Omar Sosa And The Afreecanos

Crew,

Understand what moves me.. music is a seperate language that we can all understand.

I Am There With You

Lauryn singing is the closest way I can show my feeling right now. Her outpour is real.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyOhUXsGqak

So Much to catch up on

Crew,

I've finally come to grips with blogging. I absolutely love sharing my thoughts with my crew but I must confess, blogging about hair non stop is not for me. There is so much that I want to talk about and while I love hair in an insane type of way it is not my life. This is in no way to knock blogs that are all about hair, I could never ever do that especially since I check so many of my favorite hair blogs daily. It is more of a much needed clarification. This blog is to serve as an outlet and inlet ( is that a word?) of information. I am a bit of an intellect and love to learn about as much as possible, all while dishing my two cents on what I can give a rat's ass about. SO- moving forward I want to officially say as I said in my very first post that this blog will be about pretty much any and everything.

Ok,

First up My crib.
I dislike white walls, I can't stand them. they remind me of an office, hospital, funeral homes, pretty much everywhere where I don't want to be. There's a catch to this. I don't mind entirely white rooms. white linen, furniture, fixtures, etc. I caught myself in home depot with Mister in the paint section, picking out the cutest warmest shades of almond, nutmeg, pecans. those warm gooey yummy tasting tones. I walk up to the counter with the marker thingy and asked him to get the color for me, little did I know that you have to buy the expensive paint to get the color on the marker thingy.. Me being who I am and working with the budget I have said, "oh hell no, how much for the cheap one?" This poor young man looked at me with softest eyes and said " I'm sorry, I can't get you the exact color but something close to it".

Ok, that sounds fair enough, but when I start painting guess what color is on my walls? Peach. Ugh, I'm tight right now $60 worth of sherbet flavored paint is not cool. I perservered and tried to be optimistic about it painted two hallways and my downstairs living room. I still hate it. Next pay period I'm right back at home depot.

My hair
Not much of an update with my hair. I've been faithful with my protective styling, two strand twists, then twisted up into an updo ends tucked neatly away.

side note my ish is shiny!!!

I'm feeling like I'm stuck at 6 inches, I normally don't fuss over length but I'm getting antsy. I'm trying to keep in mind that I've given myself some major trims this year ( not that that's soothing me at this point) . Ok how about this, I am not doing another length check till June. Thick gurls honor ( clap my booty twice or hope to cry). Who wants to join me on that one?

Weight

Yes again, I'm going to revisit this. It's not going anywhere et al! That's due to the fact that I haven't been doing anything! at least I'm admitting to it. I'm back on the treadmill tonight an hour at 4.5 then a ten minute run at 6.0. Three times a week at minimum, belly dance again.
Who wants to join me on that one?

I'd also like to have weekly guest bloggers. Once a week I'd like to have someone chime in with their thoughts about whatever is going on..

P.s. Here's some random pics and videos of the boy to keep you laughing. He taped this himself litterally, his sister didn't realize it was recording.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoc5IfVAjMg










I'm staring at my stretchmarks and still thinking about doing the body image post.
Aye

Short Stop

Crew,

This is a quick " what's good". I got my camera , My aunty Ess made my banner . May I have your attention please " I'd like to give a shout out to that pecan toned honey bump in the back with the bad ass fro" I LOVE MY BANNER. Ok it is late, my kids are screaming, the hot water heater broke, so I am boiling water and feeling like I'm back in Jamaica. I promise I have a wicked post update for yall tomorrow

No suh, me a go haffi bwoil dat wata fus.

Aye

Bilal Tonight

Crew,

He'll be at the Black Cat tonight in DC. I've been wondering for a long time when he'll be out with a new album. Asides from that I just caught myself feeling a bit of a "ways". I can't put my finger on it exactly but I feel it.

Random Thoughts

CREW,


This particular post will not be focused on hair, it will be a collective set of thoughts, desires, dislikes that's been drumming around in my head.

IMAGES

All these pretty things, the earth, the sky, people, my kids, love- I need a camera asap. I'm on a budget, I want a digital camera but with good optical zoom, I do not want to spend over 150 on it, is this possible?

I miss being near my "artsy fartsy" crew AKA easy access to photographers. I've been wanting for a long time to take shots of myself in various lights, settings , eh hem nekkid .

Truth be told, I have yet to find someone out here in this area that I think is capable of doing this. There is such a strong difference between taking a picture while holding your breasts and looking like you lost your clothes, versus having a moment when the the sunlight is your only clothing and it is captured, y'all feel me on this one?

