Tuesday, March 6, 2012

No Woman, No cry.....Don't Shed No Tears!





It is taking so much of me to say this. But I feel if I don't, then I'm not gonna be well.

It's been awhile and I am completely broken. I have been trying to be well.

I NEED to be well.

How can I be honest, without being angry or feeling remorse?
How can I be honest, and wanting freedom the most?
How can I be honest, and let you know this is not FOR you?
How can I be honest, and let you know this is true?

Set me free!

I am beginning to realize just how good it feels to feel. I'm finally getting there. I honestly want you to know that this has EVERYTHING to do with you, and I need your help to get ME there.


How can I be honest? How do I get to say these words?
How can I just be honest, and have you not interrupt me?
How can I just be honest, and have you show me you care to hear?
How can I be honest and be free?
How can I be honest and have YOU set me free?
How can I be honest and have no regrets?
How can I be honest?......

...Goodbye!

As always and forever,
Sleepless.


Saturday, December 3, 2011

In Honor Of WORLD AIDS DAY. December 1.

Yeah, yeah I know I am a little late, but what can I say a girl's been busy. I was recently educating myself, as always, on the interweb and came across some very useful info that I want to share with y'all. I am not big on plagiarizing but I thought if I sendthebody.com you to the website you would simply not go. So I brought the information to you.

This article I found on thebody.com Quite an interesting page. Anyways, here goes:


10 Common Fears About HIV Transmission:


10. Swimming in a Pool

You'd be amazed how many people write to our experts worried about HIV entering their bodies via blood or urine in a pool. HIV is not transmitted through water, period -- it doesn't matter whether you're standing in it, bathing in it or drinking gallons of it. (That also goes for hot tubs, showers, the sink at the gas station -- you name it!)


9. Coughing or Sneezing

Many people still find danger in simply being in the vicinity of someone who is HIV positive. But there's no need to be afraid of being near people with HIV!
HIV is not an airborne disease and cannot be transmitted even if someone with HIV coughs or sneezes directly in your face or onto your food. If it were that easy to pass along HIV, the number of people living with the virus today would probably be in the billions, not the millions.

8. Chewing Gum

Whether it's merely touching an old piece of chewed-up gum or transferring a wad of it from your HIV-positive friend's mouth to yours, gum does not represent an HIV risk. HIV is not transmitted through saliva; this is why you can also share food, drinks or utensils with HIV-positive people and not worry about becoming infected.

7. Mosquito Bites

What if a mosquito bites an HIV-positive person and then feasts on you? If a mosquito can transmit malaria, it can transmit HIV too, right? Wrong! Malaria is a very different kind of disease than HIV.
Even if HIV could survive long enough in the extracted blood, there would be so little HIV in there that you'd have no risk of being infected by it if you were the mosquito's next victim -- even if you squashed that sucker on your arm, blood-filled stomach and all.

6. Public Restrooms

Did you forget to put down toilet paper on the seat before using the potty? No need to run out for an HIV test.
Even if a disgusting bodily fluid left on the seat were somehow able to get into your bloodstream (which is virtually impossible as it is -- and no, "up-splashing" does not put you at risk either), the HIV within that fluid wouldn't survive long enough outside of the body to harm you. Not only that, but there wouldn't be enough HIV in that small amount of fluid to pose an infection risk.

5. Eating at a Restaurant

For some reason, restaurants make the imagination run wild. People write in with an endless string of scenarios, including a chef's accidental slip of the knife, a waitress with a scratch on her hand, and a piece of food that briefly fell off someone's plate and touched the table.
But here are the facts: In all of those infectious fantasies, there simply wouldn't be enough HIV present to pose a risk. (In most of them, there's zero chance that HIV would be present at all.) In addition, HIV doesn't live long enough outside of the body for any restaurant scenario to carry a risk -- that is, unless you run off and have unprotected sex with the waiter.

