My emotions… my emotions!

It was so good… so good I didn’t even mind the swarm of mosquitos transmitting West Nile eating me up the first 30 minutes of the movie (thank God for OFF). The writing, the acting, the action… everything was so good. I can’t give any other description other than it was so good. And that is because I lack the words with which to describe how so good it was.

In about 3 years it will be the 50th anniversary of Star Trek and I cannot wait to see what the next chapter of the Starship Enterprise is going to be.

All I know is, I want more Spuhura.

You the same one talking about giving love back to your fans, yet once upon a time did you not rep Tampa, then ditched Tampa to rep ATL, only to go back to reppin’ Tampa?

Girl bye. Actin’ like you care so much about your fans. You didn’t care about your homebase when you sold out like you did.

PS - The only reason you’re @-ing Bey is to assert any kind of “relevance” that you’ve been lacking for the last decade (like she even be on Twitter to begin with - WEAK). Only to fail epically because you just look pathetic and catty. For no damn good reason whatsoever.

Enjoy your 15 minutes of Twitter trending fame. Afterwards, you can join the line right along with Keri and Keyshia.

So after my niece’s surprise birthday party at the skating rink, I decided I wanted to go to the movies with my nephews. They (including Taylon’s girlfriend) wanted to see The Purge. I of course had absolutely no intention on spending $10.50 to see such movie (and that’ll be another blog for another day, the price of going to see a movie now-a-days), as I have learned that our generation’s “scary” movies are just short of being a joke.

Since Into Darkness was not available for showing until 10 something, I opted for Man of Steel.

Before I go in depth with my review of the movie, let me get this out the way now, as I want you all to know just how I felt about Superman:

(The above gif describes in exquisite detail both the thirst that I experienced and the wetness that was going on with my body that was ready for everything Clark Kent/Superman).

Read on for my actual review.

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I don’t know if I like this… Yeezus.

I mean, what even is this?

It just seems like a lot of clash and noise, and at times it’s sort of hard to focus on what he’s actually saying. It’s just… a lot.

I appreciate him for trying to step out of the box with this experimental vibe he’s got going on in Yeezus, which I think speaks to how serious he takes his artistry. But… I just need to process it. If I can even. It’s not terrible, it’s just… I’ll get back to you on what it is. If I can even.

After years of on again/off again pain and suffering, I finally got the wisdom tooth pulled.

I was surprised that they were able to do it today to be honest. According to the dentist, the tooth was broken off and was decaying. Of course I wouldn’t have known that seeing as it was all the way in the way back of my mouth. Even he thought it was going to be tricky to pull, but he did it effortlessly, and I was in no pain at all (slight discomfort, but no pain).

The next time I go in is to have a cleaning, which is also when they will take more x-rays of my teeth. Dr. Dentist told me that I will have to have my other wisdom teeth pulled too, especially the other top one. I personally don’t think I need to remove the bottom wisdom teeth; They’ve never given me trouble. But hey, Doc knows best… I’ll ask him if it’s absolutely necessary the next time I see him. I know my mouth is jacked up and that the next step is to probably get braces… and who knows how many cavities I have. Dad gum sweets.

It was a pretty penny to get it removed, but I’m glad that it’s finally gone. It was the first time I ever had a tooth pulled in my entire life, and I’d like to think that I was a trooper (I usually am).

Note to self though: I really need to find me a job that has dental benefits.

Face is swollen due to wisdom tooth. Like, I seriously look like a brown Kirby. With havana twists.

I made an appointment with the dentist on Friday, so hopefully this bloody bugger can be extracted then (though something’s telling me it’ll be later).

I’m pretty sure the reason why it hurts so much is because it’s impacted (uh-oh), and it’s a little hard to open my mouth very wide. On the bright side, the pain has subsided and so now I can sleep, which is practically what I’ve been doing every chance I can get. I literally just woke up 10 minutes ago.

I also made an interesting observation, which is that every time this tooth starts giving me woe, my sinuses start to act up and vice-versa. The last time I had this much trouble with my wisdom tooth it was followed with a serious bout of sinus cold/headache/the-monster-that-usually-plagues-me-every-2-years. So I’m being productive this time and knocking that out with some Mucinex.

Seriously, I rarely get sick. But when I do, it’s the worst.

I’ve taken more than the recommended dosage of Aleve within the last 48 hours (no more than 3 for a 24 hr period; I’m pretty sure I’ve taken about 8) and yet my wisdom tooth is still hurting.

If I weren’t concerned about bleeding to death, I’d get me some pliers and wrench that wench out right now.

Then ‘Elvin’ shows up after months of dormancy, sinuses are all askew, ain’t got no appetite (I literally ate applesauce. For the whole day. With milk)…

Why is my body attacking me?!

First attempt at the havana twists failed… I need to work on my attachment skills. I also need to learn how to part sensibly.

