Get comfy...again..

So 2011 started off with a bang..sike, idk..because I don't remember a lot of the beginning of 2011...

Jan. 1 year in Amway,.one year of haters...but I'm still a business owner

April 2011 Happy 6th Bday JoJo!!! Perform my first Christian Standup Comedy set

July 2011 Start my new job

September 2011 Open for Comedienne Q-Stiletto of B-more at the Valencia Ballroom in York Pa! Great response and feedback, Join H.O.O.D. Helping Offer Opportunities and Direction a community organization advocating for change, as the PR chair!

October 2011..start blogging again...

I thought this year was a lil more exciting..but based on my obvious lack of recollection, it seems it must have been rather uneventful..

Oh, well..Thank God for life!! 2012 will be on and poppin'!

I have a thing with odd numbers..maybe that's why the year seemed a lil thrown off!..idk..

Here goes...get comfy...

Kindergarten Grad! Logos Academy

Josiah's 5th Birthday Party. Matey's LAND HO! The cake was the bomb, but can't find the pics!

My friend Amber's Bacholerette Party in Philly..I was in front of the Philly Art Museum..quite a jump...
First day of Kindergarten! Image courtesy of Poetic Stills Photography (my lil sis)

I cut all my hair off..it wasn't off Jan 2011..thought it would be curly

My engagement ring..this kiss actually did start with k
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So, it's been almost two years since I've actually sat down to write a blog post. My, how much has changed. I guess, the best way to do this would be a simple timeline

January 2010- I join Amway as an independent business owner! and little do I know that I also would start on my journey of self-discovery and self-growth

January 17, 2010 - I re-dedicate my life to Christ...again, but with a genuine and sincere heart and mindset to live for Him

Febuary 8, 2010- My on and off boyfriend slash baby's fava proposes to me...I look like crap, it's 10:30 at night so I can only call a few people..all of whom keep the convo short bc they are sleep, about to go to sleep, but mostly I think because they can't believe we're engaged....it was actually kinda nice..since we had always played around..literally..pretended to propose to one another, so I thought he was playing..until he pulled out a ring, which i had no idea he'd bought...and like my dramatic self... I ruined the original plan bc he had planned dinner and everything at the rest. where he'd given me my first gift, but something happened, i got mad (prob over something small and we wound up not going..hence the 10:30 proposal time

April 2010 - My lil man turned 5 and we have an awesome pirate bday for him...

We go to Philly for my friend Amber's Bachelorette party Diva 2 of 7 to get married (Diva 3 wedding next may)

May 2010..Feel like something happened, but I don't remember quite what it was

June 2010 Finally got a new job (unemployed from Dec. 09 til June 14..worked hard for this one..Persistence is key!) later that month...I Broke off the engagement.... more on that later

August 2010 I'm the Featured artist at Word Wide's ArtOfficial Open Mic night! I do stand up comedy!

First day of Kindergarten for Josiah at Logos Academy Christian School!!!!!

September 2010..My job is pretty bootleg..but I'm thankful for it

December 2010... I turn 26 and....look back over 2010...Brief summary: I joined a business that everyone doubts,except for me and am excited that I've been doing something for almost 1 year! I re-dedicated my life to Christ, I got engaged and then broke it off. I became a school mom, sucked at it the first year (still warming up this year too)Got a new job with some awesome people, but HORRIBLE management, so I spent a year looking for a job in the PR field (gratefully, I have a great job at a strategic marketing firm now!)

I noticed it was getting a lil long..soooo..2011 timeline and recap tomorrow! I WELCOME YOUR WELCOME BACK COMMENTS BELOW!!!

Back at it again!

WOW!!!! So much to write..but since it's 5 of 12, I'll spare my eyes and hands bc I've been in and out of sleep all day and am achy all over...(sniff sniff, sniffle sniffle)

Anyway, just wanted to do a quick lil something....so here it is...

(That was the quick lil something above...)

