:)

So, I got my way at work and got Saturday off :) I was gonna call Soutar and see if he wanted to go out this Friday but I gotta keep my spending down. I need some clothes, normally I'd ask my dad but he's already geting some books for me so I'm on my own.

Sis Byfield called and she says I can get the jack russell for $5000. I want him so bad but I'm not exactly jumping at the offer. Like part of the reason why I bitch and moan about getting a dog and not go get one is my home situation. While a JRT is a house dog, there's my mom, she's not going to be all gung ho about it, and I have to take that into consideration since its her space too. Also, not sure if a JRT's personality is compatible with it, we'll see.

Super Bowl Sunday! Do I know who's playing? Do I care nope! So why am I excited? the Lams' SBS party! There's gonna be good food and good food and good food :) One year she made the baked cho-cho and cheese, absolute greatness! So yeah, I'm going to be STUFFED :)

life = sucky

so, I'ma have to work Saturday after all, watever. Gonna use friday to go shopping and for pants and a skirt.

I really should start running again, I need it.

my linux computer is more or less dead. I'm a need a new motherboard which is gonna need new memory and processor, might as well get a new graphics card too and case, oh joy.

also, i know what's on tv is whats on tv but the whole point of tv shows is people getting attached to these chars and stories and care but it sucks royally when you do and the writers just shit all over said attachment.

it's my day off

so why am I at work? cuz I work with idiots calling me in, when there really was no need. Two people misunderstood an I'm-coming-in-late for an I'm-not-coming-in so they called me in despite the calls being few and far between. fuckers. only upside is I ain't working saturday. I'm not taking friday off to come back saturday fuck that. someoneelse is working saturday.

another lazy sunday

this quiet Sunday seems to be a trend and not a one off thing. I'm glad.

Craig came by a day late but he did visit. We went shopping, I wanted a can of compressed air and hardware & lumber finally got the battery less flashlights. One of them shake 'em deals and it fits in my handbag. It comes with two key chains that have lights on them but they're battery powered but still cute.

What to do with my day off tomorrow? Apart from sleep and exercise I have no idea. gonna go sleep now.

got my hair did

washed my hair and my mom combed it. Ive stopped using Pantene, I'm just sticking to head and shoulders; dry scalp formula for now. It works. Also, my hair isn't breaking as much and it has grown so I must be doing something right.

Went back to my high school, the other day, to get transcripts. And it's changed. The building that used to house 4th and 5th forms(10th + 11th grades) is locked down. Even the bar is closed.(My high school is where and amusement park and small hotel used to be). The bar, was a 4/5th form hang out. The things that happened d in it, scandalous, but a lotta fun. even saw the owner's son. Gareth, I remember him, he was hilarious and had braces, looks about the same. I just realized, I'm not still friends with anyone from high school. Not that I hate them or anything, we've just never really kept in touch.

Went to Harbour View last night with Steve and Kams, had steam fish and bammy. It was OK, the food was this || short from good. Which reminds me, supposed to be going to dinner with K this week, hopefully we'll go to somewhere good.

Spoke with my dad today, says he has mild glaucoma and made some joke about smoking weed. Didn't get to talk to him more about it cuz he was on the road but he says he's taking his meds. from the little I know, it's treatable and he doesn't have to go blind but I am still a little worried.

finally!

pics are here!

Mr & Mrs Gregory Brown and daughter.

My new fave Alexia pic


A better view of the dress.

Marlon, Stacey, Serchen, me, Roger & Drew

Now the puppies! It's only one pic cuz I'm lazy

oops?

no lies, no pictures cuz I was watching, Afro Samurai, Rome and Dirt.

Also I need to upgrade my linux box, the motherboard is dying, I can't turn it off now cuz I'm afraid it won't turn back on, joy.

good news, bad news

okies, got linux machine up and running, back to ubuntu. It actually installed, who knew? I had to change the slot for the network card. I dunno if my motherboard is going or its just dirty, but I's thinking of finally upgrading my linux box. We'll see how that goes.

bad news, head hurts and I'm tired so no pictures tonight, tomorrow, Friday the latest :)

oh well

I wanted to do a picture post today, of K's wedding and Mopsy's puppies but the linux box was being a bitch and I'm gonna have to reinstall so, prolly tomorrow or thursday.

do you hear that?

yes, I went to church this morning, made my request and they've turned it down. I also told them to pass it on to asswipe in the afternoon. So I may not have silence but their volume is pretty much negligible. So I can sleep and enjoy my Sunday :)

I wanna see Smokin' Aces soooooooo bad! Hurry up Palace!

Amy Winehouse

my ears are in love. I heard about her ONTD! and I had net and time so I 'got' her album. Wow! I need to buy it. This girl is great. She has this messy, rawness, sounds like shes in some dive club but she sounds great. And I especially love the oldies feel to her album, Back to Black. And how can I not I love someone that uses one of my fave words, fuckery, so eloquently in a song? I'm loving, me & mr jones, back to black, wake up alone and you know I'm no good. Popbytes have two youtube links of her performing in NYC, check it out.

this shit again

it was not as much as last time but someone at work took money from my purse...again. I honestly have no words.

where do i begin?

guess who's going to be a daddy? my first wuv. Was following Greg today and was nearby Paul so I stopped in to say hi and met his pregnant girlfriend...

fucking thieves, I just heard some piece shit trying to steal some of blocks, then he acts like he's slick when I come out....

anyhoo, Paul's gonna be a daddy :)

There was a fire at work today, a little one. Electrical, something to do with the A/C. The smoke jus made my headache and nausea worst. So I called Rog to come take my computer and took everything out front with me.

Then like a hour after I got real sick, I called Gregory and was like, I can't stay till 10 tonight and he was like ok, so I came home early.

Oh yeah, Greg picked up his license today, so he should find it easier to get the car from his mom now. we'll see.

hmm, there's something else...oh yeah. I need a new job. This one is getting to me and as much as I like my independence and have bills to pay I would prolly still quit. The cons are starting to seriously outweigh the pros of this job.

today was a good day

got things done, got pics of the pups and Dane's set of wedding pics. I'll post tomorrow, I'm tired.

Calls were few and far apart and no memorable idjits.

wrote that letter for the noisemakers. Warren is saying there isn't much can be done cuz the law is for after 2am(which they make noise way past sometimes.) But I'm still giving them the letter. I'm tired of this shit.

