Fire!

30Mar08

I know it’s been a minute. No excuses, just the truth. It’s been awhile.

Went to go see Polly’s new place…finally. CNTM, Red, Baby Red and myself made the trek to Polly’s new home. It’s gorgeous and I am not just saying that because she is my friend. I say that because she has already put her unique inprint on the place and is making it her home rather than simply a house, or a “show piece”. I love it and I hope she is happy in it for long while.

A new friend of mine L-Boogie had her stagette last night. I met her via Miz Kiki, but she was too sick to attend, so CNTM and I went to enjoy a few martinis with L-Boogie before she jumps the broom. CNTM and I arrive and L-Boogie is a bit concerned because her best friend whom we’ll call The Dummy is not back yet. You may be wondering why someone’s best friend would leave their best friends stagette…right? Why a soon-to-be-bride would be worrying about someone else on her staggette. Well, The Dummy wanted to go off and flirt with some dude she works with, even though she is married. Yah, you read that right. It was all a bit tacky for my taste. However, I felt a bit bad for L-Boogie because she was worried that something would happen. I told her that anything that would happen was clearly planned by The Dummy. Seriously, The Dummy took this opportunity to get her freak on knowing her hubby wouldn’t be wondering about his wife because she is supposedly out with ‘the girls’. My friends better never try to use me to lie to their husbands because I will not be doing it. Uh uh. Do not put me in that situation. I don’t like cheating and I will not be endorsing/enabling it. That behavior is low, tacky and in poor taste. Anyhow, L-Boogie calls some 2 hours later from the dude’s phone asking where we are? The same place you left us you stupid bitch…waiting on your ass, so we can go to the club. So ridiculous. She comes in and there was a definite chill. The rest of the women were avoiding her it was if we feared that her skanky germs would infect us. LOL. I am not trying to talk about The Dummy out of turn because I really don’t know her like that, but her actions were a bit suspect. Ok, a whole lot suspect.

On to the title of the post. There was a small fire in my apartment building this afternoon. Everything is all good now, but when the alarm went off my heart started to race. I put on some pants and began to quickly scan my apartment for what to take? I had seconds to decide. I threw some stuff into my purse specifically: a photo album, my cell phone, my agenda, my iPod, my digital camera, then I ran out the door and down the stairs. As I sat outside in the cold I thought about everything I owned going up in flames. What would I really miss? What wouldn’t I miss? I am happy to say that all of it was replaceable. Even the stuff I had decided to take my so-called ‘valuables’ were all replaceable, except for the photo album. I remembered to take it because in junior high school my friend’s house burned to the ground. They lost everything and the thing she said she missed the most were her baby pictures. Out of everything. Question for the readership, if I still have any readers is ‘If your house was engulfed in flames what would you take?’

Thankfully not homeless,
Miz JJ

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