Support Your MAN!

Ladies...our society has went to the left. Women don't want a man unless he has money, a house, a car, he has to look good, protect you, be sensitive, romantic, spontaneous, handle business and put it down (in the bedroom.) Ladies we expect men to have all of this together when we come along...if they don't then NEXT!

Gentlemen...some of you just don't respect women at all. This isn't for the men, this is for the women.

Ladies...get your mind right. If you can find a man like that...more power to you. I have learned that if a man has it together before he meets you, he didn't need you to get to where he's at and odds are...he's not going to need you later. When you find a man that has 80% of what you're looking for, build him up that last 20% (Make sure you have your own stuff going on too) The good ones will appreciate you for it and remember that this woman loved me when I didn't have nothing. He will be with you through the wire...if he's not then you get half! (Hint...if he makes you sign a pre-nup...that's a sign he won't stay!)

Men...you're next.

Refund Checks

My last year of college happens to be the first year that my financial aid covers my whole bill and I will get a nice refund! Well, I can get a bigger refund if I accept a subsidized federal loan, which translates to: more money now to pay back later. I could use this money and I'm confident that the job I will get will allow me to pay back my student loans with ease.

I have no credit card debt and I could pay a few bills with this money...I am going to pray about it.

I wonder how many people go to college for the refund check...

Let Go...Let God

This song has a message that I need to hear and understand...what about you?

Not late...contemplative

The trailer debuted more than a week ago, but it has taken me a little time to come up with something to say about Disney's FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRINCESS!

I'm so excited to see a princess who looks like me, I grew up with Belle, Jasmine and Ariel, I'm so happy to see that Princess Tiana is brown-skinned. From what the trailer shows, it seems like it's going to be a cute movie, omitting the firefly at the end. I'm not going to criticize a movie I haven't seen yet. Scratch that...why isn't her Prince African-American?Why can't she find a nice Black man...that's my only criticism until I see the movie. I just hope Disney is smart about this.

I wish I had a daughter by 2009 so that I could take her to see this for Christmas...it will definitely be bought on dvd for her to enjoy when she comes.



I'm praying...

True Life...I'm Graduating College

I should contact MTV so they can put me on True Life...I'm Graduating College.

My show would go like this...

I am a senior at Buffalo State College majoring in journalism. They would film me in classes, finding and applying for internships while working my current one and dealing with living with my mother. The ratings would be high and young girls will look up to me.

I'm not saying that it won't happen but just in case it doesn't I will be conducting my life as if I am really on True Life...it's my true life story and I'm sticking to it.

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I couldn't think of a clever title for this entry. I guess writing isn't about clever headlines, although some of my journalism classes beg to differ.

Anyway, there are a few things on my mind:
1) Should you ultimately stay in a relationship if everyone is against it?
2) Family really sucks sometimes. I just do not care for them right now.
3) My impending graduation
4) Finding a career!!!
5) Jealousy and envy go hand in hand and they both are not a good look.

So, regaining confidence in myself and realizing that God has my back if no one else does seems easy but in fact it's very hard. Those are just five of the thoughts running through my mind. I know that if I prepare myself enough, I will have a lucrative career, graduation is a good thing, family will never change and my relationship is my relationship.

Scared of Graduation

I am approaching my last semester of college. I went through a lot of changes, learned a lot, and met a lot of people. I guess that's the point of college, huh? I am deathly afraid of graduation and moving into the professional world.

Newspapers and magazines are laying people off, am I going to have a job? So I decided to look for a job in public relations. This seems like it will be a good, however, I came across an article from The Wall Street Journal titled: The Declining Value of Your College Degree

I am very upset about this. I can't believe that I have spent 4+ years in college and when I graduate, there will barely be any jobs available. Bonus: If I ever get laid off, it will be extremely hard for me to find another job.

This is my plan:

I don't want to be a struggling journalist, I want to have health insurance, be able to pay my rent and afford food, be respected and afford to live. I don't want to live off my passion for writing, I want to make money doing something that I enjoy doing. Writing as a career is not stable and in the age of blogs, anyone can write. I want to be pursued for my talent I don't want to experience so much rejection that I just have to give up.

That's why I have decided to pursue public relations. It still has the elements of journalism with stability. With the state of newspapers and magazines, I don't want to go into a field that could be dead before I'm 30.

So I am going to be a public relations, whatever, and freelance wherever I can. I'm sure diehard journalists are going to be up in arms about my decision, but hey, I gotta eat and I want to have a family someday.

Journalism and public relations aren't entirely different but until journalism can make a comeback, I'm jumping on the public relations bandwagon.