Traffic Jam Session

FULL BLAST, VOLUME on 100, BASS HIGH. Easy riding riders.













AND PRESS REPEAT!!!!!!!

For the sake of all things Random, I love commercials!

Here are a few of my favorites. I should probably be getting paid to post these.


i have special eyes! look, look with your special eyes! Look MY BRAAAND!



Thanks Dave

Smile

I love it when he'd take it out
It thud on my leg
I could hear him smile
In the darkness of the room
His body was full
And mine was ready
Primed ready to be pumped
He'd lay it on me
Through the moans and moments of ecstasy
I couldn't help but smile

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New Music- Syleena Johnson: BOSS; Kindred ft. Bilal & BJ the Chicago Kid, plus more

Kindred the Family- Take a Look Around

Eric Roberson- SummerTime Anthem

Mary J- Hero (not feeling the track personally, but to each his own)

Nicole Scherzinger – Funky Town

RIGHT NOW FAV SONG! Jojo- Marvin's Room Remix



currently on repeat

Cooking Wish List

tart pans












stand mixer
ramekins

Cheesecake pan

Bundt Pan

cookie scoop

Square platter

Speak to me poet: inspiration of the day

I Used to Think
©1983 Chirlane McCray

I used to think
I can’t be a poet
because a poem is being everything you can be
in one moment,
speaking with lightning protest
unveiling a fiery intellect
or letting the words drift feather-soft
into the ears of strangers
who will suddenly understand
my beautiful and tortured soul.
But, I’ve spent my life as a Black girl
a nappy-headed, no-haired,
fat-lipped,
big-bottomed Black girl
and the poem will surely come out wrong
like me.

And, I don’t want everyone looking at me.

If I could be a cream-colored lovely
with gypsy curls,
someone’s pecan dream and sweet sensation,
I’d be poetry in motion
without saying a word
and wouldn’t have to make sense if I did.
If I were beautiful, I could be angry and cute
instead of an evil, pouting mammy bitch
a nigger woman, passed over
conquested and passed over,
a nigger woman
to do it to in the bushes.

My mother tells me
I used to run home crying
that I wanted to be light like my sisters.
She shook her head and told me
there was nothing wrong with my color.
She didn’t tell me I was pretty
(so my head wouldn’t swell up).

Black girls cannot afford to
have illusions of grandeur,
not ass-kicking, too-loud-laughing,
mean and loose Black girls.

And even though in Afrika
I was mistaken for someone’s fine sister or cousin
or neighbor down the way,
even though I swore
never again to walk with my head down,
ashamed,
never to care
that those people who celebrate
the popular brand of beauty
don’t see me,
it still matters.


Looking for a job, it matters.
Standing next to my lover
when someone light gets that
“she ain’t nothin come home with me” expression
it matters.

But it’s not so bad now.
I can laugh about it,
trade stories and write poems
about all those put-downs,
my rage and hiding.
I’m through waiting for minds to change,
the 60’s didn’t put me on a throne
and as many years as I’ve been
Black like ebony
Black like the night
I have seen in the mirror
and the eyes of my sisters
that pretty is the woman in darkness
who flowers with loving.

WATCH OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE'S A SNAKE IN THE GRASS (repost)

Usually, I let sleeping dogs lie, and snakes lie in the grass. That's where they belong, but today I can no longer allow dangerous poisonous snakes to lie in wait ready to attack with unsavory venom. It's not often that I blast anyone in a public forum. That's not cool, it’s not tasteful, as karma has a way of coming back to you.

I'm a good person, as many of those 600 something FB friends of mine would know... a little wayward - a little off, but willing to give the shirt off my back, or more than likely out of my trunk or inside my car... you get the point.

