01.31.08
Posted in at 3:22 pm by queent
I love my brother for stealing this concept from wherever he stole it.
I love 8 – 9 year old basketball on Saturday afternoons.
I love my team at work, even when I hate going into the office.
I love having different friends to fill different needs.
I love finally experiencing love without fear.
I love adding extra spelling words to The Boy’s spelling list.
I love my iPod, even though I hate iTunes.
I love listening to kids’ conversations.
I love an after school program leader who has the kids in check.
I love my short hair cut.
I love hand breaded chicken and green bean casselrole.
I love red strobe lights and red stilettos.
I love teaching The Boy why I have sticky notes that say “I am grateful…” around the house.
I love that Monroe’s name isn’t really Monroe.
I love pushing my own boundaries and growing everyday.
I love pulling reports out of the database.
I love that I still talk to Twin just as much as I did when I was in Atl.
I love lazy Sundays.
I love music and photo blogs.
I love my Treo.
I love Tigger.
I love my genes.
I love our crazy office manager.
I love a love that has endured for 10 years.
I love friends that can calm you down off a ledge.
I love that The Boy questions what he doesn’t understand.
I love writing.
I love every experience I’ve lived through.
I love being a mom.
I love getting the ‘cleaning bug’.
I love surprises.
I love being inspired.
I love love.
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01.30.08
Posted in , at 11:17 am by queent
I love my birthday and I love celebrating it with all my friends, especially this year since I get to celebrate with all my friends in Atlanta. Being away from them makes me appreciate that so much more than ever before. However, I swear I get just as much, if not more enjoyment out of celebrating other people’s birthdays. Between Twin, The Boy and The Man’s birthdays, I could get away with not having one of my own and being just fine.
The next eleven days around about to be fabulous. The Man’s birthday is today and I have quite a few things in store today and Saturday, then off to Atl next weekend for my birthday. Woo Hoo!!!
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01.29.08
Posted in at 11:17 am by queent
Dearest friend,
You and I have known each other for so long that we can complete each other’s thoughts. We can look at each other and know what’s wrong, what’s right and what does and doesn’t need to be said. My life would never be what it is without your friendship.
It is for that very reason that it pains me more than I can ever express in words, to watch you do the same destructive things repetatively. We talk often, and we have so many conversations about how you do certain things, how you allow other people to do certain things to and around you that you know are not in your best interests or the interests of those you have influence over. We talk and you always say to me that you are going to do things differently when the very next opportunity presents itself. Yet when the opportunity arises, you fall back into the same routine because it is comfortable to you; it is what you are used to doing.
It’s well known that the right thing to do is usually the harder thing to do. The fact that it is the right thing should be the driving force to push you through the challenge though. It’s because standing by and continuing to support and encourage you, no matter how many times you fall back into old, unhealthy ways is the right thing to do, that I hold fast and steady to our friendship. Because I promise you there are days that our friendship is very hard on my heart. I await the day that you walk the harder path that has been placed in front of you tin order for you to get to the other side where the happy life you deserve awaits.
Love,
Your friend
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01.21.08
Posted in at 1:58 pm by queent
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning … uphill BOTH ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda.
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no wa! y in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got it!
But now that … I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look a round and notice the youth of today. You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don’t know how good you’ve got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter … with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it ! yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn’t have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that’s it!
And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn’t have any fancy Sony Play station video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘Asteroids’ and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you co! uld never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn’t see, you were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
You were also screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning. Do you hear what I’m saying!?! We had to wait ALL WE EK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
And we didn’t have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire … imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You’re spoiled. You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Regards,
The over 30 Crowd
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01.08.08
Posted in at 3:22 pm by queent
So after months of anticipation, both The Wire and The L Word premiered on Sunday night. I was fortunate that The L Word repeats so I could watch The Wire first which runs one time that night. I won’t even bother with any kind of recap on The Wire because it was flat out boring. I mean ‘toothpick in eyelids’ boring. I was quite disappointed. I am aware that the season is primarily geared towards the media aspect of Baltimore’s ongoing crime scene, and I’m taking that into account. But they needed to have opened the season much stronger. Last seasons first episode is what got me hooked on the show to begin with. This opened practically put me to sleep. I hope they are going to home stronger with the next 9 episodes. I’m going to give them a chance, since I felt the same way about the Nip/Tuck season opener. We’ll see.
On the other hand, The L Word did not disappoint at all. The characters are still very true to themselves and the episode was jam packed with drama, as to be expected from past seasons. I’m very anxious to see where the show will go this season. And considering HBO and Showtime are costing me much more than I would ever want to pay for movie channels, I expect The L Word will be worth every penny.
The Wire better come through or I’ll never subscribe to HBO to watch it again. (Yes I know this is the last season, so what? :p )
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