Don’s? Is it Don’s? IS IT DON’S? OH GOD MY KINGDOM FOR A DON’S ROTI yuh go wait ah while fuh it doh BUT DAMN DON’S IS THE SHIZNIT now I want Don’s thanks Natasha for nuttin
YES IT’S DON’S. Omg I only had their roti for the first time this week. We bounce up some padners by Bobby’s so we had some beers while we was waiting. I now about to bite into a goat roti. Yuh welcome 😀
well Chris is on his way home so my working wasn’t gonna happen now anyway. I guess we can…OH! I just remembered I wanted to get roti from this place in Diego… I had some this week by my mom and it was THE BEST roti I EVER had. Yeah fuck McDonald’s we going dere fuh lunch.
I wanted to do some work today but I was feeling crappy this morning. I’m better now but I have to go out when Chris gets back (he has my car, his is in the shop). I want to visit the store of someone I sold some jewellery to. AND I need to buy myself a new torch, mine isn’t working properly. So I can’t decide if I should just start working now and get into the swing of things (and get all dirty too I just took a shower) then have to put everything down when Chris gets back OR just laze around and eat chocolate and watch Netflix until he comes and work later. Dammit man. Help.
I mean it sincerely when I say that I love how many of your posts are about Chris bringing home food for you. Because it’s more than that. It represents something bigger, and that is love. Same goes for when you post about cooking for him. ❤
I realised recently that I post about that a LOT lol! Because of his schedule sometimes eating together is all the quality time we have. And we both really enjoy food. And I don’t have a cat to blog about. But ultimately it IS about love. Because if he wasn’t here there was no way I’d cook like, ever.
I have been craving everything salty and fried this week. Well apparently my hormones are. I want some McDonald’s fries. Chris can pick some up for me he’s nearish. And some nuggets. Yesssssss.
I woke up feeling hungover. Except I’m not hungover. I didn’t drink enough to get hungover. I’m probably a bit dehydrated (as usual) and the headache is hormonal but damn I shouldn’t feel this bad if I didn’t work for it.
I always wonder about that when I see people dating someone 10-15 years younger. How does that work?
That’s actually exactly what I was thinking when I was writing that post. I can’t imagine how you draw common ground. I have friends that are much older and younger than me, but for a relationship I prefer someone who draws from the same era of life experience as I do.
I’ve been streaming Pretty Little Liars over the past few weeks while working on the studio. It’s a good show to work to, entertaining and I don’t have to pay too much attention. But there’s always some emergency happening and it was starting to stress me out a little bit. I just saw that they put a new season up of White Collar. I’m stoked. That will be my viewing pleasure of the next few days.
Every so often someone I follow writes something about “reading Harry Potter as a kid” and “listening to Shaggy when I was in high school” and then it strikes me how much older I am and how different my point of reference is. I was in my twenties when the Harry Potter books came out. I was in my thirties when you were listening to Shaggy. Like I don’t even know what to do with that. It doesn’t make me feel old. It just reminds me how young some people are. And it feels weird then cause we were experiencing some of the same things at such vastly different points in our lives. And it makes me wonder if we could really relate in real life. And that’s when I wanna go stand in the corner with the rest of the overgrown kids who grew up in the 80’s. And then I revise my vision because I don’t really envision us standing in the corner at all.
I added a new listing to the store today! This divine copper spinner ring has four elegant bands encircling it, two sterling silver, one 14kt gold filled and one copper. The outer rings move, fun to play with and great for those of you who like to fidget.
The dentist’s assistant kept calling me Mrs. Gill. I found it amusing and told her that the only person who gets called that is my mother. She got confused and asked me if that was my name. I said yes but my husband’s last name is (redacted). She mentally could not compute at that point and it was only when the dentist called me Mrs. HisName that she got it.
I deliberately didn’t use the phrase “maiden name” because I think that term is bullshit. It was my name before I got married, now that I’m married it hasn’t changed its status. I was born with that name. It’s not my maiden name.
And by the way I haven’t been a maiden since 1989.
I am so sorry!! I have an irrational fear of dentists and something like that would actually traumatize me. I hope things go more smoothly with the new dentist
Thank you. I was never afraid of dentists but I was traumatized by that experience. Fortunately my dentist now is fantastic
I went to the dentist today. I have to get a bone graft. I had another dentist do an extraction a few years ago and he basically massacred my jaw. My current dentist actually used the word “gouged” to describe what he did. I knew it too, it was traumatizing and I never went back. I feel vindicated that I now have proof that he butchered me. And now I have to pay for it or lose a tooth. That man should lose his license he’s horrible.
