This is my last post on this blog. I decided it was time to just invest in a hosting service and start a blog on my own domain. My new blog is shavonne.org. Enjoy!
Things that make me feel ugly
•May 12, 2006 • 3 CommentsPicture this, I''m driving home from work and I come to a stop sign. I'm sitting there waiting for traffic to clear on the left and right so I can continue down the road I'm on. Then I look to my left and I see a car making a right turn. All of a sudden the car stops next mine and there's five black males sitting in the car smiling and trying to get my number. So I tell them to go away and I roll up my window.
This is California and a black women should feel lucky to capture the black man's attention but damn, if these guys are getting black women like that then we are living in extremely desparate times.
I wish the men that approach me would put that energy towards an education and a career. I'm so tired of pussy hounds.
ANTM
•May 10, 2006 • Comments Off on ANTMWho will it be? Joanie or Danielle?
I love watching America’s Next Top Model. I’ve been a huge fan ever since I watched the first season when I was living in Korea.
My top two favorites for this cycle are Joanie and Danielle. I’m taking bets on Joanie. I like Danielle but her accent, according to the judges, is an issue. I’d like to add there are plenty of models with accents. Heidi Klum as an accent but a German accent coming from a blonde is more acceptable than a country accent coming from a black woman. Don’t you just love hypocrisy?
If Jade somehow makes it to the top two, I’m going to be very upset. If she wins, and I hope not, will never watch ANTM again.
Oh yeah, there’s Sara. Is she gone yet?
Phone Calls from the Edge: My Phone Rang off the Hook!
•May 7, 2006 • 2 CommentsIt seems I was very popular this past week. I've heard from my unwedded single parent friend, her sister, the Actress, and my aunt and cousin from Detroit.
My unwedded mother friend called to tell me how a coworker of hers was recalled back to the Army. She said everyone at work was extremely upset. I wish the people I worked with were that way. I just constantly hear Bush-speak, moron-speak, idiot-speak or whichever you want to call it…"Oh thank you or your service" or "You're off to do better things…God has a bigger plan for you." Someone's even had the nerve to say "I support what's going on in Iraq but I would never go over there myself. Thank you for volunteering and for your sacrifice." Considering the Army is calling my mobilization Involuntary Active Duty (IAD), do you see the irony in this idiots statement?
Anyways, After my friend with children finished telling me about her coworker, I broke the news to her about my impending departure. She didn't take it too well. In fact, she took it worst than my mom! She started crying and cursing Bush and his family and calling him an idiot (no need to remind me of that).
When I got off the phone with my single mother friend, her sister, my other high school buddy called. she asked a couple of questions about my deployment, I told her what I knew, and we caught up on what's been going on in our lives. (I haven't seen or heard frolm her in a year.
She's dating some club owner in L.A. I asked her if he had any goodlooking friends.
"Why you looking to get some?" she asked.
"No. I'm celibate."
It took her a minute to wrap her mind around that concept.
"How long have you been celibate?"
"Not long. Just over a year." I replied.
"I don't think I can go a month."
The Actress and I spoke til almost midnight. I tried to get off the phone sooner but whenever our cell phones dropped a call she would call right back. Dang. I tried hinting about how I had to go to work but the Actress, forever unemployed it seems, just couldn't comprehend that either.
The next day I got a call from my aunt. I don't know if any of you caught on yet, but I'm not exactly a phone person. I'm definitely don't like phones when people call to talk about baby daddy drama, gossip, or questions of when I'm going to bring a bastard child into the world. Yep. That's what my whole conversation with my aunt and cousin was all about.
"When are you gon have a baby?"
I've answered this question for like a thousand times already and the answer has always been the same.
"When I'm married."
Duh!!! I mean really. I've heard about dead-beat dads, late or nonexistant child support payments, and how hard life is as an unwedded mother-just the thought I joining that club makes me want to barf.
Then my aunt asked why I don't bother to call Detroit and I kept thinking because I don't like being questioned about when I'm going to have a baby.
