Oh Yeah, Happy New Year.

Oh hai, happy 2012 and all that. Here is a post about my New Years. This is the first time in my adult life that I had taken NYE off from work. Months ago LEY commanded and threatened with severe bodily harm (not really) that I take off from work and head up her way to spend NYE with her and her roomate Jack. So that's just what I did. Saturday afternoon I made my way up there (shockingly with no traffic) and was greeted with LEY's face, gifts and food (she know a way to a girls heart) After eating and previewing one of the greatest mixtapes of all time (my homemade 'LEY's Gangsta A$$ Mixtape' my xmas gift to her) we got done up and put on our sickening outfits. LEY was clearly the star of the night as I dubbed her "Champagne Showers" (and if she ever wants to become and exotic dancer that would be a great stage name, your welcome). Jack rushed in from work and got ready and we all headed out into the night. We spent our New Year's Eve at a gay club by the name of Town Danceboutique in DC which was fab. The evening started out with a drag show which was a bit 'meh' BUT Tatiana from RuPaul's Drag Race Season 2 was there as Town is her home club to perform at. Of course she performed to Britney but it was cool to see her. The legendary Shi-Queeta-Lee was also there (we first saw her this past summer at Nellie's Sports Bar and she. was. EVERYTHING) and a fierce queen by the name of Ba*Naka. After the Drag show the DJs played a list of the top 10 songs of the year with "Party Rock Anthem" being number 1 of course and then the countdown into the New Year. Not too long after that we decided to leave. It was such a great night, I loved the vibe of DC that night and the weather was perfect and I had such great company, best night ever! Annnnnd here are come the pics.





Me and Miss Shi-Queeta-Lee!!!

#latepass The Weakend

I am FINALLY getting to blog about what a fab weekend I had last week (july 4th weekend) but before I had this awesome weekend I had to get there first. Now the trip from Hampton to Fairfax is about 3 hours which is fairly short, and now that they have risen the speed limit from 65 to 70 I could comfortably do 73 to 74 without getting hassled. Only one problem, it was July 4th weekend. Remind me to never, ever, ever ever ever, travel on July 4th weekend again. Its partially my fault I guess. I wanted to head out earlier but my job messed my check up and it didnt get squared away till that morning, so all the errands I had to do got pushed back thus me not leaving till about noon, bad move. I thought maybe all the traffic would be headed towards Hampton Roads cause of the beaches and what not but there was traffic every effing where. The only time I wasn't in traffic was when I was on 295 which was about for 15 minutes. Traffic+ Sweltering high noon temps=not cool, literally. Finally by around 4 o clockish I arrived in Fairfax and into the arms of my heterosexual lifemate LEY. After some wine, convo, internet surfing and Korean BBQ (super yum) we made our way to the theater to see Transformers 3 which by the way AMAZING! The last like 30 minutes of the film my mouth was agape, easily the best movie of the franchise. However the highlight of the night was when we walked back to her car in an almost empty parking lot, opened all the windows and blasted the following song:

We had a two person rave in a town center parking lot in Fairfax it.was.awesome.
The next day which was sunday LEY, her fabulous roomate Jack and myself got dolled up and headed into DC to U st where Nellie's Sports Bar holds their weekly "Drag Brunch" featuring the Lady Boys of Drag City DC. Free Mimosas, great food, and these Divas lip syching for their lives! This girl was in heaven! After all that it was time for me to go home. The ride was way more enjoyable then the ride there, I got home around 10p then had to go into work at 2 am. It was a great weekend that I needed badly. I can't wait for a chance to make it up there again...............................................................................
Everyday I'm Shuffling.
Here are some pics and video from our sunday, funday.


*I love ^this picture of Ashley, she looks so purty!

Last Weakend.

Last weekend I headed up to the greater DC area. My BFF LEY lives in Fairfax and I went up there to attend the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. I dont want to give you some long fleshed out version but I'll just say it was a cool event but a not so confortable experience. The beginning was cool walking around DC taking photos taking in the sites, then as we made our way towards the Capitol for the rally it was bonanzas. You think that being outside there is plenty of room to move and breathe but no. Standing up for hours staring at jumbotron is not that fun. BUT I am happy that I went, looking back it was fun and it's always good seeing and spending time with my homegirl, and I met a bunch of cool people. Hooray. Here are some pictures.

