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Mar
2010
Da Smooth Criminal Bar Room
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"So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." W. Shakespeare
"----->His intelligence is instinctual and emotional, like a child’s. If any artist loses that childlikeness, you lose a lot of creative juice. So Michael creates around himself a world that protects his creativity”. ~ Jane Fonda
Glad you got everything working again the way you want it Sabine.
And yes, that was a good movie. I'm sure they'll air it again. I don't normally do lifetime movies either, but I like Taraji and I enjoyed that.... though the segment they had after the movie, with the real Tiffany and her real son was just as interesting. They explained everything regarding how she got her son back from Korea.
I thought it was silly.
I can't imagine something like that happening to me. I would hunt that man down like a dog!!!!
Thanks for your well wishes about the site. I'm sure it can becoming annoying hearing me bitch and moan about it, but imagine how I feel on my side!!!!! Especially when I have to watch the people trying to "sneak" in here. It's kinda of funny and annoying at the same time. I guess I should admire their tenacity. Now I don't even think I fixed everything but I'm trying. Meanwhile, what I'd like to do is really finish up this wedding I'm supposed to be writing about!
Now I can't believe you thought that movie was silly!
Well, everyone to his own taste. I thought it was very poignant and meaningful. But then again, I always fantasize about living like that!!!! So that may be my fascination.
Sneaking in, really? lolol
I can sympathize I guess. I mean before I even know about this place (thanks to a haircare board I often frequent) I had read, or attempted to read, other stories about Mike. Let's just say they were less than stellar and leave it that.
And this is that crack right?? So you've cut off their supply and they're just trying to do anything to get to it!
OMG, this made me laugh! Yep, I guess that's about it. When I look at it like that, it makes perfect sense!!!!
Happy Year of the Chinese New Year!
It's officially the year of the rabbit.
Is that good for ME? I was born in the year of the Boar! I swear, everything that could go wrong IS going wrong in my life. Nothing drastic, just little things that I have to fix, like my car check engine light coming on, a leak in the roof, tenants moving, my bank cancelling the way I pay my bills so I have to scramble to find another way -- just so much that I'm responsible for. I'm going to look at my horoscope because I think I need a TIME OUT!
Ahhhh, here we are. Anyone who doesn't believe in horoscopes, please explain THIS (from my personal horoscope):
Sweeping changes ***
Valid during many months: Now is the time to make sweeping changes, not only in your consciousness, but also in the circumstances in which you live. Conditions that have been developing slowly will force major changes upon you now. If you are flexible, you will be able to start a whole new phase of life, even though you may have thought that the time for new starts in your life is past. You will have a new birth of awareness, and you will be able to deal with your life unhampered by old patterns of thought that have limited you.
But if you cannot adapt and be flexible, this will be a period of great turmoil and stress as you try desperately to hold on to circumstances, possessions and relationships that no longer have any real function in your life. What you are trying to save is not something real, it is only an illusion.
The impetus for change may come through persons who present you with many upsetting surprises, all of which show that your life is no longer what is was. The key point to recognize is that this process is not bad for you, it is just upsetting at first until you get into the flow of events. It can be quite exciting and will certainly inject an element of youth into your life again, with the advantage that now you will have the wisdom to handle it properly.
--- Well, I say BRING IT ON
As long as I'm healthy and breathing, I can handle anything!
So now you have a period of agitation that you have to go through? Doesn't look like it will last long, but hey, that's how pearls are made! And this says your supposed to come out on the other end wiser.
Plus you seem flexible and level headed so I believe you'll be fine.
I love that you don't think I'm crazy!!!! I went through a really rough period a few years ago. My horoscope read like a horror story. It was terrible!!!! I was like, God, please give me a break!!!!! If I can go through that, girl, I can make it through everything.
It's funny to me, you know the saying goes, the stars don't dictate, they compel. So when a horoscope reads like that, I often sit back and wonder, how much can I control?
Like my horoscope says with three different influences that I'm supposed to have a confrontation with someone in the next two days. It says even if I try to avoid it, I will have it anyway, but just unconsciously.
I did have to have a conversation with my tenants. I'm hoping that was it.
No I don't think you're crazy. I try to keep up with my daily horoscope too, sometime it applies, sometimes it doesn't. Right now I'm supposed to be on this philosopher mode which could be good or could, too, lead to arguments. So who knows. *shrugs*
I think it's a time everyone has a potential to be aggressive, passionate and short tempered.
