flyy like an eagle...

last night i got on a plane for the first time in 9 months...

3 hours later i have landed in H town...

finally met my lil god daughter...

i am totally IN love with her

she smiles she laughs she does nothing but eat and sleep and that's it she totally chill

here's the thing last night was yet another peaceful moment...

the pilot told us to look out the right window...and what did i see

i saw GOD, his work how he works and i had peace a lot of peace

i am down here chillin and i don't plan on doing anything at all...

city #3 i'd live in...

i am disconnecting to reconnect

holla next month

peace

Happy Feelin's....

...happy feelin's in the airrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, touching people everywhere...plenty love and everything, listen to the people sing....

i've got myself, to remind me of love, my mind and my heart....i believe in a love...and these happy feelin's, i'll spread them over the world...from deep in my soul

I WISH YOU HAPPY FEELIN'S

so i have decided that living life wondering or worry or contemplating over things that were, or aren't or what could be or should be isn't healthy for me

and once i decided on that and i prayed about it i have felt like a ton of weight lifted off of my shoulders

like i said in the previous post...until the day...and that doesn't mean until the day i "find" something or someone...its just until the day...

the short and end of it is that i have a GOOD life full of joy and its just time to see what i have and not focus on what i don't...

and i can honestly say i am cool, content, copacetic, chillin...

i am me....

.....and i believe in ABOVE...and the these happy feelin's i'll spread them all over the world

repost of sorts...until the day

the lyrics of this song speak to how i am feeling...

so many times in life we get wrapped up in what we "think" of "feel" or life should be or what point we think we should be at and we don't just appreciate where we are in the right here and now

that tends to happen, based on many articles that i have been reading, with a lot of single people

well life is what it is right now and you have got to learn to love it and be in the moment of NOW and not worry about what was, could, or "should" be

life is still good...chilling enjoying...

UNTIL THE DAY

today was a good day...

...yep i gotta say today was a good day...

got up

went got the mani/pedi

went to the animal shelter to see about adopting a little Yorkie...she was absolutely adorable...the only issue was or is that i am the 3rd person to put in an application

these places aren't playing these days though you have to show proof of the fact that you either own your home or live in a place that allows for pets (i found this out because apparently the county still has my parents listed as the owners of the house...so i had to take a copy of my mortgage payment to show that i "own" my home, i don't get why that's so but i'll be contacting the people to understand that...it also maybe that even though i closed in Jan i didn't pay my first payment until March 1st...who knows...)

anyways...

after i did that i went down to hang out with the bff

i hadn't seen her in a min and i needed to buy some new luggage because i am going to Houston for the weekend and let my brother have my other set...

so we met for lunch hung out with her and the big cuzzo and had a really good time just chit chatting and enjoying each other

then we headed over to the TJ Maxx and Home Goods store...dude i bought lost my mind...

i already added stuff to the living/dinning space...i just needed a couple more pieces another red pillow and a tray for the middle of the room...and both are red...straight FIRE...to top that off she bought those items as a gift that was really nice :)

but then i ended up in the bedding section...i normally change my bedding every spring and every fall...but i realized i hadn't done so in like a year and a half...

so for the first time in life i bought a white bed set and i LOVE it!

i never have slept under a comforter, i was raised you sleep under your blanket and you fold your comforter back and i am not married or have kids and i don't eat in my room so it won't get dirty that way...i figure with the unique wall color and the fact that the flowers on the set match the color it would be really crisp and nice and it really is...

then to top it off i got some nice sheets...

so a couple of $$$ later i am home enjoying the new pieces waiting on the new sheets to dry to finish making the bed

a day that was supposed to be spent chilling was spent full of laughs smiles and a good time

(despite my older brother STILL not realizing or acknowledging the fact that this is MY house and not our parents home any more and he needs to respect that, but hey i am the "little" sister...dude needs to get a grip)

but i can honestly say today was really a good day!

hey i am even mostly packed for the trip already...that's a first fo sho

GOLDEN

"....i'm living my life likes its golden, living my life like its golden, living my life like its golden"


or at least i SHOULD be...

what in the FREAK has been wrong with me...

geeesh you wanna talk about a downer

what in the world was wrong with me?

no, i KNOW what was wrong with me...i was way to focused on the ONE area in my life (ok there are other area's but i think that was just taking way to much energy) that wasn't there that i was MISSING all the things that i have reason to be happy about...

i have a spiritual connection with GOD and i am working on OUR relationship
i have family and friends that love me and accept me for me flaws and all
i can go out and buy what i want when i want for myself and those i love just because
i have a roof over my head
i have a career
i have a truck to drive

and did i say i KNOW i am loved!

that right there is enough...enough being down and out...

i am really ok, in the greater view of life with all that could really be wrong with me, i am doing pretty darn well for myself

and i alone, just little old me, in my life today, should be enough...

if i can't appreciate where i am right now, how or why would i appreciate those things that will be given ON TOP OF...

its time i get a real grip on reality

its about time i put my "big gurl draws" on and freaking just be HAPPY

like honestly what do i have to be sad about

NOTHING

its all trivial in the grand scheme of life

i have EVERYTHING to be

HAPPY
EXCITED
BLESSED

and that's exactly what i am going to do....

glad i am getting a grip NOW 72 days to go....

find your love...

