January 2012
6 posts
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely...”
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December 2011
9 posts
My Most Epic 2011 Moments - Number 6
6. Oscar night Oscar Night in itself isn’t really all that remarkable, unless of course you’re nominated for an award or something. Nevertheless, I threw a party. I’d been extra diligent about seeing all the films so I was super excited (2010 was a damn good year for movies I must say). I even hustled a last minute office pool and got it up to fifty bucks. I was certain I was going to win, but...
My Most Epic 2011 Moments - Number 7
7. Grandma’s 91st birthday I was supposed to work that day but for some reason I’d switched shifts with someone. Grandma’s (my father’s mother) birthday was the day after my mother’s so there was always a conflict of interest when it came to celebrating.
This weekend however, my mom was out celebrating with one of her booskis so I was free. I arranged to meet my cousin up in Harlem where she’d...
My Most Epic 2011 Moments - Number 8
8. Ski Trip 2011 So Lukasz gets the idea in his head that we, the DABs, should go skiing. And go skiing, we did.
Well technically, I snowboarded. Actually, if you really want to get technical, I busted my ass most of the time and only snowboarded a little bit.
That shot was hard, man. We rented a car and drove up to the Poconos on a Friday night. It took us forever to get up there because...
My Most Epic 2011 Moments - Number 9
9. Hashing things out with my dad In February, my grandfather died.
I remember getting a call from my father, with whom I was barely speaking in those days, and ignoring the call as per usual. He left a message. I listened to it. He sounded shaken up, said it was important that I called him back. I heard the news from my cousin first, actually. I didn’t know how to feel. I hadn’t spent much time...
My Most Epic 2011 Moments - Number 10
10. A DAB crew is born…
True story.
I’m a tad OCD about even numbers.
It’s gotten much better as I’ve gotten older but when I was younger…oh boy. I could never take three cookies. Three would make me feel oddly uncomfortable. It had to be two or four.
I love the number four. It’s such a nice round and balanced number. For my entire life, whenever I’d crew...
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My Most Epic 2011 Moments - Number 11
11. Wrestlemania XVII
Sounds silly I know, but hear me out here…
I hadn’t thrown a pay-per-view party in years. And by years I’m talking easily a decade. Back in the 90’s and first couple years of the 2000’s, I had gatherings for every major wrestling pay-per-view. We had bootleg cable back then so it was easy.
Lots of people would come through; my bestie Jonelle...
Bye Bye 2011...
Real talk…
2011 kinda sucked.
I really went through the ringer man.
First there was the breakup from hell and the aftermath. Breaking up was difficult enough but then there was the non-stop harassment, then stalking, then threats I had to endure from my ex for the better part of a year. It took a very serious phonecall from my father (thanks daddy) to get this man to finally leave me...
November 2011
2 posts
*sigh*
I’m in love again.
Lord help me…
October 2011
17 posts
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September 2011
8 posts
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10 years ago...
It’s amazing the things that can change in ten years. And it’s amazing the things that’s don’t change no matter how much time goes by…
10 years ago my bestie for life was still actually my bestie for life.
I remember being at her apartment. We’d just recovered from a fit of laughter about something or the other.
I said to her, still giggling and wanting...
April 2011
1 post
Wrestlemania XXVII
Seriously, I had a blast last night watching this! About a month ago, I randomly tuned into WWF (I still call it WWF, lawsuit be damned) and saw that The Rock was going to be hosting Wrestlemania this year. I watched all of Monday Night Raw that night, for the first time in ages. I followed up by watching Smackdown that Friday and then the following week, I blasted out a tweet saying...
February 2011
1 post
October 2010
3 posts
At Sea...
Slept until noon. Still on New York time I guess. It’s a sea day and we’re sailing to Alexandria, Egypt. We grab a quick lunch and then attend a talk about everything you need to know about going ashore in Egypt. The Egyptians were the first to domesticate cats, even worshipped them a little. The invented makeup. They perfected methods of brewing beer. I think me and the Egyptians will get...
Rome - Day 2
We wake at 8 am (2 am in New York, some of you night owls were still up I’m sure). Excited to take on the day, we dress quickly and head downstairs to the cafe next door for our free breakfast. This is breakfast Italian style mind you, meaning it consists of a pastry and coffee. I get something dusted in sugar with a pale yellow cream in the middle. Kevin gets something chocolate filled. We both...
Rome - Day 1
…though I guess you can’t really call it a day in Rome since most of it was spent on planes and in airports.
We had a layover in Madrid. I wish there was enough time to walk around. I’d love to see Spain.
At customs, a very handsome Spaniard with dark hair and blue eyes smiled rakishly at me. I handed him my passport. “Desireee,” he said with his sexy accent. I...
May 2010
0 posts
Open Letter to Rev Run
Twitter is probably one of the main reasons I haven’t been blogging as much these days. While I still think that Twitter is pretty darn cool, I’m annoyed that it’s become flooded with celebretards, pundits and pseudo-experts. One such is Mr. Rev Run. Now, I’ll admit that I liked watching Run’s House. And that I follow him on Twitter. And that there was a time...
March 2010
3 posts
WatchThis man just KILLS me with his fine-ness.
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