10 Things I L O V E...

1. Chapstick/Lipgloss
2. CHOCOLATEEEE!!
3. A great book, preferably one in a series.
4. Daydreaming anywhere about any and everything. i love to be alone and just sit & think...
5. Tattoos!! The process is painful but the results are usually great, if well planned, and last a lifetime. There kinda a metaphor for good life lessons...
6. Learning about new cultures & people who are so different from em that they are the same.
7. TeeVEE!! I could care less that it ruining America...some shows are veryyy interesting(Anthony Bourdain!!) and not stupid at all(anything on NatGeo)!!
8. Fashion...i love the business side more than anything. i also like the feel of fabrics...i love to TOUCH...
9. My Little brother...he's the thing i LOVE the most...past this list
10. Crying...you learn so much from your tears

10 Things I Hate...

1. Chapped Lips
2. Wearing tights...i hate that part on the foot where they sew the peices...urks me!!
3. Math. All I need in this life of sin is to know how to do basic arithmetic and calculate sale percentages and taxes ;-)
4. The smell of spaghetti sauce when it gets mixed with dishwashing liquid!! OMG!! Hate it!!
5. People who dont liek chocolate
6.People who live inside the box and can't accept what goes on outside of their thoughts
7. Caramel & Cinnabuns!! eww...the smell alone makes me wanna barf =p
8. Fake people. That's uber-clicke to put but i do hate fake people. more like i hate people who aren't real with THEMSELVES.
9. Feeling depressed
10. YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

lmao

Uh, I had to do something else...

Ok, so voting registration deadlines are approaching and after a much hyped and media discussed presidential campaign i am expecting to see a tremendous decrease of non-voting Americans. About 8 million Blacks are not registered to vote. They make up part of the 55 million Americans not registered. Now we have all seen the "Obama for your Mama" t-shirts, have all seen aways with "Barack & Roll" in them, and have all witnessed heated debates between Dems and Reps. yet we still fail to lend ourselves to where it really counts. For all the hype that surrounds this race you would think that there'd be more voter registration, so much that they would run out of space. But no there isn't. It may be that the same people who scream "Obamaaaaaa" have yet to file their forms and that those who worship Mccain as the war veteran who's policies will change America that say when voting is over & they are dissatisfied that the reason they didnt vote is because they had something better to do or they couldnt get to a voting site in time or they didnt have time to fill out a voter registration form because the DMV is 50 miles from thier house. And I'm not one to say you MUST vote, but if you campaign for some hard bodyy then you should vote for that person if you can. so if you ever rocked an Obama shirt from Urban outfitters or a Mccain pin on your book bag your ass better be at those damn polls. sadly tho, as we've seen in past elections many Americans won't vote. So, we've go t2 days left...we shall wait & see what its gonna look like at them polls.....

Brooklyn Girls...

So I keep listening to my new fave song "Brooklyn Girls" by Charles Hamilton and the more I do the more offended I become!! why?? Mostly at the line "They aint nutin like them Brooklyn Girls"...I dont think BK girls are thattt poppin!! lol(no offence Feiker!!). I think the problem is that Manhattan girls, or Harlem chicks more specificcaly, are a lot lazier than girks from BK. -I am totally not mentioning girls from Queens or any of the other 2 boroughs because BK girls are better than them ;-]) I think it comes from us being from Manhattan, NEW YORK CITY!! Everywhere we are held as thee NYC, and therefore have gained some cocky-ness from it. Brooklyn girls have more to prove, i mean up until the new millennium they were famous for bad accents and bad neighborhoods. We Harlemnites have been basking in popularity for years now, and as well deserved as it is, us girls have lost some of our go-getter mentality. Thats why Brooklyn girls, as well as their borough(hello, Williamsburg is poppin) have gotten this far. So i wanna use this song as momentum for us Manhattan girls, from Wall Street to Inwood, to stand up. Put some effort back in your game...we cant let these other boroughs take our throne!!

lmfao...this was such a dumb blog!! Im a losaaa x5!!!

-xoxo Toriella

on a roll...

so last night i had a great convo with my new friend and past movie date ,Tarik(im not sure if i speleed name right. there are debates. LOL), and he asked where i saw myself in 5 years. as cliche as this damn question is it doesn't stop being asked of us 16-21 year olds as a way to make sure we have our head son right. well, i for one HATE this fucking question!!! i mean when someone asks this do they not understand that not all of us have ESP(psychic) powers?? And when people truly try to answer this do they not feel like an ass for pretending that they can see into the future. ok, so when Tarik asked this i laughed out loud because as used to hearing it as i was its never ceases to amaze me. to answer his question i said that im the type if person that sees how i can improve myself NOW, because what you do NOW obviously impacts where you will be 5 years from now. he liked that answer. that was cool. but many dont, some people think that if you dont plan ahead you wont get far. but i disagree. it is stupid, for lack of a better word, to live 5,10,15 years from now especially when you could be gone 5,10,15 minutes from now...i dont know, maybe its the free-spirit in me but i that i need to live in the present before i live in the future. and i know that my kind will probably be president or something of that nature for our lack of planning but so FUCKING WHAT!! thats not where i see myself in 5 years anywayss ;-)

Im Grown Now....

i haven't blogged in a while. it seemed that my blogging obsession was a fad like many things that i tend to do. i must have the shortest attention span, i seem to lose interest in things so easily. however, i know that the reason i start things and never seem to finish or quit when it starts to get hard is because i have a fear of losing. I'm trying to work on that. this summer was one that had a lot of growth. i wasn't ready for a lot of things prior to the summer, especially college. that's y i took a semester off. sounds cliche but, it truly was to "find" myself. and i think if my self was a 100-piece puzzle that I've found 68 pieces. why 68?? i have no idea,lol...it seems suitable.

OK, I'm rambling. and I'm scared to go back and read what i wrote because i KNOW that it has shit loads of grammatical errors...lmao!! bottom line, main idea, point blank...I've grown!! and I'm proud of myself...i got my shit together and although i may have taken the road less traveled (owww R. Frost =]) i wouldn't make a u-turn for shit!! my path is my own, and if it seems off the beaten paths then so be it...