jawnny says...

"iLOVE tyler! when im around him, ijust wanna be like... "hi-eeee!!!" & smile & pet him!"*

don't call me a bitch.

iremember the first time iwas called a bitch.

i was 8 years old & ihad just come from playing in the schoolyard with my 3rd grade class. see, only a few of us were privileged to enjoy recess that day-- all the fresh kids had to stay instead & write lines. iwas especially pleased with myself because ihad outrun the cutest boy in the class-- we'll call him "jay"-- in tag.

weekend activities.

my weekend was filled with #dummymissions but i'm not mad at it.


well.


im not THAT* mad at it.



i stopped by the seaport block party for all of 25 minutes on saturday night (before galavanting off to an imaginary cookout... in 5-inch platforms. but i digress).

the funnies.

haven't blogged since thursday. i'm not even gonna discuss the fact that i've been locked out of my apartment for the past 25 hours because that's not important. what is important is that i'm back... albeit with very few quotes (mostly because ihad locked all my belongings -- including my phone-- in my apt. & therefore literally had nothing-- not even a sliver of paper-- on which i could scribble my quotes!) yes, i am outta breath from that run- on sentence. ugh, get thee beHiND me satan!

"she ALWAYS eatin hot dogs-- breakfast, lunch, dinner!! ... so istarted eatin em with her."

"iwonder if he looked through all my profile pictures. cuz if he did... he'sssss gonna be a lil disappointed cuz them thangs go back to freshman year. " -_-

 

"they don't even letchu reLAX whe you get a pedicure up here! like, can i put my feet in the water first?? damn! that's what i'm here for, to relax & let that jet of water beat against my feet!"

imOUTTAhere*

90's nick.

iveee been so wrapped up in 90's nick that i haven't ventured out to gather blog- worthy quotes all week. if you have cable & want to be reminded of how OLD you are, make sure you tune in to teen nick at midnight for All That, Kenan & Kel, Clarissa Explains it All, & Doug every weeknight. idunno when the lineup changes (or when they're gonna sprinkle a lil "my brother & me" in there) but ihave been getting misty- eyed every night. as soon as the beat drops & ihear "fresh out the box... look & watch!" i have an emotional breakdown. #memoriessss

p.s. if you don't have cable, or if you have cable but don't have teen nick, or if 12 is past your bedtime (as it is mine) click this link.*

flexi rods + natural hair... the good, the bad, & the ugly

thank GOD for the rain.in case you have central air or do not live in the northeast, it has been upwards of 100 degrees since about thursday. i had to resort to an all possicle diet & sleeping with frozen veggie packs at night. but i promised myself that i would try a flexi rod set this weekend & i was doing it... #byanymeansnecessary

stolengoods.

couldn't have said it better myself. but if i DiD say it... iwouldve said it juslikedat.

p.s. im about 2 years late. got this from my newest obsession (jessieadore) who got it from another lovely blogger (simone golden)*

the "N" word.

while perusing one of my long-time favorite blogs (curlynikki), i came across a post about the word "nappy." now, a lot of Black women feel some type of way about "nappy," esp. when people who are not Black (Don Imus, for instance) use it. iiiiii used to be one of those women.

as a Black child, there are SEVERAL things that you do NAWT want to be called, for many ignorant reasons. "UGLY." "nappy- headed." "African booty- scratcher." (as the child of a Ghanaian father, i already had one strike against me.) to me, nappy hair= ugly hair. & ugly hair= bad hair. therefore, nappy hair= BAD hair, & iwanted no parts of it. to be on the receiving end of such an insult was enough to end ya wholeeee elementary school career-- which my father had already done by singing onstage in front of the entire school when i was in kindergarten.

guest blogger- jawnny of "jawnny says..."

guess who! my bro jawnny has AWL the MAC, so ifigured she might as well break me off a lil guest blogger post.. disclaimer: you don't have to use MAC products. you would think they were paying us... they not doe. so let's get into it, shall we?*