Packing Light

My weekends have been going too great, I knew this weekend was gonna be jinxed, didn’t i say it? It wasn’t a horrible weekend, barring my food disappearance, but it wasn’t great. The thunderstorms came down with a rage on Friday, ultimately postponing my good friend’s party. He was of course pissed. LB was out at his usual Friday night spot and it would’ve taken him all of 4 hours to finally come by, but he did. He stayed until Saturday, when I had to go to work, in the pouring rain. Shux.

Saturday night was again uneventful and Sunday was again work. Booo man booo. I’m so ready to hang up the 9-5. Anyhoo, my weekend was totally made up for when LB came by to spend Sunday night and all of Monday with me since he is now on vacation. Yippeee

Now work is stressing me on my performance, the dumbest performance requirements I have seen to date. I am so not a robot and this is SO not high school. I’m ready…but my bank account isn’t quite. Shux.

LB and I finally spoke about what would happen when he goes away and my fears of him not returning. He did all he could to try and reassure me that we’ll be together thru it all and that he’ll be coming back right here to me. Hmmm…ok.

I have to work through this weekend again. My anniversary weekend. NOONE is trying to switch shifts with me. NOONE. Shux. I feel a sick day coming on.

More people have started to make me feel like my food disappearance was actually the ladies cleaning out the fridge…so maybe it wasn’t actually stolen. Doesn’t make me feel much better, but ok. How about you stick to the policy of alerting everyone when that is about to be done so I can come claim my shit. Shux.

Hmmm….that’s it. How was your weekend?

Allow me to vent my frustrations….

Can you imagine how it feels when the rain is pouring outside, you brought your lunch with you to work so that you wouldnt have to venture out in the rain, you’re broke anyway so this plans work double time for you…you get you’re first break and you just buy some banana chips cus you dont want to eat too early and be hungry later, you keep drooling over the pasta…you remember how good it was yesterday but this time…aww man this time you broke up some parmesan and mozzarella cheese over it so that when you pop it in the microwave it will be all nice and gooey…you can’t wait! You’re hungry as hell and the banana chips did nothing so you go inside the fridge to retrieve your lunch cus you know that it was a whole heap you had packed anyway since it wasnt enough to share into two but a little over one serving and

its gone!!!!!

Honestly, i feel as if I’d cry…you can’t imagine it. I’m SO hungry, its pouring outside, im broke and can only afford fast food and the thought of the fast food just CANNOT live up to the feast I knew lay before me. I’m so heartbroken…how can you steal food out of the fridge? How does one so that! I wish there were cameras in the lunch room too…I really would love to see the face of the vagabond that actually went and took my food! Yes, it was in a styrofoam box in a black plastic bag, so maybe you mistook it for yours…but at some point you must open it and realise this aint what you ordered! not everyone eats pasta for lunch…I could’ve understood if it was fry chicken and rice and pease with curry gravy…the everyday lunch menu.

I feel for lasagna…only some good lasagna could ease my pain. I could go to Cuddyz and get something nice…but…arm and leg…

When I was going thru what’s left in the kitchen, I saw some good curry chicken, breast even (i love chicken breast) with dumplings and yam and banana…mmmmmmm…for a quick second my revengeful side kicked in and said just take it! But…I can’t…how can you steal food???? I just can’t imagine.

Sigh…

My last post was summn bout the weekend aint it? Well…they are what consumes me now…my weekends have gotten fun!

I called in sick at work today, something from last weekend royally messed me up. Either that or the spoil chicken sandwich I had from Isl.and Gr.ill earlier this week…I shoulda brought it back! EEEWWW!

Anyhoo I’m feeling much better now thanks to some Clar.flu that my hunny brought me this morning and I’m ready to party like a rockstar again I just finished up some transcribing work ma moms asked me to do. I’m currently cooking up chicken and pasta again cus I’m determined to master that dish. I love it too much for me not to be preparing the best of it. (I’m following this recipe lightly) I did my hair and my nails yesterday and i have passes to party it up again tonight…but what to wear?

Facebook dilemma: once you wear something out and get pictured in it…its done for. You KNOW me, self-proclaimed diva and all cant be repeating outfits right? Sigh

So now that I have ditched work so I can rest away in preparation for my weekend…let it begin! I just had a taste of my chicken and pasta….mmmmmmm! I used evaporated milk because heavy cream is way too fattening (ok the supermarket was actually out of heavy cream!) so I was worried it wouldn’t be creamy, but me likey! Next time, no tomatoes though…don’t like the acidity.

