ThanksGiving And What Your Thankful For.....

And it is that time of the year again to where you give Thanks and the things that you are Thankful for.

Around this time of the year, I could remember when my grandmother would be up in the wee hours of the night fixing up a good meal for everyone, and family coming over to visit. There would be music playing and the scent of the Holiday in the air. Those were the good ole' days back then. I think that the most part of the Holiday that I enjoyed was to see family that I might not have seen in a long time or family that I may have never meet. It was exciting for me. Especially when my uncle would come to visit from Georgia. He was my cousin and I favorite uncle. Maybe it was because we rarely got to see him. But we loved when he came to visit. We would ever so often imitate everything he does....LOL! It use to make him laugh. My mom and aunts would ever so often help my grandmother prepare dinner like, picking the greens or making the cornbread and etc..and my grandfather would always get the first slice of Home made pound cake fresh out the oven with his black coffee sitting at the table....LOL! I would always sit around and watch......only if I wasn't being bad....LOL!


When it was time to eat, everyone would sit around the table and hold hands and say what they are Thankful for OR one family member would say a prayer and tell what he or she is Thankful for. Those were the days.

Now, it seems as if Holidays aren't as important to family anymore. Like now, I have my own family. My children. I have three of them and it is only us for the Holiday and I would cook up a big meal like my grandmother use to do (may she rest in peace) My food might not be as good as my grandmothers because she threw down. But it's good enough...LOL! My mother may come over and sit for a while and I would have to damn near beg my cousin to come over some times. But it gets to a point to where you be like, forget it. It'll just be me and my little family that I've created. And I'm Thankful for them. They are the reason why I get in the kitchen to cook such a big meal for the Holiday anyway. Times have changed. We didn't see family as much but for the Holiday, you were sure to see them. Sometimes, your Thankfuls don't seem to be enough.

Well, to not make this story so personal, I decided to type the things that I 'am Thankful for, for this Holiday Season.
I'm Thankful for being able to wake up to see another day.
I'm Thankful that god have put 3 beautiful people in life(My Children) whom will love me unconditionally no matter what I do.
I'm Thankful to be able to wake in the morning to hear my children's voice and to look into their eyes and to see them smile.
I'm Thankful for being able to live to see another year and another Holiday.
I'm Thankful for my mother. Because if there was no her, there would be no me. So I'm Thankful for her giving me life.
I'm Thankful for all the things that I have been through in life that I was able to snap back and live and to not be strung out on any type of drugs.
I'm just Thankful for being able to be myself and have three Beautiful children in my life that I love dearly.
I'm also thankful for my family. Even though were all not as tight as a family should be, but I'm thankful for them anyway :)

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!!!

!Video Of The Day! Brandy "Fall".....

Chopped And Screwed Moment...

Have you ever been in a situation to where you meet someone and the conversation went good? You talk about the atmosphere and where your from or heading? Had a person to ask you if you were available on a certain day? What would many think when in that situation? Well here is my Chopped And Screwed moment.....

So one day, I was out driving and enjoying the weather on a nice hot summer day when this car pulled up next to me at an red light. I was grooving to my music and not really paying attention to the guy next to me until I decided to check my rear view mirror on my passenger side. Noticed the guy looking at me and he cracked a smile at me and did a head nod. I smiled back.

So anyway, here's when it gets interesting. I pulls up into a gas station to fill my tank up because I was getting low and I like to keep a full tank. Without paying to much attention, the same guy that was smiling at me was right on my tail pulling into the gas station too. I get out of my car to go inside to pay for my gas when I heard the guy speak, "Excuse me miss". I didn't really want to turn around to see what it was that he wanted but to be nice, I turned to see what he needed.

So anyway, he asked me if I would come to his truck because he wanted to ask me something. I oblige. Went to the truck to see what was up and he started to ask me if I stayed in the area. I told him yes. He asked me where my man was at. At this point, I'm like 'oh he think he slick coming at me with that Ice Age line'. So I bit and said, probably some where searching for me. Meaning,I'm still looking.