"i'm more than just an option...refuse to be forgotten...i took a chance with my heart...

i'm more than just a #, i doubt you'll find another...

too many times i've been wrong, i guess being right, takes too long..."

you better tell it boy...

dude i feel this song its on repeat right now...

not only is the beat on point, but the lyrics speak to me right now...

there are a so many WELL DESERVING people around me finding the love that they deserve, getting married, getting engaged...and it makes me happy for them because like i said they deserve the real love they are having...

HOWEVER in my own little bubble that is...

i come home every night and its empty

my stats are impressive:

home owner

BA & MPA

own my own ride

has a career

volunteers

loves her peoples

definitely a spiritual being

i tend not to brag i just do me...i don't really talk about all those things to much

maybe because i am not a size 6 maybe that has something to do with it, or maybe its like it was in the movie just wright

even my cousin said that it was my story...always the home girl, never the "girl" or if i am the girl it doesn't last too long...

or maybe i am a little too independent?

or maybe i am too much like my daddy? I know my attitude when pushed can be a bit much

i even have to remind him that i am a girl....but growing up with all brothers i must admit that i can be a "boy with boobs" in certain ways and then WAY to girlie in other ways...

what's the balance? when will i find the balance of being ok with being me, sweet yet strong, flexible yet steadfast, giving yet able to receive, loving yet not a push over....

its all about the balance and i am learning it, i guess as time continues and i continue to grow i'll learn it more and more and i'll be alright with who i am...

i don't think i'll be there before 30 but i just hope that wherever i am i am ok with me...

one minute you're ok with being single (and i still am) and the next you just want to give all your love to someone else...

i would love to give all my love to someone...but in the meantime i am going to continue to love myself and i'll just continue down the path that i am on and keep having the faith that in time it'll all be alright

the reality is that in the GRAND scheme of things, my life is pretty good...

i just have to continue to get adjusted to all the major changes that have taken place in my life and i have to be ok with those things, i've had almost a whole year to adjust to my parents being gone from the area, i have had 7 months of being single, 6 months on my in my new career, the house is slowly but surely coming together...

i just have to keep focusing on those things that are really good and honestly when i look at it all, its really more good, WAY more good then that one little part of my life (no relationship) other than that life is good and its peaceful...

i do have PEACE

...lose my mind....

....12:45 bout that time...

yea sometimes you gotta just let it go...

and right now Jeezy is bumping in my ears...sometimes i get a lil thug with it...LOL

this weekend i got out and partied a little bit with my cuzzo

she and i hadn't hung in a min...we hit up a hand dancing joint at an American Legion that was mad funny then we hit up a spot in the city

here is the thing i don't get, when did these "little" short xsemedium shirt wearing dudes think so "HIGHLY" of themselves...

clearly i am have been chillin for a minute so i am not out to "impress" nobody i pulls up in my truck which is a FORD and will valet park in a minute...why cause its mines...and its PAID for so what does it matter what you think and/or have to say or what your look is...HA

i also saw "just wright" let's just say i felt like she was telling my story...but what you gonna do...

my mentor came over and immediately began to rearrange my house, which i didn't mind not one bit because i don't know how to decorate (now style you YES) i don't know what needs to go where or anything about how to use the size of a room so i was happy that a woman i love and trust and i know loves me was here for guidance...

we went to the AJ Wright across the street and a couple dollars later my house was transformed even more...my older brother even commented that he really liked what i had done to the house...

i must say i am digging it for sure!

cuz and i hit up brunch downtown Sunday afternoon and then did a little running around and after that i chilled...it was a good weekend for sure

i am finally feeling peace of mind and like my house is MY HOME which is always a GREAT feeling!

nobody does it better...

dude i just went back and read like all my blogs from 2009 and then some from 08...

i cried i laughed out loud i smiled to myself...and i realized that i was going through a lot of the same stuff in 09 and even had similar thoughts and titles...

then some stuff was totally and completely different....

some things change and some things stay the same...

the stuff that's the same in some instances is cool, others NOT

but this song got me chillin...

clearly...knocked me down...

i got a lot on my mind right now...

