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Here's to Keeping Keeping Promises. . .

. . .to myself.

I made a couple of resolutions this year. Those were my main, public goals. To myself, I promised to get out more. More specifically, to go to a social event 2 times a month.

I went to a Jazz cafe for my birthday and a networking dinner for a professional group I belong to. At this dinner, I met a nice young man who had just completed his MBA. I felt confident and cute. I was flirtatious and witty, even if I must say so myself! lol

I don't know where this confidence came from but I am loving it. At the end of the dinner, the guy shook my hand and gave me his card. I gave him mine. He has not called yet but that is beside the point. The point is I got out and was sociable and . . .fearless.

Secondly, I promised the Lord, if he blessed me with a job (and He did) I would volunteer. I wanted to use the talents God has given me to give back.

Well, I have an audition coming up for a group that records reading material for the blind. I really would like to do this. Just to show how God is always working things out, I'll tell this little story.

I get to the reading center, the volunteer coordinator is giving me a tour of the facilities. I see the name of a friend's husband's friend's wife. You follow?

I helped this loose contact a couple of months ago with a clothing swap fundraiser for her playhouse. I had NO idea she was the book coordinator for the reading for the blind facility. She has worked with them for 23 years!!!

Hopefully, this is where God wants me to be.

Also, my goal is to be faithful at the house of God. I think I know what church to go to now.

Where are you on resolutions?

Stay prayerful guys.

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May all of your BEST DREAMS COME TRUE.

That is my wish for 2010. There are no deaths, just marriages and births!!!!!!!!!!!! There is no job loss, just increase and houses built!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are no excuses, just go-getters making it happen.

Never one for resolutions but I am happy for new beginnings. I am also grateful for the past.

Soooo in 2010, I look forward to:

1. Completing my novel
2. GRADUATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3. Debt elimination
4. All of you being around for the ride!

What are your expectations for 2010?

My Twitter Ramblings

Twitter is a funny little world. There are celebrities, businesses, regular folk and bloggers all mixing it up with one another.

It's also peculiar that everyone feels the need to dispense wisdom via a 140 characters. I started a little meem entitled #causeimdeep. Here are a few proverbs from www.twitter.com/Talulazoeapple

I listen to Sade when I clean #Causeimdeep

I drink tea with my pinky cup while day dreaming #Causeimdeep

I tweet about other people's drama and not my own #causeimdeep

I saw a dead squirrel on ,my walking trail, I poured out a little water in memorium #causeimdeep

Trust in the Lord and lean not 2 ur own understanding. In all thy ways acknowldge him, and He shall direct thy paths #causeimdeep

I put lol at the end of sentences when I am really serious about what I just wrote. #causeimdeep (lol)

Love is like Jello, and there's always room for Jello #causeimdeep

If u get caught in the rain, remember the sun will shine again #causeimdeep

If an elevator misses ur floor, you have an extra ride to get it right #causeimdeep

See I mixed in a few serious tweets with my jokes. . .  #Causeimdeep

Follow me on Twitter!!!!!!!

Things I Saw On My Sunday Walk

Today I decided to do a picture story. You can fill in the ending.

  
On my walk I looked for signs,

Signs of life, Signs of the time.

I saw a purple flower, surrounded by a sea of gold.

I saw warnings. Yet I pressed forward.

Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.

Is there anything sadder than a Christmas tree in the daytime, before Thanksgiving without lights?

The sign states that all pets should be on a leash. LOL

Does Skin Complexion Matter That Much?

I hate issues of dark-skinned versus light-skinned but recent events have sparked this post.

Someone on Twitter posted that Jennifer Hudson was cast to play Winnie Mandela in a new biopic. The response by @Olwee:

 

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Winnie's was never that fat or dark! RT @KhanyaMkangisa: Jennifer Hudson to play Winnie Mandela. Nxa What are your thoughts on that?

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Really? The first thing you can think of when it comes to Winnie Mandela is her complexion? Really? Not the fight against apartheid? Not the fight for her husband's freedom? Her complexion?

Yeah and this comes from a sista  gay guy who, you guessed it, is the complexion of Jennifer Hudson.

Why?

In other unrelated skin complexion news. . . a woman (Caucasian) called me light-skinned for the second day in a row.

Really? When did ya'll start using that term? LOL

It was kinda weird cause I am not really "light-skinned"; maybe Barack Obama's complexion. She first said it when trying to describe a guy who she knows who works at the gym I attend. Which is fine, I guess, but she then contrasts it with a woman who had come in earlier for an interview who she described as, "DARK!" She really emphasized dark.