4. Getting a Lap Dance

Oh, if only we had a dollar tucked in our G-string for every person who's written in after a visit to a strip club. (And it's not solely the clients who fear the wrath of the lap!) Lap dances -- and most other strip club encounters -- bear absolutely no risk for one huge reason: at least one of you is wearing clothing on top of your happy parts, and no bodily fluids are being exchanged. (Even if you think you felt a little bit of wetness on your skin, that doesn't count as "exchanging fluids.")
With no opportunity for an exchange of bodily fluids, there is nothing to fear.

3. Sharing a Drinking Glass

Pure and simple: Saliva is not one of the four bodily fluids that can transmit the virus. That list is reserved for blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk. So unless you were drinking a large, frothy glass of any of those, you have nothing to worry about.

2. Shaking Hands

Shaking hands is considered "casual contact" and absolutely does not put you at risk for contracting HIV. It doesn't matter if the shaking involved hands (yours, theirs or both) that were peeling, sweaty, dirty, or had cuts on them.
The same goes for other common concerns, such as hugging someone, being scratched or even being bitten (unless the bite is very deep, meaning it went all the way through your skin -- and even then, any potential risk would be extremely small).

1. Kissing

Of all the issues our experts are asked about, none is the source of more unwarranted freak-outs than kissing. The act of kissing on its own carries no risk for HIV. It doesn't matter whether it's a peck on the cheek or deep tongue-on-tongue action. (And no, you can't transmit HIV through cold sores.)
The only kissing scenario that would involve even a remote risk would be where fresh blood was exchanged -- and unless you're dating a vampire, that kind of thing is extremely unlikely to happen.

Was this article not enough to ease your fears? For more information, please visit our "Ask the Experts" Q&A forum or read this comprehensive fact sheet.



Once again I did not write this article and in no way do I wish to take credit for it. This is solely to educate the less educated.

I hoped you enjoy and can breathe now. I will go back to watching Dawson's Creek. I know, pretty lame for a Saturday night right? Well I don't feel like leaving the comfort of my warm bed/room/apt.

Good Night and remember whatever you do, it's okay to kiss a random stranger tonight, unless he turns out to be a serial killer and then you are on your own. HA HA!

Niters.
Sleepless









Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The Last Year: 365 1/4

It's been a whole year since I started this blog and I have to say the last year was perfect. I think the last year seems like how life should be.

I have never been more confused in my life,  yet more determined to see my dreams through.
I have never lost so many friends, yet somehow becoming closer to the few that matters.
I have never seen so many different sides to a person,  yet finding the qualities worth keeping.
I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE CONFUSED,  BUT YET SO SURE ABOUT WHAT I NEED FROM LIFE.

I have gotten so many job offers this year,  but somehow managed to settle into a familiar place.
I said goodbye to old roommates and welcome new ones that seems to fall right into place.
I said goodbye to old lovers, met new ones but somehow realized that this journey, that I am on,  I must go alone.

There have been a few regrets but they only motivates me!

For the first time in my life I know what it is I truly want.
I know which career path I will choose.
I know where I want to live.
I know what it is I want in a guy.

I now live to not compromise my morals and integrity.

So why do I feel so far away from it all? This is a strange feeling,  one that I DON'T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN, but one that I am excited about. I feel like I finally hit the fork in the road at the crossroad, you know when you're stuck between a rock and a hard place? I have this overwhelming feeling that this is it and that everything is gonna fall into place right after this moment. There are these butterflies in my belly that I can't explain. It's a constant feeling of wanting to smile all day with this great dread. I feel relaxed and anxious. I can't seem to get rid of the butterflies. I don't want them to stop. I love the feeling of not knowing what's next.

I love it all. WISH ME LUCK.

I feel like this whole year, if it didn't teach  me much, it taught me how to let go and move on.
It taught me how to forgive and forget.
It taught  me that not every battle is mine to fight and that sometimes my place is in the bleachers cheering everyone else on.
It taught me to look at moments like these and enjoy them and not having to analyze them.
It taught me peace.

I am now living for myself and not vicariously through everyone's perception of me.
I am happy!

So whats next you might ask?

Life as it pertains to me.........

P.s. my computer was harmed in the making of this blog. LOL!
Niters!

