tax, smax & mr president's picks

3rd times the charm! apparently nancy killefer, obama's pick for chief performance officer for the federal gov, has tax issues as well...

she failed for a year & a half to pay employment taxes on household help. an ap article goes on to say "in 2005 the DC government had filed a $946.69 tax lien on her home for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help"! funny b/c yesterday i changed my book of face (facebook to the rest) status to say how funny i thought the quote from senior republican was: "Listen, no wonder that Democrats don't mind raising people's taxes, b/c they don't end up paying them themselves."

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song o the day: what i would tell obama's background checkin team- relax max (dinah washington) & take your time, no skimming embarrassing details... this song is totally awesome! 1st heard it on a doubletree commercial & i couldn't rest until i figured out who it was. then it just so happened there was a documentary on bbc about her i found a few months lata.

history channel makes me happy

so i always plan to sleep in on weekends but never do. woke up early, talked to comcast folks and added showtime & starz... again, don't watch tv like that but it's a promo so was actually cheaper than merely having hbo...

after waking up to a debate on the debate last nite decided, for my sanity, to take a break from watching election '08 coverage on cnn, msnbc, fox news etc. so instead of cartoons turned to one of my other favs, history & discovery channels.

on history channel there was a special about the presidents. on discovery that show "dirty jobs" was on. he was exploring the bizness of "sexing chics"... no no kids, not porn but people who separate guy from gal chics (clearly gal chics are priced higher). later on they showed the host as a horse breeder, which doesn't sound that bad until they showed how they get "the stuff" out of studs & I almost threw up the leftover pho I had for breakfast...

on the history channel they had the history of president series... missed half of part 1, saw all of part 2 now i'm about to put the 8 part series (dvd boxset) on my xmas list!! w/ my attention span the show gave me enough info (and fun facts) about each president to keep me interested!! it's def a must see, so check your local listings...

just heard someone say "from the get go", wonder where that expression originated...

songs o' the day:
paper planes (m.i.a.)
swagger like us (ti feat. kanyeezy, wayne, jayz); "learn how to dress just by checkin my fresh (repeat)", "you can pay for school, but you can't buy class" haha!

skipping my morning cup o' joe??

allow me to reintroduce myself ... ok not really, but that songs in my head b/c i was listening to jayz all am as i was working it out on the treadmill!! (yes, yes i was running at 6am as i have that 10k in 3 days... better late than never right??)

bbc world news is the best thing to watch in the am, until i discovered msnbc's morning joe! bbc news is still amazing, but morning joe (think it took imus' old spot?) had a good mix of news & "news you can't use" (random stories) to hold my attention...yes, hold my attention :)

willie is great, joe is joe (a neo-conservative?), but mika seems perturbed about something... you may remember her from the ripping up paris hilton story but it seems like for the past few weeks mika's been a bit angry... this am her & joe were going back and forth about if cbs and/or cbs news knew about mccain blowing off david letterman to do a katie couric interview the same afternoon. after working out i found their banter a bit much for the tired, happy state i was in. which brings me to the title of the blog, think i may watch the show like every other day, i can't deal w/ condescending comments so early in the am... plus i like the bbc reporter's accents better!

outside of that so far so good on this (chilly) thursday morn. after being stuck in random traffic i was rushing to metro, and was told i was "fine as all outdoors" so that's always nice... then ran into a buddy who liked my hair, but not bush or the cbc (congressional black caucus, not canadian broadcast channel for you slowskis). he said he's going to crash an event this week b/c he "doesn't respect them b/c no one's stood up against the bailout bill or even come before america to explain what the bailout would mean for everyday folks"... he's offbeat funny, an intelligent kid, just didn't realize he had a radical side... we went on to talk about motorcycles, bikes (he would never ride his bike outside of takoma park b/c he may run into someone he knows & be embarrassed), some kids he found for me to adopt, etc. the usual banter...

songs of the day:
santogold's "anne"
justice's "dance".... this song rocks!! if you have nothing else to do you should check out the video for their song stress b/c it's 35% entertaining, 65% disturbing but an all around great, creative music video (click here to see it)

A's, B's, C's!

A - army 10-miler... so i'm running the army 10-miler again this year, so i'm really excited!!! i'm so excited i haven't been training as well as i should :) i'm trying to watch my consumption though, i cut out all alcohol & minimized my sweets but i seriously should stop playing around & hit the track!

last year (i trained more) ran it w/ 1 of mi hermanos & mi papa. this year's special b/c my dad (claims) this is going to be his last 10-miler b/c his body isn't what it used to be and he needs to take it easy on his long races. the man's been running the army 10-miler since 1991 (not 2001 b/c the race was canceled)... after questioning him several times about ending his 10-miler days, he finally admitted that he's "going to see how this race goes" and "not going to make any public statements until after the race". i swear he literally said public statements, as if he's going to hold a press conference! ha!

B - board meetings... 3 times a year it's board meeting time and it never fails every time i'm always nervous pervis! thursday am we had our fall board meeting and of course i was stressing about it all week, but it went well, they're great folks, very pleasant and really appreciate the work we do. now that that's over i'll be stress free until, say, dec 10th (the next meeting)!

C - channels... ok, i'm a fan of thrifting (shopping at vintage stores & consignment boutiques), huge fan of music, but not that hot on tv. there's nothing wrong w/ watching tv, but ever since the wire went off the air nothing excites me as much...except the news (i love anything on msnbc and/or bbc world news, actually cspans great too) & cartoons (from cartoon network to nick to pbs kids, it's all good)... i say all this to say i have a satellite so clearly have over 500 channels! this is a bit much for me as i'm sure i watch the same 5 channels! comcast should offer some prorated price that's determined by your activity (i.e. if you don't use all your channels, if you never utilize on demand, rent movies you shouldn't pay the fixed amount) i know this'll never be, but can't a girl dream??

with all this said, i've discovered 2 great channels: the discovery & history channel. i think i'm going to incorporate the history channel into my saturday routine. last saturday i was watching a show about ancient wonders of the world & almost didn't get out of bed to go volunteer, when i came home i was glued to the tv learning how winged animals were evolved & early life of neanderthals! i'm actually watching it now & learning about the history of the hot dog (as a semi vegetarian i'm kinda disgusted). discovery channel is also amazing b/c they have man vs wild (i like bear's accent), how it's made & myth busters (omg they did a 2-part episode about macgyver myths & i was glued to the screen)...ok enough blogging for now, i'm off to watch tv :)