So I don’t live too far from a park and I have been meaning to take advantage of it and start walking there more often. People have picnics, play basketball, tennis, baseball, soccer, you name it. There’s a lake and tons of grass and open trails too. Recently, I got a chance to walk through and check it out to try out a camera for someone. My job was to take some shots so I could show her how to use the camera and weigh the pros and cons and whatnot. Anyway, all that to say, I was walking through the park and I found a bench– not just any bench, but the perfect bench for writing in the shade. It’s right between two trees and secluded enough that its not a noisy area, but you still see people walking by on the trail every once in a while. If I can manage to find it again, I’m going to claim that bench, but there’s only one problem. I don’t know what to write about! The poet in me has seemed to bury herself a little more and more. My desire to write only comes in little spurts these days and they get further and further apart.
So, yeah. I have my bench. All I need now is inspiration.
President Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy (President of the French Republic) were not lookin at that girl’s booty. I think he woulda had to be looking over his shoulder if he were checkin her out, no? Even if he had been looking a half second before she was behind him… or if he was still in the process of turning his head to look when the pic was taken, give the man a break. You woulda looked too! It’s a hella funny pic though lol
So, I am trying to get my finances in order and not spend large amounts of money on things I really don’t need. I’m trying to bring my food to work more instead of spending money at the expensive delis and fast food joints near my job. I am trying harder to get out the house earlier in the morning so I don’t have to catch a taxi on the late days once I get to the train station. I am messing up lately with the next one, but I am also trying to stop ordering fast food and opting to cook what I already have instead. I stopped paying for the premium cable channels [which I rarely watched in the first place aside from settling for movies "On Demand" and watching The L Word on Sunday nights]. Instead, I am making the most of my Netflix account and I even stopped going to the movies as much as I used to. Please not that I am a huge fan of treating myself to a movie as a way to de-stress and the transformers have been calling me to no avail since opening day. That’s all well and good, but the one thing I can’t stop doing is tempting myself with all the gadgets out there! I haven’t made any huge eletronics purchases in months =o(
So, I told her I couldn’t. But, it wasn’t because of that. I knew it was important to her, so I wanted to try. But, it was because I didn’t have the remote to my VCR anymore (I haven’t used my VCR in years and have no idea where the remote is). So, I learned that I couldn’t record stations without it when I tried recording the BET awards for their so-called tribute. Anyway it was a few minutes to twelve and I turned to some station.. MTV or BET or something and the cameras were outside the Staple Center and people were anxious about the service. So, I watch for a few minutes and I’m inspired to at least TRY to figure out this VCR thing. So, after about 15 minutes of digging up wires and unplugging and reconnecting the DVD player and the VCR and the cable box and the tv and finding the one blank tape I had bought for the BET awards the other week and I’m in business. So I call mom to ask what station I should pick. No answer. I start fiddling around to find the station that’s showing the event. Channel 2, channel 4, channel 7, MTV, BET…. it’s everywhere. 
