Randoms - week of Oct 3

[andwhat]

Oct 5, 2016 8:11:06 GMT -5 @natariru said:

H & I had an argument this morning bc of the stress of getting the house ready to sell. We don't really argue so it sucked.

I'm sorry. This has been the most stressful time for us with the move. It definitely sucks and we are still in the thick of it. I hope your arguments are few and far between.

[sfy]

Oct 5, 2016 9:14:50 GMT -5 1234FIF! said:

And finally, I saw this in one of the exhibits and was like wtf?! Why she here Ike? WHY SHE HERE? 

Oh, dear.  This is very unfortunate.  I'm actually appalled.  And saddened.

I hope tomorrow is filled with only good memories and comfort for you.

Oct 5, 2016 0:51:02 GMT -5 redwino said:

I have torn up my car and half of my house looking for 1 of dd's shoes. A shoe and sock have completely disappeared. She's only 18 months so it's my fault for losing them since I know she takes them off in the car. I'm pissed because we just bought them Saturday. She wore them once. Where the hell can that shoe be?

Is it possible she kicked it off outside somewhere?  I know on multiple occasions I've noticed a random baby shoe on the ground somewhere and I'm not even very observant.Save

[thejackpot]

1234FIF!, hugs lady! Glad you got to cry it out and you had support. So many feelings
NeNe should not be there. I can't stand her. They could have used Kenya and her twirl or something.
@natariru, Sucks to be fighting. Hope you guys have a stress free selling/buying experience from here on out.
kicks sounds like a crazy dream for sure. Hope you and bf reconnect soon.

[sfy]

Oct 5, 2016 9:32:21 GMT -5 thejackpot said:

1234FIF! , hugs lady! Glad you got to cry it out and you had support. So many feelings
NeNe should not be there. I can't stand her. They could have used Kenya and her twirl or something.
@natariru , Sucks to be fighting. Hope you guys have a stress free selling/buying experience from here on out.
kicks sounds like a crazy dream for sure. Hope you and bf reconnect soon.

None of them should be there, imo.  Hey, I enjoy RH as much as anyone, but I recognize that it's foolishness, and hope that these antics are just a blip on the screen.  There is no need to memorialize their utter fuckery.  I guess it could be analogous to blaxpoitation films, but I think ultimately, those did serve a purpose.  These shows have no purpose in terms of generally advancing black people, black media or black images in the media (unless maybe your name is Carlos King or Mona Scott).  Maybe in a historical context, I would see it differently, but even if that's true, I wish they would have waited it out.  It just doesn't sit well with me at all.
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[thejackpot]

sfy I get what you are saying. Trust me I don't want any of the foolishness there at all. But NeNe is the absolute worst and she probably is strutting like a hen and promoting that she is in there. Kenya was at least Miss USA or Universe Or Miss Detroit 😜😭

[itsme]

Oct 5, 2016 10:48:23 GMT -5 thejackpot said:

sfy I get what you are saying. Trust me I don't want any of the foolishness there at all. But NeNe is the absolute worst and she probably is strutting like a hen and promoting that she is in there. Kenya was at least Miss USA or Universe Or Miss Detroit 😜😭

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[andwhat]

Hugs 1234FIF!

Umm, why would a white person feel like they weren't welcome there. That is foolishness.

Including Reality TV? What? I will be lost in that section.

[iammalcolmx]

So I emailed something to a notoriously lazy person at my job a month ago, no reply. I followed up earlier this week, no reply. I forwarded it to his boss, his boss didn't reply. THEN LAST NIGHT the boss has the nerve to email me some urgent request saying he needs a reply first thing this morning, something about my reply being important and then not being able to move forward without it. Imma sit back and let you guys imagine how I replied.

[iammalcolmx]

Oct 5, 2016 10:57:35 GMT -5 andwhat said:

Hugs 1234FIF!

Umm, why would a white person feel like they weren't welcome there. That is foolishness.

Including Reality TV? What? I will be lost in that section.

They are simple and let them stay away. I don't want to wait in line behind them.

