They don't even ask if you want fries with that anymore...

What ever happened to customer service???

Today EVERY place I went had the worst customer service.

Tax office.
Everything was pretty good. First thing, the dude doing my taxes was like 12. That's fine whatever I prefer to do it there because I know it's done right, I don't have to think about it and they got my back. I gots peeplz. So I go downstairs to sign paperwork and thangs so I can get broke off and I had questions. The lady at the front was just stank for no reason. She was hatin big time. I had some questions and she was just super stank about 'em. Personally I think she was hatin on my 401K and my monies... but whatev. So i had a final question and she just dismissed me to someone else. HEFFA! ugh. So I was going to say something smart about how they need to fix their 'tudes, but I remained Christian and upon my departure wished her a good day. (And I say to you my Liege GOOD DAY!!! lol). Onto rudeness #2

Moe's
My favorite place on earth. Whenever I'm uber happy or sad, catch me in there. They always know what to say. (daydreaming: "welcome to moes....oes... es...s..." LOLOL) Soooo I go in there about to holla at my Ruprict. The dude behind the counter was hollerin to the girl at the cash register mad rude-faced. Not friendly at all. No couth. I ended up leaving, I forgot my purse in the car and when I got back to the car I just figured I'd get ice cream and go home.

Ben & Jerry's
This heffa was sittin there head in hand leanin on the glass. The glass, I might add, that they tell US not to lean on. No gloves on the girls hands. I ask a few questions, she mumbles the answers to me. I ask for samples, she gives them. NO GLOVES. I'm like your dusty dead skin is falling in the ice cream girl! WTW? I couldn't get over her bare hands dealing with the ice cream, so I left.


Smoothie King
#1 this place is so whack, but I can't go to Jamba, so I have to settle. *tears* So I go up in there. The dudes are just so raggedy I can't even explain. They don't know who is taking the order and who's making the smoothie. Perhaps they're new. Whatev... they need training. Gah! So they take my order. As I'm standin there I look and I see that I can get another smoothie for free. Nigren, for free. These folks didn't even tell me. So I ask to get my free smoothy. These dudes are hecka confused. They ask they're alleged manager (who looked all of 20) and she is just off. He apparently said it was the "Happy Hour" special and it is in fact the "Weekend Special" soooo this girl corrects him and says that it's only from 5-9. I'm steady telling her that the weekend special says very clearly 12-5p sooooo get your life right. She goes on this long spiel about how the, "Happy hour special is from 5-9pm, those are the daily specials"... like a trained robot. Does she not understand that I DONT care what it's called I just want my free smoothie?!?! lol. I really don't care. I'm like "I never called it anything, I just wanted my free smoothie". *rolls eyes* after all this drama I get everything straight.

I think I get so frustrated because I worked retail and I prided myself on great customer service and clearly that is so dead nowadays.

Please share your woes...

PJ Morton... I {heart} him! and you should too. Spreading the love

I am literally nauseous listening to the live PJ MORTON album. It doesn't make sense! Like when you hear real music again. I mean really... I miss music that has purpose.

Um I have his first album Emotions and that was great! I always crave more real music when I hear it. I now have Perfect Song and Live from L.A. !!! smh... they are the greatest. GET LIVE IN LA!!!

That mug deserves it's own paragraph. RIDICU-MOUS!!!! Like it seriously doesn't make sense. The vocals? The band? The whole... I can't even explain. BUY don't burn his music. I will come and personally fight you if you don't buy his music. He's still on the come up.

I suppose in my other blog I will discuss the other side of this idea of "good" secular music.

ToOtLe-OoTlEs.

Listen here
Buy Here

BUY don't burn!!! or I will cut you.

Yyour song

When I think of Yyou I smile. Keep smiling. And smile again. Heart beats. Skips beats. Beats. Smile.

Skips again and then starts. Both making me flutter. Thoughts start rolling in. Happiness. Feeling.
Need something to accompany this condition. Something to soothe the feelings. Comfort. Warm.
When I think of Yyou I have to hear song. This song or that. Lovely music. Purposeful. Song.
New or old. This song makes me think of Yyou. Mind on Yyou. Thought. Skip beat. Beat.
These songs always are Yyou. Yyou are them. Smile. Skip beat. Embodied. Living.
I feel like Yyou're right here when I hear. Yyou are. Yyou listen. Always hearing.
Makes me continue to smile. Skip continues. Personified. Valency equals 2.
I feel you near me. Heart beat. Skipped feet. Tip tap. Movement.

