Near Tragedy…

The last time I wrote on here I was in Stephen’s Aunt Tee Tee’s living room getting ready to get in the car and head back up to New York. Maaaaan did it soooo not happen the way we  thought it would. That morning actually ended up being almost one of the WORST days of my entire life. Stephen, Olivia and me ended up being in a really bad car accident on the way back up to New York. We were on I-78E, tractor trailer, swerve, spin out, car hit the tractor trailer… car underneath the tractor trailer with Stephen and me in the front seat at the front impact. Last thing I remember during the crash is thinking, “Oh my God, we’re going to die today.” Because if you’ve ever seen Final Destination, I think the 2nd one when the logs on a log transporter tractor trailer, flew off and into the windshield of a car, that person’s head was smashed like potatoes. I thought the bottom of the trailer of this truck was going to do that to both Stephen and me and possibly Olivia too. God was with us because Stephen only received minor cuts on his hands, I bumped my head, Olivia not a scratch, bruise or break on her. She didn’t even cry! I went to the hospital by ambulance because no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t stop freaking out. I’m just so happy that everyone came out alive and well. It could have been so much worse! I’ll have to post pics as soon as I have the time to import the pics of the car off my celly. Right now its getting super late and I NEED to sleep since I didn’t really get much at all during the weekend. Night!

Been in NC

Don’t really have the time to type this out but we’ve been in NC since Saturday. I’ll add more details later. Now we’re at Tee Tee’s about to head back up to NY because we have to work tomorrow. Bummer, I wanna stay longer. So mad we have to go back now. Anywho, it was fun. Didn’t get to see my family but I spent time with my family only last time I came down. Anywho, gotta go! Talk to you in New York!

Late Night Candle Lights

Ok so it’s not really a late night candle light… fam knows what I mean by that, maybe I’ll let yall in on that someday, remind me, but I wanted to say about my post yesterday that I was extremely ill about what I had read on Perez Hilton’s website. I hope that I did not offend anyone. I felt tho and still do feel that what I was saying was and is justifiable. If you were to go back and read what some of those people were saying, if you aren’t one of them, you’d probably feel sick to your stomach that another human being can say what these people were saying about another human being being murdered for my guess is nothing. Anywho, enough with that, I’m going to sleep because I’m going to be super tired in the morning. We have big things going on tomorrow supposedly because my birthday is Friday. According to Stephen we’re pretty much going to be celebrating all weekend! w00t! We’ll see. Anywho, goodnight! Or well, good morning!

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A Crying Shame...

This morning, when I checked my email, I always receive Perez Hilton's daily email. I found his article about Dolla, the young rapper who was shot to death in LA on Monday. I read his article. It was so sad what happened to him. Someone just shot him in the head in cold blood then fled. He died in the hospital across the street. After I finished reading the article, I started reading the comments other readers were leaving. I wasn't happy with what I was reading so much that I had to leave a comment as well. I cannot believe how cold and calous people can be. This 21 year old man lost his life, for what reason, we all don't know yet but yet these people were saying, "he's a gangster so he got what he deserved," "he was a black rapper, who cares?" I was so disgusted. Yes, he was mixed black and Puerto Rican, yes he was a rapper, yes he dressed like a gangster. Does that automatically make him a gangster? From what I can tell he wasn't even affiliated with LA gangsters because the man was from Chicago. He flew to LA for business, got off the plane when to the mall to do some shopping, someone shoots him down like a damn dog. Who in the hell does that make him a gangster?? Just because he was a rapper?? I don't think so people. People need to open their closed minds and eyes. This isn't the 1950's and 60's when white people ran ramped over black people. Instead of showing respect for another young life lost, all they could focus on was his race and that he might be a gangster. Never mind the fact that another young person has lost their life senselessly to violence and that he was somebody's brother, cousin or maybe even father. How would these people feel if he was a relative or friend of theirs and people were trashing him like that postmortem? I mean somebody just drove up and shot this 21 year old man in the head! I can't say enough how much this disturbed me. I gotta give credit to the ones that had kind things to say, all the RIP's and prayers for his family. These people don't know him but had that to say, these are the people that are good people and will hopefully do great things for the world someday. No matter whether or not he was a gangster, he was still a human being who deserved to live. It's not someone's will to take life from others. Its not someone's will to judge someone because he's black or in his case partially black. I don't think I'll ever get it. Racism is still alive and probably will be forever. We all just need to learn to get along and care more about others. Please, we all have to do something to stop the violence before it consumes us all. Rest in Peace Roderick Burton.

