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Lydia...My sister...

Yesterday was my sisters birthday. Her original birthday plans got canceled due to Irene. But it turned out to be good nonetheless. We went out to the movies with friends, then everyone came over to our house for a sleepover. Late night, taboo, and brunch pretty sums up the day.

I'm so thankful that my sister has reached another year of life. She is one of the nicest people you will meet, funny, and probably my #1 fan and most loyal subject. Crazy as she is...I love her very much!

When we first started living together in collage

Playing around on the computer

Sabbath dinner at my nephew's bday

Chillin 

Smile!!

 

Our brothers Graduation for church 

Also at our brothers graduation

(pre blow up when everyone was still happy lol) 

Us and our grandpa 

My sister recently ran across this photo

& made it go public smh. 

Anyway... this is a pic of us when we were younger lol. 

I wish you a great year Lyd! 

Live. Love. Smile. Enjoy.

No...Lydia...My Roommate

Today is my college roommate's birthday!!! Love this girl to death. We've had SO many good memories in the last 7 years that we have known each other I don't even know where to begin. She started out as a suitemate then eventually became my roommate to one of my closest friends for life! 

 Our very first road trip together 6 yrs ago! 

(I don't know where I was looking) 

Last month in Toronto

Spring Spring 

Love you much Lydia and I wish you the best on your birthday!!

Live. Love. Smile. Enjoy

Highlights...Lowlights

 Great:

• Got my phone back!!! 
• Going to American Tap Room for dinner. I was starving OMG! Their veggie burger and the  ambiance there was pretty good.
• Thankful I'm alive after the earthquake. My mother tracked me down to my last known associate to check on me and see if I was ok. Even though she had just missed me, she knew I was fine.
• My brother is now a college student! 
• Hanging out with my sibling today. Funny characters smh lol

Not so great:

• Starting the week out phoneless.
• Hearing others have sex through the walls of my hotel -____-. And before you say I am green with jealously and bitter... I assure you I'm not. Yo! Do you! Get yours! I just don't want to hear you moaning and thrusting at 1am! It's just too much when I'm trying to go to sleep. #imjustsaying
• Dude at verizon accidentally canceling my unlimited data package. Altho he said he would get it back for me... we shall see about that. 
• My hair turned out horrible this week. I know what works best for my hair...I don't know why I deviate from the path smh. My mom asked me tonight... "did you do your hair this week?" Me: -_________- "yes I did. You just can't tell"

Anyway thats just a few highlights and lowlights from my week.

 I'd JUST finished my hair & I had to put it up cuz it was horrid!

My sister says this is a typical face I make... But I don't know about that...

I don't really like the face I'm making to be honest. 

Live. Love. Smile. Enjoy 

Estelle...

I last week I went out with a group of friends so see Estelle preform. I'll be honest... I'm not a big fan of Estelle, she just doesn't do it for me as an artist. And yet... I went and found myself waiting for... what... 2 hours or so for her to come out? She was full of energy and pretty funny. She seems like a down a** chick that is down for the get down and cool to hang with. I must admit, I really enjoyed her set minus one ballad that was just....

(my pictures from the night aren't good at all! But I tried to capture a few pictures...

On the way to see Estelle 

 Highlights form the night:

• Meeting new people and hang with old friends
• Being super close to the front. 
• Seeing a one woman on the turntables? DJ'ing?... I don't know.... whatever you call it!! 

 Tiga from the Big Tiga Morning Show 

 Estelle 

 I seriously need these shoes in my life! 

 It was nice to see a woman doing this!

He was just cute * shrugs* 

 Friends!!

(I look all types of rough tho...) 

Lowlights form the night:

• Standing in 4 inch heels for a least a good solid hour before I ended up taking off my shoes! Talk about your feet killing! Thats what I getting for listening to the Bestie. -__- That is also the precise reason I don't wear heels when I go out like that. 
• All the baggage, an umbrella and a purse, I had was just too much. When I got out my motto is "if I can't put it in my pockets or on my person I'm not taking it".