[raangoli]

Oct 4, 2016 20:58:49 GMT -5 sfy said:

raangoli! I wasn't going to bother you with this because I thought you might not be on, but since I saw you in notifications--do you know Mindy is back today? People didn't seem too excited about the episode, *sigh*. I'm going to hope for the best and watch later.

I'm around! Barely but I'm here

I did see that it's back but I have my Hulu subscription suspended to be MM. I haven't read any spoilers but I'm sad that people don't seem excited. I'm not sure people seemed to like where things went last season so I'm not too surprised by this reaction I guess.

[andwhat]

Oct 5, 2016 19:14:02 GMT -5 raangoli said:

Oct 4, 2016 20:58:49 GMT -5 sfy said:

raangoli ! I wasn't going to bother you with this because I thought you might not be on, but since I saw you in notifications--do you know Mindy is back today? People didn't seem too excited about the episode, *sigh*. I'm going to hope for the best and watch later.

I'm around! Barely but I'm here

I did see that it's back but I have my Hulu subscription suspended to be MM. I haven't read any spoilers but I'm sad that people don't seem excited. I'm not sure people seemed to like where things went last season so I'm not too surprised by this reaction I guess.

sfy I watched it last night and I liked it. I don't want to put any spoilers, but I think people have a strong idea who they want Mindy to be with and I don't think the show is going to go in the direction they want.

[sfy]

andwhat, that was a total spoiler lol ! But that's what I figured based on the picture she put on IG. And that sounds like what raangoli was thinking also. Oh, Mindy. I still haven't watched, I think I'll watch at lunchtime. DH and I are behind on our regular shows, so he's been sucking up my nights with getting caught up and he stopped watching Mindy x-(.

[raangoli]

andwhat, sfy, I had a feeling they would go in that direction. And while that makes me sad, it's realistic. Life does not happen the way we all so badly want it to, right? That's why I like the show so much, it's honest.

[sfy]

Oct 6, 2016 11:02:55 GMT -5 raangoli said:

andwhat , sfy , I had a feeling they would go in that direction. And while that makes me sad, it's realistic. Life does not happen the way we all so badly want it to, right? That's why I like the show so much, it's honest.

That's true.  Tbh, I'm feeling indifferent because both of them (Danny and Jody) are annoying to me as of the end of last season.  I'm finally about to go watch now.
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[andwhat]

Oct 6, 2016 11:55:38 GMT -5 sfy said:

Oct 6, 2016 11:02:55 GMT -5 raangoli said:

andwhat , sfy , I had a feeling they would go in that direction. And while that makes me sad, it's realistic. Life does not happen the way we all so badly want it to, right? That's why I like the show so much, it's honest.

That's true.  Tbh, I'm feeling indifferent because both of them (Danny and Jody) are annoying to me as of the end of last season.  I'm finally about to go watch now.
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I don't like Jody. Not for Mindy, not period. I really liked Danny, but his ideas of the role of a mother gross me out. I love how the show is so honest.

[raangoli]

Oct 6, 2016 12:17:59 GMT -5 andwhat said:

Oct 6, 2016 11:55:38 GMT -5 sfy said:

That's true.  Tbh, I'm feeling indifferent because both of them (Danny and Jody) are annoying to me as of the end of last season.  I'm finally about to go watch now.
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I don't like Jody. Not for Mindy, not period. I really liked Danny, but his ideas of the role of a mother gross me out. I love how the show is so honest.

I felt really gross about the whole Jody bought Mindy the apartment above hers thing at the end of last season. She does not need a man to come in and save her and that's how it came across to me.

[raangoli]

Another random: I found this musician that plays the tabla over popular songs and I am in love. 

www.facebook.com/ShobhitBanwaitMusic/videos

[sfy]

andwhat, I owe you an apology--that was not a spoiler lol! I really liked this episode!

[skwcm80]

During my last run before I leave for Chicago, I tripped and banged my knee on the concrete. It happened yesterday and my knee is pretty swollen, but I'm hopeful that it is better by Sunday. It has to hold up for 26.2 miles.

