A couple of weeks ago I watched the season opener of Soul Food on Showtime. Goodness gracious.. Boris Kodjoe. What a wonderful actor he is. Did you see him on Boston Public? I digress. Anyway, the episode focused on a storyline involving Bird and her math teacher, Michael King, whom she had relations with during high school. Michael King returned in Bird’s life by stalking her. I didn’t see the prior season finale, so I’m unaware if the teacher was on a previous episode. Regardless, this season opener had a powerful effect on me.

Thankfully, I’ve never been put in the situation that Bird was forced into. The sick bastard nearly raped her in broad daylight. That scene sent chills down my spine, almost as if I was living the experience.

Speaking of powerful episodes, Monday night’s Boston Public had me on the verge of tears. Buddhism, spirituality, teenage pregnancy, dealing with regret, death, adoption, drugs. The show could not possibly get any better until Tamyra Gray, sang Luther Vandross’ “Dance with my Father.” What a beautiful song:

Back when I was a child
Before life removed all the innocence
My father would lift me high
And dance with my mother and me and then

Spin me around till I fell.. fell asleep
Then up the stairs he would carry me
And I knew for sure, I was loved

If I could get
Another chance

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Hmmm I’m finally getting the hang of b2. Wasn’t as hard as I thought. Sometimes I have a fear of change which also applies to things outside of my weblog. That’s normal right?

St. Louis has some funky ass weather. It’s extremely humid here, the meteorologist claimed that it was going to rain all day and it didn’t start raining until I was on the bus headed home from work. Thankfully, I had my umbrella (Mama taught me well with being prepared for just about anything). In some parts of the town, golf ball sized hail put dents in people’s cars and heads. Thankfully, I missed out on this. I could probably count on one hand the times that I’ve actually seen hail. In St. Louis, it tends to hail in North County… weird, I wonder why.

The worst part of St. Louis humidity is that it is notoriously known to destroy and dismolish (yes I said dismolish– my friend, Ramon’s word) your hair do. It doesn’t matter if you are black, white, Latino, Asian…. St. Louis weather does not discriminate. If that humidity level is above ninety percent, it will successfully seek and destroy. If I get sista curls in the morning, they are destined to fall down into nothingness in a matter of minutes once I step out into the thick cloud of humidity. Generally, I choose my hairstyles carefully and my stylist, Sissy, uses great products. Speaking of getting my hair done, I haven’t been in a while and I meant to call Sissy today but I was pretty busy at work. I had intentions of calling twice, but I happened to be on a phone call with a customer then after the call, I managed not to remember and by the time I remembered AGAIN, it was 6:00pm and Sissy is usually not at the salon at that time. I’ll try to remember tomorrow. The thing is that I wanted a Saturday appointed and she may be booked by now.

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A little boy walks into his parents room to see his mom on top of his dad bouncing up and down. The mom sees her son and quickly dismounts, worried about what her son has seen, she dresses quickly and goes to find him.

The son sees his mom and asks’ “What were you and dad doing? ”

The mother replies “Well you know your dad has a big tummy and sometimes I have to get on top of it to help flatten it.”

“You’re wasting your time.” says the boy.

“Why is that? his mom asked, puzzled.

“Well when you go shopping the lady next door comes over and gets on her knees and blows it right back up”.

An airplane was going down & everybody knew they would crash in the ocean below. The rich lady takes off all of her clothes and puts on every diamond she has on her body! The passengers all look at her and say what are you doing?

She says “When we are in the ocean my diamonds will sparkle and I will be the first one they find.

Then another woman takes off all her clothes and covers herself with $100 dollar bills! The passengers all look at her, and say what are you doing?

She says, “When we are in the ocean the $100 dollar bills will be floating all around me and they will find me first!!

Then a black lady tears off all her clothes and just gets butt-naked!! All the passengers look at her and ask, “What are you doing?”

