Glad I didn't get married in high school

Dear Loyal, Gentle readers:
The other day (Thursday) I was eating lunch at my mom's clinic (DeHaro clinic in Oak Cliff) and this woman who is a cashier in the pharmacy started talking to me. She asked me if I was married and seemed really curious. I told her I wasn't (one day! that is what I always say) and she told me (she was about 38 or 39) she got married in high school and has 3 kids. I was kind of thinking to myself, I'm glad I didn't get married in high school and that I don't have 3 kids by now. We talked about some other stuff but that was the most interesting part. YOU get the benefit.


MUSIC News 'n Views: (don't you like how I just invented that? Maybe I will make it a regular entry): I have been listening to MC LYTE, Bad as I Wanna Be. I know I have blogged about the album before, but I still like it, so there! In fact, last night I listened as I went to sleep. "Have U Ever" is a good song and so is "Cold Rock a Party." I highly recommend buying it and playing it as much as humanly possible.
I have also been listening to Shakira (her very first album). I know it is old but I really love the first song (the song that put her on the map!), "Estoy Aqui." I have been listening to that over and over. Shakira lovers, unite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! exclamation mark overkill. Now you have a little insight into what's in the changer (why do magazines and newspapers always have a column titled, "What's in the changer"? Does everyone have a changer?) Now I dare you to tell me what's in your changer.
Have to go and SLEEP (early SAt. night, how tragic yet January-ish).

Remember, that's the way the cookie crumbles, and it keeps crumbling, and crumbling, and crumbling away. Crumble! Crumble! Crumble! Crumble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! exclamation mark overkill.

bow down to shakes from McDonalds,
peace,
bbb/Alice

my Thursday blog

Dear loyal readers:
Blogging on a Thursday ... welcome to the hump of my day--I call this the hump of my day because it's like the flat, boring part of my day. It seems to happen about once a day.
going to go for now.
I know this is a short blog!!
xo,
alice

Belly Button Update and other stuff, my aim is to please

Dear Loyal Readers:
Overheard in Starbucks today (corner of Preston and Alpha): "I got my belly button pierced in Junior High. I wanted to do it so bad I did it in the school bathroom." Yuck! From a Barista (maybe she was Asian?) talking to a guy with a lot of tattoos. The guy said he had done at least one of them himself, which I guess prompted the comment from the belly-button barista.

I was at McDonalds (on Beltline Rd., near Preston) last Wed. and wrote this blog post out while I was there. To make it more authentic (you are damn lucky), I will just copy it directly (written at 8:35 a.m.--I was eating a McGriddles sandwich--yes I go to McD's that early): This woman just walked in with a see-through purse. Does she want everyone to see what's in her purse? I checked and there's nothing exciting (not very much in there at all). The contents of my purse are more exciting. Yes, believe it or not, NDH has an exciting purse. If you pay me I will show you the contents!

The inauguration is tomorrow. Oh well, I will not be there. I will eat a Barack Obama cupcake or something.


I have been listening to:
The Clash, The Essential Clash. I never really got into them before, but a friend just loaned me their CD. It is a 2-disc set, (more for your pleasure!) On Disc 1, I love Track 19, Groovy Times. Track 17 has a funny name: Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad. Proceed to your nearest record store (maybe Good Records on Greenville Avenue?????????????--your welcome for the plug) and buy it. It's an 80's rockin' party treat. Or a guilty pleasure. Sort of like Twix bars and diet Pepsi. Oops! that's my GUILTY PLEASURE. MY BAD.
Bow down to The Clash, Twix bars and cupcakes,
Alice

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Rosary Monday and Neneh Cherry--is she still doing anything these days??

Hi Blogger Friends:
The other day I was in Hacienda Chichen Itza, a Mexican restaurant and panaderia (look it up--Mexican bakery) on Greenville Avenue , and this boy who was helping me, about 16 or 17 years old, had a cool rosary around his neck. I was going to tell him I liked it but I was too busy trying to balance my Rosca de Reyes and my Target purse.
I won a book at a business book synopsis group Friday (First Fridays, it meets at the Park Cities Club in Dallas). It's called Outliers, by Macolm Gladwell. Yay, it is my homework for the next week.
I heard that song Buffalo Stance by Neneh Cherry and I was totally jammin. I heard it this week while I was driving around. I like the line about: "wearin' padded bra, suckin beer through a straw." I think I was in 6th grade when that song came out. Ahhhhh, Neneh Cherry memories. I used to have her album.
ok, going to go bc I have to run in the morning.
your favorite Motor City blogger (if you don't know I'm from detroit) and dangerous blogger,
bow down to Neneh Cherry,
bbb
Alice

Don't expect a free meal from Denny's.

Trying to think of a Super Chillsauce blog for Y'all:

Here is my fish oil story, then I will tell a Denny's story (aren't you lucky?????). I was at Whole Foods (Greenville Avenue store) on New Year's Eve, and I asked a guy where the fish oil was (I have heard it is good for the brain and for concentration) and he led me to another girl. When I told her I wanted fish oil, she said, "OK, are you looking for+

I told her I was looking just to get it down. Then she started blabbing for 2 hours on the different types of fish oil. I really wasn't looking for a lot of help, just to find out where in the store it was. Before I grabbed my fish oil (the smallest package they had) and left, she gave me a "Word to the Wise": take it with food, so that you don't feel it coming back up in any way. Word to the Wise, Word to the Wise.

My birthday was Thursday. (Yes, I am now 32--is there anything momentous that goes along with being 32? Not really. BTW I am the same age as Sarah Michelle Gellar). I went to Denny's on I-75 near Royal Lane with my parents. I told the waitress it was my birthday, thinking it would score me a free meal. The waitress said, "Happy Birthday!" in a cheery way. Great, but not exactly all that I was hoping for. I did not get a free meal, and did not realize until after I left that they had charged my dad for the meal. Also, the French Toast I ordered looked like it was just thrown on the plate. Maybe the cook was in a hurry, or maybe he does not like making French Toast.?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Question mark overkill.
My birthday was ok otherwise. I got a promise of a car and some clothes from my mom, and also some money, nice cards and a delicious cake.
Um, that's all for now folks. Out with the old, in with the new and exciting.
Bow down to Coldplay (and if you have not bought Viva La Vida yet, please go and buy it). Coldplay is not new but they are exciting.
your favorite dangerous blogger,
bbb/
Alice

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
--Dr. Seuss