So anyway, we proceed further into a conversation and he asked me if I was available on Saturday night. I said that it all depends. So at this point, I'm thinking that he wanted to ask me out on a date. Eventually he told me that he was new in the area and was trying to find a hot spot to kick it at and if I would want to double date with him and his fiance!.....OMFG!!! I could have died!!! So yes, Ms. Observer was Chopped And Screwed!

Omarion Joins BSV!!

Now I know that you are aware of how Omarion can get down with the get down and puts on a hellava performance for his fans when in Concert. But what I've noticed over the past few years is that Omarion can really dance! without having to be Choreographed or anything. He can really get hood and show off his street skills.

Now this group by the name of BSV has now made Omarion a new member of the group, and he is going by the name of "O'llusion". Now I haven't known of this group until I seen it on YouTube on Omarion's page and I must say that these are some really talented people. One that I've favored so far is a guy that goes by the name of "Ghost". He got mad foot skillz. Anywho, take a look at how they get down....

Whooo!

After watching that, it makes you want to get up and get grimey wit 'em! Omarion really impressed me and I love to watch him dance. Can't wait to see what else this young man have instore for us.

Omarion Cuts His Hair!!!

I might be a little late on this topic but hey, I got a life too!
Anyway, the chrooner that we all know as Omarion from the crew B2K has said that he wanted a change. He made a mager change by cutting off all his hair! (which will be posted for your viewing pleasure)

It was a little odd for me at first when watching because half of his life as we seen him from the media's eye, he had long hair and thats what a lot of us was use to seeing. But after while, it grew on me because he looks quite handsome to say the least. But the thing that boggled me was.......I don't know if it's because when B2K first hit the scene, it was talks of Omarion and Marques Houston being brothers or what but....he looked just like Marques to me when his hair was cut. Take a look for yourself and be the judge..........

Album In Stores December 9th!!!!

The long wait and anticipated Album from Brandy is soon to come. We have waited to hear from this song bird who has done it all from Singing and receiving tons of rewards, to Acting on the big screen and small, for 5 years now and her jig is up! Us Brandy fans need to hear some real music!

I was waiting in anticipation for this album to drop this month November 11th until my hopes were shot down by her website when they pronounced that her album was being pushed back for another month. I could have cried....LOL! No seriously. I have been following around Brandy since her "Thea" days up until now. I'm talking about recording each "Moesha" show that aired on television. To the movies that she played and so on. I even recorded her show "Special Delivery" she did with MTV. I was on to her like white on rice because I'm one of her number 1 fans! I just can't wait until the album drop because I will be there at Target...or whatever else store to get her album bright and early! December 9th look out for Bran's new album "Human".

Tyrese And Brandy Dating??

Singer/actor TYRESE is bemused by reports he's dating R+B star BRANDY - because they are so close, she is like his "sister".
The childhood pals sparked rumours of an affair after they were spotted out together on Sunday (16Nov08) at the Westfield Century City Shopping Center in Los Angeles.
But Tyrese - full name Tyrese Gibson - insists their relationship is purely platonic.
He says, "I would never date her (Brandy) - it would be like dating my sister.
"It was a simple lunch amongst friends. I love her like family but the rumours of us dating are really old."
And Afrodisiac hitmaker Brandy confesses she is still single - and has been since 2005.
She tells Us Weekly magazine, "I haven't dated anybody in three years."

!Video Of The Day!

Self Respect, Is It Important To You?

How far do one plan to go just to prove that your accepted in another persons life? Is it worth degrading yourself? Being labeled something you know your not? Well some just go that far.

Sometimes in relationships, people tend to forget who they once were. Without taking this subject off to something totally different, I just want to say that a woman have the power to be more than what a man may label her to be.

I seen a couple that was very open in they relationship and the openness of the relationship made me question the woman's character alone. Now when your feeling someone, you like to be able to be out in the open with how you may feel for one another which may require some hugging, kissing(but not to passionate) every once in a while. But then it becomes a problem when private parts are cuffed and held tightly as if you lost it to a game of spades with someone.

