Akilah Hughes

People in American society are constantly telling others to “try something new” and to “be spontaneous.” I used to think I was a pretty square person, having my rituals and routines that I never easily gave up. After I tried the “loosey-goosey” lifestyle, I am pleased to report that, no, you’re wrong, and I should never try anything new again.

Okay, maybe that is an overreaction. But only maybe. Enter: Crest Cinnamon Mint Toothpaste:

What started as an attempt to be more spontaneous on a trip to Kroger turned into a fiasco that I can’t un-live. I honestly believe that I will have PTSD that will only be remedied by years of therapy to undo what Crest has done.

I usually buy the Scope blue toothpaste by Crest. It gets the job done, it’s not gross, I like it. This time I ventured out and decided that Cinnamon toothpaste would be a fun new thing to try. Fun. New. Spontaneous.

I tried the new toothpaste before bed that night, and it tasted really good. It was totally different and tasted like chewing Big Red gum almost. I was proud of myself for taking the leap of faith!

The next day (yesterday), I woke up with a really weird feeling in my mouth. Everything felt raw. Everything was painful. My tastebuds were busted. My mouth was super sensitive to everything. I tried to drink a glass of water and it felt like molten hot magma. I wanted to die. It didn’t help that I was at a ball game with free food all night and oh hey, my mouth can’t even handle ice cubes.

As mad as I could be at Crest, the lesson here is to not succumb to societal pressures to be interesting. I like being boring. I like my boring regular toothpaste that doesn’t cause redness, tears, inflammation, and mental/emotional damage. I just want to eat snacks without it feeling like I’m being stabbed in the mouth. Go with what you know! You know better than others what is best for you—you just have to trust yourself!

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Today I decided that I was good at gardening and general “housekeeping.”

I bought a water hose and a shooter attachment thing (technical name) and sprayed all the gross and/or dead bugs off my house’s grey siding. Then, I decided to spray bug spray along the outside of my house so that they couldn’t enact their revenge plots.

Then I sprayed my car off. 

Then I hung a single flower pot thing.

I subsequently did a load of laundry.

Then I decided I was lazy again and decided not to move the water hose back in the garage.

So, if you’re looking for an awesome wife, keep looking.

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Video: Cute [Noun] Tuesday— Cute Boy Band Haircuts. 

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So I entered this Cincinnati Innovates contest and I have a chance to win $25,000 to start my own business. I’m losing to about 11 people right now. 

I have quite a few followers on Tumblr. Did you know that (1) you can vote once a week and (2) that if you all voted, I’d certainly be in first place?

Do you know how amazing it would be to beat all of these middle-aged people because tumblr spread my idea like wildfire to help me out?

Did you know I’m giving away a $100 Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf gift card at the end of the month (on my own accord, I just figured you all deserved something for helping) to someone who votes for me?

If you could reblog this, and help me kick some ass in this contest, I would love you forever. 

Please help mi amiga Akilah win!!!

(The things I do for pretty girls… smh lol)

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My Aunt Gloria, my mother, and I went to a little brunch place called “The Breakfast Club” in Lebanon, OH this past Sunday. If you’re ever in the area, I suggest you check it out. It was incredible.

There aren’t other words.

enchanted-dystopia:

Enter to win a $100 CBTL (Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf) gift card!!

I am giving away a $100 CBTL gift card at the beginning of June! You have until June 1st to enter! That is when I’ll do the random.org drawing!

Here are the ways to enter:
1. Go to http://cincinnatiinnovates.crowdspark.com/entries/51 and vote for our innovative idea! You have to login with facebook so we can track it!
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Good luck! You can enter up to 4 times! Thanks for subscribing! The contest runs through June 1st!

one more time for good measure…

Enter to win a $100 CBTL (Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf) gift card!!

I am giving away a $100 CBTL gift card at the beginning of June! You have until June 1st to enter! That is when I’ll do the random.org drawing!

