Happy Friday!

so since its Friday, and i haven't posted all week, i felt the need to be a little inspirational, especially since its rainy and dark outside...so if you aren't careful you can pretty much get into a funk...(I do have something on my mind that i want to blog about...but I will do so later, once i get my thoughts together...let's just say it has to deal with stereotypes and labels we tend to place on each other without knowing it...)

but we will NOT do that today...

Today we will be POSITIVE

to much to be happy about, why because here is the weekend lineup:

Friday-
M&M
Tutoring
Shauna's graduation party (i might not make it to this, but its on the agenda)

Saturday-
Nikki & Marlin's wedding @ noon/reception at 2 with Mommy
Renada's graduation cookout
Shauna's graduation cookout

Sunday-
Church
cleaning & packing...

Monday -
off to Michigan for a week of training for my job...

so life is full, its good and it worth just being happy about, feeling blessed you know...so on that note, check out the inspiration....

Best day ever
A new day has dawned. And with it, countless new positive possibilities have been born.
Certainly there are difficulties and obstacles in your life and in your world. Yet they are always outnumbered by your blessings.
Focus today on those blessings. Give your attention and your awareness to what's right with life.
Those who wish to control you and to take advantage of you will seek to fill your thoughts with fear and discouragement. Yet there is really no reason for you to be fearful or discouraged.
For life is not what someone tells you it will be. Life is precisely what you make it.
By focusing on the good things, on the positive possibilities, on your blessings and opportunities, you can make life truly magnificent. A new day has dawned, and you can choose to make it the best day ever.
-- Ralph Marston

The weekend

imma post about it soon...or maybe not...ok so its UPDATED
i am actually extreme tired and out of it because i have been running since thursday, actually before then...

friday-girls night

yep even through the smoke from the grill we still look beautiful....me and my ladies

my brother showed up at the steak house, and wouldn't you know it....

he literally came and took my plate and ate my food...OFF THE HOOK!

me in the club....watch out for the big gurls....LOL...imma cutie though...HELLO!

Saturday-all about Ki and her wedding day...
the bride to be

me being apart of an truly inspiring inter-generational conversation about life, love, being a woman, letting him be the man, and most of all NOT losing YOU...the lady in the middle is AWESOME it was GREAT totally ONE of the highlights of the day for me
Sunday-all about Mommy and family

Today-all about me...

but no matter if i am not feeling good and trying to rest, i still have stuff that needs to get done...so imma make it an early night...

i promise i'll get back on here soon enough...and i am fine, no worries...

listen to the song on the side...that's how i am feeling...

keep believing in you people!

Peace

rAndomneSS (IV)

you know what, people get on my every lasting friggin nerves...

let me start off by saying, that i woke up stuffy and pissed at 4am because i was hot, so the day didn't necessarily start off right to begin with...

again people get on my friggin nerves...

it amazes me that people that don't want you to do something, give you grief about it, then turn around and friggin do the SAME thing...ugggggggggggg...you, yea YOU, you get on my nerves, really and truly you get on my nerves....

i love being a woman and then sometimes i don't...like on days like today when i am having issues and needed to get IN to the my specialist just to make sure it wasn't nothing serious...and all it is, is that i need to change my BCP because the harmone isn't enough....

i am tired and ready to go home and go to bed...but my home girl is home from CA so NOPE not an option, me and the ladies is going OUT tonight, and you know our going out isn't even going OUT...we are going to dinner and then back to my house for dranks and to talk...nothing major at all...really cute...we MIGHT hit up a spot but i doubt it...

did i say i was ready to go home...

well let me say it again, i am ready to go...

i spent $68 unnecessarily today, why because i just HAD to go to H & M during lunch...why? because i just HAD to have a cute top or two and some accessories and some sunshades....uggg...

yea, i had a GREAT time with you last night, first time in a long time we had a date...an actual date...it was cute...

but trust, people STILL get on my nerves, especially you...

i need a vaca...can't wait to go to the ATL July 1st! that'll be right after our national meeting for work, so i will be real tired and ready to go and relax, my LS is preggers so she will be REALLY preggers by then and won't want to do nothing...YES...

hopfully i'll be able to hook up with Jus and C.I. while i am down there though...

oh and its HOT as HELL outside, yea you all might not think so but for someone like me that HATES the heat, the fact that i had to take my friggin butt to the doctors in this midday crap urked my last nerves...

so you can imagine how heated imma be in the REAL heat this summer...see i told you i hated heat...

m&m tonight, but i don't have to be there until 6:30, cool i can go and get my wip and then go, that way i can leave RIGHT at 7pm, and go pick up some things for me and the girl, iron, take a shower and roll OUT...

still can't believe you, yea YOU, you are on my unbelievable list, but have fun...seriously, and be SAFE...and not just in the streets, with these females out here too...notice i didn't say WOMEN...

