LUST - Just as i am

L.U.S.T - Just As I Am

Another favorite of mine….cant touch tarrus though

 

A track filled weekend….

Friday, Saturday and Sunday all filled with Track & Field at the National Stadium. I am dying for the games in China to begin so that i can see the real match up between Bolt and Asafa…(my heart is with Asafa, but Bolt looking really really easy, so effortless) Now on Saturday the stadium was filled to the brim, well grandstand anyway and it was the first time ever that the bleachers was opened to the public for these trials. Someone commented on the fact that they could remember when it was free to go to see the National Trials…..The filled stadium one would argue was all because of the “match up” b/n the two, but it was the women, both 100m and 200m that stole the meet. Can you imagine Veronica Campbell 4th in the 100m, she did redeem herself in the 200m though…..but the althete to watch is Kerron Stewart…..See this news report from the Miami Herald Do our altheltes run in the hills of Blue mountains

Before i went to the Stadium on Sunday, i went up to Orange Park Great house in St. Thomas. I tried “googling” the name to see if i could get anymore information on the history surrounding the House, but alas no luck so far.. The artist, Barrington Watson lives there with his family. He just got married and because it was a quiet ceremony, he had a little function for a few guest….Food and company was good….so i had a great time….Art was all over the house, as expected, the flooring looked to be the same stone flooring that must have been there from beginning….i could easily see that my house……..Speaking about house, i have my eyes set on one a little up the road from where i now live, to afford it, i will have to sell where i am living now ( i shudda just stole 4 paintings on Sunday and i wud be able to afford the house)…… I have not yet advertised mine, but bumped into someone who is very very interested and has applied to see if she would be approved for the mortgage…..so crossing all fingers and toes, and anything else that i can cross….

More anon….

 

Happy Daddies Day

It has been four months since my dad was placed in a nursing home..and yesterday i took him to spend the day at home with me. It was sheer bliss to see the look of comfort on his face. Now don’t get me wrong, the nursing home is pretty nice and he never looks uncomfortable in anyway whenever i pop in to see him (unannounced or not), but there was just a look of knowing that he was “home”. He watched the cricket on TV (usually he doesn’t pay much attention to whats on TV) and he enjoyed my great cooking (big grin)…anyway it felt good to have him at home on the day, i guess i dont have to wait until Fathers Day or birthday or any such occassion to just take him by. However, it was not as easy as it sounds as he can’t move around and his left side is bascially dead, so unless i have at least 2 males, and strong back males too, it would be hard to move him about, becasue even though there is a wheel chair, lifting him in and out of it is a challenge, even getting him to sit up in the chair at home was a hard task…..BUT at the end of all that it was a good day…..

Hope all the daddies and a great daddies day

 

Before and After marriage

This was too funny not to post!!!!!

BEFORE MARRIAGE:

He: Yes. At last. It was so hard to wait.
She: Do you want me to leave?
He: NO! Don’t even think about it.
She: Do you love me?
He: Of course! Over and over!
She: Have you ever cheated on me?
He: NO! Why are you even asking?
She: Will you kiss me?
He: Every chance I get!
She: Will you hit me?
He: Are you crazy! I’m not that kind of person!
She: Can I trust you?
He: Yes.
She: Darling!

AFTER MARRIAGE:
Read from the bottom back to the top !!!

 

To Blog or not to blog……and a bit about everything else

Bwoy, i just cant seem to find the time to blog now-a-days……..and no, it is not that i am soooooooooo busy….I guess Facebook has taken up most of my attention so the blogging thing get lef….I do miss it though…..and miss keeping up on what is happening in the life of the bloggers i used to read daily….religiously……so even if i dont blog, from now on i will ensure that i check in with my blogroll more often…….(although a quick glance earlier showed me that i am not the only one with a “leave of absence’)

Ok, two games that have me totally hooked on facebook, Mastermind and Scrabble ok, ok, ok…i know the they sound geeky, but they have me totally hooked, everyone will be familiar with scrabble, but mastermind is a really cool game for the ones who like a challenge…i had the game when i was a kid so it was great to find the online version…..So all of you on facebook if you are interested….Come Challenge Me!!!!!!!!! not u Bobby, ah tired to buss ur A$$…..JOKE *whispering* i buss his in scrabble, he busses mine in mastermind). My only critisicm on facebook is the spaming effect when you take most of the tests and quizzes….before you can get ur results u have to forward to a million people first…..i have stopped doing them (although you dont know it is like that until after you have finished the tests…..it is a royal pain in the Butt……..and becasue of that i dont know what colour i am or what cartoon character i am or my sexual fantasy or for that matter a whole host of other things….becasue i refuse to spam people to get the results…..MB commented on it in this post

I started a new job (Still with the same company), so i am in the process of learning new things. Felt like a fish without water the first couple weeks, but with each passing day i am begingin to feel a little like i am on solid ground…..

