So....
Awhile back--last summer I believe. I wrote a couple of posts about my friends Nic and Claudia who were dating. Now, in one of the posts I talked about how Claudia had done some things that were kinda "suspicious" to me...but I promised myself I would stay out of it...which I did for the most part other than to let Nic vent.
Long story short, Nic cut back on Claudia some was kinda seeing someone else for a while since their relationship (N and C's I mean) was long distance. I hadn't really talked to Nic that much in the last few months because of a couple of illnesses that keep her in and out of the hospital. I had all but assumed they had stopped dealing with each other...that was last I heard.
Now fast forward to yesterday...
I'm talking to Nic catching up because we haven't really talked in about a month and a half. I'm told Claudia is back in the picture and they've worked everything out and things are stronger than before. I'm thinking ok...positive changes, great for y'all
Oh but WAIT...
Nic hits me with "um yeah Claudia is moving up here and I'm going to propose on Valentine's Day" (I can post this because neither reads this blog)
wait wait wait. pump your brakes and hold on...there are several things wrong with this picture. Let's start with the most obvious...
YOU HAVE NEVER MET IN PERSON
To my knowledge...Claudia has not made a trip up and because of health Nic has never made a trip down. I could be wrong, but I don't think I am and if they did meet it was no more than ONCE. WTF???????????
Ok...let's say we can overlook that part... ARE YOU NUTS?
Nevermind that they haven't been together for a solid year. Nevermind that there is an age difference. Nevermind that...
Now...let me say I know both of them... they actually met kinda sideways through me in an online group that I moderate. I don't believe either is mentally unstable...though after that piece of news...iooono ( pronounced just like I wrote it...lol)
SMH. I can't wrap my head around this.
Again I told myself I would stay out of it, but I've been fighting the urge since yesterday to kind of go off on them, but part of me is like you know what...I want to sit back and watch this train wreck, because I said my peace awhile back and then stepped away from it.
Wow.
I'm just going to leave it right there. Back away from the wreckage.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Episode 54- Cut Ties?
I have a hypothetical question for anyone who cares to answer...
Let's say you have been friends with someone for about a year. You talk just about everyday--even if it's just a quick hello. Everything has been cool up to this point, no arguments no drama...
Then all of sudden friend doesn't speak to you for a week.
Now the first few days, you're not overly concerned. People get busy. It happens
By day 3 or 4, you're mildly worried that maybe something is wrong. You try reaching out to them and don't get a reply. At the same time, you see they're posting to their blogs and social networks like crazy (meaning: they had enough time to do all of that, but not enough to at least say "hey I'm breathing"....ok?)
On day 5 you notice that the blog and status messgaes have gotten rather cryptic... several of them make mention of "cutting certain people off" or "getting rid of dead weight"
Then all of a sudden after a full week no contact...the friend contacts you, as if nothing happened.
Now there are a couple of scenarios here: a) it's possible the friend just got super busy and the other stuff had nothing to do with you whatsoever b) it's possible you did/said something that you just don't realize
During the conversation you ask without being overly obvious what they've been up to...and the friend sidesteps the answer or is very vague.
How would you handle this? would you:
a) leave it alone and hope maybe they come around and tell you what's been up
b) flat out ask them (but keep in mind you might not like the answer)
c) say the hell with them and just sideline the friendship because you don't have time for the bs
or perhaps some combination thereof...
Let's say you have been friends with someone for about a year. You talk just about everyday--even if it's just a quick hello. Everything has been cool up to this point, no arguments no drama...
Then all of sudden friend doesn't speak to you for a week.
Now the first few days, you're not overly concerned. People get busy. It happens
By day 3 or 4, you're mildly worried that maybe something is wrong. You try reaching out to them and don't get a reply. At the same time, you see they're posting to their blogs and social networks like crazy (meaning: they had enough time to do all of that, but not enough to at least say "hey I'm breathing"....ok?)
On day 5 you notice that the blog and status messgaes have gotten rather cryptic... several of them make mention of "cutting certain people off" or "getting rid of dead weight"
Then all of a sudden after a full week no contact...the friend contacts you, as if nothing happened.
Now there are a couple of scenarios here: a) it's possible the friend just got super busy and the other stuff had nothing to do with you whatsoever b) it's possible you did/said something that you just don't realize
During the conversation you ask without being overly obvious what they've been up to...and the friend sidesteps the answer or is very vague.
How would you handle this? would you:
a) leave it alone and hope maybe they come around and tell you what's been up
b) flat out ask them (but keep in mind you might not like the answer)
c) say the hell with them and just sideline the friendship because you don't have time for the bs
or perhaps some combination thereof...
Friday, January 22, 2010
Episode 53- Superpowers
Man I don't know what's up with this...
Now I have this weird dream thing going on. Ok wait let me back up and explain. I'm not psychic or clairvoyant or anything like that, but I think maybe awhile back in this blog I explained I have two "super powers" (or as Malika called it a "gift/curse"...lol)
The first one is the ability to talk up events or people at random. Meaning, for instance, I could be having a conversation about something...and it could be far fetched, or about a person I haven't spoken with in awhile and the next thing you know, what I said or the person in question will suddenly materialize. I have never learned to "control" it, which is why I am careful sometimes about what I say because I never know if it may happen. And it DOES happen very often, but as I said it completely works at random. I can't just say I want to win the lottery ( I wish!!!) and win.
