Weekend News: Random

Yeah my weekends are totally not what they use to be. I don’t even get two days off together anymore. Now how about that for weekend news? I’d rather work through my weekend than not work at all and thats what’s up.

• I checked out two more books: “The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke” by Suze Orman and “Investing from Scratch” by James Lowell.
• I ate at a chinese resturant while I was out today. And I will never eat there again. #1 I couldn’t sub the rice that turned out to be not so good for Lo Mein #2 There were no pictures  of  their food anywhere in the building or the menu’s #3 I don’t like the RUBY RED sweet and sour sauce. First thing that comes to mind is Artificial coloring and flavor..ick. Not to mention  the horrible after taste. When she sat my plate down I wanted to say “No Thank You” and bounce. #4 The fortune cookie didn’t even make any damn sense! “Wise Man is Slow in Choosing friends,slower in changing.” Yeah read it as much as you want. It won’t make sense. LOL
• I want to go to the Black History Award Gala tomorrow.The tickets are $55 I just found out about it.I hate to spend monies unplanned for. But in addition to that. I plan on going to a few events for Modernism Week. I’m super stoked…but I didn’t plan ahead which is still bad! I know I can’t do both but I can move my money around.

This is Max. He’s part Pittbull and Part Labrador and OMG his azz is BAD!

• Good Luck to the Saints for the 2010 Super Bowl! I won’t go into the “Who Dat” chant because I HATE it! I think it sounds ridiculous. So I’ll stick to Geaux Saints!
• Got damn stalker!!!!!! (looking at my blog stats)

 

Have a blessed and Safe Weekend Folks!

Sincerely,

Go

February Goals

These are my Feburary goals in the areas of mind, body, spirit, social relationships,  finances ,career, and personal belongings.

BODY

• I’m considering taking up Yoga. Only because I have a paranoia about breathing properly. I noticed that when I’m in a high stress situation I tend to subconciously hold my breath. Weird right? I think Yoga will help me with this but of course I need to do a little research.
• Join a fitness center.

MIND

• Learn at least 10 sentences in Spanish. Yeah this made  the list again because I haven’t learned any full sentences yet.
• Send my mom flowers for Valentine’s Day. I use to pick out the card and flowers for my daddy to give to my mom on special occassions like so.  Anything that keeps me mentally bonded to him I take every advantage to be a part of .

SPIRIT

• For the month of January I only visited 1 church as opposed to two. So again..visit two churches.

CAREER & HOBBIES

• Read a career book on Finance (almost done with the one on Accounting)
• Start and complete one Art Piece.  Architecture and Art has become more like a hobby until I can realistically go to school for it.

I have a few in mind. (1) The body form constructed of nails, nuts, and bolts. (2) a mirrored head form (3) a wreath made of  wine corks.

I’m also considering  asking  if I can put a little article in our  company newsletter to help me collect wine bottle corks. What do you guys think?

FINANCES

• Save $400
• Go on a very strict spending budget and track progress.  Mint.com doesn’t update me as often as I need it to. I think it will be best to just go over my statements every month and document my spending habits in a spread sheet. Unless you guys have any other suggestions.

SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

The best way to create new  relationships is to go out and meet folks right?

• I want to go see Martin Lawrence LIVE!
• I want to go see John Legend LIVE!

I know this goes against the strict budget thing..but I mean c’mon. Maybe I’ll do one or the other.

PERSONAL BELONGINGS

• Purchase two blazers (sales racks here I come)
• Purchase at least 1 new album on my iPod
• Purchase a bonnet hair dryer and roller set

Well this concludes my February goals It’s safe to assume if you see the same goals from last month.I haven’t accomplished the damn thing yet. Ihope the idea of seeing the same goal over and over will motivate me.   I hope you have set a few of your own and again thanks to “Not So Anonymous” for helping me get on the bandwagon! Love, Peace and Hair grease…I’m out!

Sincerely,

Go

The Office Part 1.

So I’ve pretty much spent an entire week in my new position and what I’ve learned is that corporate Am.er.ica is nothing but a bunch of ASS HOLES who do nothing more than waste time focusing on a bunch of pettty shyt while misusing valuable resources.

I am grateful for the oppurtunity. I really am BUT.

In the office we have grown ups that “tattle tell” is that spelled correctly? Hell I don’t know but they go over your head to tell your boss something that could have easily been addressed in like 2 min amongst themselves. In the past week, I’ve been “TOLD” on probably twice.  One was I didn’t give a 24 hr notice to maintenace for a request. Well that’s hard to do when I was just told about the request and it was needed in less than 24 hours. The other was I’m suppose to help out with another department as PART of my duties. Well the key word here is HELP. My office and position has been empty for about 2 weeks. So that means I had two weeks worth of work to get to of my own.  But despite all that. I’ve still been helping this other department.

