And I have proof. On a whim, my sweetie took me to Philly for a cheesesteak...all because I had never had one! We decided that we were going to go and come back. Like making a normal food run. We just went to Philly to get it!
This is something I would have NEVER done on my own. I'm so blessed to have him in my life.
Life exists outside of the four walls...physically and mentally of your own limitations held in your mind, the computer and your smartphone! Explore the world...see the vision...know it for yourself.
This is the life. At this moment in time, I'm sitting here typing this blog from my laptop at my boo's house. Me and the girls have been here since yesterday. We packed an overnight bag and came over to have fun with the boo and his son. This is how I've always imagined a family should be. He fixed dinner, we ate as a family, then he and I washed the dishes!!!! You just don't know how much I dislike washing dishes, but washing dishes with him took on a whole new meaning. lol I know it sound "crazy", but this is what I've always dreamed having a family should be like...should be like....I LOVE IT!
I love it and...
I LOVE HIM....
Love to love....life is sooooooo much better with company!
Hmmmm, I'm at a point in my life where the happiness is so plentiful that I feel no lack or negativity.
So many great things have materialized in 2010 that the sorrow I felt as 2010 called I didn't think this could happen to me.
I'm in love with a wonderful man. Who I pray, one day will be my husband.
I FINALLY crossed the burning sands and now a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. A dream that has been deferred for 12+ or so years. I have bonded with my line sisters as if I've known them forever.
Looking forward to getting my screenplays optioned. And having my mom's publishing firm, publish my novels.
My daughters are growing strong and healthy. The family unit and bond we share is terrific. My mom is happy and is moving forward with all her goals...making them into a reality.
I continue to grow spiritually. I continue to see the positive in every step I make.
I am enjoying being 39. The last year of the 30s. I have experienced so much in the last 10 years. I have learned much. I am looking forward to the next chapter in my life.
Wow! I'm just so happy right about now. The new relationship has been working out well. He and I get along wonderfully. He's a breath of fresh air compared to the staleness I've been experiencing these last years.
As the days come and go, I'm thrilled that he and I have found our way to one another. Words really can not describe the elation he brings to my world.
My life has been flipped upside down just in the last few weeks.
I can't believe this wonderful man that I've been getting to know so personally has been in my life for at least three years and we never decided to hook up.
I ask myself why now? What made now a good time for him to finally tell me he liked me and has been liking me for awhile. I'm just amazed.
I think I may know why.
It's because I wasn't ready. I hadn't really figured out what I wanted until he came into my life. I was still thinking that my last situation was going to re-materialize into what I wanted. But I couldn't see the forest through the trees of how that "situation" compares to this mature relationship.
I completely understand how closed my mind was compared to how open it has been in this relationship. I see all my past mistakes, all my wishes, all my could have beens, all my why did I do thats, all my why didn't I do this, challenge after challenge, misstep after misstep...and it all lead to me being the right person attracting the right man at the right time. I am thrilled to have this one man in my life.
The one man that truly cares for me. The one man that has been fulfilling my every whim and dream before I can even think of it. The man I'm getting to know...the man I'm going to love...the man that's going to love me back without hesitation or reservation. The man I've seen everyday, except for one day, since we decided to hook up.
My world was once...cloudy and grey. The dark clouds hung over my space for many a day. It felt like any moment the rain was going to pour. As if the sun would never been seen again. The highlights that once shone was just a reflection of the real sunshine that was soon to come. Now my days are warm sunny clear blue skies with white puffy fluffy clouds of love, hope, humor and joy.....
I need to decide what kind of man I want to enter into my life. I have to be specific. There are certain things I want. I think in the past I've been too general, and with these thoughts I've been getting general kind of men.
I'll date one man and he doesn't have all the qualities I want, date another and he's void of other things I want.
I'm going to work on this. I need to change the way I've been thinking about relationships and what I want for me...
I need to create this man mentally. Eventually the physical manifestation will come. But first I need to mentally dig deep and write out what this man is like. There is a certain vision I have. Then I need to think about it often. Just like I do with my other goals.
It's time I redirect my thoughts. I've been thinking the wrong thoughts and it's been keeping me stuck.
If I keep thinking that dating is hard; it will be hard. The more I think the wrong thoughts, the more despair I feel about this situation.
So at the moment in time, I'm changing my thoughts. No more focusing on the wrong thoughts.
My thoughts are my reality. I'm creating the relationship I want.
The feeling I'm feeling at this very moment in time, I've never felt before.
I can't explain it, but all I know is that I miss my friend.
I wish I could call him up and talk to him. But I just can't.
I wouldn't even know what to say.
I know he doesn't miss me like I miss him...
I know he probably doesn't think about me like I think about him...
But right now....my heart is broken. Nothing I do is taking this pain I feel away.
I want to see the bad in him so bad that whenever I think about him I begin to dislike him to the point of hatred. But nothing I do seems to work.
I'm tired.
I don't know what I'd do at this moment just to take this feeling away.
I wish I couldn't go back seven months. It would all be different because I would have never walked down this path.
