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Damn! Even watching Chris Rock talk about marriage reminds me of my hubby-to-be and home. It’s maddening! howls I WANNA GO HOME!!!!

Speaking of which, Chris Rock is funny as hell. Here’s his parting shot from the show I watched tonite:

“Marriage is tough. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in a South African prison, beaten and tortured everyday for 27 years; made to do hard labour in 100 degree South African sun in prison for 27 years. After 27 years of torture, he went home and spent 6 months with his wife and was all ‘I can’t take this shit! I’m outta here!’ … “

Course, that is not a quote and it certainly isn’t ad-lib – but it was SO funny, I had to put it down here. I mean, the REAL story behind the breakup of that marriage is beyond all of us, but just putting it like that makes it pretty funny indeed.

I’ve been thinking about marriage vows a lot lately. In a way I have never thought of them before – not even when I tried it once before as a rose-colored glass-wearing girl to a nice man who just wasn’t my match. The standard vows are as follows:

“To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish ’till death do us part.”

I think I might add “to respect” in there somewhere…..muses …cherish – by definition is to “protect and care for (someone) lovingly” … but where in that does it mention respect? Mutual respect is a key ingredient to a life-long partnership, isn’t it? I certainly want the respect of my hubby … as I am sure he wants mine. Any reason why I can’t alter the vows to include respect? Anybody?

I hear unu mumbling – no “obey” -not a raaas! Is only if he promises to “obey” me, will I promise to “obey” him. And how would that work? Both of us “obeying” the other …. that would be some kinda confusion, wouldn’t it?  And on that note, what about honour? I think that sadly short-sighted phrase is “honour and obey”, isn’t it? How about “respect and honour” instead? How does that sound? (or “honour and respect” for that matter).

muses some more

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It’s truly a Saturday night in Kingston. I hear the bass line from at least 2 “sessions” pounding away out there, not to mention the speed-hungry young fellers racing their cars on the somewhat emptied streets. It’s like midnight, and the street outside sounds like it’s more along the lines of 7pm. Bwoy! We love to party, don’t? I think I’m going to need to reach for the ear plugs tonite.  I had wanted to pop a melatonin considering I haven’t been sleeping well at all these last coupla nights … and you know what? It’s not like I have to be awake too early tomorrow, I’m going to pop one anyway.  Hopefully, it’ll help me get some rest – this headache has been lingering for far too long now (something like 3 days), I need some sleep.

Anywho … final note before I hit the hay is … friend of mine IM’d me with a “yow Cams. which camera is better?” followed by a compare link from off best buy. I looked and found the comparison between a Canon S5 IS (is dere dem reach areddi? tuh rahtid!)  and a Nikon P80 … and found that if I can find me some extra cash somewheres, I think it’s time to switch to Nikon. Cos THIS baby is SUHWEEEEET!!!!! 18x optical and 10x digital zoom …. wewt! I’m gonna keep my eye on this one, folks. It looks to be pretty nice!

(YOW DJ! Yuh si dat link bredren? Oi! Look nuh? Chuh!)

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