In October and November, in the midst of raising a son, teaching a class of very special needs kids where I was getting beat up almost every day, going to grad school, faithfully serving in church, and maintaining a minimum amount of sanity, I dedicated much of my extra time, burning the midnight oil to serve for the November 2010 Houston hair show. I and several other ladies did the same. We were dedicated to the cause of natural hair, health, and genuine success of black beauty and business here in Houston and surrounding communities. The show was a success off of our backs, hard work, dedication, tenacity, resourcefulness, prayers, and steadfast spirits. The organizer was devious and quite frank unprofessional, as I said a snake in the grass as she had horrible practices quite similar to those of con artists. bait and switch, lies, deceit, overall just deception, and ungodly like behavior (I recall a trip from Dallas, a conversation was had in which the organizer of that show was criticized and name called as a regular occurrence). People, successful business persons (and friends of ours) were lied to about the benefits of donating time, service, and goods by her and her “advisers.” Friendships were affected, some lost. Items for raffle or donation were lost in translation only to be “found” and donated for other causes. Contest winners were deceived about their prizes, if they ever received them. Volunteers were mistreated and talked to worse than decrepit, stray, mange ridden animals. Some volunteers were “fired.”

We dedicated ourselves and our very little “extra” time to the success of the show at the end of the day because we wanted it to succeed and our names were tagged onto this project like letterman on his own show.

At this time, the nice person you know me to be has taken a seat, as the reformed bish is coming into play. The organizer is going too far to drag the girl's names through the mud as we built the show from start (concept- anyone remember That 70’s Party?) to finish (i was one of the last ones to leave the Power Center as i was running the show as "stage manager"). Stylists, fashion designers, models, model calls, entertainment, publishing, media, press, press release, swag bags, volunteers, craigslist, social media, sound, lighting, staging, vendors, travel, oooo my, the list goes on and on and on, we did- just us, no one else, and for no pay. No appreciation. no gratification. Literally, at the end of the day, we parted ways with the show’s organizer only to find a mere approximate 7 days to have names sludged through mud, murky water, and lies.

As the Houston hair show approaches, trying to procure and secure a wonderful show for the public, we are encountering persons who have indicated the depth of deception this woman really is as she's lying and pulling people into her conceptualized victimization. (she's never been mistreated by us or any one of the ladies or guys associated with putting together the show). This can go on and on, but I can't take any more phone calls or text messages or emails or whispers in regards to this matter without pinpointing THERE IS A POISIONOUS SNAKE IN THE GRASS, AND SHE IS MARRIED TO A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING.

I have wished the woman well, as she’s doing great things in the arena of whatever she’s doing. She should, just on the principle of professionalism, and support of differences, do the same. Good day snake, some people no longer want to participate in your tempting of poisonous fruit. 

Watch out for JAWS!!

Dinner tonight: Shark with roasted fresh market veggies and risotto. Finished product coming soon.
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Natural Hair Babes and the rest of y'all too. LOL

Looking to buy your oils, natural hair products? Check these stores out. Listing by zip code.


