The 2011 BET Awards after-party...

There's no particular reason why I posted this picture.  Really...

Love or Lust?

Greetings!  I’ll start this off with a simple question: Have you ever had a Love Jones before?

Allow me to clarify my definition…

You meet a person and you two truly feeling each other. Things get so deep that you two actually “go there” . Then after you “go there”, you begin to believe that this person is “the one” for you.

Okay, let me put it to you this way…

Have you world ever been rocked before to the point you didn’t know how to act?

I will say that I have been in this situation at least twice in my adult life. Keep in mind that I was in my late twenties/early thirties when this did occur. Maybe back then I didn’t fully understand what true love was (and to be honest with you, I’m not sure I fully grasp it now). I always had the trouble of differentiating between true love and lust blindness & sensuality. I am a wiser now, but I have to admit that sometimes that line can be blurred at times.

So…

Have you ever mistaken lust for true love?

Peter Falk, 1927-2011

Rest in peace, Lieutenant...

Friday Stuff Memories

Friday Stuff! was a blog I did every Friday on the now-defunct social website Yahoo! 360°. A wanted to blog about things that would help my online friends unwind at the end of the work week. There were pretty good topics and for the most part everyone had a good time. Still, I wanted to do something even more different... interactive perhaps.

It was during on edition of Friday Stuff! that I decided to have a guest blogger in the Monni and the rest is history. The experiment was an unexpected hit and it seemed like folks were anticipating the guest blogger edition that my actual edition!

The photo above is a collage of the Friday Stuff! logos which includes the variations of my kisser, but also every single guest blogger, all in chronological order.

Please enjoy!

Home Cookin'

I had a home-cooked meal prepared for me by my lady-friend this evening.  It felt good to have someone else do the cooking for a change.  LOL!

I won't lie though; things are getting very serious that it has me frightened to a degree.  Then to add to the zaniness, ex-girlfriends and former lovers are coming out of the wood works, which to be honest is no surprise.  Of course there are those whose green eyes of envy are shining through.

Is she the one?  Right now she seems like it, but only time will tell.

Man robs bank for $1 to get health care in prison

Man robs bank for $1 to get health care in prison

Tuesday - 6/21/2011, 8:48am  ET

Richard James Verone says he hoped to receive medical care in prison for an undiagnosed growth and two ruptured disks. (Photo Courtesy of WCNC)

Alicia Lozano, wtop.com

GASTON, N.C -- A North Carolina man suffering from an undiagnosed growth on his chest and two ruptured disks walked into an RBC bank and handed a note to a teller demanding $1. He then sat by the door and waited for police to arrive.

Richard James Verone says he needs medical attention and hoped that by getting arrested, he would have access to health care in prison.

"I'm sort of a logical person and that was my logic, what I came up with," Verone told WCNC. "If it is called manipulation, then out of necessity because I need medical care, then I guess I am manipulating the courts to get medical care."