Well about 20 min before lunch I asked the Manager of that department if they needed help with anything before I go to lunch. And the answer was, “well you have to do something for 20 minutes”.

BYTCH I have plenty of work I should be doing but I’m trying to stretch myself as much as possible to still help you with your department. Let’s not forget the department that can’t keep people because no one likes working with YOUR ASS! But I bit my tongue and did the work she asked me to do.

Well apparently that wasn’t enough because she told my boss I wasn’t helping yesterday. I don’t understand this whole concept of “getting in trouble” in the office. I go to work to do exactly that WORK. I don’t bother with all that other self prided bullshyt! Everyone in the office is concerned with “getting in trouble” for some reason or another. But like I said on twitter the other day. I don’t get in trouble but I will get in your ass in 3.2 seconds.

You want help? I’ll give your ass help. Happy Black History Month.

Sincerely,

Go

My Money: Wants vs Needs

In the Month of Love I honor Money..And Black History.

Money because ,Its not just a regular necessity for me. I really want to know how it works. I love it! I could listen to Da.ve R.am.s.e.y For hours. But anyway….

I’m going to try to hold it together with the spending. During this time I’m going to need help identifying the needs vs the wants JESUS TAKE THE DEBIT CARD (no not really).

For instance I started a full wash,tone, moisturize regimen. Damn Shame. I never got around to achieving ” the facials at home goal”.

I do it twice a day,in the morning and before bed (that didn’t sound good did it). My face feels great and looks smoother. I’ve noticed a few pimples on my upper cheek bone and I’m wondering if I could need more make up brushes? But it really could be anything… Stress, the new cleaning routine, or something in my diet.
My argument that its a Need vs. A Want:

I need new make up brushes even if that’s not the cause of the pimples. I won’t say how long I’ve had these….well screw it! Probably about a year. How often are you suppose to get new ones ?

Wow being on a real budget is just WEIRD to me! So what do you think? Is this a need or a want?

Sincerely,

Go

Book Review: “Colored Sugar Water” by Venise Berry

I finally finished this book. It had a great beginning. I was able to identify with one of the characters’ struggle in faith. I even thought the black psychic guy was interesting until “Lucy” was meeting him somewhere in like the next few paragraphs. “Kuba” one of the male interest in the novel should have been more sexy. He was too lame.

The author did good not to go into detailed filth on the intimate moments like some authors… but I expected more for the 1st intimate moment between “Kuba” and “Lucy”. Talk about a let down.

Nevertheless I got to the last two chapters and completely lost interest….Honest and True!

Sincerely,

Go

Coffee Shop Random

Those of you that follow me on twitter know how much I love my coffee time at the coffee shop. I don’t engage in political conversations I just drink my coffee peck on my computer or iPod and just think…..

Well today one of the workers asked one of the customers did you see the President last night? Both guys were white caucasion men so I was actually anxious to see where this conversation was going.  The guy said ” Yeah I saw it” but in a whatever kind of voice. He continued by saying, ” I don’t know if you’ve counted but he’s promised 100 things to us and 85 of them are still incomplete” …BLANK STARE….

Then he continues to say, ” I should get a shirt with a picture on it that says, do as I say and not what I do” …..OMG from that point I was sorry I’d even tuned in. I wish I could have asked him , “well what else would you like the President do to make you happy..other than be white”? I’m not a black power person by any means but these idiots walking around letting stuff fall out of their face for the sake of conversation just annoy the shyt outta me. How much exactly do you expect the President to carry out when people are fighting him every step of the way?  And what has Obama done wrong for him to say, ” do as I say , not as I do” in fact I think people should do exactly what President Obama did. He set out for a goal and accomplished it.   When people say stuff like this it just sounds like they don’t want a black man telling them what to do. I have a similar issue at my job but it’s not racially fueled.. at least I don’t think…

For the most part the message was that we are over the worst part of our failing economy….isn’t that good news? Ugh. Well Congratulations to everyone that has hung in here for the last few years!

Do me a favor and grade the President. I got this tweet from LK and thought it might be a good idea to  post it and if you don’t mind can you leave a comment with the grade you gave the President and why? Or even if you don’t vote just leave a grade and the reason why in the comment field.

@kingsthings What grade do you give the President? take our quick vote: http://tinyurl.com/l2t0

Okay I have expense reports to do….I’m out!

Sincerely,

Go

the little BIG promotion

Sorry I haven’t posted since Tuesday but I’ve been really busy getting into the routine of  life and work ….but in the meantime I’ve been promoted to a new position within the company. I didn’t seek the position and didn’t even know it was open but was approached by the general manager with the offer.

