Rantings of a Creole Princess

Scenario...

A woman is the life of the party.

SUPER outgoing.

Loves to kick it.

Does so often.

She meets a guy who is the exact opposite.

Major introvert.  MAJOR!

Hates going out.

NEVER goes out.

Always stays home.

They like each other. 

Do you think the relationship could work?

 

Cooking a Frozen Turkey

What say YOU?????

SIP: o_0

Me: I blame BJ for this.

HEY BEY! HotNESS or HotMESS (SM)

Unicorn Meat

Unicorn Meat

Would YOU Rock a Turban?

I would TOTALLY rock this entire look.  What say you?  The Head Wrap Comes Back, Again

My Biggest Hair Complaint!

The biggest complaint I have about my hair is how tangled it gets. 

It gets tangled when it's wet.

It gets tangled when it's dry, down and the wind is blowing.

It's a mess.

I've searched for years for a product that will help and, I've found a few that were good so I was good.

Then...I got a sample of this product and baaaaaaaaaaaaaby...hair combing is a whole new game!  I LURVE it!  Ojon Revitalizing Mist 

Have any of you ever tried this one?

What new products are you using that we should know a little something about?

What is your biggest complaint about YOUR hair?

DAMN GINA!

Bride-to-Be Rachelle Friedman Is Paralyzed After a Bachelorette Party Joke Went Wrong

Instrastin...

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/11/131253000/-franklin-and-eleanor-a-marriage-ahead-of-its-time

Whatchu reading?

It's time for me to choose a new book and I aways get some really good ideas from you guys! 

Whatchall reading?

Sick Azz

What kinda sick person is YOUR S/O?

What kinda sick person are YOU?

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup: Super Food

Yesterday I put a whole chicken in a steamer basket of a pot with two carrots, two celery stalks, a whole onion and a whole bunch of garlic.  All the veggies were cut up coarse and thick.

I brought it to a boil and then let it cook down slow for 2 hours.

Then I removed the steamer basket and poured the broth through a strainer.

And I added that back to the pot.

In the pot I put three cut up carrots, three cut up stalks of celery, a handful of pasta noodles, garlic and mushrooms.

I seasoned it to taste.

Then I stripped the chicken off the bones leaving the skin behind.

And I added that to the pot.

Just like my mommy would do.

Then I fed Robby because the poor, sweet, gentle dear is sick and he ate it with a loving smile and no complaints.  He felt instantly better and all warm and cozy inside then he quietly dozed off to sleep with a soft doughy smile on his cherub cheeks.

Ahhhhhhhh...life.

Ford Motors

Which Ford vehicle would YOU drive?

If you wouldn't drive ANY...why not?

 

Hold up...

 

Isn't this the person who is in that .gif that AR Gal is always posting?  The one with a red cup?  Is this a man or a woman????

SIP:  iCan't.

Guilty As Charged

I was doing something for someone recently and it was a pain in the ass.

It wasn't anything life or death but something you needed to focus on to get it done.

Something grown azz people would know to do for themselves.

As I was in the middle of doing it...I stopped and thought to myself:  "Why in the hell am I doing this?"

It took me about 15 seconds of deep, contemplative thought (note sarcasm) before I decided I wasn't going to do it.

I called the person and said:  "Yeah...I'm not doing all that.  I got other stuff to do."

And I was done.

And, surprise, surprise...I didn't feel guilty about it.

10 years ago I would have felt guilty.

5 years ago I would have felt guilty.

2 years ago I MIGHT have felt guilty.

This year however?

I didn't. 

Does that mean I'm less into helping people out or more into doing what I want and need to do? 

Have YOU ever told someone  you'd do do something and then once you realized how much dang angst and work it would be...decided you simply didn't want to do it?

What say YOU?

 

Scenario...

You have a co-worker that you really like.

They are pretty cool and you have lunch together pretty often.

They are of the same sex as you and both of you are straight.