Two weeks ago i carried my dad to a nursing home…..this was the hardest thing i have done in a long ….long ….long time…….Truth be told I bawled when i went to Mandeville (that where my parents live) to get him… and i haven’t bawled in years upon years upon years…(cant believe i am publicly admitting this)….for months i fought with my mom about the decision to place him there, wishing that i had the space at my home to take him to live with me……but after 2 weeks of him being there i now believe that it is the best place for him……He actually looks a whole lot better……I cant wait to see what other changes 2 more weeks will bring……I now look at it like he is in a hospital getting specialised care…….I guess not all nursing homes are bad……

Anyway, duty calls again….helping my son to study for exams, so i need to go take him up on some questions and learn a thing or two myself in the process……..

 

It has been a while

Man, It has been a while, November 9th was the last post i have done…..and trust me it is not that my life has suddenly gotten super interesting and exciting which resulted in my not posting….i guess ah so life so…….Maybe I should blame it on Facebook!

Well, since November 9th, i went to ATL for thanksgiving and saw a live comedy show at the FOX theater with Damon Wayans, Tommy Davidson and David Alan Grier (not sure bout the spellings) but that was really cool….Went to a party there (everybody should see stuff like this at least once in life), but unfortunalty cant say much more on that (to borrow the Vegas quote…..what happens in ATL stays in ATL)…..

Also i went to a 40th birthday party that 4 girls who have thier 40th birthday in Decmeber put on….This was wicked……I saw friends i have not seen in YEARS like 25 years ago….it is funny we joked about if we dont see each otehr for another 25 yrs then by that time we will be 65 (EGAD) frightening isnt it, it was great though as these are people i have grown up with and it was really special to sit and talk about old times as well as catching up on what everyone is doing with their lives now…Hopefully facebook will help the next 25 years to go by with more contact……

The rest of the season lowkeyed, apart from a few office parties and the wedding of a GOOD GOOD friend of mine, East Fest, and Giants of the 90’s, i pretty much have nothing else planned…….no New Years Eve PArty yet!!!!Might just be bedrock!

Other than that, life is same old same old….The Christmas season is very much here but somehow seems very low keyed to me this year…..Usually i would have all the presents already bought, but other than a few (and by that i mean 2) i have no other present under my tree!!!! I had bought for my son and of course he found them (big mistake was telling him that i had bought it) so nothing under the tree for him yet!!!! At least i have a tree….. Anyway is only kids get presents from me now-a-days, so i may just hand them an envelope and tell them to go buy whatever they want…..they may prefer that anyway, but it might end up costing me more….funny story with the Chirstmas pudding that i had sworn i wasnt gonna bake this year…Anyway my mom begged (she no longer bakes and depends on me to giver her her supply of cake to give away for the season, anyway she begs so two days ago i decided ok…got all the ingredients and was ready last nite to bake…..start creaming the butter and sugar, weighed out the bread crumbs and flour, and reachign for the fruits which should have been soaking since last year only to find ….NO FRUITS!!!! so at 9 o’clock last nite i had to rush out to Mega-mart and buy fruits, come home, blend them and steam them and wake up at 6this morning to finish baking!!!!…i havent tasted it yet as i left it in the oven this moroning and rushed to work…. so, lets hope it was all worth it….

Yoga is still going good, i am happy that i have started this, just paid again for another 8 classes so it will be around for a while…..

Anyway, off to start to catch up as it has been a while since i have read my blogroll peeps….

 

Finding a namesake (possibly a relative)

It turns out that i may just have found a relative with my exact name!!!!! What are the odds…… A couple days ago i got an msg from a person with my name on Facebook…..

