Rantings of a Creole Princess

From My Inbox: The No Money Boys - "I Ain't Got No Money"

From Kristin:

ROFL!  MY GIRL!  LOL!

From My Inbox:

Monica,
 
I'm all about telling people about themselves when I see them going down the wrong path because some important mentors in my life have done that for me when I had no clue I might have been doing something detrimental to my reputation, career, schooling, etc.. Ever since then, I've actually resented others who knew I was doing or saying something dumb but didn't try to help me. So I have a chance to do the same for someone else but in the following situation, I don't know this girl.

One of my father's students added me to Facebook because she recognized my maiden name, talking about, "Oh he's my favorite professor and I was just wondering if you were his daughter and blah blah blah". Normally I don't accept strangers' requests but I didn't want to hurt the child's feelings and she seems really sweet so I accepted. She asked me for advice on navigating undergrad and I told her the usual stuff about not messing up freshman and sophomore year thinking you have time to raise your GPA because even straight A's junior and senior year don't move your GPA up much. After an exchange of about 4 messages we haven't talked since and now I feel I should have given her some advice about social life in general. The reason being that here we are 10 months later and EVERY.SINGLE.STATUS UPDATE is something ho-ish. Things like, "Got some well needed rest last night and woke up with a rejuvinated mind, body, and soul, a new attitude, and a new man! Okay I'm lying about the last part but I'm sure he will be next to me one of these day I wake up...Until then EFFEMNLEAVEM..." or "Even a dog likes meat on his bones, and true enough he might get lost in a back alley but he knows where his home is...". If it's not some raunchy song lyrics or poetry, it's her talking about what she needs a man to do to her and lamenting about how men ain't s***. Today she has a profile picture which is a cartoon of some scantily clad, thong wearing big booty woman that she says represents her.

So my question is, going back to my usual 'each one teach one' attitude, should I say something to her about remembering who is on her friends list and the ramifications of this when she applies for internships or looks for a job after graduation? For example, I could be really shady and tell my father about how crazy his student is but I won't because some day she may need a recommendation written by him. But next time, someone on her friends list of 1,698 (seriously) might not be so respectful of her privacy and mess her up. I know she is young and having fun in undergrad but would suggest she be very careful to block certain people from her status updates and personal things in order for her to continue to speak freely. I just hate to sit and watch young women do stupid things without saying something, but on the other hand it would be unsolicited and I don't usually give that kind of advice. Would you all say something?

Either / Or

Some people make the clothes. Some clothes make the people.

Which is true for you?

Monica Mingo

Update from 13700!

The dove's egg hatched! How cool is that! No sign of the baby but mama is sticking close!

Monica Mingo

Question...

Do you wear makeup to the beach?

Monica Mingo

My New Toy!

Well...not exactly new, new...but definitely in the closet for a minute with the tags still on it never used. It's the perfect clutch that has an AWESOME shoulder strap that hides perfectly inside. It makes me happy.

Do YOU ever rock clutches? Do you make sure they have a shoulder strap that can be hidden?
Monica Mingo

ROFL!

Dude is KILLING me all up in my self-portrait!

Monica Mingo

CreoleInDC Contest!

I shall award the person whose explanation of the following makes me laugh the hardest with an eGift certificate to Amazon for $20.  If you can't find a book for $20 on Amazon...oh well...you're outta luck.  :)  Please make sure you put an email addy you actually use in the email spot.

People are mean to me...

Erica B.'s evil azz reminded me of this email and of my response to it this morning.  I get crazy azz emails from people in my inbox from time to time and I usually don't say anything and just let it roll.  Sometimes...however...I feel the need to respond.

I was so angry when I received the following email because it had been over 7 months since I'd cussed someone out and I was feeling good, feeling great, how are you.  If cussing insults your sensibilities...do NOT under ANY circumstances click on the link to continue reading cuz yeah...I cussed her azz OUT and now it's only been a few days shy of a month since I've cussed someone out!  Humph.  I was doing good hell.

THAT'S IT!

Last night while Robby and I were lounging in the spa with a bottle of wine we were reflecting on our life without kids and how we probably wouldn't be able to have many evenings like we currently do WITH kids.  We went on and on and on about how we're cool with being child free until the time comes for us to have a baby.  We actually clinked glasses smiling and shit reveling in the state of our coupledome. 

And then...

I see THIS this morning and I'm like...I WANT ONE JUST LIKE THAT ONE!!!!!!!!!  LOL!    "What Will I Be When I Grow Up?"

Hmmmm...

