Will the REAL mariah please stand up???

Damn, my bus rides are so insightful, i swear. So im jammin of course on the bus, listening to my 92 cd player and i stuble upon my fav. mariah song every. Its called melt away and that is what it does when you listen to her belt out this beautiful song. (download it, buy it, steal it if u have to lol j/k) I love it and i was like damn why doesnt mariah make songs like THESE anymore. And as i continued to skip threw my cd, i found another song, forever, and i listened to that one and was once again blown away. She was singing, harmonizing...you could feel the song in her voice. Forever is definately one of those songs that you play when your either crazy inlove or missing the one u were crazy about. I loved it and it really started to make me think..what happened to mariah carey??
I mean yes her latest album, the emancipation of mimi..great wonderful album..i have it. I love it. The reason why its a success, at least the reason why i think (hence blog title), is cause she kinda got back to her roots; Great music and singing her heart out in only the way she can. These last few albums before that bombed because she was doing her whole whisper thing, where she was just barely singing and whispered all threw the track like she doesnt have an amazing voice that won grammy after grammy. I mean after listening to those two songs, i had to take it back..i had to go threw my mariah rolledex and remind myself of how wonderful she was. I listened to songs such as My All, where she sings like no other. I cant think of no singer out right now that could sing that song the way she did. All her old jams, the ballads..inspirational. And whats even better is that her vocabulary is great in her songs. Next time you listen to ol school mariah, listen to the words..im tellin you, you could get 200 more points on your SATs knowing the def. of some of the vocabulary she uses. Not alot of artists do that. Thats why she is a star.
Even when she switched it up to "im a butterfly..taste like honey" mariah it was still hot cause she was still singing. Listen to honey, she is still singing her ass off. Thats what i call successfully switching up but all that junk on her album charmbracelet (you kno, the one that had that song boy with camron) was not the mariah we know and love. She is a songbird or should i say songbutterfly and im happy that she emancipated her self from the rut she was in. She needs to free herself even more and take it back to those ballads that make you say "wow, now thats singing"! You know it, i know it..so go dig up a mariah cd when she still had that funny perm or didnt wear spandex all the time and remind yourself of what real singing is all about!!

toodles ;)

99 Cents and Up

Sooooo we all know that we love the 99 cents store, well at least i kno i do....everything is as cheap as it can get it and every once in a while u find a goldmind of items that you cant believe will only cost you a dollar each. How can it be so cheap you wonder but then you realize you dont care cause its only a buck and thats the way you love it. Anyway, the other day as my sister and i were driving by a usual street in my town, we past by at least three 99 cents stores and as i was daydreaming out the window, i read the title of the stores...99 cents store galore, billy bob's 99 cents store and up, 99 cents and up emporium (made up names but you get my drift)...as i was reading them, it dawned on me that its stupid to call them 99 cents and up stores. Everything is either 99 cents or its not really a 99 cents store. I mean sure the majority of the stuff may be set at that price but then there are other things that are just regular priced items. I asked outloud to myself and sister, why do they add that "and up" to the title. If everything is 99 cents and up isnt it like any other store? Couldnt target or kmart be called the 99 cents and up store too? Shoot it could probably be called the 35 cents and up store for that matter, since you can get a pack of bazooka joe gum there. My sister wholeheartedly agreed, stating, "yea one time i was at the 99 cents store and i saw this big ass dining set and i was like hey thats hot for 99 cents might as well get it for my dorm. I get to the register and the man tells me its 15.99, im like isnt this the 99 cents store? he says its the 99 cents store AND UP. I leave the plates and go home." Thats crazy, it should just be given a regular store name where a majority of the items are 99 cents but not most...people would just say wow that store is mad cheap, alot of things up in there are 99 cents. It would almost feel like your getting a deal or discovered a hot spot to get some good items at a low price. Everyone likes to feel like they kno where a place like that is it. It be a good marketing strategy now that i think of it. People would probably buy more of the higher priced items anyway cause they would have the sense that the store is so cheap, even this higher priced item must be a good deal too. I dunno, i cant hate on my 99 cents stores cause they were heaven to shop in when little and i realized that my "good report card" money could go so far and I could have anything i wanted up in the joint cause I could afford it. I felt rich, a lil baller and shoot i still do when i find something worth while up in there. Its only 99 cents, I can afford..maybe ill buy two. I need 'em, i love 'em, and thats just the random thought of the day.
latas

p.s. thanks to errybody that has been giving me positive and great comments...keep it up, makes me feel special :)...let me know your opinion on the blog entry too, lets conversate people ;)

