Shaba

Nice Things People Have Said About Me Lately

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:47:56 -0400

“You make me forget my right from left.”
“You’re the poetry queen of the open mic”
“Your voice is so calming. I love your delivery. You keep us waiting on your next word.”

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:57:09 -0400

Bruno and I are toasting Miss Erica happy birthday! Yay...

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:54:45 -0400

Bruno and I are toasting Miss Erica happy birthday! Yay @lovelyanomaly !

Life Lessons

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:41:18 -0400

If I was single, I’d spend all my mans-hunting time wandering around a home improvement store. I was in Lowe’s sans husband for twenty minutes today and I had 5 different men (employees and non-employees) at my beck and call.

I didn’t need to fetch my own cart.

I certainly didn’t push the damn thing.

I didn’t need to load my own car (I curl twenties [30DS reference anyone?] I think I can load a piece of plywood into my station wagon. But, if Magic Mike wants to do it for me who am I to stop him?)

"try never to be the smartest person in the room. and if you are, i suggest you invite smarter people..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:24:44 -0400

“try never to be the smartest person in the room. and if you are, i suggest you invite smarter people or find a different room. in professional circles it’s called networking. in organizations it’s called team building. and in life it’s called family, friends, and community.”

- michael dell, university of texas commencement address, 2003

(via partiallycommitted)

Modcloth

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:08:26 -0400

I love Modcloth because I think my body is built for vintage dresses, but their prices have gotten insane. $150 for cotton? No thank you.

Internet, where do you find your vintage inspired pieces?

Lately

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:59:59 -0400

Plants. All the plants. Everything is blooming and I’m so excited that we didn’t kill our plant babies.
Possible work related bad news that’s just wishy washy enough to make me crazy.
Weight training. Running. Trying to walk the balance beam between my feminist ideals of rawr, all ladies are beauty all the time, working on my fitness and hating how I look in piece and particulate. I think the best thing about working out is that it’s at least one hour a day I don’t despise what I see in the mirror. As long as I can see the muscles moving I’m ok. That’s not fishing, that’s just my life.
Taking a scary stab in the dark at a job that sounds cool. No response yet, but we’ll see.
Three poems accepted this week. Banner.

What’s new with you?

Ya'll Missed This. Sorry.

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:46:30 -0400

"Dogs are the best, especially when you’ve had a really bad day. You could make the biggest mistakes..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:44:57 -0400

“Dogs are the best, especially when you’ve had a really bad day. You could make the biggest mistakes all day long at work and the rest of the world could hate you but then you go home and your dog is there waiting like “OH THANK GOD MY HERO IS HOME I LOVE YOU SO MUCH WERE YOU OUT GETTING ALL THE AWARDS FOR BEING THE MOST PERFECT HUMAN BEING TO EVER HAVE EXISTED?””

- (via sfbirdie)

We don’t deserve them.

(via talix18)

I read this to Zach and he said, “That’s not what the Bruno would say. He’d say ‘I have to pee. Give me food.’”

gretchenalice: siminiblocker: Eleanor and Park hangin’ out. I...

Wed, 08 May 2013 22:07:07 -0400

gretchenalice:

siminiblocker:

Eleanor and Park hangin’ out.

I wanted to push myself to do something with a more thought out background. And since one my favorite things about E&P are all the details this seemed like a perfect opportunity.

Still not over it.

LOVED this book.

Poetry people are the best people

Thu, 02 May 2013 22:31:11 -0400

Tim Seibles introduced me at the reading tonight. He called me a tropical front and a rock star.

It was pretty cool.
He’s super amazing and talented and he was up there talking nice about me like it ain’t no thing.

My favorite thing about poetry is the community. When I email my favorite poets, they email me back. They teach workshops. They follow me on twitter. It’s so cool to me that they are so accessible and friendly.

And you know what? Hampton Roads is overflowing with talent. I am never not impressed at a reading. I am so lucky to have found my writer tribe.

So Many Wordy Things

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:17:18 -0400

Monday- open mic
Tuesday-final novel class
Wednesday-meeting with poet friend to work on a combination piece (so exciting!)
Thursday- Muse reading
Friday- memorizing my easiest poem so I can stop reading my performance stuff like a newbie.
Somewhere in there-write 4 more poems so I can *sorta* win 30 in 30, blog, send out my May submissions.

I’ve been doing a lot of work related writing this week too; it’s really cutting into my creative writing mojo. I wish I could download some sort of concentration software on my work computer, it would really help this “work ten minutes then surf the internet for 30” thing I’ve got going.

Photo

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:00:46 -0400

Last Night In Old Married People Land

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:49:42 -0400

Zach and I discussed more landscaping options over wings and beer.
We talked seriously, using the words “water feature” and “trellis,” and decided on planting some red currants next to the garage. I waxed poetic about making our own jam and our increased curb appeal. Then the band started and we left the bar because it was too loud.

Lidia's Italy in America

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:33:57 -0400

Literally the only cooking show I can stand any more.
Even though most of the stuff she makes I’d never eat. She’s just such a cute old broad.

I have a problem

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:45:00 -0400

I can’t let a Friday night transpire without doing laundry and drunk baking.

It’s becoming my thing.

"I just feel most like myself in gold lame. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:36:10 -0400

“I just feel most like myself in gold lame. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.”

- Rachel Zoe (via thedailycourtney)

Gold lame is a thing I loved when I was 8 and have since given up. Maybe if Rachel Zoe is on board I can get away with it before I’m 80.

super-serious: bigmouthsparesagain: Something I am very...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:30:18 -0400

super-serious:

bigmouthsparesagain:

Something I am very actively working on. It’s really really hard.

This is pretty much my job. Which should be why I have so much anxiety.

I live my life in fear of this every day.

I just finished watching Bully and now I want to scoop up all the children and take them somewhere...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:08:01 -0400

I just finished watching Bully and now I want to scoop up all the children and take them somewhere where everything is soft and nothing hurts. Somewhere like the I Dream of Jeanie lamp with lots of pillows and ice cream on demand. I want to protect them from themselves.

I’ve always thought that the opener looks like an excited...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:56:17 -0400

I’ve always thought that the opener looks like an excited man saying “hooray, wine!”