The 'Unity' Slide

This weekend I hung out with the Garguilo's(my aunt rhonda, her husband uncle chris aka white dad and my cousins) for a bit. They were having a 'surprise' birthday party for Aunt Ricki(their aunt but I call her aunt Ricki too, an aunt is an aunt) who turned 60 and is fab! Anyways the wine was flowing and all of a sudden the electric slide came on and we had to teach the white people how to do it HA. You see the electric slide brings all types of people together. Thats why I miss dance battles, if you got a problem, just dance it out! Anyways here's some video of them dancin. Its Electric boogie woogie woogie.

The Weakend

So remember how I was ranting and raving about having to work on my day off after I got plans and yadda yadda yadda. Well long story short I wound up going to radford on thursday after all. As always its good to see your friends especially Beth whom I havent seen since we graduated almost a year ago now. We actually discussed opening up a nightclub together in the near future, I say, Yes. Also on this trip to radford I realized that I go to radford too much, Ive been up there once a month for the last 3 months, so Im going to take a break from going up there for a while. Even though a mu phi event is happening in a couple of weeks im not going up, they'll be fine without me, it'll be like I was never there. Yeah, it was a strange feeling when I was on the highway and radford was in my rear view and I kind of got teary eyed and I dont know why, strange. So on trips home you have a lot of time to think about things and its really time to get my life in order. Get my finances together, start going to the gym, try to have more of a social life, finally start playing with that band. Time to get my a$$ in gear, let's see if that actually happens.

The Weakend

So this weekend was a long sleepless, yet good one. I took Jason along with me, gawd bless Jason. We got to radford with a few hours to spare before the show, so we did what anyone would, we got drunk in the hotel room. Went to the show, it was a good show, im really happy and honored that these kids were as passionate as I was and still am about the music festival. It was definitely more different than any of the previous ones but its under new management so duh. My favorite band of the night was Aside Oceans, myspace that, they're pretty good. Afterwards Jason and I made our way to the mac and Jason looked brain dead,lolers. I ran into a creature they call Carl, long story short im pregnant with triplets, thanks Carl. The following morning we drove back, my friggin change oil light came on, im all like WTF, i changed my oil feb 27th im its not even the mileage to get it changed yet. ::sighs:: So now im at work I think some pictures were taken but I left my camera in another bag so ill post them tomor.

And im done.

The Weakend

So friday was my day of birth and I turned 24 woohoo. I dont feel 24 but I dont know how a 24 year old is sposed to feel cause I never been 24 so I digress. My mom bought me this sweet a$$ cake as shown above, and it was yummy. So the big plan for the night was me and a couple of people to go out to this place called Jillian's which is basically like Dave and Buster video games and booze equals yes. As always with plans and what you would like to happen they never really follow through. So me and a couple of people just turned into my cousin Alexis and I, which is fine I just wish some more people would have came out. Anyways we went to Jillian's and it was really fun. We ate had some drinks (the bartender gave me a free drink yay!) and afterwards we played some games. At one point we played this one like interactive bowling game and when choosing levels I was a dumb dumb and chose the expert level eventually we got the jist of the game.


So around 12:15ish Alexis and I made our way to the Wave for some dancing, some being the operative word here. We went in I got a drank, we danced for like 5 mins, we sat around talked for bout 10 mins then left, we were there like 20 mins. So we went back to hampton and said our goodbye's cause she left to Connecticut yesterday with her BF.Saturday me and the rents went out to dinner for the bdezzy but my brother wasnt there cause he was hanging out with his friend. I got back home and he got me a gift! Check out these babies!


Nike Low Dunks Black with powdered blue stitching and check with the gray stripe on the back and a splash of purple on the tongue. These babies are bonanzas! Now I guess I have to be nice to him lol, no im a nice sister, sure I have a mean streak, but im the older sister im supposed to have a mean streak!
So all in all it is always good to see another birthday cause we all know its a crazy world, I wish more people would have came out but whatever it is what it is.

