How I feel right now...

So as you all have been reading my mind, spirit, just everything have been going up an down for a while now...but yet I am constantly trying to hold on to that peace of mind that I had finally found...and I always come back to that place...

Yesterday I came back to that place...

Stuff was getting under my skin and I decided that I was givin it too much power over my life to let them get to me like tha, I had come to far for that......

that the ONLY being that close to me that matters that much to me is Jehovah GOD and never to forget that....

so here it is...me back and ready to move forward
because truly it is

That Golden Time of Day




And for you true MAZE fans...heres a little Happy Feelings for you

I think I think I might....

go back to school...

As you all know I already have my MPA (Public Administration May 06)

BUT

I either want to get a Masters in Counseling/Psychology OR a Master in Social Work...

with all that is going on in my life that deals with Mental health...I really think I want to learn about it...further more, I just want to get another degree...

I have constantly said that I wanted a JD or a PhD...my Daddy just asked me about a month ago when I was going back to school for my JD (he's always thought that I should be a lawyer)

maybe I'll get a PhD in Psychology with a focus on the Urban Community, specifically African-American community...

(I don't know what my thesis would say but it will deal with psychological issues that face the Urban Community or the fact that mental health has such misnomers in an Urban Environment i.e., black folks don't go to therapy...when in FACT a lot of us would be better off if we did...)

I really think that by the fall I will be enrolled somewhere...I don't know where, but somewhere...

I think I think I just might...

UPDATE:

Ok so its official, I have gone on-line and found two programs that I really like, one is at Catholic University in DC and the other is at University of Maryland, Baltimore...the program at UMB is a better one for me because it focuses on Social Action and Community Development...

Which is SO right up my alley with my job, what I do with Kiamsha and just what i want to do in general in life...I want to really be able to give my professional services to kids...and I totally want to understand mental health better...

I just think that this degree really FITS, especially with my MPA...

I am totally getting excited about this...

I can go into Administration with this...so many things...you know...in the school system, non-profit, urban development...plenty of things...

So I have requested information from UMB and am looking into requesting information from Catholic

is it jus me?

I don't know but here lately I just feel like a lot of people around me are just really negaitive...not for the most part but when it comes to love and relationships, they tend to be negative...

and I don't know why that is...but some times it feels like man, "am I the one that's crazy? do i have it jacked up? maybe they are right, there aren't any good men left out here..."

I mean is it really that 9 out of 10 times when you are dating a somenone he/she is dealing with someone else...maybe I am crazy...I don't know, but I just really don't want to believe that ALL men are dogs or that ALL men are crazy and abusive or that ALL men are liars...just like I don't believe that ALL women are tramps.....that ALL women are gold diggers...ALL women are liars...becuase I am NOT one of those women...

I just don't want to see it that way...
I mean I have made posts about the brothers before
and I think I want to stand behind that...you know...and the fact that all women aren't out here just wildin out...because me and majority of my girls aren't wildin out

I don't know what to think, or maybe I KNOW what i think but I am extra sensitive and moody and my face and hair is a MESS right now...so you know what Imma chulk it up to it being "that time of the month" and my emotions being on EDGE with everything that is going on in my life...and keep it moving...

if this post made absolutely NO sense to you...i can dig it

its a different world...

Man I told ya'll that once it started to get hot outside folks was going to be acting up...

well they were out this morning in full force on the METRO

so you see that picture right there?

OK well there is a reason for that picture...just keep Mr. Dwayne "Chippy" Wayne in your mind OK....OK

So I am at New Carrolton walking to the train, on the walk way...so the walk way (to give you a visual) is between the bus stop stations and a little hill....so sometimes people sit on the hill or smoke on the hill/grass area as to NOT affect those who are waiting for the bus at the bus stop or those walking to the train...

Well today...I look over and this BAMA is sitting in a portable folding chair ON the hill...chilling with some Dwayne Wayne glasses/shades on...with the shades part flipped up, as in the above picture...I mean COOLiN like a FAN folks!