You're one skin color.

They are another.

Over lunch your friend asks if you'd like to go to a party in a couple of weekends.  

You ask a few questions about the party and, reluctantly, the friend tells you that it's a "Bring a _____(insert your skin color here) Friend" party.

Turns out the friend and their friends realize they don't hang with many people that don't look like them and want to be more culturally aware.

What say you?

Are you offended?

Would you go?

Would it change your relationship with your co-worker?

People are FUN-TAY!

When Shelly and I went to see Maxwell we did a video review. Maxwell Concert Review

It's been a while ago but every now and then I get a comment on it on YouTube.  I got this one this morning and it made me laugh:

Bristol Palin apologizes for Facebook rant - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101118/ap_on_en_tv/us_bristol_palin_apology

What say YOU?

I've seenT this around the net more than a few times in the past week and yeah...I have my opinion of it BUT...I'd like yourN. 

"The Color Purple," Steven Spielberg and ME!

1987 was my senior year in high school.  I was fresh faced and timid with 5 scholarship offers.  I didn't know what I WANTED to do...so I did what I was TOLD to do.

I didn't have much respite from my life other than books and movies.

I devoured both and I dreamed and dreamed and dreamed.  At first I dreamed of BEING in movies and then...I found myself dreaming of MAKING them.

Mainly because I recognized I was funny looking.

When "The Color Purple" was first released I wasn't allowed to go see it.  I don't remember WANTING to see it mind you...but I do remember being at the movies and asking could we go see it and my father saying something crass like there was some nasty women kissing in it or something.

Dude was a MAJOR homophobe.

Because he said that it always stuck with me that it was something I'd watch when I could.  Hell...if he didn't like it I already knew I'd LOVE it.

I was at my Aunt and Uncle's house the first time I saw it.  I sat there and watched it in AWE and loved, loved, LOVED every.single.second of it.  A well made film with REAL Black people in it?  By a HUGE director?  In HOLLYWOOD?  Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaby...I was in LOVE!

The movie was so well done that, even with my young eyes I knew I was seeing magic.  I remember watching it straight through the first time and I remember wanting to watch it again immediately after.

And I did.

"The Color Purple" was the very first movie I bought on VHS.  I bought a VCR before I paid for cable and it didn't matter one bit to me cuz I simply watched "The Color Purple" over and over and over again.

Every.single.time I watched it I saw something new.  Every.single.time I watched it the most moving parts made me stop and catch my breath.

It was truly the first movie I fell in love with and I remember that like it was yesterday. 

I did what I was told to do but I dreamed.  I dreamed that one day I'd be able to make movies and then...reality would set in and I'd feel like Ceily. 

Trapped.

Once I made my first "bill" I felt like I'd never be able to follow this dream so I shut it up and down and moved on through life.  For years I was able to ignore the pull.  For years I was able to forget my dream but...since I watched this movie so much I recognized I had an eye for it.  I realized that I recognized elements of shots that the regular person wouldn't.

The day my first VHS stopped working...I went out and bought a new one.

The first DVD I ever bought?  You guessed it.  "The Color Purple."

And I'm on my third one.

I watch this movie at least twice a month and I watch it EVERY.SINGLE.HOLIDAY. when I'm cooking.  Sometimes I watch it just because.  Sometimes I watch it because I have, what they call, PASSION for it.

I recognize now that what I was seeing was shaping my eye for years to come.  I know that I was setting myself up for wanting nothing but the very best production quality available.

"The Color Purple" and Steven Spielberg are the reasons I am following my dreams. 

I KNOW I can so it...I just KNOW IT!

 

 

Guess who's having a boy???????

KRISTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO HAPPY FOR YOU AND THE TWO As!

P.S. This was typed with my thumbs.

Turkey!!!!!

Either / Or?

Dressing?

OR

Stuffing?????

*sigh*

"Black people don't care about how the table looks.  They just care about how the food tastes."

What say YOU?