And don't let the bed bugs bite!
Sleepless.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

The List :You would see the biggest gift would be from me

When life hands you lemon, the natural reaction is to make lemonade right?

But what if you can't make lemonade and what if you don't want to?

I find that when life hands ME lemon, is when I call a few of MY best gals and talk. It's so funny how talking is underrated at times. I know coz I hit a low the other day and who would have thought that having a few phone conversations with my friends, who have no hidden agenda but to console me, would be the answer.

I did!


It's amazing how we have all the holidays in the world, but never a Friendship Day!

I think WE should all have a day where friendship is celebrated, yay!!!!!!

A National Holiday like Christmas, where you do nothing but celebrate the one time you choose to have such wonderful people in your life. The ones who are there for you when even your Mama can't solve your problems.

The ones who know you inside out.

The ones that can actually call you at 3 in the morning to tell you that they just met a guy who is perfect for you, ha! (Well, I prolly have done and will do that..he he, sorry guys).

The ones who believe that your tears are just another way to get to know you better.
The ones who you can say to, can you check to see if my boobs look great in this dress and they honestly tell you to go change.
The ones who DON'T just call you to bitch about the bad day they are having without giving a second thought that you could be having the same.
The ones who DON'T emotionally drain you with their problems, and then never wants to listen to yours.
The ones who knows how many people are in your family and if you should ever need them to fill out a paper, you know with confidence that they know your middle name, and date of birth, without having to go on Facebook.


I have been blessed with a few and trust me honey, that's all you will ever have time for in this lifetime.

A few great people that will be forever your best friends. Your Sex And The City pals, your Golden Girls.

So I take this moment to say I appreciate ya! And yes we will have a National Friendship Day where we all go out and paint the town red (and Kate no running home early. Yes we all know you are not use to being out this late, but it's National Friendship Day) lol!

Brunch it if we must, but that's gonna be the best day, when it's just not about the individual being (i.e. birthdays), but the whole bunch of  We's (long Island style), Ha ha... Cameca, Daphnee, Kim, Kate and Nedra (We all know who my bridesmaids are now, Fuck!).



I appreciate ya! And in the words of Kim, I appreciate y'all! Thank you for being there for me when my lemon needs THAT much sugar to make the lemonade perfect.

Thank you for being a friend
                                                   Traveled down the road and back again
                                                 Your heart is true your a pal and a confidant.


                                                            And if you threw a party
                                                    Invited everyone you ever knew
                                       You would see the biggest gift would be from me
                               And the card attached would say thank you for being a friend.

P.s. I was gonna do 'The List' in order, but when in the hell have I ever conformed to order.
Have a good night sleepy heads. I am gonna go watch Felicity!

As always,

Sleeplesss.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The List

Friends,  they are among me, everywhere. I am  there for them and, sometimes they disappear when I really need them. They tell me all their dirty lil secrets and sometimes I can't help but  to share some of my own. They always seems to be a phone call away. I can't help but wonder, after seeing the new Facebook homepage 'The List' that I put my friends in, whether I want to or not. Something about google plus  has got me thinking in terms of "Circles", pun intended. Anyways not to stray from the topic at hand,  I will now explore the options that my friends fit into. I have, the right time at the right place buddies, the shopping buddies, the work buddies, the drinking buddies, the acquaintances and  the very close friends.

I truly believe that these people are in my life to enrich it and to help me grow.

1) The Right time at the right place buddies: Do you ever have a person in your life that just happen to be at a place when you really need them? They somehow don't fit into my personal everyday life. I don't have their phone number. I ask them the same questions again and again. Questions like "where do you live again?" "how old are you again?" "what do you do again?", and so on and so forth. I literally know nothing about them other than the fact that they hang out at the same bar/restaurant/library/bookstore etc at the same exact time that I am there. Conversations are usually very friendly and the more I see them the more the subjects become personal. We talk for hours, but if it wasn't for the location I probably wouldn't have  known this person existed. My close friends don't know them and I feel kinda weird and really don't know how to introduce them if I see them elsewhere. Its okay. Everyone at some point have that person in their life and if for some reason you get embarrassed because you dont know how to introduce them to your actual friends, don't worry. The relationship is mutual, just remember, you are that person for someone else,  and just leave it at that.

