LOVEQUEEN GOT THE #TRUTHIS

#TRUTHIS  I totally F'd up by not getting in better shape by the summertime. While I am definitely coming more and more into my own as well as accepting myself for how I am…FLAWS AND ALL, I still should have had my ass in the gym like I said I was going to.  Hopefully it is not too late to drop some pounds before the b-day celebration in MIA.  The gym is back in my weekly routine because it makes me feel so much better focusing on my body and my health.  After a weekend of piggin the hell out…LITERALLY because that pulled pork was the damn truth in North Carolina, I know I want to make better decisions about what goes into my mouth. (y'all could take that somewhere nasty, I know I did)

#TRUTHIS I am over the boys and ready for the men aka nice southern gentleman. I let myself step out on the ledge with someone who I wouldn't normally give the time of day to and that is not because he wasn't cute but because I could tell from our first meeting that he lacked the personality I liked.  I should have trusted my gut because he ended up being a punk A** too.  I know we are in a new age of text messaging, facebooking, and tweeting but if you wanna get to know me then none of those means of communication will work for me.  I want someone who will pick up the phone to ask me about my day and let me know how his day was as well.  Texting is very impersonal and I feel like brothers you need to get your game up if that is what you are on because it is not the hotness.  If I am just going to be a jumpoff then let me know so I can decide if that is what I want to be but don't text me while trying to build a friendship because I will bore easily. #DONE



My new watch...loves it!

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#TRUTHIS  I have spent so much money on new goodies this week that I could have surely taken a vacation with the cash I dropped.  Still I had fun and I love love my new watch, handbags, shoes, and dress that I bought.  I swear I needed to treat myself to something new like MJB said in my favorite song "Just Fine". I have actually been label whoring it up with everything from Marc Jacobs to BCBG to Michael Kors to Gucci.  It is purely shameful and I need to keep my butt out of the stores.  



#TRUTHIS God's love thrills me, I don't know what I have in store for the future but I speak greatness, I speak love, and I speak contentment.  I know my path has not been paved with gold but it has been tiled with lessons that I will carry with me for all the days of my life.  I have given my heart to a man or two but my mind was always kept for me - no one drove me crazy, no one made me feel like I didn't want to live, and no one took away the little bit of peace that I keep tucked away in my mind.  As my cousin Ione tells me regularly, "Don't let em have your mind." However I am human so some days I do feel discouraged but I know that happens and I refuse to beat myself up on the days when I have strayed away from thinking that will manifest a destiny greater than the one I have foreseen.

#TRUTHIS I am a wild girl but if you choose to hop on this roller coaster then you are guaranteed a good time.  However don't come to my ride closed to possibilities or lifeless because I am no longer providing therapy sessions upon arrival. Now I will love your complete self and should trouble arise on the down slope of this roller coaster then I will be there to push you back up to the highest peak.  In return, I ask that you would do the same for me.  I want you to accept this ride just as it is and if you expect changes then you should be instrumental in the change.  Don't just sit back barking at me because that will disturb the peace I feel when I am riding high.  People often say I appear scary (got a hard shell to crack) but once you get over that first uplift, the fear should immediately subside and before you know it, you are having the time of your life.  Now who's ready for some fun?    

JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING TO BREAK THE MONOTONY!

Wheeew weee!!! And just like that, JUNE IS HERE. 

#TIKC Good DAY!!  The good news is that SUMMER is here, y’all! And Memorial Day weekend was pretty groovy, as I'm hoping it was for all of you.  As hot as it is, remember to bite that tongue because just 5 months ago, we were cursing the snow and couldn’t wait for the return of the summer.

*Ques JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE  “Summertime”* *Leaning to the side, but you can’t speed through…*

Summer is my FAVORITE season.  Always has been.  From those hot summer nights in Saint Louis, lounging by the pool, to the sweltering heat of the Carolinas, singing in front of the window fans, to these hot summer nights in Maryland, that show no mercy for a girls hair-which admittedly, has me missing California.

Oh, Cali, how I miss you... My Venice Beach, PCH, Jonathan Club, The weather, Scenery, Cookaroo, Fresh food, Flow, and LA experiences to name a few;)... I digress...  If I won the lottery, one of my first purchases would be a summer home in Cali.  #FACT



Organic Only. Vegeterian.. next year



OK, back to SUMMER.  Sunlight has been proven to alter moods, in the most delightful way…but so has getting TOO hot-in more of a not so delightful way ;)  Folks will snap on ya when they too hot, won’t they! Patience is definitely thin. Lol But that sunlight, that music, the pool and the removal of clothes is only the beginning. Sipping lemonade (with or without circoc), making sun tea, (with fresh mint leaves like my grandmother used to make) doing lunch by the water. Heck, simply hanging out outside! Maryland crabs, family reunions, trips to the water park.  Can’t forget about those cookouts!  Now that is truly some good times and good eating. 



CANNONBALL!!!

 

#TRUTHIS Summer brings it out!  Summer not only brings out the big bellies, but it brings out those hard as hell abs that have been hiding all winter too.  It also brings out those tattoos that probably should have stayed hidden, along with those unflattering outfits. And oh those awesome wet looks. SMDH.  Now those are in abundance.  Gotte love it all!

 Yes, summer definitely is the time when you start thinking about all of those trips to the gym that you meant to take this winter, but always put off.  But, yet- it’s all a glorious component to SUMMER!!   As is humidity. You know that, has you sweating as soon as you walk out of the door heat. And yucka yucka to the stink bugs and ugh, those damn mosquitoes that are all too happy to have us- their all you can eat buffets, back in season.  But, #TRUTHIS I would take this any day over the arctic conditions that we faced this past winter.  Just as Beyonce said “I loves me some Jay-Z”.   I loves me some summer!

So, summer camp up in a few weeks for the girls and some fun in the sun up for the next three months FOR ALL OF US.  Treat yourself this summer!  And not just to the usual mani, pedi. (Fellas, I'm talking to you too).  Do something that you have been putting off or just be adventurous and GO FOR IT.  (That part I have already started ;))  You know, take a salsa class, go bungee jumping, scuba diving, a firing range...hell, have sex on the deck and try  not to wake your neighbors! ;) Whatever you do, no stress.  Pretend you too are on a summer 'break' from the drama!

I think summer makes us a little more ret-ta-go!  Have fun and be good.  It’s only just begun!

*Summer, Summer, Summer time...fades out.  So ya hit #REPEAT*

TTFN! xoxo