Let your imagination run wild

Also--I can't stop looking at this website.

I LOVE PUPPIES

There, I said it.

I fucking LOVE puppies. Everything about them makes my heart fill with joy and wonder. I never get tired of looking at pictures of precious doggies. And my coworkers are feeling the love now too because every other week or so I hang up a new Cute Puppy pic at a random spot in the office to surprise people into a smile when they are least expecting it.

Pictures like this one:

I'm dying from love for this little guy right now.

I DO want to be skinny

But I'm not taking it this far. And it makes me sad that so many girls feels like they have to.

This is Isabelle Caro. She's 27 and has struggled with anorexia since she was 13. She's modeling for some billboards for fashion week in Milan to protest the whole Models Are So Skinny It's Gross movement that's been sweeping across the nation for the past few decades. I saw this pic on one of those random celeb gossip blogs and had to share.

There is a such thing as too skinny. I think I've hit my weight that I'm going to be and I'm happy with it. But I've recently really gotten into going to the gym and the reason behind my newfound love affair is the elliptical.

I discovered the elliptical a couple of months ago and I LOVE IT. I always hated running but the elliptical is so great because I feel like I'm getting a work out but I'm NOT dying slowly inside like I do when I'm on the treadmill. I've actually been gymming it every other day at least after work. I secretly love the gym and why? Because there are mirrors everywhere and if there's one thing Brandy Crawford likes, it's looking at herself in the mirror.

Having trouble focusing

It's 4:30 and I'm going to the Ruby Tuesdays in Times Square tonight with a few of my nearest and dearest. I have one friend who really loves to take annual trips to suburban chain restaurants.

This may be sad and telling to admit, but until I was in high school and learned the true ways of the world, I thought that the EPITOME of going out to eat was a meal at Shoney's.

Below is a pic that looks a lot like the Shoney's that we went to. The fact that it's in a Days Inn makes it even classier don't you think?




This is an example of how parents brainwash their kids. My mom and dad had me really believing that we were doing something with the kids meal and the salad bar. I will say this though--I learned to love french toast sticks at the Shoney's breakfast buffet. It's a love affair that's lasted through the years.

Also, I am having trouble focusing on work but I'm doing just fine surfing the internet. And in the past half an hour or so I've been learning all about this little organization:



Big logo, right? I was watching the national pie championships the other night on Food Network and I had to see the site for myself to believe that there really are people who are just THAT DEDICATED to pie. This one woman actually said:

"Some people are pie people. I'm a pie person. This place is for pie people."

Pie People.

I need a t-shirt that says that and then on the back my last name and the number 69.

OMG. I love Heroes

I LOVE HEROES AND THE SEASON PREMIERE WAS AWESOME!!!!

Questions and thoughts (don't worry--no spoilers)

• The gold touch--COOLEST POWER EVER
• What is UP with Claire's new school buddy? He looks JUST LIKE PETER PETRELLI
• LOVE the Honduras characters!!!
• Claire's dad ROCK
• Why don't I understand this virus thing?

Monday is my new favorite night.

George Bush ALWAYS knows what to say

From the AP wire:


US President George W. Bush said Tuesday that the speaking appearance of Iranian President Mahmoud Amadinejad at a US university "speaks volumes about really the greatness of America".


He said if the president of Columbia University President Lee Bollinger considers Ahmadinejad's visit an educational experience for Columbia students, "I guess it's OK with me."


Brandy's note: I'm not okay with his use of the word "really."

Waiting for Guffman

Is one of the funniest movies ever made. I've seen it enough times to know all the lines and I still laugh.

I was watching the DVD extra scenes over the weekend and I just shared this with my coworkers. Go ahead--take a few minutes to watch and laugh.

New favorite line:

"Who's on top and who's on bottom now!!"

Best line from my new favorite show

"Your life is over, slut."

It's from Gossip Girl and if you haven't started watching it, it's not too late. Currently the season premiere of Family Guy is on and my tummy hurts from laughing.

We ordered Chinese food tonight and Kristyn keeps referring to Justin's Hunan chicken as cat pussy. It just keeps being funny.

A little bit of ADORABLE coming at you

OMG. I am so much happier now.

I haven't really given my opinion...

....on Britney yet. I saw the performance and I didn't think it was great, but I didn't think it was so awful. She's been over since that crazy gum-popping interview. No, no--she's been over since Crossroads. But she's still making $750,000 a month just being a fuck up so more power to her.

