4h of July

Happy Independence Day guys!!!! If I've never been more proud than I am now to be AMERICAN, I must have been crazy before....

I can remember having cook-outs in the park near my house when I was younger. My mom and some friends would set up the BBQ thing and we would just play games, eat and chill. It was so fun. Another 4th of July my friend invited me to the United Nations to see fireworks. Her dad worked there and I was so amazed cuz the fireworks looked so damn close to us.

Since Ive gotten older, I havent really payed attention to these holidays much. But I remember goin to the pier in NY one 4th and watched the fireworks. They were really exciting. I do wish I were home now tho, so I could take Tiff to the pier and we could watch the fireworks or do something together.

Well anyway folks, Have a safe and happy holiday!!!!!

Friday Night

Its 8:50 on a friday night. Im drinkin alone. watchin tv, and of course, checkin my email every 4.7 seconds for a new mess.

I wish I had a life.....

FYI Update

Andy Roddick (No 6) has just beat Andy Murray (No 3) I cant believe it! The match was so intense. I thoguht Andy Murray was wipe the floor with Roddick honestly. But Roddick hung in there and beat the Brit. The look on Murrays face was priceless, and it kinda reminded me of when Nadal got beat by Soderling recently. NO ONE SAW IT COMING.

Ok, so Im indeed rethinkin the point that I think Roddick should retire. Ok, actually Im not, he needs to get that poppin....He is facing Federer in the finals, and Ill put any amount of money that Federer is winning that joint. I know it!

Oh, I just finished eating another awesome sandwich and broccoli!!!! It was sooooooooo good. Uuhh, my fat-kid tendencies are just slowly but surely catchin up with me. I need somethin to do....like drink...hahahaha yall already know i got that Green Apple vodka poppin off....WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

FYI

Watching the Wimbledon's men's semi final match between Murray and Roddick. Uumm, Roddick, Im SO ready for your ass to retire....Like tomorrow....If you win against Murray, I MAY reconsider. I MAY!!!

Just got ANOTHER vanilla ice cream cake cuz the other one is DUNZO. Damnit, I can feel the pounds just piling on me....

Barf

Just ate a boatload of honey and butter flavored cookies. They were good as hell, but I think I ate too many. My stomach hurts and I might have to barf....

Well maybe just one more....

Major Misunderstanding

Ha cant believe I just blogged about my lil sis being so stupid.....

So Im watching Mad TV, which is a music video channel out here. They do these themed countdowns, and one came on yesterday. Even tho they play BG and English videos, the themes stream across the top of the TV in BG.

Ok, so the No 6 video was Eve-Who's that girl. And thats a throwback, so I was kinda surprised to see it on there. So Im lookin for the stream at the top to see what the theme of the countdown is. It said in BG Top 10 chervenokosi matski. So seeing Eve and then reading that, I IMMEDIATELY understood that to be "Top 10 black-skinned chicks" I honestly was kinda excited.

The Eve video goes off. The next video is by some group named Garbage, and CLEARLY had no damn black people in it. WHATSOEVER! So at this point Im confused. I keep reading the countdown theme over and over again, thinkin, this chick in the video is NOT black at all. So then the No 4 video comes on, and its No Doubt. So Im thinkin now, these MOFO's DEF aint black. What the hell is going on.

Eh hem, Um I read the damn theme WRONG. The words for black and red are very close, just as the words for hair and skin are. So I finally figured out that I was making a mistake. The theme was "Top 10 RED-HAIRED CHICKS"

What an idiot!!! And when I thought about it, In the Eve video and the other 2 thereafter, they ALL had red hair.....

guess the "stupid apple" doesnt roll too far from the tree....lol

Aces Up!

Shout out to my Ace-Supernova. We been chit-chattin it up these past few weeks. She is uber excited im makin my reappearance back in the states.

OOO-OOP~

Oh, I didnt know that....

So um yeah, I was on the phone with my sis today and she said the dumbest thing Ive heard in a while.

