So the lovely Nywele tagged me again, for six random quirky facts about myself!
1. I'm a chocolate whore. I've been known to drag my fiance to Teuscher which is wayyy in the city, buy $20 of truffles for us both, which we immediately devoured upon receiving, and then convinced him to walk back to the shop to get ANOTHER $20 worth of truffles, which we ate a tad more slowly then lol.
2. I write. No one sees it, but I do.
3. I loooooooove house music!!!
4. I live in Queens and hear owls. Don't let them tell you that owls don't reside in Queens, I beg to differ.
5. I'm a sucker for 80's movies. If Molly Ringwald is in it, most likely I have it.
6. Sometimes the most fun I have is doing nothing at all.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Ode to the Cosi salads....
Okay, so when my friend Lesley told me about Cosi, where she would buy freaking $9.00 SALADS, I thought she was MAD!!!! Until I went on the website and saw the edible love of my life, the wild alaskan salmon salad. That was enough for me to grab my fiance and drive out to west bubble gum, over the hills and through the mountains on great neck road to find our cosi.
After debating on us buying one salad nicoise and the wild alaskan one, (we would split it to see which we liked).....OMG!!!!!!!!!! The flavors! The medley! The presentation! THE WHEAT FLATBREAD!!!!! The mojito lemonade was good too but that salad!! We went Saturday and it's Monday morning and I'm already plotting on how to go back to cosi.
Go get yours. getcosi.com
After debating on us buying one salad nicoise and the wild alaskan one, (we would split it to see which we liked).....OMG!!!!!!!!!! The flavors! The medley! The presentation! THE WHEAT FLATBREAD!!!!! The mojito lemonade was good too but that salad!! We went Saturday and it's Monday morning and I'm already plotting on how to go back to cosi.
Go get yours. getcosi.com
Friday, April 18, 2008
A tag game!!
Nywele tagged me!
Things I'm passionate about:
God
Doing the right thing
Returning something that someone lent to you, in the same condition!
Being true to your word
Not borrowing money that I can't pay back
Things I'd like to do before I die:
Travel immensely
Owe no debt
Have my own house...and a vacation house wouldn't hurt
Things I say often:
"JU DUPID!!!!!"
"My tummy hurts."
Books I've read recently:
Queens Noir, forgot the author.
The Shadow of the Black Panther
Songs I could listen to over and over:
OMG loaded question,
"Fallen" by Mya
"Falling" by Gaelle (haha I just noticed both of the songs have almost the same title!)
"Still a dancer" by Kemdi
"The cure and the cause" by Fish Go Deep
ANYTHING by Osunlade
Traits I'm attracted to in my friends:
Loyalty
Honesty
Ride or die chicks!!!!
Humor, I can't stand people who are too serious
Intelligence, I don't want no dumb broads hanging around me
Class, spelled with a C, not a K
Things I'm passionate about:
God
Doing the right thing
Returning something that someone lent to you, in the same condition!
Being true to your word
Not borrowing money that I can't pay back
Things I'd like to do before I die:
Travel immensely
Owe no debt
Have my own house...and a vacation house wouldn't hurt
Things I say often:
"JU DUPID!!!!!"
"My tummy hurts."
Books I've read recently:
Queens Noir, forgot the author.
The Shadow of the Black Panther
Songs I could listen to over and over:
OMG loaded question,
"Fallen" by Mya
"Falling" by Gaelle (haha I just noticed both of the songs have almost the same title!)
"Still a dancer" by Kemdi
"The cure and the cause" by Fish Go Deep
ANYTHING by Osunlade
Traits I'm attracted to in my friends:
Loyalty
Honesty
Ride or die chicks!!!!
Humor, I can't stand people who are too serious
Intelligence, I don't want no dumb broads hanging around me
Class, spelled with a C, not a K
Monday, March 31, 2008
Signs that you might be a PJ (product junkie for the newbies)
Dammit, I know I'm not the only one. Here are just a few signs:
You have no fewer than 2 boxes at a time littering your room from stuff you've ordered online or from a swap/sell on a hair site.
You've ever swapped or bought hair goodies from another nappy and it came in a box where you can still see the qhemet/oyin/naturally curly label.
You send stuff to other nappies in boxes that you've received from qhemet/oyin/naturally curly.
