the adventures of pamalicious

 

100 Reasons why Caun and I didn’t have a Reception, lol  Cause we would be all up and thru you tube, lol  Put our faces on these people and this would have been our dance.

Happy Friday Peeps!  Whew what a week.  I almost feel like saying it’s Friday and we made it to the weekend is a bunch of junk seeing as Monday will come around. 

Well let’s get it flowing:

There will be a part two to Thursday’s Post about Sistas - I feel like I have more to say.

Isn’t Montel Jordan’s "This is how we do it" still the jam?

How come every time I hear "Apache" I think of an episode of The Fresh Prince where will and Carlton strip and then have to do that dance, lol

Other than my Mother, does anyone else still have dial-up?

The worst driving pet peeve I have is that person who is all up in your ass and you already going 85 mph on a 55 mph highway. FUCK YOU and go around!

Sometimes celebrity really looks like it’s the bomb! Did anyone see Fifty’s house last night?  DAYUM!

I still think negroes need their money rationed out, lol

Can you believe it’s the last day of November.

Why did I talk to my brother for an hour when it dawned on me I was at work?

Lawd Be a Skate Key and help me turn this broad off.  NO YOU ARE NOT ABOUT TO ACT AS IF I DON"T EXIST AND GET YOUR FAMILY TIME ON! 

Exactly when did I become group activity guru?

Anybody want some Avon?

Do you ever go through and throw away all your old makeup and lotions etc.  I think I got some original blue eye shadow from the 80’s, lol

Mike has pushed the Thriller 25th Anniversary CD/DVD to 2008 (probably to ramp up the whole tour thing - which by the way is on the front of Yahoo.)

Ok, I think I"m one of 12 that are excited about the Jacksons going on tour. Fine with me!

Anyone notice that a lot of his music has suddenly began rotation again? 

Hmmm, let me go - I’ve gotten pissed off about something and need to get my thoughts together so that they don’t include the words:  I will whip her ass…..

Peace ya’ll have a good one!

 

Before I even begin this - why when I put in the Yahoo Search Engine Images of Black women - all the porn in the world pops up!  DAYUM!

Ok so NBC Nightly News is on Day four of a special report on The State of Black women.  I’m sure you all saw the email going around. Well I’ve seen a bit of it and of course I got some comments.  Ya’ll know this is Throwback Thursday, but this was kinda eating at me.

First off, um what put us in the spotlight?  Ain’t nobody been jocking for us.  Whenever news media does this kinda stuff, it makes my spidey senses get to tingling.

Next, what are these little ‘blurbs’ they been doing. This isn’t no special report.  5-8 minutes of Sistas doing it for themselves isn’t impressing me. If you wake up a Black woman and walk out your door to work and deal with other Black women you know these things. 

I feel like this is some kinda report card for the rest of America.  Is it the Anniversary of welfare or something?  I ask this because this whole report is very subtly driving that ever elusive wedge between me and my man. When I say my man - I mean the Blackman. For every Black women going to school and blah blah blah there is that snippet of how bad the Black Man is doing at the bottom of the Totem Pole.  He is once again getting throw under the damn bus.  Ok, we are making all these strides and we working and having homes and cars and we are edumucated but 40% of us are going to live and DIE and never be married.  And in related news, 70% of the new HIV cases will be OUR CHILDREN.  What we ought to be doing is going and get our damn kids. A beat they ass day ought to be instituted and we all just go to whipping em. 

Don’t get me wrong, I am glad that Black Women have made strides and that we are a force out in this world and being maids and cooks and other demeaning jobs can be avoided, but I still and will continue to say "At What Costs?"  I am not going to just give up on my man. Yea they got issues, but we got em too.  It’s a joint poison now - and allowing them to further exalt us to this ’statute’ is further driving a wedge between us.

When are we going to really address this and stop with the forums and dumb ass plays and letting Michael Baisden lead us to the relationship promise land and just stand up one day in Church/Mosque/etc. and be like " I wanna talk about how to get my man off the bottom of the Totem Pole?"  While I’m waiting on my Lord and Savior - I think I got some work to do.  When are they going to become important enough to us the Mothers that we just have to push through our hurt and pain and go out here and start having his back?

What if I had of taken my make more money, got a car, taking care of my child, got a laundry list of my perfect man ass and ignored CAUN?  I shutter to think.  There are more CAUN’s out there - there really is. I’ve never dealt with a ‘funky’ Brother and most of the ones I know are upstanding men.  I can’t be the only one. 

This ultimately isn’t even about us and our personal situation - it’s about starting to look out for him and letting him know that we got his back.  At your job, smile and say hello to the mail guys and the IT guys.  When we out in the street, stop looking so gat damn mean all the time and smile and say hello to some brothers you past by.  Go to them in the retail jobs and let them get the commission.  Tell them they are doing a good job if you see one doing a good job.  Tell a Brother THANK YOU. 