"sometimes love comes around and it knocks you down, just get back up when it knocks you down..."

why can't i get back up?

that's the question...one minute i am fine and then the next here lately you are on my mind...should i reach out? send an email? i can't text i don't have the # in my phone (so i wouldn't get weak and reach out)

CLEARLY you haven't contacted me in the past what 7 months...although you contacted Dub...

why won't this feeling go the HELL away???!!!!

"...i was the class clown that always kept you laughing...we were never meant to be we just happened"

how can you go from spending all your time with someone and loving someone so hard so deep so fast to NOTHING...

"...i don't want to make the same mistakes and fall on my face again..."

i thought for sure this past time, this what was supposed to be the LAST time it was all going to be alright...he might not have seen it, but i opened up more to him than anyone ever...all that i had been through i thought he got it, understood it...my good, my bad, and my ugly...but i guess not...and again WHY CAN'T I BE DONE with HIM...i can't even get over the THOUGHT of HIM

why does at the time that i feel like i am over it all i come home alone and i feel it..

i remember him being here i remember his smile, his daughter's smile the laughter the joy that filled my heart that was my homie lover friend...

tight as the jeans i was rocking and as sweet to me as the strawberry shortcake i enjoy

that was him

but it didn't work out..

he said timing i had to much going on, my attitude his fear of marriage...

whatever the long list was it still lingers and i just wish it would go away and i didn't think about him, miss him or love him...

how can you still love someone that you haven't talked to, seen or anything in months?

but i guess when i said i would love him forever it was forever...i knew it would be though because i knew even then how much i loved him how much i was in love with him...

but it is what it is and eventually i'll get the hell back up because i am TC and i aint got

NO CHOICE but to get UP

the randomness....

my mind constantly goes around in circles...

sometimes i think i should still be on facebook, then i remember how crazy facebook got and why i am not on there

then i think i should tweet, i mean the stuff i see on a regular basis needs to be shared with the WORLD...

CLASSIC right...but seriously...i get why people tweet because you see so much all the time and you just want to share it with other people...but i guess that's what my blogging is for...

it amazes me the things that i say that sometimes affect people

for example, my co-worker has posted up at her cub something i said...

"i believe in the big bang theory...i just believe that GOD big banged it"

CLASSIC...i didn't even remember saying that until they reminded me...

i am listening to "strawberry letter" on Steve Harvey i don't know why but i really like morning talk radio....it really starts my day off right...

the last couple of weeks have been mad crazy business with work trainings and my girl now
Mrs. JJ getting married! i love young black folks finding love...she was absolutely BEAUTIFUL she glowed and so did he...they are totally and utterly IN love...but most importantly they are READY to be married

then i have been digging and digging and getting my spiritual questions in line because i have a bible study coming up with an Elder who just so happens to be a man that i really admire personally as a husband to a mentor of mines and a father of friends of mines so this is going to be interesting...

i want to go and see that movie "just wright" its always nice when the "average size" woman finds love...

did i tell you guys that i came to the realization that my life is WAY to busy and i have to much going on for me to even try to get to know someone...

i am just way to busy right now...

oh and i had yet another "deep" conversation with my mentor about my giving spirit...that i give and give and give but i don't let others give back so then sometimes it comes off like i do it just to get attention or something she said to that affect that it may seem that way...she said she knows that's not the case but that i don't say what it is that i need from folks...her sister was like its that i am very giving and that i allow people to come to me and i am always there but i am so self sufficient that i never allow people to give back and show love to me...

i think that's a valid assessment...

i asked my cousin about it, because she and i are very honest with one another about things...and she said that it wasn't a bad thing, that i am as she calls it "a closer" i see something that needs to be done and i just get it done and that we need more closers in this world but the issue is that i am so self sufficient that i don't let people love me or i don't let people know what i need (she said some other things to that she never shared before that she felt about me and that was nice as well)

so now i am determined to not only love myself more but allow myself to be open to LOVE from others...

i just have never been the type and because i have had my heart broken stomped on and thrown away, i have just learned to not rely on others for things and just learned to just take care of things myself because when you rely on people and they let you down you just learn to not let yourself feel that way again...

that feeling of being let down hurts

but here's another thing i am learning and processing or here is two things
1. what people think about you is not your business

meaning people are going to think what they think about what it is that you are doing or what your motives are, all you can do is the best you can and if you are doing things with the best intentions then that's all that matters

and

2. people are who they are and you just have to love them where they are

meaning that people are just that people they can't fulfill every need YOU have as a person because we all fall short you just have to really and fully see people and be okay with who they are and most of all be okay with who you are...

so 80 days until my 30th birthday i think i am going to try to blog as much as possible as i move towards that date...

i am eating better walking more just got some activities to do at my desk daily when you sit down all day you have to find little ways to work out...

i have a lot of other things going on in my mind like that Governor in AZ who is passing laws left and right that are affecting minorities her latest is doing away with what they call "ethnic studies" which includes Mexican American, Native American, and African American studies...

so yet again minority children are not allowed to learn about themselves...

another issue that is becoming near and dear to my heart is the issue of homelessness in this country...especially the nation's capital...

now granted there will always be some level of homelessness because there are just individuals who will prefer to live outside due to mental health conditions but the majority would love to have some sort of housing...THEN there is the issue of the housing that they could get which isn't even suitable for an animal! its ridiculous!!!!

anyways...

i think that's enough for now...