....to be continued...

Sincerely,
Sleepless.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

September 26, 2011(sober karaoke)

Day 9th..

P.s. Why is the cab driver asking me "how much and pay?"  "huh" "how much and pay?" Gimme my change and let me tip you.This is not Chinatown and I am not trying to buy a fake Fendi!  This is also after he tried to convince me that I should take the Billyburg bridge instead of the Manhattan. Dude I happen to know where I live and I am reeeeally sober!. It takes me 6 mins to get to my house. Take the route I told you. So what you are having a slow night? (this is what he told me btw). I am not trying to contribute to your pay check more than I should. The Billyburg will cost me $15 AS opposed to the $10 cab fare I am use to paying via Manhattan, literally #ripoffcabman.


Other than that my day off was the bomb!

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Time is of the essence.

As I watched Bill Rancic trekking to Haiti to help kids and families in need, I asked myself, what is it that I am doing to change the world? What am I doing to change myself? Time to be brave, time for a change. I have the power to accomplish anything. My problems are nothing, my problems are miniscule, my problems are fixable. Open up and live. Life is definitely too short and ever changing. No time for depressions or self-loathing. Be self motivated and make wonders work. Start enjoying the things I can't change. What am I waiting for? WAKE UP AND LIVE!!!!! Tomorrow starts today!

Saturday, June 25, 2011

They say time heals everything, but I'm still waiting...

So hey I just wanna check in to make the few people that read these blogs know that I am still alive. I have just been waay toooo busy for any human being possible, but you know what, I am not complaining. It could be worst. I now manage to have myself two jobs that basically take up all my days and if that isn't enough I told my crazy self that its now the right time to start a business. So yes super busy. I sometimes, wonder how you guys are doing and what's good in your lives. The few I see these days, well, you know whats up and for the others then feel free to leave me a lil comment and what's been going on with you and also the things that are bugging you and your happy moments as well. I have to say one thing though my life has changed drastically over the last two months!. I think I have gained 5lbs, so I guess the living must be easy! Some say I needed those 5lbs, but please, dont let me get started on those few! lol. Hope the summer is going well and all is great! I must return now to the lil five hours of sleep I may get before I pull myself off to work!
Peace, love, joy and happiness!
Sleepless.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Alcohol is a hellava drug!!!

"How do you always end up in situations like these, damn I wish I could see that". That's what Daphnee told me after the eventful week I had. It was funny coz I was just thinking that to myself. Often I asked myself why I started this blog? Was it because I really can not sleep or is it for the random shit that I happen to run into daily?

I am extremely exhausted right now but if I don't write this I will forget it in a few days. As I write this I'm still not sure what heading I should put for it because I know as I get deeper into it, the topic will somehow pop into my head....

Can we please just go back to last week already?.

I am newly estranged from a boy, that I have been involved with, for two fucking years. I'm not bitter, just was ready to probably be over it. I hoped! So instead of going home to my bed, I went out drinking.

Note these are actual events that took place in a week of my life, if I wasn't there I would have never believed it.

Sunday May 8, 2011, I worked brunch which sucked. I went into the city to meet with a friend that I have been meaning to meet up with for like a month now. That was lovely! We had dinner, well she had dinner and I had a glass of chardonnay. This ended earlier than I thought so I headed back to Brooklyn.  Now you guys are probably wondering why am I not getting to the point. But I figure you have to go through the week just as I DID! DAMNIT!.
Monday I went home after work and slept, good thing though coz that's probably the last good sleep I got all that week.

Tuesday night I had decided to head home after work, you know to catch up with my TV shows, but then as I started to walk home I somehow convinced myself to stop at the Emerson. My convincing argument was that I got off work early (1am) and so I will have a night cap and head home, wrong wrong! As I neared the bar I saw one of my drinking buddy and I knew some Jameson shots were near. As they were and that night ended at 7 am, because somehow I was convinced that hanging out at my friends house, after the bar had closed on a Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, was the best idea yet. Wrong, wrong. Woke up at 3pm and had to go to work, which I was pretty sure I was still drunk for.