I thought about all kinds of horrible people from history but I figured even a conversation with Hitler might prove interesting. People fascinate me so I’d probably want to pick even his mind. Then I thought about it more and I realised I’d never want to meet Charles Manson. Zero interest there.
21. If you were the opposite sex for one day, what would you look like and what would you do?
I suppose I’d hope I’d look like an attractive male version of myself. I’ve already got the height, just get rid of the tits and let’s go! I’d observe what men are like when there are no women around, maybe spy on some of my friends. I’d probably try to have sex to see what that felt like, penis and all. I’d pee standing up everywhere. And I’d probably go find my last boss and invite him for a drink and then punch his lights out. I’d consider that a pretty decent day.
22. Do you have a secret talent? If yes, what is it?
Yes. I inspire trust in people.
A man who wishes to have sex with a woman does not ply her with prescription sedatives, date rape drugs or excess alcohol to get her to say yes. A man like that uses substances to prevent her from saying no, because he doesn’t care if she says yes. A man like that wants a woman incapacitated in order to rape her, not in order to have sex with her – and such men admit as much to researchers.
Rapists are rarely the guys in the alley or the burglar in your bedroom: they’re people you know and trust, people you look up to, people with whom you or others might well have consensual sex under different circumstances. They’re people whom you believe implicitly are part of the majority of the population of men who aren’t rapists, people with whom you’d share a drink (or a Pudding Pop). They’re people with rich internal lives and sometimes even money and fame. They’re just also rapists, who rape because they like raping.
Muslim organizations have raised $23,000 to help rebuild eight
historically black churches that have burned down since the deadly
attack on a prayer group in South Carolina. Three fires are believed to
be arson, while the rest are under investigation.
The groups ‒ including Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative, the Arab
American Association of New York and Ummah Wide ‒ encouraged
Muslims to reach out during their holy month of Ramadan. They
touted the connections between Muslim and African-American
communities in the US, saying the groups are “profoundly
integrated in many ways, in our overlapping identities and in our
relationship to this great and complicated country.”
1. Do you ever doubt the existence of others than you?
2. On a scale of 1-5, how afraid of the dark are you?
3. The person you would never want to meet?
4. What is your favorite word?
5. If you were a type of tree, what would you be?
6. When you looked in the mirror this morning what was the first thing you thought?
7. What shirt are you wearing?
8. What do you label yourself as?
9. Bright room or dark room?
10. What were you doing at midnight last night?
11. Favorite age you’ve been so far?
12. Who told you they loved you last?
13. Your worst enemy?
14. What is your current desktop picture?
15. Do you like someone?
16. The last song you listened to?
17. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?
18. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?
19. If anyone could be your slave for a day, who would it be and what would they have to do?
20. What is your best physical attribute? (showing said attribute is optional)
21. If you were the opposite sex for one day, what would you look like and what would you do?
22. Do you have a secret talent? If yes, what is it?
23. What is one unique thing you’re afraid of?
24. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your disposal.
25. You just found $100! How are you going to spend it?
26. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere in the world, but you have to leave immediately. Where are you going to go?
27. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. “Be brand-specific” it says. Man! What are you gonna say about that? Even if you don’t drink booze there’s something you can figure out… so what’s it gonna be?
28. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?
29. What is your favorite expletive?
30. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don’t worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what’s the one thing you’re going to save from that blazing inferno?
31. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
32. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit… you can move to anywhere else in the world!
33. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn’t think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?
34. What was your last dream about?
35. Are you a good….[insert anything you’d like here]?
36. Have you ever been admitted to the hospital?
37. Have you ever built a snowman?
38. What is the color of your socks?
39. What type of music do you like?
40. Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets?
41. What is your favorite milkshake flavor?
42. What football team do you support? (I will answer in terms of American football as well as soccer)
43. Do you have any scars?
44. What do you want to be when you graduate?
45. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
46. Are you reliable?
47. If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be?
48. Do you hold grudges?
49. If you could breed two animals together to defy the laws of nature, what new animal would you create?
50. What is the most unusual conversation you’ve ever had?
51. Are you a good liar?
52. How long could you go without talking?
53. What has been you worst haircut/style?
54. Have you ever baked your own cake?
55. Can you do any accents other than your own?
56. What do you like on your toast?
57. What is the last thing you drew a picture of?
58. What would be you dream car?
59. Do you sing in the shower? Or do anything unusual in the shower? Explain.
60. Do you believe in aliens?
61. Do you often read your horoscope?
62. What is your favorite letter of the alphabet?
63. Which is cooler: dinosaurs or dragons?
64. What do you think about babies?
65. Freebie! Ask anything interesting you can think of.
Odds are I’m going to pass out in the next 60 minutes. Give me something to do when I wake up.