Of course the pay is a little better but more than anything it felt good to finally move past entry level. I have worked for a lot of companies and for the most part I always  become a Senior (insert position here) or the BEST (insert position here) in the company AT ENTRYLEVEL of course.   So it was like when I switched companies I would have to start at ENTRY LEVEL again. Ughhhh just frustrating. I don’t know how long I’ll be with this company, I would guess this is still short term. One of   the best things about my little BIG promotion is that I can update and slap this new title along with the responsibilities and duties on my resume. I can now apply for positions at the same level of my promotion and have experience to back it up.  I came to the company working 2 positions as it was and now in my transition period in the same day I can work up to 3 different positions. At this point I’m considered a very valuable employee! What a sigh of relief .I can finally say my hard work paid off. This is my first promotion within ANY company and oh my it feels good!

Welp…I’m off to buy a few good pens and a leather back notebook for my management meeting and who knows maybe I’ll grab a digital picture frame for my  new office. Love, Peace and Hair Grease fam… I’m out!

Sincerely,

Go

Book Review: “The Other Woman” by Eric Jerome Dickey

Oh I couldn’t wait to get to the Library today to check out more books but I’m also about 24 hours overdue for the book review on ” The Other Woman” by EJD.

It started off slow for me, I guess because everything was so “Normal” for a perfect life and marriage. Work, Sex, and play until the husband comes home with a black eye from his LOVER’s husband.  The affair was over by the time she found out about it but the Lover’s husband seeked sweet revenge by sexing his cheating wife’s lover’s WIFE down. Humph…are you still with me. 

 The best parts of this book for me were the love for the arts that were expressed by the characters and the friendship ”Freckles” and her girl “Yvette” shared…honest and true. I also had to raise the roof on mention of my new hometown, Palm Springs CA. It felt good to know the highways, counties, traffic routines, etc of the characters location.

It took me a minute to get into it but I must say it had one HELL of and ending! It left me thinking that’s it? I needed more…I needed closure dammit! I needed to mourn the death of one of the characters…LOL!   I recommend this book to others!

I’ve checked out three more:

• “Colored Sugar Water” by Venise Berry
• “Closer to Fine” by Meri Weiss
• (some random career book)

Sincerely,

Go

Pictures in my Blackberry…Random.

I did a post not long ago about meaningful moments and  since then I’ve been experiencing them more often. I had one just the other day. The house was quiet I was buzzed, I took a long hot shower and slipped into a little robe that was given to me by my old Roomie….Pressed play on the iPod and grabbed my book “The Other Woman” by Eric Jerome Dickey from the Chaise Lounge.

This is my second alternative to air drying…

My little hand-me-down robe got me to thinking about how much I really want a nice little pajama set and some new house slippers. My LSU slippers have had it I think I’ve had them for about a year now and yesterday I realized the cushion-like part was coming out the back so I just snatched it out and have been rocking them like so for a few days. I know ….I know…that’s bad but hell until I get to the store and find a nice pair, I have to do what I have to do…LOL.

I had another one last week when I skipped out on lunch and grabbed frozen yogurt and sat down for 30 min with a book instead. I read the history of the Palm Springs Library written on the side of this building and enjoyed my lunch break. It didn’t feel so rushed like it usually does.

The other was after I visited that church I didn’t enjoy ALL THAT MUCH! I came home and cooked a nice Sunday Dinner instead of going out to eat. I’m counting my coins…well trying to anyways!

…that is all!

Sincerely,

Go

I Went on a Date? When?

OMG I am so out of the dating scene I know but I should know if I went on a date or not right?

Well I was informed the other day that I went on a date about two months ago. I was talking to a buddy and he started asking me all these questions. Like…so who are you seeing, who have you been talking too, who,what, when, where….

I haven’t been dating, seeing, or DO-ing anybody. I advised him that, I haven’t been on a date since I’ve been out here. He shoots me a look and then says. Yes you did, we went on a date that night we hung out at the casino and had dinner.

****Blank Stare****

Oh well I had no idea that was a date sir. I thought we were just hanging out and keeping each other company.  Lately he has been answering when and if I call but I thought it was all apart of his New Year’s Resolutions to be a better friend.  So after a quick hang out the other day and him playfully grabbing my thighs and shyt….I guess the fella likes me or something. Me don’t know…..

I never really considered him in that manner, I just like the Cali boy accents really. I guess  the date  was somewhat like that earthquake a couple weeks ago. Everyone felt it but me. Well maybe the NEXT date I’ll be better prepared and maybe it will be like the earthquake that took place just moments ago (1/11/2010)..  while  sitting in the Coffee Bean.

That time I felt the rolling motion as my chair rocked back and forth! EARTHQUAKE. Wink!

Sincerely,

Go