Happy New Year

Alright..... I know what you are thinking....... after not posting for a decade. No this heifer did not have the nerve to post. One of my friends said I just need to kill Toyetalks cause she can't follow it with my random and inconsistent posting. Lol and eye roll. As usual I shake the haters off and continue.

However, its a new year and I am in a better place right now and recommitted to a lot of things. One of these is using Toyetalks to keep my friends and extended circle abreast on whats going on with me, my life, and as always with a humorous twist. :)

Look for a revamped approach though. A little more personal and look forward to watching me get through what I pray will be a blessed, happy, and prosperous 2010.

With that I share some of my New Years.... well I won't say resolutions because everyone makes this list of stuff that they know they will stick to for 2 weeks and fall off...... so I can't be saying I resolve to do something like lose 30 pounds when you guys will maybe definitely see me out eating Popeyes maybe today [I mean really you guys know those people know how to fry some chicken!]

Some of My New Years Un-Resolutions- Things I will not do this New Year

1. I will absolutely not get a Snuggie

Didn't expect that huh? I noticed in 2010 that these Snuggie people have amplified their efforts to ad to my useless junk chest. Sir since the sweet baby Jesus was in his manger a regular ole knit or wool blanket has had no issues. So I am gonna keep the blankie rolling. If its good enough for Jesus, its good enough for me.

2. I will not give the side eye to crackheads

Not only do I recognize now that an addiction to rock cocaine is a real disease and struggle that affects many and their families, I learned recently that making eye contact with crackheads of any kind causes them to engage you in conversation, and I don't need any of that in my 2010.

3. Not judging a person by their catsuit

Usually I find catsuits morally wrong. But last night at the new years gathering I was at, I met a nice girl who let me sit in her VIP section cause my feet were swollen and killing me! We had a nice discussion about politics as well. Usually the fact that she wore a catsuit would have had me make a snap judgment. It was a lesson learned. I will give catsuit wearers a chance.

4. Not neglect Toyetalks

I can't promise everyday cause I live in the real world. However, I am promising to be more frequent!

5. I will not forget how blessed I am

Often I have a day where the following occurs. I wake up late, miss my buss, catch the next bus, sit next to someone who clearly englected to wash themselves, get to work, encounter some extra douche, realize I forgot my lunch on the bus and the non washer is probably enjoying my homemade chilli and rubbermaid container, have to stay late, get home to find some appliance broken. With all of that, its often that I just want to cap the day with cake.... like a sheet cake. Lol But not everyone has a home to go to and some people did not make it to see 2010. So I will not forget how blessed I am to have family and friends a roof and means to sustain myself. I am blessed and also you remember how blessed you are.

Toye is back to talking and hoping you will ad me to your blogroll this new year :)

You Say Recession, I Say Depression

So I was watching the news today and a man had the nerve to say that we are in a "mild recession" and we are no where near the actual economic definition of a depression, so people should stop saying that term. ..... I believe he may be smoking some good drugs to even have the nerve to say this.

Monday 71,000 people were laid off and it continued through the week, two families died in murder suicides this week due to unemployment, United States Postal Service says if things do not get better they may have to go to 5 days a week versus their six (Which won't be a huge change for me since besides stealing my Essence Magazine my postal worker only comes every other day) and finally the Girl Scouts are going to start putting less cookies in a box!! So he may not think we are in a depressing but whats going on is mad DEPRESSING. To me thats enough for me to use any term I please and for him to sit on down!

Other's who need to sit down in this Depression are a wealthy couple in Florida who paid $150,000 for what a South Korean laboratory claims is the world's first commercially cloned dog, Lancelot. Lancelot Encore is reportedly an exact duplicate of Lancelot. These fools spent 150k for a dog!! While I sit here and eat Top Ramen years out of college they are spending money on Lassie 2.0. For $150,000 I'll go fetch...... I mean it is a Depression.........

We's Free!!

Clearly some people are unaware of this very well known fact.......................

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A white social studies teacher attempted to enliven a
seventh-grade discussion of slavery by binding the hands and feet of two black
girls, prompting outrage from one girl's mother and the local chapter of the
NAACP. After the mother complained to Haverstraw Middle School, the
superintendent said he was having "conversations with our staff on how to
deliver effective lessons."
"If a student was upset, then it was a bad idea,"
said Superintendent Brian Monahan of the North Rockland School District in New
York City's northern suburbs.
The teacher apologized to the mother who
complained and her 13-year-old daughter during a meeting Thursday that also
included a representative of the local NAACP. But the mother, Christine Shand of
Haverstraw, said Friday she thinks the teacher should be removed from the
class.
"I think the teacher should have gotten some discipline," Shand said.
"I know if that was me, I would be uncomfortable going back to that class. Why
should my daughter have to switch?"
Monahan refused to say what, if any,
measures were taken against the teacher, Eileen Bernstein, who was still working
on Friday. The school district said she was not available for comment.
"We
encourage our teachers to deliver the curriculum in a variety of ways, to go
beyond just reading the textbook," the superintendent said. "We don't want to
discourage creativity. But this obviously went wrong because the student was
upset."
On Nov. 18, Bernstein was discussing the conditions under which
African captives were taken to America in slave ships. She bound the two
students' hands and feet with tape and had them crawl under a desk to simulate
the experience, Monahan and Shand said. Monahan said the girls were not the only
blacks in the class.
Gabrielle Shand burst into tears at home, her mother
said.

Alright......... here is my issue with this whole situation. Yes the teacher was a complete simpleton. However, I feel like the kids involved are also clearly the ones who need to be knocked upside the head as well. What do I look like in 2008 letting ANYONE tie me up for a slavery demonstration. Did that not seem wrong to them? Have they not seen Roots? The mom talking about that teacher needed some discipline. So does your child for making you all look the fool!! She also needs some common sense!!