Chocl8t Blast List

Stop. Look. Listen.

I want to tell you about a couple of people to whom we should pay close attention.

What will you be doing on 08/08/08? I plan to be watching the Olympic opening ceremonies and for the following weeks…the games. One person, and one person alone, has sparked my interest in the summer games.

Dara Torres is her name and swimming is her game!

In case you’ve been under a rock, or just not paying close attention, this 41 year old wife and mother has just claimed her spot on the U.S. Olympic Swim Team for the 5th time!! Yes, 41 years old!! Nevermind the new record she just broke, nevermind the fact she’s the oldest person on the team, nevermind that half the team could be her sons or daughters, nevermind that even before making it to the games in August she’s already made history…shyt, I can’t remember the point I was trying to make! LOL (You can read more about Dara HERE and HERE)

What I love about Dara is that she has dayum near, single-handedly eliminated any excuse you could ever conjure or cajole about not being fit in your “mid-life”! Blown them completely out of the water…pun most definitely intended! Barring the fact she was, by far, a superior athlete in her teens and 20’s, and has the income to employ a trainer and (2) full-time “stretchers”, she serves as a good example of what women over 40 can achieve, physically….if you would just get off your butt, toss the excuses and commit yourself to your temple…your body.

Granted, we all can not and will not make any Olympic team at 20, let alone 40, but we can strive to be more physcially fit and STOP marginalizing women when they reach a “certain age”. (Watch the video of Torres at the end of this post)

Dara, simply put….GIRL YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!

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T. Boone Pickens has a proven track record in the oil industry and knows what he’s talking about. The billionaire oilman is building a massive “wind farm” in Pampa, Texas in a concerted effort to decrease our country’s dependence on foreign oil. Mr. Pickens believes that oil prices will not come down and, in fact, suspects they will go much higher.

Instead, said Pickens, the price of oil, now hovering above $140 a barrel, will hit $200 a barrel.

This is not good news for those of us struggling with the high gas prices now….this shyt will not get better! IT WILL NOT GET BETTER!!!

I encourage you to visit his website, www.PickensPlan.com, to read his plan. Or you can read excerpts from an interview on Good Morning America, HERE.

Pickens does have skeptics about his plan to which he says:

“A fool with a plan is better than a genius with no plan,” he told “GMA.” “And we look like fools without a plan, that’s the way that we’ve been operating for 40 years.”

Priceless!!

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CraigsList HIV Positive Rapist

Take a good look at this guy. Allen Jamar McDowell is accused of sexually assaulting two women after luring them to an apartment. This 18 year old dipsh*t is HIV Positive and used Craigs List to find his victims. DeKalb County police want to know if there are any other women who may have fallen victim to this sick bastard.

Police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said Tuesday one woman was raped and the other robbed and sexually assaulted at the vacant apartment at 3527 Kensington Road.

Investigators think there are other victims and are urging them to call the the DeKalb County Special Victims Unit at (770) 724-7710. Read story here.

Maaan, how I wish I could set the punishment for rapist, child molesters, and pedophiles! These deviants would face sentences to include but not limited to the following:

  • A razor blade spike sliding board into a pool of rubbing alcohol.
  • Fitted with a customized testicle gripping vice
  • Daily anal probing with the Jaws of Life
  • Timed Testicle Tasering

My heart goes out to McDowell’s victims. The sexual assault and resulting mental anguish is exponentially compounded by the rapist’s HIV status. For the next 10+ years the women will need to be tested regularly for HIV, potentially ruining their lives. Lets keep these women in our prayers.

Choir Update & Other Stuff

There have been several things going on in the news that I haven’t taken the time to write about. You know, just some things that have made me go “GRRRRR“. I’ll get to that in a moment.

In my Praise On The Inside post, a commenter asked that I let them know how my first church choir rehearsal went. I’m happy to say it went very, very well. The choir director, who is also the pastor’s wife, had the new members introduce themselves but we had to sing our names. That was cool!