Real Foods
13000 Josey Lane, #110 Farmers Branch TX 74234

Peak Nutrition
2650 Midway Rd #128 Carrollton TX 75006

Reallife Nutrition Center
535 Carrollton Park Shopping Carrollton TX 75006

Real Foods
3044 Old Denton Road Carrollton TX 75007

Minyard Food Stores
777 Freeport Parkway Coppell TX 75019-4411

Reallife Nutrition Center
3202 W Irving Blvd Irving TX 75061

Abundant Life Health Food
1130 W Main St # A Lewisville TX 75067

Love of Family Co-op
153 Lloyds Road Little Elm TX 75068

Briarwood Food Co-op
2916 Knottwood Plano TX 75075

Vital Nutrition
3000 Custer Rd. #240 Plano TX 75075

Whole Foods
60 Dal-Rich Village Richardson TX 75080

Allergy Solutions
4909 W. Park Blvd, Ste 169 Plano TX 75093

Whole Foods
2201 Preston Rd Plano TX 75093

Health Food Center
714 Wheatland Fayetteville TX 75116

Whole Foods
2218 Lower Greenville Dallas TX 75206

Phil's Natural Grocery
7919 Inwood Dallas TX 75209

Vital Nutrition
5360 Lover's Lane #218 Dallas TX 75209

Fresh Start Market
4108 Oak Lawn Avenue Dallas TX 75219

Sundrops Nutrition
3920 Oak Lawn Dallas TX 75219

Peak Nutrition
3701 W. Northwest Hwy. #155 Dallas TX 75220

Ann's Health Food
2634 S. Zang Blvd. Dallas TX 75224

Roy's
130 Preston Royal Shopping Dallas TX 75230

Whole Foods
720 S. Skillman St. Dallas TX 75231

Vital Nutrition
14902 Preston Rd. #218 Dallas TX 75240

Whole Foods
11661 Preston Rd Dallas TX 75240

Wellness Workshop
9220 Skillman #204 Dallas TX 75243

Peak Nutrition
3767 Forest Lane #112 Dallas TX 75244

Metro Health Store1
4344 Marsh Lane Abilene TX 75254

Fran's Health Natural Foods
604 N Jefferson Ave Mount Pleasant TX 75455

Sunnyside Natural Food Market
4032 Summerhill Sq Texarkana TX 75501

Jack's Natural Foods
1614 Judson Road Longview TX 75601

Granary
1721 W. Loop 281 Longview TX 75604

Jack's Natural Foods
2199 Gilmer Rd Longview TX 75604

Big Sandy Women's Buying
2901 West Upshur Cladewater TX 75647

Country Health Store
103 Richardson Dr Henderson TX 75654

Granary
2519 E. 5th Tyler TX 75701

The Honey Tree
211 Shelly Dr Tyler TX 75701

Karen's
4507 Troup Hwy. Tyler TX 75703

Nature's Delight
201 S. Palestine Street Atheens TX 75751

Lufkin Food Mart
1114 E Denman Ave Lufkin TX 75901

Morning Glory Natural Foods
3500 North St # 5 Nacogdoches TX 75961

Whole Foods
801 East Lamar Blvd. Arlington TX 76011

Better Health
4780 Little Road Arlington TX 76015

Good Health Place
2503 S. Copper Street Arlington TX 76015

Better Health
4780 Little Rd. Arlington TX 76017

Richardson Health Store
5051 Granbury Road Fort Worth TX 76033

Healthty Approach
4902 Colleyville Blvd Colleyville TX 76034

Mc Kim Family Market
4705 Lou Mitchell Trail Colleyville TX 76034

Genova Buchanan Buying Co-op
1407 Quail Road Graham TX 76046

Harvest Market
1155 Old Betsy Road Keene TX 76059

La Loma Foods
113 S. Old Belsy Road Keene TX 76059

People Buying Together
1400 Hemphill Fort Worth TX 76104

The Sunflower Shop
5817 Curzon Fl. Worth TX 76107

TCU Health Center
2825 Stadium Dr Fort Worth TX 76109

Cupboard Natural Foods
932 W. University Denton TX 76201

Discover Natural Foods
1218 S. 33rd St Temple TX 76504

Whole Life General Store
Route 6 Box 221 Waco TX 76705

Connor Health Food Systems
2625 W Waco Dr Waco TX 76710

Waco Natural Foods
1424 Lake Air Dr. Waco TX 76710

Rice Epicurean Markets
2500 Rice Blvd Houston TX 77005

Ye Seekers
1928 Bissonet Houston TX 77005

Fiesta
3893 Dunlavy Houston TX 77006

Moveable Feast
9341 Katy Fwy. Houston TX 77024

Rice Epicurean Markets
12516 Memorial Dr Houston TX 77024

Rice Epicurean Markets
2617 W Holcombe Blvd Houston TX 77025

Whole Foods
4004 Bellaire Blvd. West University Place Houston TX 77025

Rice Epicurean Markets
3745 Westheimer Rd Houston TX 77027

Whole Foods
11145 Westheimer Rd Houston TX 77042

Fiesta
8130 Kirby Houston TX 77054

Fiesta
1005 Blalock Houston TX 77055

Health Spring
1000 Camphell Road, #260 Houston TX 77055

Ye Seekers
9336 Westview Houston TX 77055

Rice Epicurean Markets
5016 San Felipe St Houston TX 77056

Rice Epicurean Markets
2020 Fountain View Drive Houston TX 77057

Whole Foods
6401 Woodway #149 Houston TX 77057

