order my Dominican shampoo, conditioner, deep conditioner and hair color. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow too and put a rush on it so it gets here on Friday. Aaaaaaand POST!