Watched a Cosby rape apologist get his ass handed to him on Facebook today. Best part? No one attacked his sexist bigoted ass, they took down his arguments point by point by point. I’m proud of my friends.
I recently called my cell phone provider to have my plan changed because the bill was coming up to ridiculous amounts every month (about US$100). I rarely ever make calls and don’t use my data because I’m always home on my wifi. I couldn’t figure out what the fuck I was spending all that money on, the bills were completely confusing but the customer service rep on the phone was super helpful and signed me up for a new plan.
This month my bill came up to TT$89. That’s US$14.
I’m really grateful for this, but really disgusted too that I was spending all that money before on what I have no fucking idea. I could never figure out from the bills what I was paying for. And I had tried adjusting the plan in the past and kept ending up with this ludicrous bill. I’m so pissed that the phone company was charging me all that money for that bogus plan when I could have been paying for what I was actually using. God bless that customer service agent though. We can go eat some sushi with that extra money.
It is odd, even though I have a kid now, still a lot of the media/entertainment that is aimed at me I cannot relate to, because I am older than most people with little kids. I am still “out of step” with people with young children.
That’s true. Most people our age have pre-teen or teenaged kids. I guess we’re in two un-represented demographics. It really would be nice to see my story reflected somewhere. But I’m not holding my breath.
My newest studio project involves stacking rings- lots of them.
I’m working on a copper spinner ring that’s still in the in-progress stage. I still have to flare out the band and polish off all the gunk on it. Metal smithing is really dirty work! I’m also thinking this ring might like really nice in silver too. What do you think?
I’m also working on some plain and not-so-plain bands. I love the stacking rings trend, they’re so versatile. All of these rings still have to go into the tumblr for polishing. I think I’ll go have a cup of tea while I wait.
I’ll be listing these soon at my store www.sundarajewelry.com. If there’s anything you’d like to see drop me a line, I welcome your suggestions!
So lesson learnt don’t buy the tall length jeans because apparently my height lies in my legs and not my torso. I now have a pair of high waisted skinny jeans that go up to my bra.
I wish we could un-know certain things.
Being 42 with no kids means that a lot of programming for people my age doesn’t attract me. So I end up watching a lot of TV geared toward younger people. Zero regrets.
I’m itching to travel. December feels too far away.
Giving myself a pedicure and then wearing boots was probably not the smartest idea.
I like my life. It took me a really really really long time to be able to say that and mean it.
Shout out to all the people who will believe Bill Cosby is a rapist now that he admitted drugging women for sex, but didn’t believe 47 women when they said it. 👍 Thanks for nothing. #trustwomen
How many women’s testimonies are worth one man’s denial?
Treehouse at Swallowtail Studios. Absolutely romantic treehouse resting securely in a huge multi-trunked 110 ft. eucalyptus tree. Spacious deck opens up to a dreamy rural surroundings and bohemian interior gives you a magical experience. In the same property there is a large redwood barn in which The Grateful Dead played a gig back in the 1970s! Located in Petaluma, California.
I wasn’t motivated to go into the studio today even though I had some stuff I needed to get done. It’s all this rain. How is anyone supposed to get off their asses in this kind of weather?
Sunday we decided to go watch a movie. I had found these ancient movie vouchers the other day when I was cleaning up Chris’s desk so I thought I’d use them. When we were in the line Chris pointed out to me that they didn’t even reflect the current price of the tickets anymore. But he slid them across to the lady anyway. She didn’t even look at the damn things, she just printed out the tickets and gave them to us. I really hope she doesn’t get in trouble. But yay free movie tickets!
I’ve been losing weight steadily over the past couple of months. Mostly I just changed my eating habits. That bout of food poisoning didn’t hurt this weekend either. While I’m happy to have my old body back (and my face! I look like me again!) I’m missing that ass I acquired over the past two years. I was not blessed in the booty department like certain members of my family. Bye bye butt. I guess you can’t have it all. At least not at the same time.
Yeah girl. I left that company over a decade ago. And every time I see them in public (which is rarely thankfully) they alway look straight through me. Honestly I wonder if someone told them I was stealing clients or something. Then again they were the kind of people that took it personally if you left the company. They acted as though your job was a gift that you should be eternally grateful for… so maybe it’s that.
I really love it when Chris cooks. He’s a good cook and made a lovely spread for us yesterday. I just don’t understand how he always manages to leave the stovetop looking like a nuclear meltdown occurred. Every time. It amazes me. I just cleaned it up, it wasn’t a big deal. He washed all the dishes so I have no complaints. He even baked a lovely lemon cake with icing. I thought that was really sweet of him. He’s the absolute best. I couldn’t possibly ask for a better husband.