And im done.

The Weakend

So friday began on a total downer. I had a dentist appointment and long story short I have to get my wisdom tooth pulled but first I have to get blood pressure down cause I have hypertension stage 1 woo hoo! So yeah not a very good start to the day. A little bit after that I dropped my brother off at school and made my way to va beach to go to the torrid store cause I got a $10 birfday card from them, they're so nice. So I didnt really see anything in the store that I wanted, I think I will shop Torrid online for now on but I got a pair of pants and some drawls. Then I went to Up Against The Wall which is like super trendy it scared me, I felt like I didnt belong in there but I got a t-shirt. Then I made my way back to hampton running into the wonderful hampton roads traffic of course. After I picked up my brother we went to walmart and I got me a digital camera. All of these things were birthday gifts to myself as well as retail therapy cause I needed it. Later on in the late evening I met up with my cousin and her bf and a friend of theirs cause she is moving to CT next week so yeah it was a good time.

It was a like a friggin class reunion for me, I walked up in one spot and saw one of my best friends Troy from them on out it was good times. Got back home round 2am. And that's about it. Your Welcome.

It's been a long, I shouldnt have left you.

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So yeah hi there. It's been a pretty action packed weekend and I am still recovering from the lack of sleep. So I went to radford on thursday evening and it was pretty full throttle the whole time. I had a nice abdc text session with LEY and afterwards I went to karokee at macado's and saw some of my people's. I sung The Bravery's "An Honest Mistake", yeah Im cool like that. Afterwards around 2 am I went and hung out with my homie Sunshine for a bit and went back to PBR's(Pamela, Brandi and Rachel) the place I was crashing at around 3. The next day I went and hung out on campus for a bit caught with some folks. Visited WVRU, saw the new performing arts building and hung out in the lounge. That evening Mu Phi Epsilon had our formal rush where we dress real nice and eat. After that played Apples to Apples and watched Katt Williams clips till the early morn. On saturday was the tri-fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Mu Alpha, Mu Phi) formal. Like usual people were pretty lame but also like usual there were people (myself included) who are all about the party and having a good time. It was cool. I got back from that around 1 am, fell asleep around 2 and got up at 5 to drive back home and go straight to work. Worked 10a-6p and had to come back in 2a-10a, so yeah pretty chockfull of stuff. Like always its nice to go back to raddy and see everybody and its nice to leave too. So that was my weekend. Your Welcome.

The Weakend

So on friday I was planning on going out to Richmond to see my boys Frontside and The Avengers perform. During the day I had the urge to buy some sneakers. In paticular I wanted high top black and red checkered vans. So I go in the mall see these suede black and 'brilliant magenta' Nike SB's so I got those instead

Yeah they're sexay.
So around 8:30 at night I headed out to Richmond. I got there in about an hour and it took me damn near an hour to find the place. Mapquest is shady as hell son. So I get there and it was like this small japanese restaurant and stuff. It was nice seeing all my peoples reppin Beat it Up all day. Frontside and the Avengers killed it for sure, they did it so hard chicks start the fightin, no really. So around 2 in the morn I drove back home. Was it worth driving to Richmond for a few hours? Yes and no. Yes to see and support my people's no to driving to and from Richmond. If I would have crashed overnight there it would have been better. But it was a friday, that's what friday night are made for eh? I tried, keyword tried to take pics of them performing but yeah, i failed.

The Weakend

So I only had one day off this week so I had to make friday night count, I like to think I did. I started off the evening by going out with mah cuzins RDGT and Alexis at some bar in Newport News with the name Firkin in it. Afterwards I was going to go home cause my bestie Shelainey did not get back to me about hitting up the Wave. At the last minute I decided to risk my life and text and drive at the same time and she answered back she was going so I turned around and got back on the interstate. Indie night at the Wave is turning into my fav night, it used to be 80's night but that night can be so predictable sometimes, well cause it's 80's night duh, I digress. As always good tunes, strong drinks, great people, lots of dancing, good times. This time I decided to go home cause I was tired cause I got off at work at 1pm and haven't slept so I was pooped. I got home snuggled in my bed and watched tv. TV got a little more exciting for me recently cause as one of my xmas gifts my mom got me a cable box so now I got movie channels, and music video channels that plays music videos! Imagine that! So I went to sleep while watching Chris Rock's "Kill the Messenger" which what I saw before I dozed off was hilarious. So yeah that was my weekend. Short sweet to the point.

