Today’s Story

There’s an excitement inside my soul tonight. A lingering, mysterious excitement.

I dunno. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I got a nice surprise this morning. I woke up at 8 am thanks to my noisy sons. Went out and picked up breakfast because we were out of breakfast foods and then ran by the bank. When I got back my son’s father called, “Wuzzup Ms. Tee, Get the boys ready, I’ll be by to pick them up in 30 minutes.”

When did he get into town?

Ofcourse that changed my entire plan of action. I WAS gonna take us to the barber shop because all of us need cuts and then I promised to take them to the carnival before going to work tonight. But GREAT, their daddy is here and he can do all that.

They were so excited when I told them that he was coming to get them. They love their daddy. They were jumping up and down and being extra good so that they would not get into trouble before he came. When I opened the door they ran out and gave him hugs and started jabbering away. I smiled as I watched this interaction. My boys do love their daddy. Their daddy loves them too.

As they drove away I realized that I would have the entire day to myself. Whoa! Pretty tight! I still needed a cut so I called my brother to see what time he would be at the shop. He didn’t answer. I decided to finally handle some personal business. I was nervous about checking up on it. See, when I quit my job at the newspaper and it took so long to find another one, I let my car insurance lapse. I just didn’t renew it. So I figured that by now my liscense should have been suspended. I’m pretty good at saving and I have enough money now to take care of it, so I logged on to the DMV website to check the status of my liscense.

YOUR LISCENSE IS VALID



Whose liscense is valid? Not mine. My insurance ran out last August.

I praised God and jumped around and then called my insurance agency. I told them I needed to create a new policy. A minute of silence and then the agent told me that my policy had never been inactive, meaning all this time I was driving around thinking I was driving HOT, I wasn’t. My policy doesn’t end until March of THIS YEAR and I owed just a couple hundred dollars to keep it current.

I paid the money and then changed my address from the one up in Gainesville. Damn. I shouldn’t have done that. The address change made my bill go up by ANOTHER $200 dollars. Yeah, auto insurance in Miami is ridiculous. But like my friend Nikki once told me, “If you ever have a problem that money can solve and you have money, then you don’t have a problem.” That is soooo real. So I just paid the damn bill and rolled on.

I sat back and smiled in a happy mood. I just have this feeling. This weird, happy feeling. Like I have a secret stash of diamonds that no one knows about.

I called my brother back and went over to his shop. I love my brother. His cuts are so precise. And he does a MIRACLE on my eyebrows. This time I actually paid him to compensate for all those other times I took my sons in and walked out without giving him a dime.

I then went over to see my girl. Hey, what’s an afternoon away from your kids without hanging with your friends? My girl Marsha was under the hair dryer when I got there. Her hair is ridiculously long and shiny. When she washes and sets her hair she has to sit for HOURS under the dryer, but I kept her company while she dried and we chatted about all kinds of girl stuff and I updated her on the latest men in my life, my job search and my boys.

Afterwards we went out to eat and vent over some amazing seafood about whatever was on our hearts and we challenged each other in a few personal areas. That’s what I appreciate most about my friends, we don’t always agree, that keeps us in right standing because no one’s actions are ALWAYS right.

After promising to get together next weekend to shop, I dropped her home and went home to take a quick nap before coming in to work. I think I may even hang out tonight after work.

So I’m here…and I decided to write today’s story.

You know, everyday has its own story. It’s all about deciding if you want to tell it.