Do YOU think Mel Gibson's career as an actor is over?

Omelets!

You're somewhere with an omelet by order station with FABULOUS ingredients. What's on YOUT omelet of choice?
Monica Mingo

Hotel / Restaurant Buffets

Did you ever meet one you actually liked?

Monica Mingo

Appropriate?

Is it appropriate to invite a casual date to a family wedding when you are IN the wedding?

Question...

What's your favorite wine these days?

(P.S.  Yall save yall empty bottles cuz I'm taking them to Alabama with me.)

Test

Monica Mingo

Scenario...

You have been best friends with your girl since the first day yall stepped on your college campus.

You've been through everything together and feel you can say anything to each other.

Your husband loves her like his sister-in-law.

She starts dating this guy.

You and your husband are out to dinner with her and her guy.

The guy starts acting weird while you're at dinner.

He excuses himself and goes over to another table and introduces himself to a guy who is with a woman.

He comes back to the table.

He looks shaken up.

Everyone asks him what's what and he shares that the woman is his wife.

They are separated.

You and your husband are STUNNED because your girl isn't the type that dates married men REGARDLESS if they are separated.

Your husband asks a lot of questions.

His tone is very firm.

You sit there saying nothing.

The guy pretty much tells your husband to stay out of his business.

Your husband tells him that he's not in his business and doesn't give a damn what's going on between he and his wife but as it relates to your best friend...he's going to say whatever the hell he wants to say to make sure that she's good.

The dude gets up to leave and he asks your best friend if she's coming.  She says she'll be right out.

When he leaves she tells your husband that he was GROSSLY out of line in a VERY disrespectful manner.

You still haven't said anything yet.

What do you do/say NOW?

Question...

Do you think it's appropriate to charge Michael Jackson's doctor with homicide?

What do you think about celebrities wanting something and having the money and the people to get what they want?  Who is at fault there?  The person who gets it for them or the celebrity?

BACK TO SCHOOL PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YIPPEE!!!!!!!!  It's that time of year again it seems!  I love, love, LOVE getting back to school pictures and still visit last year's often when I need a great big old huge grin!  First Day of School 2008

I lurve me some super smart kids as yall know and the young man in this pic with his super jazzy big sister is just such a kid.  Dude is like a math BOSSMAN!  LOVE.THAT!  Oh...and he's a Ninja too!  ROFL!  MY BOY!  I'm straight loving his big sister's haircut this year and I've always loved her sense of style.  GET.IT.GIRL!

This was our boy's first day of school AND his first day riding the school bus!  He CERTAINLY doesn't look scared does he?  I just love that kid man.  His smiles just MELT me!  LOL!

Pretty little girls just make me flat out GRIN!  This beautiful baby is just ADORABLE!  Doesn't she look sweet?

This lil man is looking like..."Mama...enough with the pictures already!  Who in the hell is this T-Monnie anyway?"  LOL!

I don't care what his mama says...this baby is NOT 4!

Tukufu Zuberi - "History Dectectives"

I'm a TOTAL fan!  If you're not watching...you should be.  This is TRULY Must-See-TV!  "History Detectives"

My fave is Mr. Tukufu Zuberi.  Dude is cool!  I don't know why but I thought of our Ted when I was reading up on Mr. Zuberi.  I could soooooooooooo see Ted doing this!

Princess Nina Gabrielle Went Home Today!!!!!

Today was a very busy day!  I went home today with my mommy and daddy and my MiMi1 and my MiMi2!

My mommy and daddy sure are happy.  I think I like them.  :)

I rode in the car for my very first time.  It's okay but I'm going to have to do something with my daddy's music tastes for sure!

 

Both my MiMi's are here, of course.  Where else would the MiMi's of a brand new Creoleline Bambineaux be?

My T-Monnie is coming to see me when I'm about 6 weeks old.  She says she wants me to be good and solid before she gets here to spoil.me.rotten.  I'm not sure what she means but I can't WAIT to meet her!

HEY YALL!

Question...

How does one go to jail for shooting YOURSELF in the leg?  Seriously...how does that HAPPEN?

Good Wife

If yall don't like the good wife posts Imma stop doing em. 

