Accessorize

My fave combo from my trip home THAT I NEVER GOT TO WEAR!! Didn't go to the planned wine and cheese. So much for that. But it was a long strand of pearls, a quilted patent leather clutch, and square-toed patent leather 3-inch heels. Helloooooooo beautiful! :)

What I've Peeped

big watches for chicks are in. Like, men-sized faces on a female-sized wrist. gone are the days of dainty and feminine watches. here are the days of a big man face watch that has feminine attributes like pink mother of pearl dial or tiny pearls as hour markers. i so want and big watch and PLEASE...



not the gaudy and big ass jacob the jeweler watch. those are distastefully too big for ANYBODY'S wrist.



next.

steve madden is making dresses.




who is excited? I AM!!!! I LOVE Steve Madden!!! All his shoes that i own are my favorites! and i have a LOT!! Dreezy, who doesn't "know ANYTHING about girl shoes" noticed my black and white boucle d'orsay peep-toe pumps (daaaaam! that was a lot of description for ONE pair of shoes!). he said, "those shoes look good. i never notice girl shoes cause they all look the same..."

GASP!!! they all look the same!??!?!

"...those must be your boy. you'd leave me for Steve Madden wouldn't you?"

"in a heartbeat! hold my steve madden purse while i try on these icy flip flops. thanks boo, i love u"

LOL

Music Makes Me HIGH!!

So I was frequenting my FAVORITE DJ's site (www.djjamad.com) and decided to go to his myspace page to hear what's been up. I got an AUTOGRAPHED mixtape of his last cut, Afromentals 24: Identity for my b-day and I'm STILL rocking that joint! Yo, if you haven't peeped DJ Jamad, out of the ATL Shawty, you have no idea what you're missing!

So I'm on his page when I scrolled down to see who he has as friends. i literally say, "oh my gosh, who is this FINE specimen of a man?? DJ Rasta Root?? He needs to be my friend. I just want his face to be on my page." So i requested him as a friend and then I chill for a min to listen to his tracks.


FIRE.


Plain and simple. Okay, maybe not fire but defintely right up my alley which may not constiture FIRE to some but to me, its FIRE. He has the old school loops that Jamad won me over by but he's more like ATCQ. He has people flowing over the tracks where Jamad mixes old school with new school. So Rasta has former member of Slum Village, Baatin on a couple of tracks, these chicks named Slick and Rose (I think... out of the A) with Phife Dawg (my FAVE old school MC) of A Tribe Called Quest fame and some other things I'm not familar with but will DEFINATELY get to know in the near future. and I got an iPod shuffle??? its bout to be on!!

Amy Winehouse. I mentioned her in a previous post and I'll mention her again cause her US album came out yesterday for $7.99 at Best Buy. Try improting that ish from UK and be prepared to drop $30 ITS BOMB! SHE'S BOMB! Lauryn meets Motown in it's heyday, that's so the sound!! Check her out on myspace as well!

Paula Deen for Arby's

My dad is forever bringing home this chicken salad sandwich from Arby's. The ingredient list if you will: grilled chicken, apples, grapes, celery, pecans and smothered in mayo. I mean smothered. Do you see that picture? VOMIT!!! That looks like something Paula Deen would make. You know everything is smothered in mayo or butter. Sometimes both. Or a whole lot of ingredients that don't go together. Vomit.

Artichokes

I'd never had one until about 6 months ago. Now it seems everytime I go out I have to have one somewhere in my dish!! I love these things!! GIMME MORE!! WOW! Too deelish. Mmmmm mmmmm!! Thank God for being a foodie. How else would I know about these culinary delights?

Today's artichoke wonder? Turkey artichoke panini on basil pesto foccacia from Panera Bread. It took all the self control of my LIFE not to eat the whole thing instead of saving half for lunch tomorrow AND buy another. Wow.

YIKES! I just read the "nutrition" info. 107% of my daily sodium, 38 grams of fat, 840 calories!! DAMN!! Good thing I hate half of it and went to the gym! Good gracious! That is oooookay. I still love me some sandwiches.

less is more

i'm sick again. sudafed PE, zicam dissolving tabs, advil cold and sinus, vicks sinex... what else can i take? is less really more when you have a cold? and they say as a teacher, i'm going to have a 9 month cold that lasts about 30 years. at least mommy buys the good tissues with lotion on them :-)

now onto the real post.

i went to bed at 7pm last night. i woke up at 11 and did nothing. dreezy called me to let me know that thicke was on letterman performing the song we love so much. robin thicke was singing 'lost without you' with a drummer, keys, bass and acoustic guitar. guys, it was soooooooooooooo beautiful!!!!! i love that song and love it even more seeing it live. he has the whispering/singing thing that has to grow on me but it was still presh. no dancers or singers, just his voice and minimalist instrumentation. now on leno, fergie was performing her latest. famous? luxurious? obnoxious? fabulous?

i know, its glamorous. how many songs are we going to have like that? must gwen (who's not been getting it for me lately) do everything and WGs follow?

whatever the case, she had hella musicians, singers, and dancers who doubled as assistants bring her props like cell phones, things to sign, hair brushes and a coat (like she's james brown) BUSY!! her set was busy as hell and with ALL THAT, it STILL didn't disguise the fact she CAN'T SING!!! I was disgusted with her performance and what honestly made me 'madder' was all the fluff. as the fashion world states time and time again,

less is more

i believe coco chanel said, "before you leave the house, take two things off"

how bout we take fergie off?

