Sunday, August 29, 2010
Hair Update: Henna and Kimmaytube Leave In
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Kimmaytube Leave In
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Henna-Curly Nikki Forum
Peace and Love Candegirl
Saturday, August 28, 2010
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Reasons My Grandpa Is Cooler Than You
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| Grandpa and Me! Doesn't He Look Cool?! |
Top 10 Reasons Why Grandpa is Cooler Than You
10. He built, and I do mean built, with his own two hands the breakfast nook on the back of their house. He is currently remodeling my basement. Did I mention he is 86?
9. He has a computer. A Sony VAIO and he asked me for an MP3 player...he knows what an MP3 player is. Oh by the way he is 86.
8. He reads the paper every single day. My earliest memories are of him reading the paper and me sitting at the table pretending to read long before I could. He made me yearn to learn how to read and he is the reason I have to read the paper everyday.
7. When I was struggling with Pre-Calc in high school he was the only person able to help me. The thing about that is he has a 10th grade education. He left school to work and eventually join the army yet he could understand and teach the rules of Pre-Calc.
6. When he took my grandmother on their first date, more than 57 years ago, he was nervous and broke but didn't want her to know. When it was time for him to check their coats at the supper club they went to he said to her "well looks like we have to hold our coats, because they don't have change for a fifty". My grandmother always chimes in when they tell this story and says "I knew he was lying the place was packed they had change, but he was sweet...and I knew he was broke". He had fifteen dollars to his name and stretched it all to impress this young woman who would become my grandmother. COOL!
5. He wanted a grandson...after having three girls. He got me. So guess who he made watch baseball, football, basketball and especially golf with him. I don't know much, but I know enough to fake it for the boys. Thanks Grandpa!
4. He never stayed out late, never came home drunk, never raised his voice and never missed a day of work. He loves his family and although he never knew his father he has been a father figure to so many young men in our neighborhood, inside our family and those who he calls his Masonic brothers.
3. He loves music and has a jazz collection, vinyl baby, that will KNOCK your socks off. He taught me about Byrd, Duke, Washington, Coltrane and more. He is also the reason I love big band music and classical. He is one cool cat.....
2. He has loved my grandmother for 57 years and at this time in life when she needs to lean on him for daily assistance he does it with no complaints and more love than I have ever witnessed. This is marriage...!
1. See the video for the number one reason why my Grandpa is COOLER than you...and me!
Musical Inspiration
Artist: Louis Armstrong
Song: What A Wonderful World
Peace and Love Candegirl
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The Love That Won't Love You Back
Life is full of all kinds of love. The love of a parent for a child. The love of friends. New love...old love...perfect and imperfect. The love that I have most recently encountered and have had trouble shaking is the the love that won't love you back. You see all the signs that love exist in this space, that this love is meant to be yet the person on the other side of that love has no connection, call it bad love reception.
This love brings joy at first and then one day you realize it. That while you are feeling one kind of love the person on the other end is experiencing an entirely different form of love, or worst....no love at all. You beg with yourself to stop loving the person. To move on. To grow a pair. You look for new hobbies, new addictions, new love, but when you get even a moment of quiet that love that has been so evasive pops right back in and consumes you.
This love is like the toy you lose as a child and while you had tons of other toys to choose from, and you played with them, secretly you long for that toy. I had a Barbie like that and I can honestly say that to this day I think of that Barbie and I often think that one day I will open up a box from my childhood and find that doll, though she has been missing for nearly 20 years.
When it's a toy, holding out hope for 20 years doesn't seem so bad. When it is a person, another human with their own agenda, feelings and perhaps pursuits of their own unrequited love then you find yourself at the mercy of this persons hold on your heart.
The thing is if the love you felt was real love, a real sense of belonging in someones world and them inside of yours how do let that go? How do you move on from that the place...that feeling?
If anyone has the cure for the love that won't love you back...send it to me, because I am ready for love that plays fair.
Peace and Love Candegirl
This love brings joy at first and then one day you realize it. That while you are feeling one kind of love the person on the other end is experiencing an entirely different form of love, or worst....no love at all. You beg with yourself to stop loving the person. To move on. To grow a pair. You look for new hobbies, new addictions, new love, but when you get even a moment of quiet that love that has been so evasive pops right back in and consumes you.
This love is like the toy you lose as a child and while you had tons of other toys to choose from, and you played with them, secretly you long for that toy. I had a Barbie like that and I can honestly say that to this day I think of that Barbie and I often think that one day I will open up a box from my childhood and find that doll, though she has been missing for nearly 20 years.
When it's a toy, holding out hope for 20 years doesn't seem so bad. When it is a person, another human with their own agenda, feelings and perhaps pursuits of their own unrequited love then you find yourself at the mercy of this persons hold on your heart.
The thing is if the love you felt was real love, a real sense of belonging in someones world and them inside of yours how do let that go? How do you move on from that the place...that feeling?