All I could do was laugh...because this man was DEAD serious...he had found his "post up" spot and was doing it...I truly wonder what that hot bama was thinking sitting there like that, was he looking for girls-guys...WTH was the point???!!!

In other unrelated Metro news the train opporator went PAST the platform at Landover this morning...HIL-LAR-I-OUS! You should have seen the people looking all confused, can he back up? will all the doors open? what made him do that? He was able to open the doors, but not on the first car (my car) so that people could get on...the looks on the people's faces PRICELESS!

listenin to self...

listening to yourself, especially when yourself is telling you to listen to Momma...but on your own terms...

ALWAYS works out for you in the end...

so things are coming back to normal in the land of "T & R"...
stuff is still up in the air in both of our family lives, but we are communicating...

I still feel the need to give him his space...and honestly I need mines...I need time and space to wrap my mind around all that is going on, on both sides of the river...

its like the flood gates decided to open up all at one time...

but like I have said, like others have said...just having faith can do wonders for you!!!
when you have faith in your heart, you can share that with others and it helps them have faith as well...

and I have faith ya'll

I might not understand everything that is going on, or what Jehovah God's purpose is...but i am not going to question it..because in the end

...it will all work out perfectly as HE sees fit...

Stay up people...

space...

how do you give someone that you care about space
especially when the space has nothing to do with YOU or the US
but more to do with things that are going on in their life

you feel like your heart is breaking for them and with them
you know that if you could you would take away all the hurt and the pain
all you want to do is be there for them
that shoulder to lean on
that sun in the cloud
that joy amongst the pain

all you want to do is wrap your arms around them and let them know that everything will be ok
but you can't...

and what makes it worse is when you BOTH are going through

you with your family
him with his...

all in ONE weekend...
the bottom decided to drop out from under us...
so you need him too...

what do you do????

you let go, you give the space
and most of all you pray...

i know my faith has grown because I feel myself breaking but at the same time I am not breaking...

i know that there is a bigger purpose and through Jehovah GOD

my father's health will come under control and my family (brothers, mother and I) will learn how to deal
HIS nephews and brother will get past what SHE did to them and make it...

I see the Sunshine through the rain...I see it...
its in the distance but I see it...

Love life people
Love those in your life
Never take your mental OR physical health for granted...its a precious thing...

& we're back....rAndomneSS

• Man like BIG sis Blu said..."love is a resilient thing"meaning that when you really care about someone you are willing to look past their faults and forgive and move forward...
• how about I am so totally blessed to have all of my sisters in life, and that TOTALLY includes my BLOG sistahs...you ladies are the BEST
• I am still amazed that you didn't cut me off and out yesterday, I mean I knew you wouldn't like break it off or anything, but the fact that YOU kept calling me, like we always do...meant a lot
• how about you texting me with your work # yesterday made my day...I was SO glad I could talk to you yesterday...it really helped me get through all that mess...AND then you called AS SOON AS YOU GOT home...man sistahs...got love 'em
• & thank you for the text message last night to check on me lil sis...even though you didn't comment you wanted to make sure I was aiight...love you too!
• and YES you are too funny...you call me every morning but TODAY you were on a roll...your man had on some Dexter shoes and super XS sweatpants...CLASSIC
• and I think its sweet that you want to make plans with me since your business trip was cancelled
• ok so why do I need to move on from being so mushy?
• the train was packed again this morning, friggin spring breakers...all cheaper on the train this morning...
• but it was actually OK because I am in a good mood...
• i was in bed by like 9:15, such an old lady
• its a wonderful 70 DEGREES outside...I love it...
• another shot out in the good ol PG County last night...around the way none the less...CRAZY
• they found the boy, yes BOY he was only 16, that shot that guy in the back last week...crazy
• it amazes me how much young people really don't get that education is the key
• they sit up in there 400K homes thinking life is sweet because the parents got government jobs...well I got news for you if you can't write an essay you can't fill out a KSA and you won't be able to get into the friggin MAIL ROOM
• why am I so pumped to go home and do NOTHING...yes absolutely NOTHING
• Victoria and Nikki on Y & R are getting on my nerves, I am glad Victor SNAPPED out on her yesterday...YES NEIL WINTERS for the BOARD...give the brother some recognition geesh...but you know its such a reality of how the corporate world works...nepotism...
• speaking of nepotism-my Dad is "trippin" again...I don't know what's up with his meds...i saw him on Wednesday and he was just out of it...I know its those friggin meds man...uggg it pisses me off...Imma go holla at him tomorrow, I talk to him everyday but some days he remembers and others he doesn't
• my mother is so cute to me...she is such a wonderful Mom...shot out to PC
• Tunk has pink eye...me and HIM are thinking about taking the nephews to the circus...its in town...I don't know if he and I can handle 2-3 year olds and 2-4 year olds OFF the HOOK lil men...
• you know I will always probably make HALF of whatever my "man" makes because I work in non-profit and I will never make 6 figures...but I am actually OK with that because I LOVE my job...
• ok its hot as hell in this friggin place today...i have on a short sleeve shirt and STILL had to go into the conference room to get the fan...