From My Inbox:

Good morning,
I know that you get emails all the time but this is a subject I don't think the Tribe can help with. As you may remember, I have dealt with infertility due to endometriosis. In October 2008, after 2 rounds of meds for IVF, I was told that my ovaries just will not produce eggs. I was horrified as you can imagine. I thought, I am healthy and young, what is wrong with my body. Donor egg was the option that my doctor suggested and for some reason, I just couldn't think about doing that. I have a younger sister whose eggs I can use but she has a problem with smoking weed so that is out of the question. So, we thought about adoption. Then I said to myself, why not do donor egg, at least I could have the experience of being pregnant and use my husband's sperm. So, once we save a little more money, we will proceed with that. My question to you is, how do you do it? How do you handle seeing babies and friends getting pregnant? Do you ever get in a little pitty party like me? Do you ever just want to ask God, why me? My husband says I shouldn't question God, but how do you not?

I understand if this topic is too touchy for you but I have no friends that understand. In fact, I have a friend that just found out she was pregnant and I almost think she was mad about it. Anyhow, if you reply, that would be great, but if you don't I understand. Take care and have a great day!

Scenario...

Your girl is 43 years old.

Yall are out having sushi and saki.

She's single and has been for a while.

She tells you she's thinking about having a baby on her own and wants your opinion.

What do you tell her?

My Version of The Good Wife - Clear Away the Clutter

• From Housekeeping Monthly, 13 May, 1955:  Make one last trip though the main part of the house just before your husband arrives, gathering up children's books and toys, papers, etc. Then run a dust cloth over the tables. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you lift too.

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I don't see much wrong with this one.  In fact, if you're ever at 13700 you'll be surprised at the flurry of events that go down twenty minutes before Robby comes home from the office.  Ya girl be MOVING!  I've always been in awe of how much I can get done in twenty minutes when I've had all day to do it in a leisurely manner if I wanted it done.  I guess I just perform better under pressure.  LOL.  I learned this early on from my mother but the reason behind her doing it and the reason I do it are entirely different.  She did it out of fear I believe because my father was dumb as hell and any little thing would set him off so she wasn't trying to give him anything to feed off of.

Me?  I do it because I like our home to look nice and I like Robby having a long day at the office and driving home with a smile on his face anxious to get to his haven.  I love that ish.  I love it when he walks through the door and everything is pleasing to his direct senses of scent and sight.

Now I'm not saying I do this every day because that simply is not the case.  Sometimes I just don't FEEL like doing something and then I don't do it.  Granted those times are far and few between since I'm anal as hell but if I don't feel like messing with something then I'm just not going to do it.  And that...is the difference between my mother and I.  There have been a few times when Robby has come home and asked me why I didn't do A, B or C and the discussion immediately after could all be summed up by my simply saying...cuz I didn't want to.

Simple.

Yeah...it's gotten loud a few times but the thing here is that Robby knows I like things just so and if they aren't just so and I haven't done it for a couple of days...to him that's a sign that something is wrong and my husband is one for getting to the nitty gritty of things and working them out.

Little signs like my wearing the same clothes two days in a row or keeping the blinds closed would alarm him because he knows sometimes I can go to a dark place inside my head where all my hurts live.

Hey...I'm human.

So again...twenty minutes before Robby gets home I can get a lot done.  I'm talking loading dishwasher, clearing the bench at the entrance, making the bed, using Lysol wipes on the counter tops, swishing the brush in the toilet, vacuuming the rug in the front room and spraying something lovely.  My husband works very, very hard to provide a lovely life for us so I love doing whatever I can to make sure he knows I appreciate our life because I do.  Men and women perform better when they know their efforts are appreciated and it makes it easy to continue on in that vein.

This morning Robby got up to do work.  We are in a suite so he closed off the bedroom and bathroom so he didn't disturb my sleep as he worked.  He didn't turn on the television in the "living room."  When he heard me stirring he came in and hugged and kissed me and he told me how much he appreciated all I do for him when we're traveling.  I didn't do anything mind ya except make sure we had breakfast bars in the room so he could have with his coffee before we went to breakfast.  I keep the room organized and make sure he drinks water.  He didn't turn on the television because he wanted me to rest since I was so tired.

It's the little things man.  The little things. 

So yeah...twenty minutes should be easy.  If you have kids...get them in on it too.  Make them help de-toy whatever room you guys are going to hang out in as a family after dinner.

Don't you just LOVE being a grown up and doing grown up things?  :)  Do what you can when you can.  It shouldn't be a mandate.  It should simply be a part of the process you do to make sure your family has a lovely QUALITY of life.  Clutter should not happen in your family's living areas.  Those areas should be pleasing to your eye so that free thought and expression flow easily. (That's some old feng shui ish.  LOL!)

What do YOU think about this one?

Scenario...

You're attending a wedding.

Your ex-fiance is there with the person he's dating.

