Wow! This is a special day on my blog. It is my 201st post!
I’ve been doing a lot of writing and sharing, at first with myself, then with whoever happens to stop by.
The weekend is always a beautiful time for me. Sometimes it’s a little frustrating because I have to plan things for me and my boys to do together so we won’t be sitting up in the house all day, but when I have new ideas it’s GREAT!
Today we invaded one of my cousin’s house and I relaxed in a lounge chair under a tree while my boys played with all of the kids toys, rode bikes and collected snail shells. It’s amazing what kids find entertaining. I had to laugh as I pretended to be fascinated at the pile of snail shells that the kids were gathering. I had to get up and act scared of a couple of lizards that wondered by. And I had to make sure that the older kids weren’t leaving my two-year-old out of the fun.
I always treat my boys to lunch on the weekend. And every weekend it’s something different. My older son had seen the commercial for some toy at Burger King so he asked to go there. I’m used to his little trick by now. I used to think he really was hungering for a specific type of food, but really he wants the toy he saw on TV. I got him the kids meal, which he didn’t eat, but he’s having a blast with the toy.
We came home, took a delicious three hour nap (my favorite part of the day) and woke up to some great smelling chicken and rice that my Mom had cooked. We ate, played a little and then went out visiting. We visited my girl Tamara, my bestfriend from highschool and then stopped by to see one of my aunt’s, (I have 7 on my Mom’s side). By the time we finished playing and laughing it was 10pm and I rushed home and put the boys to bed.
Last night I went out with Tamara to Bahama Breeze for dinner. If there is one in your area you should definately visit. This was my third trip to Bahama Breeze, I’ve been to one in three different cities in Florida and I am never dissappointed. They have this fruity drink called a Bahamarita which will get you feeling nice.
Tamara and I went out there and enjoyed the atmosphere. The restaurant is always crowded and busy. There is a deck outside where a live musician plays that adds to the ambience. We were both looking pretty precise and feeling really good. We just laughed the night away as we reminisced about our college days. We didn’t go to the same school, she went to Florida State ~BOOOOO!~ and I went to the best school on the planet, University of Florida. But during the first two years of our college careers, I was ALWAYS in Tallahassee visiting her so most of our early college memories are the same.
Tamara filled me in on her latest suitor- ANOTHER NFL football player. How she does it, I don’t know. And she doesn’t even like football players, she just meets them at the most random places and they end up telling her that they play professional football.
Oh yeah, I haven’t mentioned my girl Anna in a while. She’s off of her crutches! Anna was supposed to come out with us but she was too tired from working. My girl is a teacher during the day, at night she goes to school, and then at 11pm she goes to her second job and works all night until 7am. Then she showers and goes back to work at the school. Not to mention she has a 4 year old daughter who just started pre-K. I don’t see how she does it. She just text messaged me saying she wishes she was at home sleeping. She’s doing all of this working because she really wants to get her own place. She has been living with her Mom all of her life and honestly in Miami, it’s VERY difficult to maintain the kind of lifestyle that we maintained in college. I don’t know ANYONE here who has their own spot. Rent is EXTREMELY high. So, unless you want to live in the pj’s, you’re gonna be stuck with your Mama for a while.
I pray that doesn’t happen to me. I did receive a job offer you guys. It’s with an integrated media firm on South BEACH baby! They want me to be an operations coordinator, which is basically an event planner for their company which caters to the travel industry, providing services for elite hotels, destinations and cruises. They publish magazines, books, contribute to The Beach Channel and lots of other ventures.
Their office is beautiful. Just four streets away from Ocean Drive. When I went for my first interview I had to take the expressway and I didn’t even get lost. When I saw the building it was beautiful. I walked up to the 2nd floor and almost fell out. I had suddenly transported myself to Melrose Place or something. The office was decorated like something out of a magazine. I didn’t even want to sit on the furniture, it was so precise. No one was wearing business suits or ties. The ladies rocked plain t-shirts, jeans and heels with a scarf flung carelessly around their necks. Everyone was beautiful too. I never saw so many delicious looking white guys in one place. There was only one other black guy that I saw and he was a cutie too. After my interview I mentiones to the woman that everyone around here was georgeous. She replied with a laugh. “It’s a prerequisite to work for us.” I slam-dunked that first interview. Interviews are my specialty. If I were a product I would always be sold out. I am great at convincing others to believe in my dream.
I must admit I am a little apprehensive about this position because during my second interview, the hiring manager told me that I am overqualified for the position and with all of my creativity in writing and speaking, she is afraid that I would become bored quickly with this job. She wants me to join the team but this one position can not hold all of my talents and she doesnt want me to quit after I get bored. Aww man.. I wish she hadn’t said that.
But it’s not like I can turn a job down, I have goals and not to mention KIDS. But it will lower my stock if I continue to hop from job to job. I have to find a place that I can stay at for at least a year. As much as I can sell myself to employers, it doesn’t look good to be so flighty in your employment history. Potential employers want to see stability and longevity.
This is a power move that I need to make. So…I’m hoping that before I start this job, one of my other job potentials will come through. One of the jobs that I am really excited about, which I won’t mention unless I get an offer. But if not, maybe things will work out for the best and I will love this company just as much as I loved working for the newspaper. It seems like a good opportunity to prove myself in yet another area of communications.
I love Miami.