Betsy's Health Foods
5730 FM 1960 W #1205 Houston TX 77069

Campion Health Food
5215 Fm 1960 Road, W. # B Houston TX 77069

American Healfh Foods Co-op
211 Fm 1960 Road W. Houston TX 77070

Fiesta
8320 F M 1960 Houston TX 77070

Fiesta
8320 FM 1960 Houston TX 77070

Ye Seekers
12171 Katy Fwy. Houston TX 77079

Rice Epicurean Markets
5333 Gulfton St Houston TX 77081

Fiesta
14315 Bellaire Houston TX 77083

Moveable Feast
2202 W. Alabama Houston TX 77098

Rice Epicurean Markets
3102 Kirby Dr Houston TX 77098

Whole Foods
2955 Kirby Dr. Houston TX 77098

American Health Foods Store
324 Southmore Ave # C Pasadena TX 77502

The Health Nut
2606 B. Center Street Deer Park TX 77536

Peak Nutrition
6161 Central City Blvd. Galveston TX 77551

American Health Foods
3847 Stagg Drive Beaumont TX 77701

Brazos Community Foods
3902 Old College Drive Bryan TX 77801

Brazos Natural Foods
4303 S. Texas Avenue Bryan TX 77802

Health Food House
4206 N Ben Jordan St Victoria TX 77901

Boerne Buying Club
Route 1, Box 1567 Boerne TX 78006

Thyme For Health Nutrition
430 W. Bandera Road, #13 Boerne TX 78006

For Goodness Sake Natural Food
201 N Business Ih 35 New Braunfels TX 78130

Broadway Central Market
4821 Broadway San Antonio TX 78209

Whole Foods
255 E. Basse #130 San Antonio TX 78209

Sun Harvest Farms
2502 Nacogdoches Rd San Antonio TX 78217

Sun Harvest Farms
8101 Callaghan Rd San Antonio TX 78230

Sun Harvest Farms
17700 N. US Hwy 281 San Antonio TX 78232

San Harvest Farms
1440 Airline Corpus Christi TX 78412

Sun Harvest Farms
1440 Airline Rd. Corpus Christi TX 78412

Major's Health Foods
1001 S 10th St # A-B Mc Allen TX 78501

Sun Harvest Farm
2008 N. 10th Street Mc Allen TX 78501

Sunland Health Foods
4317 N. 10th St Mc Allen TX 78504

Sunland Health Foods
1200 Central Blvd Brownsville TX 78520

Naturally's
5712 Padre Blvd # A South Padre Island TX 78597

Herbery Health Food Store
2411 Williams Dr # 5 Georgetown TX 78628

Whole Foods
601 N. Lamar, Suite 100 Austin TX 78703

Sun Harvest Farms
4006 S. Lamar Austin TX 78704

Austin Whole Life General
Route B. Box 221 Austin TX 78705

Wheatsville Co-op
3101 Guadalupe Austin TX 78705

Fiesta
3909 N 1 H 35 Austin TX 78722

Vitamin and Nutrition Shop
1008 Walsh Tarlton Lane, #6 Austin TX 78746

Central Market
4001 N. Lamar Austin TX 78756

San Harvest Farms
2917 Anderson Lane Austin TX 78757

Sun Harvest Farms
2917 W. Anderson Lane Austin TX 78757

Vita Foods
7739 Northcross Drive, #O Austin TX 78757

Whole Foods
9607 Research #300 Austin TX 78759

Old Fashioned Food
123 N 18th Flint TX 78762

Eat Rite
2425 W, Interstate 40 Amarillo TX 79109

Health World
1964 Civic Circle Amarillo TX 79109

United Supermarket
7830 Orlando Ave. Lubbock TX 79423-1942

Abilene Bluehonnet
617 Ross Abilene TX 79602

Natural Foods Market
3211 West Wadley #2 B Midland TX 79705

Sun Harvest Farms
6100 N. Mesa St. El Paso TX 79912

Vitamin Expo
6590 Montana Avenue, #G El Paso TX 79925

Vitamin Expo
1840 N. Lee Trevino Dr, #704 El Paso TX 79936

Tears dry on their own

i wanna come over, trust me i do. i would love more than anything right now to spend the night with you. i know how we used to roll. i know how the sheets used to feel. i know how i used to feel. the bad, but how that bad was oh so good. i know u always understood... dick and dash, that's all it ever was. but we let it get too far, and i'm in the car, calling you, leaving messages at yo job, sayin a baby is on the way... that's not how things were supposed to go down. it's all fun and games, i mean, we were just tryna hang... we were just, you know, doing our thang... and a baby... baby's complicate thangs... we were just fuckin, no emotional attachment at all... but tears fall as she didn't stick to my walls. blood and tears come simultaneously. over time, of course, i'm making it through. we both know i always do...  there's still blood on my hands, and the wounded walls never healed. and even though, i really want to. believe me, i really, really do. i can't come over tonight. tonight, i can't go there with you, you see... my soul still bleeds at the loss of our seed.

