2 be Bliss, as I dance along the road to Nirvana...

hey y'all. i saw a headline today that pissed me off and makes me wonder when greed and stupidity became the requisite qualifications for some very specific high falutin' jobs: ExxonMobil dodges $2 billion payout why is it not enough for the greedy highway robbers that we, the general public, are selling blood and body parts to fill up our gas tanks? why is it not enough that they have taken us hard-working citizens for so many of our hard-earned dollars that they are now "getting out of the retail gas business"? now the supreme court has ruled to decimate the punitive damages the thieves were ordered to pay for causing the worst environmental disaster of our time. i can't help but wonder if some of our justices smoke PCP on their lunch break... i also wonder how much longer we americans are gonna put up with this nonsense. personally, i think we should go back to the horse and buggy while we wait for solar-powered cars. .

hey y'all. today is hump day in more ways than one. baby bliss and i are scheduled to leave tomorrow to head to my hometown for a family reunion. neither of us has packed a thing and baby bliss has a funky attitude today. hmmm... blissful being that i am, i am not feeling the little-girl drama. i have too much to do today. today's list: finalize the travel lists get gas banking GNC - liquid chlorophyll (mint flavor) deliver #1 auntie's earrings to grandma's house drop movies at the library 4 p.m. - early dinner at d____'s (take burgundy skirt with me to finish while we talk) 6 p.m. - home try to finish rings for #3 auntie, my mom make sure baby bliss is packed make sure baby bliss gets a shower or bath and brushes her teeth! pack 10 p.m. - shower, brush, to bed .

hey y'all. i need to get to bed cuz it's 4 a.m. and i know it will be another busy day in the land of bliss. yesterday was unexpectedly busy. i knew i had some things to do but it just got out of hand once i walked out the door. it started with a call from grandma. she wanted to come over to help baby bliss clean her room. baby bliss said yes because she hates cleaning her room more than getting her hair combed. and she wanted to swim but knew she couldn't go unless her room was neat and tidy. i'll take the blame for everything that followed. we got grandma from her house and i dropped them both here around 3. grandma said she had a pressing engagement around 5:30 so needed to gone and back by 5:15, latest. my first stop was the library to return 20 pounds of borrowed materials. (i'm not joking.) a few items i'd reserved online were waiting for me so i got those. then i popped over to walmart (a 3-5 minute drive) for water and fertilizer spikes for ...

hey y'all. i didn't need to. thank you God. but maybe i should have. that tetanus shot did a weird-y on me and i got my days and nights all mixed up. the incident actually happened late night on june 18. by the time we left the hospital, it was early morning, june 19. by june 20th, i was in the midst of some sort of delusional scenario that i know was brought on by that tetanus shot. nausea and a bad headache kept me awake for a lot of the hours between then and saturday evening. when i did sleep, it was restless and full of strange dreams that seemed more like day dreams. *** DO NOT READ PAST THIS POINT IF YOU'RE EATING OR JUST HATE GROSS-OUT KINDA STUFF *** i also spent quite a bit of bit of time in the bathroom, flipping a coin for toilet or trash can. (the toilet won.) we are our own primary care physicians in most instances, especially those of us who don't have health insurance. we do (have health insurance) but in a family of 3, the co-pays...

hey y'all. i dunno why i can't seem to avoid popping into the emergency room every six months or so. my most recent visit was the wee hours of this very morning. in a freaky accident brought about by the search for my cell phone, i stabbed myself in the hand with one of the tiny steel crochet hooks i use to crochet jewelry (and other stuff). baby bliss began to cry and immediately jumped up to tell mr. bliss. (who had just gone to bed because he's on night shift this week.) i poured on some eucalyptus oil (so i wouldn't get infected) and tried to pull the hook out. it was stuck on something (a vein? an artery?) and hurt like hell so i stopped pulling. it had also begun to hurt and i realized it hadn't hurt going in. i heard it more so than felt it. weird huh? baby bliss cried the whole 10-minute drive to the hospital. i guess i was the first crochet hook impalee that the pair in admittance had ever seen. they made faces and oohed and aaahed at my pre...

hey y'all. it's that time again. go check out the schedules for free and discount summer movies for families at raising 4 boys . they have links to nationwide movie theater chains that offer summer fun with a big break for the pocket book. hopefully there's one in a neighborhood near you. they also have a ton of other informational and funny stuff for y'all to check out as well. .

