Transitioner's Thoughts

Hey everyone! Remember when I thought I had that free week to catch up on blogging....WELL! Boy was I wrong!! That week ended up being crazier than the week before. Then last week was my official Midterm week and I had Fall Break. I went home to visit my family. I love my family to death but that five hour drive can be tiresome at times. I did get to do alot of shopping with my mom though. I missed those times considering I hadn't been home in about two months. When we get together, we can do damage in a mall... ESPECIALLY during a purse sale... fashion is my weakness!! On my way back to school, the weather was HORRIBLE!! We had tornado warnings throughout the state, which meant plenty of rain and high winds that sent my truck on a bumpy five hour drive. Glory be to God because I made it back safely.

Sooo what do you all think?

Ok, now to talk about the topic of the day: TRANSITIONING!! I took my braids down after two months of wear and tear and have been trying the transitioning look... it's alot harder to deal with than I thought! I haven't had a relaxer since the end of May (almost 5 months) and the two textures are weird. I also see why people say fire your beautician because my beautician from home colored my hair, which turned out gorgeous as usual but I asked her to 2-strand twist it... which turned out as a disaster so I immediately went home and tried different things to do with it. I'm on day 6 and I'm starting to second guess my decision. I really feel like a crack addict or something because I constantly have battles with myself over getting a perm or not. I feel like I'm weak to the creamy crack! I keep telling myself to hang in there and be strong but GEEEEESH it's hard. I also think back to the days when I was experimenting and learning how to do permed hair and how great I felt after I understood how my hair worked. I keep saying to myself, "If you could get through that, you can definitely get through this." I think tonight I'm going to wash it and blow it out...I'm not sure yet... I don't want to flat iron it because I don't want to mess up my growing curl pattern or put too much heat on it besides maybe blow drying it. Does anybody have any tips or helpful advice to survive this period?

I was trying to show off my earrings here lol! I love these!!

Charge It To My Heart

To all of you that take time out of your day to read my rants, raves, and concerns; I would like to say thank you. I know I've been slacking but between school, friends, working, working out, and trying this whole dating thing... I'm exhausted. I don't want you to feel I've neglected you at all, I'm actually glad to be back!!! This week will be a lighter week so I will definitely enlighten you all about all the craziness, funny moments, concerns, and serious issues I have going on or have read about. Time for me to close these study hall doors so ttyl my loves!OOOH...wait!... before I go, I take my braids down in two weeks and get my first two strand twist-out... exciting yet scary moment :-/ ... 2-B-CONTINUED...

*Love, Peace, and Happiness*

"What's in an Age? Something New, Something Fresh?"

I guess people where right when they said age ain't nothin' but a number. Lately, I've been hanging with my young sweetie, I guess that's an appropriate word for him and we have been having an amazing time together. We're both different from our usual, previous partners, and exceed each others expectations. Like he thinks I'm weird because I snore, enjoy doing the dumbest things, rather have the simplest treats, and love watching football. Now on the other hand I'm at a lost for words when it comes to him because there's so much more to him than what meets the eye. He always amazes me with his poetry, random jokes, random greetings, and how intelligent he his. Intelligence is sooooo attractive to me. We're so in sync with one another, which is weird. When he's looking for me on campus, he knows exactly where to find me... may because I'm always in class, work, or the gym... so predictable lol. He doesn't like clubbing too much and find it weird that I'm ok and even excited for him to go out. We all need a break and to party a little from time to time in my opinion. Plus I don't want us to get too lost into our selves that we get tired of each other.  We see one another everyday and on weekends we're beasically together the whole time (my friends are starting to think we're joined at the hip, haha!). Then to top it all off, he asked to go to church with me without me even mentioning my Christian faith. Religion is important to me and I want my sig-other to share that same passion as I so that scored him major brownie points. Don't get me wrong, he's not perfect and has his "kiddie" moments but the other moments and characteristics outweigh them all. Ok, I'm done ranting and raving for now, it's class time *smooches*

*Be Blessed My Loves*

Truly Gifted

I was exploring on youtube for some good, soulful music to clean up to when I came across this song...It's so beautiful and show the true artistry inside of India Arie. You should listen to it or read the lyrics in your free time...

He heals me
Told him my biggest secret
And he told me four.
He smiled at me and said
that makes me love more
And then he made me laugh
And I knew it was a sign
That he was a man,
That I wanted in my life

And with every passing day
I feel more and more of that way

He heals me
He knows the real me
And he accepts me, he never hurts me
He heals me
He knows the real me
And he accepts me, he never hurts me
He heals me,
He heals me

I can play him songs, all
through the night,
And he will listen to every line,
And even when I'm wrong, he is still kind
[ Find more Lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.org/ERac ]
He chooses his words wisely
when he tells me I'm not right.

And yes he is a beautiful man,
But he is also a beautiful friend

He heals me
He knows the real me
And he accepts me, he never hurts me
He heals me
He knows the real me
And he accepts me, he never hurts me
He heals me

The moment that we met, he made me smile.
He has so much compassion in his eyes
I have no idea, how long he'll be here
A season or a lifetime, forever or a year
But for the first time in my
life I'm not worried about
the future
Because we have such a
wonderful time when we're together
However things turn out, it's all right
Cause he's already changed my life.

He heals me
He knows the real me
And he accepts me, he never hurts me
He heals me
He knows the real me
And he accepts me, he never hurts me

He heals me..........