Saddened...

Got Mac OS X on my Dell Studio laptop!

Here I go again testing out a new blog editor. Not very impressed by this one either because I can't choose the exact font I want to use. This one is called Qumana Blog Manager, it runs on Java. Oh update on my experiment from Sunday! I GOT IT! I can now run Mac OS X Leopard on my Dell. Only bummer part is I didn't put it on there where I can choose to boot from it, I added it by using a virtual machine but hey, I can still experience a Mac now. I was so happy. Mac's seem nice. The interface is really sharp and shiny. After a whole day of playing around with it, I still like the PC better although I am considering creating another partition and putting Mac on it so that I can boot up to it instead of having to start the VM every time. I haven't decided. I might just see if I can install it onto my external hard drive. I do have that 80 gig one that I don't even really use anymore. Hmmm, I'll think about that later. In the meantime I need to get back to playing around with my portable software work. Hehehehe! YAY!

With the Fam….

Today, I’m chillin with the fam. That’s Stephen, Olivia and me. Today is a very chill day. I did class this morning, my cost accounting class then came home to relax and watch TV shows with Stephen. Got tired of watching my shows so Stephen’s now cooking spaghetti, Olivia’s rolling around on the kitchen floor, hence the nickname, Monkey and I’m now blogging. I really want to try and get Mac OS X Leopard onto this laptop even though it’s a Windows Vista 64 bit operating system. I want to try and install Mac OS using VMWare virtual computer software. I’ve always wanted to know what Mac’s were like so I’m going to try and make this happen. It is said that it is illegal to install Mac OS on any hardware other than Apple and that its  close to impossible but thanks to some extremely bright people online who have done it and published tutorials to show others how to do it, I’m going to try it myself. I’m pretty good when it comes to stuff like this because like I’ve said before I am a very techie person. Right now I have everything downloading and I gotta get a hold of the operating system itself. Gonna work on this probably most of the weekend. Anywho, I tweeted a little today. Not much. It was pretty dead on there. It helped me realized that I didn’t really miss tweeting much at all. So I guess that means I wasn’t addicted after all just like I said I wasn’t.  Awe, my daughter is on the potty right now. SO CUTE! She’s got doing #2 down when going to the potty. Haven’t gotten her to successfully pee in the potty except for twice. She is 2 now so I want to go ahead and get her fully trained. She just turned 2 on May 12th so she’s a new 2 year old but she started doing everything early so why not have her doing this at a decent time too. She was standing on her own at 7 months. She was walking on her own at 11 months. She was fully weaned off the bottle and using a Sippy cup full-time by 13 months meaning she was also fully off breast milk and formula. We weaned her off her binky at 18 months. I know that is kind of late but getting her off wasn’t hard at all. I lost her binky and that was it. She cried for a few times but quickly got over it. She hasn’t sucked on a binky since. She did find one of her binky’s recently and put it in her mouth but we took it away from her and she was ok with that. Stephen and Olivia are now in the room with me. Olivia’s playing with her baby wipes and Stephen is talking to her while listening to my iPod. Anywho, guess I’ll go now, maybe watch some more TV shows. Toodles!

Testing again

Ok, pay me no mind, really... I'm just testing out new software. I will eventually come and erase this. Oh yeah, 8 months preggers below with Olivia, Gonna erase this though.

Addiction to Twitter...

