FIVE OF DEEZ
Solitaire, Ruby and Suezette got me…
10 years ago…
Summer of 1995
Just turned 16. Permed my hair after having a curly perm since the 7th grade. Yes, I said it, I had a curly perm in the 90’s! Yuck! Thanks Mom. Somehow that summer I grew a booty. And I must have gotten fine cuz boys never paid any attention to me until I turned 16. I was a candy striper at Jackson Hospital. I was in love with my first real boyfriend Bernard and he loved me back. I still couldn’t date or talk on the phone with boys yet. Strict parents. I went to a SAT prep program at FIU called PIP (Partners In Progress). I met a lot of great women there. Including Susan who would introduce me to a relationship with Christ for the first time. We’re still friends to this day. It was also the first summer that I didn’t spend hanging out with my two bestfriends because Tamara got a job at Burger King and Anna went to Colorado to visit her Dad.
5 years ago…
Summer of 2000
Just turned 21. I was 8 months pregnant with my first child by this time. I had just moved into my first 1 bedroom apartment after moving out of an apartment I shared with my Baby Daddy. That summer was lonely. I wasn’t in school. I wasn’t working. I just sat around all summer praying and watching TV, waiting for the baby to come. I went to jail for the first and last time in my life after my Baby Daddy called 911 after we had words cuz he said I hit him. I should have hit him with a frying pan cuz the cops showed up and put me in handcuffs over that petty mess. I sat in the back of that squad car and my eyes met his. I couldn’t look away. Neither could he. He watched as the car drove away. Me looking at him. Him looking at me. Me big and pregnant. Going off to jail. I didn’t sleep that night.
1 Year ago…
Summer of 2004
Just turned 25. Had a good time for my birthday! Working at the Black newspaper here in Miami. Living with my Mama and lovin it… Live-in babysitter ya’ll. ~smile~ Check the archives for the rest cuz I don’t remember. LOL!
Yesterday…
July 18, 2005
Woke up late because my sons woke me up at 3am and WOULDN’T GO BACK TO SLEEP until 6am. Didn’t get into work until 10:30 and thankfully my Director didn’t even know because she was away at a meeting. YAY! I had lunch with my Black co-workers. There aren’t too many of us there. They were glad to have me sit with them because I usually go home and chat during lunch while I nibble on a bologna and cheese sandwhich. Yeah, I’m addicted. My bestfriend Anna called me while I was at work and we chit-chatted like nothing ever happened. As usual. Real friends don’t go anywhere, no matter what. Fixed my boys Tuna Helper for dinner, it was yummy. Let them go outside and ride their motorcycles until it got dark. Put them to bed. Spoke with Michael on the phone for an hour and a half. Wow. Spoke to Sylvia and Ruby too. Chatted with Leo, Reggie and Cymple– as usual. Went to bed feeling so happy and luxurious.
Today…
July 19, 2005
Wore my little shorts to work. It’s summer time, we can wear what we want. Cleaned out the storage room. Mailed out some letters. Emailed Val all day- she’s the BLOG TV GUIDE. She tells me what’s going on with ya’ll. Kim called me at work telling me that she was stalking her ex-boyfriend. I told her to take her silly behind home! On my way home for lunch a co-worker asked me if she could come with me. ~raises eyebrow~ Damn, now I can’t chat! But I said yes and let her come home with me. We sat and talked in my living room while I munched on some Honey Smacks. Went back to work and worked some more on this research project. I laughed all day while EMAIL after EMAIL came in telling me ALL YA’LL business from the little quiz I posted. I’m glad everyone was such a good sport about it. So you won’t feel so badly: Nearly EVERYONE GIVES HEAD according to the surveys. I’ll never reveal who does what though. I can keep a secret. ~wink~
Tomorrow…
July 20, 2005
More work and more chatting and more chasing the kids around! That’s my life!
Five Snacks I Enjoy
1) Snickers Bar
2) Cereal
3) Cheddar and Sour Cream Potatoe Chips
4) White Cheddar Pop Corn
5) Crawfish
Bands/Singers that I know the lyrics to (most) of their songs
1) Bone Thugs N Harmony
2) Boys II Men
3) Lauryn Hill
4) Luke- Scarred!
5) Jodeci
Things I Would Do with $100,000,000
1) Chile please…
Five locations I’d like to run away to
1) Miami
2) South Beach
3) Miami
4) ahh, pretty much anywhere there’s beaches and good seafood, darling…
Five Bad habits that I have
1) Chewing the side of my mouth when I’m concentrating
2) Leaving my dirty clothes on the floor
3) Not washing dishes until there are no clean ones left
4) Drinking to get drunk
5) Cutting men off if they don’t excite me within 24 hours.
Things I like doing
1) Blogging
2) Waking up to my sons smiles
3) Playin the “mama” role
4) Talking on the phone with any of my girls
5) Eating out
Five Things I Would Never Wear
1) Halter top
2) Baggy jeans
3) Jersey
4) Timberlands
5) Baseball cap- yuck
Five TV shows I like
1) Being Bobby Brown
2) Animaniacs
3) Blowin Up Fatty Koo
4) Malcolm in the Middle
5) Anything on the HGTV
Five Movies I like
1) The Color Purple
2) My Bestfriend’s Wedding
3) A Bronx Tale
4) Love Actually
5) Grease
Five Famous People I’d Like to Meet
1) Oprah
2) Terry McMillan
3) Shaunie ONeal
4) P. Diddy
5) Eva The Diva
(I’d give them all my resume. I’m looking for a mentor)
Biggest joys at the Moment
1) My beautiful home – I love coming home everyday
2) Idle time- I have time to relax and enjoy being me
3) My sons- They are growing so much and they adore me
4) My friends- No words can express my love for my girls
5) My relationship with my sister- I never knew we would grow to be this close
My Favorite Toys
1) My computer ofcourse
2) My cell phone
3) My intercome radio that is installed in every room of my house
4) My Direct TV- all them damn channels man!
5) My Swiffer Wet Jet Mop
Whoa… I’m so glad I’m done.
TTYL.