Obsessed

As you may already know- I'm fascinated by all things good and all things Adele.  I've been obsessed with this video for a while now.  I watch it whenever I have a moment to spare(at least three times in a row to boot).  Will I ever stop watching it?  NO!  This is footage for study.

Simple.  Powerful.  Full.  Truthful.  Beautiful.





Um...you didn't ask but yes, I found earrings that look just like the ones she's wearing.

101 Dayz: Gay Bar Baby Shower

Only Metch can concoct the caliber of LIES and planning that led up this day!!

Add to that- a rag tag mob of my crazy friends and you have my SURPRISE Real Housewives of Atlanta themed Gay Bar Baby Shower!!

I WAS ACTUALLY PHAEDRA!!!!!

I mean pickle in mouth photo-shopped pregnancy photos and a huge poster of David and I dressed like Phaedra and Apollo holding their baby...folks walking around dressed like the housewives...I even had the damn ballet dancers!!! AND best of all I was set up...by METCH! I showed up looking like Phaedra looked at her shower- I had rhinestones on my face, lashes and all!!

HOW DID EVERYONE IN MY LIFE FOOL ME? HAHAHAHAHA!!!

THE LIE

Metch: MinDizzle I got myself involved in this thing. I can't tell you what it is...because I want you to be surprised. All I'm gonna tell you is that you have to come support me. I can't believe I am doing this...It's like this competition thing...

MinDOG: SON I am THERE!!!

As the weeks passed I got a little more information...

1. It involved some of our gay friends...

2. She was embarrassed because of what she had to perform in the show.

3. It was something like a pageant.

4. One of her friends was also in the show and she was helping him out.

5. She was wearing booty shorts and a bathing suit top in the opening number.

6. All of her guests had to arrive Blinged Owt! So that she could get extra points.

7. Since I am pregnant I should think of Phaedra when I get dressed because that would give her SOOOOOO many points.

ALL LIES!!!

God I love HER!! And I'm mad that she has always been the type of person that has so many crazy ideas and stories that I readily believed a story, that when I think of it now, I recognize as LUDICROUS!!!

I thought I was going to see her perform in some sort of gay pageant where she got points for her guests attire... hmmmm...

But all lies aren't bad.

I HAD THE TIME OF MY LIFE. I CRIED 200,000 TIMES.

There was even a running bet on how many times I would cry.

My friends are AMAZING BEYOND WORDS!

There was sooooo much LOVE!!

And I am sooooooooo blessed that I have people in my life who love me, David, and our yet to be born baby this much!!!

Our First Blog Award!

Looky here, looky here- we just received our first blog award and boy oh boy, we are thankful!

Fellow blogger Nicole over at THE WORLD OF MY IMAGINATION nominated us for the Liebster Blog Award (according to her latest post Liebster means dearest or sweetheart in German) and we are definitely honored.   Thank you Nicole P!!! 

After scouring the internet for more information this is what we found:

Rumor has it that someone in Germany, possibly someone named Liebster, created an award for new bloggers to show appreciation and thanks for their blog, Liebster does indeed mean sweetheart in German, you can only receive the award from another blogger who has also received the award,  awards are to be passed on to blogs with 200 or fewer followers(some sites say 300 or fewer), once you give the award to a fellow blogger-you are to contact the blogger to let them know and you must copy  and paste the award on your blog.

We feel like we’ve officially become part of the blogging community.  You may be shaking your head as you mutter, “you blog so you were already a part of the blogging community.”  You are correct.  However, so many of the blogs we read and/or follow have a bevy of awards given to them by fellow bloggers and for a while now we have been asking/wondering, “how can we be down?”   We even considered creating one of our own…

Thanks to Nicole we don’t have to ask or wonder anymore.  We might still create one- just give us time.

Yeah, we feel more official… It’s nice to be recognized.  It’s nice to have a reader who thinks what we share is worthy of an award.  Mind you, we place little to no importance on awards but heck we love getting them.  Both of us will utter this same sentiment when we accept our Tony, Oscar, Emmy and Image awards…

Let’s get down to business- as you saw above this blogging award has rules.  Since we pride ourselves on being great citizens we follow all rules unless they have anything to do with grammar, traffic or life.  We will follow the same rules that Nicole followed since the rules vary a bit across the world wide web.