I wanna do something with my hair, colour, new style, something.

Passions is cancelled, thanks for the good times and new friends but I'm kinda glad to see you go.

day off!

my manager texts me at 6:36am to say today is my day. So I stayed home, slept made pancakes, actually chatted with a neighbour. He's gonna help me try and get the tent to be quieter. Also did something I haven't done in ages, I washed the dishes, lol. Yeah, I'm bad.

I also watched some soaps, they still suck.

only sucky part is, I have a slight headache.

again

so one would think I wouldn't have to go back to that tent about the noise, right? (in my best Carlie Murphy voice) Wrong! Wrong! I had to go over there again and after I ask him to turn it down this boy sighs and says, "Alrite gwaan." Like me a disturb him! Unnu see me dying trial? I guess me and him have a date next sunday, heh.

yay me! I met my Friday deadline, Crys didn't she had family issues but there's always next friday. Trying to do it again.

Wedding = success!

Mr & Mrs Gregory Brown were married this morning in a beautiful ceremony. Loved it! Saw old friends had a few laughs. Don't have no pictures yet cuz I didn't take my camera but I'll be posting a few as soon as I get them.

Mopsy had her puppies Wednesday, five of them, will post pics of them soon too.

did my nails today and that was today's highlight. work just sucked over and over esp this one dumb bitch, shit wasn't working and I'm to apologize and listen to her dumbass lecture and sad story? I transferred her ass, poor Berroney, he wanted to hang up on her too. Then I spent over one hour with one customer bcuz I ether don't speak English or him cant read, wonderful.

Google wins again

Last year, after the Google taking over Writely thing, I transferred all my stuff from docs.google(the interface was so drab it was uninspiring) to ZohoWriter. While the interface is pretty great and it has tabbed document editing, Ive noticed it doesn't behave well with big documents. I have one story that spellcheck doesn't work for and whats really annoy is that saving freezes, esp auto save, and I lose a whole bunch of what I wrote. So I decided to try, thinkfree, but it uses java which is slow and hella slow on my work machine. (I must say, thinkfree has something over both zoho and google, when I upload my graphics tutorials ALL the images show, so I just store the tuts there.) So, I've moved all the documents I'm currently working on back to google. I guess it's not so bad as their interface ain't so bad anymore, I hope I won't have to be transferring again.

40DD

Went shopping for the wedding today, must admit it went real well, even got me a pair of blue jeans. I need a pair of black ones cuz mine need retiring. The top I bought requires a strapless bra, which was good, cuz then I'd atleast get to know my bra size, 40DD. I need to get up off my lazy ass.

customers are gold

sometime last year, like november/december, this real asshole of a customer calls and cusses me out calling me an idiot and basically said I have no clue as to what I'm doing and told me supervisor the same.(just cuz I told him dsl line conditioning isnt a same day thing, it isnt.) Cut to today, he can't browse(his switch needed restarting) so I'm trouble shooting and he's jolly, laughing and says:

It's nice talking to someone that knows what they're doing.

Kams(my supervisor mind you) is all, why didn't you remind him you're the 'idiot'. Really, I was too busy stifling laughter. Truly ridic.

I got things to do

I got a resume to fix up and give to Terran, made a deal with Crysta to have a chapter up by Friday, gotta bring my computer to work, thinking tomorrow. I wanna start using Gimp. I know I say that a lot and never do anything. But I've fallen in love with Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love all over again and I wanna make stuff from it. I love the story and the visuals and I have quite a girl crush on Indira Varma (most would know her as Niobe from HBO's Rome).

Also, I need to go do my nails and go shopping for Kay's wedding Saturday and we all know how much I love shopping.

fucked up Sundays

that fucking church(they're actually a tent) across the road. the fuckers put up sheets so you can't look in but their speakers outside facing out. In my house with all my doors locked and I can still hear their dumbness and hungry belly 'singing'. I swear, one of these days I'm going to jail for destruction of property. Apparently cuz theyre praising god they can be as loud as they please and ignore my requests for some fucking silence. One of these days, I'm going over there and breaking something. And to make it worse they have this fucking tony matterhorn wannabe, every sunday after dem service done a him dat a mek one bag a noise. A smile inna me face like me and him a friend. Guess who wasn't smiling when I told him what I wanted to do to him with him mic? I have silence now.

drinking totally

isn't worth the day after.

I'm not right

Saw this story today and I couldn't help but laugh. Those two idiots, although I don't really believe it was over weed, it may have been the last straw but not the totality. Stab someone 21 times for that? And I love how those hypocrites want to act like its some tragedy, w/e, if their parents weren't who they are they'd be just another example of the good-for-nothingness of the lower class people. Uppity folks kids do dumb and criminal things too, colour me surprised.

my mom is hilarious

not really, but she gave me a real good laugh this morning:

Mom: If you were buying a car, what kind would you buy?
Me: Honda or Toyota
Mom: (thinking)
Me: (thinking, WTH? buy a car? how about finishing the house first?) You have money to buy car?
Mom: Then you can't pay for it?
Me: (laughing) No!
Mom: Den a wha you a do wid your pay?
Me: (laughs and leaves)

And that woman is for serious. Does she know how much car payments are? Excluding insurance and all the other car expenses.

Called my dad this morning, he's back in NY, prolly gonna have to look for a new buyer for his house. I dunno why I mentioned buying a laptop to him cuz now he's gonna want to do it and I really wanna do it for myself.

I still haven't gone shopping for K's wedding and I havent called back the dentist about a new appointment, don't wanna do them all next week. But it doesn't matter, they both can't wait.

I'm not really looking forward to the wedding. Stacy called me Monday about a possible bridal shower and asked the question that I know I'm gonna hear a lot of at the wedding, "When you and Rog getting married?" I think I'm gonna give the Brad Pitt answer, that should go over well.

keanu reeves?!

Last night I dreamt I married and had quints with keanu reeves. And no, I haven't watched one of his movies lately. Still not sure if it's weirder than the dave mirra dream I had recently, where I applied to be DM's apprentice/assistant and he called to say I got it but where I was was very noisy and the call was dropped. heh.

R.I.P. Charles Hyatt

Charles Hyatt a great Jamaican actor and author of one my favorite books, When Me Was A Boy, has died. While most people will remember him for his acting, I can never forget his book. It's hilarity and a glimpse into the Jamaican past. I still laugh at the story of his new bicycle.