The second gift is the dream thing...there is no name for it, I just call it the dream thing. It kind of goes along with the talking stuff up. As long as I can remember I have been a massively hard sleeper...I actually slept through a major earthquake once. Anyway, the deal is 90% of the time I DO NOT remember my dreams. Then there is that other 10%...about 5% are "fish dreams"...
Fish dreams as the old folks tell it mean that someone around you is pregnant. When I have fish dreams I am always right. I don't know why but I am really sensitive to pregnancies. I'll dream about fish in some way shape or form--I never know who it is, but typically within a week or two either someone will call me or I will get the urge to call someone around me and bam...they're preggo. LOL. The best story was at a former job...one of my coworkers was out for the day, so a couple of us went in her office to eat lunch. I told a third coworker while we were sitting in the office that the night before I had had a fish dream. She laughed at me... that was on a Friday. On Monday when co-worker #1 came back to work, we all had lunch together. She said "well I have something to tell you ladies." I said "wait before you do..." I looked at co-worker #2 said "I told you so." and then told #1 to finish her sentence. Sure enough...
So back to the whole dream thing...the last 5% are the seeming random dreams. I say seemingly because I've learned that much like the other power it's randomness works in my favor. I've learned over time that on the rare occassion that I do remember a dream it's typically beacause I need to pay attention to all or part of it...
Which brings me to the last two nights...I have had two very odd dreams in relation to a couple of projects I'm working on. The one that is sitting with me is the one from last night...
I had a dream that I was updating my facebook status...see we're starting off weird already. LOL. I was sitting at my desk typing so it wasn't one of those I'm outside of my body watching myself dreams. On FB I wrote 4 status updates...I actually remember them word for word and they were in this order:
1. I have 3 pieces of news so amazing they each need their own status space...
2. my book not only got picked up by a major publisher, but it got so much buzz they booked me for Good Morning America
3. My group P.H.A.B got signed to a major record label and our first video premieres on MTV and BET this week
4. I just found out I got a $50,000 MacArthur Genius grant
Seriously?
Now the first one is completely plausible. The second...not impossible. The last one...I've never even considered applying for a genius grant so I don't know where the hell that came from...although again not impossible. I probably would kind of sideeye myself and say what was I smoking that night before...if not for the fact that the night before I had a very similar dream regarding the first and second things.
Hmmm... again this is where life is telling me to pay attention.
If any of the above do actually happen...I promise you I will come back to this and literally copy what I just said word for word. All dreams are possible I suppose...
Now I have this weird dream thing going on. Ok wait let me back up and explain. I'm not psychic or clairvoyant or anything like that, but I think maybe awhile back in this blog I explained I have two "super powers" (or as Malika called it a "gift/curse"...lol)
The first one is the ability to talk up events or people at random. Meaning, for instance, I could be having a conversation about something...and it could be far fetched, or about a person I haven't spoken with in awhile and the next thing you know, what I said or the person in question will suddenly materialize. I have never learned to "control" it, which is why I am careful sometimes about what I say because I never know if it may happen. And it DOES happen very often, but as I said it completely works at random. I can't just say I want to win the lottery ( I wish!!!) and win.
The second gift is the dream thing...there is no name for it, I just call it the dream thing. It kind of goes along with the talking stuff up. As long as I can remember I have been a massively hard sleeper...I actually slept through a major earthquake once. Anyway, the deal is 90% of the time I DO NOT remember my dreams. Then there is that other 10%...about 5% are "fish dreams"...
Fish dreams as the old folks tell it mean that someone around you is pregnant. When I have fish dreams I am always right. I don't know why but I am really sensitive to pregnancies. I'll dream about fish in some way shape or form--I never know who it is, but typically within a week or two either someone will call me or I will get the urge to call someone around me and bam...they're preggo. LOL. The best story was at a former job...one of my coworkers was out for the day, so a couple of us went in her office to eat lunch. I told a third coworker while we were sitting in the office that the night before I had had a fish dream. She laughed at me... that was on a Friday. On Monday when co-worker #1 came back to work, we all had lunch together. She said "well I have something to tell you ladies." I said "wait before you do..." I looked at co-worker #2 said "I told you so." and then told #1 to finish her sentence. Sure enough...
So back to the whole dream thing...the last 5% are the seeming random dreams. I say seemingly because I've learned that much like the other power it's randomness works in my favor. I've learned over time that on the rare occassion that I do remember a dream it's typically beacause I need to pay attention to all or part of it...
Which brings me to the last two nights...I have had two very odd dreams in relation to a couple of projects I'm working on. The one that is sitting with me is the one from last night...
I had a dream that I was updating my facebook status...see we're starting off weird already. LOL. I was sitting at my desk typing so it wasn't one of those I'm outside of my body watching myself dreams. On FB I wrote 4 status updates...I actually remember them word for word and they were in this order:
1. I have 3 pieces of news so amazing they each need their own status space...
2. my book not only got picked up by a major publisher, but it got so much buzz they booked me for Good Morning America
3. My group P.H.A.B got signed to a major record label and our first video premieres on MTV and BET this week
4. I just found out I got a $50,000 MacArthur Genius grant
Seriously?
