What an interesting night............

Well yesterday was offically my last day of work at my full time job. Great right? Well of course it would have been if I had a car to get around so I had to resign myself to my mom picking me up from work and us going home to just chill. Well I woke up around 5:30pm bored out of my mind and told my mom we should get out of the house for a spell. So we get dressed and make our way out to St. Peters, MO. WE go by the Marshalls out there and then to the T.J. Maxx. At Marshalls we had a good time looking at stuff but by the time we left T.J. Maxx we weren't speakin to each other. Go figure.

So when we get back home around 7:30pm I go to the computer because I was pissed and I wanted to get out of the house and go see Harry Potter. Well of course I was without car so I was trying to figure out how in the world was I going to get to the St. Louis Galleria to catch the 9:40pm show? So I check out Metrolink schedule which had definitely changed within the 10 years since I had been on it last.

I left my house around 8:40pm and made my way up to UMSL south station and JUST missed a train that had pulled up. So I had to wait another 20 minutes for the next train and made my way to Forest Park where I had to apparently wait for the TRANFER train that would take me to the Richmond Heights location. By this time it was already 9:40pm still at the Forest Park location and I kept telling myself they were still no previews.

So finally the damn train shows and I finally get to Richmond Heights and the time is now 9:55pm. I dash off the train and get inside the Galleria and get to the movie area down stairs by 10:10pm. I grab some Nachos and a soda and get inside the movie theater the place is so damn pack I have to sit up front and of course I've missed the first 10-15 min. of the movie.

Overall the movie was fantastic and it's a shame that they won't be doing any more sequels unless they can talk the cast into it. Yet lets get the part where now it's time for me to go home. I get back to the Richmond Heights Metrolink station and by this time I've already missed the train that I should have caught AGAIN. So now I ahve to wait 20 minutes for the right train. I get concerned because it's becoming very close to when Metrolink will shut down. So Eventually a train comes in the opposite direction and I get on. I make my way to the next stop and get off the train and ask one of the security people if there is another train coming in the direction that I really need they said yes. So eventually 5 minutes later a train does come and I get back on and make my way back to Forest Park Station. Now I still needed my main transfer train to take me back to USML south station.

I found the HELP button on some stand on the platform and asked them if I had missed the last LAMBERT AIRPORT train and they stated...................yes. So now I'm lookin like OH-SHIT!!! So I asked is there any bus I can catch that will get me back over to UMSL South and the lady states NO NO NO. So I'm like SHIT SHIT SHIT. SO I go up the street level and get my cellphone and called 411 to get a cab service. I get connected to Lacleade Cab Service and someone picks me up within 10 minutes.

The guy who picks me up is of Native African Descent and we make conversation the whole way to my house. I finally got home around 1:30am and boy was I tired. We had a good talk and I gave him one of my back-up numbers to call me on. To make things worse I had a meeting TODAY at 7am. So ask me if Im tired?

Last day of summer school, first day of relaxation

Hey ya’ll guess what?????????? It’s official my last day of summer school at my regular job. YIPEEEE. Yes I know and you are probably wondering what I am going to do with myself from now till the 24th (Florida Trip). Well I’m just going to kick back and relax as well as work some days at my other job. Get myself prepared of course for the trip and who knows take in a yoga class or 2 to help myself relax.

I’ve been talking to Kai and I am just mega-psyched about this trip. I’ve been thinking of places I want to visit. I definitely want to go to a Salsa club, go to the beach, just anyplace really. Not to mention I can check out the men down there;) (BIG SMILE ON FACE). Who knows while I’m down there I will definitely check out the area to see what apartments and even houses are going for.

Well today it about 10:30am and we will be having an assembly around 11am for the summer school kids. After that I assume they will be released so they can enjoy the rest of their summer school-free.

I don’t know what I’m going to do for the rest of the day. Whatever I do, it will be limited to probably the house since my car is in the shop and I won’t be able to get it until Monday. Now tell me THAT doesn’t suck. Oh well I guess, Harry Potter will just have to put on hold along with the other movies that I want to see.

I can’t help but wonder sometimes will this be year I finally get my head cleared out and get myself focused and geared up for what is coming ahead. I hope so.

The summer is almost gone……….

With Summer School almost out for my job, I can’t help but think about how I have yet to be able to enjoy myself. Especially when I was taking the summer UMSL course that I had to eventually drop because I was informed incorrectly by some at the School that I needed the class when in fact I had already taken the course and passed it.

Well yesterday I officially bought my airplane ticket to go visit my girl Kai and her family. I will be there from July 24 to the 31 and I can’t wait. This is definitely a vacation that is so long overdue. Who knows I might get down there and not want to come back. Cross your fingers;)

Also yesterday after cleaning my room (I know some people are like WHOA) Mina and Danielle picked me up around 4pm and we went out to Ameristar and met up with one of Mina’s sisters to enjoy the buffet. As usual A+++. Keisha (Mina’s sis) and Danielle went to go play some Blackjack which left Mina and I at the table talking. We met up with them about 10 minutes later and just chilled out while Keisha was still playing. Danielle and I went to go play some penny machines and Mina stayed with Keisha to play Blackjack. About an hour later we said our goodbyes to Keisha and they dropped me off back home.