Yyour song.

My song.
Song.

The Return of the Bugaboo ADSL Vol. 1

Mmmmmmmmmmmk so I couldn't wait to get home and write this blog... lol

Going to the gym and being a woman about your business isn't easy nowadays. lol. I go to the gym 3 times a week and I just got back to my regular schedule. lol. So I go to the daggum gym and it's great. I know a lot of the regulars in there and everything seems normal. Besides the fact that all these resolutionaries are up in there messin up my flow. No offense to those of you just starting your workout grind. I get an attitude anytime I got in the gym and I can't get my workout down smoothly. Machines are packed, people aren't aware of gym etiquette, etc. Soooo I'm minding my own business on my elliptical machine (yes I think I own it, whatev! I do what I want. I'm polite, but when I'm working out... I'm focused) Aaaanywho oh let me back up... while I was doing my warm up lap and stretch I noticed someone I hadn't seen before downstairs, nothing big. Just stretching out. I always notice the new people because generally... those are the one's to watch out for as far as guys go. Those are the one's that want to know how serious you are about your workout, know what your name is, etc.

So now... I'm on the elliptical machine. Doin the do, watching Serena play tennis *reminds me to check on the score* and then Mr. Newby comes upstairs. I keep focused and I notice him coming by so I just glance and nod as I do most people to keep from being too rude. *rolls eyes* lol. Well, that was too much. Then he decides to come over and speak so I remove one of my earbuds and have small talk. Keeping my pace, glancing at the TV to make it apparent that I AM working out and I AM watching TV. Didn't work. Dis nucca... diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis neighbor!!! Ladies if you don't know likening a new relationship to Michelle and Barack is the new thing. LOL! He made several references to Barack and Michelle. God and all that. Talked a pretty good game. Seemed to have a good head on his shoulders, but a neighbor was pressed. lol. He even took it upon himself to show me a picture he had on the background on his phone of Michelle and Barack and say that that's what he's striving for. He asked the basic status questions, single? kids? etc... lol. diiiiiiis nucca! lolol ok. So he asked for my number. no. He asked again... no. He talked a little, said he's a good man and I'm a good woman and God wants good people together yadda yadda, then asked for the number AGAIN... no! Said something about prayer and then mentions that he prays for his wife every day. RED FLAG... nig... lol! Ha-whaaaaaat? Later on I confronted him on the wife comment like... "how do you ask and be married???" and he said something about being out of that relationship for 13 mos.

He persists... Told him that if God wants him to be with me, turning him down won't stop Him. No need to exchange numbers now or tell you my workout schedule. lol. So then there's small talk. I'm cracking up. I could have been rude, but I entertained it. He asked about taking me out... no. He offered to give his number. no. Mercy I can't even remember all the things he said. Apparently this dude is about to play Safety for the Ravens... PAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! A likely story. ROTFL! And he begged and begged and begged. Whined and whined. LOLOL. To which I just laughed. Got off the machine... *comments about... roooooooooooooooooooolls eyes, a waste of time.* I wipe the machine down and head for my warm down lap. He's following me... my nig... FOLLOWING ME. So I'm like, "Look I need to walk this lap and I don't have time, you either need to keep up or not". He keeps up. lol. Says some mess about being Jamie Foxx's BFF... LOL ... and that they're just alike. Did he think I was born yesterday?? I don't even remember what else. I do know that he talked about how he was playing basketball the other day and had folks watching all intently. Dunking and 3's and whatever. wow... lol. So then I go into the weight room, he STILL follows me, but I put on my other earbud and get to work. I don't play when it comes to my weight room!

Anyhow I went on about my business. Talked to my folks. Did my thang. Tried to duck and dodge just in case dude was out there when I left. HILARIO! Had to share because... lol... although going to the gym is a wonderful thing to do and is so exhilarating, sometimes... SOMETIMES... you want to punch someone in the face if they don't get out of your face.

lol that is my rant... my rant... I had to let it out. It made my night! lol. I may start wearing a wedding band to the gym... lol. jp :p


Here's a checklist for some newbies:
#1 WEAR headphones and on blast. If not on blast, just make sure that you know how to effectively act as if you don't hear someone.