MUSIC

My gawd, In a previous post you will find pics of a recent outing that I went to. I promise I will never ever ever find myself at BWX again. I consider myself to be fluent in all music, While I am drawn more to B side artists like, Van Hunt, Georgia Ann, N'dembi, Keite Bilal, Raphael E. Badu her sis UDAB, Max trust and believe I still can spin a Jay track and play Wu-tang at least once a week.

I CAN NOT GET WITH ANYONE TALKING ABOUT ICE CREAM PAINT JOBS!

You should have seen the look on my face when the one of the DJ's from 92.3 really put that sh*t on. You should have seen the look on my face when everyone including one of my Aces through her hands in the air. The dumming down of Black America is for sure partially due to the crap that artists put out and the fact that it is on heavy rotation.

"What if there were no niggers only Master Teachers, I stay woke"

I'm turning 29 in December, I'm not old. I am cultured and fine tuned, I have a deep appreciation for knowledge, thirst, and rhythmic vibes and words so deep that it is felt in your core.

LACE FRONT WIGS

I saw New moon last night, why not just give the werewolf some standard tracks? Did he really need a full lace front?

Lace fronts look like Lace Fronts, that is my word ~ unless you have Bey money, don't think it's ok to throw one on haphazardly. These wigs which at one point were fly and tastefully done are now everywhere on sale and clearance causing a disturbing rise in the tackiness floating around in the streets.

Remember you should not see the lace on the wig itself. smh

My grandmother wants one. I know she would be able to pull it off, she is a graceful badd ass Jamaican woman, that prides herself on every small detail. I'll get her one for Christmas.

MY WEIGHT

Winter is approaching, this is no excuse. Should I complain? or do something about it? I am fairly active and am in good health, I say this because I can run for an hour straight easily, but still I think 215 sounds so much better that 229. I'm 5ft 10 inches, I'm a big girl I like being thick but am trying to get away from the back fat.

My back should not frown or smile depending on what type of movement I make. I need to step my game up hard. First step is processed sugar, I am going to remove at least 85% of this from my diet. Sounds easy right? not at all. Processed sugar is in so many things. 100% fruit juice, packaged oatmeal, bread, yogurt, store brought vege foods. I know this but continue to put it in my body? Why Aye why? Human nature I guess? I have will power like none you've ever seen, why am I not using it?

The template on my blog

Good lord, it looks so dry compared to all these other ones that I visit. At this point I am still not able to upload pics the way I want to. I am not a computer person so to speak. I get on, do what I have to do and keep moving, my time is so short, I allow myself only about two hours on the computer every few days. I look at templates, gadgets, widgets, HTML, codes, java, and then just end up saying bump this. One day I promise I will make the blog more eye appealing but for know this is all I got.

On my way, I'll see you soon

Aye

Man O' Man..

Crew,

Two weeks? seriously?. Sheeeeet man time flies. I say " Ok I will post tomorrow" then realize tomorrow never comes. I have been wrapped up like crazy, between my normal 9-5, home, kids, and business. I honestly have been super busy. Please forgive me once again.

Me and Taya, I heart her



My hair was was in desperate need of a trim. My split ends became split middles ( not good at all), I did a mini trim, instead of parting my hair in small sections and then doing a twist and trim, I made about 15 or so twists in my hair and trimmed about 3/4 of an inch off. Ladies my personal experience has lead me to believe that kinky curly hair like mine will never be rid of all split ends at once unless me hair is straightened and then trimmed. I've stopped worrying over the idea of having a completely split free fro' .. None the less, it does feel so much better. Thank God I am not a length obsessed person- I want health more than anything. Below see pics of my split ends.

Split Ends

LOCS

After twisting up her locs with my Shea coco mix and a touch of Barry Fletcher's Herbal twist putty and letting them dry under the dryer, I went to work and gave her a twisted rolled pony tail of sorts. She came back the next week and I gave her another updo.

Side of last week's loc updo

My home girl actually asked me if my fro was a weave lol

This weeks loc updo

Two strand twist updo

I just liked this tree

The front of this weeks loc updo, (isn't she pretty :-) )

As I've said before I'm concentrating on keeping my fro under wraps, well not literally under a wrap but keeping my hair ends as protected as possible. The only time I will have my hair out is on special occasions, i.e - da' club, Raphael's show my birthday 6Th or Bilal's show on Dec 4the ( happy dance). Asides from that I'm going to keep my hair in twists and pinned up. At night I've been Bagging my hair, I think this is like the best thing since tofu for my kinks. moisture retention is a big issue for me. I re twisted my hair yesterday and will keep these in for the next two weeks.

So what's been going on with everyone? How has life been?

I am literally being kicked off the computer right now. Today is Mister's birthday, we just came back from the movies , we went to see the 4Th kind.. I loved it, it was perfect. Please go see it.

Stay Solid,

Aye