Have Women come to this...

I was having a conversation with one of my male friends about relationships. Our conversation was spawn because I asked how his dating profile was working for him. He has had a profile on one of the largest black dating site for a while. He decided to take a new approach and asked me to write his verbiage for him since he has a hard time writing about himself. So, I got all the detail on what he wanted and didn't want and I ran from there. The one thing that he adamant about physical attributes. He had to have a woman who was in shape and not afraid to work out with him. Simple right? Right! So, I pumped out his profile text and uploaded my masterpiece. When he saw the page he loved it. Great... my deed is done.

This morning while speaking with him, he told me he had to change his page. Naturally I wanted to know why. He said "I was getting hate mail from that". That was a little shocking to me so I had to to go back and see what I wrote.

The part that cause hate mail

The woman I am looking for is an out of the box thinker, can hold an intelligent conversation about current affairs or mindless drivel about reality shows. My girl doesn't have to be built like a model but it is a MUST that she is healthy and wouldn't mind going to the gym with me. She has to be able to have fun in front of a camera cause I love to snap photos.

I need for the woman out there to tell me what in the world would make you think a man is arrogant from this statement? I automatically assumed it was the women with more to love kicking dust at him, but it wasn't. It was mostly the women who are appearing to be in shape. Has it come to pass that we as women don't see the possibilities of staying fit. Do we all think...(well do you all think) that is inevitable the you will get fat so that comment isn't fair? I am hear to say it for the brothers who fell they can't say it cause women will hate them. It's not hard to walk around the gym lap a few times. If you can't afford a membership. It's not hard to walk around the damn block. Hell learn to push away from the table. Now, before you jump on me I know some folk are just thickalicious and it is what it is but, you can still look good and be healthy. If you feel that you aren't happy with your body...do something to prevent the downward spiral. Cause when a man marries you and you let go... so does his eyes. Oh shut it up! I am aware that all cases are different. I know some men just look regardless and I am not saying we all have to be a size 2. Women want men who take care of themselves can't you give that at least in return? Come on give me feedback on this one cause I am real confused.

Easter Train Ride

Pay close attention to the picture. The face you see is the one that pretended to be a teenager in efforts to get sympathy from Metra officials (metra it a transit train in Chicago).

On Thursday April 9th I set off to my girlfriends house for the Easter holiday weekend. My 11 year old son and I got on the Metra train and I took my cat, bubbles. Not a problem right? I get on the train and I take her out of her travel case, that conductor tells me that I have to put her back in. All gravy! So I put her back into her case and continued our journey to the other side of the world it would seem.

Running short on time my son and I scurry over to Union Station. Hind site it 20/20 I should have left a little earlier to make a more seamless transition from one train to the next. I am trying to make a train to Grayslake and time is short. In our haste I decided to forgo buying a ticket in advance and I decide to pay on the train. I go to get on the train and the guys tells me that I can't bring animals on the train. I tell him the I had her on another train. His response was and I quote "I don't care what you did on the other train, you can't bring it on here". My response was and I quote "shut up (waving him off with my hand) I ain't trying to hear what you are saying". So, I proceed to the next train where the conductor there tells me that I indeed can't bring bubbles. I start in on the same story that I had her on the other train and he then sent me to the ticket office to get approval.

Off the the ticket vendors I headed, bubbles and kid in tow. When I get to the window I pulled the wild card of agents. This zany chic starts to do what she calls the kitty dance in her booth (WTF). My only thought is how can I work her over zealous personality to my advantage. I elected to revert to childhood and pout. I am sporting an Afro-puff hair style and little to no make-up. She assumes that I am a kid and the my son is my little brother. Desperate to get on the train I didn't correct her. I tell her I don't know what to do and I can't leave my kitty. So, she saunters off doing the kitty dance to get someone higher than her because I told her of my problem. Five people came back to the window with her, none with the authority to approval Bubbles.

(FLASHBACK) as I was going through the turnstile this short guy opened them up and said "gotta make a path for the Queen". I smiled and headed to the ticket counter. (BACK TO THE STORY)

The 5th person to come up is the guy who flirted with me... Oh yeah, I see my in. I keep eye contact with him and pull at his heart-strings. He then tells me to follow him. My son kept an eye on where he went so after I finally purchased the ticket(I was over charged for my kid) we headed in that direction. My son attempted to have me head in a direction that led outside to an area that just didn't set well with me. So, we waited until he came back in. When he came in he gave me the beautiful cashmere coat hand crafted in Italy(BONUS). He told me to wrap the coat around the cage and don't make eye contact with anyone... he proceed, when you get on the train get on the 1st care you come to and head to the tail end of it, shove the case on the floor and keep it covered with that coat. I started to the train and he called me back gave me his card and said if I got stopped he didn't tell me anything. Long story short a really nice Metra dude (who shall remain nameless) tried help me smuggle my kitty on the train.

So, I get in the hall with all of the conductors who saw Bubbles before but I just kept on my path. I felt the heat from them starring. I kept going. We got on the train and I did exactly what he told me to do. Finally on the train I was just about to sigh a sigh of relief until the conductor from the train got on. I started talking to my son saying absolutely nothing. He asked me if my sugar was low LOL (no I am not diabetic). He headed in the other direction looking high and low literally. When he gets to my car I try not to look at him and he comes right up to me and says "where's the cat". I totally froze unable to say anything. Then he said "oh she is covered, okay just keep her covered". Talk about nearly having a cow... I now know the feeling.

Once the train started moving I felt better so I called the nice guy and thanked him. He then told me the conductor on that train was a friend of his and he asked him to look after me. He did just that he checked to see how I was every 10 minutes. The woman next to me realized what was going on and offered me on of her mini bottles of wine. I gladly accepted!

And that was my train ride from hell.

Obama's income...If you made the money would you care.

I was tooling around the net this morning and I came across and article about President Obama's taxes and how much he made. So, I got to reading all of the comments and then felt compelled to write my own. Now, we all know I can be long winded... Yahoo wouldn't let me get everything out so I had to finish it up over here. The article that caught my eye was "The Obamas and Bidens File Taxes" Read it here

My response isn't to the article itself but the loony responses it captured.

My Response
Dude the President's salary is $400,000 a year. While I sit here and wish I made that much I didn't apply for a job the earns that much. Now, I am almost sure he hasn't gotten that entire check yet... call me crazy but he hasn't been there for a year, correct. They did mention the two books correct.... so I don't have to. As for the drop in there income. Michelle did have a job. She was an executive and the University of Chicago Hospitals. Don't take my word for it look it up. It is easy for us to be bitter over how much they are making. The sad part is they did everything they were suppose to be paid top dollar. While some of us are highly educated maybe we haven't tapped into our true calling to make the top dollars we desire. On the other hand everybody won't make that type of money anyway.

Hey here is a thought. Why don't you look up the sales of the books and figure out how much they made. Little hidden secret. Authors make more money off the sales of their books than Vocalist make off their albums.

So Nikki here is to making more than your fav. Mary J.