So I sent her an email and was expecting a response. Never got one. I decided to call today. So I asked why she hadnt responded. I needed her to print something out for me and wanted to know if she did it or not. So she has one of those smart phones, and can check her email from the phone. She has a registered email account through the phone but she also has a gmail account. So I asked is she printed the paper out yet. She said no, there wasnt any printing paper in the house. So I said why didnt she go to an internet cafe and print it out there. You wanna know what this dumb ass says to me?!?! "I cant cuz its on my phone"

Now Im a bit confused as to what the hell she is talkin bout so I inquire about this statement. She proceeds to offer this long as explanation of how she has an email account through her phone and how she can only check it on the phone and that I sent the email to her phone so she couldnt print it out. But I said "Tiff, I sent it to your gmail account" so she says and I checked it on my phone. So I go, "Tiff, you can check your gmail on the computer. If you go to gmail.com, you just type in your info and you can check your messages ON THE COMPUTER."

Her reply, "oh. I didnt know that"...she was dead ass serious!

WTF?!?! Are you kidding me? You mean to tell me that you SERIOUSLY thought you could only check your messages from your phone and that was it. Did you NOT know that gmail was created by Google, the global search engine. Oh My fuckin goodness.....

This shit right here, is a PRIME example why kids really need to stay in school and their education. I was relaly in disbelief when I heard homegirl say that hot shit. I mean damn, how dumb and unaware can one be. I tell you boy, some of these kids today aint concerned with nothing else but lookin fly and the latest new dance move.

Foolishness in my own home.....damn!

Kudos

Its an all Williams final at Wimbledon folks, prepared to be amazed. I was on pins and needles I must admit watching Serena battle her way through 3 sets against the 4th seeded Dementieva. Elena took the first set and I was literally screamin at the tv for Serena to get her damn head in the game. After almost damn near 3 hours, Dementieva fucked up and Serena came back to take the game. Whew that was close.....

So then Venus plays the world No 1, Dinara Safina. And seriously, homegirl is a joke. She lost to Venus 6-1 6-1 in UNDER AN HOUR! She only came to be the No 1 cuz Serena had a few injuries that didnt allow her to compete in a few matches. She damn sure wasnt ready to face Venus and it clearly showed. So, now its an all Williams final. As much as I love Serena, she looked a lil rusty and amateur-ish on the court today. Suffice it to say, she got her work cut out for her. Even with that leg brace Venus was sportin, she looked to be in top form!!!!

Uumm can I just take a sec to talk about this sandwich I made today. OMG so damn good. Toasted wheat bread, smoked ham, feta cheese, mustard, pickles and tomotoes. So damn good.....

Summer where are you?!?!

As if summer was playin hide and go seek with me, I feel like this shit MUST be all a game. I mean seriously, this much rain?!?! I had to go to Sofia today to get my shop on, you know how I do (a new dress, jeans and 2 shirts) and it rained so hard today. My lil red umbrella wasnt doin any justice, and I might have been better off without it. Its al beat up, the fake steel wires are all jacked up, and of course cuz it cost like a damn dollar, its small as hell. The sides of my arms, bottom of my pants and my back were all wet. I got a few sprinkles on my hair, and almost died.

I actually was having a good day up til then. I made my way to Mango and copped a dress and shirt before I decided to go to the other mall (City Center) and see a movie. Ive been dyin to see a movie AND they have a Burger King at that mall. I LOVE BK fries, and altho I had to walk from Mango to the mall, I decided that 17 minute walk was all worth it (some of you may be familiar with my "15 min maximum walkin policy"). I ended up seeing the Proposal, with Sandra Bullock, and altho it was EXTRA cliched (of course they fell in love and ended up together) it was surprisingly funny and cute. Money well spent.....I didnt buy shit in that mall either.....When I was ready to go, it was raining cats, and stray dogs outside...lol

I still just had to go to the OTHER Mango at the Mall of Sofia. Just to soothe my fear that I would miss a good deal or something on sale. And what do you know, I got a cute pair of jeans and 2 shirts. I decided on the bus back home, and damn if that wasnt the mistake of the day. It smelled HORRIBLE on the bus, and I had to sit all the way in the back. There were mad fat and loud dudes talkin behind me and I started to get a headache. Got home, ate, and now im watchin tennis.

Uumm FYI, I got this REALLY good ice cream cake yest. OMG, that shit is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good.

I remember about this time last year, it was sooooo hot. The first summer we got here, during training then when i got my own place, I just remember it being extremely hot. But now, not the case. I usually have on a thin long sleeved shirt and occasionally a sweater in teh evening. And the rain? Uumm im not a fan.

But I just keep holdin on to the fact that I will be in Milan soon, and then back in the states. It can rain everyday for eternity, as lng as I am back in the city I hold dear to my heart, NY!!!!

