Huh? What?

A male acquaintance kind of knocked me for a loop this morning.  I'm the same chick with the glasses on and my hair up that I am with the contacts in and my hair down.  Then again it may have been the hint of cleavage this morning...I don't get it...Well..., I do and I don't...smh  I'm not getting into why, but I'm the last chick he should want...It's not that I'm slutty or anything...I just enjoy being a free spirit and I've been one for a little to long to let someone come in and try to change that...He used the words "nice and sweet" to describe me and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.  But I bet if you asked two people I knew to describe me...one from work and one from my down time to describe me...depending on who you asked, you'd get two very different answers...This four days after my biopsy...I fucking can't.

R.I.P. Don Cornelius...

I just found out about Don Cornelius...That messed my head up.  I don't know all the circumstances, but that just makes me feel so badly. 
I grew up watching Soul Train. It was something at times the whole family would sit down and watch.   They had a documentary about Soul Train on not too long ago.  I got all excited watching the commentary and rewatching some of the performances. 

Stuff straight out of the Twilight Zone # 1

Ok, so I'm reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter...I stopped into Pret A Manger for breakfast and as I'm leaving I notice a car mirror on the ground by a tree outside.  I'm not kidding.  I'm going to muck about and see if I can upload a picture from my phone...That was an odd coincidence that was just a little too creepy.

ETA:  I didn't have my cell phone on me when I went to get breakfast.  By the time I did manage to get back to where I'd seen the side mirror from the car on the ground, it was gone.  I know about that "Pictures or it didn't happen" unspoken rule, but if I were going to hallucinate something, it'd be sooooo much better than the side mirror to a car.  Trust! 

Cool quote from Dr. Seuss...

I just saw a quote from Dr. Seuss on Good Reads that I really love.  I wish I'd seen this on New Year's Eve of the past year, because it would've been so fitting.  Here it is:

"Don't cry because it's over.  Smile because it happened."--Dr. Seuss

Etta James (Jan. 25, 1938 - Jan. 20, 2012)

I kind of expected this, as I kept hearing off and on that Ms. James was ill. 
She's another singer I regret not having had the opportunity to experience live.  I'm embarrassed to admit that I only read Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story by David Ritz and Etta James after having seen Cadillac Records.  That's usually what happens with me though...a biopic or something makes me investigate further...
Kind of like how I first got exposed to Etta James' music...
I do remember hearing "At Last" first...I think I heard a portion of it in a commercial...to this day, I couldn't tell you what was being advertised whether it was a fragrance or even what the fragrance or makeup was, but I made it my business to find out who was singing the song. lol
Then sometime later, there was a movie I was watching on cable...Eve's Bayou...and I heard "Sunday Kind of Love"...That was what made me break down and buy The Essential Etta James.  So, by the time Cadillac Records came out, I was familiar with her music, but not really any of her personal struggles...I guess that's what made me check to see if she'd written an autobiography...I just really enjoy hearing people tell about themselves in their own words.  It's even better, if it's done in such a way where their voice doesn't get lost in the telling.  R.I.P Etta James. 

Please chill out...

The dudes on imesh are starting to scare me worse than the dudes on facebook.  I'm not even looking for a hookup.  :(  All I wanted was to get KM Player.  imesh came with it...little did I know.  I made the mistake of putting that I knew Spanish in my profile and one dude came on like gangbusters in the chat window.  My Spanish is rusty though, which I told him [I really do know basic Spanish.  It's not like I just know a few words, but like I said, it's been years.  I looked up the price to Rosetta Stone and almost cried.  Even the sale prices are pretty steep.  Hopefully people are getting what they pay for. ] and I didn't want to say something that would be misinterpreted...His English wasn't very good and well, all I have to say is thank God for Google Translate.  I type really slow in Spanish or English, so I just wound up taking Spanish out of my profile...Also don't different Spanish speaking countries have different words for the same thing depending on the locale?   I felt bad after the fact.  Here dude is wanting to chat and I'm trying to multitask and chat in another language...The only problem is my brain could only take so much and I had work the next day.

So far...

I managed to burn myself cooking Friday...It's not a bad burn, but I'll consider it a lesson learned just the same.

I'm going to try not to blog about what I've already tweeted about, that's kind of redundant and I hate unnecessary redundancy.  It's a time waster.   There's a story behind this, but I don't know if it's safe to tell here.

Got my taxes done...My sister was right about Turbo Tax.  I'm glad I finally decided to give it a shot.  I think I've only owned a computer for two years, but that it took me so long to do that...I'm embarrassed as well I should be I guess.  I do still worry about identity theft, but I shouldn't let it paralyze me.

I've had a mostly productive weekend, the only thing I can't quite bring myself to do yet [The Procrastination Queen at her finest.] is to buy myself a new suit and a couple more pairs of slacks.
I caught a glimpse of myself in the bathroom mirror at work the other day and didn't realize just how bad I looked.  [You know how when you've lost a little more weight than you realize and stuff doesn't quite fit right?  And my blazer didn't completely camouflage it.  I went downstairs to the employee store, but for some bizarre reason they only sell men's belts. ]   If I can't find something at the stores I usually go to, I'll probably fall back on mail order.  Mail order and eBay get me through when nothing else does.

Supernatural ... I keep hearing discussions about how some people want it to end like The End [S5 Ep 4]...That would break my heart...I know they're only fictional characters, but I want more for Sam and Dean than that.  It's like everything they've gone through, would have been for nothing and they've been through so very much.  I don't want to believe Bobby died for nothing either.  [I like that the show sends the message There will always be something negative out there coming at you, but you can't give up.  You've got to keep fighting.  I'd like for there to be something uplifting in the ending of the show.  I'm not expecting sunshine and lollis, but something...]  I'll definitely be curious to see how the writers do decide to wrap things up.

I apologize for the lousy punctuation...I was an English major, but I was more concentrated on the literature side of things...That's yet another thing I'm trying to work on though.