It's weird, just the other day I was looking for it in the book store cuz I can't find my copy, and I couldn't find it. I wonder if they'll have it now.

R.I.P. Charles Hyatt, you were a great Jamaican.

it's a new year

let's see what it brings, although I suspect it's gonna be the same ole same ole.

Went for Dim Sum yesterday, David wanted to try some place new, wasn't feeling it but I was willing to try until I saw it was basically a buffet style of Chinese food I normally eat for lunch, negative David. Left and went back to our regular spot.

Spent most of the day at David's then we picked up Rog, couldn't choose a place to go, so we all came to my house, gave David the tour although I don' think it changed much since he was last here. Watched some fireworks at midnight then they left.

new year resolutions? nah, not really. I'm gonna try be more consistent with the exercise thing, also gonna try going out more and also try being more creative.

food is love!

Me, David, Rog and David went to East last night. It was fun :) We ordered a lot of food and some likker and I had a tad too much but whatever. We should try it again sometime when I don't have work the next morning.

Speaking of, I hope the calls are few and far between today, I need to sleep

wtf?

Went toothbrush shopping today, wanted one of those battery operated ones, couldn't find any in the supermarket so I went to the pharmacy. The only battery ones they had were the rechargable ones for like $4000+. No that's NOT a typo(Americans divide by 67) there was another one for $8000+. When in my life am I to buy a damn toothbrush for so much money? I want some of what theyre smoking. I ended up buying one of them oral-b cross action, I like it, teeth feel clean and it actually gets between my teeth

good ole cable and wireless, flow light fire unda dem backside, dem nuh stop pop dung because dem a fix up dem network, I love competition. Except it's fucking with my job, people tiad a call me now and I'm working saturday, hopefully it won't pop dung again but I not holding my breath

I wanna go eat sushi and drink saki tomorrow, I'll call David and find out if he's game.

back inna di Gideon

after four days of doing whatever, went back to work and don't you know it? There's a DSL issue, so I had tons of Why isn't my internet not working?-Am I getting a discount?-Why aren't you telling people this on the radio?(my personal fave) And I almost tell some woman about her mother.

Tomorrow, is back to the dentist :( I must remember to eat a lot before I go cuz if it's that bitch again, my mouth will be sore.

I need to get my ass in gear and MAKE/WRITE something.

boo!!!

I got work tomorrow :(

lol

so I'm sitting on the floor as mom combs my hair and I look down and I start laughing. See this is what happens when you wear pants and short sleeve shirts to work everyday; hands and legs that look like they belong to diff bodies:



PS: David, keep your smart remarks to yourself I KNOW you're not much better :P

I'm an idjit,

samba IS working, I can Network Neighborhood both computers from the other :) Finished copying music videos, doing music now.

I washed me hair :) did it the lazy way too, didn't pull out my twists, now onto the combing.

Finally decided what to get with my gift voucher. I knew mom was gonna say electric knife so I cut her off at the pass. I'm getting a blender/food processor, now for me to wait till after the holiday idiot season.

R.I.P. James Brown

James Brown died earlier this morning from an heart attack related to his pneumonia. He was one of those performers that knew how to get people excited.

R.I.P. James Brown

screw samba

long live ssh. tried samba, wasn't working, I know it's cuz I forgot something but then I remembered openssh and I'm up and running. I'm now copying over my music vids. it's gonna be a long night but no cussing :)

yay!

slept till 3pm today :) Feel so proud. Then I did nothing but watch tv and stumbled the net :) I love having nothing to do, well, ignoring my to-do list. But this doing nothing is getting to me, so I'm gonna either sort the graphics stuff I downloaded or try setting up samba.

I'm 27 next year and it's bugging me. Like I don't think, I am where I wanna be at that age. And even better I really don't know where or what that is. My future plans were never anything specific. Just to travel and be happy. While the happy part comes and goes the travel part is non existent. I used to think in uni that once I graduated I'd pack a bag and go somewhere, didn't happen. To be honest, there really is nothing stopping me. I have the means and opportunity, the want but apparently not the will. Or I'm just chicken. Well, I am scared, scared of not knowing what I want, scared of being 70 and having a million regrets. bah, I think I should jus go back to bed or something.

Oh yeah, saw my godson yesterday. He's so cute :) and he's a nail biter. Althea says she maybe pregnant again. I hope she's not, another kid is all she needs right now. She asked me about having one. What exactly about I-do-not-want-kids don't people understand? I don't. I got a niece and two godkids and when my fence is finished I'll have a dog. :)

ok, time to cuss like a sailor setup samba.

finally!

my linux box is up and running :) freaking dumbass bios and dumbass me for taking so long to figure it out. I now have Fedora 6 installed since Ubuntu wasn't playing nice. Like it so far except the dumbasses decided to skip Firefox 2 and wait on 3. I can still install it but there's stuff I'd have to do that I can't be arsed to. Now I gotta setup Samba, one of my hard drives had to be formatted so I gotta copy my music videos.

Day 1 of my vacay done, spent with my computer and driving around with Warren. tomorrow, I'll really sleep and wash my hair, it's filthy which means it looks great and is easy to comb. why can't it be like that when it's clean?

calm after the storm

yesterday was a mini hell. my windows computer blue screened and refused to boot citing disk error and I was hella mad, it's not an old disk and I no longer had the receipt and I didn't wanna spend money to buy a new one. Went on the road to price check new drives, $$$$$$$, assholes. Then went to do my nails, which took forever, my nail lady moved offices and she was busy.

Went home, Gregory thankful figured out what was the prob with my windows machine, had to uninstall nero, it was making my comouter hella slow and buggy. Then it was time for my linux machine. Ubuntu 6.1 wouldnt install, so I downloaded 6.06, tried Xubuntu, went well till I changed the repositories to upgrade to 6.1, negative. So when I get homeI'm going back to normal Ubuntu. One of the 40 in the inux machine is screwed though so it's gotta reformat.