All that time only to have to un-do it. Which is still okay; I don’t think I had even half of it done and plus, I need more hair. I know I have the right kind after extensive research. I just need to work on my technique so that these twists will last me the summer (provided I don’t get bored with it too soon).

So, I’ll just hot-comb the rest of it semi-straight so that I won’t have to straighten it later when I try attempt #2. (Which is looking really nice because I have two-toned hair now; Soft black an inch and a half from the roots and then the rest brown).

Funny thing about my hair since I’m on the subject: it’s 4a and 4b. It’s mostly 4a, with the only exceptions being a small area right above my temples, and the top middle of the back of my head. It’s kinda annoying, but hey who knows. Maybe with time I’ll have a more uniform curl pattern (doubt it). It’s only annoying when it comes to detangling though, because the parts that are 4b are more difficult to detangle. And those are the areas that I have the most breakage…

Ah… the journey. It’s funny, I was never this into my haircare regimen when I was relaxed.

• - 3 books (like I need anymore…)
• - 3 records (Anita Baker, The Carpenters and the Sound of Music)
• - a thrift white midi skirt with thin navy stripes that is currently a smidgen too small, but I’m sure by the end of the month I’ll have defeated some of this bulge and be able to wear it lol

All of that for $8.45!

And I bought an Oreo Extreme cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory to boot.

I don’t have to get into that skirt any time soon.

And what’s sad about the whole thing is that she won’t can’t see it.

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- Uhura got that upgrade with the wig on Season 2. Werq, girl!

- Can we have a gif library of McCoy’s facial reactions please?

- Season 1’s theme song is better than the opera singing going on with season 2’s theme.

- Whatever happened to the blond chic?

- Kirk stay gettin’ kitty…

- Scotty is one of my faves. That episode when he manned the ship while Kirk and Spock had to settle a war is my sole reason.

- While I will always ship Spock and Uhura, I secretly ship Spock and McCoy.

- I plan to be Uhura for this upcoming Halloween. Now alls I need is to find me a party to go to.

- I need JJ Abrams’ Star Trek in my DVD collection. I also need to see Into the Darkness soon.

- OMG I’m such a frickin’ weirdo but I’m totally getting Spock feels from these Star Trek TOS episodes…

My body is rewarding me for all the jogging/dancing I’ve done in the last 2 weeks.

At first I wasn’t sure what it was, I thought maybe I had pulled a muscle in my right leg. But I’ve pulled a muscle before, and I knew that what I was feeling was not that of a pulled muscle. So I thought about it and it came to me. I only needed confirmation by WebMD and sure enough:

Shin splints.

That dull, aching pain around your shin… and the cause?

Flat feet. Which I have.

Thanks to my having flat feet my muscles have stretched (my arches collapse when I run, hence why I have flat feet) and now I have this to deal with after I run/dance.

Why it’s just one leg and not both is beyond me…

I won’t complain.

After 12+ years, it finally gave it all.

The TV is actually older than 12+ years come to think of it. My parents had it before I did, probably since before we moved into this house (which would be almost 20 years), but it suddenly stopped working for them. They were about to throw it away when I (I might have been 10 at this point, no older than 11) asked if I could have it. I told them that I could probably get it to work again, so my dad made a bet: if I got the TV to work I could keep it free of charge. Long story short, I got it working. And it was mine.

This TV was awesome because it had a built-in VCR so I could watch all my VHS cassettes and still play my gamecube. I was content.

Fast-forward to today and it’s finally gone kaput.

But this story has a happy ending.

My dad a while back had bought a flat-screen Toshiba TV because, well, everyone else had one. The TV can’t be more than 3 years old, and I wanna say it’s a 40 x 25 inch… anyways, he bought it even though we already had a 60” big screen in the family room (it was incredibly unnecessary to have 2 TVs in the same room… but whatever). Well, they’ll tear up the Devil if he let ‘em, so not too long ago, earlier this year in fact, it wouldn’t work.

I think you get where the story is heading.

So now I got a kinda-new flat screen TV.

Now I just need to get a VCR/DVD player so I can watch all my VHS cassettes.

You care.

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MATT SMITH IS QUITTING DOCTOR WHO.

Which means…

THERE’S GOING TO BE A NEW DOCTOR.

I mean, I shouldn’t be surprised. 3 seasons seems to be the cap for New Who Doctors (Tom Baker from Classic Who had the longest run in total Who history). Still, for whatever reason I thought Matt would stay on for at least another season, with Clara just being introduced to us the latter half of season 7.

OMG the possibilities for 12…

There’s a good chance that they might get someone who’s just starting out. I mean, I’d never heard of Matt Smith until he became 11 (though I’m sure he is a bigger deal over in the UK). Of course, if a girl is allowed to dream…

Idris Elba or Domhnall Gleeson. Leaning more towards Domhnall though because dad gummit it’s high time the Doctor becomes a Ginger.