One more day of class and work and then I will be free. Gotta prepare for that weekend trip to Alabama for that family reunion. I'll be glad once I get finished with that Marketing exam tomorrow morning at 7:30. Still have to cram for it. I'm so busy, I don't have time to type much. I'm currently still at work, and I have to go and meet with my co-op boss like right now. until next time!

Another weekend gone. But I can't say that I didn't have fun though. After waiting what seemed like months and Sundays to get my hair done (it looked similar to this) on Saturday, David and I hooked up to go to the Newport Aquarium later that afternoon.
I am still amazed by the art of forgiveness.

Since I can link pics on this blog again, I would like to present the before and after of my page on BlackPlanet.com:


Before:
After:


I used Ulead's PhotoImpact 6.0 to make that image above, just to play around with it a bit. It turned out pretty cool in my opinion. But hey, that's just my opinion.
To this day, I still wonder why I still login to that site. They claim that there are over 5 million members, but only 25,000 members are on the site. What's up with that? Unless those 25,000 members have 200 member names each? Nah, I doubt that.

I just had a lunch that lasted well over 60 minutes. I am allowed an hour for lunch everyday, but I ran into my cousin on my way back to the office. I found out that he works on campus, with one of the places under construction. As far as I know, there are like 3-4 locations of construction, most of them connected. Well, anyway, my cousin (actually my second cousin; our moms our first cousins), nicknamed Boop of all names (he had that name since he was a kid) is about to have a son in October. I was shocked when I heard that he was going to be a Dad recently; I was pretty sure that he was going to college on a baseball scholarship. He's been in to baseball since he was a shorty. Baseball was his thing most definately. He still says that he is going to go to college part time to become an accountant. I wish him all the best, he's like one of my favorite cousins. Yea, it's not "politically correct" to claim favorite family members, but Boop is one of the people that I grew up with basically. I used to see him a lot when me and my parents visited his Grandma (which is my Mom and Dad's Aunt, and my Great-Aunt, something like that-she;s still my Aunt regardless!) and we used to run around and do a whole bunch of stuff. I remember this one time when our other cousins (that I really didn't care for all that much) got us into a fight somehow. There had to be a lot of words exchanged for that to happen. We got in trouble and my Great-Aunt put us in "time out" and we cried like some babies. If I recall the story correctly, we apologized to each other. Since that day, we never got into a fight. We're just cool like that.

It was cool as hell seeing him today. Hopefully one day soon we can get the chance to hang out. By the fall, he will probably be busy with the arrival of the baby. I understand though- just as long as he takes care of that baby, that's my major concern. I stress that to him today too: "You better take care of that baby, or I'm gonna get you" is what I told him.

One of the biggest life lessons that I've learned thus far in my 20 years of existance is that there isn't just one road to your destination, there are many avenues in which you can take that will get you to the same place. I hope that my cousin chooses to still get to the destination that he wants to be in his life although he has a baby on the way. I hope that he can provide for his son and still be able to make all of his dreams come true.

Doesn't this car looked like a tricked out golf cart?

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Wow, one year!
It's hard to believe that I've been blogging for one year exactly today. Well, to be technical about it, I didn't make an entry everyday, but a year's a year, right?

Mission accomplished. I didn't go to the family reunion Saturday afternoon, it was just too hot to sit in the park. Besides, I didn't get home until 5pm Saturday afternoon from my friend's house. I had a good time while I was there, it was cool just kickin back and relaxing without having to worry about everything going on. It was good to take a moment like that- maybe I will do it again next weekend!
After I made it back home, I took a nap for a few hours, then chilled outside with my girl Dal, and then later on, my cousins Kyla and Jasmine came over to spend the night with me and my Mom. My other cousin Troy stopped by to see how we were doing. Kyla, Troy and I ended up going to find some food at 11:30 at night. We didn't make it back to my house until like 1am. I love my cousin Troy dearly, but I was pissed when he stopped on the shoulder of the highway and made me drive on the spot. He got out the car, and came over to the passenger side where I was sitting and told me to open the door then scoot over to the driver's seat. I didn't appreciate being put on the spot like that though, but I did drive though, all the way to Clifton to get some food. The only time that I messed up was when my Mom called my cell phone while I was trying to park- I ended up going over the curb. Doh! I was just glad to get out the car man! I ended up arguing with my Mom cuz we were out late with Kyla, who happens to be 13. She was just going along for the ride, plus we didnt think that we were going to be out that long just to pick up some food. Troy went, here, there and everywhere looking for some of our other cousins so he can drop off the two bags of clothes that they left in his van. Mom had the impression that we were going close by to get some food then come right back. Obviously that wasn't the case here!
I felt bad that things went down like that Saturday night. I'll be sure that it won't happen again anytime soon!

