"Red" Kool-Aid & Other Randomness

Okay, this is a totally crazy post and further proof that sometimes, I'll write even when I don't really have anything to talk about. After a slew of controversial subjects, I like to lighten things up a bit. (One more reason why I'll never make the top ten bloggers list...I'm all over the map!)

Well, I'm just sitting here on the computer with the window open, catching a cool breeze, and sipping on "Red" Kool-Aid... laid back, with my mind on why I don't have much money and much money on my mind-lol.

Since I'm sipping on "Red" Kool-Aid and was previously listening to The Roots new CD, "Rising Down", I started thinking about a time when I was much younger and when my mother would make us a big pitcher of "Red" Kool-Aid (it was really Cherry or Fruit Punch but, you know, being black, we simply called it "Red").

My mother always did something magical with the Kool-Aid. She would add a can of pineapple juice to it and then some ginger ale. I kid you not... and, it was a great treat to have after you had been outside playing all day and part of the night. There was no Kool-Aid like hers... any of my friends who happened to be over my house and was fortunate enough to have her special brand of Kool-Aid can attest to that. There was nothing like it. She continued to make it up until last year, when she got sick.

For some reason, I could never make it the way she did, even though I knew the ingredients. I would have a tall glass by my side when I was typing on my old IBM Selectric II typewriter (Remember those? And, if you can't, I don't want to know about it!) and listening to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Rick James... and P-Funk.

Some things never change... others unfortunately do. Today, I might be grooving to The Roots, Usher, Tank, Jaheim, and Chrisette Michelle. The difference is, now they are not coming from a record player or a boom box cassette... they're coming from a CD player or they are playing right from the computer. The computer has now replaced my old typewriter. But, that "Red" Kool-Aid is right by my side, just as it was was back then. That much hasn't changed.

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I am blog surfing tonight... making comments on other blogs... reading my comments on my last two posts... and desperately looking for a topic to blog about or should I say "rage" about. We all blogged about the "Obama-Osama" cartoon on the cover of the New Yorker ad nauseum.

I wanted desperately to just chill this evening... I didn't want to write about anything too heavy and I sure haven't! I thought I had a writer's block, started to panic, and there it was... sitting right in front of me... my topic for this post... "Red" freakin' Kool-Aid.

Bloggers, don't try this at home... you'll destroy your credibility (like I just did).