  This is not what I planned to wear that night...

But it's not a bad creation from the items I had in my carry on.

(I couldn't hang in those shoes all night tho) 

Me and the Bestie... 

I just wanted to go home at this point!

Live. Love. Smile. Enjoy. 

Jill Scott ft. Anthony Hamilton- So In Love (Official Video)

I'm not a big Jill Scott fan... and I have a few Anthony Hamilton songs in my iTunes library. But I like ran across this video today and really liked song and the vibe of the video!




Live. Love. Smile. Enjoy

Earthquakes?! Seriously?!

Yesterday I was in Fredericksburg, VA in a meeting in the basement of a church weaving in and out of the devotional thought. Suddenly there was a loud rumble and a slight shaking... which grew to an intense shaking. When the ground, building, and people that are sitting still start to noticeably move... I believe in my HUMBLE novice opinion qualifies as intense. Like.... buildings and furniture just don't move like that on its own!


Out of 27 years I've never experience anything like it. My first thought was "ummmm... is this an earthquake?..." then as the moments passed and the rumbling and shaking lengthened I was like "omg this is an earthquake.... this doesn't happen in VA! THIS  is precisely why I don't want to live in Cali!" (For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. Mark 13:8) Suddenly someone said we all needed to evacuate and go outside and to walk calmly. Outside everything looked calm like nothing had happened. People milled around giving various thoughts as to what had taken place. Some thought there was an explosion near by or that the boiler or AC had exploded *confused face*.  I was like new boss... that had to have been an earthquake. 


After about 10 minutes we made our way back inside the church to carry on with our meeting. Eventually, reports started coming in about the earthquake what had been effected and where it had originated. Evidently the earthquakes epicenter was in Mineral, VA which is about 40 miles from Fredericksburg, VA.  In the scheme of things... I feel like 40 miles was nothing. We were pretty close. I'm just thankful we were safe.  


BTW the way.... not having a phone during intense moments is the WORST!!! I couldn't call or text anyone... or read my TL. I was left somewhere between paying attention to the speakers and playing Sokoku...again. -_______________- 

Struggleberry

Its been exactly one week that I have been without a phone. Anyone one that knows me or been around me knows...I'm pretty addicted to my phone. Texts, BBM's, Facebook, Twitter (I run two twitter apps on my phone at all times) emails, gtalk, Skype, and of course phone calls. Lately though I've just been annoyed with the whole phone concept... I just didn't want to be bothered with it.  I wanted to turn it all off. In recent weeks, there were times I'd turn my phone off for hours at a time.

Last Wednesday I woke up and my phone was DONE... evidently the operating software had up and vanished off my phone. That fact was a little annoying since I had plans to meet someone later that day, but I wasn't tripping over the fact it wasn't working. For various reason though (don't ask... I'm not even sure myself) I didn't get around to ordering a  replacement till Sunday night.

People have been saying to me " I know you have been dying without your phone" and the god honest answer is... I been good without my phone. Its like an invisible burned had been lifted off my shoulders. Don't get me wrong... there have been times during the last week when the fact I didn't have a phone was highly annoying like when you know someone that you want to receive a text from is texting you and you are missing them! Or  you when you want to meet up with someone (you can't be spontaneous that's for sure... you have to set a time and exact meeting place!) or  you are out and everyone else is on their phone tweeting and you're are the only fool on their iPod playing Sodoku or you're in a room full of people and you want to text something to the person across the room... in those cases not having a phone is indeed challenging.