Wasted money and bought lunch today, forgot today was office xmas lunch. food was great! Except the garlic bread. I had the fish in coconut sauce, which was heaven, salad, ham, cake, sweet potato something and sorrel. yes, I'm stuffed, if I was at home I'd pull my belt and button. We got the $5000 MegaMart vouchers again, this time I dunno what I want, maybe I'll get the electric knife my mom wants.

the suck continues

I'm so glad I had a big breakfast this morning else I'd be starving right now. Went to the dentist for a cleaning and my mought hurts, chewing is not an option. Worse I got cavities, I gotta go back :( I also should floss more. I'm glad I got insurance, makes everything helluva lot cheaper.

Stinking c+w, went home to no net last night, woke up to none and I can bet I'm going home to none too. On top, the hard drive I bought to replace my 120 seems to be faulty, it's a wonderful life.

Neville Willoughby died today :( (for my non-Jamaican friends, he's a popular radio personality here) Apparently he was in a car accident yesterday and was in critical condition all of last night and died today :( My family is a RJR family, everyday we listened to Neville, Alan and Dorraine. This is really sad. R.I.P. Neville Willoughby.

Joseph Barbera died on Monday :( He co-produced one of my childhood faves, Tom & Jerry and The Jetsons. Hell, I still watch them now esp T&J. R.I.P. Joseph Barber.

Eragon

watched Eragon last night. waste of money. the lead unlike his char never got into his own. his acting was just not there and there were times when he came close then veered off course. John Malkovich was positively BORED. Some of the shots and chars were reminiscent of LOTR and it seemed rushed. I must say, Jeremy Irons was very good and the dragon, the CG didn't look too fake, they did a pretty good job on that. I ain't paying to watch part 2 and yes there will be a 2.

I want a dragon.

I love Audrey Reid!!

She was the MC at David's staff party and she's hilarious! And if I didn't love her before I'd so fall in love when she made David go on stage :P Which reminds me, I need to get those pics from Molyneaux. Had mad fun last night, made me really miss going out to clubs and dances. another reminder, take David to a club.

One of my former lectures is being brought up to the uni board for plagiarism. Apparently, all her notes, tests etc are straight from the net. We hated her ass in uni, she spent like the first 2/3 lecture teaching us BS and ignored us when we called her on it. THEN when she finally figured out she was wrong she just continued like nothing happened. I ignored her ass for the semester, only went to class for tests. We had to teach ourselves that subject. Even with all that, I still for sorry for her, I must be getting old. No doubt she deserves it, people have been complaining about it for years and if she was a nicer person it wouldn't be so bad. But if all those people who signed the petition to get her fired think she's going they don't know their uni very well.

My primary school principal died. She had pneumonia. She was a real cool lady. What I remember most is when I graduated primary school and everybody was giving me the keep up the good work in HS and don't let people down speech, she was the only one to say, enjoy it, you maybe starting the best years of your life. Turns out she was wrong but she was the only one whose congratulations wasn't tinged with a warning to not fall from grace. I needed it. R.I.P. Miss Bailey.

surprisingly

work hasn't been as hectic as expected but then the switch hasn't happened yet so that maybe why.

hmm, LJ has made some changes to posting page, not bad.

I'm stuffed, I should really cut out this over eating thing. I mean I stop when I catch myself doing it but the curry today was too great. But I still hate being stuffed.

Speaking of food, the little pastry shop we frequent has added rum balls to the menu. Went for bread pudding and they had none but they had rum balls. It was great! It had rum and not too much choccy like the ones I'm used to. Could do with some more rum though.

bah!

Didn't get to go bra looking today, they're making some changes at work and calls were coming in. I'm hoping to stop by a store tomorrow before work. Work is gonna be CHAOS tomorrow, oh joy.

Went with David to go visit Kit but he was in the hospital. Apparent reaction to the spraying(Gov't spraying to get mosquitoes cuz there's been some malaria cases)

GOOD NEWS!!! I really hope this pans out. Not only is it great news for people suffering with cancer but it would be so great for Jamaica. Then again, these corrupt assholes read Gov't will make sure most of the money goes into their pockets instead of where it's really needed, health, education and security forces.

perfect day off

slept, ate, did my hair, well, doing my hair and little or no thinking.

How do you measure your bra size? I need bras cuz all of mine don't fit properly and dad's coming its muy easy to say dad pick up coupla bras than for me to go bra shopping. followed some online sites and I maybe a 42D or 38C and that's a huge difference. gonna stop by a store sometime this week and try get a real measurement try on a bra and figure it out.

weird dreams

I had a...well not really weird just CREEPY dream. I was driving to country with one of my bosses and someone else in a convertible and he kept fondling me and I was encouraging and enjoying it. Just typing that made me feel icky.

I think I'm crushing on someone but he's not what's called available. Yes he's single but he's a friend's ex so that's a no go. But I love the feeling :)

yay!

Had fun last night :) Corralled David into going out last night, we went to Red Bones Cafe, food was good, our waiter was good but the others were asses. I went outside to make a call and when I was going back in these two ladies were leaving cuz they've been waiting to be seated, so I brought them back in and called one of the waiter and it was like he couldn't be bothered. Mutabaruka was spinning CDs playing any and everything. RBC is a Jazz & Blues thing by the way but you wouldn't really know from the decor. Apart from the pics of Jazz & Blues greats the walls were real colorful. Also they need signage, there's none on the outside to say yes youre here and when you walk in there's none to say, enter here.

Anyhoo, onto the fun part, went to Grog Shoppe and met up with Soutar, he was there with some of his friends had some great convo, then I got to drinking. Had a Brown Skin Gal, then another of Soutar's friend came, only to find out he's Baby Shaq, a local artiste I have like 2 of his songs and one, Where I'm From, I really really love. Julian came after the others left. Soutar was teaching me the way of the cigar, wasn't working. The three of us had a great chat, I had 2 Brown Skin Gals so I was real, chatty. Haha. And that's all I'm saying :)

OMG!

I saw a real transvestite tonight! I know to most people it's not a big deal, but this is Jamaica. That's NOT run of the mill stuff. So I'm at Carib and I went to get a straw and I turn around and there's this short thin woman, clutching a purse, walking dainty as you please with hoop earrings and braids. then I saw the face, it was a MAN! And his/her face, his beard, lol, he had a five o' clock shadow. OMG! He/she was walking towards the bathroom to see which one he/she used.

Just to put this in perspective, a few years ago, I doubt she'd have made it to Carib in one piece wherever she was from.

