I really did not mean to be gone for so long, but things happen like that.

A couple of good friends have positively pressured me into posting. Peer pressure is dangerous folks.

My overall health is okay, but my sanity is always questionable. The twins are getting over a cold and *drumroll*... pink eye. JT took them to the hospital yesterday and we now have eyedrops for them. William and Keisha are doing a lot better today than yesterday. They just fell asleep to Backyardigans playing in their room. Which reminds me that I need to turn their television off because I can hear it playing now. Pablo is yelling something... or is that Tyrone?

I am tired a lot these days, but according to Kat Williams, when you are a parent you are always tired.

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1. What was the last important thing you were late for?

I was two minutes late for training one day last week.

2. What was the last important thing you were late with?

Last November, I was late with three gifts for a birthday party.

3. What (or who!) is the most frequent cause of your lateness?

Myself. I get easily distracted.

4. Which of your close friends or relatives can you expect almost always to be inconveniently late?

My father.

5. What’s most likely to cause you to stay up too late before bed?

Playing games online, chatting, reading news online, listening to music or blogging.

Thanks for participating, and what took you so long?

Nothing but laziness.

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Friday Five

01. What types of portable audio devices do you use?

I have a 30GB iPod Video that I named ArdiPod. I also have many walkmans (tape players), cd players and two mini disc players that I have retired. Only the ArdiPod gets action now.

02. What format of music do you listen to most often?

I listen to 128 and 192 ripped .mp3s on my ArdiPod and my PCs the most.

03. How do you get your electronic music files? (pay service [i.e Napster, iTunes, eMusic, etc.], file sharing, artist/label web sites, etc.)

I do not purchase electronic music files these days. I used Napster in the good old days. I tried the paid version of Napster and I did not care for it. About 2 years ago I purchased a couple of albums electronically on Walmart.com. I only used that because a friend of a friend wanted the album.

04. What type of headphones do you use?

At my PC, I use the Optimus Nova 67 headphones and for my ArdiPod I use the standard earbuds. There are a pair of headphones that I would love to have, but they cost $99.00 retail at BestBuy *sigh*.

05. What is currently on your portable music player that you are using?

I currently have about 1,000 songs on ArdiPod. Way too many songs to list, but I have a lot of John Legend, Lauryn Hill, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu and so on...

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Happy Birthday to the best mom in the universe... my mother.

I love you so much Mama. I hope you have a fantastic day. Love, Rashaan

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We spent most of the weekend trying to help William and Keisha fight their colds. It appears that the cold has passed over me this round. Thank God because I usually get a cold from them each time they get it from daycare. Friday evening, the runny noses started... and I was happy that I had just purchased four boxes of Kleenax the previous Sunday. I bought the new tissue with the anti-virus beads in it. How in the hell companies come up with this stuff, I have no clue... but I bought it. I had two coupons, plus it was on sale at Target. I could not resist.

I went back and forth helping William and Keisha blow their noses to get all the gooey snot out. They took turns with their Ewws and Owwws. I kept the Vaseline handy (code name Grease in our household) handy to apply below their noses in order to prevent chaffing. After all of the FDA reports, I have to admit that I am a bit reluctant to immediately rely on over the counter cold medicines for the twins. I kept them pumped with fluids and continued their regular dose of multi-vitamins.

Not too bad right?

But then on Saturday evening, I grabbed William to give him a hug and he felt warm. Everytime William gets a fever, I get scared to death... hoping and praying that it does not get to 101. I went downstairs to grab the thermometer, took William's temperature and it was 100.0. I asked JT to grab the Tylenol and he was on it. When JT went to Schnucks to pick up dinner, he also purchased fruit water. William loves water, but he occasionally gets tired of it. Gatorade is great too, but Keisha and William only tolerate so much of that too. I kind of have to balance out the variety of liquids for them. According the Keisha, her favorite juice is the Yellow Juice. That made me giggle.

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This is an excerpt from a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called Loving Your Enemies, presented on November 17, 1957.

...So I want to turn your attention to this subject: "Loving Your Enemies." It’s so basic to me because it is a part of my basic philosophical and theological orientation—the whole idea of love, the whole philosophy of love. In the fifth chapter of the gospel as recorded by Saint Matthew, we read these very arresting words flowing from the lips of our Lord and Master: "Ye have heard that it has been said, ‘Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.’ But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven."

...Now first let us deal with this question, which is the practical question: How do you go about loving your enemies? I think the first thing is this: In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self. And I’m sure that seems strange to you, that I start out telling you this morning that you love your enemies by beginning with a look at self. It seems to me that that is the first and foremost way to come to an
adequate discovery to the how of this situation.

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Say ... and I think ... ?

1. President :: Barack Obama. 2008.

2. Stare :: I hate it when people stare at me for no reason... and I hated it even more when I was pregnant. I stared at people back when they did that to me.

3. Embrace :: Long, passionate hugs. I love hugs.

4. Movie :: JT watched Alien versus Predator Requiem tonight. I was not very interested though. I would like to see The Great Debaters next.

5. Everything :: Lauryn Hill - Everything is Everything. Good song.

6. Profile :: A particular Myspace profile comes to mind at the moment...

7. Satire :: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report.

8. Erratic ::

9. Costume :: I have never been to a costume party before. I would like to go dressed up as Cat Woman or something...

10. Secretary :: United States Secretary of State... of course. How could I put anything else down for this one?

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Wow, I am more old school than I thought. And in 1951, my mom was not even born yet. But in 1951, there were no personal computers, broadband internet and cellphones... I so do not belong there.

Do over.

You Belong in 1951

You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!

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1. If you could do one thing in the world, what would you do?

I would become the United States Secretary of State.

2. If you could be any character from a book, movie, or television show, who would you be? Why?

I thought about this for a while and I kept coming up with nothing... but just now, Claire Huxtable from The Cosby Show came to mind. When I was growing up, I really admired her character and her husband, Dr. Cliff Huxtable of course. They raised a family of five children and had successful careers. I always wanted to be like Claire... and I still do, but minus all those kids. I may go crazy if I had five children. I think two is enough, but God willing I would love to have one more. And let us not forget, I do still want a law degree.

3. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?

I would end poverty. There are many other things I would end such as famine and nuclear warfare, but poverty stuck out the most.

4. If you could make out with one person of the same sex, who would it be?

Angelina Jolie *ahem*

5. If you could make out with one person of the opposite sex, who would it be?

Dwayne Johnson... hot damn.

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Sometime last week, Missnexus.com went to a page rank of zero. *gasp*

Down from a 5 to 4 to 3 to 0.

Sorry, Google I will not be shedding any tears and having anxiety attacks over this like some other webmasters and bloggers have. I will not be begging and pleading for forgiveness. I will not be removing paid posts and adding no follow links within my posts because that is what you like. Go ahead and do what you do, because you are the King of Teh Internetz, no?

I have seen a few sites explain in great detail about how they changed all their posts, stripped the paid links and/or added no follows.

Not me. I do not care.

I will spend my free time doing other things.

I will continue to do what I do.

Life does not revolve around pagerank folks.

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