Happy New Year!!! 2010 is here...

Can you believe I am up? I definitely cannot. Its an hour into the new year and it crossed my mind to drop in on my beloved but very much neglected blog. I spent the last day of the year completing the final details for my apartment. I also went to Mass with my mom. I had plans to have a drink to ring in the new year but that did not materialize. Does that mean I didn't need it? I wonder...

I for one am glad to see 2009 go. I felt stagnant at a certain point in 09 and found myself hiding my personal wishes and desires for the needs and wants of others. This year there will be none of THAT. TRUST!

I didn't do much in the way of resolutions. I guess I kinda just made one. Not really. The above is more like a vow. Anyway, back to resolutions. Every year around the end of November I use the remaining space in my planner to come up with resolutions. My resolutions surround being a better me - losing weight, volunteering more, write more blog more, that kinda thing. For whatever reason it just didn't seem right this year. My plan is to take it one day at a TIME.

So with that I will end. Keeping it short and sweet. I wish you all the best for the new year. For those of you who diligently follow your resolutions congrats and good luck with them this year. For those of you who are on my bandwagon, let's try and keep each other motivated.


Happy New Years Errybody!


P.S. To my one and only friend that I know born on January 1st - New Year's Day- Happy Birthday DJ Aggravated!

Its Monday

"No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it."
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich



I trust everyone had a great weekend. My weekend was ok. I did the usual - clean, study and I did it all tired. Emotionally and physically which left me in a rut of some sort. I went on a search for motivational blogs and found this. It seems to match how I was/am feeling.

I say I want graduate school but do I really? Of course, the answer to that question is a big fat YES ! But I have to admit just replaying the process over and over in my mind is messing with my dream.

I am at the point where I need to push forward, need to give it all I got to get to the next level and I am basically playing de azz as some in my family would say. I think the proper phrase is fearing success. Go figure that one out!

Here's hoping you are all in better spirits than me. Have a great week.

Rain Rain Go Away...

.....Come again another day. Its been pretty gloomy and to make matters worse it seems to have contributed to the death of prominent attorney John O'Quinn here in Houston...This happened about mid-day today so additional details are sure to emerge later and the days following. See the initial report from local ABC Channel 13 here.

Aside from wishing the rain away, I am doing pretty well. My schedule is busy with school and the like and there are times I just feel overwhelmed. I am having a bit of that feeling today. As much time as I put into studying I always feel like I am behind. It didn't help that I went out of town last weekend without my laptop. UGH! I accidentally left it and when I realised it, it was too late to turn back. Needless to say when I got back, I had LOTS to do. I hate being behind. For the next couple of days, I plan to just throw on some sweats, pack a nice lunch and some snacks and spend the ENTIRE day in the library. My mom is headed to Trinidad for a month so hopefully while she is gone I can implement my plan of attack on the last month of school. Wish me luck on that. We will see.

For your reading pleasure

I read a lot of blogs. A LOT! I love love love when I come across a blog and they are giving praises to another blog. Seems like a no brainer to me - hyping up someone eles's creativity, giving them props -but I do not see it being done alot. Afrobella, one of my favorite bloggers aways gives shout-outs to others doing there thing. Here's hoping I can effect small change within blog land and if nothing else introduce you to somethin new.

I first got wind of his work when someone forwarded an email to me back in 2007. He did an awesome slideshow of a couple's engagement that went viral. I swear I watched that proposal like 20 times. His name is Ross Oscar Knight and on his blog Ross Oscar Knight Photography, he gives great details about photo shoots, destinations and any thing that made an event special..Spun between discussions of photo shoots and destination discussions, he talks a lot about family and his decision to take up photography. On top of all that he also hosts a photography class for amateurs...Hopefully one day I can partake. He definitely makes me think I can....

I also like his "keeping him honest" blog posts and the fact that he answers his email. I contacted him once and shamefully never followed up. In that time, he has evolved into so much more that I became intimated..I may try again because I love his work. Enjoy and tell him I sent ya!

Have a great week!

Its Monday

Hope all is well with you in blog land. I am hanging in there. Still taking my paralegal course - I am in my 3rd of five tracks. I am also still going strong with my post-bac classes. We had midterms last week and I survived - THANK GOD!!! There was a point where I was taking my Methods midterm and my mind went completely blank. I had to take a couple deep breaths to regain my focus...Talk about weird. My policy midterm wasnt too bad. I am really hoping I did well.

I don't have much coming up. I need to focus on getting some graduate school applications underway. I say I want to go but I have done nothing to facilitate the process. The hardest thing was compiling a list of things to get done and I did that weeks ago. Procrastination is going to get. me. no. where.

Checking In

The fall semester is in full swing and I am hanging in there. I am taking to post bac classes on top of my paralegal course and enjoying every minute of it. Work is work things are going fairly well. My mom is on the tail end of another trip and I am looking forward to seeing her soon. I told her I am beginning to forget what she looks like she is gone so often. Here's a pic I took of her after she had her makeup done at Dillard's earlier this summer.

I really like the picture but she wasn't too crazy about it. Hot stuff I tell ya! She knew she looked good!

Also tomorrow is the anniversary of September 11th. In remembrance of those who lost their lives...

What?.... Its been how long?

Hi all i iz alive! It has been a minute. Sometimes I sit back and wonder, where has all the time gone. I looked back at my last post and it seems like July 7th was just yesterday. Since then lots has happened. My favorite bakery -Three Brothers Bakery- finally opened up after the hit it took from Hurricane Ike, so while there was no birthday cake for me, somebody else was able to get not one but TWO. My mommy turned 73 this year and managed to make it home for her birthday...Retirement is the ticket, I tell ya! Since I was small we have always celebrated her birthday on two days the 22nd & the 23rd. Why you ask? Because my grandmother said she was born on one day and my grandfather said it was another. Since we don't like to argue (and more importantly since we weren't there) we just go with the flow. So for her birthday we had two cakes! Yummy!
I had forgotton how much I missed Three Bros. Much fun was had by all.

The summer wasn't packed with birthdays alone. As I mentioned in my birthday post, I started paralegal school. Talk about kicking but that is a separate post all together. I am actually quite happy I decided to take the course. I struggled with the idea for about a year my only regret is that I didn't do it sooner and finally, on top of the paralegal school, I decided to take some post-bac courses for a possible masters. Wish me luck....