OK so not to much really going on, but going on...just wanted to let you guys in on my life a little bit...

I'm back...no worries...

ugly side....

I got a glimpse into my ugly side this morning and I really don't like it...

I flicked off, and for what, why did I do that...why did I say such a hurtful thing to THE person that is in my life? Why did I do that?

As positive as I try to be, as much as I have fought those "old ways" of being mean and nasty...spiteful...

I reverted right back to that this morning...Why? Because I felt like he wasn't hearing me...come one now, that's truly NOT a good enough reason...why because I didn't like what he said....that's truly NOT a good enough reason either...

There is truly NO excuse for hurting someone that I care about...NONE!

This is something that I have had to fight with for years..
its like the song When Dove's Cry by Prince....

Maybe I'm just 2 demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father 2 bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

I am truly like my father in the sense that I have a temper...I am hot headed...or I was...I would argue with you and really beat into your head MY point of view....I have known this for a while and I have really made a conscious effort to NOT be that way, and up until this point, up until this morning...

For the past 3 or 4 years now since i have been really working on my relationship with GOD I have really been working AGAINST a lot of things...especially THIS arguing...and just being plain old mean to folks...

I really just strive every day to be positive and have peace of heart and mind...

I hadn't flicked...but this morning all of that changed...

So why did I say that this morning? One little phrase, one word, it wasn't a curse word, it wasn't anything demeaning, but it was hurtful...

And I feel horrible, not only because I came out of MY character...the person that I am now, but I feel horrible, because I MADE YOU FEEL BAD!

I can't stand it that you are hurting...

I hope that you can find it in your heart to forgive me...to understand that that wasn't me, that wasn't who I truly am...

Let me get back to being ME...cause that person this morning...I am NOT HER!

Venting

Ok so this will be REAL quick...but some THANGS just really PISS me off...and I will go back to my world of lovely beauty...

like seriously, have you NOT ever seen a black woman with straight hair...OR maybe its because I went from braids to a fro to a press/straight look in all of 3 work days and they are just totally confused...Just because I decide to take my braids out and get my hair pressed, does NOT give you the right to make me the OFFICE SPECTACLE...

NOR does it give you the right to put YOUR HANDS IN MY HAIR!

Have you lost you ever loving friggin mind....are you serious....did you just touch MY hair, are you IN my personal space...and you are NEW here and a CONTRACTED employee...

Get OUT of HERE....

Like seriously....

and the sad thing is I saw her walking over and I knew it was coming...I saw her butt walking over and was like she isn't that bold...oh crap she really is...

it took ALL of me not to smack that lady...(calm down T, just calm down...its ok)

my co-worker told me that i needed to let her know that you don't do that...because the next time she might get knocked the hell out putting her hands in someone's hair...

well she better get it right...