After some investigations…..it turns out that we may indeed be from the same stock…..We will be doing some more investigations into the matter…….We are both married, but our birth names are the same!!!! And i am the younger one so is not even me did have the name first!!!! (although i was named by my maternal uncle, so that even makes the coincidences greater)

This brings me to an idea that i have been mulling around in my head for a while…..genealogy research on both of my parents……I am now even more pumped to do it….I hear it cost $600/hour at the RGD to do but i shudder each time i think about how long that office takes to do anything…. Seriously though, it would be interesting to see just where my and how firmly my roots are planted…. For instance i know from work previously done by some relatives..my mothers roots are from a clan in Scotland….. and saw a Family crest that they have.

I will definitely check it out locally though, …or maybe explore to see if i can apply for it online……More on this later………

NAMASTE

 

YOGA - my first attempt

On Tuesday I went to my very first yoga class…..

Now all the background info i had on yoga was that it is supposed to be relaxing and will allow for some serious flexibility…..i had even gone as far as to order a dvd online, but always seemed to find one reason or another why i had no time to do it…….Anyway the rains have been pelting JA, which has virtually stopped my exercise program as i walk/ run in the great outdoors…..so last Sunday after feeling really guilty about not working out (or maybe it was the extra pounds that has been creeping on) i popped the dvd in and decided to start my yoga’ing…….now it was hard because the moves are a bit technical and trying to do it while following the tape was a challenge…but it revived my interest in actually trying it in the proper environment…so come Monday morning…as i reached the office…I called the gym……which i have been passing every morning on the way to work….to find out about their yoga program and off i went the next day (with a friend of mine from the office as company) to my very first class……..

Now the instructor, a young male (with a tramp stamp - a word i learned from SE) , mmmmhhhmmmmm…i will say no more on that….seems like a very cool guy and def he knew his stuff, his body contorts in such a way that made me wonder with much interest, what his sex life must be like………but if i can get my body to be limber like that !!!!!! WOW!!!!!! Anyway he has been doing yoga only for 4 years now so i guess there is hope for me reaching that level of flexibilty…….

It was one of the most therapeutic things i have done…there was one pose (he calls it the cure all pose, of ocurse i dont remember all the yoga names yet) that i seriously felt like drifting off to sleep…….I stretched and pulled and twist and turn like i have never done before ( and it was an introductory session because everyone was basically new to yoga)….the next day i realised that i had some muscles that i never knew existed…..

Anyway I had only paid for that one session at the time…. today i will go back and pay for the month!!!! we will see what happens after that!!!!!

NAMASTE ( this means the spirit in you, honors the spirit in me….or something like that…i will listen more keenly next time…this is said at the end of every class) I think i will end my posts with this word from now on!!!!!

PS….During the session, the friend who had come with me almost passed out!!!!!! She blamed it on not eating much that day, i blame it on the yoga!!!!!!

 

Great tips #6 - Getting grease stains out of clothes

Handy Hint #6:
Get those tough grease stains off of your clothes by applying
salt to the area. Let sit for 5 minutes, then throw it in the
laundry as usual.

Sodium cuts through the oils, so the spot will disappear when
you wash it!

 

Weather Predictions

Why doesn’t the MET office just say that the rains will stop when it stop??????

Everyday it is that the MET has extended the flash flood warnings until 5pm…then when that time comes you hear it is extended again…….The rains have totally messed up my exercise program this week….and my snacking habits during this period has not helped!

Anyway under work pressure…….just needed to vent that!

Sharing this joke which made me chuckle………..

About those Church Hymns

A minister decided to do something a little different one Sunday morning. He said “Today, in church, I am going to say a single word and you are going to help me preach. Whatever single word I say, I want you to sing whatever hymn that comes to your mind.” The pastor shouted out “CROSS.”
Immediately the congregation started singing in unison, “THE OLD RUGGED CROSS.”
The pastor hollered out “GRACE.” The congregation began to sing “AMAZING GRACE, how sweet the sound.”

The pastor said “POWER.” The congregation sang “THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD.”

The Pastor said “SEX” The congregation fell into total silence. Everyone was in shock. They all nervously began to look around at each other afraid to say anything. Then all of a sudden, way from in the back of the church, a little old 87 year old grandmother stood up and began to sing “PRECIOUS MEMORIES.”

Gotta Love Little Old Ladies.