*burp* Turkey Day Overview

Okay, if you have been following this blog for at least a year or so, you know that my family doesn't really do Thanksgiving in the traditional sense. It's more of a celebration/party type thing. My fam is rather large so we rent facilities to have our dinners. This year was in a different building but it was great so I have a feeling it's going to be there next year as well.

Anywho...to the overview...

After my mom made me mad for a new reason, I was pissed. I didn't want to go anywhere. All I wanted to do was bitch loudly and damage stuff. I eventually calmed down and hopped on the hwy. We get there, I speak and hug everyone, then Pooka and I head out to my fathers house. Soon as I walk in I see my sister from my fathers second marriage. Now I am surprised because I honestly didn't think she would be there, but it was a pleasant surprise seeing her. It's been about 7 years. She is cool peeps. She is very girlie, high maintenance, and light skinned. We have so much in common! LOL! I was going to go TN in May to watch her graduate, but it will happen on a weekday in May which means I'll be in class! BOOOOOOOOO!

This is me and Pooka.

This is me, the lighter chick next to me is my sister from my father's second marriage and the 2 little people belong to my step mother.



This is me and the step mother. She looks young because she is! LOL!


This is me, my father, and my sister. Give my father a pass for the dirty shirt, he was cooking all day! :-D

One thing happened at my father's house that made me raise my eyebrow. My step mother and my sister told me that my sister's mother (my father's second wife) wanted to see me AND wanted me to drive to the hotel they were staying! WTH for???? When I asked them both why, neither had answers. Can we say hell no. If she wanted to see me, she could have waited a bit longer at my father's house till I got there! That simple. Pooka and I hung out at my father's for a good hour or so then it was time to go back to the building to eat! *****notice I used the words sister and step mother, I'm making progress! :-D******

We eat, we fellowship, we dance!



This was recorded by accident. I was getting my slide on and apparently I hit the camera that was around my neck. There is no visual because the cap was on the lens. Besides, yall ain't ready to witness any of that dere'! This is just a tiny audio snippet of how we get down! LOL!

This is the right side of the building when folks were on there way home.

From the previous pic I pivoted left to catch my cousins chilling and ready to go. Notice the bead work on the girl in the orange shirt playing with the car. Fabulous! *cheese*

I added this picture because I like it. It shows Grand Diva (sitting) holding my new cousin who got chopped out the bottom, her living kids, grand kids, and great grand kids. Aunt Diva is in the back left and my mom is next to her w/the short hair. To the left of this pic are my male cousins waiting to go home, behind us is the "DJ area" and to the right are more tables lined up like the one's my male cousins are sitting at against the wall. In addition, you have a nice view of my cousin obtaining the same shot of us on her camera phone. :-D

After the fun was over we went to my cousin's house and laughed and joked till about 9. Them jokers are planning to be up at dark 30 to hit them black Friday sales like they do every year. I am NOT taking part in that! Nope, not this year! They were like, you don't have to shop, just ride along! Ummmmm no thank you! LOL! At 9 I gave everyone some love, said my goodbyes, scooped up Pooka and my mom, then headed on home.

The end!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for many, many, many things. Too many to sit here and type up because I got stuff to do before me and mine head out to the country.

I just took another online exam and passed it, so that's 2 down and 4 to go to nix the final.

I rolled my approximately 180 locs up last night (which took forever) and the curls won't take!



I think my hair is too heavy. I want to cry! The only time I had curls in my hair was for graduation which was almost a year ago. My hair has grown since then! I still have the rollers in in hopes that I can get more bend than what I got now before I leave. LOL! Any suggestions on how to achieve curls on lengthy locs? Is it even possible any more?

Speaking of hair, I went to the beauty supply store yesterday to get my rollers and some beads for Pooka hair, which I still have to braid up, and it was full of men! For some reason that threw me off! I know 2 were barbers because they were talking barber shop stuff, but the others may work in a beauty salon if you get what I'm saying! Shoot, had I known I was going to have this curl issue I would have asked one of them about it! LOL!

After I get Pooka's hair right, do chores, hit the country, fellowship w/folks and come back home, I plan to hit the movies to see Ninja Assassin. I heard it was kick ass!

Again, Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all have gotten or will eventually get to your destinations safely and back home the same way! Gobble gobble!

and I CHOSE to do this??!!??!!