Anyhoo, I saw Casino Royale, twas good but loooong. I take back what I said about DC as Bond. There I said it.

had a little scare

so I had barely woke up when Greg calls to tell me K passes out and was in the hospital. So I rushed and went to see her. She had gastroenteritis, they had put her on a drip and took some blood but the released her with a strict diet and bed rest orders.

Finished Crick, Crack, Monkey, think I'm gonna follow Kleo and use my Vox as a book review. Vox has a pretty nifty cross post to LJ feature but none for Blogger. So I may just post a link to Blogger or not at all. Now to decide my next book.

just one of those moods

that won't really pass but it dims ever so often and fools you into thinking you're fine again.

K's upcoming wedding and Stacy's engagement just really hit me. I don't wanna be the jealous hater but it's really hard being happy for them.

I need to get more proactive with my life and all that jazz

unconditional love

today was a good day

work was pretty easy, got some sleep, I even did some writing.

Went to see Casino Royale but it was sold out, so I'll see it on Monday or whenever.

Went back to Grog Shoppe and hung out with David, who was eating with Julian, small world. Stayed and talked till around midnite, now I is home.

Mom is having a mini dinner party tomorrow, think I'm gonna skip and go by Gregory's, not my crowd.

I am Lrr of the planet Omicron Persei 8

I love drinking! I don't do it often and enough enough. Anyways, if you ever go by Grog Shoppe, stay away from brown Skin Gal, they're liars! It's supposed to be rum and coffee liquer, there's a drop of coffee liqueur for coloring but it's ALL rum! :) Aside from that. The food was great! And so was the service, it's a definite must-return.

Should go to bed, got work tomorrow. Also, gonna go see Casino Royale.

bad boys, bad boys

what ya gonna do? what ya gonna do when they come for you?

Pull over. The cops pulled me and Steve over tonight. It was a spot check, so there was no ticket or anything, cuz I hid his radio in my bag.(The taxi license is for his other car).

Boo to David for wanting to go to Guilt Trip instead of East tomorrow boo.

long live Japan!

Went to East last night :D Sushi never tasted so good! And the wasabi! I missed it soo much I put on too much on my first piece and my eyes watered. Also tried Japanese beer, Asahi, loved it. It's much smoother and a tad sweeter than wat I'm used to. Then we had Ice Cream Tempura, GREATNESS!!!!!!!! Words cannot describe how much I love ICT.

Tomorrow is my day off and apart from running and cleaning my computer desk, I have no plans. I want to call Craig and see if I can go chill by his farm. Or I could sleep :)

it's been awhile

haven't blogged in awhile, havent got shat to say. least nothing good. exercise is on and off. still havent made the dentist appointment yet. picked up multivitamins today. hair is in twists again after months of canerow. Friday is my day off, so I'm gonna wash and redo them.

Soutar IMed, he wants to go for sushi, I'm game, Rog is iffy. I wanna see Casino Royale, hopefully afterwork on Saturday, I hear it's good. Yes, I know I ragged on DC but he was being such a bitch about playing Bond that he really irked me.

hmm, since I've heard that some asshole or the next wants to ban literature books with patois from our schools, I've been in a memory lane kick with my old literature books. I recently bought and read Escape To Last Man's Peak and my love for it still grows. Why would anyone want to take such great literature, about Jamaican kids no less, from schools. When I was younger reading was my #1 thing to do. Especially Caribbean literature, because I could identify with it. Read a passage and go. 'Yep, that's so true.' I'm glad that that idiot is being ignored, I think it's important for young people to read books about themselves, their culture, to know it is of value.

So, I'm now digging up my old books and buying new ones. I bought Crick Crack, Monkey last week and I'm loving it. the writing style is great. Her descriptions make conjuring a mental image so easy.

I'm trying to find my copy of Charles Hyatt's When Me Was A Boy, that book was hilarious. And a good look at Jamaica before I was born.

In unrelated news, I stumbled on this pic and I just love it!:

the ups of public transportation

so I'm on a HWT bus wen this preacher comes on and starts preaching. Him do di usual ask ppl to say a 'Praise God' and nobody ansa him. So him go fi the guilt card and bus di 'When unnu go unnu bed last nite unnu neva have no guarantee to wake up.' and him get 2/3 'Praise God' So him start him sermon and me only hear a one 'Selassie!' All of a sudden, all the other "christians" that were ignoring the preacher find dem mouth. The holy war was on! I wish I had a video camera. The "christians" vs the rastafarians. One heap a 'Praise God', 'Bun a dutty Jesus', 'Selassie dead', 'Jesus is the devil' etc etc. Me nearly dead wid laff.

So anyway, wen di bus reach 3 Mile, the rastas came off and some white people wid dem. Den the preacher find fi him mout(him wasnt really arguing with the rastas, he was just shouting over them). Hear the preacher him now nuh, "See ya, a cause dem a travel with white people mek dem a try show off. Mus be a rent a dread."

Watev, everyone knows, if ur in a bus wid a rasta or two and someone starts preaching, argument a go gwan, so him fi quiet.

Bwoy me neva laff so hard in ages.

I drove home!

Steve(my cabbie) gave me the keys and drove home. :) Shut up David! Me, him and the car reached Portmore without incident.

work keeps getting shittier and shittier. Kam will be out sick this week, therefore it's not gonna be good. Esp with the dial up probs.

my life feels sorta boring. and I'm trying to be careful saying this cuz I know how it can blow up in my face. Hmm, hows about I ask for a LITTLE excitement, haha.

No more sun! Since Monday I think it's been rainy and cool. Not really complaining, glad I bought the sneakers(twas a tad weird driving in them). Hopefully I wont have to get a jacket or sweater since I work nights.

LOL, Screech's porn tape has finally leaked. Who wanna see Screech do a dirty Sanchez? lol, me neither.

my job blows

royally. it's bad enough when I get idiots but when I get ppl with legitimate probs and I can't help them it's so much worse. BTW C&W are fucking asses but apart from that I work with fuckwads sometimes, seriously.

day offs are great!

Today was my day off :) I didn't run but I did exercise, wash my hair and reinstalled XP.

too bad I got work tomorrow :(

I'm not feeling so good. I can't believe I overate :( Ugh! I ordered too much food and insisted on finishing it now I just feel awful.

I wonder how come my mom isn't home yet, I need her to do my hair.

Happy Birthday Roger

I swear that boy lies when he says carrot cake is his fave. I bet its cuz him and like 2 other people in Jamaica do. Craven.

