Happy New Year!

Sorry I missed wishing you guys a Merry Christmas so Merry (belated) Christmas. Yeah that sounded sincere. LOL We've been off work since the 23rd and have been in quite the slumber during our love week at Chateau De Lazee'. Outside of visiting the family, doing a little shopping to catch some post holiday deals and celebrating Mistah's b-day we've been in the house most of the time (hunchin'). #welivetheglamorouslife

#freakythatwasforyou

Annnnnnnnywaaaaaay, I hope the holiday season was great for you all and that the upcoming new year is pregnant with promise.......if you're lucky with twins!!

xoxo!!!

And now for the last musical selection of 2010...................

I'm..................

• ..................on week 1 of my two day work week extravaganza. Next week, it's just another Monday and Tuesday then I'm gone until the beginning of the year. YES!!
  
• ..................sitting at home on my couch watching 'Maury'.
• ..................wondering if this lady on the show has a glass eye. It looks peculiar.
  
• ..................not packing my suitcase to leave town tomorrow like I should be.
• ..................now wondering what I should pack. It shouldn't take too long to figure out. It's not like we will be going to the club. T-shirts and jeans should do the trick.
  
• ..................actually excited to see the kids and my sister. Not in a 'We're going to Disney World' sort of way but I'm ready to see them. My brother-in-law.....not so much.
• ..................often wonder why she chose him as her husband. He's an idiot....and ugly....like Dwayne Wayne but worse. I don't have to sleep with him though so whatev. LOL
  
• .................going to do better about volunteering my time in 2010. I've fallen off in a BIG way.
  
• .................debating when we should go up to Memphis. My sisters kids (the ones in Memphis not to be confused with the other kids I'm going to see tomorrow in STL) leave to go to their fathers house the day after Christmas so time is limited IF I want to get them their presents before the 25th. If not, I can always just leave them with their mom or drive to Pine Bluff to give them their stuff afterward. I hate PB. It stinks there. No it really stinks like Pepe LePew.
  
• ...............sure I'll figure it out at the last minute.
• ...............also debating if I should take my laptop or not. I'm leaning more towards not. I've still got my cell (and my sisters laptop) if I want to surf the web. :D
• ................hoping I don't forget to take the camera tomorrow. I guess that why I should be packing. I need to make a list because I already know I will forget something. Here's hoping it's not some draws.
• ................done Christmas shopping with exception of a gift for my mom and the kids up north. Guess that means I'm not really done.
  
• ...............actually really good at shopping for gifts for others. I just don't particularly like doing it.
• ...............still a little salty about the gift I initially received at our Dirty Santa function at work the other day. I purchased a couple of cute wrap scarves (only $8 for two) to gift. After it was all said and done I walked away with some homemade jelly. Ummmmm, that's nice and all but I only eat apple jelly (and SOMETIMES grape if I have to). I traded with someone (after the function) that actually likes the jelly and received the travel mug she won.
  
• .................going Dollar Tree on their asses next year for a gift. Fool me once........
• .................about to get off of here for a little while. I just remembered an errand I need to run.

Here comes '09

The first 9 years of the new millennium have passed by so quickly. It seems like just yesterday we were all waiting with baited breath to see if the world would go berserk and self destruct with the Y2K fiasco. Now it's anything but as all things electronic (particularly the internet) have become THE main form of communication. The world wide web truly has come a long way. Now folks cannot only check email but the latest news, gossip, youtube foolishness (oh how I love it so), and my personal favorite BLOGS!! While I don't know any of you personally...well wait, there is one I can add to the list *waves @ SouthernGal*, I do appreciate you guys letting me (and the rest of the world) have a peek into your lives. You all help me think and laugh at the same time. That's a great combination IMHO. :)

With that being said because I'm not one of the mushy persuasion, be safe wherever and however you choose to celebrate tonight. Z and I will be curled up on the couch watching movies and poppin champagne! Okay well maybe not champagne because I've never really been a fan but something other than hot cocoa that makes me feel all warm and tingly on the inside part.
I'm blabbering so folks from me and mine, have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Here's a little youtube foolishness to ring the new year in with

Back to life.....

....back to reality.

Christmas has passed as quickly as it came which seems to be the norm in my adult life. Overall this years holiday season for me has truly been boring. I never quite got into the mood even after going to look at Christmas lights, drinking Nestle's hot chocolate or watching "A Christmas Story" thrice (I did laugh my butt off watching the movie though). There's always next year I suppose.

I did have some fun times watching my niece and nephew open their gifts and talk about their day so all Christmas hope was not lost for me. :-) We ventured over to my aunts house that afternoon to visit with the extremely extended family. There I got to visit with all my older and younger cousins, one of which I didn't know existed until I walked through the door. My mom swears she told me that one of the my younger kin had a baby. She probably did. I'm known to tune out of conversations after about 5 minutes so ummmmmmmmmm yeah......

Anyway, we stayed for a few hours which allowed me to get my yearly update. Yes you read that right yearly...I don't fool with those folks that often. Everyone is still doing about the same but I was privy to a few tidbits of information. One of my other younger cousins (he's my fav out of the bunch) who is gay informed me that he had been living with his boyfriend for about a year. So we sat and talked about relationships and he gave me the inside scoop on what was really going on with everyone. lol After visiting with him, I joined the "old folk" in the kitchen and came upon one of the dumbest and humorous conversations I had heard in a long time. One of my older cousins, who was doing most of the talking, was talking about computers, the internet, and the like. Her sister had just criticized her, i.e. called her out, telling her she wasn't as computer savvy as she thought she was.