Isn't this some mess. All the while I've been a suscriber to Monster.com, I finally find an intership opportunity that is within the means of my major, but the problem is that I need a 3.0 gpa to be qualified for the postion, plus its in Maryland. Some luck huh. Well, at least it's Friday and after work I'm going to stay over a friends house. I am still hoping that the family reunion is cancelled, but I seriously doubt that it will be cancelled for this year. Oh well, I don't want to go either way, it gives me an excuse to stay over my friend's house longer- as long as they don't mind! :)


Here's that job description:

McLean, Koehler, Sparks & Hammond, a regional CPA and business consulting firm, is seeking a motivated, high-energy candidate to intern for the marketing department in our Towson office. Duties include:

- Coordinating special events

- Writing business correspondence

- Developing and disseminating advertising and PR communication

- Creating newsletters and brochures

- Handling media relations

- Conducting marketing research

This internship is available to junior or senior level undergraduate students majoring in Mass Communication or a similar program. Strong writing and oral communication skills, a working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and a GPA of 3.0 or higher are required. Previous internship experience is preferred, and exposure to business/marketing curriculum is a plus. ONLY CANDIDATES THAT POSSESS THE ABOVE QUALIFICATIONS AND SUBMIT AT LEAST 2 WRITING SAMPLES WILL BE CONSIDERED.

We are seeking a candidate to start in August and work at least 24 hours per week through the fall semester. A competitive hourly wage will be offered.

MKS&H assists clients in such areas as accounting, auditing and CFO services; tax planning and management; employee benefits, human resource and organizational development; technology consulting; financial investigation; family business consulting; mergers & acquisitions/corporate finance; and asset management and financial planning. For more information on our services, please visit our website at www.mksh.com.

I like this car! Anyone got like $8000 that I can have/borrow?

I've been so tired all this week, I really haven't had the energy to post an entry!

I wish that I was able to get canadian television. They're going to show The Osbournes-uncut!

Foolish, maybe?


On my way home after having to pay 25 bucks for my perscription, I got a phone call from the most unlikey source-David. I hung up on him, then redialed; I was curious to know what he had to say, since he was willing to talk. I am assuming that he felt guilty for what he had done to me a few weeks ago. Well, he sounds sincere but sometimes I am just unsure what to think. I sensed that he would call eventually, but I just didn't know when. I knew in my heart I didn't do anything to him to get dumped for, but I still felt like I did somehting wrong, but just couldn't figure out what that was exactly. He sounded way off when he broke up with me that day; it felt like I was talking to a complete stranger. When I found out that he was close by (I was on the bus when he called me) I got off the bus and told him to meet me there. I wanted to see what he had to say to me face to face. Seize the opportunity.

We talked for like 3 hours while riding around the city. I'm thinking my subconcious mind told me to get off that bus and talk to him; I could have been bitchy about it and cussed him out over the phone. Maybe I got a little bit more dignity than that; basically I wanted to talk things out in a calm manner; I wanted to let him know how much he hurt my feelings that day. I still wondered that it was something that I did for him to dump me. I've been through a lot of that in my life- being mistreated and never knowing why it was done in the first place. I am a bit more peaceful about the situation as a whole; he left it up to me about if I want to begin talking to him again. I am still hurt by what he did to me. That scar will remain.

The hardest thing that I've ever done in my life was forgive people; it took me like 4 years to forgive a best friend of mine. Actually, it was more like I needed to forgive myself for being so stubborn for so long about something that seemed so meaningless as time passed on. That's the most extreme example that I can think of. I had to forgive some family members too, including my Grandmother, because of the emotional pain that she caused me while I was growing up. Sometimes it still occurs now, but I know how to handle it.

I'm unsure if its all about forgiving him completely, but its more about healing. I still have to sort this out in my mind and in my heart. There is a lot of work to be done.

My horoscope today, according to Yahoo.com:

Things will be going well for you today dear Cancer, although you might get the sense that someone is trying to hold you back. Approach everything with a very disciplined frame of mind and realize that you can accomplish quite a bit if you just remain calm and organized. You have a great deal of energy available to you, but keep in mind that this is the type of energy geared more towards reserved, traditional, and stable actions.


Are you sure that I have a great deal of energy within me today? I sure didn't have any this morning while sitting in my Intro to Marketing class at 7:30 in the morning. I think I dozed off at least every ten minutes! Here's the kicker: the class didn't end until 9:20! The only way that I could inject some energy in my body was to purchase a vanilla cafe latte on my way to work. Now that woke me up! I'll probalby will have a cafine buzz the rest of the afternoon, because I'm not much of a coffee drinker; I just happened to feel daring this morning. I've only been at work for an hour, it's not bad so far. I have a meeting to attend at 1pm today; I'm glad to be included in meetings because it makes me feel all important and stuff. Hopefully, I will be able to attend one tomorrow morning at 10am with my co-op boss, Becky, dealing with a project that I'm directly involved with. I am in charge of organizing all the equipment information into a database, as well as requesting the information from all the library departments in the first place in order to implement the entire project.
Cool huh, I'm actually doing stuff!