Let me elaborate a little further. The couple that I was talking about in the beginning looked to be a young couple and the guy was really aggressive toward his girl friend that was very disrespectful toward her and any other woman because he was the definition to a lot of woman answers out here that questions on how men view us as woman. And it is, whats between the legs is what it all boils down to. Like the photo I have above, the guy was standing behind her but had something occupying one hand and his other was occupying her private part. Gripping it like it was some type of new fur he won at an auction!

To her, she seemed to be enjoying it because she was all smiles like, "How YOU doing" and that was not where it was at. I mean seriously ladies. You have the power to say what you like and what you don't like. Use your voice. Even if you do like it at that time but at least have some respect for yourself enough to say, "Baby, we out in public. Can we save for later on when we are alone". It will work wonders. If a man can't respect your wishes then he has no respect for you at all.

Now being young is not an excuse and that's what she think is probably the in thing and yada, yada, yada and it's what they see on T.V.......B.S....a person is old enough to know that behavior like that is degrading to self alone.

Have some DIGNITY Ladies!

Barack The Vote!!!

And we have one of the most sexiest men alive to grace us with his presence as being the President of the United States of America! I'm so happy for this Victory that has come upon us in this Millenium of 2008. On Election day, I was so nervous. Nervous with voting and the outcome for a change.

I came home on November 4th and went straight to the voting pole. My children and I because they were able to vite as well....even thought they votes doesn't really count at this time but it was fun for them. It was actually really quick! Unlike some places where it was long lines waiting to vote. It was REDICULOUS in some states. But it was good to see that people were really serious about voting this time around. If only people took the election this seriously when Bush was running for president because then the Economy wouldn't be so bad. Don't you think? But overall, it was a beautiful sight.

I even seen young men with only they're shorts on and some house shoes just to go and vote. Of course, I shook my head at the sighting of it. But it was worth it because no matter who they choose to vote for, they vote counted and it helped :) There is good qualities about us having Barack Obama as our president and then you have the bad qualities of him being our president. Let's start with the bad shall we..........

On Election day, I seen some people act in a such nonchanted way that actually....never seem to amaze me. But I guess by it being a Victory day, it seemed more outlandish to me. Whilst on the bus....Because me and a few of my friends decided to go out and encourage people to vote and if they wasen't able to vote to go in and register and be able to vote on the spot, you know, if they haven't already. So whislt talking to people, you have all type of people that would ride the bus. And a man got on the bus in which his body odor was a little loud. I mean, I didn't really smell the guy because by that time, I had worked my way to the back of the bus. The bus was CROWDED and it required for some people to stand.

So this guy gets on the bus and of course you got the loud, ignorant people on the bus who will always try to make a scene. It was two loud mouthed females on the bus in which one had a pink baby bag(with no baby to show for) wil give more details on the bag later on. And it was 3 loud mouth.........NO.....4 loud mouth guys on the bus. One of these guys wore a brown jacket...in which that is how I will prefer to him since I didn't know his name.

When the guy got on the bus, everyone started to talk about how he smelt. It must have been terrible because everybody was moving around and covering they noses. Me on the other hand didn't really smell him so it was like o.k he must really smell. So one of the female's was busy talking about how this guy smelt so bad. If he smelt so bad, why wasen't the people who was actually getting a good wift of this guy complaining how she was complaining?!....and she was in the back where I was. So people started to crack the window on the bus and everything which was a little funny to me. So anywho, one of the girls was like, "man, where something at so that I could spray his ass wit?" by this time, she was searching into the baby bag. And the girl that the bag belonged to told her not to search her baby's bag for her stuff. This is when the guy in the "brown jacket" chimmed in: "I was about to say, you aint got no perfume or something cause I'll spray his ass wit it"....smh...ignorance at it's finest.

