September 2011
35 posts
Tomorrow morning I have to get a spinal tap. I’m not scared (been there, done that)…but ugh, the waiting for results! Hate that part. Spot on my brain got a few millimeters bigger, so this is the next step. Then a week long stay at the hospital for a video EEG study next week.
Prayers please.
Thanks
August 2011
16 posts
Parenthood: Part 1,646,757
Tonight was “Homework Helper” night at Jojo’s school (pretty much like open house). Me, her and boo went. Her 3rd grade teacher don’t play NO games. And I love it. Rules and consequences. Yay! And boo, he definitely shined. Step-daddy-in-training was all active and participating and helping organize her desk. I love these two.
My family. :)
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Health Saga: Part 2554884
At the hospital today to get a follow up MRI to reexamine the mysterious spot on my brain. They better figure it out.
Wednesday I went to finally see this so-called fancy, awesome Epileptologist. He was a dick and didn’t listen or even tell me anything new. Just “keep taking the meds you’re taking that aren’t stopping your seizures and we’ll get you in in a month or...
Black Women on @HuffPost Discuss Natural Hair →
I’m so so tired of the natural hair trend. I think I am so tired because of this hatred (even self-hatred) that is directed towards women who relax or straighten their hair. I hated it when there was a stigma about wearing natural hair! But since natural is in, relaxer wearing women are “out of touch”… fuck outta here with all of it. This trend can’t blow over fast...
“It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this...”
– Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
Great book. You should read it. Watching the news and seeing our world fall to shit at the hands of men that have to inhabit this same world. I wonder if Ardent was right - is the evil that is wrought upon others pure malice,...
“Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far. Far far away from here.”
– Jenny, from Forrest Gump.
This quote was my most pervasive thought in my mental lamenting about not being able to go any damn where this fine Saturday.
Not being able to drive sucks. I want a cheeseburger. They don’t deliver cheeseburgers. Damned epilepsy.
At the Bilal concert with the boyfriend
And I’m the only chick in here with relaxed hair and clothes not comprised of earth tones. Well not THE only, but it feels that way. Lol. Especially after the poem from this dude that praised bald-headed “sistahs” who are more “astute” than those who are superficial (i.e. my relaxer having black ass).
I’m not gon start on how doors opened at 6:30 and Bilal...
“I’m going to fold these clothes myself because I start 3rd grade next week...”
– Jordyn. That’s mama’s baby! :)
What I want, more than anything in the world, at...
is to get insanely cute, go to a restaurant with tons of people who I have no intention of even speaking to, find a nice booth or bar seat to myself, order a huge ribeye steak with mashed potatoes and a big margarita on the rocks, followed by a big ass fudge brownie for dessert (and a second margarita). And enjoy.
Just be fly, sit, sip, eat and enjoy my last night of solitude before my kid gets...
It is my honest opinion that minority groups marginalize themselves because all of their positions and debates are framed through the lens of the status quo. Women’s issues are talked about in how they relate or are compared with men. African American issues are talked about in a white folks vs. us context. Black women? We marginalize ourselves in as many tiny boxes as we can find to put...
It was brought to my attention today…
I am only 25. And I can be whatever I want to when I grow up.
I will be growing for the rest of my life.
Do you know how freeing that thought is?
Blank canvas. Clean slate.