Wednesday; the night went well, the pace was great for my drunken hungover-ness. I should note to myself that if I say I am going home after work, it usually mean that I was somehow gonna be home at the crack of dawn, and that's exactly what happened. Tell me why I was at Rope, until 5am, just talking my lip off? Thanks Kevin, I was really gonna go home!..Now I should have known better!  Erica if you are reading this, please feel free to Kick me out of the bar at 4am...I will completely understand and my liver will be grateful!
Okay, so alright, I will now get to the good part. Oh I must tell you Wednesdays are usually my Fridays, and for the non-industry peeps, this means that I get the next two days off and so I will call them my weekends!

Thursday I went into the city with Kate to this Live HIP HOP show, which was amazing by the way. Had a blast! But before we got to that. I met up with Kate and before we rode the subway into the city we stopped at the liquor store to get some mini bottles, you know, for the ride. Note at this point there were talks of meeting up and having dinner before the show. SO tell me why we ended up at this bar on 3rd ave where the name and I swear, was called 5 Shots Of Anything For $10? Now I'm sure my fellow drinkers who live and work in the city probably know this spot. Kate and I on the other hand were excited, well a little too excited as we both decided to get the "deal". Partly coz I only drink Jameson and Kate didn't want anything to do with that, so she got her own jagermeister. Now, at this point somebody should have stopped us, well the bouncer kinda did, telling Kim that she couldn't sit in the fire hazard section (now this "section" was at the bar close to the front but by no means a fire hazard) He was just being a douche as all DOORMEN do! Yes I have issues with them because they think that they are standing at the pearly gates and they are God, who is the only one that can let people in. Yea right?!! I can do what a want and go where a please. Anyways we took the shots, me 5 Jameson and Kate and Kim shared the jagers. Oh  yeah I forgot to tell you that Kim met up with us! Then we proceeded to the show! This was an awesome show, at which by this time My French Friend who was in town on business, got caught up!. Now it seems like this night was never gonna end but it was still pretty early 9pm. I left the spot at around 11pm in search of food. I didn't find what I was looking for and so I had pringles and chips and a bottle of champagne and some beers. Now you would think that this would have been enough and the night should have ended, but, wrong, wrong! It was by now midnight and I had the best idea yet. We needed to do some pickle back shots.. Note some of the nights events will be omitted due to privacy. Needless to say we went to Whiskey Town and had us some pickle back shots and took some photo booth picture and at some point I LOST my friend and I went home to my bed. Thank god I am only a ten min cab ride from the city!

Now its Friday, and I slept in a little, until about 4 in the afternoon. I then texted Daphnee who's evening sounded like the evening I wanted to shared in, so I went to Queens. Now if you know how far Queens is from me you would have called it a night. But no, I wanted to hang out with Daph. We haven't seen each other in min and needed some girl time! Girl times are great, that's when we bust out the vino and talk about the guys we hate to love and the ones we can't stand, the ones we which were never born and the ones we wish would just drop dead and so on and so forth. Yes I did eat! We went to a great lil restaurant down the street. We ordered a bottle of wine and proceeded the night. This was one of those fun night that I think ended at 3am. I had big plans to stay in Queens, and in bed I was, until my friend called me to join him in the city! So I went all the way to the Gramercy Hotel! We opened a bottle of champagne and once again the night was blurry.

