Last week, my Mom turned 70 years old! (Holy Canoles, right?!) I thought about it a few months ago. Then last week I kept thinking about it. Then on her birthday I tried to call her no less than 5 times but her phone wasn’t working, but I thought about it. Last night, the family took her out for a marvelous dinner and on the way home I -you guessed it- thought about it. (By now, you may be thinking,... Read more
In the mood for a scintillating story? So, this weekend…I reunited with my baby boys after a 3 day work trip at the University of Pittsburgh…said goodbye to my hubby as he spent the weekend at his own work trip…bought Ransom How to Train your Dragon and proceeded to watch it with him about 4.5 times over the week-end…cleaned the kitchen…raked the leaves with Ran (& felt so proud of myself by the way)…cleaned the dining room…fed my kids bacon... Read more
You know, I’m just a quiet Black man trying to make it in this world. I’m especially trying to make it in this Obama-the-POTUS, post-racist country—or so some of the White people around me tell me. I have been told that I should be happy that America finally has a Black president and that I shouldn’t be so touchy about some of the things that I see around me. And you know, I want to be a good and happy... Read more
I got some new tat’s. (Yay)! I all ready had the star on the back of my neck but I decided to add to it. The star symbolized my SIMA (a test for determining your motivated abilities). Apparently, I’m a STAR! Or at least I’m motivated to be one. =) When my supervisor & I were debriefing my SIMA results he encouraged me to be who, what & how God has made me to be: a star for Jesus. He... Read more
We all know sex sells. Blah, blah, blah another day another ad with a giant pair of badonka-donks staring at us from the side of the road, the side of our facebook news feed, the side of a magazine article, etc. But what we may not notice on those billboards, news feed ad’s & mag articles is something just as effective at getting our attention: shame. To continue on in our book club discussion of Unsqueezed: Springing Free from Skinny Jeans,... Read more
A follow up to the ever popular post: So, I’m bald now. Eck. (Part 1) Appropriately titled, So, I’m bald now. Yay! (Part 2) I wasn’t sure if there would be a part 2. Sure, sure I thought there would be more endless droning about the fact that I hated my new lop-job haircut which I gave to myself in a depressed-I-miss-my-husband sort of night. …but… …I didn’t expect what came next… Liberation! Freedom! Fun! Experimentation! Little Work! All Play!... Read more
Does this sound like me? “From the awkwardness of pumping at work to changing diapers in between conference calls, dish on your favorite working mommy blogger who may or may not have it all together, but pulls it off anyway.” It is me! (Except that I DO NOT have any of it together. There is no “may” about it). If you believe my little blog here fits that description head on over to bump.com and nominate me for the Best... Read more
What does the title of my blog mean today? Absolutely nothing. I just like those words & as a bonus, they rhyme! =) But, just for kicks, let’s try this out for size: you will love the supafly designs on shutterfly so much that -wait for it- you’ll be stupefied! (As in stunned silent like in the Harry Potter books, get it)? =) Wow. I digress. Anyway… There’s nothing better than seeing the faces of the people you love frozen... Read more
Drowning: death from asphyxia due to suffocation caused by a liquid entering the lungs and preventing the absorption of oxygen leading to cerebral hypoxia and myocardial infarction. Is it possible to drown in sorrows, laundry, emails, worry, kid’s crying, exhaustion, snotty tissues, work conference calls, cooking & cleaning? If it is, then friends, I have suffered from the worst case of cerebral hypnoxia & myocardial infarction. EVER. I feel so. obnoxiously. overwhelmed. Today is one of those days I feel... Read more
First things first: 1. See yesterday’s post for the beginning of the cleavage conundrum! 2. This post is also part of my Unsqueezed: Springing Free from Skinny Jeans, Nose Jobs, Highlights and Stilettos, Book Club (Chapter 2) Good news! (I’m in the process of getting a password protected forum set up on a page of my blog. I bit the bullet and offered the cold hard cash to a computer genius. Let’s hope it’s the beginning of a beautiful relationship... Read more
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