Workout! (to the tune of Freakout!)

I've been struggling a lot keeping up with my workouts. Going to the gym on a regular basis does not work well for me I need to discover some in home exercises that I can do every day and just make it routine. The next couple posts will be dedicated to in home...or in class (probably won't help me focus) workouts I can do. And maybe some healthy eating tips. I figure if I focus on researching it, it'll stay on my mind. I will succeed.

My Babies

There are those girls who spend their lives planning their future weddings. I am not one of those. However, I do spend my time idly doing something equally ridiculous... creating lists of the names of my future children.

Fun fact about me: I look forward to being a mom just as much as I look forward to finding my soulmate...actually probably more.

The problem is I often times loose this list. So...I've decided I'm going to keep it on here:

Chicas:

Aethera
Jyessenia
Jessielynne
Lela

Chicos:

Achebe
Azra

Is there a fifth element?

So the movie "The 5th Element" has always been entertaining and interesting to me. I'm currently watching it with my best friends from school and I started to wonder...Is there a real 5th element?



The original 4 terrestrial elements are: fire, earth, wind, and water... that is commonly known information. Growing up in the 90s we all learned about the other element of Heart thanks to Captain Planet and Ma-Ti (who consequently I have called Ha-ji my whole life until just now looking up the Planateers names on Wikipedia).





After watching the 5th element I could consider Love the 5th element... as there is no reason for life without love.

When you google the 5th element it also suggests the 5th element on the periodic table, Aether from Greek mythology meaning heavenly light or that which fills up the space of the universe, or according to Aristotle it's quintessence

So what is it?

Forever, forever, you'll stay in my heart

So my friends and I were talking about about boys and relationships with one of their moms. It is February so these types of conversations all though typical of us...have been happening a lot more frequently. We discussed the following questions:

Would we approach a guy if we liked him?
Why wouldn't we...are we afraid of rejection or just shy around guys?

Being that we are all Christian we all believe in the word of the Lord and the bible says in Proverbs 18:22 "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD." I want so much to find love and that man who will be my best friend, lover, and companion... but I'm not going to lie, I want him to be the pursuer. Yes, I know that's sexist and old fashioned as well but it's what I want.

However, we realized and discussed: Why should a man/boy/guy work to find a woman when the easiness of a large percentage of girls emanates from their person which the male species picks up on? Guys know their will always be some floozy around the corner so why pursue someone?

I honestly have no idea why a guy would want to go through all that work...but I want him to.
I'm watching My Best Friends Wedding with Chellikins and it's making me really sad.

I await the day when I can sing song about someone I know.

The moment I wake up
Before I put on my makeup
I say a little prayer for you
While combing my hair, now,
And wondering what dress to wear, now,
I say a little prayer for you

Forever, forever, you'll stay in my heart
and I will love you
Forever, forever, we never will part
Oh, how I'll love you
Together, together, that's how it must be
To live without you
Would only be heartbreak for me.

I run for the bus, dear,
While riding I think of us, dear,
I say a little prayer for you.
At work I just take time
And all through my coffee break-time,
I say a little prayer for you.

Forever, forever, you'll stay in my heart
and I will love you
Forever, forever we never will part
Oh, how I'll love you
Together, together, that's how it must be
To live without you
Would only be heartbreak for me.

My darling believe me,
For me there is no one
But you.

Friday

Mardi Gras is in interesting concept.

People fight for beads...why?

2:11 am thoughts on 2/11

Individualism is really important to me. Talking with friends and students about their backgrounds and experiences has always interested me. I love learning about others and sharing about myself. I think a true testament to a friendship is really understanding your own identity or striving to do so...while at the same time learning about friends identities and encouraging them to continue their self discovering and self-discovery.

This is my last semester of senior year. It's a celebration...but it's also about discovery. I've already had so many new experiences in the last year and I'm looking forward to so many more.

I was already determined to know more about my own family heritage starting this year, but one of my friends determination and success at bettering her self has inspired me to really work on knowing myself, and working on me this year.

It might sound selfish, but it's necessary.
So watch out world.
Here goes nothing.

Mardi Gras on my Mind

tick tock when the clock

Time for another post:

Thoughts at 9:56pm in Cornerstone

#1 Secret Life is a good show. Which is why I'm catching up on it now.
#2 I have a great play family. I love them. I tell people we're actually related.
#3 Valentines day is weird. People that love each other should know that and tell each other that on the regular.
#4 Yea. Sometimes I...forget what I'm doing. Hence why it is now 10:17
#5 Love Lifeline.

Pensamientos del momento

#1 IHOP all you can eat pancakes. Excited about going there with the grandbaby and the rest of 09



#2 I'm still hungry

#3 I really need to be productive while I'm at work. About to get cracking on Autobiografía de un esclavo.

#4 I really wish I knew all the words in this text so I didn't have to look up some of them. Reading my Spanish homework always takes so long.

#5 Pearls are that deal. Real talk.

thoughts on my mind 9:17pm feb. 10 2010

I've decided that until I catch up on blog posts, I will post the first 5 thoughts on my mind every 15 minutes for as many days as possible, for as long as I remember. I will have 365 blog posts at the end of the year. Believe that.

#1 i'm hungry.
#2 "paris we do it proper"
#3 happy thoughts on my mind...must keep calm
#4 i really love the theory of cognitive dissonance...like for real.
#5 always ride or die

Music Quotes

So random fact about me:

I love a good quote. I have quotes I liked saved all over my computer, written on post it notes in my room, on posters on my walls, saved in my phone, and saved in various email addresses.