You are there with your CURRENT fiance.

A song comes on that was hot when yall were in college. The ex is like...come on..let's show em how to do it!

Everyone is laughing.

No biggie right?

What do you do?

Monica Mingo

Question...

Do you use the hotel robe?

Monica Mingo

GOOD MORNING FABULOUS FOLKS!

I am up, up, up! 

I got mad briefly this morning on behalf of someone and then I got over it.  Hell...ain't nothing I can do about it.

But I'd like to know how YOU are feeling this morning?  How was your weekend?  What was the highlight?  Is life going good for you??????

Randoms of a Creole Princess

I have had the most satisfying weekend.  Spending time with people I consider family always brings out the best in me.

I like that.

Our new princess is soooooooooooooooooo beautiful to me.  Weezy and Cece are so happy and I couldn't be happier for them.

How FABULOUS is it that she was born on the day of her Uncle Cojoe and T-Andrea's wedding?

Cojoe and Andrea's wedding was soooooooooooooooooo beautiful!  Words simply can't describe.  The wedding?  STUNNING!  The reception?  OUTSTANDING!  Everything was so nice.  And Andrea's dress?  HOT, HOT, HOT!  She looked so perfect.  Like someone drew her. 

I second lined so hard last night I prolly chipped my hip bone.

LOL!

My stomach is pretty messed up. 

Robby and I are in Los Angeles now. 

Our room has a partial ocean view.  That's like teaser water.

I love it that we get to experience so much together.

It was so nice seeing cbean last night.  I know I was dog dead tired by the time I saw her but cbean came through anyway.  That's my girl.  :)

Houston is HOT.  It felt like it was 285 degrees to me.

It's chilly in L.A. currently

I'm watching MSNBC right now and listening to Jeffrey Dahmer talk about being a serial killer.  Dude is creepy because he's so calm talking about what he did.  Dare I say he seems normal.

I love that no matter where I am I prolly know or "know" someone there.

Cool huh?

I'm missing an event this evening that I really wanted to attend.

Aw well...duty calls.

I've been having bouts of motion sickness.

Crazy huh?

The internet connection in here is pretty slow.

One of my friends on Facebook posted that video about the angry Black woman who can't get a man.  He has these comments on the link from some chick who talked a lot and used lots of big words.

I read that ish thinking...um...yeah...lemme guess...you spend a lot of time alone huh?

I wish I had a pound of cherries.

I love the ocean.

Everybody and their grandmama gonna be talking about the history of Martha's Vineyard for the next 10 days.

I don't know what time it is.  I'm alllllllllllll messed up.  I've been in three time zones in as many days. 

I get some funny text messages.

I haven't worked out since Thursday so I will be hitting the hotel gym manana for sure.

I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired.  Help me.  Sorry...I ain't got much tonight.  Wait...today.  It's only 5:46 here but my puter says it's 8:46.  *sigh*

What's going on with you?

Do YOU find this funny?

What do YOU think about this video?

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We found cbean!!!!!

Monica Mingo

Princess Nina Gabrielle

Sorry it's not right up. This is how Weezy sent it. LOL!

Monica Mingo

COJOE AND ANDREA ARE MARRIED NOW!!!!!!!!!!

Monica Mingo

Hey yall!

Whatchall doing today? How's the weather out by yall?

COJOE IS GETTING MARRIED TODAY!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!

Monica Mingo

Princess Nina Gabrielle

Our family's newest addition has arrived looking beautiful and letting it be known she is here today on her Uncle Cojoe's wedding day! At 7 lbs and 8 ozs she looks just like Weezy but thank God she has Cece's ears! LOLOLOLOLOL!

Thank you God for such a wonderful blessing in our lives and that T-Monnie FINALLY has a baby girl to spoil ROTTEN!!!!!!!!! Oooooh the wonderful pink I will buy!!!!! LOL!

Monica Mingo

Houston is trying to KILL US!!!!!

So we get dressed and head out with two FULL hours to go before needing to be at rehearsal dinner. We had a few errands to run but had it all mapped out.

LAWD TO-DAY! The sky fell! All of a sudden it got black and POURED! And then??????? A gotdamn SOFTBALL SIZED PIECE OF HAIL/HELL hit our car! Shit got hectic real quick! Visibility was at zero and we pulled over under an overpass like everyone else. Man! This is crazy!

So then...we tipped out of there and turned off. Yup...right into flood waters!