But I read both my sun sign (Gemini) and ascendant (Aries) to try to get a full picture.
IF you're interested, Ladake, this is where I read: http://www.astro.com
I just don't read sun or ascendant, I read a reading of my influences (planetary combinations) based on my chart. I find that that gives me the best reading. Best of all, it's free!!!!
And who don't like free?
'SQUEEEEE!' So I've finally, finally found a really good book. I know you don't read while you write (is that kinda like drinking while driving??
j/k) but I would definitely recommend you adding it to your long list. - if you haven't by chance already read it - 'Nobody's Hero' by Melanie Harvey.
And thanks for the site, it's pretty good. I've bookmarked it.
Ooo, I'm happy for you
Finding a good book/story is liking finding gold. What it's about?
You know, I have been reading. Linda Howard. She's written a few books that I really like, some that I've read over and over. But you know, I grabbed one of her books that I have, 'cause I was going to be on the train. Um, It was called, Now You See Her -- and as much as I love Linda, this book was so corny. I kind of cringed in embarrassment when I read some of the dialogue. It was that bad. Which is so amazing, because there's a few of her books, like I said, that I absolutely love!!! Her leading men, though, are always the same -- alpha males, which can be kind of sexy in fantasy but NOT so much in reality.
The reason I read her again is because I've been watching Bourne Identity all week, my new favorite movie. Not 'cause I haven't seen it. I watched it again and all of a sudden I now love it!!!
Anyway, enough about her. I've been thinking. I need to give you some kind of Bar patron of the year award. All of our other regulars have gone into hiding! Not the one I kicked out of course
We need to make this place a nice cozy corner, ten members who actually participate with no agendas! What do you think?
I've never heard of her, but I'll try to check it out. I'm always in search of good book: read, - good fictional, don't have to think since my day job is so grueling, can lose myself in a wonderful fantasy world - type of book. I.E. BBM. lol
Meanwhile, this book is so unlikely, since it's about a white rapper and an authoress. I don't even like rap music, not really, especially not your Eminem types. *shudders* But this book was recommended to me by a friend and I started reading it and it grabbed hold and hasn't let go yet. It's really, really, really good, and I haven't even finished reading it. But I'm excited about finding it.
And yes, where is everyone?!?!?! I miss the usual suspects. But I can't help it, I have a few places I check in regularly. This is one of those places.
And bar patron?
I don't know, maybe an honorary bar patron, since I'm the person that goes to the bars (no, really) and sips on a Shirley Temple while pointing and laughing at all the intoxicated folks.
oh yeah, im in DA BAR feelin' good need to get a drink because i live on the internet. lol!
Hey MjQuan.
Ladake, I'm not much of a drinker myself, that's why virtual drinking is cool!
A white rapper!
That sounds like a book I would never pick to read, but those sometimes make the BEST kinds of stories! Definitely putting that on my list! Is it an urban love story, though? I always kinda hate those, 'cause they are sterotypical, but I'm open to being proven wrong.
No, I don't like urban fiction. I don't think I've ever read any either.
This story, without giving too much away, is about the unlikely attraction between a woman who's just starting to make it big as an author - kinda self help - and a certain rapper of whom she's also a huge secret fan. They actually meet for the first time in real life on a show (I'll leave it at that) and can't seem to stay away, even though she knows he's all wrong for her. The book also touches on the famous or semi-famous and the intrusiveness of the media, as well as what one will give up for fame. It kinda reminded me of your stories to.... kinda.
And the dialogue!!!! The story was really spot on. I read it less than 2 days.
ha ha! i just uploaded a video of me dancing to billie jean with the outfit on on my tumblr.. lol! you have to see it mjquan tumblr (or whatever its called, i followed you, watch it when you get the time, it will make you smile girl, cuz' im so silly... lol! (grabs a thriller) might make another video lol!
Hey MjQuan, dancing up a storm, huh? Good for you. I will check it out if I have the time. i really just go on tumblr to reblog pics.
But it sounds like you had a blast.
Wow Ladake, now I want to really read that book!!!
Hey Ladake,
I just looked up that book on Amazon, and I can get it on the Kindle for 1.49 (I know, it's horrible!) but I'm going to download it and let my daughter read it!
Then I'll read it
That's where I got it.
And 1.49 is waaaay cheap and I really think it's worth much, much more than that (especially considering some of the crap I've paid $7.50 for).
Let me know if your daughter likes it. I started reading it again on the plane!