Ok I have gotten that out...back to a regularly schedule programing...

LIFE is GOOD!

Beautiful New Beginning

Never before has life held as much promise as it does on this very day. The possibilities open to you right now are more wonderful and abundant than they have ever been.

You may be suffering under the sad illusion that the best days of your life have already come and gone. Choose now to see beyond that self-imposed limiting thought.

Open your eyes to the beautiful truth that the things in your life with real value and meaning never decline or decay. The longer you live with purpose and sincerity, the more intensely you experience true love and joy.

It may seem that your mistakes have been piled on top of mistakes, and that nothing can free you from your burdensome regrets. Yet the freedom you seek is as close as the next moment.

Every beauty you've ever imagined is real, and exists in you right now. Every joy that you've ever glimpsed is yours to live and to express any time you choose.

You stand in this moment at a beautiful new beginning, full of promise and possibility. See it, know it, live it, and allow the joy to flow more abundantly than ever before.
-- Ralph Marston

So why do I start of this Fabulous Tuesday with this message...becasue its so TRUE!

Everyday is a NEW day to look at life and understand every beauty that is around you.
When I think of beauty, I think of Jehovah GOD and the fact that he creates ALL things in HIS image how he sees fit to create them....including you...and setting up your life and your path...as long as you lean on HIM and not your own understanding...


Have you ever just sat back and really just took time to experience the beauty of life and how it works????

There are so many possiblities for us in life, if we would just SPEAK those positive things into existence....(shot out to big sis Jus for that one)....have you ever just thought about the power of your words?

If you constantly say: "Imma catch a cold.." what happens...you catch a cold....
If you constantly say: "I am fat" what happens...you gain weight
If you constantly say: "I am broke" what happens...your money is always funny
If you constantly say: "I am going to be alone, no one will ever love me like I deserve it..." what happens you are alone or settle for just anyone because you are lonely...

Start saying.... I am going to take care of myself...
Start saying.... I am beautifully made and will work to maintain my health
Start saying.... I will be financially blessed as long as I start to use my money for MY benefit
Start saying.... The person that is meant for me, will love and adore me, as he/she should being a Child of Christ...I will know true unconditional love

We have to speak it people, we have to think it people, we have to really re-train ourselves and look at life in a positive-and most beautiful way. We have all made our mistakes, had our bumps in the road...that's life and if we didn't experience the bad we would never appreciate the good...but life don't have to be bad ALWAYS...that's not what life is about...

If you start to look at life as a beautiful journey full of endless possibities, with ups and downs, twists and turns, all beautifully constructed to make YOU the BEST YOU, you can be...then life is just that a beautiful journey....

...have that confidence, that spring in your step, that look in your eye...that drive, that focus that LOVE in your heart for GOD and YOURSELF...and it will show in EVERYTHING YOU DO!

Just keep trying people....just keep striving people....

The Line

I must admit that I didn't realize just how much I missed my line sisters until I saw them on Satruday night.

One of my line sisters, my front, got married on Saturday...it was a very emtional ceremony, the groom broke down at the alter, you could tell that he was very VERY IN love with his wife to be...

They also did presentations to their parents at the end of the ceremony...

all in all the wedding was really nice!

But it was the reception that was the BOMB to me...buffet, food all over the place (crab cakes, beef, chicken, turkey...and it was ALL GOOD too) and open bar (now I am not just talking about alcohol for all you drinkers out there, but it was at Martin's West and most times you have to even pay for SODA you know...so that was a GRAET bonus...)

But the BEST thing about the reception was the fact that me and my line sisters got to talk and talk and talk...and when we talk we talk TRASH, we laugh we joke, we cut each other up

WE just have GREAT TIME!!!!!

So after we left I realized just how much I miss those women...

not all of us were able to make it...we were missing 4 out of the 14...but the 10 of us (plus our Danny) made the most of it...

