Rest In Peace Amy Winehouse

She was a wonderful artist.  Beautiful voice.  Awesome songs.  Taken too soon.  She struggled with addiction while on this earth.  Only she can know the pain that led to her addiction.  I hope she at least has peace now. Her album, Back to Black, really got me through some crazy times.  These days, music is not good.  There's one hot song on an album full of trash.  But this was one of those albums, one of those artists, that could be listened to from start to finish.  She will be missed.

Man Of The Hour

Today is my baby Carlton's 4th birthday! It's crazy! It seems just yesterday that my cousin and I drove to pick up that 11 week old bundle of fur and love.  I love him so much.  He's my little booger, my protector.  He keeps me laughing with his hilarious antics, and he brings sexy back to the dog park.  He loves me even when I'm fussing at him for eating the cat food or pestering the cat, he's always excited to see me come home, and never wants me to go.  Love you stink bug!

Smile

Feeling some kinda way these last few days. This song pretty much sums it up...

New Music and New Erms...

There's a lot of new music coming out, and for a change a lot of it is GOOD MUSIC.  Adele.  Marsha Ambrosius. Jennifer Hudson.

But there's a problem.  I am a HUGE J. Hud fan, yet I have not bought her album.  I haven't even heard the first single "Where you At?" (Maybe that has something to do with the incorrect grammar there but who knows.)  I was thinking earlier about why am not already listening to this CD.  And then it hit me (like Tina did Ike in the limo it finally hit me).

Think back to Dreamgirls.  Jen was BIG. I fell in love with her voice and her as a person when that movie came out.  It took everything in me not to yell "sing bitch sing" at the screen, while watching the movie in the theater.  Before her debut album, Jennifer Hudson, dropped, J. Hud again graced our screen in Sex and the City the Movie.  With all that buzz, I was excited about her first cd.

Fast forward to 2011.  What have we seen of Jennifer lately?  Yep.  You got it.  Those damn Weight Watchers commercials where she talks about her new "erms" and sings needlessly throughout every commercial.  At this point a lot of people, myself included, were just tired of seeing her.  There is nothing about those commercials that make me want to buy her album.  I probably will still buy it (I'm waiting to see if Amazon MP3 puts it on sale), but I'm in no rush.

A Friendly Reminder...

I've got a lot going on in my life.  Not sure that I'll talk about it here... but I do know that no matter how hard it gets, it could be worse.

I'm Breaking Things and I'm Losing Things...

This song has been on my mind ALL day.  When I got home from school studying last night I put my Blackberry down somewhere and couldn't find it.  I was just about to tell my bestie in S. Korea via Facebook to call me, when I found it on the couch.  Then this morning, I woke up, checked some emails, and put my phone down.  When I went to check the time later, it was gone.  I looked and looked and never found it, and just ended up going to school.  Because it's on silent, calling didn't do much good, so most of my lunch break was spent looking.  It would have been easier to find but my bed is covered in laundry.  I'm not a neat person.    I'm not filthy but not neat.  After doing laundry the clothes generally sit in the dryer until I need it again, then get dumped on the bed until I have time to fold them.  I haven't had much time lately.  The last 2 or 3 weeks have been hectic for me.  Maybe this weekend I can start getting my life back together.  Can't wait until Thanksgiving so that I can SLOW DOWN.

The Minutes Feel Like Hours... the Hours Feel Like Days

Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping

This song says a LOT.

My next purchase...

...will be a new mp3 player.  Mine is dying on me.  It was a slow death but I'm going to have to pull the plug on the life support soon.  My current player, is very full and has a 30gb capacity, so first requirement is more space.

What I really want is an ipod touch.  Of course the largest capacity I can get is 64mb.  I'd really prefer 80 but that's good for now.

Then comes the next dilemma.  there is talk of a new ipod touch on the horizon.  If I wait until the end of the month I could get some exciting new ipod.  Rumor has it that it will have a front-facing HD camera giving it the same Face Time capabilities of the new iphone4.  That's fine, but I'd have to have someone who had one and none of the people I'd actually want to see while I talk have iphones, so what's the point?  I can update the current one to the new OS and be fine.  Plus the prices on the ones currently for sale have been dropping, and surely a new 64gb ipod touch w/ all these new capabilities would be much more expensive, and the one I'm getting costs enough as it is.  I've already looked in itunes and found a couple of cool apps and games.  One is a flash card app that I can use for school so that's pretty awesome.  Best of all, a new toy to play with.