Meanwhile, I'm in New Orleans for the first time ever and I realize that I've completely romanticized the city thanks to the Feast of All Saints. I don't know what I was thinking. I went down Bourbon st and canal in the French Quarter and it looks.... You know, I realize that the 1st level, street level, is just bars and restaurants and strip joints (so tacky), but the 2nd and 3rd stories of the buildings look like what I had envisioned. It's the style of the buildings I guess. It got too dark, so I'm going to see the St Louis Cathedral tomorrow, but I think I need to go see the plantation homes. Though I'm here for work so I don't have much time. Good thing is, I'll be back in May for vaca.
But the whole time I'm thinking to myself, this is NOT the New Orleans that Marcel and Annabella saw!
Of course, that was the 1840s...
Of course, that was the 1840s
Yeah, if it's a good book, $1.49 is criminal. You know I believe a writer should be paid for her/her work!
My sister went to New Orleans this summer -- well, I don't speak to that one, so I only knew 'cause her daugher posted pics on FB, much of what you mentioned, bars and such (reminds me of Las Vegas) I heard the French Quarter is the ONLY part of New Orleans that has recovered from the flood, if you know what I mean; that there are parts that you wouldn't want to see. I hate to think it, but I think its true.
You are the traveling fool though! I admire you that. Haven't been to New Orleans yet at all. But one day.
Yeah, I wish I could've gotten here before Katrina.
The food's good though. And I think it'll enjoy the river front more. I don't know if bourbon street is my scene.
And I only travel because of work. Which I wouldn't do if there was more than just me... like a husband or child or something. I tell folks, no pets, no plants, so I don't have to worry about anything dying when I leave the house.
Well, have a margarita for me, even if it's a virgin!
You know I meant to read that story tonight but things didn't work out like that. First of all, I'm trying to finish up TTWC and I have BBM4 on the brain like crazy. It won't let me write it. It all started when I tried to take a scene that I "received" for Sabah and turn it into a Saniia scene, being that they're the same person and all, but the Gods of Fiction were like, uh, uh, uhhhhh, that's not what we sent you. So I had to put everything aside and write that scene for Sabah, and now BBM won't leave me alone!
MJQuan
Go 'head with your bad self. I just watched your video. Too cute. I'm trying to put it up here but it is not working. Michael is probably cheesin' real hard!!!!
Here's the link for everyone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzLD9UvgQN4&feature=player_embedded
lol! oh no, i told you girl, im so silly... i watch michael so much that i kinda had no choice but to learn some moves... man i am aching, and feening for a chapter *scratches neck* im just going act all nonchalant about it *whistles*..
Yeah, stop trying to snatch Sabah's moments! lol
And you changed the background... it's supposed to be white now, right? I like it. It makes it easier to read the text.
Hey Ladake!!!!! You're back home!
So how was the rest of your stay in New Orleans?
I really have to learn not to mess with divine inspiration. It's funny, TTWC, I can rewrite and change, but not BBM and never CBM, everytime I tried I just wasted hours and hours!
So when I tried to change Sabah's scene into Saniia's scene,
You know I think the white and gray is kinda plain! I like the black better so this is just temporary!
Welllllll, it's been a really long time since i had a drink here but the sun is shining and it feels like Spring is finally on the way and just for this special day i'm gonna go crazy and have a Creamy Mike + a shot of L.O.V.E....
Hope all are well ...
For V.Day I got the traditional roses and chocolate covered strawberries....
and a kid home sick with a stomach bug...
Hey Gracie!!!!!
Happy Valentines Day to you too !!!!! *picture me running to get a glass and a bottle*
I'm up to my ears in flowers and taffeta and frosting -- last minute wedding decorations you know
lol girl i been trying to get in for the longest, ive used the password and everything, did it change? whats going on? any tips or can you email me it/ PLLLEEASEEE?
Girl, I never said anything about a password!
that what happened to me when i press the button that says click HERE, then it says this post is password proteted and what nt... Oh *looks up* girl i just read that locked door sign... *whistles* um... sooooo....
LOL! 
lol is right! You addicts are too much!
ok so now the freaking page doesnt exist WTF??? panicking here... i will not sleep until this issue at hand is resolved at once.... LOL!old time talk...LOL even more...
Ladake, close the door! YOu're letting that cold air in
What are you doing back there again so soon, poooor thing!
Ha!
It's just work, a potential project. If you really want to know, I'll email ya.