So I get this nice thick packet from Elon in the mail today. There's all sorts of goodies inside. Stuff about orientation, insurance, parking decals, where to park, how I need to go ahead and join the national PT association (which I already knew I had join), about this bag of clinical "toys" I need to buy, other odd and ends, about a response I have to write about another book I will be copping from the library tomorrow, and NINE other books I need to cop for my personal use.....NINE additional books aside from the 4 I already brought! Now granted, these books will get me through my first year but damn! I was sitting in the living room with my peeps and every time I flipped a page I went "now they want me to buy *insert item*" and mommy would laugh! I found my 9 additional books online for the grand total of $360 which is awesome! I am still scared to tally up all the money I need to come up with to take care of all this stuff in this most recent pack of info!

In other school news, I just took my first online exam. Had 60 questions and 90 minutes to complete it. It took me 22 minutes and some seconds and I only missed 1! YAY! 5 more exams over 85% and I don't have to take the final! Yippee! I am blogging these things as a personal record keeper of sorts so don't mind me. :-)

Okay, I'm going to study now.

Random as usual

I am not ready for Turkey Day or Christmas.

I've completed my Christmas shopping yet Pooka keeps adding stuff to her list on the fridge. The latest thing is a Zuzu (sp) hamster. According to my coworker the pet itself is pretty cheap, it just the pieces that go with it that will hurt your pocket.

Mommy still isn't sure what she is going to do come January. I am ready either way.

My coworker on the weekend job may not be leaving as soon as she thought. That makes me happy.

The residents at the weekend spot gave me and my coworker a hard time. There are 4 residents and 2 staff per shift. The 2 I mainly deal with were a trip! One tried to fight me and the other staff in an effort to try to get her way. When it dawned on her that she STILL was not going to get her way after her attempt, she ripped her shirt open Hulk Hogan style! Lord have mercy! Then the other one I deal with can not walk and wears an adult diaper. All the residents wear them, but the other 3 can sit on the toilet and handle their business. My resident must be changed like a baby. She is on her cycle and had diarrhea. Oh what a lovely weekend it was for me!

I worked 4 extra hours Sunday night and I worked with one of the newer staff that I'd never worked with before. We made chit chat and some how some way she ends of telling me this deep serious stuff about her and her family. After she tells me all this she goes "I don't know why I just told you that, I don't really tell anyone about that" This happens to me ever so often. For some strange reason people tell me stuff that I don't inquire about. Something similar happened last week with my coworker at the weekend spot. We were watching a movie where a chick was put in a bad situation. I made a comment about how I didn't know what I'd do if that was me. Turns out my coworker had been in that situation. I told her that I'd never guess that she'd went through a situation like that and commended her ability to move forward. That was supposed to be the end of the conversation. It wasn't. She told me the whole story from start to finish then told me how a lot of people don't know her story because of the way she carries herself. Maybe these people feel the need to tell their story and I am random enough to share those things with. I find the whole thing interesting.

Pooka went to the dentist today. 8 years with no cavities! YAY! I told her I was happy about her having no cavities and she asked me why she didn't have cavities. It was a strange question, but I told her it because she brushes her teeth a lot. She has an abnormal obsession with the children's mouth wash that stains your teeth so you'd know where to brush and see the spots you missed. I swear I think she drinks the stuff. I buy her a big bottle just about every week. In the same trip I brought the shirts, I brought her her another bottle. It's already less than half way empty. Whomever thought up this idea about teeth marking mouth wash was a genius!!!!

Tomorrow is Pooka's classes Charlie Brown Thanksgiving dinner. They are out of school Wed, Thurs., and Fri. I'm bringing the popcorn! If you don't know what A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving dinner consists of. Shame on you and go find it on YouTube somewhere!

My coworker at the industrial rehab job delivered her baby today. She was just days into her third trimester. Let me just say that everybody is fine. Now let's back track to this passed Friday. She came in not feeling so well with a bad headache. She checks her blood pressure and apparently got numbers she didn't like so she asked me to check it behind her. I took it and it was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up there esp. since her blood pressure usually runs low. She calls her MD and the nurse tells her to come in and a few moments later she is walking out the door. A few hours pass and she calls the office and I picked up. She tells me that her BP won't go down and her MD is sending her to the hospital to be monitored. You could hear the fear in her voice. It was cracking and everything. So that was that.