Ovulation Pain, PMS Woes

Aiight...yall remember this from the other day right?  Right.

Can we talk about some old people ish right quick?????

Obama's Wars

If you would like to enjoy the holiday season and NOT barricade yourself in your home for the duration of your life I suggest that you do NOT read Obama's Wars.

Just know that our President has a LOT on his hands and I'm extremely impressed with how he is handling ish with our country's security in mind.

But yeah...it's scary.

What's the last non-fiction book YOU read?  Would you recommend?

Stunning...To Me

Question...

What is marriage good for?

Read the article and then...answer the question for YOU.

This is HILARIOUS to me!

Brandy Loses to Bristol Palin on 'DWTS'; Enraged Fan Shoots His TV in Protest

What do YOU say about Bristol still being on the show?

From My Inbox...

Hey Monica,

Something has been weighing on me the past few weeks. I wanted to see if you can post it for the tribe to weigh in on...

About 2 months ago an old high school friend of mine was stationed in town. He and his wife are living apart and (like me) he isnt from this state so I invited him along with me and my best (and only local) homegirl to hang out with us since he doesnt know anybody round here. Well little did I know my homegirl would fall for him even though she called him immature and dorky the first meet. She knows he is still married and his wife lives literally around the corner from him. They have not even filed for legal separation or even started divorce proceedings as of yet according to him. On top of that, he has a young child with his wife and they both have washed their hands of the poor thing and sent her off to another state to live with grandma since him and the wife couldn't "resolve their differences" which I think is EXTRA trifling considering him and the wife live a few blocks away from each other, why make the child suffer. I told my homegirl getting involved in this drama was NOT a cool idea. Being that I have known dude about 11 years I talked to her about my thoughts but she bit my head off and told me she was going to pursue dude any way regardless what I said. Because I only knew the "old" him in her eyes. Never mind the fact she only knew him about a week at that point, so she seemed really thirsty to even be talking that way.

Now fast forward a couple weeks and they are supposedly a couple and making Thanksgiving dinner together here and she invited me to spend with them. First thing I asked was, is he going to visit his child, and she said no, he could not bother going out of state right now so I said I had other plans for the holiday. All in all right now I am feeling really guilty about the whole thing because if I didnt include dude to hang with us originally, she wouldn't be all up under him right now.  But she's been calling and texting me which I am either ignoring or just rushing her off the phone and I dont know what to do. We are both Christians and being single myself, I know how it is to be lonely, but I have absolutely NO respect for any woman who gets involved with a married man, separated or not. If he's that special, why not wait til the divorce is final before going there? I am a firm believer in karma, and have never even considered dating any of the married men that come try to make a play for me. I know she is beautiful, has no kids, never married and really wanting to be married one day, even if she and dude make it to marriage, the way it started out seems like a recipe for karma to bite her in the ass hard. Plus, I don't want to hang out with someone who would lower herself that way. Am I wrong for not wanting to hang with her anymore? Am I being too judgmental? What say you?

My boyfriend says she probably has low self esteem to go this route but even so I'm tired of beating myself up over this... I even stopped going to our church that me and her go to, since she is bringing him to church now.  *sigh*

Thanks.

Real Life Scenario...

You have a friend.

You meet a friend of theirs and become friends in real life as well as on Facebook.

You think the new friend is cool as a white box fan.

Your original friend and the new friend fall out over the silliest of nothings.

The original friend got real petty and un-friended the new friend.

Original friend contacted you and told you to un-friend new friend too.

She's adamant about it.

What do you say?

What would you do?

How would you feel about original friend for even SUGGESTING such to you?

Eva Longoria and Tony Parker

So...the Parkers are calling it quits.

Seems Eva found all kinds of texts messages between her husband and the wife of a dude he used to work with.

Allegedly...they were all friends but the other couple was in the process of splitting up.

So yeah...they called it quits.

Now...here is my question.

If this was YOU.