I went to my now clean room and just stretched across the bed. Also my car was making a funny rattling sound as I was leaving work which is why the girls had to come get me. Haven’t been able to tell my dad yet so probably will let him know when he gets home this evening. So far the highlight of my day has been paying bills. Hopefully you can find something a tad bit more exciting to do with your day than I have. Ta-ta

Let’s make it a movie night

Well yesterday I had work and after I got off I went to UMSL to enroll in the CORRECT economics class and also I am going to take Business Writing in the fall. After wrapping that up I went to Break-Away Café off of Natural Bridge near Hanley Road and had my favorite, Pasta Con Broccoli.

After getting the rest of my food put in a to-go container I went home and took a nap. Then I woke up and started moving boxes I had in my room and in the back porch downstairs to be put in a storage facility. My girls had been calling me to give me the time to hook up with them and Mina’s family to go see TRANSFORMERS at the AMC Creve Coeur Movie Theater. We met up at 8pm and got tickets for the show I also saw one of my former co-workers from my main job there as well. Let me tell you something………..when this movie comes out on DVD, I am SO GETTING THIS!!!!!

The movie was phucking unbelievable the action and the special effects were just something you only dream about. This movie had the plot going on as well; I damn near wanted to jump out of my SEAT!!!! Optimus Prime was just awesome and so were the other characters. Mega-Tron looked just as much the bad-ass leader.

OVER-ALL if I had 4 hands I would give this 4 thumbs up.!!!! After the movie let out I went to the restroom and then Mina decided she wanted to go see KNOCKED UP so we said our good-byes to Mina’s family and so then Danielle, Mina, and myself went to go see that movie which started at 10:30pm and didn’t get out of there till 1am. That movie was just hilarious. Definitely the same smart humor from 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN. Highly recommend if you should do a 2 movie in 1 night deal. Go see those 2. You won’t be disappointed.

Well today I’m at work and just bumming out because………….I’m at work…….but it is pay day from job #2 and it’s also hair day so thank you GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ya’ll have a good day and try to stay cool!!!

What a wonderful 4th of July

Well today is July 5th and the festivities associated with July 4th are officially over. I had a wonderful day yesterday. On July 3rd, I of course had work. After work was over around 2pm I went home and nobody was there at the time. I was debating about getting smoker prepared for the food but my mom called in the nick of time and told me don’t start yet because it was still too hot. So I chilled out and took a nap. Hell didn’t wake up until 5pm and that is when I started making fires in both my huge smoker and a smaller bar-q pit.

We put the baby back ribs and the pork steaks on the smoker and put chicken halves, chicken wings on the smaller bar-q pit. After the baby back ribs and pork steaks were done we took those in the house and then put the chicken quarters and some more chicken halves on the smoker. Soon after, the chicken wings in the smaller bar-q grill as well as the 2 chicken halves that we put on there were all ready to be taken off. So after clearing that off we then moved the chicken quarters from the smoker to the bar-q grill to cook faster while we still left the other 2 chicken halves in the smoker to cook.

Then after a while the last 2 chicken halves were done in the smoker we then threw on some hotdogs and polish sausages to finish off the night. So my mother and I were pretty much cooking from 5pm and didn’t get done until midnight. One of our neighbors came over and we talked for a spell and then she went home. We sure cooked up some meat that night 2 huge pans with nothing but chicken, ribs, and pork steaks. YUM YUM

After all that we cut up the meat and put it in the fridge. I’m so thankful I did the bar-q the day before the 4th and will keep doing that from now on. Of course I smelled like a smoke chicken and pig so I had to take a long as bath with one of my favorite scents from the Bath and Body works collection BREATHE COMFORT, it’s the bomb.

And then I took my ass to bed.

Fast-forward: 4th of July rolls around and I’m still knocked out from last night. I finally get up around 10 am (I think) and I go down stairs to help my mom prepare food for the day. We made Sweet Potatoes, Green Beans, Sweet Corn, HUGE Rolls, reheated the chicken, ribs, and pork steaks in the oven, and of course bar-q sauce for the meat.

Kamina came over around 3:30pm -4pm-ish and she chilled out in my room since I just got up from taking a nap and had just gotten out of the tub. Also apparently Trenton (my play brother) was already down stairs and had been down there for almost an hour without me knowing. So I had to get dressed quickly and then Mina and I went downstairs to chill and eat.

Around 5:45pm, Mina and I left to go pick up Danielle from work since the store closed early around 6pm. She was ready and we made it back to the house and Trenton had already made it back himself with his girlfriend in tow this time. So introductions were made and then we were all chilling out in the family room along with Diahanna and then Patrina (another co-worker) came over and we were all watching some Impersonator show on tv and then flipped to The HOUSE OF PAYNE and watched some episodes of that. Mom came in also to relax so we were just having a great time. Trenton and his gal soon left around 7pm-ish to go catch Transformers. Which left the rest of us just relaxin and talking the night away. My girls left around 10pm and I helped my mom put the food away and get the kitchen back together.

I was debating on going to the movies but the wine in my system stated otherwise so I took myself upstairs and went to sleep and didn’t wake up until 5:45am. So of course I’m still recouping from my SPIRITS drinking from the previous shin-ding. But you know what? It was worth it;)

Hope you had a kick-ass 4th of July, I sure as hell did;)