Liberated! ... or not

Press play... just sit back, relax, and read.













I'm single.







I'm single, unhappily single. Tired of being single, and I'm single with no end of my singlehood in sight. With that being said, I'm human. And, as I'm typing this, it feels as though I'm in route to go into a justification about some things, which is not what this post is about.

(Disclosure: I’m watching Master Chef, and highly distracted). …

Okay, back on track...  for now... I think about sex all the time. Food, music, sex. After last year's break up with my boyfriend, I took a hiatus from men, from relationships, even some friendships, and most definitely from sex. My hiatus took me through, and I realized, I wanted someone to cuddle with, so I allowed myself some freedoms as far as sharing myself was concerned. Friendships came back, some new ones were made. I started getting out, enjoying my life, and actually tapped back into dating. Dating sucks. I kept encountering men who were only interested in screwing, simply okay with leaving a woman with nothing to show for it. I wanted more, I wanted to cuddle and snuggle, and talk and eat food together, and share space outside of a bedroom or house for that matter! I took that experience, learned from the dudes who were out here sharing dick and balls with no strings attached, and tapped into the chick I used to be and decided to have some fun.

So, as you’re reading, you’re probably trying to figure out what am I trying to say? I know I dam sure was. (*big innocent grin*) I’m still watching TV, partially (fuck it, seriously) distracted, and don’t know where in the hell my ADHD is sending me to write this frackin post.

I’m trying to say:
1. I’m confused. Sex, with no strings attached, what does that look like?
2. What exactly is liberated sex for the modern single woman?



(My shows are over, and my meds have kicked in, making for an interesting and what's going to obviously be a long night)



We make a point to choose to open our legs, but what keeps them opening? Is it really the sex? Is it that the pillow talk thereafter is great conversation? Or do we keep the “liberation” going because the idea of something more occurring post coitus?

Just thinking about the SATC girls, and all those ladies were sexually liberated in their own way. I, like every other girl in the world, have a mix of all 4 in them. Carrie and Sam are in a fight right now. Charlotte is throwing a hissy fit on side of them, and Miranda is just watching from the sideline, typing this post. LOL. I’m so lost in the sauce right now, on what appears to be a break (which according to a tweet from earlier today is just a slow road to a breakup) but despite the understood  and accepted  terms of no strings, none at all, no obligations whatsoever, the Charlotte girly girl in me that's growing feelings like a plant grows roots is getting more and more uneasy. Carrie and Charlotte are locking arms, and Sam is losing any argument at this point. And overall I'm wondering, can women really have successful relationships with no strings attached?

We're sexually liberated enough to have no frills fun, but aren't the frills what make relationships fun? I don’t know many Mirandas or Samanthas in my life who are hesitant to have an emotional aspect of relationship, irregardless of the sexual component. I know y’all exist, but y’all ladies are few and far between. And, really, is that liberation, or avoidance? I’m not sure, but I do know that at the end of the day, or night, or whenever you get it in, to be happy with my status of womanhood, I need a relationship and all that it entails. But, playing this suck ass waiting game for Mr. Right, or that boyfriend material man is pissing me off, and until it’s over, a girl’s got needs, so marching on boppin my head to the off beat of women’s lib *rolls eyes and signs off*

*once again, thanks to Saadi Khali for the photos*

Straight to the Press

Here lately, I've been wanting more and more to straighten my hair. I blow dried it out the other day, that was a waste of time; it shrunk in a matter of hours. I was thinking of pressing it. Nothing like a good ol' fashioned hot comb.

I recently came across Nu-Gro's company website, and saw this

From the company site:

Now, give your hair a relaxed effect, with NO CHEMICAL TREATMENTS. Simple process that works with flat-iron or hot comb to make your hair look better than relaxed. Produces silky, shiny relaxed-looking hair, using natural herbs and vitamins, with no side effects.

I'm giving serious contemplation to ordering this and trying it. Whence I do, I shall post a review. Maybe even dabble in a video review.


I couldn't find more information regarding ingredients and the like, so when I order it, I'll most definitely take a look see. Also, I need to find out if they have a money back guarantee.