Soooo here we go again. It's Friday and I'm at work blogging instead of working, as usual. Anywho, yesterday morning when I was reading posts on Twitter, Stephen accused me of being addicted to Twitter. So when I got to work that morning, I made an executive decision. Want to know what that decision was? Ok here goes. I've checked myself into Twitter Rehab EVEN THOUGH I personally don't think that there's anything wrong with me. After that morning, I hadn't posted on Twitter at all. I kind of slipped off the wagon a little earlier and Tweeted a little but then I left again and I'm going to stay off. Besides, instead of blogging I should be doing the ton of work I have piled up beside me. Then tonight when I get home because I'm forever procrastinating, I have homework to do tonight that has to be submitted tomorrow. It doesn't have to be submitted until tomorrow night at 11:59pm so I may do part of it tonight and the other part tomorrow and submit it then. I haven't decided. It's 2 chapters worth so I don't know. Anywho, I'm about to get back to work now, I'd like to finish at least 2 more batches before I leave around 6. Have a great weekend if I don't write anymore over the weekend!

Chillin…

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So, I’m chillin… Olivia and me. Stephen is working late tonight so I didn’t have to pick him up. He did call me and invite me out to his job tonight to chill out with him and have drinks. I think I’ll take him up on that and meet him there. He asked me to dress nice, aka, put on hoochie wear so I guess I’ll be doing that. I haven’t written in a while. Not much has changed since the last time I wrote except that I cut my hair again. It’s pretty cute I think. I’ve gotten to where I cut my hair every spring and fall then let it grow out in the winter. I have a pic I took earlier today, I’ll posted here. Ok so Stephen just called and wants me to meet him by 9pm but HELLOOOO I have to put our daughter to sleep before I leave so that Michael, her uncle, won’t have too. I guess that means I should probably start getting dressed now or at least get my clothes out. I have no clue what I’m going to wear! I need a whole new wardrobe. Ok so I’m gonna disappear again, holla later!

Happy Monday

So I haven't written anything all weekend because it was Mom's day weekend so I wanted to chill out with the online stuff. This one is going to be brief as well because I'm a week behind in my work because it took so long for us to do our monthly close. Just wanted to say hello to my readers if I have any and to say that I haven't abandoned my blog, just been busy. I need to do something to make this thing a lil more interesting. Maybe I really will start putting excerpts from my novel in here. We'll see, until then, BYE!

Oh and my Mother's day was good, very chill just like I like it. I got flowers, a card, and Stephen got me some drawing stuff because I do draw, just not often. My best artwork is on my notes in class... lol

So unbelievably sleepy right now

Yet again, I’m chillin waiting for Stephen to get home. Fuck it though, I have class tomorrow morning at 8, I’m going to bed. Guess we can do fun adult things some other time. Night night…

Wait… am I just seeing things or was the blog post I left earlier on Friday (5/8/09) not showing below… I guess I’ll find out once I submit this… again Night night…

Friday Again

Well, once again, i want to go out but probably won't be able to because, WHY?? I didn't get to finish my homework because the textbook I ordered didn't come when it was supposed to. I was able to do my homework for my management class but I've still been unable to do my homework for my Cost Accounting class and that is the class I had the most homework in. Go figure. I have class early tomorrow morning so it's not like I can put it off. I'm going to be up all night doing this. Anywho, I'm really just posting right now to test out this blog editor that I downloaded so that it'll be easier for me to blog while I'm at work. As usual I may come back and post tonight but with all the homework I have waiting for me at home, prolly not. Love it! I tell ya. The rest of my day is going to be long soooo I'm going to go and get more coffee. YES I know that it's almost 4PM but I'm going to need it. Big time. Gotta get back to work now, finally had our closing so now I can finally do some real work. I'll holla!!

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About to go home from work...

