Trespassing..

Now Rocky has long been given walking papers when it comes to being in my bed, so to my surprise when I came out of the shower, look who has made himself mighty comfy all in my bed..

Maybe she won't see me if I bury myself..

but it's so comfy here

if I turn my head she'll leave

can't you see I'm trying to rest

This last shot I told him to get down, so he gets from under the covers and just gets on top of them. He's going to find himself outside with no tags on if he keeps this up..

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Under the oaks..

Pics around LSU

Some friendly competition

Not one to miss a reason to go to a LSU football game, Sat. I whipped out my LSU football jersey and headed to campus for the annual LSU Spring Football game, last year I was just as excited about the Spring game as I was last year! Even though I didn't get to bring my nephews as I usually do, I was still able to enjoy the day with friends. After having a mediocre season for LSUs standards, most of us fans were highly anticipating the spring game so that we can have a looksie at what we hope to be a much better offensive scheme and an improved defense as well. Basically, we want to be BETTER and more consistent than last year. After baking in the sun, man, it was HOT, I must say that our QB play is still shaky but our corp of running backs will be a handful which is GREAT!! Our receiving corp and our secondary looked pretty good too! I know it's hard to think that how can the receivers and the secondary both look good when it was the secondary's job to not let the receivers look good ha ha. Well, that's the beauty of the Spring game.
While I was on campus I took a few shots of the campus and I had forgotten how beautiful it is under the oaks at LSU. I don't have a favorite shot but here are a few pics. Oh yea, LSU White won 24-9 fitting since LSU plays 95% of their games in white jerseys!!








More pics to come..

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Broke til payday

Last week I got to observe the inner workings of a pay day loan establishment. Let's just say I was doing "research". Well, I spent a good 2 hours in this particular establishment observing and man, people are hooked on those things like crack! Folks from all walks of life were strolling in to a)pay on their loan; b)pay off their loan; c) pay off their loan and reapply; d) get a new loan. I couldn't believe the volume of customers that this particular business had going for themselves. Who knew that 400% interest would appeal to that many folks! I was particularly amazed at the number of people who come in, pay their $345 (maximum loan amount is $300 + $45 finance charge) and then IMMEDIATELY re-new their loan, basically get the same money they just handed over returned to them, only to repeat this cycle on their next pay day.

I've been fortunate enough to not have to rely on the use of a payday loan to get me through any rough patches but it just seemed like this was the lifestyle for the majority of the folks coming through the doors of this fine establishment. I wonder if any of those people know that getting caught up in pay day loans is dangerous, because often times folks don't have the money to pay them back when the time comes. I also wonder if any of the folks actually care that they're being charged 400% interest for this loan so that they aren't "broke til payday" anymore. Somehow I doubt that as well. I wanted to tell those people to not get the loans and that there were other ways to save money but that surely wasn't my position to do, especially since I was there as a visitor of an employee. Either way, I appreciate where I am in life and that in the event that I'm broke til payday, I know that if I had to, there are people in my life who wouldn't charge me 400% interest to get me through my rough patch.

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10 years ago today...

I joined a sorority.

Yep. I was a sorority girl.

I'm no longer a sorority girl.

Historically Black sororities and fraternities (HBSF) don't have the same longevity mentality that the predominately white ones have. The HBSF believe that once you're in, you're in it for LIFE, complete with wedding songs and debutantes for the kids! It's like the mafia. Ok, not really, that comparison topic is for a whole other blog post.

So while I say I'm no longer in a sorority, because back in 2004 I wrote a nice please remove my name from your roster and mailed along with it the secret manual and history book, today I've still gotten a phone call and a facebook message from 2 of my 3 then "line sisters" wishing me a happy "Sigmaversary". Perplexed but not surprised that even though I'm not technically a part of the organization anymore, I'm still apart of the organization. While I did renounce my affiliation with the sorority, I was and am still friends with some of the women I met while I was involved and they know why I did what I did and for the most part they understand.

10 years ago I was in a much different place in my life mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. I was poor, overweight because I drank a whole whole lot, dined on the great cafeteria food, involved in a relationship that surprisingly dictated a good 4-5yrs of my dating habits once the relationship was over and didn't want anything to with God..

10 years ago I was an undergraduate student afraid of the unknown that I was about to embark on as I was about to graduate. I was floundering and really wanted to just stay in school and not have to be responsible.

10 years ago I was doing things not because I necessarily wanted to do them, but because I was immature and doing them anyway.

Looking back on those10yrs from 2000 to now makes me wonder what my next 10 years are going to be like, but in reality I'm looking forward to the next 10 min when this post will be done and I can go and get something to eat!!! Keeping it light folks. :-)

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Whew!!

I have been out of the blogsphere for MONTHS now. I wasn't sure if I was ever going to come back but like Tiger Woods to white women who aren't his wife, I just can't stay away ha ha. There's been a lot of "stuff" that has happened since my last post and this one and I won't even try to recap all that "stuff". 2010 has been interesting thus far. Low point in the almost 4 months of the year has been losing a childhood friend. Jennifer Moore died in late February. That one was quite the shocker to me, I mean, no one is really expecting someone to die, but just the fact that I grew up with her and had played sports with her since Middle School and she as a good friend back in our heyday. At any rate, I don't really want to rehash the emotions of dealing with that but being at her services made me feel like I was back in my HS locker room. Was good to see the friends and coaches, but definitely sucked that it was under the circumstances that we were there.

I have a new hobby kinda sorta. Got a fancy camera for Christmas and I'm kinda sorta learning all the settings and what not but photography is kinda cool when the shot comes out right ha ha. The camera does a lot of the work for me most times for now.It's almost Easter and if I'm in Houston I know I'll have some Easter photos of the kids that I'll be able to post. Maybe I'll use them to do a mini-photo shoot of sorts that would be kinda cool. Well I'm going to take my sprained knee and move it from this stool and onto the couch and take a nap, but I am back to being a "blogger". I realized that when I have too much free time, which I've had a lot of the last week since I haven't been able to go to the gym, my mind is all over the place and needs an outlet. Alright folks, thanks for stopping by and/or welcome back for those who have been waiting on ME ha ha

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