We will be FIVE whole YEARS old in Delta this year and we are planning to do something together and I am HYPED about it

So here's to US ladies...I love you all!!!!

The Fro

yep that's me! (I mentioned a while back that i totally looked like my graphic in my TC signature) I have been growing my hair out naturally for the past what, I think I think....yea 8 months now...now before you get to afraid...that's me last night after I washed my hair out, so it wasn't fully picked out and I didn't blow dry it out with a comb....but honestly the more and more i look at it, its cute!

I don't really know what made me SNAP out and just determine that i wanted to go natural...I think its because eventually I want to have my hair in locs...

YES locs! but this CRAZY in between phase is really really really killing me...I mean really...

It also doesn't help that I came into work today with it picked out a little in a fro with BIG silver hoop earrings....and my boss was like, OMG you look like Angela Davis...its so cute...

but anyways...its funny because I know I look different...like I have said before I have many different looks to me...but its funny to walk around with a fro and notice all the crazy looks you get...this one lady was just looking at me like I was a Martian or something...eyes LOCKED in....but that's how some folks are, you know...

or maybe its really just me being self conscious because I have never had my hair out like this...

I sent my brother the pic last night and said "your other brother" he called me dying laughing...because I honestly look like him with my hair like this...

Anyways...just another part in the hair chronicles....you guys KNOW how i am about my hair...OFF the HOOK right...

Tonight I get it pressed out...i am nervous about that too...but hey change is GOOD!

UPDATE:

So here is how IT (myhair) looks pressed out:

That is me and one of my line sisters at our other line sisters wedding on Saturday night. I am the one in the pink/peach top it came out really nice..(the press)

B.U.D.D.Y

Ok so I have been trying to find this video and post this on my blog for the past what 3-4 weeks!
But I finally found it...




plus I went and bought the CD right after work today!
I have heard nothing but GREAT things about the album and was really pressed...in fact I ordered it from work on bestbuy.com and picked up it in the store...

you know what it is...I am addicted I am addicted to new music...I am addicted to all music...I love new music...I love music I totally love music...like all kinds of music...I can totally feel music, from the drums, to the guitar strings, the horns, the keys, the melody...the lyrics...

I just love it...

Musiq's album seems to be what i have heard a take back to the first one...ijuswannsing...and i am totally diggin that...back to basics works for me...


Here is a list of my all time fav artists: (this is a serious list, like if I don't have ALL of their stuff I have MOST of it)

Prince
Earth, Wind & Fire
Maze fet Frankie Beverly
Mervin Gay
Chaka Khan
Patti L.
Luther Vandross
Stephanie Mills
The GAP Band
Al Green
New Edition
Guy
A Tribe Called Quest
Run DMC

New School:
Erkyah Badu
Jill Scott
Anthony Hamilton
A. Keys
India A.
John Legend

Rap:
Jay-Z
OutKast
Beanie Sigel
Common
Mos Def
Biggie


Honorable Mentions
Eric Roberson
Raheem D.
Kelis
Kanye West
Floatry
Musiq
Maxwell
The Roots
The OJays
Talib Kwali
Van Hunt

New Artist:
Amy Whinehouse
Anthony David


So you may or may not like my list, but hey that's why its MY list....I am thinking to see if I am missing someone or something...

but you know it is the FAV list...so everyone can't make that...they just can't...

HELLO!

The rAndomneSS

Ok so I have like a thousand and one things on my mind today...

nothing bad, just random thoughts...

so I will just start to go.....