If we start to really exalt those that are doing a good job in everyday life and NOT just those in the Celebrity spotlight - then the rest of them will be like Dayum, I better clean up our game.  I still stand by:  Men act the way they are acting these days towards us be it rap, images and otherwise because we allow them to. If right now we all covered up, walked off movie/video sets and ignored their asses - they would come correct with the quickness.

I’m not willing to just throw my man away like that, while they doing reports on how wonderful I am - I almost feel ashamed.  Stop letting ‘others’ rock us to sleep by complimenting us - somewhere in middle America, who I feel that report is for anyhoo, they are slapping five that me and my man are so dysfunctional.  So let’s think about this. Why don’t sistas get together and have a "I LOVE ME SOME BLACKMEN" Day or something and just spend that whole day honoring him.  Hell without him - we certainly won’t have a future. 

I’m done.

Ok, every year people magazine comes out with their most sexy man issue.  I’ve seen a couple of blogs do their own list and I became inspired to roll out mine.

This was hard because my love of the black man knows no boundaries and I have way to many images and pictures in my collection and mind, lol.  However, I will try to narrow this down with commentary. 

  Number TEN

Vernon Jones - CEO of Dekalb Cty. 

He has scandals, he is a people person and his political swagger is legendary in my town, he just does it for me.  Caun is always telling me to stop screaming for a damn CEO.

Number NINE

Al B. Sure!

I will NEVER forget the first time I heard ‘Nite and Day’ and then saw the video.  I almost lost my mid-eighties it’s all about the light skinned mind.  The unibrow even turned me on. Add that we both were born on 6/4 and you got me faint.

Number EIGHT

Idris Elba

I haven’t watched one episode of HBO’s The Wire, but I knew who Stringer was!  When I found out he was from England and he unveiled that sexy ass accent. I was hooked. Add height and I’m a goner! See him get on the turn tables and I’m quivering. 

Number SEVEN

David Banner

Educated and thugged out as hell.  He intrigues me - which in itself is sexy.

Number SIX

Darrin Henson

He had me at N’sync.  By the time Soulfood came on and he gave us Lem for several seasons - I have felt his sexiness. I wish he would come and dance for me!

Number FIVE

Barack Obama

The self confidence and balls required to wake up and say “I think I’ll run for President”  Enough Said.

Number FOUR

Chris Brown

There are those that want to be like Mike and then there are those that seem to have captured his very spirit and this youngster does it for me.  I’m enthralled with that smile and his tall lanky dancers body.  He gives me my youth back and if the rumors are true (wink) he would have me,lol

 Number THREE

Sean “Diddy” Combs

Rap has become a movement and nobody personifies it better than this man here.  I find it extremely sexy the way he wears his swagger.  NOBODY looks better in a suit and his whole cocky attitude gets me a bit moist.  He has that “it”.

Number TWO

Tyrese

Ok, I can’t even quite describe exactly what it is about this man!  You ever just see somebody and have a violent physical reaction - well that’s what Tyrese does for me.  I just need him to take off his shirt, sit in a chair and sing to me.  I will handle the rest.

AND FINALLY - I present to you the man that I have deemed worthy of the top spot on my sexy list…..

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Friday

Saturday

NOW!

LOL I have to start off laughing at the entry.  It’s all comical to me on some level.  As you can see over the weekend, I went through a couple of changes.  Actually over the course of my blogging history, I’ve gone through enough hairstyles to qualify as the "Mary J" of the blog world.  Never before have I been able to tap into that which is Gemini than through my ever changing hair.  It allows me to channel so many sides of who I am.

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WE INTERRUPT YOUR DAY WITH THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT!

JERMAINE JACKSON HAS CONFIRMED THAT THE JACKSONS WILL BE GOING ON TOUR IN 2008 WITH MICHAEL!

NO DATES HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED. 

HE SAID THEY OWE IT TO THE FANS.

I HAVE ALREADY INFORMED MY HUSBAND THAT I WILL LEAVE HIM BEHIND THIS CONCERT SO HE BEST BE ON HIS GRIND SO THAT I CAN GO AND I AM WILLING TO DRIVE FROM NEW ORLEANS TO VIRGINIA TO SEE SAID CONCERT.

OH MY GOD!

I am looking for some further confirmation other than my afternoon DJ, lol  but he is pretty trustworthy and Caun actually was speaking with the dude that was going to be doing the promotions for this and he told me and then it dropped in the AJC.  so I am leaning toward there being some factual stuff here.

I really feel the need to go in the restroom strip and scream, but I’ll hold out till I get home. 