You just CAN'T resist the sale (insert name here) is having although you already have 3 of their (insert product here)
You clear out a space on your shoe rack that your fiance built for you for SHOES. And it's stacked precariously with hair stuff, and heaven forbid anyone else but you touches it, everything will come tumbling down like humpty dumpty.
Payday isn't here yet, and you start rationalizing about what you can hold off paying for so you can get that "hit" of oyin/qhemet/karen's.
You've ever had packages delivered to your job so mom/spouse doesn't get it at home and go "MORE HAIR STUFF?!?!"
You beg a friend to bring your Anita Grant with her when she leaves London to come to NY. Because you don't have to pay extra shipping charges, you use the money you would have spent to get more goodies.
You sign up to almost every hair board you can think of to read product reviews from others.
You don't like to throw away empty containers once you've finished something, even though you have two more full containers of product stashed somewhere.
You stalk/add contents to your cart and save for future purchases/ on websites even though you know good and well you aren't planning on ordering anything anytime soon cause well, you have a ton of their stuff in your house already.
Someone can blindfold you, spin you around, push you south and push an open container of product under your nose and you can catch a whiff and know what you are smelling in 5 seconds or less.
The owners of the products are beginning to know you by name.
You threaten anyone who tries to borrow/steal from your hair stash.
You try to show your fiance a picture of your hair in your fotki, and he cruises over to the hair portion that you've been hiding from him and he sees it, let's out a string of words you can't repeat, keeps saying "OMG!!!!" over and over again, and threatens to sue for loss of income lolol. True story!!!!
Certain nappies on nappturality AND fotki talk about you, and call you a "pusher" (Yes, Afroknots, Redecouverte, Mikosbelle, Micheli07 and Jas.1984 I'M TALKING ABOUT YALL!!!!)
Added 4/4/08 ~ IF YOU FELL FOR THE BEST EVER APRIL FOOLS DAY JOKE, BROUGHT TO YOU BY NONE OTHER THAN THE EMPRESSRI!!!!
http://www.nappturality.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=115982&st=0
You have no fewer than 2 boxes at a time littering your room from stuff you've ordered online or from a swap/sell on a hair site.
You've ever swapped or bought hair goodies from another nappy and it came in a box where you can still see the qhemet/oyin/naturally curly label.
You send stuff to other nappies in boxes that you've received from qhemet/oyin/naturally curly.
You just CAN'T resist the sale (insert name here) is having although you already have 3 of their (insert product here)
You clear out a space on your shoe rack that your fiance built for you for SHOES. And it's stacked precariously with hair stuff, and heaven forbid anyone else but you touches it, everything will come tumbling down like humpty dumpty.
Payday isn't here yet, and you start rationalizing about what you can hold off paying for so you can get that "hit" of oyin/qhemet/karen's.
You've ever had packages delivered to your job so mom/spouse doesn't get it at home and go "MORE HAIR STUFF?!?!"
You beg a friend to bring your Anita Grant with her when she leaves London to come to NY. Because you don't have to pay extra shipping charges, you use the money you would have spent to get more goodies.
You sign up to almost every hair board you can think of to read product reviews from others.
You don't like to throw away empty containers once you've finished something, even though you have two more full containers of product stashed somewhere.
You stalk/add contents to your cart and save for future purchases/ on websites even though you know good and well you aren't planning on ordering anything anytime soon cause well, you have a ton of their stuff in your house already.
Someone can blindfold you, spin you around, push you south and push an open container of product under your nose and you can catch a whiff and know what you are smelling in 5 seconds or less.
The owners of the products are beginning to know you by name.
You threaten anyone who tries to borrow/steal from your hair stash.
You try to show your fiance a picture of your hair in your fotki, and he cruises over to the hair portion that you've been hiding from him and he sees it, let's out a string of words you can't repeat, keeps saying "OMG!!!!" over and over again, and threatens to sue for loss of income lolol. True story!!!!
Certain nappies on nappturality AND fotki talk about you, and call you a "pusher" (Yes, Afroknots, Redecouverte, Mikosbelle, Micheli07 and Jas.1984 I'M TALKING ABOUT YALL!!!!)
Added 4/4/08 ~ IF YOU FELL FOR THE BEST EVER APRIL FOOLS DAY JOKE, BROUGHT TO YOU BY NONE OTHER THAN THE EMPRESSRI!!!!
http://www.nappturality.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=115982&st=0
Monday, March 24, 2008
What the hell????