[kicks]

Oct 6, 2016 17:15:47 GMT -5 skwcm80 said:

During my last run before I leave for Chicago, I tripped and banged my knee on the concrete. It happened yesterday and my knee is pretty swollen, but I'm hopeful that it is better by Sunday. It has to hold up for 26.2 miles.

Oh no, I'm sorry. That sucks. I'm such a klutz and that's something I'd do. I rarely ever take an over the counter meds, but it might help if you take something before the race to help with the swelling. Good luck on the race!

[skwcm80]

kicks thanks! I've been icing and taking ibuprofen since it happened. it feels better today than I thought it would so hopefully I didn't hit the ground as hard as I thought I did.

[thejackpot]

skwcm80 I hope you feel better really soon! I have a friend who is doing Chicago this weekend. Hope you have great weather and an awesome race.

[LLL]

Oct 5, 2016 9:14:50 GMT -5 1234FIF! said:

As I was going through the NMAAHC on Sunday I cried because my mama will never see it. It was so random and in an exhibit about riots and I don't know why that all of a sudden hit me like that. I think it was the combo of her birthday coming (it's tomorrow) and knowing this is something I would have gotten tickets to so I could take her for her birthday along with the impact of the exhibit and stuff just bubbled up. My regular date hugged me, rubbed my back and let me cry. Then I got it together cause it ain't cute crying in the museum corner LOL. 

ANYWAY. I need to go back. We started upstairs because it was so crowded and loud and the lines were long on the lower floors. There was even a line for the gift store. We got through the top three but will have to go back for the bottom three. 

We talked about this as we left, though. I felt like the stuff I saw on the top floors (the culture floors) was just, my history in a museum. I liked seeing it, but I didn't learn anything, exactly. And of course the museum was bursting at the seams with all the black people in it. But, where were the white people? Because, based on our conversations over the years, there is so much that "they" don't know about "us." Someone on a local mommy board here* said they felt like they weren't welcome there. You aren't welcome at a Smithsonian museum on the National Mall? OK, whatever bish. *eyeroll*

And finally, I saw this in one of the exhibits and was like wtf?! Why she here Ike? WHY SHE HERE? 




ETA: *I meant here in DC not here on GBCN

((hugs))

[LLL]

I'm almost finished with Luuvie's book as well. Hopefully I'll have time to finish this weekend. 
Dd (turning 4 at the end of this month) is a proud member of the Bey-hive. Every song on the radio "is this Beyonce?" she frequently runs around the house singing 'run the world, girls!!' Her favorite response to H or her brother when they say something she doesn't like? "TELL 'EM BOY BYE!" it's a little rude but mostly very cute My baby beyonce:

[LLL]

shit, sorry it's so huge.

[sfy]

She is a living doll, LLL!!

I think my hibernation period has already started and it's not even cold yet. I feel like I ran wild most of the summer and now I'm about to take it all the way down. I made my first soup of the fall last night. Let's do this.

That reminds me, my friend asked me to give her some advice on an application she put together to serve as president of yet another organization. It included all of her professional, civic, social, and volunteer experience and/or activities. I was reading it torn between, "Goodness gracious, my girl is bad!" and "What exactly in the hell do I do all day?"

[LLL]

sfy, have you stopped shaving your legs yet? that's usually my hibernation season barometer, haha

[sfy]

Oct 7, 2016 13:43:12 GMT -5 LLL said:

sfy , have you stopped shaving your legs yet? that's usually my hibernation season barometer, haha

True...no, not yet.  Just give me time lol.
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[orangeblossom]

skwcm80 Bummer on the knee. Hope it's better by Sunday. Do some RICE. Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation.

1234FIF! Hugs. I have had those moments before, though they are fewer and fewer these days.

[itsme]

Aww crap skwcm80! I hope it's good on race day. During my whole run yesterday I kept imagining I was going to trip and eat it. I was trying to get myself ready for possibly having to walk part of my race if that ended up happening. The things you think about while running!!!