Not up to blogging lately
•May 7, 2006 • 1 CommentI haven't been feeling like blogging or studying since I learned of my mobilization. In fact, I dropped my second class after one week.
I subitted my paperwork for an exemption to the Delay and Exemption Board. I don't think they will grant me an exemption, which is why I dropped my class. When it comes to the Army, I always expect the worst. This is indeed the worst.
On a brighter side, I came across a quote in US Weekly magazine that will be my inspiration for a book I will write sporadically or full-time, depending on where I'll be for the next two years-at home continuing with my studies or in the Middle Eastern desert baking.
"I was conceived on Avenue X in Brooklyn with a ….condom that broke. My mom was ready to get an abortion. She was at the clinic…and then she felt me move, and she fell in love with me right then." -Rosario Dawson, US Weekly, March 27, 2006.
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Shavonne
Comment spam
•April 16, 2006 • 5 CommentsI do not appreciate comment spam. Askintoo, please stop with the comment spam!! I deleted your comment for a reason and now I’m deleting it again. I do not want to turn on word verification but I will I get more comment spam.
Army Recall: “As Soon as You Think You’re Out, They Pull You Back In”
•April 15, 2006 • 10 CommentsI've been called back into the Army. My report date is 28 May 2006.
I cannot describe how I'm feeling right now. If someone had asked me what would be the worst thing that could happen to me, this would be it. The Army is, and this is just my opinion, possibly the worst branch of the military for job satisfaction with a rather mediocre quality of life. The smoking and drinking culture-boy am I looking forward to that again.
This also means that U.S. is seriously thinking of invading Iran and things could get very ugly. Iraq is a breeze compared to what we are up against. Can you say nuclear holocaust?
This signifies the end folks. Pretty soon they will be drafting your sons and daughters or even yourself if you're still young enough. I mean I'm trained as an Army journalist, hardly a mission essential job for fighting wars like infantry, field artillery, special forces, medics etc.
When I get back I will continue with grad school and then shop for a drama free country to take up permanent residence in, one with lower taxes, lower cost of living, low crime, quiet, green, and underpopulated but hopefully with an Apple store.
FW: New Drug…
•April 10, 2006 • 2 CommentsAn Email from the Soul Patrol
•April 1, 2006 • 7 CommentsI hung out with someone that works in my building. Ever since then, she’s been forwarding emails to me. Some of them are very religious in nature and some are fun, and then there are the ones I can’t stand-the ones that tell me to forward this message to X many people.
When someone sends me emails of the mentioned nature to my personal email addresses, they get a (one) nasty gram. And I mean nasty. I have a very strict don’t-forward-crap-to-me policy. I don’t care if it’s funny. I don’t care about the subject, I don’t want it!! If you forward another piece of crap to me, I block you! I really mean it. I’ve blocked my own mother!
Since this was my work address and not my personal email address, I kindly requested that she not send me forwarded emails. This was her response:
"Hey, girly! Sorry – I enjoy forwards and enjoy blessing others with such thoughtful messages. Ok, I won't bother you with those emails anymore. Anyways, sorry we didn't get a chance to go to the movies two Sats ago. I went car shopping because I really needed a new car so bad. I didn't realize that it takes so much time just to go shopping for a car. I spent like two weekends looking. I’ve been so blessed because of Him! God promised me a new car in 90 days and one bank came back with a yes and I bought a ’04 Chrysler Sebring despite bad credit and 7 rejections!!! Yay! He is so faithful!!! Praise the Lord!!!
This past weekend I spent catching up on laundry and sleep – lol. I had a good weekend. So how was yours?”
I know you know what I’m going to make fun of. You have no idea how much discipline it took to not respond to this email. I really, really wanted to but that wouldn’t have been right.
I wanted to respond:
"Too bad you didn’t pray for good credit. You can do more with good credit that you can with bad credit and a new car. Yeah, it’s true! Praise the Lord!!! A-men!!!”
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