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Bored? Bring Ratchet to Work Today

December 23, 2013 By ARMOURELLE

Mondays should be ‘Bring Your Ratchet to Work’ Day.’ In place of your boring and meager pasta leftovers, how about you take a nice, full portion of ratchet? It’s a lot tastier, and way better than the boring alfredo you’d planned to bring. Here are four ways to bridge your off-hours ratchet with your corporate persona. It’s totes easy, I promise.

Let the Music Move You
The easiest and most non-threatening way to carry your inner ratchet with you to your desk at work is to let music be the Captain Save-a-Ho of your banal work existence. An investment in a pair of Beats by Dre headphones, or any other 80s style over-sized headphones (I like these Hello Kitty ones) will suffice. This allows you to keep a folder equipped with the greatest hits from the Ratchet Royal Trinity: Pastor 2Chainz, Reverend Pimp C and Deacon Juicy J. And when Jim asks why you weren’t signed in to the interoffice IM client all morning, you can respond with, “I been gettin’ money, where the fuck YOU been?” Pastor Chainz has all the answers.

Turn your Cubicle into a Vision Board
Change your screensaver or desktop background to a collage of baddies with waist-length Remy, bodycon dresses and hand tattoos. These images are easily sourced from Tumblr blogs with titles like DiamondCrustedMafiaaaaMamiiiis and BadBitchLushLuxury. You could even go all the way and print the photos out using the good Canon color printer at the end of the hallway. If you’re a straight male, you can take the time to carefully decorate your cubicle with additional photos of gold-plated weed leaf chains and red, black and green bandana print.

Remind Co-Workers with every Email who You Really Are
Update your Outlook signature to Old English font and you’ll need to change your name to something easily recognizable like “Bob ‘Pratek Ya Nek’ Smith.” And to add even more flair and personality underneath your name and title, add a photo of a cerulean ’73 Cutlass Supreme, or SLAB* of choice. This will remind your coworkers that you stay slabbed* up, and don’t shit else count. Let ’em know, mane, let ’em know.

Dance it out. 
If all else fails, and your co-workers prove to be too liberal, you can always try twerkin’ by the water cooler.

*What is a SLAB? 

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: Don't You Judge Me, Top Four

Wash Day for Natural Hair is a WHOLE DAY? Really?

November 27, 2013 By ARMOURELLE

 

Whether you’re newly natural or have been rocking your puffy halo for a while, wash day should be easy.  And it shouldn’t be a chore. We should feel relieved that we can flip our ‘fros and twirl our twist outs. Natural hair should be fun, fluffy and fancy free. So what’s the point if you’re taking just as much time as going to the beauty shop to do your hair when you’re natural?

If you don’t know, the phrase “wash day” is the day, not to be confused with a day of rest, that is reserved for grooming. For some women who are natural, wash day is a dance of complicated steps involving multiple products and oils and conditioning caps in an effort to achieve the perfect balance or curl to the hair.  To that I say, wash DAY? A whole day? Really? I don’t have time for that. Actually, I won’t even entertain pretending like I’m making time for that.

Read the rest on Madame Noire: http://madamenoire.com/327351/wash-day-struggle-washing-hair-takes-half-day-might-product-junkie/

Filed Under: Beauty + Hair, Madame Noire Tagged With: Beauty & Makeup

Holiday Season 2013: Becoming the Drunk Family Member at 30

November 26, 2013 By ARMOURELLE

Image by By Philip Serracino Inglott

Wine and whiskey on the carpet at Thanksgiving? No worries. I’ll be too drunk to care! Photo: Philip Serracino Inglott via Wikimedia

Oh, shoot. The holidays are pretty much here, and I have a new mission to add meaning to my role in the family. And, according to the Wall Street Journal, I’ve got about ten years before I reach my goal of being the drunk older sister/auntie at my family functions. But I think I can accomplish that goal this year.

This WSJ article notes that alcohol hits people harder in their 40s harder than it does us youngsters because aging decreases muscle mass, the water in the body and the enzyme that breaks down alcohol. I argue this happens sooner, as I’m totally feeling the effects the first few months into my 30s.

I used to be able to party on Campus Corner, go to bed at 3 a.m., then pop back up in enough time to adequately dress myself in black slacks and a blouse in order to be at work at 9:30. All I needed to perk back up was a large lemonade from Chick-Fil-A. No food, Ensure, or Pedialyte needed. Some days, I’d wake up, only to turn over and drink the rest of the Budweiser left in the can that managed to stay upright on my nightstand.

Those times, sadly and responsibly, are behind me now. Meaning, I’ve got to save my drunkenness for important times. Times when I’ll get maximum exposure. Times like holiday family gatherings. I should stop the pretending and accept my induction into the Drunken Auntie Club. I’ve already envisioned myself at Thanksgiving doing a tipsy jig to Al Green on the Old School R&B station on Pandora and insisting all of the kids “Come give me some shuga!” in my best Auntie voice as I slosh an amber-colored drink called ‘This is for Grown Folks’ on the floor.

Ah, how loved I’ll feel when my mother and sister glare at me through slits that used to be bright, approving eyes. The sense of accomplishment that will fill my heart when my younger brothers declare to their friends, “my big sister is embarrassing.” And, the giddy joyous giggles that will overtake me right after the whiskey does.  * Insert dreamy sigh *

I’m ready. Let me take notes from Mariah Carey and prepare my tipsy acceptance speech.

Filed Under: Drinks, Humor Tagged With: Just the Beginning, Stuff I Shouldn't be Encouraging

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