Saturday I definitely knew I woke up drunk and had to go to work. So you know your still drunk the morning after, when the cab driver told you you smell like "drink". He said, "you drink?" I told him yes I was last night. He said,  "it too much, too much, I can't take you". Seriously? Who gets kicked out of a car for smelling too much like alcohol in NYC? Everybody is drunk or has been drinking at SOME POINT, in a cab, in NYC! I am pretty sure he didn't want to take me to BK during rush hour. I was shocked but couldn't even put up a fight because then I had just enough time to jump in another cab and hightailed it to Brooklyn to get to work. Drunk and pumped I got to work late( only 11mins). Only to find out that I will be pulling a 12 hour shift of which my manager forgot to tell me! Fuck my life. I am gonna be drunk, then hungover, and won't be going to sleep until 5am. Boy was I WRONG! After work I got a text from my friend saying that there is a party in his room. Now any normal human being would say no, but I am not normal nor do I want to proclaim to be and so I took a cab, in the rain, and probably got there around 5:30 am!. Now this is where the plot thickens and the highlight of my weekend began.

Now Sunday morning, at 5:30am, when all the rest of the world is asleep, I happen to walk into my friends room on a threesome that was just about in progress. Now once again, any normal person would leave, but I am not NORMAL and I have now become a blogger and I needed material for my blog (this is not an excuse lol), so I stayed. I opened a bottle of Johnny Black, sat on the couch pull out my pack of smokes and enjoyed the show. Now, these are some of the most loving people I have ever met and they were very accommodating to me, but this was like watching a car crashing and you just can't look away because you wanted to see if there were any survivors to call 911 I guess. I was tired so it felt like I was in an alternate universe. I don't watch porn period. Not my style. I am sort of an instant gratification kinda gal. But the things that I saw that night was very surreal to me and it just made me think that you really don't know a person until you see what they do in the bedroom. AND YES I REALLY DO NEED A REALITY SHOW for the things I happened upon and in writing they get lost in translation. No I didn't participate, not my style either, well actually I did because I was in the room watching and drinking and listening to the music. I am not sure of what it is that I can actually blog about, because I don't want them to shut my blog down for being too explicit, but I have to tell you I always happen to be in the right places at the right times. Now bare in mind I am a pastor' s daughter and I try to live my life as free as possible while still holding on to my values. I, however, like to go out on a limb every once in a while to see how far I can go before it breaks. I will not go into details for the privacy of the people involved,  but I have to tell you I was in shocked the whole day Sunday and well into Monday! Now I am not one to judge, and to each their own,  and I am sure I am gonna take away some beautiful friendships from this experience. At first I felt a little dirty just for being there and watching, but after I spoke to a few friends about it, I felt better. This is apparently a fantasy for a bunch of people I know! Everyone, at some point, would love to walk into a room and have front row seat to a threesome. Some would even be glad to participate. I remembered all I could think about was how grateful I am to be blogging at this juncture in my life, and thank you guys for bringing on the new material! I, at some point, fell asleep and was awoken the next few hours by more sex and dancing. So I did the next best thing and ordered some breakfast and champagne for mimosas. Too bad they forgot the o.j. and so we had eggs, sausages, toasts, and bacon, with champagne in martini glasses. Fancy huh?. My gay friend, the other non-participant for obvious reasons, who is as delightful as he is beautiful, claims that he Loves sausages, to which I responded, no pun, right? And to top off the Alice in wonderland night I had, I was downstairs sitting on the curb and smoking a cig, in front of the hotel I had obviously just witnessed the most jaw-dropping, open mouth threesome, (told you 2011 was gonna be a great year ha ha), I happened to look up and SUE SYLVESTER was walking into the same hotel!. Come on I am never star struck but it was Jane Lynch! She waved and continued into the hotel. HMMMM I wonder if she is gonna stay in my friend's room,  after all it was a penthouse suite and he was checking out that same day!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Stranger things have happened....for your relaxation

Using only song titles from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to other music-loving people. Try not to repeat a song title. Go!

Artist: "Amy Winehouse"

Are you male or female: "cupid"

Describe yourself: "addicted"

How do you feel about yourself: "you know I'm no good"

Describe where you currently live: "rehab"

If you could be anywhere right now, where would it be: "close to the front"

Your best friend is: "procrastination"

Your favorite color is: "back to black"

What's the weather like: "Some unholy war"

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called? "alcoholic logic"

What is life to you: "its my party"

What is the best advice you have to give? "take the box"

If you could change your name, what would it be: "valerie"

What do you most fear: "round midnight"


As Always,
Sleepless