Stress Reducing Food

a la Dreezy cause he knows
1. i'm a teacher
2. i have a MM

1. Berries, any berries
Eat them one by one instead of M&Ms when the pressure's on. For those tough times when tension tightens your jaw, try rolling a frozen berry around in your mouth. And then another, and another. Since the carbs in berries turn to sugar very slowly, you won't have a blood sugar crash. The bonus: They're a good source of vitamin C, which helps fight a jump in the stress hormone cortisol

2. Guacamole
If you're craving something creamy, look no further. Avocados are loaded with B vitamins, which stress quickly depletes and which your body needs to maintain nerves and brain cells. Plus their creaminess comes from healthy fat. Scoop up the stuff with whole-grain baked chips-crunching keeps you from gritting your teeth.

3. Mixed nuts
Just an ounce will help replace those stress-depleted Bs (walnuts), give you a whopping amount of zinc (Brazil nuts)-it's also drained by high anxiety-and boost your E (almonds), which helps fight cellular damage linked to chronic stress. Buy nuts in the shell and think of it as multi-tasking: With every squeeze of the Nutcracker, you're releasing a little bit of tension.

4. Oranges
People who take a 1,000 mg of C before giving a speech have lower levels of cortisol and lower blood pressure than those who don't. So lean back, take a deep breath, and concentrate on peeling a large orange. The 5-minute mindfulness break will ease your mind and you'll get a bunch of C as well.

5. Asparagus
Each tender stalk is a source of folic acid, a natural mood-lightener. Dip the spears in fat-free yogurt or sour cream for a hit of calcium with each bite.

6. Chai tea
A warm drink is a super soother, and curling up with a cup of aromatic decaf chai tea (Tazo makes ready-to-brew bags) can make the whole evil day go away.

7. Dark chocolate
Okay, there's nothing in it that relieves stress, but when only chocolate will do, reach for the dark, sultry kind that's at least 70% cocoa. You figure if the antioxidant flavonoids in it are potent enough to fight cancer and heart disease, they've got to be able to temper tension's effects.

Luda, Sit Down

Know what? I hate that he wants to bitch and moan about Oprah. I really do. Don't try to be hard and then get mad because you say she doesn't care about hip hop. But why should she though? She's a 55-year-old BILLIONAIRE. Hip hop is not her core audience. You don't watch her show, do you? Would you even know if she had hip hop people on there? And Oprah will call you out WHICH YOU ALREADY KNOW so I really doubt you want to appear on there. Her white audience will be stomping and cheering and you'll really get pissed.

Remember when she said you should stop calling women bitches and hoes and you said women should stop calling each other bitches and hoes. True indeed. But that DOES NOT give you license to further perpetuate it and go all out to call women bitches and hoes and talk about all the area codes your hoes are in and how you have the red light district and on and on and on you go about your hoes. Why don't you actually give uplifting a shot.

Oh, "Runaway Love"? Yeah that's alright but it rings kind of hollow when your preceeding single was "Shake Your Moneymaker" complete with half-naked girls, snakes and piles of money they're rolling around in. Yeah.. real uplifting.

So I'm sure you heard about his Grammy appearance. He called out OPRAH AND BILL O'REILLY IN THE SAME SENTENCE. You should be shot. Let's not talk about how much Oprah has done for the black community. Maybe you do stuff Luda, but she has mobilized MILLIONS to not only commend her for what she's done but to MOVE. Stop smellin yourself and recognize. Fool. Clay Cane thinks you're stupid, too.

Grilled Cheese Chef

You should be ashamed to come on Food Network and call yourself that. So you went to culinary school and perfected the grilled cheese? The best ways to slice the cheese and the bread? Any julienning involved? Get out of here. This dude is like the cheese can't be to thin. Thick enough and its just right. Just about any bread works. We like to switch it up with provolone cheese. The best side dish is tomato soup...

I hate that you have made money off of crap I wouldn't even eat as a child. I hated grilled cheese unless it had ham on it (it is nearly impossible to get me to eat a meatless meal and a sandwich? as a child, then answer would have been hell no. no wish sandwiches, sugar sandwiches or mayonnaise sandwiches for me. you may have been cut for even suggesting it.) and tomato soup is disgusting.

I'm JUST starting to eat tomatoes and they have to be firm and ripe. If they are soggy, prepare to incur my wrath. I don't want your leftover, throwaway tomatoes. I've always loved ketchup and Italian food (spaghetti must have meat sauce of course) but I really cannot see myself ever eating the pureed tomato crap that is soup. EW!

If you're gonna call yourself a chef, at least be a real sandwich chef. Seriously. I'm a sandwich connoisseur (stop hatin, that page made me drool) and I know a good one when I see one. Cheese (no matter what kind) and bread ain't it.

Cashmere Socks

I have two pair. Got them from the gap. They are adorable and fabulous. They were on sale. Who has cashmere socks? *cups mouth and tilts back* "PIMP TIGHT!" Hilarious.