2 words: deep dish

holidays? smolidays! not really in christmas spirit, but i'm very happy as i've been (actually) relaxing these past few days!

however now i'm a bit irritable b/c after seeing adam richman do a challenge in chicago & watching the ever so luscious deep dish pizza i wanted some...with anchovies & extra cheese. But curses, my plans to attain this tasty treat have failed!

why does domino's, pizza hut & uno close sooooo early??? guess i'll just slepp it off :(

in other news just finished the super entertaining squee's wonderful big giant book of unspeakable horrors (by jhonen vasquez) per smoe's insistence...onto second book now: american lion. next must read outliers per smoe's folks christmas gift for us...

duuuuuuuuck!....flying shoes at bush

wow! just saw the tape of an iraqi tv reporter throwing his shoes (size 10) at bush during a farewell news conference! the outgoing pres has pretty good reflexes, but why didn't he just duck when he saw the man stand up w/ something in his hand?? what about after the 1st shoe was thrown and the guy went for his other one??

he screams "this is a farewell kiss you dawg" before throwing the pair... why shoes? b/c apparently the sole of the shoe is considered an insult in arab culture.

please note pm al maliki offers his right hand to block the 2nd shoe...a brave brave man! :)

the video: when the shoes hit the fan

song o the day: still will (50 feat akon) ... heard this song over the weekend & its in my head now.

go red knight!!!!

medieval times was amaaaaaazing last nite. me likey the blue knight. though we sat in the red knight section (aka. dolly parton's "jolene") and he lost, it was still worth a visit.... UNLESS you don't eat meat! the vegetarian menu is garbage, so i recommend you eat before.

before dinner we went to warner theater to see the nutcracker. i'm no ballet aficionado but the performance was ok... probably bc it was put on by young adults. but the little kids were adorable.

ended the nite by surprising smoe with a pre-birthday get together with his friends at a very unlikely place (hee hee)...

just mistakenly found this video featuring clipart & its very amusing. reminds me of the days my brother & i used to make flip books: check it out here (only a minute)

lastly, very pleased with myself for doing well in the jingle all the way 10k, it started off very rough, but had a strong finish. plus, there were a lot of fun folks, elves & santas out this am to help me keep my mind off of the cold.

song o the day: jolene (dolly) ... think her slow soulful songs are better than her faster-folksy ones. another good version of this song is (surprisingly) by the white stripes

i'm baaaaaaaaaack...

it's been a long time, shouldnt've left you...

so i'm finally back on track & back to blogging about randomness. life's been good: working very hard, just got back from ft lauderdale (glad to have a job after the staggering unemployment rates); smoe is still dating me (poor boy doesn't know what he's in for); friends & fam bam are all well.

excited b/c i have a busy day before me: going to see the nutcracker at the warner theater, then off to medieval times (vegetarian menu for me, no huge turkey legs)

song o the day: it's been a long time (rakim)... a great song. my eldest brother would be proud of this pick.

let the games begin, oh, i mean festivities!

let the games begin... ok more like festivities begin for eden. not crazy about the name, but i've never been on homecoming committee so can't talk; i'm mad the video on the homecoming site is so serious!!!!

we went to mccxxiii (1223) for the fashion show after party last nite... met my friends in the super long line (apparently they were there for almost an hour), went in & realized there were more folks in line than in the actual place (hate when places do that so it can look like it's the place to be)... everyone was on the 3rd floor & ended up running into some folks i knew. coolest part is that i knew the dj (he was my year at hu). it's cool to see someone doing well & achieving their dream...

next stop on the partay train is loooooooooooooooooooooooooove!!!!!!!!!!! (can you hear the faint "chu chu" in the distance)? ha, i crack myself up!

election coverage-
don't really feel like talking about last debate b/c everyone's torn it apart & the subject feels a bit hackneyed now... plus though it's my blog i like staying neutral on most topics.

with this said, i burst out laughing when smoe said it looks like obama's been, smoking everything under the sun b/c of the color of his lips. i loved mccain's antics (body language, smirk, sly remarks)... i'm sure this was 1 of the most popular pics on the web yesterday & me likey so i had to include it:


and now it's time for his close up (classic)







was sent the following video this am & it's amazing that some people believe barack is an arab & did being arab become a kiss of death after sept 11, or has it always been like that?? i personally like arabs. i was telling someone every other time some news channel is reporting on a bomb or suicide attack & there's a group of mugshots i often think 1 of the guys is cute... think whoever i was talking to called me "sick" or agreed, cant remember :)

in other news-
also, as bbc is 1 of my 5 homepages that pops up when i get on the internet, i saw a super interesting story. it was all about peter norman. he's the other guy that was on the olympics award podium when tommie smith and john carlos threw up the black power fist... (b/c bbc is amazing) in addition to having eye opening stories such as that, they also have really essential news such as "the leggy blonde" being pregnant w/ a calf turns out it not about a hot chic & bestiality, but the 1st asian pachyderm (hence leggy) to be artificially inseminated (hence preggers); it also has tufts of blonde hair (hence blonde)!