The Weakend

Smurf and or Smurfed (n) pronounced (sm-er-ph-ed) to be heavily intoxicated. On friday I hit up my favorite spot the The Wave on Colley St in Norfolk, its a gay club but people of all preferences hit up the spot because its a cool alternative club with the best music. On friday's it "Indie Night" where danceable indie rock is played. Its usually pretty empty on indie night cause the big night at the wave is their 80's night on thursday's. This week it was a loot of kids there it was real fun though. Afterwards we went the after hours spot and played "Little Big Planet" on PS3 for hours,I went to the 24 hour Burger King on the way home, I didnt get in till after 5 and destroyed french toast sticks like it stole something, it was fun. Partying on a budget, ITS A RECESSION GOING ON!

El fin de semana

What did I do this weekend? The best thing anyone can do. Sleep! I slept my whole days off and I dont regret it one bit. Sure I wanted to go out and have a few drinks, I mean who doesn't erry once in a while, but I did the next best thing, scratch that I did the best thing. Sleep! I got off from work on thursday and I went to Sleep! I wanted to make plans to go to 80's night, that fell through so I went back to Sleep! I woke up the next morning took my mom to work, sat around watched tv, I picked my mom up back from work, we made some margaritas then I fell to Sleep! I woke up the next day took my mom to target to pick up some things got a sweater and this sweet hat...

After that I went home and went to Sleep! Yeah it was awesome. Now im back at work booooo, I can't wait till I go home so I can go to you guessed it. Sleep!

The Weakend

On friday I hung out with my favorite person we went out to eat at the Red Lawbstas, gurl i aint neva beens there befo. Twas pretty tasty though. After that we had a destination in newport news but the designation was closed, bummer. So one of our frendz Queen Utz was in Hampton at Saddle Ridge where it was country line dancing night!*crickets* It was interesting to see people dance in formation SHEEP!Anyways it was an adventure it was great seeing Queen Utz and next time she's in town we're taking our mothers, yes my mom loves country music. So it was a a nice night and now im back to work, back to the same routine, boooooo.

The Weakend

There is no relavancy between this picture and the blog at hand, I just wanted to use it >_<

So how was your national eat-drink-poop-sleep day? Mine was nice, I got off of work picked up my g-ma, went home, ate, watched "This Christmas" with the fam, then went to sleep, damn near perfect day. What would have made it perfect? If I didnt have to wake up at 3 in the morning and come to work thats what. So today is friday and its absolutely gorgeous outside. I plan on going on a "hot date" with one of my favorite people in the world tonight. Thing is whether its an actual date or just going out to eat with one of your favorite specimens, there is a difference as you prolly know. I remember once a few years ago I met with a friend to grab something to eat and what turned to just eating some grub kind of felt like a date, well to me at least, I mean I am a girl and we do read into things a little much sometimes. So after that it was 2 years of awkwardness and nothing happened. Nothing. Okay moving on. Either way it should be fun and afterwards I want to go Va beach to what I like to call "the fun fun shop" read into that what you will ladies. So I only have one day off this week which im not too happy about but hey in the words of Rev. Run
Whaadayagonnado!!.
So yeah that's what I plan to do tonight. What ever you guys do be safe, errybody have a fun and sexay weekend.