Til next time! nite*

7 Days and Counting

As my birthday moves closer and closer, I can't help but think more and more about the new year and what I want to accomplish. Here's a brief list of what I've been thinking about: Feel free to comment and leave some of your 2o10 goals. Maybe we can help e/o out and be held accountable..that always helps!

1. Pray and read my Bible everyday and write down what I'm thankful for
2. Keep a dream/idea journal
3. Be more graceful
4. Practice patience
5. Have more one on one mommy/JoJo time
6. Cook 3-4 days a week
7. Get 30 minutes of some kind of exercise every week (Ya'll knew it was coming)
8. Write or blog everyday


I have more of course, but I'm stuck right now.... I have a list somewhere...

9. Be (even) more organized! HAHA

12 Days of My Birthday

Okay, so I'll be 25 in 12 days and I realized last night that I'm kinda scared to turn 25. Up until now, I've been playing it cool and acting like I have it all together, but **This Just In..." I DON'T! I'm actually rather unprepared. As a 25 year old, what will some of my new expectations and responsibilities be? Should I know what I want to do with my life? I don't. Should I have a certain amount of money in the bank? I definitely have a certain amount and that's it....lol...

I asked my self a question, "WHAT DO I WANT" and it's funny (not really) because I don't have a clue...but then again who does....maybe 26 year olds do....I know a lot of people are going to tell me that it's okay to not have a clue what you want to do, but then what do you do...(I'm a lil frustrated if you can't tell).

In that same journal, I wrote...."WHO AM I" I have a lot more answers to that question than the first and maybe seeing who I really think I am, will help me figure out what I want and who I want to be...

I'm thinking of a REINVENTION OF SHAREE. There are so many things I want to change, but I'm not sure how.......I've been taking small steps and that's a good place to start I guess.....

Can't wait until Christmas and then my bday and then it's 2010, just like that....oh my.....

12 DAYS LEFT!

25 DAYS TIL 25

Well, there are 25 days until my 25th birthday and I figured out what I want to share from my Road to 25. This year, was especially hard for me for so many reasons. One being that I broke up with my boyfriend of 6 years (only to get back with him) but I broke up with him so that I could be happy. I thought I was out of love with him, and for a while, I think I was, but then something happened.... don't ask what, because I honestly don't know, but something did. I started learning about love, for real.

Love is not always pretty, on-time, convenient or expecting. Actually, it's rather annoying, obnoxious and tiring. Even though we weren't together, Julio never hesitated to tell me he loved me and was even more willing to show me. Of course, the whole "It's not you, it's me......really" conversation didn't go over too well, but hey, it was the truth.

I had been going through so much in the months leading up to our split......so naturally my mind was everywhere, no place in particular, just everywhere on everything. When we got back together a couple months later, we had a loooooooong talk about what we wanted for and from eachother and ourselves.....a looooooooooooooong talk. Over the past couple of months, we have been working to make ourselves better and happier so that we could make e/o better and happy.

Love revealed itself just in time and showed me that God actually does know what he's doing when he puts (or takes) people in/out of your life. For me, loving Julio didn't come easy, I had to work at it (it's getting easier though) and I really see that Love will reveal itself when it wants. Learning the hard way may not be so bad in the end.

25 DAYS LEFT

Birthday Countdown ( 26 Days Left)

So every year, I do a countdown to my birthday (December 28) starting on the 1st. I've been doing countdowns since I turned 16. In high school, I would write the countdown on the board of every class I went to. Even though my birthday fell during our Christmas break, I made sure it was top of mind. Anyway, now all of my readers have the pleasure of counting down the days until my 25th Birthday. I can't believe it! I'll be a quarter of a century old! So for the rest of the countdown, I'll be doing a road to 25 list and each day, I'll write about something new or different that I learned on the way to 25.

Wow, where to begin, I guess I'll start with one of the most important, yet harder things I learned this year:

True friends are true in every sense of the word: I broke up with my best friend of nine years and it happened to be one of the best decisions I had made in long line of bad decisions

26 DAYS LEFT