The Right Fit to be Happy

Finding Mr Right.....or whatever the case may be....is never as easy as it seems in the movies.  And just when you think you've found him, the world throws something new at you.  I turn 26 in a very fast moving two and a half months and as my close circle is all around the same age we've all gotten to a place of wanting to understand what's out there for us.  Be it jobs, money, love, entrepreneurship, or disaster.  We, like many this age just want to know what were walking into.

The subject was brought up by Smith*(names changed to protect the innocent) that he found himself being okay with family life over drinking and video games, cause he found the right one.  Where as a lot of others are still in a relationship but out doing the same trifling things they did as a single person.  But there's the ticket Smith found the right one.  Which made me of course mentally evaluate my past "one" Jimbo*, and well to glaze over that blip on the radar...he wasn't satisfied with just being at home.  At the time, as humans do, I questioned why Jimbo wasn't happy in our relationship, what could I do to make it work.  (Jill Scott's story line from "Why Did I Get Married") but realizing now, nothing I could have done would have made it work, he wasn't the right man for me and I not the right woman for him.

Wanting

I want you to feel for me 
What deep inside I feel for you
I wish there was a way
To show you
I don't know if I need you
My minds to scared to even let that be an option
My heart hides from what 
The pain of need could bring
I want you to be there
When everyone else has vanished
Be the uplifter 
And let me uplift you
I want to share secrets
Passions
Dreams
With no holding back
I want to lay beside you
Listen to your snores 
And peacefully drift off to sleep every night
Am I wrong to want more from this
To want 
To hope
Am I wrong to question 
To wonder what this means
To you
If it means anything at all
I want you to feel
I want to feel what you feel
The doors ahead
Lead me in very different directions
Different paths to let my soul take
Maybe what I want
Is just that a want
Something never meant to be
Never to come true


But I want anyway..................................................................................

Journeys....and Experiments

Happy Birthday Austin!!!!!

Not sure if he reads it but, always shout out your friends birthdays.

Anyway......Today I set out on a grand search for supplies to help get my business(Dulce Perla Jewels) organized.  Apparently going from hobby to business means you acquire a LOT of different pieces.  Little bits of every project I have ever done are wandering around; many of which I'm absolutely in love with and need to order more of asap....Funny how you can't remember which items you liked when everything is a chaotic mess.

So off to Greenbelt I went....Which turned into me going to Aspen Hill, and debating a trip to Laurel.  Also known as, "hmmm, maybe I DO need a car" but whatever thank you WMATA, alll my trains and buses were running on time and possibly even a little ahead of schedule, fine by me I was a woman on a mission.

An Open Letter....

To whom it may concern:

I'm writing to all media broadcasting companies.  To the Presidents, Hosts, viewers, producers....everyone.  Please stop showing the faces of killers on our televisions when you talk of the crimes they committed.  For every broadcast, speaking specifically of the recent shootings in Aurora, that you show this criminals face he's getting exactly what he wanted.  Exposure.  Show a picture of Aurora, a picture of one of the candlelight vigils.  Show images of people coming together after the fact to hold each other up through this terrible time.  But just stop pandering to the wants, and wishes of criminals.

Why should his image be displayed over and over again?  What has he done to warrant such attention?  Nothing positive; so why give it to him?  I may be alone in this matter but I for one would rather see a blank background accompanying articles related to him.  There is no good that can come from giving him more exposure.  He's a human being who did a terribly, disgusting and most of all cowardly thing yet daily his face is everywhere.

Where are the stories and the faces of the people trying to make sense out of all of this?  Lets stop focusing on the killer and focus more on the amazing heroic moments that occurred on that night.  Give some attention to the community as a whole that is now shaken.  For once can we focus on something other than the perpetrator?  It seems we as a society are always so quick to latch on to the story of the guilty party instead of the stories of the innocent.  So lets change that.  And lets focus on the innocent parties and not the guilty.  Show me a community holding themselves together, don't just move on to the next story and forget about all of the people affected.

Sincerely
Someone Asking for a Change

Life Processing Stage 1 of infinity

Keeping with this new phase in life, I've delved into my own version of coaching.  Because well, before I go telling someone else all I wanna see different in my life I gotta start by telling it to myself.

Journals, blogs, drawings, crazy wall art(when permitted space).....its all coming together to mean.....well that  is exactly what I'm finding out...what does it all mean.

New decision...to bare knuckle attack my life...okay that sounds weird.  I want to have my week in review look like this one Week in Review Epicness  That is serious movement happening.

Step 1:: Clean house!  Not your typical definition of cleaning, more going through all the web links, pins, bookmarks, highlighted areas, and random scraps I've kept and condense them down to a functional flow of creation....

Step 2::  SPACE!! I need to find a design space because seriously....taking over the living room is not quite what I envisioned.

Well in the meantime....

(yep I made a logo for my sign off)

Really ma'am you brought your own tea??

Scenario(copied from an earlier facebook post)::

                             

                 Why wait until we basically kick you out of the shop to say....sorry i have a food allergy and can't eat certain things...shouldn't you have mentioned that when the OWNER first approached you?? Instead of catching a b*itch attitude like he was in the wrong???

I'm pretty positive there is at least one natural food cafe in the DC area that doesn't mind you bringing in your own drink mixes and teas etc etc....but they've probably already got it there to SELL to you...cause that what businesses do they sell you products and you sit and use the wi-fi....not you bring in food and use the wi-fi for free.....come on hun think!


So that's what I dealt with today.  Its not so much a matter of you having a food allergy and wanting to venture out in public, its your attitude when spoken to about not making your own drinks in our establishment.   No doubt the whole thing could of gone down much easier, we probably even have a tea thats safe for you to consume...there's like 15 options....  I can't imagine going to IHop and pulling out some OJ and pancakes from home, then buying a sprite cause I was told I wasn't a customer.

Now I'll be honest, in the yester years of my Howard education, there were many a cram session at Starbucks fueled by Wings over Washington...however we shared with the staff and bought as a unit about 7-9 drinks while we were there.  And we always, ALWAYS asked first just in case it wasn't a good move(district manager in town etc.)

Keep good habits when visiting your local community businesses....I'm done ranting for now time to start closing up shop

Stay caffeinated folks!!!

This is truly sad....

Please watch this video 

The disrespect and mistreatment of not just a Veteran, but of a HUMAN is insane.

And on top of which

That people could kick a service animal is terrible

For the written version 

Full Article Here

Luckily this is being investigated and not just overlooked

DOT Investigating Allegations Against United

What is coming to the world we live in? Deaths, murders, addictions, discourteous human beings...