Now the first one is completely plausible. The second...not impossible. The last one...I've never even considered applying for a genius grant so I don't know where the hell that came from...although again not impossible. I probably would kind of sideeye myself and say what was I smoking that night before...if not for the fact that the night before I had a very similar dream regarding the first and second things.
Hmmm... again this is where life is telling me to pay attention.
If any of the above do actually happen...I promise you I will come back to this and literally copy what I just said word for word. All dreams are possible I suppose...
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Episode 52- Karaoke, Boobs, Beer and a Stripper Pole
And this is starting off as an interesting year already...
It started off like this...on Thursday I met up with my friend C. It started out normal enough he and I and my other friend Mia hung out for a little while--which was cool because we hadn't hung out since last month. On Friday C calls me at work because he'd left a book in my car so I told him I'd meet up with him after work, after which since it was Friday we decided to hang out...long story short we met up with C's ex neighbor Darryl and headed over to a local spot for some food and a few drinks.
All of a sudden I see this little man walk out of the back...and I swear if he didn't look like an oompa loompa.
By now the alcohol is kicking in so the jokes are coming. The whole bar is cracking up. We finish eating and decide to head to a karaoke spot. A few more beers later and I'm singing old New Edition songs. LOL.
This must have been short people night, cause now I'm sitting with Darryl and there's this one girl at the end of the bar...all of sudden she stands up and I realize her head barely comes about the top of the bar...now she wasn't a midget...she was just really short and it kinda threw me off, but the funniest part was when I came around by where she was sitting only to realize...she had on 2 or 3 inch heels. Smh.
Now this is the night I wish I'd grabbed my camera...
I preface this next part by saying...the irony of this moment was that C, Darryl and I had JUST had a conversation not an hour before hand about putting our stories together and how we always seem to find ourselves in the funniest situations.
So now it's the end of the night and there are about 8 of us left in the place kinda laughing and talking and this girl (she was about 30) was there with her mother. Well being kinda tipsy themselves they start screaming for the bartender to play some go-go. So he played this...
It started off like this...on Thursday I met up with my friend C. It started out normal enough he and I and my other friend Mia hung out for a little while--which was cool because we hadn't hung out since last month. On Friday C calls me at work because he'd left a book in my car so I told him I'd meet up with him after work, after which since it was Friday we decided to hang out...long story short we met up with C's ex neighbor Darryl and headed over to a local spot for some food and a few drinks.
All of a sudden I see this little man walk out of the back...and I swear if he didn't look like an oompa loompa.
By now the alcohol is kicking in so the jokes are coming. The whole bar is cracking up. We finish eating and decide to head to a karaoke spot. A few more beers later and I'm singing old New Edition songs. LOL.
This must have been short people night, cause now I'm sitting with Darryl and there's this one girl at the end of the bar...all of sudden she stands up and I realize her head barely comes about the top of the bar...now she wasn't a midget...she was just really short and it kinda threw me off, but the funniest part was when I came around by where she was sitting only to realize...she had on 2 or 3 inch heels. Smh.
Now this is the night I wish I'd grabbed my camera...
I preface this next part by saying...the irony of this moment was that C, Darryl and I had JUST had a conversation not an hour before hand about putting our stories together and how we always seem to find ourselves in the funniest situations.
So now it's the end of the night and there are about 8 of us left in the place kinda laughing and talking and this girl (she was about 30) was there with her mother. Well being kinda tipsy themselves they start screaming for the bartender to play some go-go. So he played this...
I don't know what it is about go-go that makes girls act a fool..lol
Next thing you know the girl starts ass shaking...I'm at the end of the bar kind of laughing. Darryl and C are talking and the conversation went something like this.
Darryl: Hey man I'm ready to go cause I gotta go see my girl
C: Cool. I'm kinda watching ass and titties right now so give me 3 mins
Darryl: I'm about to go see naked ass and titties
Not a second later...the girl proceeds to jack her shirt up and all you saw were her boobs...one going one way one going the other...all she needed was some tassles and it'd have been a wrap!! And it wasn't like she did it just for a second...she was full frontal for a good 5 mins.
By now jaws are dropping and I am somewhere in between the jaw drop and laughing.
The rest of the night was another karaoke spot and a few more laughs but maaaaaaan that was hilarious...I even saw a girl with what I swear was a disappearing/reappearing hairline. You had to be there for that one (I will forever be mad at myself for leaving the camera that night)
So to follow that up...after nursing a little beer hangover yesterday, I went to my friend Vette's birthday party last night...
it was a stripper pole party.
It was actually a LOT of fun. We ate, we laughed we took a ton of pictures (note to self that these may in fact be considered "blackmail" pics lol). I may have learned a new pole trick (it's an inverted something or other...lol). I have to say the instructor was really good. I woke up this morning with a mild tequila shot hangover, a bruise, 2 broken nails, but it was all worth it.
Ah how I love a good story weekend.
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