So the girl goes to dig in the baby bag anyway saying, "Show do". And the girl who's bag it belonged to agreed all of a sudden. In which they just wanted to pull dudes bluff to see if he'll actually spray this other guy with the perfume. She finds it, then hands it over to him. The guy takes it and removes the top from the bottle. By this time, the bus driver was telling people to move toward the back some more because she was steadily picking up people and it required for the "stinky dude" to move toward the back as well. The guy in the brown jacket stood up to spray the guy who's hygiene was so bad. And yet, I have smelt this guy.

So he was spraying him like crazy and while the stinky guy was turning to move to the back of the bus, he caught the other guy spraying him...smh... The guy then tries to snatch the perfume bottle out of his hands. By this time they were tugging over the bottle in which it slipped both of their hands and flew into another person's lap. The guy with the brown jacket on then proceeds to hit the other guy in the face and says, "man don't you ever try to snatch nothing out of my hand". Fuckery at it's finest. And they were right in front of me! Myself, along with other passengers was like "Whoooo" when he hit the guy. The stiky guy of course didn't do nothing! He just stood there in quite a shock. He also locked to be intoxicated.

It was just horrible. And I'm like why? why on Election Day of all days?!?! Stupid stuff like that will make other races look at us like we don't need to let people like him in the White House. Because you know if other races mark us as being, crazy, disfunctional, unsatisfying or whatever else......they label us all.

What I want to say to MY black people is DON'T use our president as an excuse to act an ass for the next four years. Yes Barack is of our culture and I'm sure he's going to make sure that we live good. But....he's not only vouching for US as an one. He's vouching for everyone who indeeds lives in the United states of America! Do not use your color to try and get by and DO NOT use who we have in the White House as an excuse to get away with shit that you know isn't right. We made HISTORY! Now let's live History the right way.

BARCK THE VOTE!

WE DID IT!

VICTORY R US!!

Who Said Just Because You Make Money, You Can't Still Be Human?!

Pictured are singer Tiny Tameka Cottle(L) and her children Zonnique(C) and King(R) having fun with their web camera in their Atlanta home. In all, rapper T.I has six children,two of whom are with his girlfriend Tiny Tameka Cottle.The couple welcomed their second child together, a baby boy named Major Harris, on May 16th.

Who said that just because you cant hang around all your originals from the hood because you hit Celebrity status That you can't still be original and do silly things that everybody else does?! How cute. Now this is what I like to see. She's letting it be known that she is indeed normal like everyone else.

Brandy And Sy'rai's Sketchers Ad

Singer Brandy and her 6-year-old daughter Sy’rai have teamed up with Sneaker brand Skechers for the ‘Nothing Compares to Family’ ad campaign. The ad campaign,which features other celebrity families, is slated to run in 2009:VIA SKECHERS:

The SKECHERS USA, Inc. “Nothing Compares to Family” promotion, slated to run through 2009, stars some of today’s popular celebrity families and benefits children’s charities with ads breaking in celebrity weekly magazines and other fashion and lifestyle glossies.SKECHERS plans to rotate a variety of different celebrity families throughout the campaign, featuring mothers and small children and adult celebrities with their sisters, brothers, parents and grandparents. At the heart of the campaign is Skechers’ commitment to family. Each ad will be tagged with a charity of the celebrity’s choice, ones that are family-related, such as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International or Habitat for Humanity, which builds homes for families.

Monica's And Boys 2

Monica Has the most HANDSOMEST boys I've seen by far and had to post pics of them... :)

Singer Monica,who recently announced her engagement to her boyfriend rapper Rocko Da Don(Rodney Hill jr),is pictured with her two sons three-year-old Rodney and 18-month-old Romelo. The 27-year-old singer has a new album to be released next year as well as a reality series called, “The Single: Monica”,which premieres in August 5th. The portraits were shot by none other than celebrity photographer Derek Blanks.

Diddy's Day Out...

Sean P. Diddy Combs(Daddy Diddy),his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter(Mommy Kimmy), spent time with their 19- month old twins D’lila Star and Jesse James over the weekend. Diddy’s sons Christian,10, and Justin,14, were also along for the fun. Watch the video of Diddy and his kids at Central park on Saturday.