hey y'all. a sista is dog tired. it was a long day. i did about half the things on my to-do list and some things that weren't. like baby bliss's hair. baby patel's mom comes late afternoon but before early evening so i need to be back from running any errands close to that time. i don't mind keeping her past the time her mom comes because she and baby bliss are usually having so much fun by then that they don't want to part. today we made it home a few minutes after she got here. we met mrs. patel in the parking lot so she didn't have to scale the heights to retrieve her offspring. baby bliss and i weren't so lucky. we climbed the slope cuz we had no choice. we reached the peak, sweaty and huffy-puffy. inside we changed to dry (and cool) lounge wear. twenty minutes later, i was dripping sweat again as i tussled with baby bliss's wily tresses. oh well. it had to be done. but we only had two hours until we had to leave for our monthly ...

today's list: baby patel here get grandma (leave recycle-plastics at her house) goodwill (baby bliss needs shorts!) bank $$ store: "congrats" card for i_____, water, post office: f's b'day card, my sister's b'day card, i's congrats card find a good watermelon drop grandma @ home back to the branch type up lists for travel log into good reads and post about that yucky math book need to make jewelry: #1 auntie's earrings, #3 auntie's rings, my mom's rings can i finish my clothing projects before i go? (burgundy skirt, gold/black skirt, etc.) call s___ re tonite's needlework group needlework group @ the l: 6-8 p.m home again .

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... i am now a child minder. at least for a little while. out of all the doors in our apartment complex (at least several hundred), one of our neighbors knocked on ours to ask if her daughter could stay with us once school ends, while she and her husband work. she said, "of course we'll pay you". when i say "neighbor" i'm using the term subjectively. the family lives in our complex (neighborhood) but not in our building. their building is down the parking lot and around the corner. about a three-minute walk. or we could cut across the playground and be there two minutes sooner. the patels (not their real name) seem to be nice people. they welcomed us nicely when baby bliss and i first moved here (back when i left mr. bliss). a week or so after we moved in, we went to the pool one evening and there they were. mr. patel was roasting corn on the grill while their daughter swam. she and baby bliss hit it off immediately and her parents were very frie...

hey y'all. it is such a beautiful day today and i'm thankful. the sun is shining and it's supposed to get up to 93 today. but right now there is a cool wind whistling through the branches and it's singing my kind of tune. i turned the thermostat up to it's highest setting and opened the patio door. the ceiling fan is on and the most delicious breeze is tickling my toes. this is perfect sleeping weather and i'll be taking a short nap, shortly. :-) i was up until the wee hours watching "Snapped" on the Oxygen Network. i've heard my mother talk about the show and i've been wanting to see it for a while now. what prompted me to check it out was my momma telling me about Deion Sanders and his wife Pilar's reality t.v. show, also on the Oxygen Network. after i watched a few episodes of their show, i noticed that "Snapped" was also on the lineup. I guess I watched 30 or 50 episodes, including some of the detailed interviews after the s...

...baby bliss, mr. bliss and i went to the gym last night. it's free and right here in the complex so we have no excuse for not going. however, last night was the first time we had been in several months. baby bliss loves the elliptical machine and the treadmill. mr. bliss does all the weight lifting stuff including free weights. although i should probably be exercising a lot more body parts, i just ride the stationary bike because i'm trying to firm up my jiggly wiggly thighs. i'm also trying to eat better-for-me foods but it's hard to do that around here. mr. bliss is a board certified junk food aficianado. he is right this minute plotting with baby bliss to get me to agree to go to dinner at olive garden. olive garden is not my favorite dinner experience of choice. for one, although i love pasta, i can no longer eat alfredo sauce as it both constipates me (it's dairy) and it gives me a massive headache (the other components, possibly nitrates). coupled with my lo...

to quote adele givens in Beauty Shop "it's hotter than a jalepeno's coochie out there"! i just got back in from giving my neighbor a ride to sam's. the car was parked right in front of our building, we hopped in and had the air going full blast, hopped out at sam's and swooshed our way into the air conditioned building to shop, burst out the doors and right back into the car. now tell me why my clothes were soaking wet when i got in my door? sweating is good i know, to release toxins and what not. but i still don't like it. partly because it makes me use extra water (for showering and drinking). but i guess it has its place in a good weight reduction program. not that i'm officially on one but a sista is trying to lose a few inches before we go to Disney. hmmm... maybe i'll do another apple fast or two before we haul it outta here. .