Eh, it's Sunday, and there hasn't been much going on today. I was supposed to take my cousins Kyla and Jasmine to the mall, but that fell apart completly. (Besides, we, plus our cousins I'Yanna and Mekaeila all went to see Men In Black II at the movies Saturday night.) There is always Saturday. I like to take my time shopping anyways. I felt bad that the plans fell through though. So, I've been at home all day today; it's cool, there is nothing wrong with a lazy day every now and agin. Since I called off work on Friday, I've had a pretty lengthy weekend. I am refreshed for work tomorrow. I believe that I have a test in Marketing on Thursday, so I have to study before then. My Grandmother's birthday is today. I love her, but its funny how she does things for my bad cousins when I get left out of the cold. It makes no sense, but I won't let it bother me; that has been going on since I was a child, so I'm used to it now, I'm not as hurt about it as I used to be. There is a family reunion coming up on July 20th. I'm contemplating if I want to attend or not. I love my family, but they can treat each other badly, and I am not willing to participate in such evil acts. It's not my way, not a part of my morals. (I try to) Rise above the craziness that my family dishes out.
Eh, its cool though.

Random Shout-Out: This one goes out to my buddy Steve. He called me Tuesday night from St. Louis to wish me a happy birthday. He's such a sweetie. It was nice to hear from him. :)

Since Blogger was down for maintenance yesterday, I composed my blog as a word document...
July 5, 2002
7:58 PM
Listening to: Nsync’s Celebrity

Dang, it sucks that Blogger is down for maintenance, because I was ready to put in a new entry. I got my big b-day present that I bought myself- that Dell laptop, on the day after my birthday. I’ve been playing with the thing ever since I got it out the box. I was kinda bummed that the cd burner wasn’t on there but it’s cool; I can get an external one with an usb connection for about 150 in most stores. Since I am making a little more money, I can afford things like that. Unfortunately, I didn’t make it in to work this morning. I felt really sick about 15 minutes after I woke up; I was hoping that I would recuperate before it was time for me to leave, but I didn’t. I felt bad calling in though, I didn’t want to make it seem like I was skipping work or something like that. It’s crazy that I felt better like 10 minutes after calling, but what was done was done, because I would have been like 2-3 hours late if I did attempt to go in, oh well. So I spent my Friday sitting in the house chillin with my Mom, watching TV, and resting. It felt weird being at home too, I’ve gotten used to working 8 hours now. It’s not that bad, you just have to know how to discipline yourself. I might get a Christmas job and try to work as many hours as I can, and work at the library too. Its not bad working two part time jobs when you are out on break, but when school gets back in 2003 for the winter quarter, I will quit the seasonal job. I just begin to flashback to last year when I worked at Staples, and at Langsam and went to class! That right there wore me out! I barely had time for homework, and my grades suffered as a result. It sucked, but I learned my lesson, definatlely!

Another thing that sucks right now is that I cannot connect to the internet with my cable modem on my desktop. I need to go to the nearest service center so that I can get a cable that I can connect my laptop to the cable modem. I’ll probably will have to get a ride out there, so that I can take laptop with me. I don’t have a case for it yet, so I’ll probably will have to get that too, just get everything out the way in one trip. Sounds like a plan, now all I have to do is execute it.

My b-day was cool though- after going to class and then to work (with a bunch of muffins that I bought on the way there, and my boss treated me to lunch, which was very sweet of her!) and then going home to relax after receiveing many phone calls and running into my friend Eunice, whom I haven’t seen in about a month, I was pretty satisfied with my day. I was kinda bummed though cuz my daddy wasn’t here with me to celebrate my 20th b-day. I know that he’s looking down on me, with his kool-aid smile, no doubts about that!

I’m gonna go and try to figure out what classes I wanna take in the fall. Might as well do it now- there’s no time like the present.

I'm 20 now! :)

I like this font. Maybe I'll use it every now and again. Makes my entries look smaller, but neat. Anywho, my weekend went by in a big blur. I spent my entire weekend at my Grandmother's house. My cousins Kyla, who's 13, and Jasmine who's 9 arrived in Cincy Saturday morning via plane to stay with their Dad for the summer (which is my Uncle). I went with him to the airport- the last time that I went to the airport was almost two years ago, when I went to visit my Uncle, Aunt, and Cousins that stay in Kansas. Way before the 9-11 fiasco. We could only go into the baggage claim- that's where we met my cousins. I was happy that I spotted them, I began running towards them. It was cute,like one of those things that you see in the movies or something. I felt bad when they were here back in April on their Spring Break because they were sick, and I was already back in school on account of having my Spring Break in late March.

My birthday is tomorrow!


I got my pc back on Sunday afternoon, like 10 minutes before the store closed. I spent 80 bucks to find out that my processor is screwed up and the only way that I can find one that 900mhz is to buy one online. It's fine cuz I just ordered a laptop from Dell last week, and hopefully I should have it in my possession by this time next week! I qualified for the monthly payments which is cool, but my goal is to have it paid off by the end of this year. See, things are looking out! :)

Today has went by relatively fast (its 4:15 right now-I didn't finish this entry all in one sitting), I'm glad of that because it's a Monday, and Mondays, in my opinion, usually stink. Fortunately, this one was good. I got to see my friend Alia during my lunch break while I was in the bookstore grabbing a snack. I miss seeing her when I came to work in the mornings; she used to work for the library as well. When you are stuck in one place for 9 hours a day, its good to see a familiar face while on your way to work. Being on campus during the summer is tough at times, because the people that I'm used to seeing aren't around for now. Eh, I'll survive.