BUT I can't help it...GUIDO bliss lol!!

NO really I can't!!! I'm addicted to MTV's Jersey Shore...I was this ish probably everyday!!! It's like The Real World on steroids; strangers, in a house for a few months lol but they're all Italian on the Jersey Shore in the summer time!!! I really can't get enough this show and Snookie is sooo cute, I really want her to find love and guy that will treat her nice, but she BLOWS my life with that white hair clip LOL but I love it too! Sam and Ronnie's little summer fling/love thing is entertaining it's like are they cute or aren't they? I'm watching the show now....LIKE I SAID I LOVE IT, CAN'T GET ENOUGH!!! My honey is sooo over me watching it over and over again but KUDOS to the brainchild behind this show, it's GREAT TV!!

The SPOOF IS HILARIOUS & I LOVE THE WAY Pauly D TALKS!!!!

Bookworm Bloggin...

So, I said in the new year I wanted to get back into reading and so far, so good and I joined a bookclub @ work! I started off the new year reading the work of a familiar author (familiar to me anyway) KiKi Swinson. Her most popular book would probably be WIFEY. I read Wifey back in 2007 and it was good. I managed to stay interested and finish the book. After finishing I heard of the sequal I'm Still Wifey and of course wanted to read it. So my first two books this new year were I'm Still Wifey and Life After Wifey. Both books gave more enthusiasm, drama then the first......all surrounding the main character Kira. LADIES, read WIFEY!!! I'm the only person I know besides an old friend that has read the book but it's worth it, if for nothing else to finish the story with Life After Wifey!!! KiKi served, in Life After, drama, sex, the realness of the streets, deception, love....LOL!!! There were a few times that I found myself so into that book (Life After...) that I was feeling every emotion the characters were feeling; fear, love, lust, arrogance, etc, etc, etc....I love the African American urban novels, and for anyone else who does as well, the Wifey series is a MUST READ!!!!

SO...I'm searching the web while in the middle of this post and discovered "Still Wifey Material" as the fourth book in the Wifey series. Will keep you posted on how I like this one because i'm definitely getting ready to order it......

Last night....

started off a little loopy but the night was wonderful. The boo & I went to see Monica in concert in B-More and it took forever for her to get there but anywho, she did!! The concert was hott!! I actually like to going to concerts in Baltimore more because their venues are smaller and you're likely to get a GREAT seat. Our seats were center stage and even though we were on the 11th row, it was like we were in row 5!!! I was sooo pressed because she doesn't have song I don't like and all her songs have been a favorite of mine at one point or another. We had fun, sipped some cocktails, sang, and took some pics. LOL, Monica is so real and so "hood" in a good way!! I love that about her, I love that she's never put on the "better than" act and stay true to herself all these years....commendable. I HAD A BLAST**

So I wonder with....

the movie "Precious" experiencing so much success in theaters does that mean a new space will open up for movies based on more African American literature....I love my African American authors and urban novels; Flyy Girl (Omar Tyree's famed novel & MUST read), Coldest Winter Ever, Wifey, etc, etc...When I get one in my hand I can't LITERALLY can't put it down!!

I want to see some of these movies hit the big screen. Maybe, then theyll be more of an outlet for African American actors and actresses. I relate to alot of these books as i'm sure lots of people do and I think it's about time we see some of our stories made into motion pictures. The mainstream's authors like Nicholas Sparks, Jackie Collins have books that hit the big screen with no problem but my hope is that production heavyweights like Tyler Perry in our community will take the lead on these projects.

We haven't seen any projects from the likes of John Singleton, Spike Lee in a while....So what's the holdup Black Hollywood??? Maybe it's funding cause the talent, material is there. I'm hopeful that we will one day see these books become major motion pictures.

I can see the DELICIOUS Lance Gross as Midnight from Coldest Winter Ever, Lauren London as Tracey from Flyy Girl, and with a few more acting classes Beyonce could be Kyra from Wifey!!!!!!! I need some new books too!!!