I read this quote today by Ann Lamott that said: “A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.” I don’t know how he feels, but it certainly applies to me.
We never forget bitches. And I think it sounds like she’s so arrogant that she never even considered what she’s done to you before liking your page. People like that only remember themselves.
Oh I don’t think she ever thought she did anything wrong to me. I think she thought I was a difficult employee. In fact she and her husband still ignore me in public!
‘Red Bone’, referring to an ethnic group in Louisiana and a black American term for people with fair skin, has strong ties to peoples in what is now eastern Nigeria. Originating from 18th century chattel slavery in the West Indies, the term ‘red bone’ takes from the creole term ‘red Ibo’ referring to fairer skinned black people. The term derived from observations of fair skin among some members of the Igbo ethnic group (and some other peoples lumped in from eastern Nigeria) whose numbers in slavery ratcheted up in the 18th century due to internal conflict in Igboland. European slavers and plantation owners often made observations and generalisations about various ethnic groups since different Africans were targeted for their knowledge, education and skills; a hefty amount of stereotyping and dehumanising was subsequently placed on various ethnic groups found in large numbers in slavery. One recurrent observation was the relatively higher prevalence of fair skinned people from the Igbo area, known then in the Atlantic as the ‘Eboe Country’. The fairer skin was demonised by planters as ‘sickly’ and the Igbo were characterised as weak because of this. This also meant their ‘price’ dropped and poorer planters in places like Virginia took many Igbo leading to a saturation of Igbo people there. The disdain, however, may have been fuelled somewhat by the fact that enslaved Igbo people weren’t unknown for their defiance of slavery, immortalised in the folktale of Ebo landing; they were also involved in a number of slave revolts all over the Caribbean, including in Haiti.
Ultimately, this characteristic was taken in as a negative one and the term ‘red’ was combined with ‘Ibo’ (Igbo) as a pejorative used by black people in the British West Indies for people who were black but with fair skin as opposed to mixed people who were just ‘red’ or ‘brown’ thus suggesting a hierarchy of phenotypes and hair types. Some creole linguists trace the term to Louisiana where it was heard as ‘reddy bone’, leading to the understanding of the term as ‘red bone’ with a less negative connotation as it is still used in AAVE today.
The term red bone is interesting as it seems to be a word that’s linked to a particular experience of an ethnic group in slavery. The word itself carries a lot of historical weight in terms of what it meant for one group of Africans in that era. (Kniffen, Gregory and Stokes 1987; Don C. Marler 1997, 2000; Winer (2009). Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago. pg. 754.; [Louisiana, Where Music is King, PBS.])
It’s raining mad heavy outside. Which is lovely since I didn’t get to sleep until after 3 this morning. I’m gonna read myself to sleep again. This is not wake up weather. Pity I’m home alone Chris already left for work. This is why I need a cat. This is cuddle weather.
WATCH: We humans aren’t the only ones who like to dance to the soothing sounds of the violin. Pairi Daiza zoo in Belgium invited violinists to rehearse in front of these elephants.
A former HR manager of mine liked my Sundara Jewelry FB page. I was really surprised because she was always kind of a bitch to me.
When I was working there I had applied for a credit card and she had given me a letter stating my dates of employment at the company. I had been moved from one section to another and she only put the second part on the letter. When I asked her to amend it to state my entire employment history she flat out refused. I have no idea why. Luckily my manager vouched for me.
She also dismissed me when I told her I was having problems in my (brand new and suddenly abusive) marriage and that it was affecting my ability to do my job due to the stress. She laughed and said, “But you just got married!” Then she waved me out of her office.
When I left the company shortly after she and her husband who happened to be the CEO and owner acted as though I’d personally insulted them by quitting my job and insisted I leave that very day. They marched into my department and practically had me escorted out. They wouldn’t even look me in the face. I don’t know if it was personal or if they treated everyone who left like that (no, they didn’t) but it felt fucked up, like they expected me to start stealing all their clients or something. Which is something I would never have done.
So now she liked my page. I think this is it. End of days, right? Actually she probably just didn’t associate it with me. Probably forgot all about me. Huh. Well I didn’t forget about her.
Relatos Salvajes or Wild Tales. A Spanish-Argentinian film we started watching tonight.
You ever get a book that’s so sweet that you dole it out bit by bit so you can savor it for as long as possible before you get to the end? Well that’s what we did with this film. It’s a dark comedy about people in different situations who reach the end of their rope and have seriously had enough of this shit. It’s really fucking good. And funny. Watch it.
