For the folks who can make you feel like an awkward adolescent all over again, still struggling to fit in, and then make you feel like you could dive off the top of the Empire State Building, take in the universe and never hit the ground.

Family, I'm thankful for you.

I think I'm getting old. 100% Juice is WAY too sweet for me ( Read more... )

Breast Cancer is steadily making it through the women in my family on both sides, and through my inherited family, and just ripping them apart :(

I have a bit of an extreme allergy/ potential head-cold situation today, but other than that I'm cool.

My family was in town for the weekend, which I enjoyed. Probably more than I ought to have.

Their presence prevented me from being a groupie attending sexy drummer guy's concert on Saturday night. Other than enriching my fantasies with him, I ( Read more... )

One of my cousins got married on Memorial Day weekend. Backstory: She and the now husband have 2 children, and she's been waiting on him to be "ready" for marriage for about 20 years.(It's part of the curse that all my female relatives have...) My grandmother is losing her memory a bit and everytime she sees this cousin asks her if she's married ( Read more... )

I talked to my mama this morning. She sounded happy. She's visiting her family and going to a wedding this afternoon. It made me miss her :( In my house, we all take so much joy from making my mom happy. Her siblings always teased her because she would get so emotional sometimes, but she also stresses and worries so much. It makes me concerned for ( Read more... )

I just had a Hershey's Symphony bar with "Creamy Milk chocolate, Almonds and Toffee Chips" along with my coffee....Mmmm, so delicious ( Read more... )

-Last weekend my little sister was voted Homecoming Queen. Yay for that! She and I are nothing alike, lol. She's pretty whatever about it, wasn't expecting it and definitely wasn't campaigning or anything for it. But not bad for being one of 1.5 black women in her class (and I think there are only 3.5 black people in the class total ( Read more... )

On Dad: He is lost when my mom goes away. Seriously. I think sometimes he can't even think straight when she's gone. Not that he particularly enjoys cooking, but I think my mom inspires him to cook more than just baked beans, and hot links. Never in my life have I seen someone eat so many hot dogs and hot links and never get tired of them. But, for ( Read more... )