New Jack Swing!

Am I the only person who absolutely loved this era in music? I was a child during that time but the music has stuck with me over the years. Many of those songs are still in heavy rotation on my computer and Ipod. I miss when music was fun but yet still had some substance. I love watching the dancing and the clothes in the videos. The music out now is just a hot mess. What era are we in now? Lord....

Currently Listening: Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel

Busy Busy Busy....

I've been so busy! I feel like I've been running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. I quit one of my bartending gigs so hopefully things will slow down for me. I've been staying real tired lately. We'll see how it goes. I'm thinking about joining my coworkers gym though. I need to drop a few pounds. Since I have more free time now, I guess I could fill it with working out. Not much else to share... Toodles...

Why I Blog....

Quite a few people have sent me messages asking why I blog or decided to start a blog so I figured I’d explain. For one, a lot of people may not know this but I didn’t decide to start a blog because it’s the new cool thing to do. I’ve actually been maintaining a blog online for years now. Since I was 13 or 14. Of course those blogs were not at this url as I’ve hosted it in multiple places over the years, but at least two of them, to my knowledge are still out there for the world wide web to read. If you can find them, feel free to read my thoughts from when I was a teenager as well as when I was in college.

But anyway, for me, blogging was a means of release much like a diary is to a teenaged girl. It was my diary only I didn’t write it out by hand in a book. I typed it on my computer, which made more since btw because I was always on it, and it’s quicker for me to type something then to write it out by hand. I like being able to look back at old entries and seeing what I was thinking in a different frame of mind; when I was a different person at a different stage in my life.

Also, from each blog my format and the types of entries I typed changed. When I was a teenager it was a lot of mindless babble about things that were important to me at the time, mostly school events, friends, when I was mad at my mother, etc. When I was in college, I went through a lot of changes and the entries were more contemplative than anything. They were also pretty long because they involved a lot of personal thoughts, reasoning and my accounts of things that happened. This layout isn’t really conducive to typing long entries. They would fill up the entire first page which is why I’ve kept them pretty short and sweet.

Also most of my entries here are pretty superficial meaning they’re just random thoughts off the top of my head, nothing I’ve thought long and hard about. Nothing too personal. I wish blogger had the feature like livejournal where you could post an entry to your blog but you could lock it and make it personal or only allow certain viewers on your list to see it. I like to see all my entries together. Blogger makes you make a separate blog and lock the whole thing. But I like bloggers layout better than livejournal even though it doesn’t give me the space for long entries like LJ. Ahhh well… Thanks for stopping by and reading my thoughts. Hope to read yours in the future. Toodles…

What is with this obsession with stripper classes?

I mean strip aerobics, pole dancing classes, etc. People talk about, look down on and condemn strippers and/or hoes because they do not think it's respectable but now want to learn how and are actually paying money to learn their techniques. What? That makes no sense. People want to learn how to be a stripper but not actually be one?

I mean I have no issues with strippers. Sure I wouldn't do it because I do not think it's a respectable profession. However, neither is selling drugs or anything else. And stripping isn't illegal. But anyway, if that's the profession you choose (or maybe you didn't have another choice but that's a whole other can of worms I won't get into) then do you. Who am I to judge? We all do things that someone else is going to deem undesirable. But you can't live your life to please other people.

But I really don't understand the fascination with stripper techniques. That's like the whole notion of everybody wanting to be black but not really. At least not when the cops come anyway.

Spend Nothing Month

I'm on a personal spend nothing challenge for the month of June. I made a ridiculous amount of money in tips last month and I blew through just about all of it. I sat there with my little spreadsheet and tallied up how much money I had spent in each expense category and I suddenly felt ill. I felt like I ought to be ashamed of myself. But I didn't even realize it when I was spending because it was like $30 here, $50 there and so on. Those little amounts add up. Last weekend I had my last hurrah and got it all out of my system on the 31st.

So no more shopping or spending unneccesarily this month. It's just hard because I usually just see something I like and if I have the money (or want to spend it rather) I buy it and that's that. There are quite a few things that I've seen or thought about buying but I can't so I'm anxious for the end of the month to come so I can get them. I'm hoping that since I had to wait so long I will have forgotten about the item or won't even want it anymore. So far so good. I didn't buy anything this week. I did return a dress that I bought last weekend and ended up getting a pair of shoes instead but that doesn't count since it was an exhange.

I'm curious to see how much extra money I'll be able to save over the course of the month. Maybe if I do well, I'll be able to keep it up and pay all my cc's off earlier than December as I planned... Wish me luck!

Currently Listening: Usher - Here I Stand

Men Irk Me....

I am not a mind reader!!! That will be all...