If anyone has the cure for the love that won't love you back...send it to me, because I am ready for love that plays fair.
Peace and Love Candegirl
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Preparing To Meet Your Fantasy
So as those of you who have seen this weeks VLOG update or you are my close friend and received a call from me today to remind you, tomorrow I will be meeting a man who's image has comforted many a single girl night for me, Mr. Idris Elba.
I am unsure how that much SLINK+IMAGEEXY can exist inside one man, but it does. As I prepare myself to be in the presence of LOVELINESS I thought I would do a quick post on the four things one must do the night before meeting Idris for the first time.
4. Scrub, Exfoliate, Cleanse REPEAT- you skin should feel like the day you were born. SOFT, CARESSABLE, IRRESISTBLE. You should smell like a muse, a goddess, a woman he should KNOW.
3. Remove all hair that is NOT helping you maintain your sexy- legs, face, underarms and anywhere else that could become visible give the right amount of time and seclusion with Mr. Elba.
2. Clothes/Make-up/Hair/Accessories- if it is the night before and your clothing and hair are still a mystery you have ALREADY failed this test. Stay home and wait for the report.
1. Place ones mind in the ZONE...THE SEXY ZONE- do this by opening a glass of red wine the night before. Taste the sweet nectar of life. Turn on the sounds of men like Maxwell, Prince and Eric Benet. Open your senses to the smells of lit candles. Eat sexy food like chocolate covered strawberries. Rub a mink pillow and embrace the softness.
Sleep...sleep...and wake to the thought of IDRIS! LOL
Peace and Love Candegirl
I am unsure how that much SLINK+IMAGEEXY can exist inside one man, but it does. As I prepare myself to be in the presence of LOVELINESS I thought I would do a quick post on the four things one must do the night before meeting Idris for the first time.
4. Scrub, Exfoliate, Cleanse REPEAT- you skin should feel like the day you were born. SOFT, CARESSABLE, IRRESISTBLE. You should smell like a muse, a goddess, a woman he should KNOW.
3. Remove all hair that is NOT helping you maintain your sexy- legs, face, underarms and anywhere else that could become visible give the right amount of time and seclusion with Mr. Elba.
2. Clothes/Make-up/Hair/Accessories- if it is the night before and your clothing and hair are still a mystery you have ALREADY failed this test. Stay home and wait for the report.
1. Place ones mind in the ZONE...THE SEXY ZONE- do this by opening a glass of red wine the night before. Taste the sweet nectar of life. Turn on the sounds of men like Maxwell, Prince and Eric Benet. Open your senses to the smells of lit candles. Eat sexy food like chocolate covered strawberries. Rub a mink pillow and embrace the softness.
Sleep...sleep...and wake to the thought of IDRIS! LOL
Peace and Love Candegirl
Monday, August 9, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Saturday Morning Attitude
I hate when I fall asleep out of boredom! It literally makes me wakeup the next day with the worst attitude.
This was what happened to me last night when I failed to find anyone to go to a concert with me, catch my rant on the weekly update about that, and then I had not one call, text message, BBM, Tweet, FB message or messenger bird drop a: "Hey...we're going to be over.....". So I slept. I guess every now and again getting in bed early is a good thing, but I am losing my "in my twenties weekends....FAST", especially my summer ones. I am in NO way saying that I won't have a good time or a better time in my thirties, but I would like to enjoy what's left of THIS decade. Now typically I am at no loss for things to do, there are usually too many things in a week, but like a true American I am only looking at what I didn't have in my over consumed life and complaining about that. HA!
So today if I were you I would avoid me...my attitude is all the way turned up thinking about my summer night in the bed.
Also, if I see one picture of any of my friends "Getting It In" from last night I am going to..."Set It Off".
Now excuse me while I start my Attitude Saturday off with the clean, crisp smell of Pine-Sol. URGH!
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| My typical Friday night |
This was what happened to me last night when I failed to find anyone to go to a concert with me, catch my rant on the weekly update about that, and then I had not one call, text message, BBM, Tweet, FB message or messenger bird drop a: "Hey...we're going to be over.....". So I slept. I guess every now and again getting in bed early is a good thing, but I am losing my "in my twenties weekends....FAST", especially my summer ones. I am in NO way saying that I won't have a good time or a better time in my thirties, but I would like to enjoy what's left of THIS decade. Now typically I am at no loss for things to do, there are usually too many things in a week, but like a true American I am only looking at what I didn't have in my over consumed life and complaining about that. HA!
So today if I were you I would avoid me...my attitude is all the way turned up thinking about my summer night in the bed.
Also, if I see one picture of any of my friends "Getting It In" from last night I am going to..."Set It Off".
Now excuse me while I start my Attitude Saturday off with the clean, crisp smell of Pine-Sol. URGH!
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
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