Christos just sent me this and it made me laugh. Especially because my favorite ep of ANTM is the one where Tyra flips out on Tiffany! Christos once said the me that if Britney could make a come back it would be proof that anyone can comeback.

Oh well.

My grandmother bought me high waisted panties.

And I’m really into them. I was just in Georgia for a long weekend but as usual it feels like I’ve been gone a really long time, Going home does that to me. It’s just so different there.

Some highlights:

I surprised Kailyn on Friday at her school. It was awesome except for the fact that all I had to do to get access to hundreds of little children was to go to the front desk, sign my name and get a orange sticker that said “Visitor’s Pass.” After that, I was free to roam the halls at my leisure and because I am a pretty girl and was wearing a pretty dress, all I got were smiles and hellos all the way to the cafeteria.

Heads up elementary school officials: I shudder at the thought that any old freakshow (myself excluded, of course) can turn up at a school, sign a name and roam.

But on to my surprise visit. Kari told me to get there at 10:30. I was there at 10:25 and one of the teachers in the cafeteria informed me that Kailyn’s class didn’t get there til ten to 11. So I sat on a bench right outside the lunchroom and watched as the cutest kids in creation walked past me to lunch. I wanted to hug all of them. God, I am a SUCKER for a cute kid. I’ll never be a disciplinarian. Finally Kailyn’s class came and she saw me and of course she flipped her shit. I declined to actually eat the lunch because the food looked even more disgusting than I remembered. And I sat with her friends at the lunch table.

They have too many rules for kids. They couldn’t talk at all! First off, every teacher was over 50 and they had “Good children are seen and not heard” stamped across their foreheads and every one of them was sporting one of those school-y vests with the ABC and 123 and + and – signs everywhere. Whenever it got too loud, they would turn on music and the kids had to be quiet for five minutes. Kirsten, Kailyn’s Nordic looking friend who looked way big for 6 told me, “It’s okay to talk as long as the teacher’s not looking.”

They learn fast. By the end of lunch everyone wanted me to be their cool Aunt-tee who lives in New York and lots of little eyes were duly impressed with Kailyn’s brand new I Heart NY t shirt. She started freaking out when I told her I had to go. She eventually convinced me with that cute little snaggle-toothed smile that I should call her mom so that I could check her out.

I won’t even terrify you with just how easy it was for me to check her out of school.

Also:

I drove in Atlanta and actually went OVER the speed limit on the expressway.

I went to church for the first time in years on Sunday and the preacher recognized me in front of the congregation. He goes, “I’m just so proud of Brandy. You all she is living in New York and last night I was up and saw her show! Flip That House! And I waited til the end and I saw her name, praise Jesus. She is a producer? Co-producer?” I just nodded and pasted a huge smile on my face, deciding that it was not the time to inform him that I’m a production coordinator and not a producer and that Flip THAT House is my show’s biggest rival.

My dad’s mom got a new TV. And not just any new TV—she and my grandfather got a flat screen huge HD TV. This is momentous for several reasons, the most important being that when my brother and I were growing up and we had to spend weekends there, they had the SHITTIEST TV you’ve ever seen. It was this wooden floor model hunk of the past and the remote was ALWAYS sticking. When we were a little older they got this huge flat screen (not the thin one like now but those old monsters from the mid 90s), Larry J and I weren’t allowed to change the channel without asking. They felt that the TV was too complicated to understand. So anyway—I walk downstairs and see this huge beautiful TV and my granddad sprawled on the couch. And what had they been watching? The Lifetime Movie network. They have na HD TV and they were watching the Lifetime Movie Network. I asked my grandmother why and she says, “Girl thye got good movies on this channel.” Everytime I see her she gives me an assortment of panties, bath products and beauty samples that she's acquired over the past few months. I'm really into the high-waisted panties. They make me feel like a 50s pin-up girl.

All in all in was a great trip home. And here are some pictures so you can relive it too.

Amme and Kailyn--SO EFFING ADORABLE

Leah

My grandmother and me!!

Typical Babb.

I can't play in grass. I'm allergic.

Bullshit

I'm never really pro-death penalty but I totally don't mind if these 6 are never seen again. You can read what happened here. I don't really want to reprint any of the awful things that these assholes did to a black woman in West Virginia.


It's 2007. It's so sad that this is still going on. I'm from the South and this makes me really ashamed to have been born south of the Mason-Dixon line.

