Archive for August, 2011

Day 22

“how have you changed in the past 2 years?”

How haven’t I changed? I’m cared more about myself than others, I’ve better my education, I’m trying to be a kick ass mom, I’ve regained a sense of self again….
Yeah…I’ve changed in the last 2 years

Day 21

Your favorite shows

Shit,…nowadays with as jammed packed as my life is,….there is no time for TV. When I do watch TV, its either Mickey Mouse PlayHouse or Phineas and Ferb. And I’m not going to lie, Phineas and Ferb, is the Kim Possible from my day. =)

#dontjudgeme

Day 20

How important do you think education is?

I’m just going to say “its very important.”

Only God knows if my son would snoop through my old blogs and one day find this and use it against me. So yeah,….”stay in school”

Day 19

Disrespecting Your Parents

Oh Lord!

The messed up part, is that we all do it. That’s the sad truth. My mom has a tendacy to get on my last nerves. She knows all the right buttons to push to set me off. And sometimes, without even catching myself, I talk back to her and disrespect her, of course with no intention to do so, but it just happens.

So this one time, after a blow out with my mother, she gets on my case about my attitude problem, and she told me “you need to watch yourself, because you’re gonna teach your son that its ok to talk back to his mother, cuz you do it all the time.”

One thing that’s more annoying than her annoying the crap out of me, is her actually being right. So I’m trying, let’s see where progress leads me.

Day 18

Your faith

Uhmmmm…..this is the same thing as Day 4
So uhmm yeah….just read that.

=)

Day 17

Your highs and lows of this year.

Well, I think I have had my blog long enough, for everyone to know what my low was. But even though THAT was my low, it really wasn’t. By now everyone has realized that I’m the type of person to look for the positive in all situation pretaining to my life.

The low point in my life definietly has to do with Baby Daddy. I think it was more low because my son misses him, and it sucked that he wasn’t around for my son, it had nothing to do with my feelings for him, but more my feelings towards my son and how this situation was affecting him.

The high points in my life, are definietly a lot greater. It has truly helped me realize how blessed I am in life.
In chronological order
*the relief of burden from an unloved marriage
*a closer relationship with my mom and close family
*my restoration in my faith
*another year older and wiser for me and my son
*reuniting with my best friend in Georgia (my first vacation by myself)
*receiving a calling from God to help out my community
*restoring my faith in love when I met my boyfriend
*starting school
*and my ability to multi-task

So yeah, I think my life has turned right-side up =) no complaints from me

Day 16

Your views on mainstream music.

I think I’m going to have the same opinion as everyone. I love music. Music are the words that my soul will never speak. There is a song for everything, for all the good, all the bad, and everything in between. Music can be used to excerise, to sleep, to meditate, to vent or just used as any form of emotional expression.

That’s not to say that that’s how I feel about music nowadays. I’m the type of person that listens to the lyrics before the beat, and most lyrics really, truly, upset me. These artist, are supposed to be our role models, they’re people who we look up to an admire, and all they seem to do is talk about sex, violence and parties. Now I’m not saying there should be songs about education and how fun it is, but I just wish they’d censor themselves more. I wish I didn’t have to be concerned about what type of music I’m filling my son’s head with. Call me old fashion, but I don’t think that there should be curses in all the songs, I don’t believe that sex makes the musical world go round, and I don’t think that drugs, alcohol and violence should be encouraged by our “role models.”

And another thing, by our “wonderful” role models. Grammer! If you are going to be singing about half these things, than at least make your lyrics grammatically correct. Don’t teach/encourage the younger generation that being illiterate is cute.

SMH
NH

Day 14

Your earliest memory

I think one of my earliest memories are from pre-k. There’s this one day I remember back when I lived in Sunset/Boro Park. We were on 10th ave, and my pre-k was on 4th ave. This doesn’t seem like a lot of blocks, but they were longs blocks, and even though my school and my house were on the same street, the park was there so we always had to go around or through it. Everyday my mom would take me by walking with me. My sister was already in 1st grade and had already gone to school. Her school as closer and she started earlier, so after dropping my sister off me and my mom would walk together to my school SM4.

On this particular day, it was raining, and we had woken up late. My sister was late for school and if I didn’t leave RIGHT NOW, I would be late too. My mom quickly dressed me and my sister, and walked my sister to school. From there my mom called me a cab. Now the reason I remember this, is because this was my first cab ride alone. I know you must think my mom was irresponsible, but she called a cab driver that knew us, and it WAS only a few blocks. She called the school right away to let them know I was on my way, she told the cab driver where I was going, and paid him upfront, and I made it to school that day. My teacher’s assistant, Miss Melissa, was waiting for me right in front of school. That day, we learned how to cross the street.

Day 13

Somewhere you’d like to move or visit

Hmmm…..anywhere but New York.
Nah I’m joking. I say all the time I can’t imagine myself leaving New York. I was born and raised here, I am a proud New Yorker and I want my son to be a New Yorker too. The neighborhood I live in is not a bad neighborhood, the schooling district is not bad either. If I had the chance to move, with no worries, it would be somewhere close enough to the city but still far enough away from it. Anywhere deeper in Queens would be nice, or maybe even back to Brooklyn. How nice would that be?

But realistically, I’m staying in Queens for a long long LONG time. And I’m perfectly happy with that.

Day 12

Bullet your whole day.

(I’m skipping Day 11 because they ask that you shuffle your iPod, and I don’t have an iPod, so there’s no need for it)

*woke up
*kissed my son good morning
*peed, brushed our teeth, fed him cereal
*he took his Caterpillar book upstairs to our aunt
*I left
*met up with my boyfriend (yes I have one of those now, once I’m done with these blogs, I’ll tell you more about him)
*I bought my son a Nintendo DS and a Super Mario game
*returned the system because it didn’t work
*went to my sister’s house
*watched Arthur starring Jennifer Garner and Russell Brand with the boyfriend
*watched The Stranger Starring Liv Tyler with the boyfriend
*drove boyfriend home
*came home
*set up a bath with bubbles
*grabbed my book (A Stolen Life, the Life of Jaycee Dugard)
*finished the book
*starting writing my blogs
*still haven’t gone to sleep (3am)