• the friggin orange line has been so friggin backed up lately...the dag on train is PACKED BEFORE we even leave the New Carrolton station
• how come the lady that ran a escort service here in DC has sold her "black book" of 15,000 client names to pay for her defense team....
• who pays for that?
• what will happen to the people "listed" in the book????
• why is it that young people don't think about their futures anymore? not all, but most don't...like my man mikesee said: "I got too much to lose!"
• its not just young people acting a fool, its old folks too...who in the hell at 20+ is fighting??? WTH, dude...grow up
• why is it that I can't figure out how to put lines and stuff in this thing to really make a cool random thoughts list...
• we always want to complain to our friends about what our significant other does wrong, and never really brag about what they are doing right, and then WE get mad because our friends don't like em...get it together and figure out if YOU really like them FIRST and keep some stuff to yourself...geesh...
• why is it that we are always quick to tell others to leave someone alone, and our own stuff is all jacked up...LOL
• when you are happy and thankful, no one really has much to say, but they love to talk to you when you are miserable....
• people always seem to call me with THEIR stuff...and its stuff that I saw coming like 4 or 5 months ago...and I HATE being that I told you so person, but I kinda did...
• how long are you "together" before you give someone a key to your place?
• do people still do that?
• am i old fashion because I really don't believe in living together? My mother would kill me! Then my father, and then my brothers, and then my sister-in-laws, and then my sisters (my girls) and then my mentors...OK so you get the picture to long of a list to even THINK about doing it...
• how come we don't stop enough to really just love and appreciate the one we are with...its always, what he/she should or could be doing...well that's your opinion...why not focus your energy on what made you grow to be in love with them in the first place (I don't' like to say fall in love because that implies that you were blinded by your decision)
• so if you are 1/2 Dominican 1/4 Cuban and 1/4 Black...you aren't really Black, right? You are basically Hispanic or is it Spanish? What is it? UPDATE: in Hispanic countries he is Hispanic...HERE he is classifed as OTHER...unbelivable right
• why is it that one of my sisters is moving next week to TX...its lil big sis...and i am SO heart broken over her move...I know she will ALWAYS be there but still...
• I need vitamin water daily
• the older I get the more confident I am IN MY decisions about MY LIFE...
• you know you can't tell everyone every thing...some people can't keep stuff to themselves
• no matter how old you get, some people will never change...if you stopped hanging with them, it was for a reason...keep it moving....
• why is it that I dress very "artsy fartsy" lol....I have so many different "looks" to me
• you can really tell that its wedding season in OUR lives (25+ folks)...I have 2 weddings to attend, 1 that I am in and 2 that are scheduled for next year already
• I really love my job...I came to work all last week sick, had that been a year ago, or a job ago...you could have deaded that one buddy....
• I love to hear your voice every morning? you wake me up daily, did you know that? yea you do, because you hear me sounding all raspy in the phone off the 6am call....
• i still look cute again today...I have on gray boots and a gray dress...
• i think imma walk around the pond tonight and just enjoy the weather and ME
• i am about to start travel for work....
• and if I didn't have enough to do with Kiamsha and tutoring and now being about to work with kids on friday nights, I have offered my services to bring this play to the DC Metro area...but I really believe in it though...check out the review here
• ok now I am just looking for stuff to say...

despite this list...don't get it twisted...I am still ALL good...I still feel like I did yesterday....

Ok so I am done...pretty random...pretty much just me typing what I have been thinking...I like to get stuff out sometimes

Today....

So I got part of this prayer off of Jus page

Let there be an abundance of good things, right relationships and positive experiences in my life.
You, Lord, are my source of every good thing I need or desire!
Let my mind be filled with the wisdom of your presence.....
Let my heart be filled with love, respect and honor for myself and all other people....
Thank you, God, that before I ask, you have already answered!
For my awareness of this as the reality of my being andin my life, I am so grateful

Now isn't that totally wonderful...that's a way to start off your Monday...

Today I feel so at peace...I had a wonderful chill weekend spent with those who are most important to me...saw my best girl friend, chilled with the new (what do I call him...) "folk" and saw my parents...and most of all I hung out with ME...

Its such a wonderful feeling to just get up and say, you know what
THANK YOU JEHOVAH GOD...
you keep me moving, you keep me growing, you keep me inspried, you show me what love and life is really all about....
you know what I feel like...
LIFE is good...

of course life isn't perfect, but its good...and when you recognize that source of energy and strength...MAN...you feel like you are so getting closer to your dreams....

