I Can't Wait

I can not wait until next week. I am going to be off from my full-time job for an entire week. This is the first time in my life I’ve ever taken a full week off from work and got paid for it. I usually use my vacation time in bits and pieces. I am good for taking a half day of vacation every now and then. My time will be spent at home with the kids. I am curious to see how it goes. I am sure around the middle of the week they will start going at each other big time. That is what kids usually do. My mother will be off of work also so I am sure we will find time to go over and bug I mean visit her. I am looking forward to a week of staying in the bed late and watching judge shows. I really need this time off. I am simply tired. I think I will start back making sure to take my vitamins.

FOLLOWING THE TREND

Three names you go by:
crazy
j luv
june bug

Three screen names you have:
jluv1914
crazyone
semaj

Three things you like about yourself:
feet
personality
smile

Three things you hate/dislike about yourself:
hairline
tendency to procrastinate
eating habits

Three parts of your heritage:
African American
Native American
Caucasian (somewhere up in there)

Three things that scare you:
death
losing control of a situation
failure

Three of your everyday essentials:
coke
jolly ranchers
chap stick

Three things you are wearing right now:
belt
slippers
headphones

Three of your favorite bands/artists (at the moment):
Jill Scott
Fred Hammond
Branford Marsalis

Three of your favorite songs at present:
Show Me Your Face
Eternal
Can I Live

Three things you want in a relationship (love is a given):
trust
respect
passion

Two truths and a lie:
I once put on a pair of knee highs by mistake
I keyed a car in a club parking lot
I took money off of the stage at the Pure Passion

Three physical things about the opposite sex (or same) that appeal to you:
Nice Booty
Nice Lips
Nice Personality

Three things you just can't do:
ride a motorcycle
listen to hard rock music
use all of my daytime minutes

Three of your favorite hobbies:
reading
playing video games
people watching

Three things you want to do really badly right now:
take a nap
drink a beer
hold my baby

Three careers you're considering:
teaching
retail sales manager
social work


Three places you want to go on vacation:
Nigeria
Brazil
Haiti

Three kids names: for either a boy or girl:
Miriam
Kenji
Zora

Three things you want to do before you die:
see black people unite
see my children reach personal success
make a difference

Three new things you want to try in the next 12 months:
vegetable lasagna
floor work
smoking brisket

Thoughts

McDonalds is my favorite place to go. You never know what you will see. Now I don’t have anything against gay men but damn how far is too far. I seen a brother today he was all the way out there. The brother had on some red suede slip on shoes, a red blouse some tight jeans with sequence on the back, patent leather alligator style jacked with a purse to match.

I can tell it is winter time. If I lived in the building where I work my night job out and was only allowed to come out when there wasn’t anyone there and could not look out the windows I would still know when the first real cold spell hit. You ask how I know this. It is simple there is a coffee stain every couple of feet. I have never seen people waste coffee as much as these people do. It is on the floor on the doors, on the walls especially by the elevator buttons, on the bathroom counter and most of all on the side of the desk. I don’t know why people like to play basketball with their trash can and half a cup of coffee.

There is something wrong with the heat in my office. It was cold as hell this morning when I came in. I looked at the thermostat and it read 60. I figured there wasn’t a need to take my hat off until it warmed up a bit. So I walked around half the morning wearing a skull cap in protest of my icebox of an office.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. My fiancé has to work the graveyard shift this month. This is the pits because it means I have to get the kids up and ready for school every morning. It is not fun getting a 7 year old and a 4 year old up at six in the morning. It usually takes a couple of trips to the bed and a yanking off of the covers to get my daughter up. My son is a different story. Getting him up means picking him up out of the bed dressing him fully and then waking him up to brush his teeth and wash his face. He has the nerves to complain about what he has to wear to school on some mornings. I went back to the old days of ironing everything up on Sunday night while watching television. So everyone has all of their clothes for the week hanging up in the closet ready to put on.

Bias Reporting

Gunman storms stage, kills 4 at Ohio club
A gunman stormed the stage during a heavy metal rock concert in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday night, firing at the band and audience and killing four people before a police officer shot and killed him, police said. One of the dead was guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. The gunman also wounded two people.
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We all know that if this would have happened at a hip hop concert the headline would be different. It would probably read as follows.

Gunfire breaks out at rap concert, Rapper “Dimebag” and three other killed
Violence broke out at a rap concert in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday night, firing at the group and audience and killing four people before authorities were able to restore order to the hostile environment. Rapper “Dimebag was killed while performing on the stage. Two other people were also shot during the altercation between the gunman and the group. This follows a rash of violence in the hip hop community.
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At the end of the story you know they would have to bring up Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay. Could you imagine the editorial pieces on television and in newspapers if this had been at a rap concert? Why is it that when something like this happens in any other music community it is a tragedy? When it happens in the hip hop community it is part of the culture and a product of the violence that they encourage . I do not agree with some of the things that hip hop artist do and personify but I must say that they get a raw deal in media coverage. When the news shows interviews from the scene they will likely show young white women breaking down and telling of how terrifying the ordeal was for them. If this was a rap concert they would find the most ignorant brother in the crowd and give him the spotlight. The media has too much power in most people’s perception of others and their manipulation of it for headlines and ratings is sick and sad.

1. I am a Black Man
2. I am an accountant
3. I love fried chicken
4. I enjoy reading
5. I have two children
6. Both of them are named after me
7. I only use original shower fresh degree deodorant
8. I played the sax in high school
9. I went to band camp on scholarships for three straight years
10. I was invited to numerous schools to tryout for band scholarships
11. I didn’t go to any of them
12. I went to college on an academic scholarship
13. I chose my college because a young lady I was in love with was going there
14. We were not on speaking terms by the end of our senior year of high school
15. She went to a different school
16. She broke my heart
17. I work two jobs
18. I change clothes in my car between jobs
19. I am addicted to Coke
20. I am addicted to Miller Genuine Draft
21. I don’t smoke
22. I’ve tried marijuana
23. I have a gold tooth
24. It is a professional dental crown molded to fit my tooth
25. I get asked about it at least once a week by a stranger
26. I am afraid of the dentist
27. I won a first place trophy in competitive speech in high school
28. I withdrew from college one semester
29. My brother is three years older than me
30. If I hadn't withdrew we would have graduated on the same day

31. I go to church every Sunday
32. I read the Bible
33. I am not save
34. My Grandmother says I cook the prettiest eggs
35. I have never had a ticket
36. I love Black Women
37. I love Black Women too much in the wrong way at times
38. I work in a building with a lot of Black Women
39. I keep to myself at work
40. A lot of the women at work think I am stuck up
41. I am usually the voice of reason
42. I have never been fired
43. I once left a job after a year and never went back
44. If I had to do it all over I would do it again
45. I have 23 1:18 scale motorcycles in my office
46. I can cook neck bones and beans
47. I can bake a cake
48. I enjoy doing laundry
49. I can not drive a stick
50. I am blessed