The Weakend

So on Saturday I made way up to Fredericksburg, VA to the University of Mary Washington to join my Mu Phi Epsilon brothers and sisters in celebrating Founders Day. Technically it is November 13 but since it fell on weekday we celebrated it yesterday. It was a wonderful event, it was very nice meeting new Mu Phi's and downtown Freddy's burg is beautiful specially this time of year. It was Radford University's chapter (my alumni) Alpha Zeta along with UMW's chapter Phi Psi and the DC alumni chapter it was really cool. It's always good to see all my Mu Phi peeps, you never really know how much you love and miss people until you go away so Yay Mu Phi! I didnt get much if any sleep really I drove back from F-burg at 9:30p got home around 11p didnt fall asleep till 1a and got up at 4a to be to work by 5a to work till 1p to wake up tonight @10:30p to be back at work at 1a-10a, did you get all that!? Sometimes things have to be sacrificed like my precious sleep to live yo life(ayyyyyy!)Anyways it was a lovely time when people upload pictures I will post them here, I cant till my Mu Phi collegiate sweater is ready it's going to be so hot, up next N.E.R.D on thusday, going to check my account right now to figure out my finances.
Update #1: Just brought the NERD tickets 2 for $61 damn my pockets are not happy, but I will be come thursday night.

The Weakend

This past weekend I went to my alma mater Radford to see Nichole's senior recital which was EXCELLENT by the way. Got see all my Mu Phi people's as well as a lot of my old school mates, it felt really good/weird to be there. It was like I was back in Radford but I didnt have to go to class or anything, I kind of felt like a schlep. I also went back to visit my old boss Jon at WVRU it was really great seeing him and I also saw my old radio co-horts as well. They were giving me updates about the radio club that we started again last year and things are going extremely well for them, that makes me happy. They already have the date and venue booked for the Urban Metal Music Festival which was something that I helped started a few years ago, but enough about me hehe. Anyways it was a really nice visit and I need to go back more often. Oh and I also ran into my old friend Wes who used to be in this band Dragonsaur and I use to go their shows a lot, it was really great seeing him.

Hittin the road

Photo Source: Tylia L Jones Esquire BA, MD, PhD, MMA, MPE, OPP (yours truly)
So I have the next couple of days off and Im heading back to my alma mater Radford University. I'm going to raddy beucause my Mu Phi Epsilon fraternity sister and of course friend Nichole is having her senior recital tonight. She is a vocal major with a fantastic and rich alto voice, she is a hard worker and I know she's going to kill tonight. I havent been back to radford since I graduated so I look forward to seeing errybody. Only sucky thing is the weather, here in virginy its windy and raining and who wants to drive 4 hours in weather like that!? Whatevs, so wish me luck on my road trip you guys have a great sexy fun and safe weekend, ill catch you on the sun or the mon, peace.

Hollaween '08

Of course this past friday was holloweenie and I rehashed my costume from last year and was a Nun, it never fails. Didn't do a whole lot like I wanted to but it was still cool nonetheless. One of my best best best friends in the world Brandon is home on leave from Iraq so he came along with my cuz Alexis and friend Ridge and we all went out to the Taphouse in downtown Hampton. Upon my entrance into the bar I finally found Jesus! It was awesome we took a picture, im waiting till Ridge posts it and I'll post it here. T-house was alright got a drink caught up with Brandon a bit, got to hang out with my cuz which we never get to do cause we are always so busy. After about 2 hours there Brandon and I went over to our boys Troy's house. Me and these guys go way back and anytime we are together we always reminisce over "the good ol days". I love those cats, my night was done by like 2am. It was cool got to hang out with my boys got to drink a little not to debautcherific like last year, which was really crazy up in Radford but definitely a really good time, hope you guys had a good time as well. Up next? Spanksgiving. This will be my first thanksgiving home in a while, I get to spend with my fam, which is always a good time.

Its FRRIIIIDAAAAAY!

Sweet its friday, I usually have fridays and saturday's off but this friday im at work filling in for someone so im at work for 4 hours, no prob just 4 more hours of work that I do so the gov't can take if from my check, dont get me started! So I want to do something, go somewhere, I wanna dance! Take a road trip, but I dont really have fiscal freedom i would like cause my last paycheck sucked major ass, but I really would like to go to chilli's and get a margarita mmm and some chicken crispers, oy im just getting myself hungraaaay. I should go to Indie Night at the Wave in Norfolk,VA awesomest place evar, mostly cause its a place for my gays, I love mah gays. So I may or may not blog tomorrow(saturday) not like anyone cares anyway, but I do. Have a safe weekend everybody, wrap that sh!t up bebees, im not going to pay fo yo child!