Things To-Do In FEB.

• Visit the Titanic Exhibit @ the Atlanta Civic Center $20.00 (Fri.-Sun. 9am-9pm)
• Morehouse College is hosting the MLK Collection at the Atlanta History Center (Sun. noon-5pm)
• Figure Drawing at the High (Fri. 6-9pm)
• Sky Diving (Daily 8am-9pm)
• Waikikie Hawaiian BBQ (for my mom she loves good BBQ)
• The Complete History of America at Dinner Theater in L5P.

Bait and Switch

I am about to leave for Charlotte in the next hour.  Everything is going to work out.

 

 

I have just finished reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Bait and Switch.   This book does not follow through on the promise that it highlights people who’ve done everything right (gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built impressive resumes) yet can’t get a job.  Again Ehrenreich puts herself in a “real world” situation, except this time she is trying to find a job (Oops didn’t that happen last book).  I felt that in the book she did not do her best in trying to find a job.  Ehrenreich set herself up for downfall in most of the scenarios, having formed a hypothesis (it’s hard for to get a job).  Instead of being optimistic through the book the reader is forced to listen to Ehrenreich (excuse my English) bitch and moan about career coaches (which she hired), workshops (which she paid for), and personality test (which she did not even try to complete honestly).  I expected more from her,  I expected for her to go out and be hungry for a job which she wasn’t.  But what can I expect I did pick her book up for $3.98 at Barnes and Nobles.  Nickel and Dimed (which I highly recommend) will probably never be that cheap. 

The Scent

Every thing smells like it

My fingers

My orange juice

The tightness in my thigh

His smile

His eager eyes

My fantasy

Stress

Stressed

 

Omigosh

 

There is a conference that we (the agency I work for) is putting on and it has gotten me so stressed out.  I am head of the publicity committee and I have found my self pulled in other directions.  Not to mention I have my regular job to do, which is stressful enough.  I told myself this year was going to be different.  I will not stress myself out, already there.  I have just put the final touches on my workshop.

 

Things that have me stressed out, with possible solutions in (parenthesis)

1. My car has stopped running after my mother moved it Saturday morning. (Next car she will not be receiving keys to)
2. Money issues (nothing a little budgeting cannot fix)
3. There is this one person at work who is just working my nerves.  He is so abrupt and distracting.  And I just do not know what to do with him.  He is working my nerves.  (I do have unresolved issues with him and I do think I am going to have to sit down and work them out.)
4. My stomach is upset.  It feels like everything I eat is going to come through my belly button.  (Chill, it just might be nerves).
5. My desk is a mess.  (After the conference I will have time to clean up my desk)

Blood and Chocolate

 Blood and Chocolate was the first book I ever purchased with money I made on my own.  I was all of 14 years old.  The book was amazing, especially the ending.  To make a long story short the movie comes out on January 26, 2007.  I was excited when I saw the print ads, so I got to on-line to see the trailer.  It sucked!!!  Needless to say the movie and the book do not coincide.  Yet I want to see it anyway. 

 Here are the changes I am worried about:

•  In the book no one knew about werewolves, in the movie people are hunting them down for their blood. NO!!!!
• Vivian works at a chocolate shop in the movie?  Whatever.  I understand they want a mature audience, but she did not have to literally work at a chocolate shop.
• There is something about a church in this movie, it is like the life of the movie. Honestly I do not know how a church became the life of this movie, while in the book it was the forest.
• This movie is being tagged a Romeo and Juliet story with werewolves.  So not this case.  I hope she does not end up with Aiden by the end of the movie.  Because in the book he tries to kill her and she is truly caught in-between two worlds.

Since U Been Gone

2006 I lost a lot of friends and close associates.  Not to death, but to just life.  And I find myself dwelling on the past.  Some of the things were good and some were not so good.  I think I must just forgive them, myself, and life.  So here is my list of forgiveness, because in 2007 I am moving on.

•         My first love, DA.  Da thanks for the good times and the low times.  Thank you for being my first romantic love.  It was sweet and so are you.  I forgive you for not knowing what you want?  I forgive you for not being honest with me about your feelings.  I forgive you for not knowing yourself.  I forgive myself for not being patient with myself about getting over you.  I forgive myself for not letting you go when I realize I should.

•         To my ex best friend and second sister, she knows who she is.  I am sorry it got so messy that we can never be friends.  I am sorry that I hurt you so much.  I am sorry that I let our friendship hurt me so much.  I forgive you for not being able to explain how you feel to me.  I forgive you for being stubborn.  I forgive you for taking everything I said to you in private and putting it in an email to hurt me.  I forgive myself for caring so much, that even after a year I think about our friendship.

