It's Friday and an actual Friday for us because my husband just finished a two week overtime run at work and has the weekend off!!!!! He has to write a paper and we're finishing up shopping for Omie's First Birthday party because it's next weekend. I'm definitely in Momzilla mode. A year flew by. I can't believe it. My baby will be one! (But more on that later.) I am hoping for some fun, he mentioned checking out one of our favorite artists, Greg "CRAOLA" Simkins - Stop Haunting Me exhibit at Merry Karnowsky Gallery. We usually hit LA on Sundays for Sunday Funday but the gallery isn't open on Sundays. We'll see where the wind takes us....
Ponder on this. It has been weighing heavily on me for different reasons - both good and bad. I need clarity! A lot of putting it in the universe and crossing fingers!
Read a piece by Henry Rollins on American Gun Violence that I could relate to.
Henry Rollins: "America is a 50-state-wide killing field...As soon as I leave my house, I am on the kill grid." Growing up in Long Beach gave me the street smarts to survive as a kid and teen. But now as a mother, I find myself growing anxious at leaving my home with titles like this: Man cuts his arms with saws at West Covina Home Depot
Found out a Chinese station will be replacing my beloved Old School Hip Hop station KDAY. Why Southern California WHY? Do you not love the classics? The OG's? I've been sulking about it all week.
Four of my favorite fashion bloggers are featured on 15 Plus Size Bloggers Redefining Fashion Blogging!!! Gabi of Gabi Fresh mentioned one time that she doesn't only shop the plus size racks and that was an AHA! moment for me.
Sometimes I feel old and then I remember I was a teenager in the 90s. I lived it. I graduated in 1993 and this year is my 20 year high school reunion. I don't plan on attending, if someone from those days wants to find me, I'm on the Internet. 2013 also marks The Wu-Tang Clan going 20 years strong.
There were two very bizarre headlines this week. The one about Ferrets being sold as Toy Poodles made me laugh. I seriously could not stop laughing. And the one about the guy and an eel. Poor eel just going about your business, getting kidnapped, raped and then dying from the ordeal.
Thug Kitchen. 'nuff said.
And then there was this: That awkward moment when your child is watching Transformers cartoons and wondering why Optimus Prime keeps calling one of the Autobots "Ratchet". It's a tool Duke, a tool! (He has older brothers, thus the other definition he knows)
Labels: Craola, Greg Simkins, Henry Rollins, KDAY, Kids, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Plus Size Bloggers, Ratchet, Toy Poodle Ferrets, Transformers, Wu Tang Clan