I never wanted so much for someone....

else than I do right now. The aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has my heart so heavy the past couple of days. Yesterday, I donated $10 but what, honestly, is that going to do? It may buy a couple of bottles of water, some can goods, and allow someone to make a phone call or two but I want to make a big difference, and help someone but I don't have the means to do that! I watched CNN lastnight and sadness quickly started to consume me as I read some of the facts about this very poor and forgotten country. Just watching CNN lastnight was a humbling experience. I live in Prince Georges County, Maryland and Haiti the entire country is just the size of the state of Maryland, 58% of the population is under 18 years old and 39% are under the age of 15.....THINK ABOUT THAT!!! Most of the people in need, starving, dying, homeless are just children. That really breaks my heart especially in regards to Haiti because this is already a country that was amongthe world's poorest...and now they have to weather this? Those babies have to weather this? Just think, some of them, although poor, will never see their parents, siblings again. The government is in shambles and the only hope the citizens of this country has is that a world that more often then not, didn't think of them and come to their rescue, will now!!

I found it hard lastnight to go on with my evening as usual. As I drove home in my Mercedes, talked to my boyfriend on my BlackBerry, browsed the net on my laptop, looked at the news on my 40" flat screen, tried to make a decision about dinner (from a kitchen full of food), thought about what I'm going to wear to the concert tomorrow, and crawled in to my king sized bed...i realized how really none of those THINGS mattered at all and that just a few hundred miles from the U.S people were dying, starving, had no leadership to look to, no shelter....I had to turn it all off and let those thoughts marinate within me. There is a world outside of this bubble called the United States of America, and we tend to forget that soo much! We take for granted the plumbing systems, clean water, meds, paved roads, that we have choices of what to eat.....WE ARE TRULY LUCKY/BLESSED but to be of a blessing to another!!!

I'm so very proud of President Obama's swift response to the disaster in Haiti and I urge everyone to find a way to donate/help and DO IT!!! Give blood, donate cash....LET'S ALL DO OUR PART TO HELP OUR FELLOW CITIZENS OF THIS WORLD!!!!

UGH...a NEW look is in order!

I need a new look...I am so tired of wearing this bob that i'm on my own nerves!!! It's been so long that my hairstylist refuses to even do it again. However, I can't for the life of me decide what it is I should do next with my hair. I've been working hard to get it to grow back from the last few times I chopped it off BUT i'm struggling with not going that route again....ugh HELP SOMEONE!!! I'm thinking about keeping the bang and going long for the duration of winter, hmmm IDK!!! Nothing is inspiring me and everyone and their momma is trying to look like Ms. Nicki Basic Minaj!! I'm feeling GLAM though, like long, popping lashes, vibrant lip color/gloss, soften up my nail polish and natural eye makeup while playing up the lashes.....IT'S A NEW YEAR!!!! I need some help...I feel like i've outdone myself! How do you outdo YOURSELF...i've changed so much I don't know what the freak to do......

Hey there....

I been on this hiatus. Not necessarily because I wanted to be but because the new year bought with it a refreshing new love from an old beau, projects galore @ work (not complaining) and well, i've just been busy, but in a good way. I was excited about this year, optimistic about the good stuff I felt it would have to offer and so far so good. One thing I said I start doing is reading more for pleasure and knowledge and so that's had my attention as well, and of course like everyone else, I've been on this NEW year, NEW me kick....working out like crazy! I have been hearing so many stories about people who blog for a living lately. I mean they are really supporting their lifestyles by just letting their fingers dance across the keyboard as they spill out their thoughts and opinions to a cyper world full of billions of strangers.

I have blogged about this before but I really would love to do that, but it takes such dedication and there seems, @ least on the surface, seems to so much more security in the traditional 9-5. I mean, unless something happens or I reallly F up on the job really bad, my job will be there for me and so will my paycheck. Not so much security in blogging for a living but maybe, one day.

I am sooo EXCITED to be goin' to the Monica concert in B-More this Friday with the boo!!! I have been listening to her music alot lately, leading up to the show and it takes me baaaack!!!!!

Monica may be a bit misunderstood or under-rated! We certainly don't hear from her enough or see/hear her receive of the much necessary kudos...I LOVE EVERYTHING she has done!!! Going waay back to the Miss Thang album with "Before You Walk out My life" "Don't Take it Personal." Not to mention the woman behind the music is so real and relateable and MISS THANG keeps her real, hood dude....that is to be appreciated lol!!! It's a treat for both of us. I love the music and she's the first girl he ever had a crush on back in the day....***so funny*** he knows the words to all her songs.....CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

TIL NEXT TIME.....XOXOXO