I would have chosen the other road.......
I'm looking for a detour....
I love my dog Santana...he's so wonderful....
Be Free....
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I am so not understanding why myself and some of my friends are single. We are some damn good women. Accomplished, Talented, Good Looking, Spiritually Inclined, Financially Stable, Educated and Successful....YET..........we are single. WHY is that?
Is it a unspoken inferior/superior complex that we have with men? Or is it vice versa?
Is that men see us as good women, but they aren't mentally together to deal with a woman of such caliber?
These answers escape me. I'm just baffled by this ongoing and largely growing group of women who have it together, but aren't in committed relationships.
WHAT ARE MEN LOOKING FOR?
Why can't it be as simple as...hey I like you...you like me...let's see what we can make of this?
UGH!
All this other stuff is emotionally crippling....mental gymnastics - all for what?
I can only speak for myself when I say that I never go around saying I don't want or need a man. It's not that. I do want and need a man in my life because I am a heterosexual woman and I am built to want to love and please my male companion. It is my human nature. So just because I am independent doesn't mean I can't be dependent upon a man. It's just that in this moment and space in my life, I have NO CHOICE but to be independent because I have my children depending on me for survival. However, if the right man came a long he'd be incorporated into our world, just like we would be incorporated into his...and together we'd be a force...he'd know that our relationship is built not only on love, trust, mutual respect and admiration...but on a basic business term...that is SWOT.
SWOT - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.
Now, one may ask themselves how can this be applied to a relationship....
Each person has a strength. Each person has a weakness.
My/his strength is supposed to overcome my/his weakness.
Together we make opportunities to better ourselves as individuals, as a couple, and as parents.
Together we take our strengths to ward off any potential threats that may come our way.
Strengths compensate for weaknesses, turning threats into opportunities....for the betterment of our family unit. Wow!!!
What's so hard about that fellas?
What I see is that if a man were to snag myself or one of my lovely sister-friends, that battle of dealing with life is 50% won. We bring so much to the table that the struggle is partly over. Now that's from a survival of life perspective...
I know the mental and emotional piece is something different. Men and women are clued into relationships differently...this I totally understand. But I feel like if we just meet each other half way. Women allow the men to have space to feel what he's going to feel and in due time he will reveal. Patience. Men allow the women to the ability to share their emotions freely without feeling that because she has shared this with you - you are now feeling some pressure...doesn't make it always so. Perception.
Patience and Perception...my two number one goals - patience mastered...perception ongoing.
Be Free....
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I love you Mommy - You're my rock and I spin because of your push.
I love you Daddy - RIP - I wish you were here.
I love you SeDona - My first born - the one with the sensitive soul and big heart.
I love you Siyah - My youngest - the one that likes to snuggle with me.
I love you Mikie - For being like a second mother to me...you're such a wonderful Aunt.
I love you Grandma - For being you. You're so so sweet.
I love you Grandpa - For being the strongest male figure I have in my life.
I love you Dionne - For being a great friend over the last 16 years and for being a wonderful Godmother to Siyah.
I love you Santana - For being such a loving dog. That's an unconditional love.
I love you Dale - For giving me SeDona.
I love you Ron - For still being there when I need you and being a great dad to Siyah.
I love you David - Seven years. Our history extends far and wide.
I love you Tony - For your unbroken spirit.
I love you my friends - There are so many of you. But to you I owe my many laughs on good and sad days and one of the greatest support systems I have.
I have learned commercialism will have you to believe that Valentine's Day is just for "couples" .... I happen to know better....Love is not about one day....it's about love everyday. It's about those days when you aren't your hottest and someone comes along and makes you feel like you're at your best.
Yeah...that's where it's at.....in the words of my cousin thee Rev. Gus Augustus - "LOVE STRONG!"
Be Free....
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I've placed my trust and patience within the supportive arms of the universe......
Knowing that however I feel at this moment.....
God knows all.
The universe knows where my heart and intentions are......
And with that.....
I.......
Thank You for your FRIENDSHIP.
Be Free
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Every mid December I begin to think about the new year that's about to approach...and EVERY year I think about how I hope the next year won't suck like the current year or the years previously when it came to relationships. And guess what...every year thus far since 2001...it has sucked. lol
This year, I'm being PROACTIVE. 2010 marks a NEW DECADE....not just a newyear...but a new decade...a new period of 10 years - and I've decided that in this new decade....it's not going to be ANYTHING like that past 10 years.
The fact of the matter is - I was semi-dating someone. We had an agreement. I promised myself that my emotions weren't going to get involved. But I stepped over the line. This is the first person I've felt any kind of serious emotions about post SD era. This was a big step for me. If you've been following my blog, then you know that SD was a long drawn out relationship. It lasted for seven years and it was a roller coaster of nothing. Ups and downs and it filled with nothing...just absolutely nothing.
Anywho!.....things in my opinion started out really well between he and I. I really thought we were getting close and perhaps this could supersede what our orginial agreement was. Then it was finally dawned on me that this was NOT the case. As time moved on, he and I moved further and further apart. I agonized why this was happening. This went on for weeks. The more he didn't call or text me, the more I didn't call or text him. This is the kiss of death in any kind of interaction between people. Effective communication is essential to have successful relationship.