It's time for me to go and pick up Olivia from the Bronx. Had to drop my car off in Nyack this morning to be repaired so I'm driving a rental, an 09 Mazda 3. This car is the hotness! I wanna trade my car in for a Mazda 6 now. The Mazda 3 is nice just small on the inside. I'd like the 6 b/c it'll be just as nice but larger so there's more room for Olivia and her humongous Eddie Bauer front-facing car seat. What's wrong with my Ford? You don't want to know and I really don't feel like typing about it, just know that it wasn't cool. Anywho, I'll probably end up back in Nyack to pick Stephen up from his job, I'm not sure yet, he thinks he'll end up working til 9 because there's only one bartender for happy hour. Hey that's more money in his pocket, he'll probably have to use public transportation to get home though because Olivia will be sleeping by the time he's done and I can't leave her home alone while sleeping and I'm not going to wake her up to take her out the house. He can just use the bus and train or whatever like he used to before I started picking him up all the time. Anywho, now that I'm done killing time, I'm outtie! May or may not add more when I get home, depends on whether or not I got my last textbook in the mail, if I did I'll be doing homework instead. Oh and the legs and shoes above are mine, I showed Elle my comfy work shoes that I call moon shoes... Hollerate!

Twittering

I'm talking to these hilarious people on twitter. The topic of the night was if I could screw a celebrity, who would it be and why, the second topic was who was our twitter crush, now the topic is could we be in a serious relationship with a person who doesn't give Oral. Wow, good thing we're all over 18. I'll probably add more on the topic tomorrow but I really gotta go to bed, early start tomorrow.

Its MONDAY!! Arrrggghhh!!

So the lovely man you see to my left is Ne-Yo, I've told everyone and Stephen too that he's my husband but he just doesn't know it yet. I absolutely love his voice and writing style. My thoughts are so random, Ne-yo just happened to be in my thoughts this morning. It's Monday though and I'm at work, stayed up super late last night with Stephen and now I'm regretting it. I'm bout to bust my head on my keyboard because I'm about just pass out sleeping. As I'm typing this I'm also talking to people on Twitter. These folks crack me up! All weekend I was rolling because of the crazy conversations we were having on there. Twitter can be very addictive, especially when you run into some people who are actually interesting and talk about real stuff. Gotta go, my homie just called, we're gonna go gossip about folks in the breakroom... lol

Rainy Sunday

So I'm chillin while Olivia and Stephen are napping. Should be napping myself but Stephen filled me up with Mimosa's, don't wanna waste the buzz. Anywho, I can hear the rain coming down outside and some kids are actually out there throwing a ball to each other. I guess that's finally possible now that it's finally "warm" in New York. Maybe it's not raining as much anymore, I don't know, all I know is that it was raining a few moments ago. I just had the funniest time having Facebook war with a good friend of mine named Michael. It was just us trash talking back and forth to each other through facebook but nonetheless it was so much FUN! Ok so it kind of spilled over into Twitter but hey, no secrets here... hehehehe! If you wanna see what all the fuss was about, you can prolly still see some of it in Twitter under crystalmills but don't think that's going to last long. The thing is is that he's a big Chuck Norris fan and I'ma Bruce Lee fan, see the conflict of interest here? Bruce Lee laid a major beat down on Chuck Norris in "Enter the Dragon" but yet, Mike continues to be a Chuck Norris fan... what tha hell is wrong with him???? Anywho, I'm gonna cut this off for right now, may come back later when I'm working on my fiction story. Oh no I haven't forgotten, for right now I'm just proofreading what I've already done for the past few years, I've gotten quite a few chapters, and then I'm going to continue on from there with fresh and new things from the old imagination. I still may put an excerpt from it in this blog at some point, and hey maybe I'll even take suggestions on what to finally name it instead of just calling it Fiction Story. Of course it will be preliminary but anything at this point beats me just calling it "Fiction Story." I'll holla!

Saturday night...

