By now, you guys know the drill. I'm gonna try and post a Baker's Dozen every Monday I am on vacation. Which means I'll be doing it for the next THREE WEEKS!!!! Take THAT, Yolie! Wooo Hooo!!! LOL

Here we go...

1. "Happy Birthday!!!"--Me to my friend Karen on Friday when she arrived at my house in anticipation of us having dinner at a Thai restaurant in Harlem.

2. "He CAN'T SING!!!"--Karen to me when I kiddingly told her that I arranged for the older man singing to serenade her with MISTY (inside the restaurant where we ended up in lieu of the Thai place). No, I really didn't get him to sing it. And yeah, she wasn't pleased with his rendition. LOL

3. "Stupid dog..."--Me to Oreo, the mutt I'm 'dog-sitting' while my friend is away on vacation in Aruba. Turns out Oreo, who is FIVE, decided to "not be housebroken" before I go to him Saturday morning. Grrrr...

4. "Hey cowboy, what are you hunting?"--Alleged comments made by Mrs. Kob.e Br.yant to Kar.l Malo.ne at a recent Los Angeles Lakers game.

5. "I'm hunting for little Mexican girls."--Malone's response to the question, referring to Bryant's wife and thus sparking yet another fued involving Kobe and a teammate. This is better than Passions. LOL

6. "Hello, Mrs. Diaz..."--Danny Ocean (George Clooney), on the phone with his wife Tess (Julia Roberts) in the movie O.cean's Twel.ve. (Aside: If you thought Eleven was great, Twelve is just good. Which is not bad. At all.)

7. "I've come to be all I can be...because I've been what I've been and it hasn't paid too well."--Anton (character played by Dam.on Wa.yans) at the Army recruitment center in a skit from In Living Color. Yes, I'm still watching the second season on DVD. LOL)

8. "Bowling?!?!? You brought me bowling on my birthday?!?!?"--Karen to me on Sunday night after I told her that we went all the way to Westbury, Long Island to bowl. (Again, she wasn't pleased.)

9. "Oh My GOD!!!"--Karen, after realizing that bowling wasn't the agenda after all as we entered the Westbury Music Fair to see BoyzIIMen.

10. "I'd smoke weed, too, if I had you for a mother!"--Rex Van De Kamp to his wife Bree, on Desperate Housewives, after proclaiming that he's no longer scared of her and that it was OK for his son to smoke a little "doobie", saying it probably was because of Bree's overbearing personality. (Whew, that was a lot to type...LOL)

11. "Shit, murder ain't no thing, but this here is some assassination shit."--Slim Charles to Stringer Bell on The Wire, after Bell asks that he wipe out a state senator who played String for a quarter million dollars. (For those who love this show and didn't see it last night, please check it On Demand. You don't want to miss this episode...or next week's--the season finale.)

12. "Woof!"--Oreo, the dog in need of Depends. Lawd, it's gonna be a long week with this mutt. Sigh.

13. At the Boyz II Men show. Did you know that they've been around for FIFTEEN YEARS?!?!? I will now grab my cane. And that they're a trio now? No more Mike McCary. They still sounded good.