However, I felt great. I could come and go as I pleased, I didn't have anyone calling asking questions or where I was. I wasn't constantly looking at my phone every  5 minutes wondering why no one had texted me or who can I text now. I could go to bed when I wanted and not be distracted by my phone going off. When I was out I could actually pay attention to the people around (if they aren't in their phone). The general feeling of freedom was great... I could do what I wanted and not be bothered. Don't get me wrong...If you are reading this and have my number don't feel " oh KP doesn't want to be bothered I can't  call or text that chic" quite the contrary I love receiving and texting my friends. I think I just needed a break form all the social media and instant communication my phone provides. And even without a phone... I still managed to stay connected, fulfill the plans I'd made previously as well as make new plans, and saw everyone I wanted and planned to see in the last several days.

 I'm back!! 

After a week though... I was ready for my phone to be back. After all... I have call to make, texts to send, and tweets to tweet! Oh there goes my phone now!! :D

I'd rather the Struggleberry then be phoneless

Live. Love. Smile. Enjoy.

Sequins and Tulle...

Saturday night was my family reunion banquet. The banquet was themed in the 70's & 80's. My mom had mentioned this a couple times leading up the reunion... But what to wear was the furthest thing from my mind.

Friday morning I woke and was totally confused about what to wear and to pack for the weekend (I hate last minute packing I always forget something or realize I could have done something better/different). Anyway, it got to the point I was just trying random stuff on. Remember this dress that I refuse to wear out?  I ended up trying it on just for the heck of it. Then I decided its the 80's... you can't go wrong with sequence and a top that hangs off the shoulder. Then I seemed to think a bunch of tulle would be appropriate as well... LOL smh 

Smile! 

My cousin said I looked like something and that jumped out of Teen Wolf. LOL!! :/ lol Is that good or bad? I don't really know what that means.... *shrugs*


Live. Love. Smile. Enjoy.

Family Reunion - Love is the Main Ingredient

This past weekend I found myself in Detroit for a family reunion. Although I see my extended family from time to time, I hadn't been to a family reunion in YEARS.  So it was nice to see everyone again.

Friday we got in a little late and ended up babysitting my cousins kids. They are the cutest kids known to man and so well behaved. They are the type of kids that make you wish that when you have kids... they are like that.

Baby Sitting 

 

Sabbath my mom took us to some random church and held us hostage for 3 hours after church! [Rant: My mom STAYS wondering why I drive separately. YOU KEEP ME HOSTAGE LADY AND DON'T KNOW WHEN TO LEAVE! *exhales deeply....* Yo! All I wanted to do was go to church, eat a nice sabbath meal, go home take a nap and be merry!!]

Saturday night was a 70's & 80's banquet with lots of socializing, food, picture taking, and dancing

About to head to the banquet

Cousins!

The cousin in black hosted the reunion this year

 

Father and Son

 

Me and my sis and the new host for the next reunion :)

And things ended on Sunday with the family BBQ.

My mom and a couple of her siblings

more cousins!

Carters & Matthews (I dont even know who they are) Family Reunion 2011

Love is the main ingredient

Its always nice to see family. Be it immediate or extended :)

[Random: I don't know why... but several people this weekend assumed I was young. One of my younger female cousins who might be around 13 asked how old I was and was sorta shocked when I answered her. She assumed I was 16. Do you know the last time someone thought I was 16?! Yea.. me either. And then some woman at the BBQ made a statement about the children participating in the potato sack race then looked at me and said "You need to grab those your age and go to that".  *insert KP face* I just had to look at the women. I responded, I'm not as young as I look. Then she came back like "yea right this is the perfect thing for you to do".  I'm setting there looking at this woman  with the craziest KP face EVER(I couldn't help it).

KPFacts:
1. I don't play games... I barely like games!
2. I'm not jumping around NOWHERE.
3. I'm Young... But I'm not that young... I'm older then ya think.

Finally the lady must have realized this wasn't going to go anywhere and finally asked how old I was. I told her then she immediately got her "shocked face", promptly shut up, turned around and went back to her seat and set down.

Lol smh I guess it pays to have good genes though]

 Live. Love. Smile. Enjoy.