Today, it snowed an UNBELIEVABLE amount of snow....the DMV area has not had this much snow in probably 20 something odd years. But this snowstorm gave me the opportunity to really sit down and think about where I am and where I want to be. It was during these blizzard like conditions, I realize that this person that I really felt internally was the right person for me, is really NOT the right person for me. I just happened to meet someone that I FINALLY felt who treated me like I've been wanting to be treated for awhile. And I fell in love with the treatment. He treated me like I've longed to be treated.
This kind of treatment works so well with women who have been hurt,emotionally/mentally, financially abused by men over the years. I now believe I suffer from attention deficit. This is where women will SETTLE for any kind of treatment from a man just to keep that man around for the attention - no matter how little it is. We will listen to all the garbage he places in our dumpster because it's some form of attention. But that attention just keeps him in CONTROL over the overall relationship and keeps us (women) OUT OF CONTROL - trying to figure what is going on. We are always second guessing ourselves. Wondering and thinking about him...what's he doing...why is he doing that....and we don't even confront him when he doesn't something we find blatantly disrespectful for the FEAR of him LEAVING! lol That's straight trash! Trust me it is...if he leaves he wasn't the right one from the jump!
OMG! It's time to DROP this mentality!
So I've done some self assessment. I wasn't honest with myself nor was I honest with him. I knew when he first approached me that I wanted to be in a relationship. I just wasn't sure if Iwanted to be in a relationship with him. Matter of fact, at the time I was talking to someone else. Yet, the more and more he talked to me, the more and more I began to like him. But then I fell into la-la period - you know that period of time that men take you through - and you feel all happy and giddy, but truly it's nothing but to get to the end result - having sex. And I fell for it. I was really thinking this dude was feeling me MORE than what we agreed to. But know I see after WEEKS of really not having any communication, that if it was REALLY that easy for him to not COMMUNICATE with me, then he wasn't feeling me as deeply as I made it out to me in my own mind.
I'm clear with this. And I'm happy that I'm finally see it for myself. It's such a heaviness that has been lifted. I've heard some really solid messages from Lewis of iHustlenation and Dedan Tolbertof the DedanTolbert.net show. These messages have CLARIFIED so much for me.
In all, I've come to accept that he's not the person for me. I wasn't honest with myself. I'm scrapping my 90 day rule. A man will lasso the moon for the one woman he truly wants no matter how many days have gone by.
Be free.....
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I can't stop laughing....I mean really....is this apart of my transformation? Is this apart of my change?
Now just the other night I received a call from my ex that I was with on and off for about seven years. Like I said in my previous blog post, I felt a HUGE shift in consciousness - I knew I had moved on.
Well this must be contact your ex week...because I JUST received a call from another one of my exes. WOW! I'm like amazed. He was DEFINITELY one of the LAST people I thought would be contacting me. I hadn't heard from him in months and I hadn't seen him since before the summer started.
I'm just so baffled by this - Did I send out a beacon? I mean well I did, but not to them! I love it. It does make a girl feel good. I'm laughing uncontrollably at the moment.
How about this? The ones that want you...you don't want and ones you want...don't want you....the world turns on such crazy conflict and donkey drama!
The sun shone today for the first time in days and I woke up with just high spirits, I feel positive and love in my heart! I guess others are sensing my shine.
Today's Angel Cards fit right into how I'm feeling:
The Angel of Balance: I AM in perfect balance and harmony with life.
Single Angel Card: Tenderness
YES! I'm feeling this.
For awhile I've been feeling off balance and my blog posts have outwardly expressed my displeasure with areas of my life. But it was like everything has changed.
Just the other day I was terribly sick. I had some kind of stomach virus. I was sleeping beauty. I went to sleep for about 16 hours. When I finally awoke the next morning, my stomach still bothered me some, but I had a completely new attitude. I have NO CLUE what happened to me during that time, but I feel a wave of newness and complete still peace.
I can't stop smiling and laughing. Nothing can break this mood.
Not even my Philadelphia Eagles losing....of which this VERY moment they are. I've accepted so much loss of things in my life that I've learned to accept it's just apart of life. Oh well.
I'm still going to get me some Eagles jewelry tho. I have my eye on this nice pendant.
And can I just say that once again....that if every kiss begins with Kay, then I should have a RACK of diamonds by now?! lol :-)
Please laugh...at this very moment...just think of something truly funny and just laugh! Be happy....
Be free...
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I'm tired of these dead end time wasting relationships with men. I'm in acting a 90 day rule. 90 days is probably too much time, but 45 days is not enough, but by 60 days I should know if things are moving in the right direction....the extra 30 days is for good measure...and by day 90 if I'm not happy or I don't feel good about interaction between he and I....he's cut. *taking hand across the throat*
I trust no man for no reason.
Waiting on God to give me patience, understanding and love......
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 9:48AM