THE RULES

    1.      Thank the giver. 

    2.      Pass on the award to 5 other blogs with less than 200 followers.  Leave a comment and follow them.

    3.      Copy and paste the award on your blog

    4.      Hope your followers will spread love to other bloggers.

MinDog & Metch  FOLLOWING THE RULES

    1.       SHOUT OUT TO NICOLE PYLES- once again thank you and we hope you thrive at your new job!

    2.      It’s so hard to pick since we have been collecting lots of great blogs lately but hey when we get our next award we can spread more love.  For now here are our five in no particular order(we totally understand if you are not into this sort of thing and don’t accept but we’ve decided to play the game...at least you don't have to answer crazy questions):

Butterscotch over at SUNDAES WITH BUTTERSCOTH

Krystina at CUP ‘A HOT CHOCOLATE

Sydnie at LOVESTUTTER

ADULT AWKWARDNESS

Roses Daughter at MY LIFE 


In the true Shitty Fab form of rule breaking we are passing this award on to six not five blogs... Saucy B kinda just made it since she has 255 followers- oh to be so popular.  Check her out over at  THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A SELF-PROCLAIMED SAUCY BITCH.

    3.      We have copied and pasted the award above but since we are so happy to receive it we will paste it again just because.

    4.      We sit here hoping that love is being spread this instant.  We’re spreading love, are you?
    
   
   We hope you'll visit the blogs we listed above and maybe stop by Nicole's blog and see the others she nominated along with us.

"The value behind this award is for us to get to know other bloggers who might not be well known, yet have a lot to share... This is not about growing your list of followers (believe me, it won’t happen), but of building a community."   -That's what this blogger says and we hope it's true.


Have a happy Thursday!

How MinDog Got Her Groove Back

Well... After 3 short months of life with Baby, maternity leave is over and Mutha booked a gig!

I didn't think I would book anything seeing as how all I have to wear to auditions are nursing tanks and sweat pants (NONE of my clothes fit and I refuse to buy a larger size... it's a little incentive to loose my baby gut).

NONETHELESS...

I auditioned for a new show starring Patrick Wilson called A GIFTED MAN.  I shot last week and finished up yesterday.

I thought I was going to loose my mind! It was the most time I have spent away from my Didda Budge since birth! Thank God he was with D (the hubs) on set and I was still able to breastfeed all day!

I spent the day on set talking about him, showing him to people, obsessing... etc. He has so quickly become my WORLD and I love it!!!!

WAIT wasn't this how I got my groove back?

I guess I should change the post title to How MinDog's Groove Got Better!

What's up with your groove?

Excited, Excited, Excited!

Maybe from the post title you know there's excitement in the air.

We finally decided to put ourselves out there/here -we had to in order to go further with our living out front journey!  And guess what?  We have more public followers, more comments than we've ever seen and boy oh boy we can't get enough.  Thank you all and please keep it coming!!!

We've been here almost a year and a half- so I'll call it two years because two sounds better than almost a year and a half.  We decided it was time to assess the situation, figure out if we wanted to continue blogging and  if we had any new bloggy goals to set for our shitty fab selves.

Fine we won't make you hold your breathe anymore- of course we want to continue blogging, of course we have new blog goals and of course our lives are more shitty fab than ever!  I mean come on did you notice that MinDog has had a baby?  Diapers = SHITTY  A Handsome Son = FABULOUS.  Now that I've proved a point...

We discussed our blog goals over the phone  as I was making my "what to pack for Paris" list and MinDog was busy  putting big check marks next to the things we wanted to do that we've already done while she was burping my Godson.

For example we've kept the blog up for more than two months (WOOT).  We've written some good truthful stuff, some "bad" stuff, some funny stuff, some more funny stuff... we've shared lots of real life stuff and I am proud of that (HOORAY for living out front).    We've joined blogging networks in the past few months, set up our facebook page and twitter account in an attempt to connect (YES).  Made some blogging friends other than the people who are bloggers and were already our friends before we started blogging (DOUBLE YES). We created our leave your link/faves page(umm...TRIPLE YES- now all we need are for some links to be left).  I hope you got all the crazy I just wrote...

So whats next?  We are going to open THE SHITTY FAB SHOP.  That's why I'm/ we are so excited.

We have great ideas and believe it or not MinDog and I are extremely crafty and skilled at things other than acting.  Before we open our SHITTY FAB SHOP we want to have our first give away (trust me you want this Shitty Fab exclusive) and before we have our first give away we want to reach 100 followers.  And when we reach 100 followers we'll start posting the SHITTY FAB SHOW that we've been planning.  Want can I say?  WE HAVE BLOG PLANS GALORE!