So in lieu of a sinus infection, flu, cold WHATEVER the hell I have (I blame a certain person who shall remain nameless. That is the last f**king time I play janitor, cause last time I checked that wasn't in my job description) I didn't go to work today. However, I did have to go to Whole Foods.
Now onto that. Dammit, why is it whenever I start liking something, time for me to stock up I can't find it again?!?! They had every other variety of the zbar that you could hope for but the damn one that I wanted. I'm telling you, it's a conspiracy, I don't care what anyone says. So anywho, after my fiance and I went to the one way out in East Bubblef**k, only to find out they didn't have my energy bars, we trekked to the other Whole Foods in Southeast Bubblef**k....ONLY to find out that they were out of stock as well!!!!!!! It's like the whole damn world is laughing at me. My attempt to stay healthy and quit eating junk food and this is what happens.
But that is not the point of this blog. As my fiance gets out of the car, he calls me over and says, "You gotta be kidding me. Whole Foods is going to hell!!"
Chile, I went over to the other side of the car and saw not one but TWO used pregnancy test on the ground!!! Think the user was anxious much? And you know my sick self had to kick it over to see whether it was positive or negative. They were negative, and I couldn't help but laughing thinking of the woman as she scrambled to pee on the sticks in her car, anxiously waiting to see how the events of her life were going to be turned around. I could SEE the look on her face..."THANK GOD!!!!!!!" lolol!!!
Don't believe me??
Test #1:
Test #2:
Now I've seen many used things on the ground in my life, pacifiers, condoms (ick!) but two pregnancy tests? Oh the humor. All I know is, I'm not going back to that Whole Foods.
Unless they get my damn zbars. It's worth stepping over 5 of them joints just to get those bars.
Now onto that. Dammit, why is it whenever I start liking something, time for me to stock up I can't find it again?!?! They had every other variety of the zbar that you could hope for but the damn one that I wanted. I'm telling you, it's a conspiracy, I don't care what anyone says. So anywho, after my fiance and I went to the one way out in East Bubblef**k, only to find out they didn't have my energy bars, we trekked to the other Whole Foods in Southeast Bubblef**k....ONLY to find out that they were out of stock as well!!!!!!! It's like the whole damn world is laughing at me. My attempt to stay healthy and quit eating junk food and this is what happens.
But that is not the point of this blog. As my fiance gets out of the car, he calls me over and says, "You gotta be kidding me. Whole Foods is going to hell!!"
Chile, I went over to the other side of the car and saw not one but TWO used pregnancy test on the ground!!! Think the user was anxious much? And you know my sick self had to kick it over to see whether it was positive or negative. They were negative, and I couldn't help but laughing thinking of the woman as she scrambled to pee on the sticks in her car, anxiously waiting to see how the events of her life were going to be turned around. I could SEE the look on her face..."THANK GOD!!!!!!!" lolol!!!
Don't believe me??
Test #1:
Test #2:
Now I've seen many used things on the ground in my life, pacifiers, condoms (ick!) but two pregnancy tests? Oh the humor. All I know is, I'm not going back to that Whole Foods.
Unless they get my damn zbars. It's worth stepping over 5 of them joints just to get those bars.
Monday, March 17, 2008
I'm a lean, mean, jewelry making machine...
So after seeing this piece by poet and crafter Amun Miraaj, I was obsessed with wire wrapped jewelry. But when I found out how much his pieces cost, I was like &*%&#%%^ I can make my own!!!!!
So after months of searching for the right gauges of copper wire, and THEN some stones to use...well, I got the wire, my cabochons took FOREVERRRRRR to come, so I ended up making myself a pretty nice necklace if I do say so myself.
But finally, my turquoise came in the mail today and as I was chatting on the phone with a dear friend in London, don't ask me what possessed me to start fiddling around with it. Half an hour later, the Virgo half of me (thank you Poppa!!!) persisted and I had to keep going.
GOTDAMN!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder ole boy was charging so much for his pieces! The material isn't terribly expensive, unless you want some rare precious stone from the depths of Kilimanjaro, but this is torture on the hands! My fingers are a tad blistered from wrapping and pulling and poking and prodding that damn copper wire.
Here's what I have so far:
]
Well actually, I lied. It's a bit more gone than that, but like I said, it's going to have to wait.
All I know is, the cuff part will have to wait until my fingers feel better dammit.
