I AM my hair! WHY???!!!!

So here is the deal...I don't really like hair NEVER HAVE....I cut my hair around graduation and now its in this little funky stage....and I don't like it!

To be honest if I could just cut my hair totally and completely off and just rock it like this I totally would....


NOW I would NOT have the painted on curls but I would rock this seriously!

But I can't my father would absolutely DIE if I did this...he would so think I was confused or he may actually think that I am trying to be mean to him...being the ONLY girl anything that I do or do NOT do that has to deal with MY Femininity...my father takes personal...(I am thinking that I may need to write a blog about our crazy, YET LOVING, relationship...)so me cutting my hair totally OFF would cause him, my brothers, and even my mother to have a total fit....

ITS REALLY NOT worth the HEADACHE...AND I am being dramatic as usual but still.....THEN what if I really don't like it...it would probably take YEARS for my hair to grow back....

I don't want braids right now, maybe I will get a weave and look like this:



Ok Ok...I am NOT Delusional I KNOW I am NO Be...and I wouldn't color my hair...but the style in general people....

I don't know what I am going to do guys....my birthday is Thursday and my hair is a complete MESS a HOT MESS so something has got to give for my hair appointment tomorrow...really it does....I can't take it...I really can't...

Side Note: Yes...HAIR is a serious issue for women..I can't wait to get my hair done tomorrow I am just OFF because my hair isn't done...I can't take it

My heart is like a marching band....

So we all KNOW how much I love music and that there is a WHOLE LONG list of artists that I truly love....

But this summer there are a few that are standing out to me...

I am not going to go into all of them...but ONE group in particular who I have LOVED since their Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik days....
and that group ladies and gentlemen:

OutKast

They are bringing it...they got the movie, the new music...and I am ready and waiting...

There new single from the Idlewild CD/soundtrack (since its named after the movie and comes out the same week I think of it as a soundtrack to the movie)...

Morris Brown ROCKS to me....I mean it really just ROCKS...I love the hook, the production, the rap...I just am really feeling this song....and I really think that the video is cute...Bryan Barber does it again...I am feelin it but you be the judge



This just really gets me HYPED up for the movie...its going to be crazy....


So the movie a MUST see....
the Soundtrack a MUST purchase...

YES that sums it up pretty much...

I am NOT my hair...at least let's hope so...

Ok...so I will admit that there are certain things in this life that I just don't have..certain female skills that you know most girls growing up in Forestville MD (blatant stereotype right) you would think that I would have...

One of thing that I can NOT do is my own hair or nails...

I just have never been a at home hair care kinda girl...

But due to various budgetary reasons...tonight I am going to venture into this deep abyss of hair I don't know how or what will happen...but I promise you that it will not be pretty...

So with that said...I pray that what the song says, I am not my hair and I won't be judged by the hideous concoction that is about to ensue....

TRUST this will NOT end pretty....LOL

Hollywood's hottest investments

The actor with the highest return on investment for movie studios? It's not Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Johnny Depp or even Ben Stiller....

Believe it … Tyler Perry.

This is a VERY interesting acticle on how the Hollywood numbers game really works...

Fightin' the Funk

O K...
So I understand that it's Monday...a beautiful DC Monday in fact for July...
Anyways...so I have been in a funk all day and I received this message and just wanted to post it....

Facts,tidbits and thoughts to ponder about life:
WOWs (Words Of Wisdom)

- What you know determines how far you go. Your success will be determined by your knowledge. What do you know? Who do you hang with? Get people around you who know something. The Bible says we perish for lack of knowledge. People that understand great landscape will have greener grass. You are either strengthened or limited by your knowledge. GET IN THE KNOW.

-Rev Run

- Don’t take life so seriously. Life is a game. Play to win. If you loose today, there’s always tomorrow. When problems arise, try to figure it out but don’t complain. Get out there and work hard, have fun, and relax. It always works out in the end.

-Rev Run

- Learn to take responsibility for everything that happens in your life. The problem with many people is they think circumstances or people can block their blessings. But your blessings start and end with you. Say these words everyday and begin to free yourself: No one is doing anything to me but me.

-Rev Run


J.K thoughts:

No one is in control of you but you. We control how we act and react to things. We control how we treat people, how we think, how we eat, who we hang around, how much knowledge we gain and the list goes on. It is important that we understand that we have control of our lives and that which ever way we want life to go is our decision. So we must be careful of our thoughts because our thoughts become our actions, be careful of our actions because our actions become our character, be careful of our character because our character is who we are. My mother has always said in life there are a right and a wrong way to do things. Initially, you can get the same results by doing both but eventually when you’re doing things the wrong way you’ll have to start all over, so why not just do it the right way from the beginning. I have personally done both, however, God has revealed to me that there are no short cuts in life. God will take you back to the beginning over and over again until you do things the right way or you will have a life full of HELL. Honestly, when I do things the right way I am a better person. I sleep better not having to worry about whether things will go right and I really feel good knowing that it may have taken me longer to do something but I know that it won’t come back to haunt me. So because of that I only want people around me who will encourage me to do what is right and actually do the right things themselves. Therefore, when we see each other doing the wrong thing we can say stop and check yourself because you’re out of line.