I feel strong, fresh, beautiful in spirit and in sight!

I am happy with who I am and where I am going...and I KNOW that I have love all around me...

Life is such a beautiful experience to be enjoyed...

we should love hard, laugh often and just be glad to be here to see another day...

I am so bursting with love and joy right now...

I hope this makes you want to burst as well....be happy, enjoy...

Stay Up
T

The Metro Chronicles...

yea its been a minute since I have had anything funny to write about...well actually I have but what's the point....in fact its been since last June since I talked about anything Metro (well I guess that's because the Metro seems to be OFF the hook when its hot...) but NOW I am starting to see that when its cold outside, people act a fool too...

Ok so the other day I was on my way home from work, now I work typical hours, 9-5, and I work directly across from Metro Center in downtown DC (for anyone who is here you get the picture, this is one of, if not THE busiest stations in the city...you have 3 train lines, and the 3 lines that have the MOST traffic, RED, BLUE, and ORANGE) so at even given time, but especially between 8-9 am and 4-5:30 pm METRO Center is jumping....1000s of people coming and going...

So you already know that its going to be hella folks getting off and on the trains, so why fuss, right? WRONG...man it was this lady on the train, and she was going off...and what made it so funny was the fact that she was an older lady, looked very well put together, very business like/a professional...suit-the whole nine...blackberry all that...
so when she yelled out:
"got damn it...close the damn door...that got damn voice is getting on my nerves..."

I was totally floored...I mean she went off...I was cracking up (in my coat of course she was looking around for someone to say something to her...) and THEN she kept mumbling to herself...HA-LAR-RI-OUS

(if you don't know what i am talking about, there is this automatic recording that says "doors closing/doors opening" right...and it is annoying especially when the doors get stuck and it does it like 5 times in a row...which is what it was doing...but to just SNAP like she did...CLASSIC!)


Ok Ok...but that's not all, so right after she goes off I look up and I notice this 6 foot 5 inches or better dude standing in front of me...and I say to myself...what in D hell does this bama have on?

This bama had on a posquat coat...(yea take a second to click on the link and look this up...)

yea like that....

I mean a seriously...it was like something out of a broke down, low budget, movie...it looked like rat, mixed with cat/dog, squarrel (Baltimore at that)...you name it that's what it looked like..

I mean the coat was gray and dusty...and what made it so bad...home boy thought he was DOING it...shades on and ALL, while ON the train UNDERGROUND...too funny....

Man I can't stop laughing about that bama's XXXXL posquat coat...

Well its about to start getting warm so I am SURE there will be many more stories to tell, and so begins another year of the Metro Chronicles....

Words of Wisdom...

So I received this in an e-mail today and wanted to share it with you all...I think that these short but sweet sayings REALLY say it all...


1. No one can ruin your day without YOUR permission.
2. Most people will be about as happy, as they decide to be.
3. Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.
4. Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.
5. Success stops when you do.
6. When your ship comes in.... make sure you are willing to unload it.
7. You will never "have it all together."
8. Life is a journey...not a destination. Enjoy the trip!
9. The biggest lie on the planet: "When I get what I want I will be happy."
10 The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.
11 I've learned that ultimately , 'takers' lose and 'givers' win.
12 Life's precious moments don't have value, unless they are shared.
13 If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive.
14 We often fear the thing we want the most.
15 Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you have to say. Best
friends listen to what you don't say!
16 Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.
17 Look for opportunities...not guarantees.
18 Life is what's coming....not what was.
19 Success is getting up one more time
20 Now is the most interesting time of all.
21 When things go wrong.....don't go with them.
22 Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
23 God can mend all broken hearts. You just have to give him all the pieces.
24 A person who asks a question might be a fool for five minutes, but a person who doesn't ask, is a fool forever...
25 A best friend is like a four leaf clover... hard to find, and lucky to have.
26 A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.
27 A coincidence is when God performs a miracle, and decides to remain anonymous.
28 I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
29 Our eyes are placed in front because it is more important to look ahead than to look back.

