So the above video is just made because I have a camera that I never use so I need to do something about that! Anyway, here’s my story;
I stopped by CVS to pick up a few things and this guy in front of me was buying a bunch of stuff. I noticed that he kept shifting things around. so when the cashier was ringing the stuff up and moved some chips I saw the condoms. When I saw them I just looked up and his face was all red and he was looking all nervous. Why? I don’t know. I mean what’s the big deal about buying condoms? It’s 2010! If you’re having unprotected sex you are a moron so I would proudly display it if that were me but of course it wasn’t me it was this lil fool in front of me.
This had me thinking. Was I embarassed to buy condoms when I was younger? Nope. Never have been nor will I ever be. If you’re not embarrassed enough to do the do then you shouldn’t be embarrassed to buy protection.
So here I am at the doctor’s office again. I swear it seems like I spend more time here than I do at my job. I’ve been here like twice a month every month since October. Getting labs, then back for results. I mean its cool because every time I come back he says that everything is fine and I’m progressing right along but geesh, all this back and forth is killing me.
I finally have my diabetes under control and even though I’m type 1 so I need it to survive I only need a small dosage thanks to my exercise and diet regimen.
Remember when I said I was going to do a total overhaul of my diet? Yeah, ummerra that hasn’t totally taken affect yet. I did however cut out sweets as well as fried foods. I need to watch my sugar intake as well as my cholesterol.
Slowly but surely I’m taking my health back to where it should be.
This had me Dying!!! “Bring the ambulamps”! I have been laughing since I saw this and I still giggle just thinking about it. You can never judge a book by it’s cover! I personally wouldn’t have messed with dude to start, he looks like he don’t play!!
Check it out the video and Skyyjohn’s play by play:
This is not a good time for my laptop to start acting the fool! I have some homework that needs to be done, I need to start writing some stuff for this new job, I have some stuff in my amazon shopping cart that I need to buy, and I need to edit a video.
Uggh I just need to stop playing and buy a new one. The problem with that is having to transfer everything from the old one to the new one and re customizing it to my standards. Its definitely going to be a pain but this is the second or third time this month that this laptop has done this to me. The other two times weren’t as severe though.
Me and this laptop have been through the ringer together. Lot of memories but its time for me to move on. Maybe it saw me searching online for a new one this morning, adding it to my shopping cart and bookmarking the site and now out a jealous fit decided to act up. Ya think? I don’t know but whatever the problem is I’m not putting any more money into fixing it. Its time for an upgrade anyway.
So this year I was planning on giving up all forms of social media, ya know twitter, facebook, blogging etc, for lent but I just got an offer for two paid writing gigs that start on the 18th and the 22nd and I’m not turning down a check (and possibly a career change/shift) doing something I love. That puts blogging out. Next up is facebook. Ahh facebook. The gift and the curse! I love keeping in touch with everyone but I hate the new layout. It took me a week to figure out how to logout (its under the accounts tab on the upper right corner) and another 2 weeks to figure out how to see just the status updates (go to friends on the left hand side and the status updates link is under that). I rarely use facebook besides the constant poking. I’ve really cut back on my facebook usage.
Now twitter, that’s a totally different story! I am always connected to twitter. Even if I’m not updating or replying I’m reading all the foolishness and the occasional interesting tweet or link that fills my screen. Twitter is always good for a laugh. To give up twitter will be hard but we all know twitter aint nuttin but da devil!!!
The problem I face is that I have a twitfeed set up that automatically puts a link to my blog whenever I update it. That shouldn’t really count unless I actively or manually go to the site or link something right? Right. I mean its not like I’m going to write something just so that it can post to twitter. That would be crazy right? Right?
Anyway, it came down to facebook or twitter and since I use twitter as the biggest waste of time of the two, plus like I said we all know its the devil, I’ve decided to let twitter go for lent. If you do follow me @sincerethoughts then I’ll check back in with you on April 4th. Until then check me out here or at Youngwritersblock.org. I’m sure I’ll be posting a whole lot more during the next 40 days.
“He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it.” – Heather Armstrong
Have you ever liked something only because someone else says how great it is? Sometimes people can make something sound or look so interesting that you want to be a part of it. This can be a gift and a curse.
The gift is in the ability to see how wondeful something is and how enjoyable it can be. The curse is that it may not be for you.
The love shown for something can be infectious. Similar to a laugh or yawn. One person’s happiness or sadness can carry on to anyone around.
Okay so a friend hit me up on facebook talking about how her child’s father doesn’t do anything for the child and how trifling he is. Okay this is not a new occurrence. As I probe more she tells me that he has 4 other kids by 3 different women and he doesn’t take care of any of them. me being me, I ask her if she knew about this before she got with him? She quickly answered yes. So of course my next question was, if he’s not taking care of the 4 he had before why would you even get into any type of relations with this dude? I mean am I missing something? If you know he doesn’t take care of his other kids then why would you think he’s going to take care of one more from you? Foolishness.