Now they say when you decide to align your will with God’s will, the devil will attack you from all directions. Given my fight against a sinus infection and a sore throat over the weekend, I can testify to the truth of that statement! While sitting in the choir stand on Sunday, I had a coughing fit triggered by a tickle in my throat…this happened during both the 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. services. But how many of you know the devil is a liar!! It all turned out good and even though I still have a little raspiness in my voice, I will be at rehearsal again on Wednesday!!!

HAAAA…take that!! 🙂

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Nosy BeoYatch!

angry.jpgWe’ll call her Tiffany, cause well, that’s the wench’s real name and I don’t like her. I have worked with this social retard for two years and she is just annoying today as she was when I first started with the company.

Since I am a Christian (stop laughing), I have prayed numerous times for God to help me see her as He sees her because after all she is His child also. Never mind the fact she doesn’t believe in God, hates her parents, has a fascination with serial killers, and talks incessantly about her dog’s pee problems (don’t ask cause I won’t waist my blog space explaining the stupidity of it all). See my “Do You” post.

It works for a while, the prayer that is, and then that bloodclot does something else to irk the ever-loving shyt out of me!! Please know that she and I are NOT friends and I keep our conversations to work related topics most times.

One day a couple of weeks ago I was returning from lunch with a male coworker at the same time Tiffany was returning from lunch. We all entered the building through the same door. I didn’t think much of it. Thirty minutes later I enter the ladies room and Tiffany is primping in the mirror when she turns and asks, “So, what’s up with you and that guy?”. With a raised eyebrow to indicate my confusion, I respond, “What guy?”. The conversation proceeds:

Tiffany: “The guy you went to lunch with.”
Chocl8t: “Tyrone?” (Oh, his name I’ve changed)
Tiffany: “Yeah”
Chocl8t:  Irritated “Nothing. Why would you ask me that?”
Tiffany: “Uh, I just thought since y’all went to lunch…”
Chocl8t: More irritated. “No. I make it a habit not to date men I work with.”
Tiffany: “Well, just between you and me…it could work if you didn’t tell anyone.”
Chocl8t: Pissed “Or if no one would make such stupid assumptions”
Tiffany: “Is he single?”
Chocl8t: Hot as Fish Grease “I don’t know. Why don’t you ask him.”

j0433821.pngBeeeeeeyyoaaaatch!! You are a nosy dumb ass!! Why are you all up in my business?

I don’t know if I was so pissed because she actually had the nerve to ask me that shyt or because I actually think Tyrone is fine as HELL and it would go against my steadfast rule of not dating in the workplace! What it did do was, once again, confirm why I have this rule in the first place. I’ve never seen where such situations have ended well. In fact I have had my own bad experience.  See my Happy Valentine’s Day post.

Nosy ass Heffas like this make me want to punch ’em square in the forehead. Why the need for such violence you ask? Did I say how fine Tyrone is? How intelligent and funny? [fanning myself] Yeah…I’ve got to abide by my rules but Nosy Bitches make it hard for me to even enjoy the dayum fantasy.

The Barbie Bandits

allen.jpgOne of the persons involved in this idiotic fiasco is a close friend to a couple of people I love dearly. Out of respect for their friendship I held my peace and delayed posting about the unfolding drama. I wanted to see how it would play out even though I suspected it would end just as it did. But hell, you didn’t have to have a degree in quantum physics to figure it out.

Benny Allen has spent time with my family, shared meals with us, celebrated some of life’s milestones with us (he attended my 40th birthday party), and has been a visitor in not only my sister’s home, but mine also.

Nothing about this young man would have given anyone an inclination that he would make such a profoundly stupid decision. Oh, I could point to my intuition that something didn’t quite sit right with me about him, but nothing I could point to specifically because he was never disrespectful nor rude. In fact, he was quiet and well mannered. But nonetheless, there was just something about him that warned me to keep him at arms’ length.

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