Realized the deadline for the JET is too soon for me to apply :( so I'm gonna hunt and see if another country has a similar program.

Finally switched monitors at work, the difference is so clear. So I maybe will start GIMPing soon. Ive been thinking some avatars with popular expressions. Or even song lyrics, we'll see.

I ran this morning! Haha, no 8 Minute workouts but I did do yoga and some exercise thing on FitTV.

that was a bore

David lent me Devil Wears Prada and after much skipping and some reading, I'm thoroughly bored. Hopefully the movie is better. Thanks David but lend me something more interesting next time.

Today was a good day. I slept through most of it. I love having the house to myself.

Greg's mom sent me dinner :) So I'm all good for food.

Tomorrow's to-do list:
1) Fill out the JET application form
2) Research similar programs

not much here

got my nails done with glitter something or the next:


Its really great to not have work to do. I need a new job. Mom brought home the application for teaching English in Japan, gonna fill it out tomorrow.

BTW, Sheen is the best char on jimmy neutron boy genius

LMAO!!!

Got this in my mail today, it's from yesterday's or today's Jamaica Observer. IMO, hilarity!

some days I really hate my job

so I'm on the phone for nearly two hours with C&W trying to get this guy's DSL up to no avail, so I'm about to report it and guy calls in to say he had reset the modem thereby making all the troubleshooting moot. His ass is gonna wait till tomorrow.

Went back to my Vox today. Still have no use for it yet but until I figure it out I'm gonna be doing their QuestionOfTheDay thingy.

I have this weekend off! Gonna use Saturday and get glitter tips on my nails and gonna reinstall XP on Sunday.

Everyday I use Post-Its to clean my teeth despite having dental floss in my bag.

I'm trying to have a chapter up tomorrow, it's my self imposed deadline. Speaking of which, I need to switch monitors so I can start iconing or something.

slowly but surely

I is writing again. Currently working on two stories, I need to get a hold of Crysta we need to finish something. I did setup Gimp on my Suse box, so maybe I'll have a icon or two to show for it. Only prob is the monitor at work is dark so they may come out too bright or something.

Some of my fave celeb gossip blogs went wild with the news of the supposed Britney+Kevin split. Yes I know official papers were filed and all, but britney aint no paragon of truth. Lets not forget he has an album out, she has one she's working on. But people are happy, why? The damage is done, they might as well stayed married.

apathy or whatever

all damn day all I wanna do is sleep. I sleep at work, I sleep on the way home and now I'm home, I dont wanna sleep, write, read, watch tv, do anything. oh joy.

just saw Last King of Scotland greatness! I love having a movie that doesnt disappoint. All around great performances. Scully Gillian Anderson I almost didn't recognize, Kerry Washington, lets just say I saw a new side of her :D Forest was so fricking great!

Brought my linux box to work today and watched ATHF all day. I know I shoulda watched Heroes but I really wasn't interested.

LJ was down today, sometimes when I'm bored I troll LJ, search by interest which usually yields some interesting journals/communites but none of that for me.

Apparently Chris Rock and Malaak are divorcing, which doesn't really surprise me esp after his last special, his jokes on marriage didnt really seem to be just jokes, then again its Chris Rock, he doesn't really do just jokes.

THIS is why people ask me dumbass questions on the internet

"Batty man does not mean gay. A batty man is a man that like to have sex through the rear; he isn't gay." Beanie Man

I think I should be sad or something

but whatever. I just read this, funny I got it from Tara seeing as she's in a diff country but I don't do news, local or international. Ever since the dutty wine buss I was never a fan. To me it was never fun, appealing or safe now some young fool girl is dead and worse it wont make a diff but to a few. Best believe dutty wine dancing and competitions will continue. Thank you Tony Matterhorn.

back on the wagon

So after going a week without exercise I ran and exercised this morning. Suprisingly I ran more than usual. We decided to add 8 Minute Legs into the exercise routine cuz really my thighs need it.

But a lotta time was spent getting mom's computer to actually play the vids. I'm gonna have to format and reinstall windows again. my mom has the amazing ability to screw up computers by doing "Nothing." And she calls me names when I run her off mine.

So I'm wearing my new blue jeans today and it fits like one of Rog's, too big. But I like it, even though it makes me look I spent the night at my boyfriend's. Everyone prefers my black sneakers to my blue ones. I do too but the blue feels comfier.

Friday, theyre gonna knock holes in our side wall to make windows, so I gotta move my computers, DSL modem and a bunch of wires. So my Friday off won't really be a Friday off. Hopefully I can borrow George's car and go by the RGD to do my dad's birth certificate that I always keep forgetting about.

300

I wanna see this movie so bad!

Boyz II Men have a new album?

Yes they do and it's called The Remedy. Why didn't I know this? Where's the vids? The singles, the talk show rounds? I wanna hear it!

and a good time was had by all

I love Serchen Morris. When warren flaked, heh, Serchen came through for me. The party was good. The cheesecake was excellent and I'm not a cheeseake fan. I love Greg's friends, they always make great conversation. Even saw Melissa, her son wasn't with her though. I missed Stacy, she left before I arrived.

I should be able to bring my linux box to work on Saturday. I'm copying stuff to it now, which reminds me, I have tons of textures and brushes to sort. Gonna take forever. Gonna try just grab a tut at random and make something.

I feel like sushi, gotta call David and see if we ca go to East this week. Ice cream tempura!

party over there

well, it's more of a get together. It's Greg's birthday and K is throwing him a party. There's gonna be cake and stuff and people I havent seen in awhile.

Went shopping yesterday, got me a blue jeans and two sneakers, spent entirely too much money but I really love the sneakers.

