need energy? Me too...how bout THIS music DROPPPPPP!!!!

Let me BLESS (my least favorite word on earth), your EAR DRUMS with goodness. Music samples & just ol' fashioned AWESOMENESS:

GOODNESS #1

GOODNESS #2

Things I've learned this week (already)...

Kanye West can't be shocked about Walmart not liking the cover of his new album...but I have to admit, I was laughing REAL HARD when I saw the cover of it...how can you not?

LOOK HERE

Also, in other news NeNe (From Bravo's Real Housewives of ATL), she finally got the message to wear a bra & cover up in the right ways!!!! Thank GOODNESS too! Woah gravity would not let go of her goodies in those one-on-one interviews she'd do for the camera (SEE HERE). Love me some NeNe, but love her even more for choosing to wear the bra :-) Thanks mama!!!!

Other news, Paris Hilton is still trying to pretend that she's ok with all of this community service hours that she has to commit to for getting caught with white china (she does have the best lawyer known to man-kind though) because if she wasn't some spoiled annorexic rich girl, she'd be locked up for life,...carrying around some coke like the big dumb criminal that she is....womp womp. Will she ever learn her lesson? NOPE...not when she's got money the way she does. Her mentality clearly skims the average mindset, cause she's a true idiot.

Craft it up sucka!!!!

If you know me, then you know one key element that makes me exactly who I am, CREATING. Can't stop, won't stop...bad boy bad boy (Dave Chappelle Show, you'd have to watch it enough to know what I'm talking about). For the past 3 weekends this fall, I've had the pleasure of meeting some EXTREMELY awesome artists, craftsmen/women and then some. I'm going to share with you the best of the best from the festivals I went to. Here they are in no particular order:

- Artisticaya
- Loyalty And Blood
- Nate Duval
- Claire McDermott
- Sean Hennessey
- Jen Skelley
- Lillian Crowe
- YoHoHo Design
- OverDue Industries
- Caja Jewelry
- Bare Tree
- Style With Statement
- Junk Prints

Let your inspiration BEGIN!!!! :-)

Things I've learned from this past week

I'm going to erase the entire day yesterday since nothing positive came out of it, except that I won't be homeless next year :-) Hurray!!!!

But here's some REAL news:

- More US women earn Ph.D's than men (I know that's right ladies!)

- Hand sanitizer (alcohol based) doesn't significantly decrease our chances of getting a cold, or the flu...turns out that the plain old "washing your hands frequently" is the ONLY real solution to preventing yourself from catching a cold...so I guess I'll stop buying any more hand sanitizer since it's really not going to do crap for me & it's a gimick. GOOD TO KNOW, I've now just saved some additional money from never buying those things again.

-Crime has fallen in the past year (& this is for the 3rd straight year)...which is surprising considering that not that many people have jobs anymore, and most are still struggling.

- RAH DIGGA is BACK!!!! LISTEN HERE

- Conan answers your questions :-) BAM HERE

Emily Blunt vs. Katy Perry

I used to get these two confused because all white people look the same to me,...then it turns out that these two white people really DO look the same. With that being said, what are the odds of these two fine young thangs being split at birth? Emily Blunt (actress) and Katy Perry (singer)....someone please solve this case. I believe it was Mr. Green, with the candle stick, in the library....but that's just a guess.

The problem with recessions...

There are MANY reasons why this "recession" sucks. Have you read the news as of late? The economy still sucks, there are hiring freezes still all over the place (stay where you are and never leave cause there's not many other options out there). But now DUE to there being no jobs available to hire folks people are starting to make up their own jobs....this is called the job of "robbing" others. This has always happened recession or no recession, BUT...doesn't it seem to be on the rise due to people being desperate and needing to find ways to pay off whatever it is they're paying off, or if it's just to keep them from going homeless.

A very good friend of mine was robbed yesterday, her home, almost everything was taken out. Turns out that the robbers did this to several other houses that same day on the same block while everyone was out at work. This isn't a rough area to live in, but sh** does happen anywhere so....

moral of the story: get a dog, get an alarm system for the house, maybe get a gun? (it's the Americans dream right?)

Things I love and hope to never forget...

Raindrops on Roses & whiskers on kittens...these are a few of my favorite things. If Oprah can do it, so can I....ha. Take that O!

BrightestYoungThings Sunny with Coco

Fawn Gehweiler Texts from Last Night

Around The Way Girls Informavore

GDK is the New Black Polyvore

Postcards from YO MAMA Ready Set DC

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