I got a raise today!!

I am a real working woman now!!

I went into my boss's office today and asked. I was shaking and nervous but it had to be done. And he said yes right away!


More later--I have to actually work for that money now.

PS--I also have a new grown up woman's--nice and leather and brown and has room for every grown up woman's best accessory--her checkbook!! (I don't even write checks any more save for rent but carrying it around makes me feel more like my mom and strangely enough--I'm okay with that.)

PPS--my mom sews now. I thought it was a little side hobby but no--she is making whole outfits that totally look store bought!! I'm so amazed. She turned the 4th bedroom in her house into her sewing room and the dining room table is her cutting board. She has boxes of patterns and fabrics and she just got a new huge powerful sewing machine that she can sew cordouroy and denim with!

PPPS--I know that today is September 11th but it's also my dad's birthday so that's how I like to remember it. Happy birthday Dad!!

Humming

Humming

My cousin Kari told me that her daughter, the love of my life, Kailyn was having some behavorial issues in school.

“Like what,” I ask

“Well she’s a talker,” Of course. She’s in my family. There would be something wrong with her if she wasn’t a talker.

“That’s no big deal—I hate teachers who give N’s for stuff like that.”

“Well she’s also been humming.”

“Humming?”

Apparently Kailyn has been humming during quiet time. I asked her to demonstrate this humming and what I heard I hope no one ever has to hear again. It was high pitched, nasally, and awful. She did it a couple of times and the teacher would ask who was humming and no one would give her up. (That’s right—she’s already popular and intimidating! Yes!) Finally she caught on that it was Kailyn and she asked her to stop.

“Why?” Kailyn asked.

“Because it’s distracting,” her teacher replied.

“But, Mrs. Ivy—humming’s good for the soul!”

That’s right. She said it.

Kari asks me after she tells the story, “Now how am I not supposed to laugh at that?”

This is why I’m not a mom yet. I would have to laugh too.

Just watch it.

I have lots of fun things to write about but for now, you need to watch Chris Brown dance.





I love him.

What does this say about me?

I recently joined Blockbuster Online. I filled out a short survey and these are my recommendations.



PS: I didn't check ANYTHING about kids movies. In fact I distinctly remember checking that I'm into comedy, documentary, and independent films.

I haven't been home in 9 months

I'm going to Georgia tonight and I'm very excited. I also realized that I haven't been home in 9 months. Wouldn't it be so funny if I showed up with a baby?

Perhaps I can borrow one from someone at the Atlanta airport when we land as a joke.

If you knew my family you would know how hilarious the thought of me showing up with a baby really is. Those people wouldn't trust me with a puppy I don't think.

September 15th !!

There's an awesome show and you need to be there.

Here their music here.

New Favorite Duo Alert!!

Tim Gunn and Veronica Webb!!


If only I'd been writing down the great quotes from Tim Gunn's Guide To Style. Fingers crossed there's a blog out there doing just that. This is my new favorite show and I've really gone on an emotional rollercoaster on this sneak peak episode. SO GLAD I HAVE BRAVO.

I am addicted to Scrabble on Facebook

But I kind of suck at it.

In my defense, I probably lost like ten of those games to my friend Tim who is some kind of wordsmith genius. I can't compete with a man who can get EQUALIZE on a triple word score.

Today I....

....got to work really early and got off at 7:30.

In other big news, I finally made the switch from Netflix to Blockbuster Online. It's the exchanging in store that I'm really into.

Also, I'm going home on Thursday. I haven't been to Georgia since Christmas and I'm filled with excitement and a little apprehension. Will my mother freak out over my hair cut and tell me once again that I don't have white folks hair? Will my dad actually sit down and really look at the 500 or so pictures I've taken of my life since I last saw him. Will Kailyn do something else that cracks me up so much I almost cry?

Speaking of Kailyn, she called on Monday and said,

"We're at Applebee's right now and Applebee's is good but I have 5 chicken fingers and 3 of my chicken fingers are burnt."

She is profound in her daily observations sometimes.

This conversation eventually led to her telling me that she had had to meet some friends of my cousin's and she was shy because "I didn't want them to think I was ugly. But I'm not ugly you know? I'm pretty and you know what Bran? Folks like pretty people."

I tried not to laugh and replied, "Well this is why you're hot."

Then she sang that rap song "This Is Why I'm Hot" until my mom took the phone away from her and told her to eat her food.

I think home will be really great.