30 Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace... and your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

stay up people

Just be Thankful...

HAPPY Marvelous Monday!

And that is weird considering the way I started my day...
because I started my day off crying...why you ask?
Because there has just been so much going on, and I have just kept moving and moving...so today this morning...I finally let it out and released it...and I feel so much better

I think it started once I decided NOT to let myself become stressed about every situation and just accept them for what they are...

but then yesterday I just had this extreme NEED to go to church...now I belong to a church and I attend church on the regular, BUT I hadn't been in a while since so much had been going on...and although I was extremely tired I decided I AM GOING!

So I went and as always I was totally blessed by what happened!

The pastor talked about just being grateful...he said he wanted to talk about the anniversary of the Rodney King beating, and other issues, but that the Lord placed on his heart that we needed to be grateful...

he talked about how so many times, we want to sit and complain about what is going WRONG in our lives and we don't want to talk about WHERE we currently ARE...(READ:WHAT's RIGHT IN OUR LIVES)

Like if you sit back and think about it, you may still be struggling in relationships or financially or whatever, but if you REALLY sit and think about it, you aren't where you were FIVE years ago, you aren't were you where ONE year ago...

Like seriouly think about it...literally take a minute or two to think about it

Ok so you see how GOOD your life really is...

So the moral of the story was that if you take the moments out to be Thankful, and you work towards your connection with GOD and you build your faith...HE will continue to MOVE in your life far BEYOND what you think he could ever do or he WILL do things in your life FAR beyond what you can ever imagine....

so take time to just sit back and appreciate what Jehovah GOD has done for you in YOUR life...even something as small as how beautiful the moon looks in the distance at night when its full...I mean if he can make sure that the trees and the birds are wonderfully taken care of, he will SURELY do the same for you...

The prayer that is on Jus.B.Fli's page today...really says it all...

Stay up people...

Baby I'm A Star!

Ok so let me start off by saying this...

My all time FAVORITE artist EVER is Prince!

When I was 5 years OLD I told my mother that I was going to marry this man...and I doubt if the purple one would marry my big butt but a girl can dream can't she...
So when I need a pick me up...I put on music that's what i do...that's me...and I have been getting better and better by the day and last night I just needed some Prince...and MAN ol MAN did he make me happy!

and this song right here says EXACTLY how I feel about me...and you should too...

Baby I'm A Star-Prince

1,2,3,4Hey, look me over
Tell me do u like what u see?
Hey, i ain't got no money
But honey i'm rich on personality
Hey, check it all out
Baby i know what it's all about
Before the night is through
U will see my point of view
Even if i have 2 scream and shout

Baby i'm a (star)
Might not know it now
Baby but i r, i'm a (star)
I don't want to stop, 'til i reach the top
Sing it (we are all a star!)

Hey, take a listen
Tell me do u like what u hear?
If it don't turn u on
Just say the word and i'm gone
But honey i know, ain't nothing
Wrong with your ears
Hey, check it all out
Better look now or it just might be 2 late (just might be 2 late)
My lucks gonna change tonight
There's gotta be a better life
Take a picture sweetie
I ain't got time 2 waste

Oh baby i'm a (star)
Might not know it now
Baby but i r, i'm a (star)
I don't want to stop, 'til i reach the topSing it! (we are all a star!)

Everybody say, nothing come 2 easy
But when u got it baby, nothing come 2 hard
You'll see what i'm all about (see what i'm all about)
If i gotta scream and shout (if i gotta scream and shout)
Baby baby (baby) baby (baby) baby (baby)
YeahYeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (star)
Might not know it nowBaby but i r, i'm a (star)
I don't want to stop, 'til i reach the topSing it! (star)
Baby baby babyOh baby i'm a (star)
Baby baby baby
Somebody(we are all a star)
(baby i'm a star)
We are all a star
We are all a star