Okay, today she states it again in contrast to an African lady that works there whom she does not like. She said it like she was relieved I was not THAT DARK.

Really?

Am I trippin' or does this all seem odd to you too?

Blogging Is So Like Exercise. . .

. . .it's so hard to start back up after a long break, but it feels so good after you're done.

**WARNING**This post is filled with odds and ends.

I completed my semester. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 "A's" and a "B". One more semester people and it's a wrap.

Was at the grocery store and saw the foxiest sixty-ish year old woman alive. She had on a fur coat, mini-skirt, high- heels, and a head wrap. I wanted to yell at her, "Momma, you betta weeerrrkkk!!!!"

Where is Usher? Why isn't he singing songs? I am so sick of these new R&B guys with whiny voices and no abs!!!! LOL!

I am really feeling working out at the "real" gym. Since school is out, I am gonna try to go more than twice a week.

I was gonna do a post about the "Michaeljacksonfication" of Sammy Sosa, but every time I look at this picture, I get grossed out.

 

So is Vivica Fox dating 50 cent again? If so, why? Didn't he totally diss her on Howard Stern or something?

Anyway, what's up in your world?
 

How Exciting Is My Life?

(sarcasm)

I drove all the way to Fort Worth Texas for my class to partake in the slendiforousness of the Will Rogers Memorial Center.

Who is Will Rogers, you ask? Well, he my friend is an actor, activist, and rodeo/lasso champ. Read more here (it is actually pretty interesting.)

(/sarcasm)

Real talk, I do want to visit a rodeo this year. LOL

P.S. Don't be jealous. LOL

Is RHOA Sheree Whitfield Suffering From Depression?

I always search for the logic in everything? I was a ban in the side of my math teachers in grammar school. I did not want to know just how to find the answer but what was the logic behind the equation. What can I tell you, I went to public school.

Anyhoo, back to the point og the post. I love watching the Real Housewives of Atlanta. These chicas are OTT. . .and I love it.

However, I was really disappointed in their appearance of Ellen. The ladies took what could have been a transformational moment and made complete butts of themselves. . .at least Kim and Sheree did.

A little background, Kim and Sheree had a really public fight in which Sheree tugged on Kim's wig. I guess this was Kim's way of getting back at her by telling the world she bounces checks on Ellen.

And Sheree flips the heck out! LOL

I should not laugh but if something is not true, why argue?

I could not help thinking that all of that yelling and cursing Sheree does is a symptom of her very public and humiliating divorce. I mean your famous husband stops paying your mortgage and you get evicted. You are accused of bouncing checks, your clothing line is tanking. I think I would be a tad bit angry too.

So depression, is that logical reason for such raucous behavior.

Funny Tidbit

I was watching The View this morning and Joy "officially the weakest link" Behar had the nerve to joke that Susan Boyle would be on all the talk shows in the US but not America's Next Top Model.

Really, Joy, really?!

Talk about the pot calling the kettle, well, you know.

AHHHHHHH!!!!!!! and other STUFF!!!

I have spent literally all day working on technical issues with my beloved PC. My virus software was non-functional and that caused errors with my other virus software. All of this meant no computer use or internet with someone with two blogs, a twitter, eBay, and online classes.

AHHHHH!!!!!!!!

There is a praise report in all of this. Read further.

So I take my laptop to Office Depot against my better judgment because they have this free PC checkup. I am worrying I have a virus and my identity is being swiped as I drive. I get there and this girl tries to help me.

Lord knows, I try not to be judgmental. Lord knows, I know that I am not perfect, BUT . . .

How am I supposed to take computer advise from someone with a quick-weave and gold teeth? Not tooth, TEETH. How do you even get a customer service job? For realz.

Like I said, I don't judge so I wait patiently for this girl to go through all of her scripts and whatnot. She tells me I have a million things wrong and that it will cost $150 bones to fix.

What the devil?

Sista, you may be right but the combo of hair and teeth are screaming, NOT AN EXPERT!!!!

For real, I was not trying to pay that, esp. when that's my exact budget for this class I am selling stuff on eBay to take.

Anyway, I come home and began to pray, Lord you are gonna have to help me figure this out. And listen people God answers prayer.

I literally spend hours running PC checks, manually restarting Windows Defender (new trick I learned today). I learned about open ports and whole lot of other stuff that maximized my PCs performance. All of this a by=product of my original dilemma.

Turns out my virus software was out-of-date. I just had to log-in on their website and download the newer version. Worked like a charm.

I still have my $150 in the bank.

Take that devil!