OBama Family

The Obama family recently sat down with People magazine to talk about their family life. In a snippet of the interview below, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and wife Michelle tell People how they raise their girls in the public’s eye.

PEOPLE: Someone told me today that you don’t do birthday presents.

Michelle: No, because we spend hundreds of dollars on a birthday party and movie tickets and pizza and popcorn …

Barack: That sleepover is enough. We want to teach some limits to them. And their friends bring over presents.

Michelle: They get so much stuff that it just becomes numbing. Malia believes there is still a Santa Claus even though she’s a little wary because some of her friends are non-believers. But Malia says, “Ma, I know there is a Santa because there’s no way you’d buy me all that stuff.” [Laughing]

PEOPLE: So what does a slumber party at the Obama house look like?

Barack: They’re pretty noisy.

Michelle: The older they get, they just talk a lot. But they’re at the age where they’re pretty self-sufficient. [For Malia's birthday] we’re going to go swimming, see Wall-E, make pizzas, have sundaes.

Barack: I usually go for the swim but this time I want to go to the movie just because Wall-E has gotten great reviews. I find actually that children’s movies are the best movies these days. But I’ll probably, after that, peel off until the cake.

Michelle: [Laughs] “Peel off.”

PEOPLE: What does discipline look like in your house?

Barack: Mommy raising her voice.

Michelle: It’s usually a lecture. It’s a lot of conversation. Or it’s separating them. Or it’s saying if you guys can’t decide nicely what program to watch, then you don’t get to watch anything. It’s sort of pulling away a privilege. But in all honesty, we don’t have to discipline –

Barack: If you ask them to do something, they’re like any other kid …

Michelle: They’ll whine a little bit.

Barack: They’ll test boundaries. But if you say, “Guys, this is what we need to do …”

Michelle: An example of this is one night I was going out, I had to do a fund-raiser, and I told Malia, “You guys really need to have an early bedtime because you’ve got to get up tomorrow and have a busy day.” So my mom was there, and my mom doesn’t adhere to bedtime. She’s kinda, “Well, maybe you wanna start taking your bath…” But that night, she said she sat down to watch TV with them and they both got up, turned off the TV and left. And my mom was like, “Where are you going?” And they said, “We have got to go to bed early today, Grandma.” And they went downstairs, took their baths and went to bed, and my mom was just stunned.


Read more on the Obama's
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20214569_3,00.html

50 Cent Say's His Babymama Is Holding His Son Hostage

Rapper 50 Cent says that his ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins is holding his 11-year-old son hostage. The rapper was recently given visitation rights to see his son but says that since the court battle over their long island residence,Shaniqua has fled with their son. In a new interview with Sister 2 Sister magazine,50 a.k.a Curtis Jackson gives us insight as to how the battle between him and his ex began:

The rap star insists the war of words began when he insisted on finding his son a better home and improving his education.He tells the publication, “It wasn’t important before the beginning of last year because he (Marquise) was being home schooled… I was paying a teacher $60,000 just to teach him by himself.“He was learning slower because it was just him and the teacher. So he needed to go to where he had the best possible schooling district and I found a house in the area that was, like, $1.5 million.”
But 50 claims Tompkins started receiving bad advice from friends, insisting on more child support to match her new situation.The battle led to the rapper winning a court order to evict Tompkins from the home he’d bought for her: “Her lawyer decided to present to the public that 50 Cent is kicking his son out of the house.”Since the fire, Tompkins has fled with the rapper’s son, as she battles custody and child support.
He adds, “Now they done kidnapped my first one (son). My son’s mother got him, holding him hostage.”

Michelle On How Her Children May Turn Out

“There are the small worries, micro-worries, about whether we’re doing all we can to let them be fully themselves, trying to make sure they have the space to be who they are and that they feel loved and supported. Then, there’s the macro worry about, ‘Okay, if we do our jobs and they turn out well as individuals, what kind of world are they going to be in?’ ~Michelle Obama’s thoughts on her kids (Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7).