We're closer than we were  last week but we're not quite there yet... we can't wait to reach ours goals because we're Shitty Fab and that means we love setting goals so we can reach them-  just so we can set more goals.  Cyclical isn't always bad!

What are your next set of blogging goals if you're a blogger?  If your're not a blogger what goal are you aching to reach?

Doors to THE SHITTY FAB SHOP will open soon!  Please stop by.

...Unrelated but sort of related-  yesterday I got an email asking what being shitty fab is.  There's a link that answers that in the about section of our side bar and also on the welcome page... but in case you missed those links or don't want to look for them CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY WE LIVE SHITTY FABULOUS LIVES - mind you our definition is always evolving, just like us.

Have a great Tuesday!

101 Dayz: Baby Kicks REMIX!

Ok!

I know I already wrote a blog about the kicks and how miraculous they are...and yayayayayayayafadadadadagfh;ghhg;fsgj;lj!!!!

But man oh man...can we deal with how big this widda guy is getting?

MY MY MY!!!

He keeps me up at night with the craziest sensations.

HOW do I even begin to describe the feeling of someone- a whole person inside of my body rolling around, kicking, punching, gliding, squishing my lungs, tapping on my ribs, mashing my bladder...?

AND HOW...HOW I ask... is there still the largest part of me that feels like it is the most amazing experience in God's great creation?

What is happening to me?

Once again all I know is that I can't wait to see this crazy little baby boy who is dancing wildly inside of me...

And all who know David and me personally know that he is actually going to be crazy...he can't help it!

MINdog OWT!

Our Blog Went Crazy

The menu that is usually at the top of our blog has disappeared... Please excuse the lack of navigation and the way the blog looks while we try to remedy this technical craziness.

I know you really wanted to read OUR DADDY DIARIES, watch a silly old VLOG of MinDog in L.A., maybe read our WELCOME INFO or what we have to say about ACTING, maybe you wanted to be the first to add your LINK to our new faves page, or see what the POPULAR POSTS are today or just read a LETTER...

Too bad Blogger has let us both down.  Come back later and you'll be able to access all.  We promise... I mean we hope.

Since you're here go ahead and click on one of the links in this post or scroll down.  You might find something you like.

A newly updated blog without navigation is what I call SHITTY FAB!


*UPDATE- The menu has reappeared but it doesn't work.  It's not connected to the pages that exist.  Well due to unforeseen circumstances and the rain (I'm sugar I might melt if I go out there) I'm stuck in the house.  Since I'm stuck I get to sit here and try to figure this all out... also somehow our default font size has decreased... what is going on here?!?!?  About to try everything- don't the technical gods know I love this blog and need it to operate the way I want it to at all times?


*UPDATE 2- We're finally back in action!

Prepping For Paris

I'm an official solo traveler.  I've traveled solo before but I've always known someone where I was visiting or I've always met a friend to continue a journey accompanied, or I've been traveling for business...  Now, I'm going on a solo adventure from beginning to end.  The only purpose for this trip is to explore and observe. This makes me an official solo traveler.

Paris here I come!

I do my fair share of imagining and over the years-despite how corny it is- I've imagined: myself in front of the Eiffel Tower(wearing something red) having my photo taken by a stranger, walking down the Champs- Elysees and catching  a film without subtitles where I don't understand a word but I understand the story, getting on a boat going up and down the Seine right after a nice bicycle ride.

It's eerie because when I've imagined myself in Paris I've always been solo and funny enough that's how it will be.

I've imagined my picnic in Paris- with the fresh bread sticking out of the basket or bag and my hair is wrapped(real tall like Ericka Badu used to wear) and the Parisians dressed in yellows and whites  look at me and say, "she's so African and she's in Paris and we love her like we loved Nina Simone."  Yep, in my imagination they really say that.  Don't even ask what I imagine when I prep for Kenya, Egypt and Greece.

And I'm a sucker for touristy things.  Standing inside of the Notre Dame Cathedral, near the Arc De Triomphe, a little Dali anyone, wine tasting and back to the Eiffel Tower for a too expensive maybe not so good meal at night as the city lights up...I've always skipped the Louvre on my short imagined trips to Paris but maybe I'll make it there in reality.  Isn't that what adults do?  Maybe not.

Either way the best thing about traveling is realizing that despite a few customs, different roads, rules and sometimes a different language people are the same...  I can't wait to see how much of the same the Parisians in Paris are.

I celebrate differences but man I'm learning that celebrating the sameness is important too.