So after months of searching for the right gauges of copper wire, and THEN some stones to use...well, I got the wire, my cabochons took FOREVERRRRRR to come, so I ended up making myself a pretty nice necklace if I do say so myself.
But finally, my turquoise came in the mail today and as I was chatting on the phone with a dear friend in London, don't ask me what possessed me to start fiddling around with it. Half an hour later, the Virgo half of me (thank you Poppa!!!) persisted and I had to keep going.
GOTDAMN!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder ole boy was charging so much for his pieces! The material isn't terribly expensive, unless you want some rare precious stone from the depths of Kilimanjaro, but this is torture on the hands! My fingers are a tad blistered from wrapping and pulling and poking and prodding that damn copper wire.
Here's what I have so far:
]Well actually, I lied. It's a bit more gone than that, but like I said, it's going to have to wait.
All I know is, the cuff part will have to wait until my fingers feel better dammit.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Master Cleanse ~ Day 7!!
Okay, so I made it throughout the weekend. My honey was talking about getting chicken wings for the fam while we watched the Super Bowl, but between the dot and not eating, if I so much as saw someone gnawing on a chicken wing around me....well needless to say chicken wings were not had last night.
This was the first time I've looked forward to a Monday. Because I have ten million other things to do at work I'm not thinking about the fact that I can't eat. So it definitely makes things easier. (I'm also waiting on my Blended Beauty package from Sista's Place and my goodies from Oyin Handmade, which should all ship out this week so that was another thing to look forward to.)
But yesterday was cool, because before watching the game (HAHAHAH WE WON GO GIANTS GO GIANTS!!!) my honey's daughter and I played the Wii. Ahhh, tennis, bowling and boxing, all of which I swore up and down I sucked at, but lo and behold, I did manage to win each game a few times. And of course my arms are paying dearly for it today. But it was fun! Makes me want to run out and exercise, can't wait till it gets warm. I'M GETTING A BIKE!! I don't care, this payday we're going out to find me a bike.
Oh yes, I'm digressing. Here are some tips for the Master Cleanse that Stanley Burroughs does *not* tell you about!
1. Lime juice tastes better than the lemon juice.
2. Because you are not eating, you may have the urge to gulp your lemonade/limeade. DON'T!!! I chugged some this morning, and between an empty stomach and the cayenne pepper, I didn't know whether to sh*t or go blind. It wasn't very pleasant to say the least, so don't do that. EVER.
3. Senna tea can takes HOURS to work. Brew that badboy soon as you get home, steep it for awhile and then take it. Don't drink it right before you go to bed or you will be mad the next morning.
4. If you eat candy while doing this fast, you are setting yourself up for some major pain. Ask me how I know.
Until then kiddies....I guess I'll start doing some hair stuff on here, reviews and whatnot. It's about time I do.
~EmpressRi~
This was the first time I've looked forward to a Monday. Because I have ten million other things to do at work I'm not thinking about the fact that I can't eat. So it definitely makes things easier. (I'm also waiting on my Blended Beauty package from Sista's Place and my goodies from Oyin Handmade, which should all ship out this week so that was another thing to look forward to.)
But yesterday was cool, because before watching the game (HAHAHAH WE WON GO GIANTS GO GIANTS!!!) my honey's daughter and I played the Wii. Ahhh, tennis, bowling and boxing, all of which I swore up and down I sucked at, but lo and behold, I did manage to win each game a few times. And of course my arms are paying dearly for it today. But it was fun! Makes me want to run out and exercise, can't wait till it gets warm. I'M GETTING A BIKE!! I don't care, this payday we're going out to find me a bike.
Oh yes, I'm digressing. Here are some tips for the Master Cleanse that Stanley Burroughs does *not* tell you about!
1. Lime juice tastes better than the lemon juice.
2. Because you are not eating, you may have the urge to gulp your lemonade/limeade. DON'T!!! I chugged some this morning, and between an empty stomach and the cayenne pepper, I didn't know whether to sh*t or go blind. It wasn't very pleasant to say the least, so don't do that. EVER.
3. Senna tea can takes HOURS to work. Brew that badboy soon as you get home, steep it for awhile and then take it. Don't drink it right before you go to bed or you will be mad the next morning.
4. If you eat candy while doing this fast, you are setting yourself up for some major pain. Ask me how I know.
Until then kiddies....I guess I'll start doing some hair stuff on here, reviews and whatnot. It's about time I do.
~EmpressRi~
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