| Lo Fun Fact #1 |
| "Lolita Files" is my real name. It is not a pen name, as incredible as that may seem. There are plenty of Files family members and people who have known me for years capable of validating this. As for the "Lolita" part, my mother named me after the movie based on Nabokov's book, although she saw or read neither. To this day, she has no idea what a "Lolita" is. |
| Lo Fun Fact #2 |
| I love fried chicken and fabulous shoes. If you ever want to get on my good side, send Popeye's or Mr. Chicken (my favorite spot in Cleveland) and a pair of
Christian Louboutins. |
| Lo Fun Fact #3 |
| Never show up unannounced or without a Pepsi (preferably Pepsi Jazz Caramel Cream). Better yet, how about not show up at all? |
| Lo Fun Fact #4 |
| I hate the telephone. Don't get mad if I don't call you. I don't call anyone. Don't call me asking why I don't call. Just don't call, okay? |
| Lo Fun Fact #5 |
| I love the internet!!! I love communicating through the internet!!! You can e-mail me and odds are I'll e-mail you right back (if I'm not in the middle of a major project). Makes up for my hangup about the phone, doesn't it? See, I'm not so bad after all!!! |
| Lo Fun Fact #6 |
| I can't stand IMing. Please don't IM me. You will get the cold shoulder. I don't like giving people the cold shoulder, so please don't put me in that position. |
| Lo Fun Fact #7 |
I have four five six wonderful, slap-happy dogs, a bird (some kind of dove/pigeon mix), and a cat, all of whom I love to pieces. If you meet me and ask me about my dogs, bird, and cat, we'll be instant friends. If you meet me and ask me why the f*ck I have four five six dogs, a bird, and a cat, see the above fun fact for how I will respond. |
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| Behold, The Only Thing Greater Than Yourself!!! |
| Thursday, June 22, 2006 |
So the other night during her interview with Anderson Cooper...
[...] "I was kind of prepared to defend my other children. I was prepared to kind of give them extra love and attention because something was going to be different about this new one, so I was emotionally ready."
"Madd loves her. Well because when Zee came home she was already older. She was seven months old. So Madd is like having this tiny little pet that he can just hold and look at. He's great. Zee's a little jealous because she's just a little girl." Ummm...news flash, Ang---it's more than being "just a little girl." Baby Zee is culluh'd. She knows this drill. That feeling of sudden dread is genetically imprinted, whether she's aware of it or not.
I guess Baby Zee's finally getting that wake-up call. Sure, in the beginning she was cute and cuddly and fun.
 A great little pet.
 Perfect for bike rides and acting as a human backpack and what-not.
 Flesh of their flesh and all...well.
 You know how that goes. Aaaah, happier days!!!  And now, reality bites. Just look at her.
 Zee knows what time it is. Yup. The party's over.
It's going to be even more tragic when Baby Zee finally discovers her real role in the family: Jemima-in-training. They've been gradually grooming her, easing her into those curiously pickaninny-like scarves.
(Hey, who doesn't want fresh pancakes every morning, made by someone you groomed from the ground up? FYI, Zee...baking powder, a pinch of baking soda, and whip the eggs in a blender until they're light and airy before adding them to the batter. Fluffiest pancakes EVER. What? Y'all don't trip. Zee's walking now, which means she'll be standing on a stool flipping flapjacks at the stove in no time. Oh yeah...honey butter, Zee. Honey butter's real good on hot, fresh 'cakes.)
eitb24.com: Next will be adopted, Zahara jealous of Shiloh
Previously: The Lo Zone: Pass The Sizzurp. |
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Brad: "You know the rules, Zee!"
Angelina: "You heard your mast..er..father...Zee...BACK OF THE SUV!"
That's Okay Zee, you can come live with me. I speak Amharic fluently and have my own place in Addis Ababa.
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ROFL, Matt!!!
And yeah, you could hook Baby Zee up. You totally have that Ethiopian connection!!!
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wow lo. how prophetic is that? you know it's coming when baby zee begins to questions "how come your skin is different than mine?" and later "you're not my real mother?, where is my mother?". and once she sees the difference in love from ang's own real baby vs her, it could be damaging long term, because she'll see it everyday.
now, granted adoption is a good thing but when people tend to adopted children and later have kids of their own or previously before adoption, the love becomes divide. it's just the natural form of affection. to love your own more.
the one thing that may play into zee's hands is that her adoptive parents are very weathly and she may have access to their fortune down the road. having that access will pay dividend down the road of life.
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mmm, you know I got my own chil'ren to worry about. So how about sharing the whole recipe for those pancakes. They sound damn, good.
(Imangwex)
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Okay Lance I totally disagree. My husband is pale white and I ain't. LOL...ain't anyrate, the boy that we are planning on adopting is 3 and he is black. He is so precious. We found out recently that we are pregnant. Yippie (i think) for us. At anyrate, I am so in love with Deondre (i don't know why his mother named him that). I am always planning on him being my child...even though we are having one of our own. I even plan on adopting two more kids..once we buy a bigger house. My birth child is not going to be anymore special than the kids who picked us to let love them.
I also know from personal experience that just because you have your own doesnt mean you will love them more than your adopted kids. Hell my granny hates my mother but loves my uncle to death...and we still don't know where his pumpkin headed ass came from.
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lol...i guess so dawnya. congrats on your "new" little one, (the one you got at the bakery and the other one you have in the oven!)
my only concern is that with baby zee compared to you is that angelina and brad are both white like your hubby and cultural there's going to be a difference no matter how you look at it. if one of them were black then i could see "cultural, heritage" bond because of race. even if you take a black person from africa and a black person from the u.k. and a black person from the u.s.a., all strangers put them all together and you're going to get a "heritage" bond. that's very difficult to do with mixed races.
not to sound racist...or well, racial, because here on the lo-zone we do have white lo-zoners like matt, who has been in an interracial marriage, but no matter how you bond in one regards, you're always going to be considered different in another. unfortunately, that's life.
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Well, to be fair, I was in Ethiopia and know what it is to be the "outsider", believe me. But my ex's family took me in as one of their own and really loved me...probably more than she did. They're such good hearted people that I really bonded with them...and it helped that I spoke their language. Even now, after the marriage is gone, I still talk with the family and I know that next time I'm in Addis Ababa (probably next February at the peak of their summer) I will go visit with them. They would be incredibly insulted if I didn't. Strange world.
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I pray for that child.....Lawd, when her hair stops being soft, please, please, please help them find a good black woman to do that child's hair.
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yeah, matt. strange world indeed. doesn't it feel akward when your in-laws show you much love that ex-wifey? i'm in such a boat now, but there's a common bond via my daughter. so all is well, unless there's some backstabbin' going on i'm took igg'nant to see.
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I had to stop scrolling and laughing for a minute and just write in to say wassup, sis. Why u so crazy?? Keep the good stuff coming?
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Brad: "You know the rules, Zee!"
Angelina: "You heard your mast..er..father...Zee...BACK OF THE SUV!"
That's Okay Zee, you can come live with me. I speak Amharic fluently and have my own place in Addis Ababa.