And YOU were friends with a couple and found out that your spouse was cheating with the spouse of the other couple...

What would YOU do?

Seriously.

I know plenty of you who are the non-violent type and I applaud you.  But would you want to kick someone's azz knowing these folks were skinning and grinning up in your face while doing dirt right under your nose?

Yall are FRIENDS.  Does this change your "I'm not going to fight over no man" stance?

Food Processor

Do you have one?  How often do you use it? 

Tell the truth and shame the devil!

What fashion brands did you used to LOVE that you are sooooooo over now?

HotNESS or HotMESS? (SM)

Tadashi Shoji Drape Neck Sequin Gown

Solving Mysteries Wearing HOT BOOTS!

Yesterday I was out with a neighbor shopping.

She was telling me about a voicemail that they'd received on their home phone wherein the man who left it sounded angry as hell.

He was also speaking in a foreign language they didn't recognize.

It weirded them out cuz, again, dude sounded PISSED about something.

Her husband was at work and called her to say he'd received a similar message on his cell phone.  That freaked them out even more!

Her husband does something spooky for a living so he reported it and the matter was looked into.

We were in a pretty large store and went our separate ways for a minute.  When I found her again she was looking exceptionally pale and she shared with me that she'd received the message on her cell phone.

Old girl was shook.

We left and she continued talking about it.  She listened to the message again and I could hear it through her phone so I asked her to put it on speaker so I could hear it better.

Me:  That's Haitian Creole.

Her:  Huh?

Me:  Lemme call my girl.

So I called Honest and left her a message to call me back.  When she did we were driving so I pulled over and we put both phones on speaker so she could hear the message.

Honest:  Oh...those are robo calls for the Presidential election in Haiti.  I got one too.

Me:  Thanks girl!

Neighbor:  Whew!  Thanks!

My neighbor called her spooky husband and told him. 

She then teased him about how two housewives solved the mystery for them.

He laughed...but not really.

SIP:  If he didn't I did.  That ish was funny!

Me:  Yeah.

SIP:   Yall out tablescaping and solving mysteries and ish.  Got Honest involved.  All women detective agency...with shopping.

Me:  Hey...I didn't buy those boots.

SIP:  YESTERDAY...you didn't buy those boots YESTERDAY.  Today is a whole new day.

Me:  Whatever.  Did you see this?  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/17/national/main7064696.shtml

SIP:  They shoulda called Honest.

Me:  ROFL!

Turkey Brine

I use the Citrus and Herb turkey brine from Williams & Sonoma.

Judge me cuz I DON'T care.

The first time I was going to brine a turkey I enlisted the help of Martha.  I had a grocery list full of all types of herbs and stopped at Williams & Sonoma first and found their Citrus and Herb which included MOST of the ingredients that was on my damn list.  It only cost like $17 so DING, DING, DING!  This was for me ba=by!

For some odd reason the Citrus & Herb brine isn't on the website but I bought mine in the store so I'm good.  The only one they have online is the apple one.  I don't like apples with meat.  I don't know why. 

But I don't.

What brine do YOU use?  Do you brine?  If you don't...why?  Have you ever tried?

2010 Thanksgiving Tablescape - 1rst Attempt!

Most of yall have been reading this blog for a minute so you ALREADY know that the first draft of my tablescape is by far the last.

That said...here are pics of my first attempt.

My inspiration?  My new place settings.  They make me smile so basically...Thanksgiving is going to be built around them.  I'm using a lot of stuff I already have but I needed to find some stuff to work with the vision I kinda have.  I'm not 100% feeling this attempt and already have a few ideas that I know will take it to the next level.

Based on those plates I kinda wanted to stick with natural colors and greenery.  Since it's Turkey Day I used the autumnal colors as much as possible and am trying to "ground" everything with white.  The main color?  Green.  Different shades of green.

Whatcha think so far?  Any ideas you'd incorporate?

Hmmmmmm...