Soooooo, I'm sitting here waiting for Stephen to get home from work, bored out my mind. I thought he and I were gonna chill out, have a drink and maybe watch a movie but I guess not. I'm just ready to go to bed now. I guess I'll be seeing him when it's daylight. It was really nice outside today. Stephen, Olivia and I went walking around downtown Ossining today. We got hot dogs, watched Stephen get a haircut and did a lil shopping. Temperature was at about 65 degrees and the sun was shining. Great day to be outdoors. It got cut short though because Stephen had to go to work. Now, Olivia's asleep, Stephen has yet to get home yet, Twitter is dull tonight, and I'm bored so since I Don't have much else to type about. Goodnight.

Friday Night & the Bronx

After a long boring day at work today, I reeeeally want to go out tonight. I don’t know that that’s going to happen now. Olivia’s uncle, who usually watches her when Stephen and I need or want to go out isn’t here because he’s working. Stephen had to go back to work for a bit, so I’m here alone with my sleeping baby girl. Can’t go out to the city without a sitter. My guess is that I’m going to have to just call it a night. I have class early tomorrow morning anyway. At least now though I won’t be spending my entire Saturday, almost, at school, I’m done at 1 now as opposed to 6 before. I’m so bored right now. I should be getting dressed and getting ready to hit some spots out in the city and getting my dance and drink on. Comes with the territory though. I’m a mom now so I can’t go out and do as I please anymore. I don’t mind too much though. I’d trade my life in for my baby girl and her dad. I think that we are a cute little family. Stephen and I have our ups and downs like any couple does but in the end we always end up back tight again. My guess right now is that he’s stuck on the Tappan Zee bridge in that construction traffic. His job is out in Nyack, Rockland county so he has to cross that 2 mile long bridge almost everyday and pay that $5 toll almost everyday. Fun right? They’ve started doing repairs again out there so they completely stop traffic while they’re closing off the lanes they’re going to be working on. I don’t understand why they can’t do their construction work over night like they do in North Carolina. When construction was being done on a major highway or street down there, all the construction began very late at night when there were a lot less cars on the road so there was never any construction traffic. Noooo not in NY.

Just like the damn garbage trucks in the Bronx!! OH MY GOSH THOSE ASSHOLES ARE SO ANNOYING!! I have to go to Barnes and 225th Streets to drop Olivia off at her daycare and almost every morning there’s garbage trucks all over the place. All these streets are 1 way streets except for white plains road which 225th connects to. I’ll come back in the evening to pick Olivia up to bring her home and there’s still garbage trucks all over the place, every single day!! Oh it doesn’t stop at the garbage trucks, if I’m not stuck behind one of those I’m damn near running over predestrians because I guess they think when they walk out in front of my car, I can just stop on dime to keep from running them over. Then they look at me like I did something wrong! AAaarghhh!!! I come close to running over some crackhead almost every time I come to the Bronx. People block the streets with their cars because they parallel park beside another car, they pull out in front of you, cut you off… soooo rude! Make me miss NC even more. I’ve gotten used to it and I can drive like a maniac like the rest of the maniacs on the road but damn I miss my slow life down south, can’t wait to someday move back. I’m off…

It’s My Birthday MONTH!!! w00t!!!

So what are your plans for this weekend? As of right now my only plans are to go to class tomorrow morning. I have cost accounting class. It’s gonna be soooo much fun. I actually like math though believe it or not. There was a reason I was writing this and I’ve totally forgotten what it was. Oh yeah, its my BIRTHDAY MONTH!! I’ll be 28 years old! Also my daughter, Olivia’s 2nd birthday is May 12th. We are some kinda special, I’m tellin you! I have no clue what I’m going to be doing for my birthday yet but I am excited that I’ve lived to see another year! Thank the Lord! So what are you getting me for my birthday? I want a 09 Nissan Maxima! Make it happen!! Ok, kidding but that would be pretty neato. So I’m at work right now so I’m going to cut this short, I’m actually busy today because of our closing. Maybe I’ll write some more tonight before bed since class is at 8:15am… nah, don’t go out much on Friday nights anymore… sheesh…