Babs in Blogland

I had a pretty good weekend.  Friday was the Rehab celebration.  Afterwards a few of us broke off and hit the streets.  We made several stops around the city and ended up at a cigar bar where I smoked a girly cigar.  I had a great time and I showered and brushed my teeth when I got home, but when I woke up I felt like a small animal had crawled into my mouth and DIED.  I will never understand smoking.  I know a few of you do it and I am hoping you are planning on stopping.  That shit really is disgusting.

But I digress.

Saturday I finally went to see The Hangover.  It was funny, but super vulgar.  Funny, extremely ridiculous and super vulgar.  I stopped at Tar-jay for bottled water, candy and some of their fresh popped popcorn.  I got all of that for under $4.  I shall never buy popcorn at the movies again.  For those of you that have never had the Tar-jay popcorn, you are really missing out.  And it’s on a buck!

I spent the afternoon at the pool and the evening on my couch.

Sunday I went to church and then rinsed and repeated my Saturday.  Pool in the afternoon and the couch the rest of the day.

My kinda weekend!

How was yours?

I probably should have covered this yesterday, as I’m sure a lot of you are out today. 

It’s a three-day weekend for most of us!

Tonight I am attending an event in the city.  I’m looking forward to putting on a pretty dress on going to hear some live music.  In the morning, Roxie and I head to Anytown for a couple of days.  I can’t wait to see my mommy and grandma and DO NOTHING for two whole days.

We’ll barbecue and relax all weekend.  And we’ll have a birthday pawty for Roxie.

Do you have any fun plans for the weekend?

Maaaaaaannnnn, I LOVE Atlanta!  I do.  I really do.  There is so much to do here, the weather is great and the people are awesome.

This weekend was a typical Saturday in the A- lots to do.

Saturday morning, I met a few of my favorite ladies for the new exhibit at the Civic Center called America I Am.  It is a travelling exhibit that chronicles the lives of American blacks from slavery to present day.  There are plenty of artifacts, replicas and the like.  It was very good and I highly recommend it.  It’s great for families both young and old.  The ticket prices aren’t steep and there is plenty to see.

After the exhibit the beauties and I headed to Gladys and Ron’s Chicken and Waffles.  I had been craving it ever since I was homebound.  Those commercials were talking to me and Saturday I got to satisfy that craving.

I left the exhibit and went on a coffee date with…a white guy!  The irony of spending two hours studying Black oppression and then spending two hours with the whitest nicest  white guy is worthy of its own blog post.  In short, he was super nice and I would have probably gone out with him again had I not met my new guy a few hours later.

Saturday night, I decided to attend an event with CaliSlim that I had previously shunned.  It felt good getting dressed up and, well, you all know how the evening turned out, but the real story is CaliSlim.

When I saw her my mouth hit the ground.  I have never seen her look so positively lovely.  She had on the cutest dress that showed off her Top Model figure.  She had on Cute shoes and the perfect jewelry.  When I tell you that everyone was checking her out I am not at all exaggerating.  The girl was doing the damn thing!

I spent the evening being her wingman and personal security.  Luckily, she knew just about everyone there so I also spent a lot of time shaking hands and meeting people.  In the end, I had a really good time and I’m glad I made the decision to go.

Saturdays in the A are full of fun and social activities.  I hope Saturdays in your city are equally as fun.

How was you Saturday?

Saturday I went to a friend’s house for a gathering of individuals for cocktails and conversations.  The objective was to have a “battle of the sexes” conversation.  Honestly, those types of gatherings typically bore me because they are always the same.  And once you’ve been to one sex, love and relationship discussion, you’ve been to them all.  But, I had no other plans and wanted to see some of my friends that clown me for falling off the face of the earth so I made my way to the other side of I-20.

I arrived at the house and as I was making my way to the kitchen I heard the distinct sound of skins slappin.  I looked in the living room and there on the giant flat screen was p0rn.  I looked over at two girls I did not know and asked why they were watching p0rn.  They immediately went into atttitude mode talking about “what’s the problem? are you offended?”  They also boasted how they hadn’t seen Big Booty Girls 5 and they wanted to see the “end scene”.

I looked over at another girl and gave a huge eyeroll.  It was easy to see what was going on with these girls.  You see, I am willing to bet cold hard cash that these girls aren’t really into p0rn.  But they want to seem cool and what they think is appealing, so they openly watch porn and talk about “end scene” shots.  It’s sad really.  Doing all of that to get attention.  They were also overly excited about the game that is on.  One kept touting how she was gonna have to leave if we didn’t have the game on, knowing good and damn well she wasn’t going anywhere.  If she was hardcore into the game like that, she would have been at home or at a sportsbar watching it.

The evening flowed pretty much as I expected it too.  I made a few comments here and there, but I otherwise didn’t have much to say.  The Trying Too Hard duo, of course, made the most outlandish comments when the topic turned to sex.  Whenever I made an opposing comment they immediately were challenging me.  I didn’t mind, because the more they spoke the more ridiculous they sounded.  One girl actually tried to argue that every restaurant serves salad with their entree.  I hollered when someone responded, “yeah, at the Olive Garden.” 

If it hadn’t been for some friends being there, I surely would have left a lot earlier.  Thankfully they were there and we were able to make fun of the Duo on the sly.  Before I knew it, it was late and I had to make my way back to the other side of the universe.  As I was leaving the host made a comment about me being so conservative.  I told him I was not at all conservative.  I was, however, a lady and don’t feel the need to try so hard.

Have you ever met women who try to hard to get a man’s attention when in the company of a lot of people?  Do you think they are trying too hard or is this how they really are?  How do you handle them?

Those of you that know me can attest that nothing on this earth makes me happier than the sight of little brown faces looking up at me with excitement.  Truly, nothing makes me happier.  So today’s outing was just what the doctor ordered to bring me out of my funk.

Each month I volunteer at a local elementary school as a reader.  I go in and read 3 or 4 books to K-2 students.  This morning I was assigned to a kindergarten class.  I was surprised that there were so many boys in the class.  I expected them to be fidgeting and talking the entire time, but they were very well-behaved.  They listened intently, laughed when appropriate and did a wonderful job of answering questions after I finished reading.

After I read three books I bid them farewell and they waved goodbye with a hearty “bye Miss Babs!”  Definitely the pick-me-up I needed!

Do you volunteer your time?