I titled this Since U Been Gone because like the song:

       Since you been gone (since you been gone) 

                    I can breathe for the first time

                    I'm so movin' on, yeah yeah

                    Thanks to you (thanks to you)

                    Now I get, I get what I want

                    I can breathe for the first time

                    I'm so movin' on, yeah yeah

                    Thanks to you (thanks to you)

                    Now I get (I get)

                    You should know (you should know) that I get

                    I get what I want

It’s release.  It’s not meant to contradict anything I said before this.

Predictions for the 64th Golden Globes

Best Motion Picture-DramaThe Queen 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-DramaHelen Mirren- The Queen 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-DramaForest Whitaker- The Last King of
Scotland 

Best Motion Picture- Musical or ComedyDreamGirls 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Musical or ComedyMeryl Streep- The Devil Wears Prada 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Musical or ComedyJohnny Depp- Pirates of the
Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 

Best Performance by an Actress in a supporting role in a Motion PictureJennifer Hudson- Dreamgirls 

Best Performance by an Actor in a supporting role in a Motion PictureEddy Murphy- Dreamgirls 

Best Animated Feature FilmHappy Feet 

Best Foreign Language FilmApocalypto 

Best Director- Motion PictureStephan Frears- The Queen 

Best Screenplay- Motion PictureThe Queen written by Peter Morgan 

Best Original Score- Motion PictureThe Fountain (Mansell) 

Best Original Song- Motion Picture“Listen”- Dreamgirls 

Best Television Series- DramaHeroes (NBC) 

Best Performance by an Actress in a television Series- DramaEllen Pompeo- Grey’s Anatomy 

Best Performance by an Actor in a television Series- DramaKiefer Sutherland- 24 

Best Television Series- Musical or ComedyUgly Betty 

Best Performance by an Actress in a television Series- Musical or Comedy
America Ferrera- Ugly Betty 

Best Performance by an Actor in a television Series- Musical or ComedyJason Lee- My Name Is Earl 

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
Elizabeth 1 (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for TelevisionAnnette Bening- Mrs. Harris 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TelevisionBill Nighy – Gideon’s Daughter (BBC) 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TelevisionSarah Paulson – Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip (NBC) 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TelevisionMasi Oka – Heroes (NBC) 

Random Thoughts #1

• If people could only read my mind, what stories they would find.
• Will I ever find the “one”?  My mother says that when I go back to graduate school that I will find that one.  I hope so.  I hope I get into graduate school.
• Am I really allergic to anything?  Are was it just a freak accident?
• I cannot be allergic to soy, because it’s almost made it’s way into everything.  From chocolate to bread.
• I have new hopes of losin weight and becoming healthier.
• What is the meaning of my life.  I was kust on myspace and i felt like I was in high school again.  I could feel them judging me from beyond their computer screens.  then I thought oh to hell with them.  Everyone bleeds right?!
• I itch.  The only thing I ate to day was some dumplings, bacan cheeseburger, some fries, and cinnabon cheese cake.  Soy could have been in all of these products.
• Self-Doubt lures.  Will I ever be skinny enough?  Will I ever be beautiful enough?  Will I ever be oky just being me?
• I cannot believe it is 4:22 am and I am on this computer typing a blog.  No I am not drunk or high.
• 2007 is going to be fun!!!!

Predictions for the 7th Harry Potter Book

•         Lily has come from some sort of other magical beings (i.e. elf).  Aunt Petunia has powers too.

•         The George and Fred will die.

•         Harry is not going to die in this book

•         Heromine and Ron will still not get together in this book.  They will however get together later on in life.

•         Malfoy dies not how you think though.

•         Professor Snape dies so Harry can defeat Lord Voldemort.

•         Therefore you will once and for all find out that Professor Snape is good.

•         Hogwarts will be opened for the seventh book and Harry, Hermione, and Ron will attend at the beginning.

•         They will take the NEWTS.

•         Hermione will become a professor at Hogwarts

•         Lupin gets killed

Mr. Wonderful

I have this very good friend of mine.  The guy is funny, witty, smart, adorable, and has common sense.  He just doesn’t get it.  Everyone sees this accept for him.  And he has great taste and will make an excellent father one day.  Every single woman’s wet dream.  Yet he just doesn’t see it. 

Whenever I get into a serious realtionship with someone they will probably have to live up to this friend.  He dates, but the persons he has been involved with have been less than quality.  I think that love of his life might have really burned him.  Which sucks, because if the suitors saw what I saw they would be eye to eye with one of the best men I have ever met in my life.  He glitters with his smile and presence.  He just doesn’t get it.  And I have tried to explain it to him, but it doesn’t go over so well.