new word-
learned it after eading the comments section on the peter norman storyquotes
(n.) chuff- A rude, insensitive person; a boor; (adj.) chuffed- very pleased; "I'm chuffed to have won"

learned a new word yesterday too: septuagenarian (a person who is 70 years old or between the ages of 70 & 80)... yeaa for learning! too bad i feel like my spelling is getting worse b/c there are systems to finish my texts & spell check & abbreviations, o well...

songs o the day:

i can't go for that (no can do) & maneater (both hall & oates)...so soulful. they always look like they have so much fun, plus no matter your musical tastes you can't fake on Daryl Hall (the blonde, who's aged quite well) & John Oates (dark hair & porn mustache)!! 1 of my fav duos ever

the b-e-s-t!

so smoe (aka bun; aka toilet seat face, aka babe ruth; aka babu, aka mf moe dean!, etc) is the b-e-s-t, best!!!

why you ask?? b/c on our way to metro this am he saw an ant. (big whoop, right?) but b/c he loves ants he was super excited & like "oh, this is a queen ant"..."wow, she's tearing off her wings b/c she's about to make a nest"! so we eventually get to metro & he sets her free so she can plant all her babies next to a tree :) the best right??...

ok, after rereading the above text, re-realized i'm a dork so maybe other women wouldn't find that as amazing as i do?!... guess that's a good thing though bc it means he's mine, all mine (hee hee hee)! wish i could give him the same assurance, but some guys are so disrespectful. almost every time we're out there's some guy who blatantly ignores him & tries to talk to me or asks who he is :(

in other news yesterday while tweeting (fav thing in the world) i came across a group called waffles & falafels... after checking out their book of face page further solidified that i like this apparel company!! between the bright colors, musical references, trashy meets punk meets kiddie designs, me likey. put on my to do list buy a "waffle girls don't die shirt"...

song o the day:

my boyfriend's back (angels)... for some reason that song reminds me of the monster mash (bobby 'boris' pickett & the cryptkickers)

equatorial guinea!!!!!!

why was i up at 5am?? why am i up at 5am blogging?? i actually woke up b/c i had a burst of energy, so figured i'd do work (i.e. looking up community org ncbw can work w/... as i'm part of a 3-woman team who's trying to re energize the membership & our chapter of the organization). but clearly i'm using the time to blog...

so yesterday evening went to a reception honoring the independence of equatorial guinea from spain (oct 12, 1968). a friend of mine who works in the embassy invited me, & i'm glad he did! had the chance to bashfully say "hi, nice to meet" to ambassador (Purification Angue Ondo)... per my friend's translations she asked me if i spoke spanish & if i ate meat. the latter question caught me off guard, but my friend & i agreed she wasn't callin me fat, just asking if i ate meat b/c she actually cooked all of the food that was being served at the reception! what ambassador does that?? what a woman!

i also saw the ambassador of angola (Josefina Pitra Diakité)... didn't say hi, but from what i could tell she was very happy & her hair was dope! it was like twisted & pinned up in an intricate way...

i did, however, speak with the ambassador of equatorial guinea's massage therapist!!! apparently he's kind of a big deal & has high calibre clients (i.e. 1 day some lawyer ) he's from Côte d'Ivoire & was telling me about his experience going back to his country after a decade & seeing how much it's changed (not necessarily for the good)... after talking to him for a bit longer he offered me a free/trial body massage- score! i looooooooooooooooooove getting massages so should be great! (when i told smoe about my latest & greatest appointment he made a face)...

lastly, so my throat has been sketchy all week, but after tasting the homemade ginger beer (literally homemade like in recycles water bottles) it burned so much that my throat felt all better!

we were on a rooftop on constitution ave on a very clear, still nite & had an gorgeous view of downtown dc, took a (touristy) pic w/ the capital in the backdrop. me & this lady from the state department were talking about how we had to wait until the crowd dwindled b/c it's just distasteful to take such a pics on the roof!

in conclusion i've always had an affinity for the middle east, but the past year or 2 i've been checkin out the lovely countries of the motherland... especially uganda & ghana (only b/c my roomies' people are from there)...

song o the day
home is where the hatred is (gil scott heron)... this song is so great, he's great & i feel like this has been a song o the day before. oh, well