End of an Era/Grades

Well finally, the school year has ended, may it rest in peace! It felt like an eternity waiting for the last day of class to inch its way into existence. But the day finally came, and I couldnt be more happier. Monday went by pretty quickly. I had only 2 classes, and UNO made the time go by extra fast. I went to chill with the ladies in the office. Mr. Peve, the 9th grade eng teacher comes in and gives us all chocolates. A treat cuz he just received his PHD in Russian philosphy. I was quite impressed. Not only was I surprised that he even got it, but that we were actually talkin for more than 5 seconds to each other. Whenever I try to talk to him, he is usally very short. Ill say hey, how are you. He'll say fine, and keep walkin.....

So I get tired of sitting in the office doing nothin, so I go home. Im chillin, watchin tennis and I start to get a bit tired. I take of my clothes, and get cozy in the bed. Dont you know some heifer from the school calls me, and tells me I need to speak to Mr. Peve. She puts him on the phone and he asks me to come to the school so we can figure out the final grades for the 9g together. Yes, this is the SAME Mr. Peve whom I saw earlier in the office, who said ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about having to work together to write the final grades for the students. Foolishness indeed......

So I gotta get out the bed, get dresses, then walk to the school. Now I already wrote my final grades in the book, as did he, but since we share the class, we have to decide together what the final grade is for the students. I did this with the 10g teacher and altho some students didnt get the grade they CLEARLY deserved, I just let the shit slide. So I sit down and after about 5 minutes, we were done. ARE U FUCKIN KIDDIN ME?!?! we couldnt have done that over the phone?!?!

And this business of writing grades for the students. TOTAL bullshit. While I will admit that a lot of the students got really good grades, becuz they actually did really good work. On the flip side I just gotta shout out those lil fuckers who got decent grades, but did absolutely nothing this entire year. Now I wont name names, but I have a few people in mind who recieved a 4 as a grade, when they clearly deserved a 2, at best a 3. 2 9g received a 5, and I almost had a heart attack when the teacher came to those 2 students. I mean one of them speaks decent eng, and altho he is lazy as all fuck and has an attitude problem, he is really smart. But the other kid, cant speak a lick of eng and just sits in class and does NOTHING. I am a firm believer that grades should be distributed based on real work and not just character. Yeah, Id like to give you a 5 cuz I know you can speak good eng and are smart, but frankly you got mediocre grades on tests, and failed class assignments cuz you didnt bother to do them. Um sorry, you need to take this 3 and get out my face. thats what needs to be said....

Instead I just sat in the chair and let homeboy write whatever he wanted. They dont fail students at my school. And there was no point in arguing with him cuz he was gonna write the higher grade anyway. Just to refresh your memory, the grading system is on a scale of 2-6. I gave both those 9g a 3, and he gave them a 5. So naturally we should have given them a 4, following the rule that since we share the class, we should just average the grades. But he insisted "WE" give them a 5 instead of a 4.

I just shook my damn head and kept it moving. Tues NO students came and I couldnt have shit gold I was so damn excited. I hung out with my peeps from the office, including mama vanya. We walked around running errands, picked up lunch and checked out some shops. I love those ladies....

So Ive been at an all time LOW these past 2 weeks. I mean not a DIME (well stotinka) in my damn BG bank account, and barely surviving. I was so despearate I checked to see if we had money on Mon, knowing damn well it wouldnt be there. My fingers were crossed extra tight, but to no avail. But tues, aahhh thats the winner. The money was in my bank account and I might as well have been moonwalkin down the street I was so filled with joy. Especially since I could now buy essentials, like SOAP, and FOOD from the supermarket.

And of course, I had to do a lil "end of the school year celebration" shopping. HAHAHA I swear I just be giving myself all types of rationalizations to spend money. So anyway, I went to the main street in town and copped this bag Ive been eyeing for some time now. AND it was on sale, so I had to pat myself on the back for that one. I also copped 2 pairs of jeans and a shirt. Oh, and I had to pay my internet bill (thats how im writing this post right now), cable bill, and phone bills (so they can stop sending me those annoying ass text mess sayin my bill was due.... I FUCKIN KNOW THAT BITCHES). All in all, tues was a GREAT day. No work, no snot-nosed kids, and sleeping late. Ahh the good life.....