When to say when

I know sometimes you have to let a man be a man. But when is it appropriate to step in and say... ask the gas attendant for directions or call an electrician or in my case a plumber?



Our bathroom sink is always stopped up. Homie is constantly pouring stuff down there - draino, heavy duty drain cleaner, bleach.... So Anyway it's always getting clogged. Then a couple of months ago the pipe from the sink to the wall started dripping and the faucet started dripping too. Hubby said he'd fix it. Now.... The sink appears to be clogged and unable to be unclogged. In his first phase of repair he did something to make a big hole in the pipe under the sink and put a big bucket there. It would take about 6 hours to fill up and then he'd take a tupperware bowl and bail some of that water out into the toilet until the bucket could be tilted and slid from under the pipe and emptied into the toilet. Several Home Depot trips later, the hole appears to be closed but now the sink isn't even draining slow. It's not draining at all. So then he put a tupperware bowl in the sink to catch the water that drips from the faucet and then that water can be poured from the bowl into the toilet. Matter of fact I need to go check it because it fills fast and then overflows onto the floor after a few hours (mind you this is all over the course of say 4 days. )



So this morning I go to put a little water on my toothbrush and GUSH water comes gushing out. I'm like what the hell happened to the faucet. He mumbles something about a wrong part.



***hold on - I'll be right back - I really should check that tupperware bowl***



Ok sometime between the time I left for work and now it switch from tupperware back to bucket. And from bucket to overflowing bucket. The entire bathroom is soaked.



I'm calling a plumber now. But first I'm calling my sweetie to let him down gently.



Hold on. I'll be right back I'm gonna call him.



Ok I said "Sweetie, I'm calling a plumber. I can't take this anymore." and he said "Neither can I. Call him."


LOL!

This or That?

Which seems like an easier schedule



Wake at 6:30

Dress yourself and your child.

Drop Child off by 7:45

Get to work at 8:00

No lunch hour so you can leave at 5pm

pick up child by 5:30

6:00 - 6:30 begin dinner

7:30 to 8pm eat dinner

8pm - 8:30 read books

8:30 - 9/9:30 get child to sleep

9:30 - 10:30 clean kitchen and living/dining rooms

10:30 - 11:00 watch some TV

11:00 - 11:30 get clothes ready for next day

11:30 - 12:00 take shower and go to bed





OR would you rather



6:30 am - 3:00 pm watch tv or run errands

3:00 - 3:30 leave for work

4pm - 12 At work

12pm - watch tv, eat go to sleep

YES WE CAN

I don't know what to say. I'm overjoyed. I need to let this sit and stew and collect. Until then read this. n0days said it all.

It's not a dream anymore....

I wish I was

OK so I'm so excited about my playlist that I have removed it from the last post and made a WHOLE NEW POST!

So I guess this is a chance to tell you some more about me. In my head I long to be a teenager again. I want middle school and high school back. I want my closet door with the built in full length mirror. And my Pepto Bismal pink rug. And my walls with Kswiss and Onyx stickers. And Tupack posters from Word-Up magazine. And my phone with the cord and the big buttons, and my stiff stuff hairspray and dark maroon lipstick. And Rugby shirts (had to have the rubber buttons to be authentic) and some Reebok Classics. I want to hang out outside the dinner afterschool and go to Essex Catholic parties on the weekends. I want to talk on the phone with boys until I fall asleep while I'm talking and say some ol crazy shit and then we both do the 'hang-up, no you hang-up' thing. I want to sit at MY lunch table. And go to the football games on the weekends. And hang out at the pool all day everyday in the summer. I want to walk miles and miles a day even though my parents would have driven me to see how many older boys with cars I can meet. I WANT MY LIFE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Ok sorry.... I got a little lost.

On another note I began a good playlist on my ipod today. Right now I'm trying to make it bring me from like 6th grade (1988/89.... DAYUM When I typed that I thought "naw that's too far back. I couldn't have been in 6th grade in 88" uhhhh yeah I was) through like Junior year HS (1993/94). Then once I build that up I will split it into middle school and highschool.


You Called and Told Me - Jeff Redd
Spread My Wings - Troop
I like the Way - Hi-five
All I Do Is Think Of You - Troop
Top Billin - Audio Two
Rock Dis Funky Joint - Poor Righteous Teachers
I'm Looking at the Front Door - Main Source
Not Gonna Be Able to Do It - Double XX Posse
Dark Skin Girls - Del Tha Funky Homosapian
Straighten It Out - Pete Rock & CL Smooth
Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down - Brand Nubian
Proceed - The Roots
Rebirth of Slick - Digable Planets
Candy Rain - Soul For Real
SWV - So Into You

Please note the order will have to be tweaked as more songs are added and I'll probably do that by year and then Song.Please suggest some more for me. Prefereably rap. Something that would have been on video music box with Ralph McDaniels and Crazy Sam. I GOT TO GIVE SHOUT OUTS ONCE WHEN I WAS AT SKATE22!!!!!!!(Do I seem excited? I think I am)

I Know I'm proud...

I'm overwhelmed today. I'm the type of person to stick anything emotional good or bad way deep down inside. But I still feel anxiousness. Does that make sense? I know that I have emotions about SOMETHING and what those exact emotions are I don't always know. But I feel an anxiousness that lets me know I am feeling something. I know it may seem strange to people but that is just the way I cope. I have no idea what life would be like if I allowed myself to feel or recognize whatever I'm feeling.

So today I am having that anxiousness. I know it is surrounding the elections. I know that it keeps bringing tears and tightness in my chest. I think I am excited and proud. I'm thinking about my father a lot and how he is feeling. This morning he told me that this is the first time he's ever felt like an American. Now my father is the President and CEO of a HUGE nationwide insurance company. You'd think someone who has been able to climb his way to a position like that would be feel some sense of acceptance. But he doesn't. He said he still feels like that little boy who went to a segregated school and drank out of colored water fountains (this is what he told me at 6am this morning). And I'm feeling some kind of way about that.

Then the man behind me at the polls was a 93 year old black man. And he told me he has never missed an election. He said he voted for FDR. And to have him standing next to me as he inched forward in line refusing to take a break to sit down, even though I told him I'd save his space. Well it made me feel some kind of way too.

And being the only person of color at my job kind of leaves it hard to talk about the significance of today. Not that I CAN'T say "I’m so excited to have a Black president." But anytime I bring it up what this means to ME, they kind of get uncomfortable and breeze past it. Now all of the people I am working with today (I work out of a few offices) are voting for Barack but they still don't feel comfortable talking about it on a racial level. So I guess I just need to be able express my excitement and pride and I don't have an outlet at the moment.

So I think I am SO EXCITED. And I think I am extremely NERVOUS. But I'm pretty sure I'm very PROUD.