Lawd...now we all late as shit with blue skies and a gotdamn mocking azz rainbow! My super cute freshly cut hair? Pwwwfffftttttt! A slick, stringy mess! Oh...and. You know those cute shirts with the elastic stuff at the bottom that sits on your hips all cute and shit? Well...if you have an azz that ridiculousness rides up your gotdamn back constantly unless you're standing still!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dude...I am soooooooo hating Houston!

Monica Mingo

Plane Tummy

Have you ever tossed your cookies on a plane?????

Monica Mingo

From Ted: Law of Attraction

As a male onlooker, this past week has been an interesting one in the blogosphere. It’s well-known that spring and summer are the seasons when folks go into heat, so relationship topics take on a new fervor. It seems that some folks have offered some wrong-azz explanations to the no-man-at-the-end-of-summer women. The common conclusions mostly have to do with “girl, you too dark” or “girl, you too fat” or “girl, you bald-headed” … “girl, you need to change your appearance to get more men."

What trips me out is the huge focus on how the women look. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised seeing as how looks are overemphasized all around us. And sure, there’s even scientific evidence that good-looking people are treated better than the rest of us. But there is NO evidence that good-looking people have better marriages or relationships. So when I come across discussions about why women haven’t gotten married yet, and the responses revolve around her appearance, then it becomes just like Houston, math, and a rabid pit bull in your backseat: we have a problem.

Ladies, your appearance is not what makes you attractive. I’ll say it again for emphasis and to assure you there was no typo: your appearance is not what makes you attractive. Your appearance can make you gorgeous, but it does not make you attractive. If you are a sub-par chick who doesn’t believe in putting on lotion, taking care of your hair, staying in shape, or wearing clothes that fit properly, then you can fix all that. And guess what? While more men will talk to you, they will also sense your sub-par-ness. And I don’t think any of you want a man who wants a sub-par woman.

Yes, looks are important. But they are important for YOU. Change your hair. Get some new clothes. Lose some weight. But don’t do because you want more men to talk to you. Do it because you want to be happy with yourself. While all those things might make you prettier, being happy with who you are makes you more attractive. I know a ton of dudes who have approached a woman just because she was pretty (me included), but I don’t know a single dude who married a woman just because she was pretty (me included). The type of man you want to commit to is the one who thinks you’re attractive, which by the way, makes you even prettier in his eyes.

True story: I met a really pretty woman a few years ago. We hung out a bit and had a good time together. I flirted with her and genuinely liked her and her company. At the end of the day though, she just wasn’t attractive to me. Period. She just didn’t have it. But she had a friend that I still think is one of the most attractive women I’ve ever met. If you were to put the two in a public setting, the “pretty” one would be approached at a ratio of ten to one compared to the “attractive” one. But in my eyes, the attractive one was irre-damn-sistible … there was nothing not to love. And so as it turned out, I ended up spending more time with, and got much closer to, the attractive woman.

I guess my whole point of this rant is do not let other people define how you feel about yourself. Do not let folks who cook up a recipe on how to get a man sell you some whatchu-need-ta-do cupcakes. Because the bottom line is, none of you just want a relationship with A man, you want one with YOUR man. And if you do enough self-introspection to figure out how to be happy with who you are, then that man will see it. And you won’t have to worrying about “getting” a man, because he will move heaven and earth trying “get” you!

LOL!

What would YOU say to a man who is RIDICULOUSLY out of shape and yet thinks he should be able to pull a 10 because he has a doctorate?

Have you ever known a man like this?

Monica Mingo

Question...

Do you know anyone who is ALWAYS dressed inappropriately for their body style? What about someone who consistently buys and wears clothing too tight and revealing? Do you believe that if they make it in your size you should be able to wear it?

Monica Mingo

Motion Sickness

Do you ever get it?

Monica Mingo

Labor Pain

Our Cece has been in early labor for two days now and Weezy's voice shook as he told me his bride was in tremendous pain. I told him to tell her how much I love her and I soooooooo hate that she's in so much pain.

What were YOUR deliveries like? Easy? Hard? How long were YOU in labor? How was the father? Was he helpful? Did he end up irking you? Did it hurt him to see you in pain?

Men...answer for the mother of your babies.

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Question...

If someone agreed to pick you up at the airport and when your plane landed they were JUST leaving their home which is 40 minutes away...would you be pissed?  How would you handle?

My Version of The Good Wife - Be Emotionally Honest

• From Housekeeping Monthly, 13 May, 1955:  Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.