21....

i absolutely positively LOVE this song right here...

Green day ROCKS the HELL out of this song

90 days...

until my birthday...

well yesterday really, 90 whole days...i haven't been on the scale but i can definitely see the difference...i haven't been able to work out like i want but i have been walking at least 2 miles daily so that little bit and changing my eating habits the inches are coming off...

BUT its time to kick it up a notch, especially if i want to be down 30 before 30!

well i definitely started it off right last night...

ZOMBA, actually it was EXTREME ZOMBA....we did hip hop and salsa and maragay like SUPER SIZED for an hour and 10 minutes....

by 30 mins i was about to pass out...but my sweet little co-worker kept encourgaing me so i made it until the end and i can say i was really proud of myself...

and now i am more focused than ever!

i am going to keep up the good eating habits and walking more during the day...i mean i totally get now how walking an extra stop length daily can be so helpful or how taking extra time to walk in the evenings can help...

just including physical activity on a more consistant basis can totally help move you forward with just being healthy...

i am determined to keep investing in myself, physically, spiritually and emotionally...

starting off year 30 in my life feeling full and ready to take on the world is going to be AWESOME and i am finally feeling like myself again and i am ready!

I am SO ready

...honey

you so sweet...

i had a FANTABOLOUS weekend!!!!

first i snapped out on friday after work and got my hair braided...
yes i tried the natural bush because i need to walk and work out, but my hair isn't naturally curly and i am not a naturally able to do something with her hair kind of person...

straight, curly, permed or natural a sistah can NOT do hair...

some people think that everyone can do at least something with hair, i am NOT one of those people

even when i was your typical broke college student i saved money and got my hair done...

so anyways...i was like eyebrows done or not i look a mess i don't have any swag this must go!

so while on my way to get my truck washed i passed the shop in my neighborhood, i commenced to making a u turn and went in the spot...at 6:45 pm i was getting my hair did

and i had to get it done, saturday was the kiamsha youth presentation, my girls' ladies night out event, and sunday was a Christening

dude i had to much to do to be looking a HAM

the weekend was good...

i had a for real for real spa experience with a robe slippers champagne toast and a view of the entire harbor...spent a grip but it was worth it

we called ourselves being grown and we were, everyone needs to experience that peace and relaxation...i shall be at a "big people" spa on my birthday this year...yearly for what the past 4 years i have gone to a "day spa" for a massage but i am going to do a day at a Spa this year!

the ladies and i even got a suite down at the National Harbor, went to dinner went to watch the fight on U street and then we partied...

nothing major but MUCH needed mini get away right here in my own back yard...no one had a camera but we didn't need one the memories of laughing and joking...sitting outside having dinner, dancing and me almost falling over in my 4 inch wedges (clearly i don't go out and dance enough in my shoes SMH)

sunday the christening was AWESOME she did so well she is such a chill baby...she is her momma's child though so that's going to be amazing to watch

i hit the store got some food for the week

made some baked turkey wings...they were on the ONE! with some brown rice...

tonight ZOMBA with my co-workers i am looking forward to that...

oh here i am rambling per usual and i started to blog because i realized something

my vitamin D deficiency has been probably why i haven't been feeling my best...further more the RX that i got was probably D2 which is artificial and more toxic than D3 (which is in my new supplement-which i picked up because i no longer eat red meat or pork and i was told i needed a supplement because i would be lacking iron)

so the reason i was getting sick off of the soy and stuff was because they use D2 and not D3 and i was taking D2 so my body was just rejecting it all...

i wonder if i go back to soy what will happen if not i'll be going to rice milk or lactaid again...

but its just amazing the debate between D2 and D3 some say D2 is just as good as D3 others say D2 is toxic stay away others say you can take D2 but it won't supplement for what is needed from D3...

its just a whole bunch of stuff...but i have settled on a supplement that isn't making me sick from taking it and i am hoping that it will help balance my body out...ya dig...

so i had a SWEET weekend and i am looking forward to many things...including doing NOTHING for the most part this weekend coming...well once i get past May 7 and the morning of May 8 (my nephew has a poem to recite :)

after that i am going to be one incognegro that's for sure...

peace people