YOUR THE BOSS

Sooo this weekend, I had the joy of watching the devil wears prada with my movie buddy/bestbud/agent jujubee in the city. It was great, hilarious..the girl's boss was heartless, stone cold, and emotional less for the most part and i loved it. Why? because we all have moments when we are like that or wish we could be like that. So after leaving that warm feeling in my heart, I walk into work yest. and i get the "call". You kno the call..the one that ur boss wants to speak to you for a min. and you wonder to yourself what i do now, why cant i just do my slave labor in peace? Well of course she had to tell me something that was absoulately insignficant but in her eyes a huge deal. I listened, yessed her to death, let it go threw one ear and out the other, and most importantly brushed it off my shoulders. I went on with my work day, happy i didnt see her and then today, once again walked into work, chillin, hoping i wont see her again. I didnt for a good hour and then she appeared and the first thing that went threw my mind is, i hope she does not come over here..let me work in peace thank you. She didnt. I was overjoyed. And it made me think about all the types of bosses i have had in my mundane career as an employee for someone. Ive had the cool bosses, which you kno you could roll up late and they wouldnt try to send you to the electric chair...you could talk about ur drunken weekend or even how you think one of ur coworkers is ridiculous and should be dragged out into the street and beaten (wow violent) but anyway, they were cool enough and you saw them as a human being and not just a "BOSS" that lived for the job. I know we have all had a few of those, Bosses that seem like they live in the back closet of the building you work in, they have no life besides making sure that their enough staples in the office or isle ten always stays stocked. They are the worst, not because they take their job crazy serious but because they have no consideration for the fact that you are not deranged and obessed with were you work like they are. Where you work IS where you work. Its where you get your paychecks every other week so you can buy those fly kicks or pay that outrageous phone bill. I mean dont get me wrong, being career driven is a wonderful thing and we should all have some love or at least like for our job but life is way to short to forget the rest of the world exists because you center around ur 9-5. In my experience, most of these types of bosses that i have run into were when i working at my menial jobs where your just trying to get survival money and not trying to be the next corporate genius who climbed the ladder from saying can i help you miss?....I also clearly remember my past bosses that were on power trips, they were the ones that i was always 2.3 seconds away from putting them in they place. You kno the ones that just got a promotion from like cashier to assistant manager and they act like the company threw in a free bentley with there bonus. Meanwhile, you think to urself how this is the same person that last week was eating doritos with you talking about how they been there forever and need to do better with they life. It makes ur head spill and more importantly, makes u wonder, what am i still doing at this job?..oh yea, getting a paycheck. I would elaborate on bosses that are just simply mean and talk down to you but when you think about that, thats everywhere..theres always someone that for whatever reason do not know how to talk to people so i guess thats just apart of life. Its just more annoying when it comes from boss man or boss lady cause u have no choice but to listen. No one likes taking orders esp. when it really sounds like an order and not a polite inquiry. Politeness goes along way esp. at work and not even "kiss ass" politeness just a general "i have respect for u because ur a human being like me" politeness. The best bosses are those that have that. Future bosses should take a seminar...i should give it. ;) Anyway, enough ranting...i just felt like giving my two cents in cause I kno we all work and i def. know we all have or had that one general in charge that has gotten to us. What would you be like if U were head honcho..think about it, let it marinate...

latas

90's Nostalgia

So today as I was taking my ever so looooong bus ride to work and listening to music on my 1995 cd player, i starting thinking about the music i was actually listening to. All the ones that I were jammin to were straight form the 90s and then I started to think, music was so great back then. I mean its not like im that old or anything so I cant really compare it to the classics cause now a days the classics are chopped up and used to make the radio hits we here today but i can honestly say of my 24 years on this earth, 90s music was SO great. I mean yea im an eighties baby and there are def. songs out there from the eighties that hold a special place in my music heart but its the 90s that got me. I mean think about it..the 90s was when mariah was on the come up and had songs with mase and diddy like honey (i kno u remember her tryin to dance on that fake boat lol) and lets not talk about mase...man when i was in highschoool, i remember thinkin i was inlove when i saw that album cover. It was all blue and white and the way he rhymed was so slow and cooool and lets not talk about the skits on his album..hilarious. Yup the good ol days before he became a minister then good guy again then gansta then whatever else he is right now. And then there were groups like Total with jams like kissing you (i kno u remember that video with them on the roof, playin that guitar) and envogue before dawn bounced but even then she apart of that other group with toni toni toni with that hit "i wanna dance tonight" and lets not forget TONI braxton, yea before the bankrupcy (i hated that video where she was running with that dress on in a maze)...wow that was great music. And i havent even talked about the classic rappers like biggie or tupac, still alive, well, and pumpin out future classics. Hov was even pumpin out future classics at the time too..i kno i had my vol. 2 tape. Foxy was still on top and makin great colabos, kim was doin her thing (i kno u remember her in her video for no time for fake ones, ridin down that escalator). There were endless amount of singers that were off the hook and to just name a few i remember: 702 (where my girls at?!), blackstreet (no diggity!!), dru hill (i def. have to go buy like every album they ever made, heard "these are the times" on the radio today as a throwback jam), and adina howard (every kid who grew up in the 90s knows her claim to fame song). Whitney Houston was still hot and drug free, well maybe not drug free but def. not full of drugs. I loved it and now i turn on the radio and im bombarded with groups like D4L and lil keke and songs like laughy taffy and snap ur fingers and I wonder what happened to music. I mean dont get me wrong, i be the first chic to shake her ass to some lil jon but when u compare and contrast, the greater music def. hails from a different era and as an eighties baby, ill never forget it.
Anyway, thats how im feelin and right about now I got some cds to burn and some ol school music to buy...holla at me folks. ;)