I just don’t get it. Then once she has a baby with him and he doesn’t do anything to support the child she decides to dog him on facebook via status updates. I’ll never understand why people put all their business in the status updates and on twitter anyway, but that’s a different post. whenever I see someone do this I call them on it. You knew he or she was trifling before you laid down with them all those times but now that you have a child and you see that he’s not doing anything you want to dog him. I am in no way condoning the guys’ behavior but c’mon son! That’s like you buy a car knowing it has a bad engine then get mad at the person who sold it when it breaks down. You knew going in that if you got pregnant that it wouldn’t end well! Get over yourself and move on.
This is not about those guys that changed once the woman gets pregnant. I know there are plenty of guys that have done that. This is about the ones that are no good to start with yet women continue to be with them. They pass up a good guy that will treat them with respect to be with the jerk that treats them like crap. I guess good guys do finish last. I think women are attracted to that bad boy image. I see it all the time. Women that have this long list of what she wants in a man, ya know like nice, respectful, neat blah blah. So you’re thinking okay she wants a good guy bu then when you see her date or boyfriend he’s the total opposite of what she says she wants. This was so frustrating to me growing up. I was always taught to treat women with respect so that’s what I did but for a little while when that wasn’t working I went into the bad boy ish phase and treated girls like objects as opposed to the young women that they were. Funny thing is, I ended up being with more girls as a bad boy pseudo thug then by being a gentleman. I know this is going in a different direction but it will all come back full circle. See these same women that are dogging the thug because he got her pregnant with his 5th or 6th child, that he has no intentions of taking care of, are the same women that have this long list of things they want in a man. Ya know, treats them nice, takes care of them, neat, respectful?
All I can say is that it takes two people to have a baby, and yes he is not doing his part to help raise the child, you were aware of this before you even got serious enough to sleep with him. Yet you did it anyway, now you want to put all the blame on him. Is that fair? No. Is he being fair to you by not taking care of his seed? No.
The bottom line is, people need to be more careful about who they decide to lay down with. Especially if you know their past history of neglecting their children. We really need to wise up and realize that this doesn’t do anything but hurt the child. I don’t care what anybody says or how ‘independent’ the woman is a child needs both a mother and a father. A boy needs to learn certain things from a man and a girl needs to learn certain things from a woman. If I had a daughter and no wife or woman in her life then when she started to have her period, for example, I wouldn’t be nearly as knowledgeable about it as my wife or the woman in my life would be. I could read a million books but that woman could give her first hand knowledge. If a boy grows up with his mother and no father or male figure, he is missing out on certain things as well. I do believe single parents can raise happy, well rounded, adjusted children into successful adults but with that extra male or female figure it makes it a little easier.
Take from this what you may but remember that it takes two to tango and if you knew he wasn’t worth a damn from the jump then you should have kept your legs closed. Period. End of discussion. Now your child(ren) has to suffer because of your of indiscretions. Child please.
“If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.” – Dorothee Solle
It is fine and understandable to want to hold on to and keep certain things close to our hearts but in order for us to succeed we have to at some point let some of those things go. We tend to miss out on things of importance because our hands are full of less important nonsense. Evaluate your situation and let those things go!
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” -Dr Carl Sagan
Just because it can’t be proven doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. I look at this as similar to having faith or hope in something. The very definition of faith is “belief that is not based on proof”. We tend to believe lots of things that can’t be proven without a reasonable doubt. How many of you go to church and/or pray all the time to a God that you have never actually seen? Does that mean that their God doesn’t exist? No. That God or Deity exists to them. Proof or no proof they believe it to be real.
Do you guys really think it’s better to have loved someone and lost them than to have never loved someone at all? I’m more inclined to disagree with that. I mean I understand that at least you were able to experience the feeling of love but what about the feeling after you’ve lost that love? That’s something that you wouldn’t have experienced had you not loved in the first place. I do believe that love is a magical and wonderful feeling but at the same time it can be one of the worst feeling ever!! Have you ever loved someone more than they loved you or worse have you ever loved someone that you know in a million years will never love you the same way you love them? I have done both and when I realized it I felt 100 times worse than before I fell in love with them.
I don’t know I guess it’s really all about how you fell in love and how you fell out of love with that particular person. It has to be on an individual case by case basis.
Shout out to my homie Taylor Swift for winning album of the year and selling the 2nd most records of 2009, behind Michael Jackson. I don’t care what anybody says, you deserved that award and it had nothing to do with Kanye.
You know who I don’t like? Beyonce stans! Not the fans but the stans. They feel like everything she does is so original and dope or that she should win every award she’s up for and even some that she’s not. C’mon son!
While I’m not knocking Beyonce, I think she has tremendous drive and is talented but I’m not really into her. I was saying on twitter during her 60 Minutes interview that I thought she was dense and does boring interviews and the stans came out! All they could talk about was that she was successful and had a bunch of money. I never said she wasn’t talented and rich but she does boring interview and it seems like at times she doesn’t grasp easy concepts that 90% of the world gets. That’s all. Hell, Bill Gates is paid and successful but does boring ass interviews! Get over yourselves!
What’s funny to me is people say Taylor Swift is this or she’s that but she is a talented young relatively new singer (only 2 albums in) that is receiving accolades for it. Just because black people that only listen to R & B and rap haven’t heard of her doesn’t mean she isn’t talented! There’s more music out there other than Beyonce and Gucci Mane. Open your minds people!
Blogging While Black | Sincere February 24, 2010 | 
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