I am over April. Its cold and rainy. I am also over the man yelling homophobic statements at 230 a.m,

I have officially boarded the Twlight train. The frenzied mania surrounding the franchise had turned me off and had no intention of reading it. I made a similar vow about Harry Potter during the peak of that craze, and I have yet to crack open a HP book. While vampires aren't really my subject of interest (which was confirmed while reading Christopher Moore's You Suck), in this case, Twilight had peeked my interest before the movie hit the theaters. See I'm a nerd and I'm nosy. As a nerd, I spend a lot of time in bookstores and libraries so I had seen Twilight numerous times and noticed posters advertising the release of a new Stephanie Meyers book. I had also noticed people reading books in the series on the train. After seeing this book so much, my noisiness has gotten the best of me and I had to see what all the hype was about. I have already read Twilight and have just started New Moon. While the books aren't terrible, I don't understand why people are so obsessed with Twilight. The large font size paired with the large margins make it shorter than it appears, but the books are still longer than necessary. After reading the first book and first two chapters of NM I find Bella rather annoying. She's quit the "Debbie Downer" and is often self-deprecating. Her over-the top resistance to celebrating her 18th birthday was annoying and dragged on to long. I got the urge to slap her. As for Edward, I'm a little lost on why he is considered a stud? He seems so cranky and grouchy all the time. I also was annoyed by his constant chatter about how "dangerous" he was and how he "didn't want to harm her." The first time, the idealistic teeny bopper within me found it cute, though it was less cute upon second reference. And it become nauseating in later references. The book wouldn't have had to be 500 pages if Meyer didn't waste so much time with Edward's repetitive blubbering. That said, I have heard New Moon was the worst of the series so we will see. I plan to keep trekking through.

Two Grandmas came to work today.One grandma got her wallet stolen only minutes after buying a souvenir T-Shirt for her granddaughter. Around the same time, a three-year-old's Grandmother had her car stolen while she was watching "Dora on ice." It was not a not a nice day in New York for Grandmas! =*(

Big Mama For Mayor? Big Rumor

New York Daily News Reports that a man claiming to be the spokesperson for rapper Lil' Kim (Kimberly Jones) sent false press releases to the media announcing that the former Junior Mafia Chick was running for mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. The false information was announced on various New York media outlets including Channel 7.

Lil' Kim's real publicist released her own statement denouncing such rumors as untrue. Saying that the man who wrote the press releases had no relation to Kim. The self-proclaimed "Black Barbie"(fitting) expressed her amusement of the rumor via E News, insisting that she was flattered by the story. She admitted to not being involved or very knowledgeable about politics and was flattered that someone thought she could.
I can't understand how any media outlet could have fallen for that? Not to hate on Lil' Kim, but the rapper doesn't strike me as one with a passion for politics. I can't recall a single song she's done that has made any sort of reference to any form of politic believe. Kanye West trying to become a politician is much more believable as he has voiced political opinions via song or personal blog.
Doesn't anyone fact check anymore?

I'm a Bad Catholic

Today is Good Friday, a fact which I had forgotten until about five minutes ago. It's not unusual for me to forget about the holiday and to not observe it. I can't even remember the last time I went to church on Good Friday. Or the last time I gave something up for Lent. It's not that I don't believe in God, because I do. But for some reason has never been important to me. Growing up, church wasn't a major part of my life. My family did attend church when I was very young, until I was about 4. After that, I attended CCD but Church wasn't a weekly tradition. Once I made my First Communion, my Catholic upbringing pretty much came to a halt, sans some forced and voluntary Masses with Minka (grandma). Most of the time, my lack of a religious background doesn't bother me. I am not too much of a fan of organized religion because to me, religion seems to build so many walls and cause so many unnecessary problems. How many people have died "
in the name of faith."
But other times, my life as a "perfect Heathen" as Minks would say, does make me feel bad. I sometimes wish I could be religious, and have some sort of tradition. But alas, so far that has been lost on me. I tried to fake it a few times. Senior year my best friend and I attended mass every Sunday at the Church we grew up attending.
In college, I attended Church (non denomination/protestant), Yet in both situations, I felt like a fraud because my attendance was based more on feeling like I should be there rather than wanting to be there.
Maybe someday I'll find religion. Til then, I live as a heathen.

The Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network website (GLSEN.org) reported the suicide of an 11 year-old boy. The young man hung himself after dealing with Anti-gay attacks from his peers. The taunting continued despite his mother's pleading with school officials about the matter. It was reported that the young man didn't "identify himself as gay."
I came across this story, through my friend Nee, who had a link to it on her Facebook status. I almost cried just reading the headline. This story is disturbing on so many levels. One that student bullying was making this child feel so terrible that he would end his own life. His peers should be ashamed.
Yet the kids are hardly the only ones to be blamed. Where were the adults? Why didn't the school do something when the mother spoke to them? If the kid was being taunted so badly, how did the teachers not see anything? Not hear anything? Did they just choose to ignore it. Administrators shouldn't ignore this. Member Jenna Six? Before all the drama went down and there was a "white's only tree" and the black kids asked administrators for permission to sit under said tree. Despite having knowledge about the racial trouble that was brewing, the school did nothing, And look what happened. It's not enough for schools to worry about standardized tests scores. What good are passing scores if kids aren't living long enough to graduate?
Sadly, many of these children are probably taught this type of hate at home. It makes me sick and sad.
That is why, I could never date someone with so much hate. I would never want to start a family with some intolerant ignoramus who would pass that type of stupidity on to the children (assuming I do the married with kids bit).

When Grammar Goes Wrong (Herb of the week)

From FMylife.com:

Today, I was flirting via text with a coworker. Things started getting heated, and I wanted to send her a sexy picture. I asked if she had any suggestions. She said, "Your nuts!" She meant, "YOU'RE nuts." I sent her a photo of my junk. I offended a co-worker with incriminating evidence. FML

But Riccckkky, I wanna be in the Knooow!!

I've mentioned Toyas World (def one of my favorite bl0gs btw) on here a few times. What makes her blog so cool is that she gets all the R&B Gossip and catches all the good music leaks before so many other people. How does "she" do that?

That is the blog I read most religiously, but so many others are getting some interesting scoops. How are these people so "in the know"? Can you pass some of those skills over this way, Pretty Please?