Rog came by and got my samba working and multimedia. Now I gotta configure it to use my headphones. Cuz Suse unlike Ubuntu doesnt just auto detect and uses my headphones, it detects it but have to manually switch it or something. So I'm gonna do that now.

ram goat liver

good fi mek mannish water. Hehe, not sure if ram goat liver wa in mine but it was gooooood! me enjoy myself tonite. watch domino and dem ask me if me want to play, haha. me nuh play wid dem season man deh. And if yuh skin nuh tuff stay pon di sidelines, some card draw tonite neva pretty at all. Yes nine nite was fun. except di selecta play di million and one dutty wine songs and some eediat ask me if me nah dutty wine. look nuh, dutty wine is one dance that don't appeal to me inna di least.

before dat me follow Rog go supermarket and I saw root beer! always wanted to try dat, it's in the fridge. And the best part they had CHOCOLATE! Not candy chocolate, or Nesquick chocolate but CHOCOLATE! good ole Jamaican chocolate where dem sun dry do Cocoa beans, roast it and ground in it in...me caan memba di name. You know like when you have like a bowl and and you use a spoon or something to smash wats in it? Anyways wen me was likkle there was this old woman up di road from me. She used to mek it and me and my cuz would go up there to do the pounding, so know I had to buy it.

then we went by Kit's, him have an acoustic guitar, well two but one dont have strings. I need to get me one and learn how to play.

Anyways, on my way home, thinking all the excitement was done, negative! Two people dead outta mall. Apparently some bike man coming off di highway lose control or someting and him and him pillion went flying. him dead pon de spot and she dead on di way to hospital.

Anyways, me gone a me bed aka stay up late watch tv and catch up wid me forums :)

ugh

my day was just fine until I went to Island Grill, ordered the chicken sandwich instead of the jerk burger and didn't notice till it was too late to change it. I swear the bitches switched the menu up. 7 is the jerk burger not damn chicken sandwich. So I had dumbass chicken sandwich and I hated every bite, ugh!

Me have a ni' night to go to later. One of the taxi men was killed and they're having his ni' night tonight. Can dust off mi domino skills, heh. FYI ni' night(nine night) is a funeral tradition. For nine nights after a person dies, friends and family gather and have a wake. The last night (ninth night) is the biggest and depending on where you are, what is done varies. Can read more at the Wiki. Any questions feel free to ask.

just one of those days

all I wanna do is call in sick and spend the day in bed. It's rainy outside and I really want a dog.

lunch was good!

SO I came to work as Roget, Greg and Romaine were going for lunch and I went along for lasagna and got a free lunch :) It was cool hanging with the guys, I missed that, not with these guys but with my guy friends that are all scattered right now.

I can't believe it's almost November and the sun is still bitching! So glad for the bag juice vendors in HWT.

So now I'm at work and all I wanna do is sleep, nothing new there. Haha.

Firefox 2 is out but I'm keeping my wait-and-see attitude, I'ma wait for 2.1 when all the new bugs get reported and dealt with.

today

I had the best slice of bread pudding I've had in ages :D

day off wasted!!

just ugh! Greg asks me for help comes over from last night and takes over my comp. Why do people ask for help and then ignore it? Maybe our writing styles are just different but a lot of things he did was just repetitive to me and the flow was spastic. And because this paper took all damn I didn't get to go to RGD and take care of my dad's BC or get any work on Samba, just fucking great.

I really wanna bring my Linux box back to work but I wanna copy back my music and stuff to it first and this is really pissing me off! And dumbass ssh doesn't work either, boo.

Anyhoo, time to go tinker with the puter..

Love is my Religion

Had a very painful conversation last night which spawned my previous post and the current title. Suprisingly I woke up this morning feeling a whole lot better. Better and done. It's the end of an era folks and all that jazz. Watev.

I want a snake and/or dog but mostly a snake. So I'm gonna hit up Google do some snakes as pets reserch and see what happens.

I love my nails :) Theyre getting long again. Next time I'm gonna get acrylic with glitter in it.

heh

love will make you a hypocrite

not a bad night

So I went to Sovereign to get my jerk burger and run into K, Greg and Lexi and ate with them. They were telling me about some UWI professor that got kidnapped and robbed. Apparently he's also a radio personality and that's why they didn't kill him. We also saw Diana King, she looks lighter and rounder than the last time I saw her but she still looks good.

I left to meet up with Warren and Noel, they were watching Fearless but I watched Haven nd it was good. I had some laughs and Orlando was watchable. Didnt see as much of Zoe as I wouldve liked but I still loved it. Diff people with their mini dramas that sorta come together but not really. Good movie.

Me a starve!

I want Island Grill sooooooooo bad! I wanta Jerk Burger, fries and bammy :) Rog is taking forever to get here, bugger!

I only have oreos to munch on meanwhile. :(

An accident!

So I'm coming home and there's traffic going into Garveymeade, I thought it was because of the rain and potholes...nope. A minibus ran into the back of a parked truck. I highly doubt anyone in the front survived. Gotta ask questions tomorrow, find out what happened.

exercise is an eye opener

"woke up" this morning and after much debaing called Greg and slept till he came. I didn't wanna wake up and go back to sleep again, trying to break the habit. Greg decided to do the 8 Minute Stretch as well, not a bad idea after the first go through of Abs I was wide awake, even felt like running but I didn't :P

Rog helped me mount my drives last night and theyre all up and running. Sent him to buy the DVD burner and he bought a DVD rom drive, had to go back and exchange it.

I'm hoping to go see Haven tomorrow, I've been hearing about it from early this year if not last year, hopefully it's good. David wants to go see Crank or something, hmm.

Yay! I'm not as broke as I thought I was :) but I will be soon

on the wagon, off the wagon

haha, slept through the alarm today, that's a first. means extra laps tomorrow, blech.

Finally decided on the burner, so I asked Rog to pick me up one and bring it to me later, hopefully he got to the store before it closed.

Still haven't mounted my drives yet but I can do it tonight or tomorrow morning. Then I can start on Samba. I'm liking Suse, it more user friendly than I expected, dare I say, even more so than Ubuntu. One prob though is when I install the TabMix Plus Firefox plugin, had some probs with it so I had it uninstalled :( But I'm gonna try again when I get home, that plugin is muy useful.

I got my nails done! I chose a nice purple colour, I was gonna choose black but its black and I wanted color. Stopped by Captain's and got some donuts, plain and coconut. Today was muy cloudy and by the time I got to work I was craving Milo and there was none, totally craptastic.

I wanna sleep sooooooo bad! I think I'm going straight to bed once I get home.

ok, I did it

I installed Suse 10.1 and it installed just fine, except I'm an idjit that saved my fstab to a drive so no I gotta do my fstab all over again AND my screen is too much to the right but I'll tinker with it when I get home. I'm definately getting a dvd drive well, I'm still not sure if I'm gonna go ahead and get the burner, if I can get the extra RAM then yeah but PC133 RAM aint gonna be easy to find.

I finally went running today, no exercise but I ran.