Do YOU see it?

Today is all about ME!

I'm going to do whatever the hell I wanna do all day! When's the last time you did the same?

*BLINK*

White man dressed like woman:  (pointing at pic on phone) Is that your husband?

Me:  Yes.

White man dressed like woman:  We have something in common!  My wife is Black.

Me:  (I.DO.NOT.KNOW.WHAT.TO.SAY)  Oh!  Okay!  (All brightly and ish)  Is she here with you?

White man dressed like woman:  No.  She doesn't approve of this.

Me:  (I.DO.NOT.KNOW.WHAT.TO.SAY)  *BLINK*  Um...how does THAT work?

White man dressed like woman:  After 24 years it must be working just fine.

Me:  *BLINK*  Um...well...erra...yeah.  Yeah.  Okay then!  See you later!

 

SIP:  Some things we'll never understand.

Do YOU understand this one? 

Tell the truth and shame the devil!

Mini Me:  Daddy?  Why is the sky blue?

Daddy:  A blue crayon got too close to the sun and melted.

Mini Me:  o_0

Mini Me:  Daddy?  Why is a pen called a pen and not a pencil?

Daddy:  Here's some money...go find the ice cream truck.

Mini Me:  (I'll have to use that one again...)

Have YOU ever given your kid a crazy azz answer to a question?  Did YOUR parents do this to you?

Hmmmmm...

Is it REALLY that simple?

In my world if you're a man and have sans ropas with another man...you're gay.

In my world if you're a woman and have sans ropas with another woman...you're gay.

Bisexuality...I simply don't get.  I'm of the mind that if you're gay...be gay.

Simple.

In Tyler Perry's movie "For Colored Girls," Janet's FIONE azz husband tells her that he's a man that likes to have sans ropas with another man but he's not gay.

So ya mouth say...

On Oprah recently the dude who wrote the DL book recanted his initial statement years ago when he told Oprah  he wasn't gay.  Now that he's been outed...he has no problems admitting he is gay.

These people keep their true selves hidden for YEARS while they enter into heterosexual relationships, marry and start a family.

Questions for you:  Do YOU think it's as simple as if you've slept with someone of the same sex you are gay?  Do YOU think that those who marry and have heterosexual relationships are going to eventually come out of the closet?

Thanksgiving 2010 Tablescape!

Yall know the kid LURVES tablescaping!  It seriously brings me JOY! 

Thanksgiving 2009 Tablescape

I haven't had as much time to plan it this year but I have a significant start in that I picked up plates I love already and want to use.  Since the setting is so dark in color...I need to find some way to lighten up the base layer so I'll get started on that today.

Give me some suggestions as I decide what I'm going to wear out and about today.  I'll be back...

Video from last year:

 

What say YOU?

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Question From My Inbox:

Would you please ask The Tribe if anyone knows if the clips for your wig sets off the alarm at the airport and if they make you take off your wig?

 

SIP:  GOOD QUESTION.  THE HORROR!!!!!

From 1969:

Thanksgiving Dinner Rules

Print and give  copy to each guest that enters your home.

10 RULES FOR THANKSGIVING  

1. Don't get in line asking  questions about the food. "Who made the potato salad? Is it egg in there? Are  the greens fresh? Is the meat in the greens turkey or pork? Who made the  macaroni and cheese? What kind of pie is that? Who made it?  Ask one more  question and I will punch you in your mouth, knocking out all your fronts so  you won't be able to eat anything.

2. If you can't walk or are  missing any limbs, sit your ass down until someone makes your plate for you.  Dinner time is not the time for you to be independent. Nibble on them damn  pecans and walnuts to hold you over until someone makes you a plate.  

3. If you have kids under the age  of twelve, I will escort the little moochers to the basement and bring their  food down to them. They are not gonna tear my damn house up this year. Tell  them that they are not allowed upstairs until it's time for Uncle Butchie to  start telling family stories about their mommas and papas. If they come  upstairs for any reason except for that they are bleeding to death, I will  break a foot off in their asses!