Ki's bridal shower/party tomorrow...

Nikki's wedding next Saturday

Shauna's graduation party next Friday night (oh and I DEFINITELY going NOW)

Shauna & Renada's graduation cookouts next Saturday....

i am like booked every friggin weekend until the second weekend in July...

are you serious, i am NOT that important...imma have to revamp some of this crap i know that...i can't do EVERY friggin thing....

my nephew left me a v/m last night tell me that he loved me...

i think i need to listen to that...as a matter a fact, i got pictures from his mother showing me his first visit to the dentist....she is really a good mother...and he is a cool kid...

that just made me smile...

ok, so its me and the ladies tonight, funky fresh, dressed ready to party...so no more worries...

have a GREAT weekend people...

PEACE

90 day review

so yesterday i had my 90 day reveiew
it was about a month late, but it was really good!

i got basically all good and excellent, positive remarks
the only thing is i have to report to basically 3 (about to be 4) different people, that's 4 different styles and at times, they are all pullin...so i don't hide my frusration very well at all...so i need to work on that..but other than that

i really love my job! like really i do, i care about the mission, the vision, the purpose and about the people here! so i am really blessed and happy right about now....

my supervisor also stated that one of my projects is being extended and that she is definitely looking for ways (and wants me to think about) for me to make my mark and have items for my portfolio...so its on

your girl is ON HER WAY!

Weekend in review

weewww...i never thought that i was going to be able to let you guys know what happened over the weekend...man it was a good one...

Friday

got out the 2nd all day meeting, came back to the office to wrap some stuff up and then out the door i could make it to Music & Morals

finally get to M&M and the kids had just finished watching a video and were being off the hook as usual, one dude even cursed (all of the participants aren't teenagers we have some young adults in there too) so anyways, but we have to get used to each other and i think we'll be ok...

per my mother and a couple of other folks, who will be happy that i said that "they told me so" i received a phone call on Friday...decent enough, but i needed to talk to a male to get a perspective, so me and SH talked after Music & Morals for about an hour...he and i have known each other for some years and he even dated one of my close girls in high school, so he is like family (that's how Kiamsha is though) so he gave me some insight and i gave him some as well with regard to his current situation...it was a great dialogue and i left feeling refreshed and ready to chill

so that's what i did went home and chilled for the evening

Saturday

got up and began the house cleaning process

got dressed and heading with my mother to my little cousin's house for her 2nd Annual Mother's Day Brunch (now mind you she ain't so little, about to be 24 and having a baby in July)

it was really nice i love being around the women in my family, we laugh, joke and talk, all generations...and i got to spend some QT with my mommy!

after that she and i ran a couple of errands and then i went home to nap before the Eric Roberson Concert:

yes i went to see Eric Roberson Saturday night (yes the #1 stunner got up and out the house) and let me tell you he was AWESOME! he put on such a GREAT show...

it was a nice evening and my co-worker (shots out to AM) thought that the doors opened at 8, but they didn't until 9-so since it was off U street we went to Ben's Chilli Bowl got some good eats and laughed and talked...at 9 we were at the door walking in to the smooth sounds of this dude as a dj:

yes ladies the Idris Elba was the dj for the night, and with his London accent and all, he ROCKED it!

Then Eric cam on about 10:20 or so and did his thing until AFTER midnight!

it was one of THE best shows i have been to in a while and i really enjoyed the music the atmosphere, the people, just being able to chill listen to some GREAT music, hang out with my girl and not worry about no one trying to "holla" and no one acting a fool- it was just what i NEEDED after the week i had...get way to unwind, celebrate my success, and deal with my pains....

got home and was in the bed at about 2am

Son-day

my mother calls and wakes me up about 8:30am!

it was cool though, i needed to get up and go to church, got there for the 10am service and was truly blessed

Phil 4:6-7 Prayer, Praise and Peace! (look it up)

left there and went to check on my parents, and did some running around, got some ribs from around the way off the truck (and let me tell you they are BAGGING) and went home finished cleaning, did a little shopping at the town center for a couple needed items and just chilled...

all in all i had a GREAT weekend...

this weekend is packed with events from visiting with the ladies Friday night, doing KB's bridal and bachelorette party, and then Mother's day on Sonday...plenty plenty to do...which is always a good thing!

yea me!

hope you all had a great weekend as well

10 Weird/Unknown/Crazy Facts About Me

so i got this from jac, who got it from teej...
so here it is...

my 10 most...