#2 Be focused. Know what you are doing, know where things are at. If you look like you don't know where you are going, or what you are doing, there WILL be someone there to "help" you.

#3 Have some safety buddies. Some people that you know you can talk to at any point and they can rescue you. These can be personal friends or simply people you know or see all the time in the gym. (Just make sure they won't potentially become a bugaboo)


All you gymheads. Please leave your stories brief or otherwise and any tips...

All guys want a girl who works out... but sometimes you just want to work out... lol

Random rants post-inauguration

Now that the high is gone. What are we going to do for our country?

We must'n't be t-shirt Obama supporters. Are all the millions about to really get out and put their booties where their mouth was? I plan to. I just need to find something new to get involved in. Through Obama's site there are different efforts so I'll check them out.


Um... so now I'm watching CNN again. YAY! I love it again!! I definitely have a different perspective now because I actually like the president. It's interesting that many of us didn't vote or care about who our Senators were and those are the very people that he's meeting with now. Boy we're bright! lol. Man in two years we need to be on our game. It's so simple, but we can't see the forrest for the trees. So guys... we need to pay attention.

Man GOP may have a Black Chair?!? That'd be awesome. Also historical, but we probably don't all know that. We're still recouping from the trip to DC.


I love the Obama's. Their outward relationship (can't speak on what it really is) is definitely something I'd like to have. She has his back and she has her own strength, not overpowering his.


Man those kids. So cute. I have a feeling their a bit spoiled though. :) J.Crew has some new "neighbors" (as my friend puts for the Nword) I've always loved J.Crew, but I will admit the fact that the Obama women shop there... makes it seem like time for a trip to da Crew.

It's everlasting... even through the storm

So tonight I was listening to my girl Cece... and this part of Everlasting love was listened to multiple times. It's where I am. I love all that she says in this part of the song... The intensity in her voice and the music creates a mood. And now I shall listen again...


When the darkness filled the urgent sky
and the tears welled up in the corners of my eyes
and the sun wouldn't shine for the pourin' rain
Wondered if I'd ever see daylight again

When the stars protest at the moon's refrain
and I told myself I'd surely go insane
and the earth kept turnin' at an alarmin' pace
and I couldn't talk my heart out of joinin' the race

I remember a time (yesterday) I couldn't close my eyes
I would lie awake dispairin' don't know how many nights
Afraid to death that my chest would give way to the fear
Pulled the covers over my head and I cupped my ears

In attempt to escape the deafening sounds of silence
In attempt to escape these constant visions of violence
and with death as close as it could possibly get
heard a Voice in the distance sayin' "CeCe not yet"

Then suddenly the darkness gave away to the light
and I threw off the covers as I closed my eyes
just in time to feel your spirit grip my body like a glove
and I knew in that moment that it was your...
that it was your everlasting, lasting love

Yesterday, and today, forever more it will remain
Even now its still the same
cause my love will never change

Know that the peace that comes from above
is that same everlasting love...

Little powerful words...

President Barack Obama...
First Lady Michelle Obama...

How do these words make you feel?

Inauguration Day

Today the feeling cannot be described in mere words. It's electric. I may not be in DC, but I can feel it. I think no matter where you are, there is a feeling you get. This morning I couldn't decide what to wear, my heart kept racing. It can't be duplicated. I drove to the gas station and Starbucks to pick up the newspapers for today and will definitely be there bright and early tomorrow morning. I pray for the Obama families and for Black America today. I pray that this is not just a fad or a fly-by-night change we are making.

President Obama always speaks of change, but he is not doing it alone. Where are the community organizers? I'm ready to start working. I'm ready to get my hands dirty in order to clean up some things in my community. I'm ready to make a difference more than ever before. Yes because Obama has asked for it. I feel it is my duty as a newly proud American citizen to put action to the phrase "Yes WE Can"... remember we didn't say "Yes he can", so go on get out and do something!

I'm very excited to head to the movie theater to watch the events. Even if I don't make it over there, I will surely be watching it live. Bump work today, I can definitely put it off for tomorrow.

How is everyone feeling at this time?

Whether there in DC or at your respective homes, please share what is your feeling about all this?

Take the wheel...