Oooh I almost forgot. Yesterday when I was at the nail shop there was this lady there who wore close up shoes. She came to do her fingers and somehow decided to do her toes as well. Now this is one of them “high-classed” middle aged ladies with the EXTRA makeup and bad weave job thinking she fly as hell, you know the type. The pedicurist removes the nail polish and her toenails are greeeeeeen like EEEEWWWW how the hail you come regularly to the nail shop and you make your toes ge that jacked up?

So of course I’m saying i definitely not going after her and putting my feet in that station! Anyway the other girl finishes up and I go over for my pedi, am ready to paint my nails only to see the lady using the polish I had already chosen and was wearing on my fingers!!!! I had an internal fit! Dang lady shoot! I used the polish anyway…is fungus communicable via nail polish? I mean my toes were based first and thinner was applied to the polish…that should kill some of the germs right? Gees I think I’m gonna be sick…

This weekend was another EXTREMELY good weekend. LB and I hung out on Friday night…after me cussing him out last week Friday on this whole Friday issue once more. He stayed over into Saturday morning, then I went to work, came home and went to an all-inclusive party with my friends and he went to the club with his. Yesterday we went to a day-party at Morgan’s Harbour Hotel and it was OFF. THE. CHAIN…! Brought me back to the old days when partying with him was so much fun. Amaretto and the night air works wonders for boosting the adventurous spirit as well

We made plans…or well…i told him that we’d be going to ATI again this year. I know he wasn’t feeling it at first but I think its only fitting to spend our anniversary weekend there since thats where we hooked up and since we just came off a “just the two of us” weekend. It’s back to Negril and yes I would have rather gone to Portland or St. Elizabeth for some diversity…but…its ATI!!! Another nuff money spending weekend that I really should be putting towards my car purchase…but hey he’s got less than a month left here… *sniff* He’s so excited about it too…counting down the days and telling me he needs an iron…i just wanna kick him. GGGRRRR Anyhoo this could be the start of wonderful things…i guess.

Meanwhile with the weekends going so great i’m wondering what will happen next weekend. I’m afraid something will go wrong with all these good weekends we’ve been having! I must say though that I’ve done what I set out to do…rekindle, reconnect and make great memories to get us thru those “this long distance thing sux” moments. I have to work right thru this weekend so it can’t be that eventful…plus im broke anyhoo. But the weekend after that? Oh lawd…I can’t wait! So…how was your weekend?

One of the things I hate is when I’m talking to someone and they refer to me as “honey” or “sweetie” or even worse “baby” I am a grown ass woman…don’t you try to be all condescending, I ain’t no baby. So when I’m speaking to a customer on the phone, its even worse. Oh hell no you didn’t just call me “darling dear” !!!

I’m on the phone with this higher-than-mighty man who has a problem with a company policy. I suggest another way of solving his problem but of course he’d rather me just bend the rules for him and is not too pleased that I have instead offered an alternative. Remember, in true customer service style, the conversation opened with me telling him my name. He even asked again “who am I speaking with?” and I responded slowly so he could get it right. So when I offer him a solution and he proceeds to say “so darling dear” I stop him right then and there and say… “It’s Pepper”

“Is it and offense if I call you darling dear”

“yes”

“may i speak with a supervisor please”

“sure, let me get one for you”

supervisor: “well we are in a professional environment here…”

I can’t believe you asked my supervisor if its an offense to refer to me as “darling dear!” Are you kidding me? I’m sure in the States that’s prolly sexual harassment! I’m not even asking you’re disrespectful azz to call me Ms. Potts…Pepper is fine…not Peppa…not Pepps and certainly not darling dear…a weh u feel like? Sometimes when the customer comes on the phone I ask if its ok for me to call them Tom or Dick, whatever their first name is. With this man, I was Mr. So and so the whole way thru and you still feel the need to try and talk down to me? I am not phased and neither is my supervisor, now go sit in a corner and think about what you’ve done. Better yet…write me 500 lines, I must not call companies to seek attention, I must not call companies to seek attention.

Damn fool.

In the LB news of the day…He’s received an excellent pay package after turning down the initial offer…so now its only a question of when he leaves. I’m hoping he’ll at least be around for our 3rd anniversary on July 27th. *fingers crossed*

Remember the engineer? One night I went to my friend’s party and saw him there looking all fine! It was just a few days after LB and I had gotten back together so I was trying to be on my best behavior, but he wanted to stick his self to my ass like glue. I had to be slipping away and disappearing every now and then to get some breathing space.