(actually I am, but I can curb my curiosity mos times!).
I just watched -- well, I am watching, I Should Have Died, on A&E -- I don't know why I liked to watch things like this. It's stories about people who go through near death experiences.
I watched a crew of sailors who survived being in shark infested waters for 48 hours with no food and water, under the grueling sun in the Gulf of Mexico.
I watched a man who climb Mount Everest at 50 years old and then on his way day succumb to um, damn, what was it, it's oxygen deprivation but there's a name for it because the lack of oxygen causes fluid to leak in your brain and causes swelling. He basically starts hallucinating and goes in and out of a coma. Get this, he's left for dead when he passes out the last time and wakes up after they're gone with no supplies, nothing, because they took it to give it to his family as a last memory -- wtf, right?!?!?!?!!!!!
Now I'm watching this guy who's ship goes down in the middle of the atlantic ocean. He survives on a raft for SEVENTY SIX DAYS!!!
I wish I would have saw that before I wrote the first part of that last chapter of TTWC
I'm not really a fan of the ablum, so I'll just put the link here:
It's the Making of Michael, a documentary with interviews with all the producers of the songs on the album:
http://www.deejay.it/dj/music/artist/special/video/965/4412/Michael
Hey dear!
Is what you posted earlier this month regarding your horoscope in line with what you're going through now???
Is this the diamond from the pressure moment?
Giiiiiiiiirl, you know I think so!!!!! My type A personality.
I always get so crazy when things go wrong. I really need to let go and let God in that sense, you know to know that I can't control everything in my life. One thing that I thought was a amazing -- I was researching how to recover a post that I've lost and I found this little gem. It was a comment that this woman made, she lost her a post she'd written and commented this:
I thought
Yep, this is what I need to do!!!!!
lol.... I am soooooooo NOT type A.
But the general idea of that is good advice no matter the situation. You can't control other people, and unfortunately, some people are just evil and get kicks out of making others miserable. And it is best to ignore folks like that, though sometime it's not always possible.
I am very good at ignoring!
I was visiting my parents this past weekend and my mother said that exact thing to me. lololol (Which is sometimes a good and bad thing)
Which part did your mother say to you, that you're good at ignoring?
Not controlling people, I learned that lesson a couple of years ago!!!!
Now I can ignore people, I'm actually much better than I used to be 'cause some behaviors used to piss me off. But seriously, how do you ignore a stalker? That's a serious question. If you have any words of wisdom I want to hear it!
People stalk me -- they will seriously NOT leave me alone; it's like they reeeeeeeeeeeallly need me to pay them attention, it's beyond weird. Some behaviors are just annoying, some of it is down right alarming. I always wonder what in the world do they want from me!
She said I was very good at ignoring people.
Now stalkers..... fortunately, I can say I've never had the experience, so no, I really don't know how you can handle that... especially in cyberspace.
ooooh, okay. Gotcha. What I learned about myself a while ago is unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, people seem to be very attracted to me in real space and cyberspace; doesn't matter, and when you have that kind of magnetism, you attract both the good and the bad. I think I mentioned that to you a while ago. Well, I'm still trying to figure out how to handle the bad ones.
i thought ill just stop by real quick and say hello, i know im here all the time (like your typical addict lol!)
i just cant help it.. im an internet freak!!! and slightly weird also.. but hey being weird is the new normal isnt it? 
So you've changed your screen name to QueenSabine?
I also just wanted to stop in and say I'll probably be M.I.A. in the upcoming 3 weeks. I'm going to be extremely busy for work (which is a good thing I suppose) and may not be able to stop in like normal.
..... Of course, if I see any updates from you I may just have to say Screw IT! and drop everything to come in here to read more about my favorite guy.
Yes! I was ordained the other day -- wait a minute, that's if you become a priest right? Lol!!!
Aww thank you, flattery will get you everywhere!!!
I also just wanted to stop in and say I’ll probably be M.I.A. in the upcoming 3 weeks. I’m going to be extremely busy for work (which is a good thing I suppose) and may not be able to stop in like normal.
….. Of course, if I see any updates from you I may just have to say Screw IT! and drop everything to come in here to read more about my favorite guy.
How sweet of you. Well, now it's official, you have a life!!!!!!!!
Don't worry, CCC is going to be here, and remember what I wrote about stepping away from social networking, so I think three weeks being too busy to gt on line is GOOD!!!!
Take this Liquid Crack to go, MjQuan