The usual suspects..celebs

Well you guys already know, the month has ended and i gotta put the best of the worst that i have seen up for the month..here are the usual suspects....
lmao wyclef's sister...i have no words
do u see that scar?!!!
thats hoopz from flava of love lookin like a ten dollar hooch
i dont remember en vogue lookin like this..straight out of some horror flick
yup, thats scary spice, guess all the spice money is GONE
Seriously, what is up with her drawn on curls and sideburns....oh indie
hooligans at their best
What in the world is Ruben doin takin pictures with these lil girls...something just aint right
and to wrap it up, im not even tryin to look at eric benet...right now im focused on the shreds or should i say "dress" that ms. Brooke aka "its about to be a wha...girl fight" is rockin..wow



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In-Home Delivery

Well hello fellow readers out there in readers land, i kno i havent done a post in like 2.34 million years but im gonna try to be more consistant with mine nah mean..i strive for quality so if quality means i dont have anythign to say for two weeks then i guess so be it but I will be more aware of my missing "ness"..anyway this entry is simply to discuss my crazy ass morning and how from it, i learned what glitters is not gold when it comes to advertising..so here we go

So i wake up this morning, to the pouring rain on my window and my cellphone ringing out of control, i answer it..chat and decide after hanging up that all i need in my life right now is a sausage and biscuit and maybe a hashbrown. So i get semi decent, grab my bag, and as im gettin ready to be out teh door, i see a lil moving van pull up right in front of my humble home. So i wonder, what he wants..come to find out he has the freezer that my parents bought at a GREAT price at an un named (has 'home' in the title) store. Now let me tell u just how great this deal was..the freezer was not only on sale (because the place was having a big ass sale) with an extra ten beans off plus FREE delivery to your home...how great right. Oh but people what glitters is not gold, let me tell you what this free delivery meant.
It meant a lil man, 5'3 at best, strolling up to my house in an unnamed van saying he had a freezer for us in his truck. The freezer will be brought via lil handcart to the sidewalk of my drive way...yes that is the limit to where the free delivery. No it is not "in home" delivery..meaning he can not step foot into my home....its only regulary delivery, so he can only leave it on to my property. So as i stand there in the rain, in my pjs listening to lil man tell me all about delivery clauses, several questions run threw my mind...how can a HUGE coporations with commercials on tv every five mins. about everything on sale drop off something as large as a freezer outside of ur house? how am i gonna get this freezer in my house? why does it have to be pouring rain on all days? and shouldnt all large appliances be "in home" delivery? lil man was nice enuff to "offer" to jam it in my garage so that the rain would not mess it up but he REFUSED to step one foot in my house, not even the livingroom to just leave it there.
So to make a long story short, i screamed for my mother who of course at the site of seeing a freezer standing in the rain and lil man about to walk away, starting ranting and raving about how much was paid for this freezer and how we were tricked bamboozled into thinking that our well paid money would at the very least afford us the joy of having a freezer in our house. I mean this was a big freezer folks, the type bodies are stuffed in when u watch the mob movies..not that we were doing that, we just like to eat alot but anyway, it was outrageous news to hear about no in home delievery to my mom. So in true adult fashion, we gave him a piece of our mind about the corporation, their policies, and our hard earned money and then bribed him. My freezer is sitting nicely in my house now. ;) But the moral of the story is, yea you see the commercials and all the "we are the best store ever, deals deals deals, customer service" hoopla but at the end of the day it can all have you standing in the rain with your hard earned money all wet. You gotta be a cautious buyer, read and have explained anything that requires a piece of paper that you have to sign in order to buy it, and most importantly know that what glitters is not always gold;)

HOLLA!!