The black lady says… “GIRL!!!!!, you know they always look for the black box first!!

and then:

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America’s Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn’t want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named “Bush”, “Dick”, and “Colon”. Need I say more?”

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A webcam at my alma mater, Washington University. A view from Brookings of the Quadrangle and Holmes. I feel like a SPY

I’m still working on figuring out b2.

Went over to a friend’s house for WWE Backlash yesterday. That was a horrible PPV…

New episode of Boston Public tonight.

I should play Powerball; all I need is about $10 million.

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b2 test.. one two

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Hmm I’m trying out this b2 thing. I hope it works out because no more Greymatter for me

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I fixed the comments and the karma voting. Now feel free to leave your opinions

Next on the agenda: guestbook.

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Well isn’t this just lovely?

I didn’t know my comments weren’t working. No one told me, I just happened to check it out and it said internal server error. *sigh* It must have something to do with my domain getting switched over. I’m not sure yet. I’ll have to work on it when I come home. My guestbook is down, but I already knew about that. I tried to make a few updates to my site this morning, opened up Macromedia Dreamweaver, it begins to load.. and nothing. I clicked on the program at the bottom of my screen but it won’t open. The program sits there like it is froze. Just great. Now let me find one little program amongst thousands of CDs in this room. Time to get reogranized.

JT tried to email me and once again my hotmail account is full. I just don’t find the logic in paying for that service; so I’ll keep my little 2mb of free service. I have it set on exclusive email; meaning you have to be in my address book to email me, yet my mailbox KEEPS getting full. *evil eye@ TT and Terenie* Lycos seems much better anyway. I suppose I’ll get around to telling my friends about that account. And the worst free web based email that I have ever used? Yahoo!… their spam feature sucks, everytime I check that account (I’ve had it for about six years) I have about 200 spams. No one of importance emails me on that account; I just keep it to play games, videos, chat and other Yahoo activities.

Today’s Friday Five is dull to me once again..

1. Who is your favorite celebrity?

The Rock

2. Who is your least favorite?

Drawing a blank at the moment

3. Have you ever met or seen any celebrities in real life?

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Currently Feeling:

Isley Brothers Featuring R. Kelly- What Would You Do

Busta Rhymes Featuring Mariah Carey & Flipmode Squad- I Know What You Want Remix

Sean Paul- Get Busy

Still feeling… Erykah Badu - Love Of My Life (Featuring Common)

Lyrics >
Isley Brothers Featuring R. Kelly- What Would You Do

Hello, ladies {Hello}
How are y’all doin’ tonight {Fine}
Can I keep it real {Yes}
And say what’s on my mind {Yes}

There you are in that chair
Waiting for me to take you there
To break it down and sing to you
And make you feel these words are true

Who’s gonna be the lucky one
Who spend some money on ‘em and have some fun
Tell me, I choose you

(What would you do) What would you do if I said all of
these words were true
(What would you) What would you do if I came down here
and sat with you
(What would you do) What would you do if I told the
band to break it down
(Ooh) What would you do if I said I wanna lay you down

(What) What would you do if I put this money in your
hand
(Would you do) What would you do if I said I’d like to
be your man
(What would you do, baby) What would you do if I
brought you up here on this stage
What would you do if (Tell me), what would you do

The lights are down (Yeah), the mood is set (Yeah)
The sound is right, I’m heated
Look to my wealth and check my crowd
Look to my right (Yeah) to see if they are ready now

Tell me who out there feels lucky
Wants me to take ‘em shopping and buy ‘em everything
Hmm, I choose you

(Now what would you do, yeah) What would you do if I
said all of these words were true
(What would you do) What would you do if I came down
here and sat with you
(What, what) What would you do if I told the band to
break it down
(Break it down) What would you do if I said I wanna
lay you down

(Ow) What would you do if I put this money in your hand
(Out this money on your hand, baby) What would you do

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Why don’t I feel like blogging? I have a lot to say but I just don’t feel like typing it out. UGH.

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