4. There is going to be one prayer  for Thanksgiving dinner! JUST ONE! We do not care that you are thankful that  your 13 year old daughter gave birth to a healthy baby or your nephew just got  out of jail. Save that talk for somebody who gives a damn. The time limit for  the prayer is one minute. If you are still talking after that one minute is  up, you will feel something hard come across your lips and they will be  swollen for approximately 20 minutes.

5. Finish everything on your plate  before you go up for seconds! If you don't, you will be cursed out and asked  to stay your greedy ass home next year!

6. BRING YOUR OWN TUPPERWARE!!  Don't let me catch you fixing yourself a plate in my good Tupperware knowing  damn well that I will never see it again! Furthermore, if you didn't bring  anything over, don't let me catch you making a plate period or there will be a  “misunderstanding”.

7. What you came with is what you  should leave with!! Do not leave my house with anything that doesn't belong to  you. EVERYBODY WILL BE SUBJECTED TO A BODY SEARCH COMING IN AND LEAVING MY  PROPERTY!!!

8. Do not leave your kids so you  can go hopping from house to house. This is NOT a DAYCARE CENTER! There will be a kid-parent roll  call every ten minutes. Any parent that is not present at the time of roll  call, your child will be put outside until you come and get him or her. After  24 hours, I will call DSS on your ignorant ass!!

9. BOOK YOUR HOTEL ROOM BEFORE YOU  COME INTO TOWN!! There will be no sleeping over at my house! You are to come  and eat dinner and take your ass home or to your hotel room. EVERYBODY GETS  THE HELL OUT AT 11:00 pm. You will get a 15
minute warning bell ring.  

10. Last but not least! ONE PLATE  PER PERSON!!! This is not a soup kitchen. I am not trying to feed your family  until Christmas dinner! You will be supervised when you fix your plate. Anything over the  appropriate amount will be charged to you before you leave. There will be a  cash register at the door. Thanks to Cousin Alfred and his greedy ass family,  we now have a credit card machine! So VISA and MASTERCARD are now being  accepted. NO FOOD STAMPS OR ACCESS CARDS YET!

Married to his mama...

Have you ever known a man who was basically married to his mama?  Like...she didn't have a husband so he was her only "man" and she expected him to take care of her always? 

How did it work out when he got married?  Did he ever get married?  Do you think he'd have a successful marriage?  Relationship period?

What advice would you give to a woman who is dating a man who seems to be "married to his mama?"

WARNING...THIS SITE HAS MUSIC ON IT:  "Married to his mom."

o_0

Bishop Eddie Long | Responses to lawsuits filed

Gone

Yesterday we were rocked by the news that one of our most vibrant loved ones had a massive heart attack and died.

Like...she's gone.

Like...GONE.

And everyone is in pure shock.

She was the person who laughed the hardest, smiled the biggest, gave the best hugs.

She's gone.

Beautiful smile.  Sharp as HELL. Funny.  Loving.  WONDERFUL.

Today...she's gone.

Like...GONE.

Like...she's no longer here on Earth.

She's dead.

"While heart disease is the leading cause of death for women 65 and older, it's the third-leading cause of death for women 25 to 44 and the second-leading cause of death for women 45 to 64. Women under the age of 65 who have a family history of heart disease should pay particularly close attention to the heart disease risk factors. Still, all women, of all ages, should take heart disease seriously."

From http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/heart-disease/HB00040

Get your physicals done yearly.

Exercise.

Eat as best as you can.

Keep your LDL Cholesterol low.

Do what your doctors tell you to do.

That's all I got for now.

Waitie Katie

Prince William is engaged to his girlfriend of 10 years. 

Congrats.

Folks have been calling her Waitie Katie.

I didn't know that.

Instrastin.

In YOUR world...what is too long for YOU to date someone without getting married?