Peace and Blessings

J.K.


Now you may not agree with this totally, some, or none...take from it what you will and enjoy the rest of your day...

One of 'em days....

So today I am having one of 'em days...
nothing to really complain about per se, but I am just in a mood...I have a headache, I am tired and I just don't feel like be bothered...

Now the thing that makes this day unlike any other day is because although its a Friday and my office is closing an hour early, I still have a ton of things that I need to do in order to get ready to go out of town tonight...including going over to my parents home to see if what the mechanic said the other day is in FACT TRUE and I DO in fact need NEW tires!!!!

Maybe that's what the issue is...it just seems like every time I turn around I have to spend money on something...no, that's not it, I don't stress over money...I spend it on whatever else I want to spend it on...so what is it...
I have no idea I am just in a funky mood, a funk, I have an attitude and I need to check it and get it together but then again....

Why should I why do I have to be happy all the time, why can't I just be (well I did say I was in a funk and not just trying to be...there is a difference)...I don't maybe because that's not my personality...but man I have been in this funky little mood all week since Sunday...just tired mentally, physically, emotionally...just tired...and I know that we all get like this at times but geeze...


You know what I know what I need....a good loooonnnnggggg nap...man that would be so GREAT right about now....

Well, have a GREAT weekend everyone...and if you see my girl Ni...wish her a Happy Birthday!
Peace & Blessings.....

So you finally came to see us????

So today after being in office for FIVE and a HALF Years, Bush decided that he was going to go and address the NAACP at their National Convention.

This basically I do NOT have a problem with, you recognize that the black vote is really important and has been truly underestimated by your party so you want to reticfy this and come and speak...

"I understand that racism still lingers in America," Bush said. "It's a lot easier to change a law than to change a human heart. And I understand that many African-Americans distrust my political party....I consider it a tragedy that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historical ties with the African-American community. For too long, my party wrote off the African-American vote, and many African-Americans wrote off the Republican Party."

Bush went on to state that for nearly two centuries, America "failed the test of extending the blessings of liberty to African Americans," saying that slavery was legal for nearly 100 years and discrimination legal for nearly 100 more. He said slavery put a "stain on America's founding, a stain we have not yet wiped clean."

I guess my thing is that I don't want it to get twisted (confused) we understand that this is a push for you to gain political support from the Black community amidst all of the economic and political turmoil that has taken place with the last term of your presidency.

NO, you coming to visit the NAACP's Annual Conference, ONCE will NOT gain you any more votes....then again it may sway a couple of folks...who knows...

NO, you coming to see us will not make us think that the present situation(s) in the Middle East is OK

NO, you coming to see us with Condi does not make us think that your policies will help the middle class or the poor (and that is outside of a race thing) we still believe that your policies are to help the rich....

(and the list of NOs can go on and on but I will stop there....no one more)

NO, you coming and talking about the Senate needing to renew the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and extending this for another 25 years, does NOT excuse the fact that MY (OUR) voting rights will have to be up for debate YET AGAIN in another 25 YEARS, leaving me to feel like a second class citizen who will NEVER have the same rights as other Americans...just because of the color of my skin and because I am a woman....

NO its NOT ok...

make the Civil Right Act of 1965 an amendment to our US Constitution and then we can talk, as it has been previously done before, make it Amendment XXIX

Now, don't get me wrong, I respect our national government and do recognize that we have more freedoms than most...I respect the fact that we get to "choose" who are national leaders are...and have 'basic freedoms and rights' For example, if it wasn't for The Bill of Rights and my Right to Free Speech
which allows me to express myself freely and write this post

I mean as 'up in the air' as things are...I am proud to be an African (Black) American....American...I am a TRUE product of this melting/mixing pot...I am just waiting on the true mixing to begin...Rich and poor, White and black...man and woman....parent and child...when is the mixing going to truly begin?!

And the actions of the last couple of weeks have very dishearting and frustrating....and has only confirmed for me...something that I already knew and that the president himself knows:

"racism is still VERY much alive"

Only keeping the mixing at a stand still...and I wonder if "it" will ever fully go away....will we ever really be
"WE THE PEOPLE"