Now that Tumblr’s video player finally works, I wanted to upload this here. (This HD player’s surprisingly good quality) This was my short film that I spent forever on. Please don’t remove my credits, thanks~!
Went to see Spy tonight. It was funny, we enjoyed it. Came home to watch the match and even though we knew the score I didn’t realize that it would be 4-0 fifteen minutes into it. That is what we call a cut-ass in Trinidad. Well at least Japan didn’t go home with nothing. I was gunning for them though. Always gunning for the underdog.
After watching the new #StarWars trailer several times, I decided to repost these illustrations from my Daily Figure blog of old. I have high hopes for the new film!
The line quality in these drawings can be achieved with my ‘Clean as a Whistle’ Photoshop brush, available in my Photoshop Megapack.
For the last 44 years, you could ask Maria how to get to Sesame Street, but not any more. Sonia Manzano, the actress who has played the character since 1971, is retiring and won’t be part of the next season.
Manzano, 65, announced the news earlier this week at the American Library Association Annual Conference.
On the show, Maria owned the Fix-It shop, repairing all sorts of things, including a lot of toasters, with her husband Luis, writes the Associated Press:
“In confirming Manzano’s retirement, Sesame Workshop said ‘she will always be a part of the fabric of our neighborhood. During her 44-year career as the iconic “Maria,” and the first leading Latina woman on television, she was a role model for young girls and women for generations.’“
Instead of damage reports, however, Melburnians began to send emails detailing what they loved about individual trees in the city. One writer emailed a golden elm to say keep up the good work, while another was complimented on its beauty
I had strep. I just stopped eating. But I got a cigar for today. I hope you feel better
Oh god that’s just awful… I used to get that a lot when I was younger. Hope you’re feeling better now. I’m… testing the waters… so far the apple is staying put lol
Serena Williams asked the official if he could tell the Wimbledon crowd, who kept loudly cheering for Heather Watson and booing at Serena, to stop cheering during the actual match. The crowd booed her for this and she quickly reminded them “Don’t try me” before winning the match and advancing to the next round. Excellence.
Ohh ohh 😦 What you eat so to give you food poisoning?! Feel better soon!
I don’t know if it was food poisoning but something I ate violently didn’t agree with me last night. Chris made me a late dinner of pancakes and eggs. I was fine until about an hour or two after and then everything in my body blasted out lol. I’m on antibiotics but I can’t imagine that had anything to do with it… beats me. I’m feeling better today thanks. Just really tired and kinda hungry
Hatecopy’s tongue-in-cheek pop art mashup provides an interesting commentary on diaspora life. Scroll through her ‘Burnt the Rotis’ series on the site now.
Working on some layering necklaces. I really love this trend. This one has a leather tie to wear at any length #jewelry #artisan #crystals #hamsa #lotus #necklace #iolite #sundara
Rafael Nadal knocked out of Wimbledon by Dustin Brown in second round
Two-time Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal’s run at this year’s tournament was cut short Thursday thanks to his unseeded opponent Dustin Brown, who beat the 10th-seeded Spaniard in four sets, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, in the second round.
“My plan was to come and play good tennis,” said the 102nd-ranked Brown, came into the tournament as a qualifier. “I didn’t think past 9 p.m. tonight.”+
Let me just say that whoever made this is a master artisan. I learnt how to do stained glass many years ago and even made some stuff. I’m looking at the pieces of clear glass in this picture. Look at how large the pieces are and how they fit around the tiny little leaves. Normally you would add extra seams, breaks, because it is very hard to cut an inside corner with glass. It gets very fragile and breaks easily. But this artist cut and then ground the clear glass so it would fit those leave, branches and birds like a puzzle with no extra seams. Just brilliant workmanship.
no. you don’t. there is a reason for using the website – documentation. if they really want work done, they will figure it out.
Well I also take orders via facebook. Not everyone shops online in Trinidad. I don’t mind taking an order there I just don’t want to do it on the phone.
What do I do about a client who insists they must contact me by phone to place an order? Despite the fact that I’ve repeatedly attempted to guide them to the website AND have tried my best to get them to simply place the order via my facebook page? The person has resorted to leaving their number on my page and asking me to call them. I have acquired a pre-paid number to give out for business but of course it has no money on it right now… I guess I can always call them from my other phone and just block my number (I am not giving out my personal number for business). I really, really, REALLY don’t want to conduct business over the phone. I am not good at it. If I get impatient I won’t be able to hide it in my voice. And I abhor talking on the phone. But I guess I have to suck it up and make this call don’t I? Do I?
soulsistrin 