Top 7 Things I Wish We Could Leave in 2009

I don't know about you, but here are 7 things I'd like to say "dos dedos" to. It's over... Can we just let them rest in peace please?

7. Shaved Heads
You've heard me rant about this before. Too many celebrities trying to rock a look that just was never cute. No girl looks good with half their head shaved...either shave the whole thing off or keep it. But please, not this mess:

Let's leave it in 2009.

6. Facebook Updates
Dang facebook! Can you stop upgrading every 10 minutes?! News Feeds, Status Updates, I Like.... In 2009, this social media site underwent a complete face lift. Not all were fans of the changes and hundreds of Facebook groups emerged expressing their frustration with the changes. With its new look, Facebook has taken on a new personality as well. Be careful what you say there because nowadays everybody from your mother to your boss to you stalker ex-boyfriend can find your photo comments and status updates.

5. Black Celebrity Scandal
Chris "BeatHerDown" Brown. Michael Jackson's death, the charges of manslaughter brought against his doctor, the question of paternity of his children, and his whole screwed up family(why do the Jackson 4 now have a reality show?). Kanye "Yo Taylor, Imma Let You Finish..." West. Tiger Woods, how many whores did you cheat on your wife with?!

Basically, black celebrities need to get their mess together and hold it down in 2010. Hmm..funny they're all men...

4. Teen Vampires

Yuck. I'm so sick of pale white dudes being considered sexy. Edward seems like such a creep and Bella is such a whack female lead. She's boring, dull, average-looking, uninspiring, and quite frankly, she doesn't deserve the vampire or the werewolf.

This whole franchise just needs to come to an end, because all this teen love is so played out.

3. Swine Flu

Please people enough with the swine flu epidemic. Public health officials have instilled enough fear in us about how the H1N1 was an "imminent" global epidemic and how we were all going to catch the swine flu and die without a vaccine. The media just added fuel to the fear-flame with their wildly inconsistent coverage of cases and the severity of the situation.

2. Leotards


Beyonce with her sequined leotard in the "Single Ladies" video seemed to wear that leotard all year long. This revealing trend exploded through the year and somehow, the the leotards seemed to get shorter. Celebrities began wearing them in their videos...and then all of a sudden on the streets! Madonna, Gaga, Ciara, Britney....

However, I knew the moment I saw a pudgy girl in the club with her own pleather version of a studded leotard, that this style had gone too far.

Everyone but ballet dancers need to put away these one pieces. Leotards are NOT pants. They are NOT even a bathing suit and you are NOT on the beach. Stop walking around like it's OK!

1. Job Losses

The U.S. economy really needs to pull it together this year. Enough Americans have lost their jobs, and with an unemployment rate of 10%, it's getting a little ridiculous. The economy has lost 7.2 million jobs since the start of 2008. Losses for 2009 alone came to 4.2 million jobs, the most in one year since the government started tracking payrolls in 1939!!

We need recovery ASAP!

Hello? Still Waiting for Economic Relief Over Here!!

During my internship today, I found out two of my favorite people there had been laid off. Today was their last day :(

They said because of budget cuts, people just had to be let go....so sad.


The work this Victim Services Agency does is so important to the community, which is why it is incredibly hard to hear that people within the organization are suffering.

It's just so upsetting that the economy is still in such a pitiful state. I don't even know how I'm supposed to get a job when I'm competing against people like these two wonderful women with years of experience. I guess it's just by the grace of God that I will find something. All I can do is thank God for the job I do have and and continue my search for another.

George Bush really screwed us all over.

Where are all the Jobs?!!!

The other day, a friend of mine told me about a guy who just got a job as a paralegal in D.C. How did he get this job? A fantastic resume? No. A daddy that's partner? Maybe at another firm, but no. He emailed an alumni who worked at the firm to ask if they would like to go for drinks after work. The alumni responded "I don't have time for drinks, right now I need a paralegal." Voila! Dude's got a job.

Sure this is an extreme example, but this is the new world of networking. And you got to work it or someone else will. There's no time for pride or timidness when sooo many college graduates are looking for work.

If you've got those connections, use em. Email em, Facebook em, call em, borderline harass em. Whatever it takes, because if you don't someone else sure will.

These are desperate times and the unemployed must resort to desperate measures....

SO where are all the jobs? They're around. You just have to hustle those connections, cause that's really how most people are getting jobs in this economy.

Currently Unemployed...So NOT Fabulous.

Here are my top 10 reasons why being unemployed is so unfabulous:

10. Your life goals get put on hold...indefinitely.

9. You start counting every dollar you spend and it's a little too depressing how much of that money is spent on food.

8. You start to feel as though your productivity value is significantly decreasing and your use as an American citizen is withering away..because let's be serious: it's hard to help others if you can't help yourself.

7. It's boring.

6. There's nothing fabulous about not being able to afford to go out on a Friday night.

5. After awhile you just want a different answer for the "How's the job search coming?" that people love to ask week after week after freakin week.

4. You start to question those four years of undergraduate pain and suffering.

3. Somehow feeling exhausted after a day of doing nothing just doesn't feel as worthwhile as being wiped after working somewhere you hate with people you can't stand.

2. You have to think twice about buying yourself that Cosmopolitan at the bar. And if you can't buy yourself a Cosmo, how's a guy supposed to buy you your second round? Sure he may buy you that first drink, but come on we're in a recession...men aren't look for freeloaders.

1. Your fashion suffers tremendously. It's kinda hard to stay up on the newest looks when you can't afford to pay for them. And unlike many Americans today, I cannot afford to put myself into debt so One-day sales pass me by...semi-annuals go unvisited...Clearances stay uncleared, and my closet remains unchanged.

Christian Louboutin Dillian Pumps
(so so fly...umm can I just charge em? lol. womp...I need a job)