In my mind they were going to get her BP down and send her home. I go in today and first thing I notice is that her car or her husband's car that she drives every now and again wasn't in the lot. I park and go in and as I'm booting up my computer the company VP comes and tells me her and the President went to see my coworker on Sunday. The hospital sent my coworker, who is my manager, to UNC Chapel Hill (another hospital with equipment to handle babies being born that early), she would be there until she delivered, and that they were going to deliver her at 34 weeks if she made it that long.

Ok cool. That means about 6 weeks or so of hospital bed rest. How boring! I made my plan to go to the store, buy her some crafty stuff, coloring books, and crayons and take it to her after work so she'd have something to do once the mandatory bed sentence started to annoy her. Towards the end of the day I called the hospital so I could pick with her and to see if she was up for company this afternoon. Her husband picked up and after a brief catch up with him I asked to speak with my coworker. He tells me hold on and I hear him say "telephone". I hear her voice say something that I couldn't make out and he gets back on and starts chit chatting with me again all calm like. Then he tells me that they just got back in the room from delivery....

"huh"

"* insert co worker's name* delivered today"

"*gasp* OMG....is, is, she alright? Is the baby okay? OMG! Are you okay? Everything alright?"

I still could hear another gentleman voice speaking.

"Everyone is good. Things just been happening so fast. The doctor just came in."

"Well get off the phone man!!!!"

"okay, *insert coworkers name* says hi"

We end the conversation and I am blown away first by the news and second in how calm her husband was! LOL I mean from interacting with him in the past and from the stories my coworker tells me, it takes A LOT for him to show an emotion outside of chill. Damn it if your baby being born a trimester early don't stir you up than I don't know what will!!!! He did say that everything was happening fast so maybe everything that has been going on hasn't really had the time to hit him yet. I dunno *shrug* Anyway, I ditched my plan to go see my coworker this evening because I am sure between her big family and her big family of in-laws, family was going to be there tonight visiting in full force. I don't need to be there right now.

Turkey Day is in the country as always this year. For the first time since we started having our big Thanksgiving celebrations there is no theme. That kinda makes me sad. I am also going to do a drive by visit to my father's house. My step sister from my father's second marriage is supposed to be there. Pooka was like 2 or 3 the last time I saw or spoke to her. She is like 16 or 17 now. This should be interesting. According to my father's wife, my step sister doesn't fool with my father for the same reasons I don't. That should really tell her something!

I made a deal with my mom and Pooka that Friday morning is my sleep in morning. I am going to sleep until my body wakes me up and my bladder makes me get up to use the restroom. Normally on the days I have to sleep in someone always wakes me up and breaks my sleep before my body has a chance to wake up on it's own! It bothers me when I am awaken for something that I don't need to awakened for. For example. Pooka will wake me up just to tell me good morning......*sigh* yeahhhhhhhhhhh you really could have waited ma'am! *double sigh*

I got my plan for Friday. I am going to force myself to finish my paper. I put my very rough draft in Word and haven't touched it since. I gotta do better. I will fine tune it into some kind of readable English then get some different eyes to look at it. Then I think we are hitting the movies. Mommy wants to see Precious. I want to see Ninja Assassin. Pooka wants to go to the drop off center that she hasn't been to in a long time! I gotta see if they are open Friday and if they are, I think we can all have our wants satisfied! YAY!

Dance brother dance, among other things

On Wednesday I went to a boring mandatory meeting for the weekend job. The meeting literally sucked whatever energy I had from me. When it was over I hopped in Mia and started my journey back to the state job. As I was sitting at a light I was station switching till I came across one of my car groove songs, Alright by CeCe Winans. About half my energy was back! The radio is on full blast and I'm doing my drivers seat workout. As I'm waiting for the green light 3 men are walking on the sidewalk to my right. 2 walking together and 1 behind them. They gave off a homeless look. The first 2 dudes walk right by my car. The one behind them stopped mid stride, closed his eyes, threw his head back, and paused like we do when our song comes on, then started dancing! It was so cool. I couldn't take my eyes off him! I was getting it in the car and he was getting it on the sidewalk! LOL! I wish I had a camera/video phone cuz that man hyped & made my day.

I brought 8 brand new blouses for a buck each. *takes a bow* Now I gotta work on some cheap bottoms to go with the new additions to the wardrobe. :-)

Women are throwing themselves at Snookums. I'm glad some can see what I see and give him that ego boost, but I really wish they would stop.

Word to the wise, don't try to study laying down in your favorite spot on the bed. You will fall asleep and end up having to do something like get on the computer and blog to get your mind going again! LOL!

