Down with Jade

I first tuned into America’s Next Top Model because of my beloved sorority sisters. I have to start by saying I’m not a fan of Un-Reality Shows and I really did not think it would at all interest me, fashion leper that I am. Never the less I am now hooked. This is my 2nd full season watching, having tuned in the middle of cycle 4. I haven’t always liked the girls but oh well.

Last week I sat on the edge of my bed looking at Furonda and Jade and praying they would finally dump her trifling ---. I was surprised at myself. Yes Furonda was a bit chicken looking and I was tired of watching her and her plastic tiara. But I would rather have watched her than have to endure one more minute of that dayumn Jade.

I keep seeing her smirk and watching her play gangsta with the weak and wishing I could catch her --- on the corner of my block one day. She is so WACK in her attitude, personality and to borrow a phrase from a dear friend, high level of douchebaggery. Please join me in prayer that this week will be the last week that we have to deal with her. Let us pray!

Karma or What did I do Wrong?

On Monday I lost my phone. Of course these days we wonder how we ever got along with out them and I feel absolutely nekked without mine. Was I being careless with it? Not really. I was going to a workshop in Queens and was using public transportation and was trying to travel somewhat lightly. I attempted to downsize what I would carry into a bag that I picked up last weekend at a conference.

The bag had a pocket on the outside and my phone was in a clip so I clipped it to the bag and there it stayed all day long. Not once did it show any sign of not being secure in that position and so I paid it no mind. On the way home I decided to stop in the supermarket and pick up a few things and as I went to pay for the groceries it all of a sudden was apparent that the phone was gone.

I got home and attempted to call the phone which was of course on vibrate, which is where I set it that morning when I got to the conference. There was no answer twice and I immediately called my provider to temporarily suspend service, at which point it became all too apparent that my providers are idiots. After I explained I needed my service suspended they informed me that there may still be charges if the phone is used for the Internet. My response “how is that possible if the phone is OFF”. No good answer. Idiots!!

And since everything happens at the most inconvenient time this all happened 3 days before I need to drive by myself from the Bronx to Rochester, NY., easily a six hour road trip and not something a woman needs to be doing these days with out a phone by her side. I borrow a phone from a friend to connect temporarily until I can get the phone I really want and when I call to have it connected the provider informs me that I would have been eligible for a rebate on an upgrade handset in June but that will be reset and I now won’t be eligible for a rebate until a year from now. Sucks for me, yes. Also I will be charged a $36 handset upgrade fee for connecting this phone. That sent me over the edge and I temporarily blew a gasket on the phone. Again, Idiots!!

Insult to injury I made a few stops on my way to Rochester and as I went to get on the road I realized that my directions had gotten wiped from my Avantgo program and I had no directions. The phone I borrowed had no internet and I basically went into panic mode for a minute. Bottom line! I need a new damn phone quickly! Oh and why me, what did I do? BTW after thinking it over and over and over I am fairly convinced that my phone had to be lifted from my bag. Guess where I will not be storing my new phone EVER.

The Recap

Again the time went flying right by again. I'll try to do a recap but I'll start off with I'm really not sure where most of it went. A huge chunk of time right up until April 17th was consumed with completing tax returns with the Big Green Block. Will I be up for doing that again next year? Off the top of my head I'm thinking, NOT! The experience is invaluable if I plan to continue it as a side gig, but making less in 4 and half months than I make in one pay period on my regular job I'm thinking is a waste of some really valuable time. Throw in there a liberal dosage of family commitments and sorority activities along with a sprinkling of church activities and before I knew what was happening it was all gone.

I thought that things would slow down once the tax season was over. With nearly a month gone since the end of tax season of course that is not the case. I guess I should think again because there is not a free weekend in sight until way into June. I'm sure those illusionary free weekends will disappear before I actually get a chance to experience them. Oh well there is always July. Reality says that will probably be August or if I face the cold hard truth that will be never. Oh well...

Later.