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Now here is where I'm going to start having fundamental differences with the 50s version of being a good wife.  See...I don't believe you should EVER pretend with your husband.  I feel like out of all the people who you have known in your life be it family or friend...your husband should be the person you are truly closest to.  You should be able to talk to him about ANYTHING.  Sure...there are lots of things you probably wouldn't talk to him about...but you should be able to if you wanted to.

Confusing huh?

Take bags.  I'm addicted.  Lawd knows I'm addicted to a hot bag.  Now when I run across a bag that is fiya hot I will pick up the phone and take a pic and send to one of my girls for an opinion on the bag.  I wouldn't ever send it to Robby.  I COULD send it to Robby but he'll be like...why in the hell you asking me?  I think all your bags look the same.

Or some other asinine thing that would drive me insane.  HOWEVER...I COULD tell him all about my beautiful bag.  He might not be listening to me fully and engagingly...but yeah...I could tell him.

Get it?

Prolly not.  I know it's weird.  LOL! 

N E WAY...

If I'm having a fugged up day, my husband knows.  If I'm having an awesome day, my husband knows.  If I'm hurting way, way deep down inside, sometimes ONLY he knows.  I can truly say he's the only person I truly HAVE to speak to every.single.day.

I need him.

Robby can take one look at me and figure out if something is wrong with me and, fortunately, I can do the same with him.  This is because we never, ever, ever lie to each other about our feelings.  We are emotionally honest and sometimes loud about it too.  LOL!  I just don't believe in being able to talk to someone else about something I couldn't talk to my husband about.  I feel like I should be able to go to him with anything.  That I could trust him with my deepest and darkest just as I can trust him with my hopes, dreams and desires.

That said...if Robby comes home and I've had a fugged up day...yeah...he's gonna know about it and because he's him and I'm me I know he's going to sit down and talk to me.  Hug me and kiss me and help me in whatever way he can and because of this...I'll feel better.

Don't start keeping feelings away from your husband.  It's not fair.  How in the world will he ever have the chance to be your hero if you don't trust him with your everything?  How in the world will he ever continue being connected to you if you're lying to him about who you really are? 

Be honest with your husband.  Dude is half of you.

Now I will agree with the being interesting part.  But being interesting is simply knowing what is going on in the world and being able to discuss it.  Gossip sites aren't going to cut it so if that's all you're reading...um...*BLINK*  Read the newspapers, check out some OpEds, know what is going on in the world around you.  You shouldn't be doing this for your man...you should be doing this for YOU.  When you understand what's going on you'll have that much more confidence knowing  you are perfectly capable of discussing arts, current events, sports, politics, etc.

Being interesting isn't really that hard when you think about all of the things in the world you know nothing about and can find out about with just a trip to Mr. Google. I wondered today how many species of bees there were.  After a trip to Mr. Google and about an hour of reading I found out there were over 20,000 species of bees.  WHO KNEW?  Did you know that the female bee is the one that stings you?  Did you know that bees are solitary?  Like...each one of those little holes in a hive was dug out by a female bee to live in?  Did you know that bees are found all over the world except at the highest altitudes, in polar regions, and on some small oceanic islands?

And now...I can go on and on about bees.

Interesting huh?

Useless definitely but yeah...interesting.

So again...be interesting.  Try to learn something new every single day. 

Hmmmm...now I wanna know why the damn bees don't go to small oceanic islands.

Bye!  Off to Mr. Google!

I cry EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. I watch this!

I blame the OTHER Will I know for bringing this up over on Facebook.

Scenario...

You are in the hair salon and start talking to this chick. She tells you she's getting her hair done because she's going to Vegas with her boyfriend for the weekend. She's VERY happy and shares a-LOT. Yall continue talking and she asks if you live near. You say yeah and give a general location. She knows the area and says her boyfriend lives on _____ street. Blank street is your street. You're trying to figure out what man man on your street is single and realize she's talking about a VERY married man whose wife JUST had a new baby. Do you say anything?

Scenario...

Your daughter turned 16.

For her birthday you purchased her a pair of diamond studs of good quality, and color.  Total weight is about a carat and a half.

You present them to her all proud of what you've done.

She doesn't like them. 

Why? 

They are round and set in gold when she wanted princess cut set in white gold or platinum.

What do you do?

What would YOUR parents have done?

Kiddie Mob

When you were a kid were you husky, slim or regular?  (I didn't know they still had husky clothes until yesterday and it brought back memories of my brothers and I school shopping with our mommy.  :))

What about your kids?  What's the difficulty you have in shopping for their clothes?  Are they tall but slim?  Short but husky?  Or are they pretty much true to sizes?