Anyway, I took out my phone for a quick message and he makes some snide comment about me living on the phone…whatev. The party’s going good and I’m being my angelic self, controlling my drinking and jus enjoying my friends’ company. Much later in the night I take out my phone to check up on LB cus I’m about to leave and was prolly wondering if I could get some rollaround. Dude comes up to me and GRABS ME IN MY HAIR like “didn’t I tell you I don’t like that?” Like nigga who cares, let me the f*ck go!!! I’m not trying to make a scene so I start to walk off but he grabs on to my arm trying to pull me back. One of my friends see whats going down and asks me if I’m ok at which point dude eases up. In a few minutes he’s apologizing for “scaring me like that.”

Remember some while back when SE was talking about seeing the insane waaaaay before they actually unleash it on your ass? This was definitely one of those clear ass signs. How could I brush this off any at all? Can you imagine me getting with dude and then months later I start wearing bug-eye shades because of necessity not because of style? Hells to da naw!!!!

Yeah needless to say that was a rap on dude before he even got a chance to try. struuuuups. Controlling, jealous, ludicrous!!!

Aaaaahhhh Negril….how i love thee so

The weekend was just what was needed. Excitement, relaxation, rollaround

Lets start with the waterpark nuh. Can I tell you how happy I am that we took the route of going after 4 for the half price special…as fun as the park was, we were there for no more than an hour! There’s 8 rides there…two requires the use of a tube so we skipped those. LB is afraid of heights so he said the long line to get into those would have psyched him out of doing it. The others…there was really no waiting time so we just flew up the steps and flew right back down. What a thrill…i screamed out ma vocal chords!!! Can’t believe I did those rides up to now! yah that was fun.

Lying on the white sands sipping amaretto and coconut rum and watching the sunset…that was really nice too….aaaaahhhhh negril….

We went to a drag race meet that was nearby the next day, not exactly my kinda thing but I was happy to oblige. The sun was super hot but i had my umbrella and lots of water, so I was good. Some of the races were really…uhm…fast? LOL I want to say really cool but then I just sound like such a girl….

It was an absolutely wonderful weekend, to be topped by only a few changes that will definitely be made the next time around…i.e. must stay at an all-inclusive or travel with rum! ( that’s if there is no all-inclusive where we’re going, I’m not sure there’s any in Portland and thats where I want to go next)

BTW I think LB has turned down the job offer because of how little they offered him. I don’t know if they are planning to come back with another offer or that’s that so I’m watching this one closely. I know he’s super bummed but I can’t say I’m not happy he ain’t going nowhere right now!!!

Hell Yeah! Quick Pepper Shaker cus I aint got time to stay! Y’all kno i got MAJOR plans for this weekend.

Nope, haven’t heard about my interview…I think that’s a wrap on that

LB hasn’t gotten official confirmation about his yet, apparently they think he’s too expensive and its stressing him the fack out…almost cancelled on me this weekend but I bitch-slapped that fool quick ‘fore he even tried…(so the slap was in my mind but there was NO WAY i wouldn’t have dragged his ass to Negril this weekend…hmph!)

Yes, My big Negril weekend is here and I’m so excited. This has been a long time coming. I’m not excited to the point where I feel summn will go wrong tho, went thru that already (read above)

Tonite is a big party too? OOh wee I’ma kick it off right. Rented a car and everythang…can’t deal with any unforeseen hiccups.

So

• new beach bag CHECK
• beach summer dress CHECK
• new gold flats to match dinner summer dress CHECK
• toes painted in his fave color CHECK [negro was so hating on the purple i had on before]

What’s missing? Aaahhhh some big bug-eye shades and a new *late night* dress…. I’ll pick those up later…I’m out bitches…see y’all on the flip side!

P.S. Mr. MB

ma partner in crime is currently over in the Grande on vacay telling me how he’s bored as fack cus aint nuttn to do…say it aint so? LOL says he went to the turtle farm, the club and some place called hell to see the “spikey rocks” (his words, DWL!!!) and is now sitting twiddling his thumbs…where else can i suggest for him?

WordPress has waaaaaay too many restrictions, plus I so loved my old theme with my sunset and my birds

Monday Morning Blues…post your favorite things:

Favorite candy: soft mints

Favorite comfort food: cheesecake or icecream (anything with coffee flavouring and chocolate chunks)

Favorite “yardclothes” : my blue cotton halter dress

favorite song to cry to: miss you like crazy, natalie cole

favorite bad-for-you reality tv addiction: keeping up with kim k

favorite tv comedy: the game

favorite online game: yahoo gin