Here are the ways to enter:
1. Go to http://cincinnatiinnovates.crowdspark.com/entries/51 and vote for our innovative idea! You have to login with facebook so we can track it!
2. Subscribe! Go to http://www.youtube.com/smoothiefreak to subscribe!
3. Click to tweet: http://clicktotweet.com/74bnU
4. Like me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/smoothiefreak

Good luck! You can enter up to 4 times! Thanks for subscribing! The contest runs through June 1st!

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Stephanie and I covered some news stories, because it’s important to us that you know things. Please know things. Please.

Unless you live under a rock don’t follow me on Twitter and my other Tumblr accounts, I’ve announced that I’m going to be doing daily videos Sunday-Thursday during the month of May!

The most obvious reason I wanted to do this was that more content = more viewers = hopefully more subscribers = more ideas for content.

But more importantly, I’m doing this as a challenge to myself. I want to finish one of these month long meme type challenges darn it! 

Anywho, wish me luck, and don’t forget to comment and subscribe!

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First video of my DAILY VIDEOS SUN-THU IN MAY! It’s cute [noun] tuesday!

Today’s cute noun is “animals.” 

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I did another ukulele cover! This is “Anna Sun” by Walk the Moon!

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Dear Kroger,

Stop. Please just stop. Wait…Apologize, then stop.

Let me explain: back when I was afraid of seafoods of all varieties, I was told by a Kroger employee and friend that you made sushi. I was warned that it wasn’t like “restaurant sushi” but it was still quite delicious, as you had some dude on retainer rolling it daily.

While I have always refrained from eating anything that swims, in an attempt to be more adventurous, I gave your fare a shot.

What I experienced was delicious. Sure, I wasn’t at a swanky sushi bar named something exotic like “Dancing Salmon Face” or “Dolphin,” but that didn’t matter because the little box of sushi was satisfying enough—tasty even.

In fact, when you started making your fancy “Marketplace Kroger” locations, I was elated to find that you had an entire kiosk of sushis, and a lady who looked like she knew the “sushi-ropes” rolling seaweed with a smile.

All of that changed today.

I needed sushi desperately. It had been a while, I didn’t have any legitimate plans lined up, and sushi is something you can eat a bit of without having to wait a day for the food baby to subside.

I went to my local, regular, non-Marketplacey Kroger and couldn’t find the sushi that had always been there. I walked passed the animal carcass section repeatedly when finally an associate asked me if I needed help finding anything. He pointed me to the deli, as, “That’s where the sushi we sell now is.” This is what I found:

The nice lady that rolls the sushi at the Marketplace-place didn’t look like her name was Okami.

Something was fishy (pun intended). The sushi (if it can even be called that) in the deli section was smushed. In some big weird box. There were no discernible varieties. I know I am not well-versed in different fishes, but I’m pretty sure there’s no such thing as a “coleslaw roll,” which is exactly what this crap looked like:

And the shrimp, on the “white rice” (which I’ll get to in a minute) was some tortured, flattened, Gulf Coast Oil Spill-lookin patheticness:

And the white rice issue…

How do you screw up white rice?! How?! It’s literally 2 ingredients. If you hadn’t already guessed, I actually purchased and tried this disastrous excuse for food. The rice I ate was unlike any rice I’ve ever had before. Why was it still crunchy? Why was there so much of it? Did you think that if I ate ten lbs of rice before getting to the coleslaw that I wouldn’t notice it was mayonnaisey goo? What the hell Kroger? I thought we had something special.

Kroger, I know that times are rough, and maybe hiring a sushi chef is expensive. I get it. At the same time, my stomach doesn’t get it. My stomach is doing that squinting “shit ain’t sittin well” thing. It’s going to be a long night because you were too cheap, busy, inconsiderate—something—to spring for the good stuff. So please Kroger, realize that I’d rather starve to death than eat that crap again. Don’t even sell it. Take all of it that you have, and all that you have coming to the store in the next few days, and set it on fire. It’s literally worse than no food at all.

No love,