coffee and haiku

friday -- my day

today is friday, and i have a smile on my face.  life is good, isn't it?

i must say, i am happy to count stephanie and anitra among my friends.  much like with nakachi and knaw'lej, i can talk about anything with these two. 

i'm looking for some good erotica to read.  any suggestions?

this weekend will most likely find me over silk's house swimming in his pool and being entertained by the myriad negroes that roll through there trying to scam on silk's female friends.

today is only payday from one job, but i'm still going to the coach store for a wallet.

i had the best salad from jack in the box today; those things are addicting.

my birthday is on monday.  send presents please.

bell hoooks

"We can never go back.  I know that now.  We can go forward.  We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago, when we were little and had no voice to speak the heart's longing.  All the years of my life I thought I was searching for love I found, retrospectively, to be years where I was simply trying to recover what had been lost, to return to the first home, to get back the rapture of first loe.  I was not really ready top love or be loved in the present.  I was still mourning -- clinging to the broken heart of girlhood, to broken connections.  When that mourning ceased, I was able to love again."

"from all about love -  new visions"

speechless

i'm sorry, but given my current state of mind, i can't think of anything to say except i am basking in the glow of something wonderful, and it is all that i can think of at the moment.

domingo gigante

and on the seventh day, i rested, except not, because there is a wedding to attend, two tweens to pick up and a long drive through sunday traffic back to vegas.  hopefully all the traffic will be heading in the opposite direction back towards los angeles and we won't be bothered with it, but i am still dreading the drive and being tired from it all.

the tweens are coming to spend the last part of their summer vacation with their favorite cousin, none other than princess peanut herself.  i feel for sharmayne.  that's one big pot of hormones over the summer right there, but at least there is babysitting built into that package.

and so another work week will start tomorrow.  my boss, the queen of flexibility, has given me a schedule change that is going to allow me to get more hours in at the part-time job in the mornings before coming to my day job so to speak.

and through all of this, i have still been managing to update on a daily basis.  well at least for the past week.  i'm just trying to show up anitra, that's all.

los angeles is...

...

my family

my cousins

my granny's house

my hometown

roscoe's chicken 'n waffles

oki dog

chabelita

an old navy with an actual plus size department inside the store

ikea

my sister and brother

traffic

a starbucks on every corner

crenshaw boulevard

the south coast plaza

south bay galleria

my friends

not where i live anymore

the week ends

Happy Friday!

Fridays are always happy, especially when it's payday, which for me comes every friday now, so rock on!

I think Nakachi, Knaw'lej and I are budding documentary filmmakers.  I'm working on making a video of us that we would all feel comfortable having the public view on vox, but for now, most of them are friends and/or family only. 

I suppose I could update the vox blog part, but I think it is currently serving as my version of a video flickr service.

I've sorta tricked myself (psyched myself out?) into having an exercise program by walking back and forth between my two jobs for work.  They are five long city blocks apart, and in the Vegas heat it feels like the trail of tears, but it's only five long blocks uphill, and the one-way trip takes about 10-15 minutes, and I do it twice a day.  On Wednesday I was very bold and actually walked home from work as well.  The two-mile walk took me thirty minutes to complete, not counting the ten minute detour into the convenience store to get a litre of water.  I feel really good doing it, but it's only been a week.  Ask me again in a month or two.

Now if only I could get the eating part down...

On this, my fifth day on the new temp assignment, I am happy to report that I am quite happy with the assignment.  I've temped at this company before, two years ago, but that particular assignment only lasted two weeks.  There have been numerous changes in two years, including a change in management which, in my opinion, was for the better.  My new boss is a people person, and she believes in having fun at work, which makes our days fun and filled with laughter.  As tired as I am from working both jobs this week, one thing I'm not tired of is the job.  Good stuff.

I'll be in Los Angeles this weekend for my cousin's wedding.

What are your plans?

sideways revisited

i finally watched sideways from beginning to end, and i actually liked it.  the story was good, the characters likeable, and it dealt with a lot of issues that we as the maturing generation x are coming upon.

four stars.

mildred pierce is a favorite classic from my youth, and i've watched it three times.  it goes back to the library today.  four stars there too.  it's funny to see joan crawford after so many viewings of faye dunaway in mommie dearest.  i kept thinking, she looks different.  then i had to remind myself that this was the real deal that i was watching.

the constant gardener is one that everyone should watch.

all about eve has made me want more of bette davis.  i've watched it at least five times in the last week.

i believe i am on a black and white movie kick.

any suggestions?

movies

in between receiving my movies from netflix (i have the unlimited version of 3 movies at a time), i also check out dvds from the library.  sideways is due tomorrow, and i haven't been able to get through it yet, although while reading Hideaway by Dean Koontz, i found myself distracted by some of the onscreen action.  i will have to try and watch it again. i also have mildred pierce, which i've never had a problem watching, because it's always been one of my favorites ever since my mother introduced me to it when i was a teen.

i want to see superman returns, but i have ambiguous feelings about it.  christopher reeve will always be superman to me, and i don't know if i can get into someone else playing the role.  i think i will look at this new guy and see him as seth on one life to live, when natalie was first introduced as a character and jessica was still played by erin torpey.

i'm awaiting delivery of born into brothels, madea's family reunion, and office space.

"pc load letter? what the fuck does that mean?

princess peanut

today, the princess of our kingdom turns twelve.  she has passed that stage of being a little girl and has entered the world of the preteen.

god help us.

happy birfday, princess pokey lips.  i hope you enjoy your very first coach bag.

happy birfday, sharmayne

today is my cousin sharmayne's birfday.  i will preface this by saying, while i know you shouldn't have favorite cousins, sharmayne has always been my favorite.  we grew up the closest, and as my mom recently told nakachi, we were a barrel of laughs when we are younger, and it is even worse now that we are adults. 

sharmayne and i are like our own two woman comedy routine.  you will have to see the video recordings in order to fully appreciate that statement.

which is a nice segue into me mentioning that i do play on vox now.  i post all kinds of videos and stuff.  i have some invites to give away.  hit me up if you want one.

one of them is reserved for the birthday girl though, so she can fully appreciate what we look like on film.