In the land where they piss on rainbows there was some discussion about them being ‘old’ and it not being like it used to be. Well I ain’t like I used to be either and tell that to the fans of the Rolling Stones, Prince, Stevie Wonder, and Madonna. As far as I can recollect the Jacksons were never jumping around and doing cartwheels on stage. If they still have some formulation of a voice - SHIT if they sit and do it all on a stool - I think that they will get the crowds out.  So I’m going to follow this story and see if it pans out and then I’m making sure I keep my entire Income Tax check to be able to pay for these tickets, cause I already know I’ll probably be visiting the scalpers, lol

What it T-I-S?!  I hope that everyone had a great holiday. My google queue is full and I’ll be checking those out as soon as I can to see how everyone’s long weekend went.

Right off the bat, I re-read what I wrote on Thanksgiving and burst out laughing. What articulate BS, lol  Not that it wasn’t true, but it reminded me of when you get your "I’m so Holy" voice on when you are speaking to folks, lol lol 

I actually lost one pound over this holiday!  YEA BABY!  I find that my eating revolves around work a lot.  During the week is that set 3 meals a day but on the weekends or when I’m home, I tend to nibble more so than have set meals outside of dinner.  I didn’t overdo it with the Thanksgiving meal, I took a walk and actually didn’t have the capacity to eat like a fool. Even when we went to Jillians, I cut my cheese steak in half and shared it with the hubby.  I’m looking for 10 more over the month of December and then I’ll be in a good place.  I figure this is the last time I’ll be able to lose without pretty much no exercise before the post age 40 metabolism comes to a complete stop so I better take advantage.

Up until Saturday we were broke, so it is a good thing that we love and like each other, cause those are two separate things, lol  Just like Family and Relatives, lol  I figured that out this weekend.

We went and saw "This Christmas"  it was good. One of those movies where when you are watching it it’s conversational but when you leave the theatre it’s forgettable.  The previews showing the absolutely awful movies coming up, was alarming.  Something about robbing a Church (what are you doing Ice Cube?!) and then one with Martin and Raven which I wanna go see because it’s screaming Mini-me and Caun.  It’s about her going off to college, lol

Yes I did step into a mall and was just MAD that I didn’t have like a couple of thousand to spend.  I did pick up some boots that I am rocking today.

Caun and I had to get our acts together.  I was in the braiders chair at 9:30 am on a Sunday, lol  He’s funny.  As ya’ll know men have different things that they like their woman to keep tight.  He wants me to be healthy, but he really wants my coif to be done, lol  (I have a post on this tomorrow).  I’ll unveil what I’m rocking tomorrow as well. 

I’m still Stanning on Beyonce, lol  Dayum!  I gotta put her up there with my ‘perfect’ women and there’s only two more and that’s Kenya Moore and Queen Latifah.  They are just the hotness to me!  I think I might buy that DVD, lol 

Well you know how it is when you just get back in the office.  OH - I got a 95 as a final grade on my last Degree Specific Course baby!  I hope this pushes me into honor roll status. I’m now taking my elective - Introduction to Film and then I begin my two Masters Level Smart Track classes to finish up this ole Bachelors Degree!  YEA!

So this week you’ll hear about Hair, old school TV, Raises, a check in on merging my family, and some love thangs about Caun  

Hope ya’ll have a good week!

The Magnegroes have soo many issues!  LOL  Look how BCPC just fits right in with the flow up in the crib, lol 

So I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  I am sitting here looking like a plucked bird myself.  I do this sometimes so that Caun can hurry up and make that money to get my hair did, lol

Well let’s see what can flow after such a good meal:

• Exactly why do you keep sending around ‘from the family’ stuff and leaving his name off as if he isn’t family?!  WTF?! 
• Ever just want to start swinging on niggas?
• I swear in 2008, my ass will be out shopping on Black Friday! Damn!
• Um, could we not get so caught up in life that we forget to get our groove on? 
• How many days until Mini-me flies out and I can go back to being scantily clothed?
• Holidays still feel lonely since nobody EVER comes over to visit.
• Gas is so expensive I feel trapped in my own home!
• Have YOU braced two girls and a cup?
• Al B. Sure! wrote to tell me he has a new album coming out.  If he goes on tour I’ll wear my original tour t-shirt from him. Yea it’s wayy to small but so what?!
• Can you believe December is right around the corner?
• I gotta stan for Beyonce! Damn that concert was hot last night! I can see why all the hate.
• I’m a bit tired of school, but I have to press on.
• One more Avon order and I will have enough for a new cell phone - Blackjack here I come!
• All these plans off of NO MONEY!

Well, two more days and then back to the grind.  Ya’ll have a wonderful weekend!  I hear some stuffing calling me