Felis Cumpeleanos!!!

..or something like that!! So I'm a year older!! I can't complain and things are good! I have a few minor alterations to iron out, but that will all come in due time! One year down, Lord willing, many, many, many, many (ok, did I stress that enough) more years to go!!! I'm so thankful and grateful for God blessing me with yet another year!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Happy Thanksgiving...Yes I'm late...but oh well!!
This year has been really great! The normal culprits still top the list– family, close friends, my health, the health and happiness of those I love, etc, etc.. However, the list I’m going to compile for you today are those things that I may not always express my thanks for, the things I am more apt to complain and whine about. At the end of the day, my problems are not that big, and if looked at them in the correct light, they actually have blessings written all over them.

1. my job...I didn't actually like my job at first, but it really has major and almost incredible perks. I have vacation time that is exceptional. A week off for Thanksgiving, 2 weeks off for Christmas, Spring Break, and summer...it's like I'm still in college, except I get paid!

2. the economy sucks...well it does and there is a recession and all that other jazz; except I haven't actually been feeling it so much. I still travel, shop, fine dine, and splurge on the occasional "necessities" I feel I deserve.

3. i'm about to be a year older...trust me, it's clearly better than the opposite!

4. i'm still single...however, I am single by choice; I am thinking of changing this status really soon ;) though. There are major perks to being single- no unnecessary drama being at the top of my list, the added bonus being instead of one birthday, Christmas, or Valentines gift. I get several.

5. i'm flat-chested...there are push-up bras that are my quick-fix love!

6. my computer is acting up...I have an I-phone that serves the same purpose I really need my computer for

I suppose my point for this blog is that I'm pleased with my life and I really don't have anything not to be grateful or thankful for!

Bringing in the 44th President of the United States

This is such a historic night that I am pleased to be apart of!!! I already knew this evening would come, I saw it back when he first announced that he was running for the highest honored and most prestigious office; but to see it come into fruition is even better than how I dreamt it!
I have a President that looks like me. He can relate to what I struggle with and he's smart and admirable and has integrity.
Message***One thing America has to understand is that this man is not some super savior that will change the outcome of the American economy over night. It won't take 4 years, as he's stated throughout his campaign; but the greatest achievement he will and has already brought to our counrty is hope for what is to come and the change that has been needed since the conceptualization of this great country.***
Race shouldn't be a factor, as this man is clearly just the best person for the job! God bless Barack Obama, his family, and the United States of America.

Things I do for Change!

So today is Halloween right!?!


I have been planning to early vote since...well everyday! I've been really busy with work though, so I hadn't been able to get a free minute. Well today is the last day, so I decided to take half a day off from work to go and make a difference in the country by voting.


Okay...long story short, at my one job, it's Drug-Free week and today is the day the staff could dress up for Halloween. This is a first that I've been able to do this and I wanted to be a team player, so I came dressed as a Tiger. Well due to me leaving early from work, and dumbingly (if that is even a word) thinking I could quickly run in and vote, then get something to eat, and then change to go to my next job; I went straight to the voting poll. HAHA!!!!


The joke was seriously on me, as I pulled up and saw the line wrapped around the library twice!!! UGH! I wanted to collapse right there. This was the last day to early vote, and if the lines were this long during early voting...I could just imagine how long they would be on election day! So, I stood in line-

...and yes I even had on the tail!! Many people did love my costume and I got a lot of praise for how creative it was from the people in the polls! LOL

I'm in Love

Have you ever been in love?!

The consumable, uncontrollable, and most definitive feeling in the world. I'm not talking about the type of love that is known when a mother loves her son, or the love of a bestest friend, or even the love of a pet; I'm talking about the love that is not forced or innate, it's nurtured over time like a seed planted in fertile ground and watered and lit by the light of the sun, so it grows healthy, strong and full bloom.

I have found my true love...REAL love. Kind, patient, not boastful, or envious, or proud. I am in LOVE!!

I've known it for awhile and only now have the courage or the words to put it down.

I am so in love I'm smiling as I write this blog. I smile with the thought, I smile daydreaming, I smile driving to meet up. I get butterflies; just like we've never met, even though we are old friends...

There has been some distance between us. But you know they say, in love, the shortest distance is too far and the greatest distance can be bridged. We have had many mishaps and misunderstandings, stumbling blocks and trip ups; as most do. Wounds have been healed, bones have been mended. Sometimes the pace gets hectic and crazy, sometimes we get a little offbeat, but we've learned to improvise, keep smiling, keeping it moving. We've settled into a really satifying groove. It is so always the greatest feeling in the world to know love is recipricated. I have learned to go with the flow and move in a steady rhythm. So the music can be turned up, the tempo can change; but my LOVE remains constant.

Ode to Summer '08

This blog happens to be inspired from my dear friend Kym.

The summer has come to an end. Inevitably it was due. Because my main profession is a teacher...it is my years thrill to enjoy summers!!!

Summer 2008 was awesome! It began with some slight down time...I attended two of my linesisters weddings at the beginning of June and then I was off to South Beach, Florida!! I had the best time with some of my old highschool friends...it was something like a reunion since, now; in our careers, we hardly get to vacation with one another. We stay'd on Ocean drive just feet away from the Versace Mansion, lounged on the beach by day taking in the atlantic ocean, ate crablegs at every outdoor patio resturant we could find, drank daquiries, mimosas' and mixed drinks from the time we woke up to the time we fell asleep, ate breakfast at 4:00am around the time we went to bed...popped bottles at the hottest nightclubs of the night, danced in the night air and had twilight conversations...

Industry mixers were next in the lineup...american woman in radio and television, all white-parties, wine and food tastings, and my ever fascinating Monday Happy Hours! Scattegories, watermelon vodka and cranapple juice on ice or red wine...whichever my taste buds called for, Taylor's

Summer Camp...I never went as a child always wanted to go and I went as an adult and got paid to be there! horseback riding, boating, jet skis, slides, mango tango, teenage mutant ninja turtle, high school musical, pasta alfredo

Next on the summer line up was brunches, shopping and Viva Las Vegas!! Golden nugget, all-u-can eat buffets and open bars, underwater aquarium water slides, poinsettas, downtown, dueces, sights, sounds, 40/40, playboy, popping bottles, moet and chandon, the man of the hour

Close to the end came the start of birthday celebrations, of old and new, jumping toys, pig tails, barbie doll house, disney princess' aged fine as wine

Last but not least came partying with a purpose; those near and dear know just what I mean in fact they benefit as well....

In a nutshell summer was the BEST! I couldn't have asked for a better one...I only pray there are more summers this fantabulous in my near and dear future!!

new day! new pay!!

I'm so excited I just hired onto yet another job!! 2 days out of my week, 2 hours out of my day! It is so amazing to be trained in what you LOVE to do and be paid top dollar to do it! God is Good!! Just thought I'd share in my excitement!!!!
~smooches