I'm about to get a ipod shuffle and you get to engrave it for free. So I need a tiny (short) quote that I like about music. So far I have the following choices:

Music is what feelings look like

Music is love in search of a word

Music is an outburst of the soul

Where words fall music speaks

You are the music while it lasts

Music is life.

Which one? Or any more suggestions? Let me know.

Much Love.

Aghhhhhhh...So disappointed in myself

Look at how many days I've missed of posting. That stops now. Here's my post for Saturday lol. Well glad I did that. Pikers concert was amazing. Black Anthology will be amazing. My sister was in LNYF this weekend, she was great. Haha...Now off to the Pikers Afterparty.

LATA (in the british accent that constantly surfaces in our suite)

MLK Commemoration 2010 - Git on Board - Black Anthology

5 Things:

1) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was, is, and will always be that deal.
2) Shoutouts to WU-Slam, Visions, for their performances!
3) Anyone and everyone should show up to support Black Anthology 2010. It will be the final time Class X gets to be a part of it. The show is on Feb. 5 & 6 at Washington University in St. Louis' Edison Theatre. http://edisontheater.wustl.edu/ovations/calendar.html
4) If you have not read or seen the Colored Museum I implore you to do so.
5) Here's my performance at the WashU MLK Commemoration 2010. It was a way to honor Dr. King and publicize Black Anthology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izbZJ8tceFQ

Back to School Back to School

It's the first day of class!!!
It's the last first day of class in undergrad!

It's only 8:58 and today has already been a good day. I woke up on time, felt great. Put on some cute clothes made a mug of tea and headed off to hear about my independent fitness class. I love getting credit for something I already wanted to do anyways. It's fantastic. And my friend is in my class...plus she happened to be enrolled in Argentine tango and needed a new partner since her partner dropped the class...so I might be in that.

Currently...I'm cooking some breakfast, then I'll head off to work with my babies.

I'm just all smiles today. Probably a mixture of the goodness so far today, the high from performing for the MLK commemoration yesterday, and excitement for the rest of the day (TFA phone interview, hopefully booking spring break plans, hopefully some shopping, with luck a little Argentine tango, and of course a good time dancing it up with the Black Anthology dancers).

Catch ya later... PURRciZion

I've been slacking...I know

How many days has it been since I've posted. I need to do better. I'll double up some days. Promise. Currently i'm trying to get the apartment in order since RA training starts tomorrow so I'll post a long update later. But quickly a few random thoughts... I can't believe its been a year already been a year, I LOVE YA'LL!!!!, I can't believe its senior year, honestly applying to jobs and such doesn't even feel weird, it just feels like I'm applying for random internships for next semester...but there is no next semester, also, I love my new job, those kids make my day, and its SO close to home. Alright, I'm out. I've got too many dang clothes.
Peace.

Motto of the Day

Semper Fi

It's a good way to live.

No Cross-Country Running...but We Chill on the Regular

Let me put it this way, the big J and I don't go on cross-country runs together or anything like that...but we def. chill on a regular basis. So in case you didn't know, I am a friend of God.

That song is stuck in my head because I read a Facebook note one of my friends wrote ( I wasn't tagged in it, so clearly I was nosy) and it was a letter from Jesus to her friends. I don't know how I feel about such things.

Another random thought...I tend to hang out with a lot of Harambee people. I don't know if I'm actually a good representative for the organization because my church attendance is flaky and I'm definitely more spiritual than religious. I also don't have a holier than thou attitude or pretend to have one which Harambee has a reputation for. Oh well. Just something I thought about.

Have a good day back at school for everyone who's going back!

Traveling

You know the book "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne. I distinctly remember reading it in 5th grade, re-reading it and using it for a book report in 6th grade, and the movie that came out with Jackie Chan some years later. I love that story. And I really want to end up with friends all over the world and I want to go all over the world.

Because I'm an insomniac and cannot fall asleep until at least 2 I spend a lot of time thinking at night. Last night I pondered how I was going to travel especially with my lack of funds. i thought about all the places I've already been: many states in the US including Puerto Rico, Ecuador, and Spain. That's a lot considering I've never been rolling in dough or anything, but I still feel like it could have been more. As such I have recommitted myself to making these travel plans happen.

I am excited for this semester. I will be:
-going on a cruise with my roomies to somewhere I've never been
-visiting one of my best friends in Canada
-???? who knows what else

If anyone knows cheap places to travel too or has any suggestions about websites to check out, please let me know.

Thanks bunches!

Today is Saturday

Do you ever notice how during school breaks you loose track of time? It usually trudges along and speeds by in waves. I really had no idea it was when I work up today, however I have accepted the fact that my laziness must and because my break will end in less than a week. ::Sigh::

Today was typical enough...woke up to find my mother had taken my car out to run errands so I was yet again trapped in the house. Instead of being productive I watched the NCIS marathon with my sister until she returned (we looove tv marathons). We ate random quick to eat snacks instead of getting off our butts and cooking.

Later we headed down to Palm Beach to go visit the apple store so they could check out baby J and Quita's ipod (she cracked the screen...surprise surpise). Scott, my friendly apple store employee fixed my baby, and I got some chik-fil-a so I am smiles.

The end.

The First Day of the Rest of My Life

Oh today has been a good day:

1) Finished a job application for St. Louis Language Immersion School
2) Worked on other applications
3) Deleted tons of old emails
4) Watched a Looney Tunes Marathon all day
5) Made a fantastic pic in honor of ZSL. Check it out:

6) Found out the stl symphony has a show on my half birthday showing bugs bunny cartoons where the orchestra plays the original scores...& discovered tickets are half price with student ID!! I'm going. You should come too!

That's all for now. It's just been a nice chill day. Hope yours was great too! ::smile::