Monica Talks About Her Boys And Engagement

Singer Monica recently sat down for an interview with StraightFromTheA.com to talk about her kids and her engagement to the father of her two children. In the interview,Monica mentions that her fiance Rocko Da Don a.k.a Rodney Ramone Hill proposed to her on Christmas Eve:

“It was Christmas Eve at midnight, we were home alone in the bedroom and he said ‘close your eyes and listen.’ He put the ring on first. I knew what was coming next so I did what I was asked. He proceeded to talk about our history together, the kids. He and he very directly just popped the question. I automatically said ‘yes!’

Monica says that her older son Lil Rocko,3(not pictured), is not at all jealous of his baby brother Romelo Montez. “I included [Lil Rocko] in EVERYTHING during the pregnancy…except naming the baby of course.I let Rodney choose the first name and his middle name is my brother’s.” The singer also adds that she takes her kids everywhere and that she would never move her children away from her family in Atlanta:

“I would never separate my children from my family.Also, my entire crew is from Atlanta and I couldn’t imagine separating them from their families.Rodney and I have looked into vacation homes but my main home will always be Atlanta. If you are from the A, [then] you know that Atlanta artists are extremely supportive of one another.”

Chris Rock Fathered My Child And I'm Writing About It!

A lady named Kali Bowyer says that actor Chris Rock is her baby daddy,even though a judge ruled otherwise in 2007. Kali has written a new book titled “Hollywood Child” in which she alleges that Chris Rock fathered her 13-year-old son. In addition,Kali says that getting pregnant with Chris’ baby helped her to leave her drug-filled world behind:
The courts have ruled in Chris Rock’s favor, but one Georgia woman refuses to let go of her claim that the comedian fathered her child, and is even moving forward with plans to write a book detailing her alleged relationship with Rock.
In the press release Kali Bowyer circulated for her upcoming book “Hollywood Child,” Bowyer claims her past included “a hot affair with racy comedian Chris Rock.” Her life, according to the release, “started crashing down all around her,” until “getting pregnant with Chris’ son saved her life.”
Rock’s attorney John Mayone had not received the press release, but says, “I assume this is a publicity ploy for her alleged book.” On the subject of paternity, Mayone reiterated the decision of the Georgia court that concluded that Rock was not the father of Bowyer’s son. “There is a final judgement. This is not Chris Rock’s child. It’s been fully litigated, and that includes DNA testing.”
So why is Bowyer moving ahead with her book? She says she wants to continue fighting the paternity question in California. Mayone dismisses that possibility. “The time for appeal has long since passed,” he says. As for the book (no publisher is listed in the release, and Bowyer did not respond when asked about it), Mayone says, “I’ve not seen this (press release for ‘Hollywood Child’), but I’m sure that Mr. Rock will respond accordingly.”

Rude Customers

Now I use to be an customer before..and still is but now I wonder; 'Was I that bad?!' I mean...people can be really rude! I know first hand. Trust me. And it aint easy sometimes. I mean, we as employees makes mistakes but so does the customers. My first tip would be to all the customers out there that love to shop and especially like bargains...PLEASE.....please make sure that what your looking at IS 50% off or on sale because once going to check-out, 9x's out of 10, the cashiers DOES NOT know whats going on the floor where things are being stocked. It will save a lot of energy in getting mad at the cashier for sales that he or she is not aware of.

I've had quite a few customers that would come in the store like right after the sale is over and will be ready to chop your head off if the sale is not valid anymore. I mean, before leaving the house, did you not look at that same sales paper and notice that the date was indeed 2 to 3 days ago?! probably not because I wouldn't...LOL! but seriously though, after being in the shoes of a cashier and knowing what they go through..I felt a little bad for my behavior. Just for a minute. I'm working this job because I need it. But putting up with them customers is work indeed. Not only do you have to go back and forth with them to explain that if it does not come up in the system as 50% off that it's not 50% off...you have to go through actually locking and leaving your register to go to the floor to PROVE to them that the item they wish to purchase is not on sale anymore. Then they want to talk about false advertising. It's not false advertisement if you know what your buying!