1. I can't do anything until i iron my clothes...that's right, i won't eat, sit down and relax, NOTHING until i FIRST figure out what i am wearing to work the next day and iron it...once that is done, i can eat or whatever else...

2. when i go to sleep it has to be absolutely competely dark, and totally silent...i have to have all 3 locks and my top bar on my front door and my bedroom door has to be locked

3. i love my bathroom, like that is THE room that most relaxes me when I come home...i will just go in there and sit, read, look at mags all that stuff...i have even fallen asleep on the tiolet before...lol

4. i hate hair...like literally i hate hair...i would shave it all off if it didn't itch so friggin bad when it grows back...lol...i would have a cesar cut the whole nine if that wouldn't mean me looking like my brother

5. i can't do the "copied" CD/DVD/MOVIE thing...i have to buy the "real" thing...something about it makes me feel like its stealing (which it is) but also i need the inserts of the album, the credits, the extra screens on the DVD...i need to see the movie on the big screen not in my house

6. i love love love Harry Potter! I have all of the movies and I go see them, when they come out, ALONE on the first day...like i'll take off work or go doing lunch to see it...

7. i hate the heat...like hate heat...i will put the air on if its the least bit stuffy, take my lunch so i don't have to go outside in the heat for lunch...all that...sweat sucks...

8. i can't shower at night, it doesn't make sense to do so, becasue if i do, i still will have to shower in the morning becasue i sweat in my sleep no matter what I sweat...

9. i don't eat or allow anyone to eat on my dinning room table...its totally set up already and its clean and i don't want my wood messed up...so you eat sitting on the living room floor or standing up in the kitchen i don't care...just don't eat at my table

10. i have to change my comfoter set every 6 months or so, i mean like go out and buy a new set...i don't move furniture or anything, but i need my room to be different...so its like a spring/summer look and then there will be a fall/winter look...i know i know...

I don't think that is that weird but hey

Hump Day....

so today is like any other Wednesday, except for the fact that tomorrow i will be doing my first presentation EVER for my job and hosting 2-1 day meetings...

so needless to say i am extremely nervous, BUT at the same time, i am feeling pretty good because i have actually been on top of everything that needed to be done..

for my first meetingS, planning from beginning to end including the content, i think i am doing alright...

now just to make sure i stay this confident and do well with my presentation and taking notes and then final reports...

its funny to actually be at a job and really feeling like OK, I am making a name and career for myself...i have like a million and one projects going on at the same time, but yet i feel like i am staying on top of it all...pretty cool i think you know...

so here's to hump day being just that the middle of the week, last day in the office, and two days of meetings that little will always be done by 4 don't start until 9, and after tomorrow i will be just fine...(corny i know...)

but i am really excited about the content of both meetings and so being away from my computer my suck a little (but i can still check e-mail via my smart phone) but all in all...here's to moving up the career ladder here at work and getting more knowledge and experience in my new field!

yea me!!!!

UPDATE:

my presentation went GREAT! (that is what I was told by my direct supervisor, who also happens to be the Deputy Director of the Organization) she stated: that i did an EXCELLENT job, the presentation was GREAT and I ran the meeting like I owned it...i ran it with precision and was able to reach all of the meeting goals we left with clear next steps and objectives

all of the participants came up to me and told me how well i did...

now here's my review:

i think i did well, i talked through my presentation, made it conversational, didn't read from the slides, I kept the meeting running even when there were items that had been added, still got the next steps out of the group and still ended ON TIME...but there is ALWAYS room for improvement and although i was engaged i feel like i can be even more engaging once i really get my feet wet in the content area (EHR systems are new to me, to all of us...but I handled it)...

but all in all YEA ME!!!

tomorrow's meeting I run in terms of logistics and am only secondary in terms of content NOT the led, so I can chill now...HELLO!!!!