The Good, the Better, and the Absolutely Random!

Posted by Brainy Brown Girl in NYC at 9/28/2008 04:55:00 PM Comments

My vacation is coming to a close *SIGH* The week before I was on a glorious vacation in Italy, visiting Venice, Florence, Rome, and a day trip to Naples and Capri. This past week I've been trying to get myself together, you know, back into the swing of things. I had a dentist appointment, painted my bathroom, laundry, cleaning, etc, etc. . . . Anyway, I've been in vacation mode and as such could not bring myself to write anything. I mean, a few truly random and completely unrelated things have crossed my mind, just not enough to press the PLAY button on my brain. For example:
1) Who told R. Kelly doing that BET interview was good idea? I still haven't watched the entire interview, but I've seen clips here and there. Is there anyone out there who still thinks he's been falsely accused of being a pedophile? Musical talent aside, I for one will be glad when folks stop buying his CDs and when other artists stop collaborating with him. Isn't it time we starting valuing young black girls.

2)King Mswati III- another crazy head of state. Check out - http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/09/06/Swaziland.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch. Since when does a nation that.

3) I see our neighbors like playing fast and lose with elections too!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/07/canada.elections.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch

4) Just finished watching American Gangster for the first time. It was better than I expected.; I'm not sure what I expected, Denzel Washington was in it so I should have known better. Anywho, I never changed the channel and this new HBO show - True Blood - is on and it is truly one of the worst shows I've ever seen. I mean, besides the vampire theme, the styling, writing, and acting is awful. This show stinks.

5) Apparently (so the CNN, FoxNews, CNBC, etc reports/interviews say) the former big Whigs at Lehman, AIG, Bear, Merril are crapping their pants, and their wives are clutching their pearls, because now they have to sell their private planes and sell and extra house or two. Meanwhile, the average American has been hurting for awhile, especially the last two years with foreclosure rates through the roof (among other things) thanks to creative financing - mortgages which were packaged and sold in all sorts of ways by the very same firms (and their execs) that are collapsing.

6) I don't want to take this blog in a catty direction, truly, I don't, but what's the deal with Rachel Zoe's face. I heard she's in her thirties, but did someone ask to see ID? Is that bad plastic surgery or hard living.

7) Maybe we should lock up OJ Simpson for his on good. You know, maybe send him to one of those cushy federal prisons just so he doesn't do any more dumb stuff. What's he on trial for now? Its hard to keep up with his old behind.

7) Watching SNL now . . . James Franco is hot AND funny.

Posted by Brainy Brown Girl in NYC at 9/20/2008 10:46:00 PM Comments

This week has been a super busy week due to the Monday off, and because I'm going on vacation next week, so I've been working at a feverish pace all this week. I've been getting home after 8pm, closer to 9pm, but I thought I should watch some of the RNC. It was tough. When I'm exhausted I just want to take a shower and relax. The last thing I want to do is get all riled up and angry by stupid speeches at the RNC. I almost missed Sarah Palin's diatribe, because when I got home guess who was on the tube? Good ol' Rudy Guliani . . .my former mayor! He's the reason I missed half of her talk because I had to turn away. "Why?" you ask . . . because the very site of him, to borrow the words of Gayle King (XM Radio listenenr), makes me want to gnash my teeth to powder. I really can't stand him. Seriously.

Getting back to Sarah for moment . . . . this lady actually had the unmitigated gall to sneeze at the work of community organizers. I'm mean, really Sarah? Thank God for community organizers like Martin Luther King Jr., César Chávez, Susan B. Anthony, Stokely Carmichael, Mary Harriman, Fannie Lou Hamer, etc

OK, I'm getting tired now, so I'll end with this . . .before I lay my head down I'll pray that folks wake up and stop believing the Republican rhetoric that they are all about family values, that their in the moral majority, blah, blah.and that to be liberal is to be anti-Christian. The hypocrisy makes me ill. I mean, they trotted out any woman that Bill Clinton so much as winked at, and both Guliani and McCain are married to their former mistress'!?!?!? . . . .OK that was a little catty and I should have kept it to their stance on issues like poverty, starting a war under false pretenses, etc. etc . . .but oh well, I'm tired. I'll let Jon Stewart speak for me tonight.

Posted by Brainy Brown Girl in NYC at 9/04/2008 09:54:00 PM Comments

Zahara will always have a special place in my heart, but this little Nahla Aubry is adorable!

Posted by Brainy Brown Girl in NYC at 9/01/2008 05:21:00 PM Comments

When I was a kid and would spend my summers in NC with my grandmother and cousins, we would have to memorize a Bible verse for Sunday. At the church we attended, the young people (up to 18) would line up, say their verse, and an elder would do a short talk and pray over us. Some folks would say the same verse week after week (and I'm not talking about the little kids). Well, my grandmother wasn't having that, we had to memorize different verses. I have some Bible verses committed to memory, but I should be more diligent. I have one of those perpetual Bible verse calender's on my desk - but now I get my bible verse daily on my blog too!

Thanks TZA for pointing me to BibleGateway!

Posted by Brainy Brown Girl in NYC at 9/01/2008 09:27:00 AM Comments

I'm not laboring on this Labor Day. I've been looking forward to this Monday off for about four weeks now. There is nothing I love more than having Monday off. Of course, at my job that will probably mean a super busy, super stressful, rest of the week, but I'm OK because when I leave the office on Friday those folks won't see or hear from me for TWO WEEKS. Yes, indeed, Brainy Brown Girl NYC is going on vacation and I can't wait!!!! For the first week I will be in Italy, and the second week I will be doing whatever I feel like doing in my city and some stuff around my apartment, but still taking it easy.

But getting back to this wonderful day off . . . .Truly, my whole disposition and outlook on life changes when I know I'll have a Monday off. Maybe its because I don't experience the Sunday afternoon depression that I usually go through, maybe its because I know I'm not fulfilled in my career and I'm about to start another 50+ hour week of misery. I don't know . . .I don't have a problem with hard work or working hard. Its just that my current job just takes so much energy out of me, and I believe that when you are doing what you are gifted to do, the long hours aren't so bad and somehow the hard work doesn't feel so hard. I don't just want some corporate job where I make a good salary and afford to buy stuff. I believe I can have a fulfilling career in corporate America, its just not gonna happen where I am now. I'm open to somthing new. I'm still open to learning and earning all I can in corporate america now, so that I can work for myself later. What I know for sure is that God has plan for me and I just need to have an ear to hear, to be patient, and to be prepared for whatever comes my way.

I need to throw on some clothes. The only thing I want to do today is run to Home Depot for paint (but I'm not painting today, I just want it ready for when I do), fold up laundrey, draft another version of my resume, read my O magazines (I'm so behind in my magazine reading)and watch the last DVD of the Tudors (yes, the Showtime series. I don't have the Showtime package and I rented the first disk one day when there was nothing else to rent, the weather was terrible, and I LOVE history - so I though I'd check it out. In any case, its a decent enough show and you can't just watch three episodes!)

Posted by Brainy Brown Girl in NYC at 9/01/2008 08:49:00 AM Comments