Heaux, Heaux, Heaux..

Well Christmas has come and gone. Heck, 2010 is just about come and gone. Can't believe how fast this year has gone by. I'm trying to reminisce about the beginning of the year and I'm drawing a big fat blank! For me this year hasn't had many memorable moments, this is actually quite disturbing that I can't remember the highlights of my 2010. Oh well, Christmas in Houston with the family was a bit apathetic for me but not for my nieces and nephews, check them out!







My Christmas loot was never this good..lol my how the times have changed! Everyone seemed to like and appreciate everything they got even though Rocky "thought" one or two of the ZhuZhu pets were for him :-) I had to keep an eye out for those poor little things because they almost became doggy chew toys ha ha

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Brown...out!

Holy Smokes Batman!

I've been on a blog hiatus for quite sometime now. I don't have any "real" reasons that wouldn't seem like anything but excuses as to why I basically "retired" my blog. I was catching up on the blogosphere and remembered that I too have a blog that has been neglected beyond belief. but I think it's time to resurrect the dead mind and get back to the rambling mind. I won't make any promises and say that I'll have a post every day because I know that would just be setting myself up for failure. At any rate, I'm hoping to be a little more consistent in the the writing and a little more forth coming with my daily life as well.

I was in Houston quite a bit the month of N0vember and also made visits in early Dec and will most likely be back for Christmas. Here are a couple of pics from Thanksgiving with the family and also some shots from around Downtown H-town and my Christmas tree!

Because my shoulder is still healing from rotator cuff surgery, it took me forever to decorate this year!

My sister and her two boys

My oldest niece Sadori!

My oldest nephew, keeping the tradition of a musician in the family!

My youngest nephew Stan the man

My youngest niece Lauren!

My brother and youngest nephew

The Breakfast Klub

Hakeem "The Dream" Olajuwon! One of the greatest all time

Train station

Skyline from Allen Parkway

Aight folks, stay tuned for updates!

Brown..out!

In treatment....

Ah, the weekend is finally here. It's been quite the roller coaster week for me. Mostly highs and a few lows. I'm starting to realize that I've been doing too much 'ostriching' lately with some of my own issues that I just don't feel like dealing with. It's so much easier and convenient to think of them as out of sight out of mind, and I suppose that's all fine and dandy but it's really just a temporary fix and I know it. I often hear other peoples issues because folks think that the "doctor" is indeed in and they come to me hoping that I can provide insight and wisdom and sometimes even a Godly counsel to their current trial and/or tribulation and I'm often amazed at how insightful and wise my counsel tends to be for them, but man, when it comes to counseling myself, I pretty much suck. I "know" all the right things to say, and I can tell myself all the "right" things to do, but when it comes time for execution, I give myself the FAIL! Knowing that I'm my hardest/worst critic, it's easy for me to turn a small "failure" of sorts into something way bigger than it has to be. It's also (too) easy for me to down play the big things that I feel like are failures and to carry on as though I'm "fine". I've said it before but sometimes I feel like I'm about to come undone at the hinges.

I give myself credit for recognizing my own symptoms and realizing that I have my own issues to deal with and allowing others peoples "issues" to affect me can't be part of my 'treatment' plan. I have to really decide who the givers and who the takers are that I encounter. I honestly feel like a shark who allows those little fish to eat off the fungus of my skin to keep me clean, but not realizing what they're doing is also causing me to get infected thus, them 'helping' me is also killing me. That analogy made a lot of sense in my head, not sure how it's coming off on paper, but, being a giver is TIRESOME especially when the level of return is not of equal value. It's truly a blessing and a curse.

Being in treatment, opens up a lot of cans of worms that aren't enjoyable to stare in the face. I'm not sure what the ultimate outcome will be guess we all will just have to wait and see what happens..

Brown..out!

Bling free day!

Before...


After...




Yay me! I go back next week to get my permanent retainers put in and after that I believe my orthodontia stint is all done. I did find myself being a glutton for all things, chewy, gooey, and crunchy yesterday, just because I couldn't have that kind of stuff for so long. What's funny is that sooo many people were saying go eat corn on the cob, didn't realize so many folks liked it, too bad I don't. LOL..There may be more video type blogs in the future because they're so much easier to do than to sit and type stuff out. How lazy am I! No comments from the peanut gallery..

Brown..out!

One bad apple..

Really can spoil it for the WHOLE bunch. I swear folks take my kindness for weakness or maybe my kindness has become a weakness, but I recently found out I was blatantly LIED to and burned by someone I call(ed) a friend. The review is still out on whether or not they'll still be called a friend, but I know I won't be a sucker! I'm really surprised at their actions and I kinda want to put em on blast but I'm not the e-beefing type but I had to get some of this anger out of my head. I talked to them and they gave me this sob story and they apologized (not sure it was an apology because they got caught or an apology for their actions) and said "I'll make it up to you" No, don't make it up to me, make it up to yourself. Folks, your word in most cases is the most valuable asset you can have. If you can't stand behind your word and follow through on what you said, then that means I really can't trust you. And if I can't trust you, I have no reason for you to be in my life. Period. Yea, they say actions speak louder than words, but words are what put actions into motion.

I'm fed up with so many people these days. It's almost as if it's time for me to start over. I always look to myself first to see if it is something that I am doing before I cast blame on others, but it is honestly not anything I'm doing to cause all these "issues".

I'm trying to not let this one bad apple spoil my niceness for anyone else who comes along, but man, it's hard to not say to hell with all of you and your problems, figure it out on your own. Don't come to me for diddly-squat! and someone had the nerve to call me selfish..Angie is a lot of things, but SELFISH is definitely NOT one of them..miss me with that BS!


Brown..out!

Oh hiking we shall geaux..

Today Rockstar and I headed up to Tunica Hills and became one with nature. The Tunica Hills are about 45 minutes driving from Baton Rouge and it's a place that has hiking, scenic views and several waterfalls. The hills can be quite steep in certain areas and will wear you out by the end of a day. I didn't hike the entire trail but I did knock out a chunk of it. Armed with a camera, water, food and my doggy, I set out and had a great time! To my surprise, my allergies weren't even a major issue while out there but man, as I'm sitting here writing this here entry I'm all kinda congested waiting on the meds to let me breathe freely again.

He walked off leash most of the day and by this point I think he was ready for me to pick him up and carry him back to the car

This was the end result of our day of hiking. He was exhausted and so was I!

I had a good time today, even though I was by myself. As of late that has been a semi-issue for me, one friend told me I was the most independent person she knows, well, that's just who I am. Life will go on with or with out me, so I chose to be apart of life and do things, even if I do end up doing them by myself (or with Rocky). This pic didn't come out well but I thought it looked cool anyway..

Brown..out!