Freaky is going to get me fired before I can resign!!!!!

Mommy got her way last night. We went back and forth but she wouldn't budge. It started to rain cats and dogs last night anyway. Booooooooooo!

Now to what happened at work....

I was reading Freaky Deaky's blog entry when my supervisor came in. I minimized the screen. She wanted me to pull something up. When you pull up a document in one of our systems it will create a new tab on the last internet page you pulled up. I had to pull the document and what shows up on my screen before the new page pops up in front of it???? FREAKYTOPIA!!!! The name of his blog was all across the big ole computer screen!!!!!! *head hung* I know she saw it, she was standing right behind me! In my mind I told myself that if she asked about it I'd let her read it just to show her I wasn't on some sex site or anything! LOL! She didn't say anything but I'd pay to find out what was going on in her mind!

Maybe if she asks later I can tell her it was freaky as in weird.

*sigh*

Mommy is 50!

That's a milestone birthday and you know what that chick wants to do????? Go to McDonald's!!!!! LOL! I told her that was unacceptable and suggested Ruth Chris Steak House, PF Chang's or Kanki, yah know, some place that's a step above your everyday fast food spot and getting the nails done. She looked at me like I was crazy and told me it was just another day. Boooooooooooooooooo! It's her day and she should spend it like she wants, but my gut tells me she wants more than some yummy Mickey D fries! LOL! My mom is like 1/2 Jehovah's Witness so the non JW side is going to do something doggonit! (I say 1/2 cuz my mom celebrates Christmas and other stuff she isn't supposed to, LOL)

That woman can work my nerves but I don't know what I'd do without her.

It would've been nice to have a nice pic of me and my mom posted up with this, but it literally just dawned on me that I don't have any recent ones! The last one we took together, just me and her, were taken at my baby shower!!!!!! Oh lord, must fix that soon.

Hello

At random.....

Snookums introduced me to an online game. At first I thought it was kinda lame, now I am addicted. I'd get online, check my email, play the game, and work some homework in here and there. Notice check blog or read blogs was not a part of that break down! LOL!

I had a weird dream about me and Jamie Fox trying to have sex in different places but strange stuff kept happening to prevent it. It was pretty detailed at times. Mr. Fox isn't ugly but I didn't know that I'm possibly attracted to him, LOL!

Rakim's new album drops today.

The students of the DPT program are having their annual Christmas party on 12/4. The theme is ugly Christmas sweater. I don't have one of those.

I got real mad at my mom yesterday. To avoid yelling at her I went to my room (and played my online game) when I cooled off and left my room my mom apologized. Awwwww all is right with the world for now.

Mommy will celebrate another birthday tomorrow, a milestone b-day too! I'm broke so I think I may take her to get her nails done, get a small cake, some ice cream and call it a day. I just spent mad money on groceries so she has an idea what my wallet is looking like! Having a stocked kitchen is a great present don't you think?

Mommy also told me that when we go to MD for Christmas she is going to stay there. She changes her mind a lot, but as bad as it sounds...I want my place back. This pretty much means that I won't be working at all in a little over a month! The only reason I still work the weekend job is because my mom watches Pooka for me. I refuse to pay someone to watch my child while I go watch someone elses children. That doesn't make sense to me! Guess I need to type up my letter of resignation for the weekend job soon. Looking at the calendar my last day will be 12/22. How awkward will not working be for me? I can only imagine. It's like all I know! LOL!

At the moment my last day at the rehab spot is 12/18 and last day at the state spot is 12/30.

Week 3 with Pooka's classmates. I had the same 3 as last week. This time the subject was family structure and how the roles of the family have changed over time. I learned that the woman who I thought was the Twins mother is actually their older sister. Their birth mom had 10 kids and passed on. Some sore subject's were rubbed. :-( One good thing I learned is that they all plan to go to college. :-)

After I brought all my books for my anatomy class I get an email from the teacher that the online test correspond to the latest edition of the book she told us to buy and then apologized to those of us that already brought the older one.*eyeroll* She stated that she will match the chapters up and tell us which ones to focus on. *eyeroll again* I need her to do better.

Pooka told me she didn't to do Tae Kwon Do any more because it makes her sweaty. Reason wasn't good enough for me. Besides, we finish what we start to the best of our abilities.

I wonder what the father of the 5 year old in Fayetteville that was killed will say at today's press conference.

I don't want to be here, but I do want the check.

Who provides for the provider?