Greetings Earthlings!  

What do you have up for the weekend?  I will be taxi cabbing my daughter around so she can go to all of her social events.  She is attending a pirate/princess birthday party in Lake St. Louis tonight (yes I said tonight, and yes she is only five, and yes I'm mad as hell about it).  Hopefully the party will be over soon enough for me to catch the tail end of Stress Free Fridays at a nearby bar, Cuetopia.  Here is the scoop I received via email from my girl Kelly.  It's located on West Florissant just off Halls Ferry.

Saturday,  I hope to get some much needed R&R because last weekend my family and I (my mom and sister included) spring cleaned my entire house.  We even found a snake in the basment.  I almost died when I saw it.  My mom chopped its head off with a garden hoe.  Even with its head severed from its body, the tail continued to wiggle frantically and the snakes tongue kept hissing out if it's mouth.  I will be forever traumatized after witnessing this.  My mom was freaking out saying it was a poisonus black mamba snake that (get this) stowed away in some African's luggage and made the trek to the U.S. and found it's way to St. Louis, MO (particularly in my back yard).  That's all a little too much for me to handle at this point.  So I am going to deter to the other option, that it was a razor or garter snake, that was hoping to find some ugly, gross rodent to feed on in my dark secluded basement....ugh....little nasties!

Saturday night I hope to stop by Posh for their free Saturday event.  Check it out.  If you're not doing anything, meet me in the West End baby!

On another note I am getting much sexual harassment from the guys that work at the convenience store up the street from my house.  I am basically always alone when I go in there, not they don't notice the ring on my finger.  They are overtly flirtatious.  Although, that has never parlayed into free liquor (go figure).  So I was telling my sister about the guys in the store and that I wasn't sure if they were from India or what; but they definitely have a thing for black women.  She sent me a link that really broke it down for me.  Y'all have to follow this link and hear this.  It is priceless.  Please finish reading my blog first, of course...hahahaha 

Here is the link:  http://www.betterloverseminar.com/desi_wife_catches_husband.php

I have been invited to some type of event promotional staffing orientation on Sunday.  I think it's called IDG or something to that affect.  Where they take your picture and bio and skills and you are on a list of folks that can be potentially selected to work at promotional activities, trade shows, exhibits, etc.  They pay sounds pretty good, like you can make a c-note in a day for  handing out t-shirts for several hours.  But what's up with the three hour orientation.  I'm starting to think I am too old to participate in something like this.  Obviously this is for young-young ladies b/c I'm a grown azz woman wich equals, you better have a dayum good reason for why I have to sit somewhere for 3 hours otherwise, I have way more important things to attend to.  You feel me?  I'm still on the fence about that one.  I'll have to see how I feel Sunday afternoon.  I will totally play it by ear.

Well, I'm gonna skate out early on this one b/c I am buried in manuscript pages once again.  I'm starting to feel the whirlwind of trying to manage two books at once.  And I'm the newbie.  Some people are managing up to 8 or 9 at once (oh hell nawl!)  I got pages going out to one copyeditor, coming in from another, proofreaders asking questions, authors want to see every little change and to round it off the compositors that create the pages and illustrations are chewing on my ear as well....How exciting I know!

Have a beautiful weekend.  I'll get back at you soon!

Oh, btw,  Take  off that dayum cool.  I want to see the real you.

Smooches.