Homegirl Quel (kel) in Austin

Girl, Did You See The Game Season 5 Premiere?

Here's the latest video blog from GirlDidYouSee. My best friend and react to the Season 5 Premiere Episode of The Game. We are huge fans of the show, but the show has changed in so many ways, and none of them are for the better.

Extra Video Clip! We share our thoughts on Brandy's Performance...

Did you see The Game? What did you think about it? 

See all our videos at http://www.girldidyousee.blogspot.com.
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Girl, Did You See Reed Between The Lines?!

Reblogged from http://GirlDidYouSee.blogspot.com

BET's newest original comedy, Reed Between The Lines debuted last night and we Skyped about it minutes after the second episode ended. We, like many of the folks in the audience, grew up on The Cosby Show and are huge fans of Girlfriends and Tracee Ellis Ross. We share our reaction to the premiere of this largely entertaining and good quality show. We are both hopeful that the show will only get better with time. Families should DVR the show (it came on kinda late) and watch it together. Great characters and a very special cast.

WINNING as a Stay At Home Mom Today.

My son's school was closed today, so he was home with me for a change. I had planned our day ahead, but had no idea how much extra stuff I would get done. I swear there is something  about actually having my child home, as a stay at home mom, that makes me super productive.

On a normal day, after I drop him off at school, I'm constantly moving from one to-do-list item to the next, but never really completely crossing anything off it. I'd start one thing, then check Facebook, then start another thing, then paint my nails while checking Facebook, then start something else, then eat, then it's time to go pick my son up from school. Today though, I got things done that weren't even on my list.

We woke up at the same time we normally do. I made breakfast and actually ate it at the table with my son. I showered and dressed for the gym and we were off. On the way out the door, I grabbed two scraps of yarn that I'm running out of and needed to match and buy more of to complete some projects I'm working on. We went to the craft store for the yarn first, then to the gym and finally the grocery store (where I got my son to sound out "asparagus" on the label when he couldn't recall what the vegetable was) before heading back home. We got home 45 minutes before my boy's nap time. He watched PBS while I made his lunch. Then we ate lunch together, read a book, and he was down for his nap on time. 

During my son's 3-hour nap, I managed to nap for about an hour myself, bake vegan, gluten-free quinoa muffins for my son (and drafted a blog post about it) and edit & post two vlogs for one of my other blogs, (http://www.girldidyousee.blogspot.com). While he ate his post-nap snack, I put a one-pot dinner dish on (veggie stew consisting of fresh okra, corn, red & green peppers, onions, celery, carrots & canned whole tomatoes all seasoned with a glorious beef neck bone). He's in the bath tub now and I'm writing this blog post. 

And my day isn't even over. I still plan to go back to the gym to log some miles on Nike+ tonight to ramp up my 5k training. 

Oh, and I cleaned the house here and there all day and the place looks right spiffy. 

Y'all if I come home after the gym, read something, and give my husband some (I will not be blogging about that), this day goes down in history as a certified, Homegirl SAHM WIN. 

 

Girl, did you see this new Vlog!

So. My best friend, EssBreezy, and I were on the phone one day talking about Julia Roberts' film, Eat Pray Love. I had seen it months ago and she FINALLY saw it and we had a blast sharing our reactions to the film. We both love Julia Roberts, so there was the gushing about that. We both love food (one of us-->EssBreezy<-- more than the other), so there was the gushing about the 'Eat' part of the film in Italy. We share similar, some would say feminist, views and so we went on about our issues with how Julia Roberts' character made some of the decisions she made. We rehashed this film just like we do most shows and films we watch, going from shallow to deep and laughing from the gut along the way. After we got off the phone, I was still laughing. My husband asked me what was so funny when the phone rang again. It was Summer. She was like, "That was fun! I really enjoy our rehash convo's. We should record them." And so Girl, Did You See...? was birthed. 

In our first video, we rehashed the Season 3 Finale of Basketball Wives. The ones that followed were a 3-Part video on our opposing reactions to the film, The Help. See? Shallow...Deep. All the videos mentioned here as well as the ones to come can be found at http://www.girldidyousee.blogspot.com.

Please check us out! And Follow us on Twitter @GirlDidYouSee so you won't miss what we see next time.  We would love to hear your thoughts about what we saw.  Tweet us and let us know you watched it too! 

Here is our first video...

Makeup Monday: Video Blog! Big Announcement and Otherness...

This is the first of a new round of video blog posts I'll be sharing with my readers and YouTube subscribers. I think it will be fun talking to you guys! This one is for Makeup Monday, but moving forward I'll be chatting with my homegirls (and guys) about books, films, fashion, beauty, crazy run-ins with strangers, anything--whenever the spirit moves me!

And y'all, please subscribe to my YouTube page. I have some cool things planned to share with my YouTube subscribers that won't always make it to HomeGirl. I do sing and play guitar daily and may or may not be planning to pay homage to some of my favorite singer-songwriter acoustic guitarists on film. Just sayin'.

Video Blog!

**Update 10.24**

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