Sister: You don't know how to do anything on the computer except for how to turn it on and play games.
Older cousin: (Really loud) Un uhhhh, un uhhhhhh, You know good and well I know how to check my emails. I may not be able to send them but I know how to read them
I proceeded to put my head down to stifle my giggling and conceal the tears that were beginning to fall from my eyes. Once they were done fussing about that, the older cousin then proceeds to tell everyone how men being gay began with incarcerated men in the 70's.











I excused myself from the table and went to join the menfolk in the other room to watch the NBA game after that. I could take no more. She is truly the dumbest 59 year old I know.....no seriously she is.

Anyway, we left a little while after that. My mom and I passed out once we got to the house and went shopping a little the next day. My sis took the kids to their dad's in AR and that's where they will be until it's time for them to go back to school. My other sister wasn't able to travel down due to the weather but she says she may come down next week with the my other two nephews. We'll see.

Ahhh well, that's about it for me. I'm back at home...thank goodness! I hope your Christmas was more exciting and way more spirited than ours. Z just popped in the Dark Knight movie that we are soooooooo late on watching and I just realized that I want a BBQ sandwich. UGH!!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!

Well this is gonna do it for me for me until at least Christmas so I wanted to wish everyone Season's Greetings! Be safe, have fun, and enjoy yourself. I hope you are with someone you love.....even if you're not in the holiday spirit. And if you're not, I've got just the thing for you....ENJOY!!!

Things are back to the way it was……..

……before the holiday season came about. The real tale tale sign of the return to "normalcy" was the morning traffic. Gone are the days where I could leave home @ 6:30 and still make it to work on time. It’s back to the "leave the house by 6:15 or your screwed" rule I set for myself. Oh well…nothing last forever.

Christmas was great! Santa (ie mama) hooked me up with some moula and I received a cute little purse that my sister got for me when they were in NYC over Thanksgiving. The funny thing is that I was trying to get her to let me buy the one she had for $20 (cause I knew it wasn’t the real deal if you will but it was cute nonetheless). When I saw that my gift was the purse similar to hers (the one I have is a smaller version with a different strap) I could do nothing but laugh. I still like her purse better but the one I have is cute as well. I’ve already gotten several compliments on it already. Christmas day my mom and I went over to my sister’s house to eat and let mom open her presents. The three of us went in together and got mom a premium spa day package and some $$ to do what she wishes at her leisure. I just hope she is satisfied with it because we paid a pretty penny for that stuff. My sister says it’s one of the best day spa’s in Memphis….I sure hope so. After we ate, we all played the "Deal or No Deal" dvd game my sister bought as the family gift for her home. At first I thought it was going to be extremely boring but everyone really got into it, especially my mom, and we had a blast.

Z and I decided to go out for New Years. He actually went clubbing twice over the long weekend, as his birthday was Friday. I decided to skip that outing and let it be a boy’s night out. We had done our celebration earlier in the evening and he had received his gifts from me so all was well. We get to the party spot Monday night, Juanita’s (http://www.juanitas.com ). All the tables were either taken or reserved so we stood up the entire night, which wasn’t so bad until my footsies started achin. Lol I made sure to keep cup filled my fave mixed drink (coconut rum with pineapple juice) and really got roasted and toasted off of the champagne. I always forget how much of a punch that beverage packs until after the fact. Thank goodness Z was my designated driver because I was dunzo after I got home. I barely had enough strangth to take my clothes off, wash the makeup off of my face, and take my contacts out before collapsing into bed. While at the partay, Z stepped up to the plate and became a volunteer firefighter. The couple seated kinda in front of us had a visitor (who I suspect had surpassed me on his way to drunkard land) come over to speak to them. In his excitement, he made the décor catch on fire. In Mr. Drunkard’s defense, the decorations committee decided it was a good idea to place the very flammable party décor next to an open flame. In his excitement, he accidentally lit the party favor stuff on fire. No one noticed at first until the girl at the table started hollerin. ROFLMAO! Ok, I know it’s really not that funny but if ya’ll could have heard her… So her date starts trying to blow it out, then some random guy comes over from out of nowhere to blow it out which made it way worse cause he was causing little flicks of flames to go everywhere! Lol Z finally just took the damn thing, threw it on the floor and stomped it out. At this point, I’m dyin laughing (while backing up mind you) and look over to the bar to see Mr. Drunkard/Firestarter trying to blend in while looking like he ain’t done nothing wrong. I was through…..just through!! Lol lol lol

So after the near disaster it was time to count in the New Year. Now I had just pulled out my phone to do a time check and it was 6 minutes till midnight. The next thing I know the host is talking about we have 3 minutes left……30 seconds later…1 ½ minutes left. WTF? About 15 seconds later we are @ 30 seconds left in the new year. I don’t know what kinda of timer he was usin but we rang in the New Year about 3 minutes or so earlier than everyone else on CST. Lol lol I made sure to give Z some more sugar when the clock actually struck 12. After that we hit the dance floor and the dj played some really great oldies but goodies and then slowed it down. Honey some of these folks showed their tail on the floor. Folks d@mn near screwin, chickadees all bent over on the floor with their asses all up in the air, bwahahahaha. I looked @ Z and said it’s time to go. All in all we had a good time, I hope you all did too.

Laters!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Just passing through once again, to send everyone well wishes. Here's hoping that whatever you do this evening to ring in the new year that you have fun and be safe!

I'll be back to posting sometime next year. :-)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Just popping my head in to do a quickie post to wish everyone in blogland a very Merry Christmas. I'll be leaving out tomorrow to go hang out with the fam in Memphis. I hope that each and everyone of you spends the day with someone that you love. Safe travels to you all.