My head hurts and I think it's cuz I stayed up installing Suse and not sleep after my run as usual. But Greg is working with me tonight so me ago get some sleep.

Speaking of work, oh lawd, it's primary school all over again. Who call up whofa name, who nah chat to who, I'm so glad the incindiary event happened on my day off. So I'm out of this.

Yay! One of my fave boards is still down but we've created a temp board in the meantime and while some folks are still MIA most of my faves are there so I'm good.

I need to get laid

or I could just need to get up off my ass and run in the morning. Nooooo I didn't run this morning, Greg says his phone was locked in the car and I'm not about to run by myself.

Yay! Jaz has been released from the hospital :) I'm glad she's better and out.

I'm wondering if I should just get a new DVD drive for my linux box or get a DVD burner. If I get the burner I'll need more RAM. Bah! cba

A friend(acquaintance is a better word) is getting divorced, she came over to tell me all about it, like I care. I still remember last year when she was at my house flashing her ring in my face talking shit about my relationship with Rog just cuz she's newly married. In fact she's lucky I didn't laugh in her face. Even though Rog and I are no longer together and me periodically wanting to run him over(he deserves it and he knows this) at least we're not at each other's throats. You don't come show off and denigrate my relaionship in the process and turn around mourn your failed relationship and expect me to be all, "There, there, he's an asshole." Fact is you both fucked up. But ofcourse I'm not married so you ignored anything I said. Suck it up.

Speaking of which, I dreamt I got married some days ago. Long story short, I started a business same time my hubby started his, business got to a point where it was in our interests to merge and we did. Working together, we fell in love and got married. All nice and trite, watev.

finally

washed my hair, took me all damn day but yeah, it's clean.

Woke up with terrible gas, guess its cuz I ate so badly yesterday but I woke up with this sharp pain in my stomach drank several cups of tea to no avail. I just ate something so I should be good.

I'm currently downloading Suse 10.1, bye bye Ubuntu, it's been fun but I feel for something new. I may do it Wednesday, maybe I should wait for the weekend but who knows, I may even do it tonight.

work tomorrow :( I was just getting used to not going there but I gotta go back, got bills to pay.

Nap time!

home!

spent the day at the hospital. Got some sleep, saw Stevie. Didn't write or take pics but I did read Maximum PC. Then I went by David's for dinner and poker. He lent me Devil Wears Prada, the book. I'll start reading it tomorrow.

Tomorrow I shall finally wash my hair and cornrow it. Time is too damn hot for twists. Can't believe it's October and it's HOT!

Why oh why is there a Santa Clause 3? Were the first two that successful? Jeez!

hospital holiday

Jackie calls today to say she has to go back home for work so she wants me to stay with Jazz. So my Sunday of sleep and computer tinkering is gone. I'm gonna take my digicam and notebook to amuse myself.

Went to Cafe Aubergine today, food was good. I had Tortellini something with blue cream cheese, greatness! Then I had roasted duck something, not as great as the appetizer but still good. Great service but the room was a bit cramped. And the table next to us had a local sports caster.

OK, I'm gonna start saving for my laptop next month, I wanted to this month but Jazz in the hospital and clothes shopping, screwed that up. I hope there's no $$$ surprises next month.

I'm late

I just realized today was Friday 13th. Nothing bad happened but I wonder where the superstition came from?

sleep...does a body good

skipped running this morning in favour of sleep and I'm glad I did, I really needed it. Felt soooooo much better when I woke up this morning. But I'm definitely running tomorrow. I need to buy some clothes and I don't wanna but them now and they cant fit later.

Apparently Portmore has a dog breeders association and it's near me. I hear they meet on Sundays so I may try to check them out one day.

I think I may get into the pet business. I really think it could be good for me. People are now more than ever into pets and they don't mind spending on them. So I'm gonna talk to some owners see what stuff they get or want and how they usually get it.

THREE DAY WEEKEND! Tomorrow is my Saturday off and Monday is Hero's Day so I've got three days of NOOOOOO work! What to do, what to do.

I was thinking of using my Vox account as a sort of photo blog. I may get a new digicam, a smaller one, one that's easier to carry around than my current one. Got the idea from this great subscription service Photojojo, anyone with any photography interest should check it out, great ideas, tips and tricks.

:(

apparently pneumonia can spread, I didn't know that. Jazz's is. Her side now hurts when she coughs and she may have gall stones.

the damn zip on my fave blue jeans has gone bad or watever you call zips that cant zip. Good thing I wore a long shirt today.

lol, some ppl tried to scam me today, some 3 card people. I'm walking by and this lady grabs my hand and is like she's betting $500 on me and some guy points my finger to the right card and they shove the $500 in my hand, then homeboy is all like, I'm betting $1000 dollars that you pick the right one. And me like an idiot, instead of walking away with the $500, I put it on the table and left. Prolly was fake anyways.

wat is it with some men and their love for many women and aversion to condoms? asses!

Yay! Got my health card! Doc & dentist time!

I is sore!

you know that shit they say about pushing yourself when you're working out? Tried it this morning when I was running, wanted to stop but I pushed myself, felt good for a coupla seconds then all I knew I was HURT! My legs, my chest it hurt to breathe, I about crumpled right there. And the sick part is I feel real proud of myself. Did the same with the 8 minute abs crap, kept up better this time, now I can't laugh cuz it hurts but it shall pass.

Hey David, had a weird dream last night. I dreamt that after we left the hospital we went back to your place and your mom was shouting for you and you hid me under your bed(which was higher). She came into your room, which was smaller, and I moved back and she saw me, when I came out turns out she was the lady from Kung Fu Hustle, the landlady that smoked, yes she was smoking. Totally weird dream. She was bitching about the ice, something about water and cost and stuff, don't remember what happened after.

Stayed with Jazz for a bit today, I was worried at first cuz her breakfast and lunch were there not eaten but they said she has an ultrasound to do so she shouldn't. There was this brat in the bed next to hers. Her grandma was running behind that out-of-order kid like she was her slave. So sad.

It's nap time! I'm hella tired, laters!

fraking google!

they've totally google-ized writely.com aka made it UGLY! My inspiration, the little I have, can't flow there! I'm moving ALL my documents to ZohoWriter. Ugh! Just nasty! Now I gotta copy and paste ALL my stuff. ZW better not sell out to google too.