So many things to do in Paris.  I look forward to doing what I love to do most when I leave NYC- hang with the people who are from where I'm visiting and absorb...  I'm ready for a Parisian stroll people!

Did I mention I'm getting there by luxury liner...  Yes I'll be back on the Queen Mary 2.  Oh did I mention that I don't speak French?  Oui- my life is totally SHITTY FAB!

Pictures and posts to follow of course.

Have you been to Paris?  What shouldn't I miss while I'm there?

"A Kind Of Paradise"

Engaging in the other stories.  Combating the single story is the thing...  Ran across this Ted Talk video here because I was here.

Sundays With Mommy

A few months ago my mom said, "I want to have a meeting with you and your siblings."  Being the brat I am I assumed she wanted us to bond or something and I immediately began whining.  "I'm not in the mood for a meeting Ma.  What do you want to talk about?"  "I want to let you kids know what I would like to have happen when I die."

WHAT????  I flipped out.  Truth is my mom is aging.  "Is this a premonition?  Do you feel like you're about to die?  Why do you want to talk about this now?  Is something wrong with you?"

"Calm down," she said.  How was I supposed to calm down?  In an instant my mother had me imagining life without her and now she wanted me to calm down.  INSANITY!  

That conversation led to Sundays with Mommy.

In this video my mom burst into a hymn(she does that often) that we used to sing in church when I was a kid.

I realized I don't spend enough time with my mother.  I speak to her everyday but I don't spend enough time with her and considering the fact that she just moved around the corner...  I must/should see her more.  So I decided that I would spend the night with her every Sunday.  My visits of course aren't limited to that day but the mother-daughter sleepover is definitely happening every Sunday.

My new proclamation also made me commit to my project of recording her stories and my goal of learning to speak more than seven words in Krahn.  


LIFE! 


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A Tribute...

To the love and strength with which I was raised... Nana, Mom Mom, and my Lovely Mommy.

MINdog Owt!

If/When I Get Married

Dear Future Husband,

 I’m changing plans on you.  I still want to go to Kenya for our honeymoon but I don’t want to fly there.  I mean eventually I do but first I want to take a voyage on a ship.  I mean shouldn’t we?  Especially since we don’t have to journey down below in horrific conditions.  We can think of it as traveling in style the way our ancestors should of traveled.  I didn’t have to say that but how can I bring up the idea of a trans- Atlantic crossing and not mention our ancestors? 

So here’s the plan…  You’ll need about two months off.  We’ll board the Queen Mary 2 and let the people on that ship who love their jobs take care of as we journey across the ocean and we’ll eat a lot so you loving me in my bikini will have to happen in the first two hours of our honeymoon.  Oh wait you love me no matter what-OKAY.  You may not want to wear a tux almost every night but please indulge me- you know I love seeing you in one.  Anyway- we’ll get off in Europe somewhere, fly to Kenya enjoy some time there about two weeks, fly back to where ever we want in Europe and make our way to South Hampton to board the Queen Mary 2 again and journey back to NYC.  When we get to NYC we’ll pause for a hot sec and then off to the island of your choice(you do get to decide something). 

We’ll stay on that island for two weeks alone and then we’ll invite our favorite friends to join us.  They will come.  The celebration will continue for another week and then you’ll go back to whatever it is you do and I’ll be on a set somewhere acting.

Is this plan okay with you?  Maybe you want to see the world on our honeymoon instead...  I don't mind but you'll have to take three and a half months off in that case.

Love you much,

Metch

*The video is from my first voyage on the Queen Mary 2.  This was the voyage that made me adjust my/our potential honeymoon plan.

101 DAYZ: Baby Shower

Well, I had the baby shower!!

I got so many things and so many gift cards and it was an AMAZING time.

D's aunt came up from Tennessee and everything!

MY MOM HOOKED IT UP!!!! She had everything so fierce and ma MILZ (Mother in Law) did her thang.

Now to the crew- Yassie and ma number one stunna Metch came in like gangbusters!

Cleaning, cooking, living, giving, Metch started runnin' the show and hosting so that my Mom could have fun and chill with guests! I mean COME ON IT WAS PERFECT!

And only people who know my family know that we are LOUD- a loudness beyond anything I think others can imagine. We make loud families seem quiet.

It was packed, LOUD, and fun. I am so blessed!!

And I feel so loved!

I'm 32 weeks pregnant and able to buy buy buy baby stuff, and spend D's mon-T! I love it!

MINdog Owt!

Oh and the pic is me and my Mom Mom.