Photo Shop?

HA! My first blog from a coffee shop. I feel so...techie! Anyway, I'm supposed to be doing work, but I'm sidetracked, as usual. Unemployment stinks (anyone looking for a great public policy maker assistant type of person????) but hopefully this status isn't for long. Verizon hates me right now. Well, it love me really. I can't stay off the phone with all this new free time, talking to people with jobs who thinks it's cool to call me on their office phones. "Hey look at me! I'm at work! I can use my office line. Costs me NOTHING!" Grrr....I should make the employed chatterboxes pay for my time...

Anyway, two photos have me excited today:
The First Lady wearing my favorite color and rocking the loose curls. It's a great look for her. Not an everyday kind of vibe, but definitely one worthy of a fun night out with Little Stevie Wonder!

Barnes & Noble is pulling a New York Post. I haven't confirmed if this image is real, but it doesn't look photoshopped to me. Apparently, this is some B&N in New Jersey. I Snoped it (I always check snopes before forwarding anything) but I didn't see any mention of it. I Googled it, and saw nothing. So I don't know. Someone get to the bottom of this! Not cool not cool! (Sidebar: making verbs out of nouns is fun! It drives Spellcheck--I say like it's my BFF--bananas.)

So what do we do? Should we write to the White House to let the FLOTUS know we're digging the look (s)? Do we boycott B&N, or is this just another "Tommy Hilfiger/Mystic/Timberland/etc. hate black people" internet urban legend?

::Sigh::

This is my daily, or hourly, or weekly, or whenever moment to just sit back and shake my head. ::sigh:: I hope there aren't too many, but it's Hour 2, and I already have a ::sigh:: worthy moment...

I have this odd attraction to Charles Barkley. Don't know what it is. We worked out at the same gym for about six months, and I must say I enjoyed the elliptical machine more when he was next to me. But, oh Chucky. I thought we were going to the Governor's mansion together. But alas, you've dug a hole from which I can't dig you. ::Sigh::

Presidential Address to Congress

Did you watch it? If not, find it on the White House website. What do you think? What about the Republican response?

Sidebar: I want to go shopping in Nancy Pelosi's closet in about 35 years.

Welcome

I planned to start this blog the day I met President-Elect Obama. It was an amazing moment. He walked in the room, preceded by the tallest Secret Service agent I have ever seen, shook some hands, reached out to me, shook mine, said a few words, and moved on. I don't know what he said. Something about basketball and getting back to work. It really doesn't matter. It was still amazing. But life took over (after I stopped shaking from excitement and g-chatting about the moment to all of my friends) and I never got around to starting this blog.

So now I'm here. The night of President Obama's first address to the Congress, laying out his vision for the next four years. I must say, I hope it's eight years. That was just amazing. For so many reasons. What he said, who he is, all that he is not. I'm not grandizing him, but I believe in him and in his passion. It's not the first time I've been proud to be an American, but daggonit, it makes me proud of this country in ways that I've never felt before. Pride can grow, right? Well it feels pretty amazing right about now. And I can't WAIT until the 4th of July. Even if I do the same thing I've done for the past few years on July 4 this year, I promise it will FEEL different. And that's pretty cool.

Anyway, I don't know if you actually care what I think or what I don't think. But I like to talk. And this is my forum to put it out there for all to see. And it'll be a wide variety. Everything from music to fashion to politics to education to tennis to television shows to weddings to whatever. So enjoy!