Beaches and Birthdays

* Many blessings go out to all of the 9/11 victim's friends and families*

Hello my peoples. Hope you all had a good week.

Song of the Week: Slow Dance: Keri Hilson also check out Venus vs. Mars: Jay-Z

Now let's get down to the get down

• So I've been searching and searching and searching for my favorite drink....and I think I have a winner. I met my love at Applebees this past Thursday...where have you been!

A delicious recipe for Long Beach Ice Tea, with triple sec, rum, vodka, gin, cranberry juice, 7-Up ® soda and ice cubes.

1 oz triple sec
1/2 oz rum
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz gin
fill with cranberry juice
1 splash 7-Up ® soda
ice cubes

Garnish with fresh lime cuts.

This drink is most often served in a Collins Glass

• My sister turned that sweet 16 yesterday. It sure wasn't a super sweet 16 like on MTV, but we'll just say it was sweet. Dang...I remember those young adolescent years. LoL. Let me stop talking like I'm 40. I was 16 only 5 years ago. Let us take another stroll down memory lane and see what happened 5 years ago......

...2004...

• Enormous tsunami devastates Asia; 200,000 killed (Dec. 26)

• George W. Bush is reelected president, defeats John Kerry (Nov. 2).

• Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake created an enormous scandal when Timberlake ripped the bodice of Jackson's costume during the halftime show of February's Super Bowl XXXVIII, exposing her right breast, which was pierced and adorned with a brooch. Timberlake promptly apologized for the "wardrobe malfunction." The Federal Communications Commission fined CBS, which broadcast the Super Bowl, $550,000 for the incident.

• Ray Charles Dies

Movies

• The Aviator
• Collateral
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Friday Night Lights
• The Incredibles
• Kinsey
• Maria Full of Grace
• Million Dollar Baby
• Sideways
• Spider-Man 2

Music

• Usher : Yeah, Confessions,etc....
  
• Akon: Lonely
• T.I: Bring em Out
• Chingy: Right Thurr
• Lil Jon & The East Side Boys: Lovers and Friends
• Pretty Willie: 4 Walls
• Outkast: Roses
• Nina Sky : Move your Body