Erin.

but failed to tell us she actually turns into a frog and is seen in princess form maybe 15 minutes.

 

NICE.

Well my hair has loced up and there is no turning back now. I have been freeform locing without really realizing it for the last few months. This morning I woke up and felt my hair, amazed at how much of it is in locs. I kind of freaked out for a minute because I knew combing it out would be a pain but then I thought "Why comb it out? " so I went to nappturality.com  to get advise on freeforming. I haven't combed my hair in more than 4 or 5 months so I guess I am doing it the right way. I have been pulling apart the locs and everything...just doing it right without any advice. It's going to be rough but I am excited because this is the ultimate. No palm rolling, latching, etc. Just letting my hair loc up on its own.Now when people ask me "What are you DOING WITH YOUR HAIR?!" I can finally say "dreads."

i'll be following angieslocks.blogspot.com and nappturality for inspiration.

I don't have a camera but I am going one on bryan's best buy discount. Pics soon.

It's amazing to me how I went from thinking my  hair looked a hot mess to really awesome over night.

http://twitter.com/firstandapple

I am really pissed at twitter because it wont let me have a default picture.

Quick update:

I moved to Birmingham, AL.  I love it here. I packed all of my things in my car one day and left Baton Rouge. I will never, ever go back there again.

I registered for summer classes. Nervous.

I am finally in my first healthy relationship. He's fantastic. Amazing. I think my mother sent him to me. I don't know how this happened.

I'm happier.

eh. Nevermind about the new livejournal. Every name under the sun is taken.

 

i just realized that I will be spending New Years eve and Christmas alone.

Due to the way shit is playing out, I have to fly to Durham, North Carolina on the 26th of December. My sister is going to be out of town from the 27th until the 3rd. I have to register for class on the 4th and school starts on the 5th. So I will be spending New Years Eve by myself sort of. My sister got really offended when I said that but i mean... I was really planning on going to Birmingham for New Years Eve and ringing in the New Year with friends. I don't really have friends that live in Durham so I am just going to be watching TV I guess?

The other problem is this: If I did go home for a week for Christmas I would be leaving on the 20th of this month. Then I would fly out of Mobile to North Carolina. How much is the ticket? 230 bucks. How much is the ticket from New Orleans? 75 dollars and a much shorter trip. So if I wanted to save money I would just not go home altogether and fly out of here on Kwanzaa.

So I will probably have to say fuck it to going back to Alabama and fly out of New Orleans, meaning I won't be able to spend New Years Eve with any of my friends AT ALL.

So that's why I don't drink Vodka anymore.

I've been trying optimism this past week. As a sagittarius I'm suppose to be the most optimistic person around but with my scorpio rising I guess it cancels that out ( LET ME STOP NERDING OUT.) but I figured I might as well try it out. Be optimistic and good things will happen? Put great things out into the universe. No harm in that.

This week: Got in a wreck with a drunk driver. She was going about 60 to 65 mph, hit us on the left side as we were turning...from behind. She was trying to pass us up. The girl was so drunk that she tried to drive off several times, including when the police officer walked up to get her information. Jessica, the driver, hurt her back and I hurt mine. Now that I think about this we were pretty lucky because if she was driving a real car instead of that Miata we'd more than likely be dead or in the hospital. Jessica has full coverage ( GET IT! ) and so did the other girl so I am just chilling.

Got my bike stolen. It was stolen from in front of my yard locked up. I usually carry it up the flight of stairs to put in my living room but I was lazy that night. I came downstairs and my baby was just GONE. I was pretty upset about it for 5 minutes but I realized that they wanted my bike enough so they have it now. If you want something bad enough you just go for it. Maybe I could learn something from the cats that stole my only source of transportation.

Got stood up in the worst way by some dude I was digging. He has been my friend for almost two years so I am shocked. I can't entirely go into that because I have decided that there is some sick ass Mayan curse on me when it comes to the the opposite sex. I mean..this is starting to get way the fuck out of hand. Yeah, I'm mad I guess, but its actually kind of funny how it does happen that way. I'm a nice girl, I like to look and smell nice, I'm smart, hilarious, etc. A lot of people can't handle all of that.  I really think my mom is telling me up from Sephora "No, girl. This is NOT for you. Do you!" I really have to learn to accept this fact.

I think what bothers me the most is that dudes like to treat me like I'm not a lady when I know for a fact I am a lady who gives off the vibe that I am one. Does a bad bitch need to start carrying around a hat box? Wear gloves all the time? Will that get the point across? The funny thing in all of this is that I lose interest really fast when it comes to boys. I think its more of an ego crush when someone doesn't come through with plans they had with me or decides to stop talking to me because they learned Hannah that works at the Chimes gives up the cookie after an order of curly fries and a taco from Jack in the Box. (Yeah. I'm calling out names now. I'll save that story for a filtered ) I started to really learn to love myself this year and I guess it came as a shock to me that people still treat me this way. Well I'll be damned. Self-love is far more rewarding I've learned. I'm 22.5, independent, and I'm about to start the life I've been wanting to live for a very long time. I can't be stopped and I'll be surprised if anyone can gallop along side of me.

Now that I look back on some things I think I was just dodging bullets. Yeah, some situations I have been in are kind of wild but I think in the end it will all make sense.

2009 will be amazing though. See? I'm trying.

They say that if a bird poops on you then you will have good luck.

My friend Cameron was pooped on my a bird recently at Highland Coffees and was so happy that he announced it. Later that day his landlord gave him a check for 100 dollars because he said he overpaid by mistake.

I am going to Highland Coffees today and lay under that roof where the birds poop in a bikini while reading "The 33 Strategies of War"

I have decided to put New York City on hold to go to college. Isn't that an adult thing to do? I will be going to North Carolina Central University in January for Business School in Durham, North Carolina.

This journal will become interesting again around that time. We all know how this shit pops off when I am in school.

We saw Twilight yesterday and are pretty much over human men now. I am going to start hanging out in the woods or whatever and seeing if I catch some of these cats feeding on deer...then I'll make my move.

"Jennifer Hudson and boyfriend, David Otunga, have gotten engaged, her rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.

"I can confirm that Jennifer got engaged to her boyfriend David on Friday night in L.A." says the rep.

Otunga, who is known as "Punk" from the reality show I Love New York 2, popped the question with a Neil Lane diamond ring on the Dreamgirls Oscar winner's 27th birthday.

The couple, who have been dating less than a year, both hail from Chicago.

People"

Really? She's engaged to this dude? I'm sure her Oscar woke her up in the middle of the night and was like "Um, WTF? This dude is a punk under pressure. He's on the DL." This is giving me the Star Jones and Al vibe.

A year maybe?

Well today was a great day.

I was on the phone with my friend just now talking shit or whatever and I overhear my brothers friend say "Your sister cusses like a white girl." I told my friend I'd call her back and she knew what was about to go down.

AFTER I CUSSED HIM OUT LIKE A TRILL ASS BITCH SHOULD DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? LOL! My brother took up for him! He told ME to shut the fuck up. Said NOTHING to the dude for disrespecting his sister in OUR goddamn house. While I was cussing the dude out, he had NOTHING to say. I think he thought I was going to toss my imaginary blonde hair and say "OMG! AS IF! WHATEVER!" I LOST it man. I drove off and then called my house to talk to my brother but my dad answered the phone and I told him what happened. Do you know what he said? "GAH YOU ARE JUST. UGH." Basically saying that I am mad for no reason. He finally put my brother on the phone, my brother told me I was wrong and hung up on me. Yeah, I probably shouldn't have said something but I mean you were in my goddamn house, drinking up our fucking Kool-Aid, ( but since I'm a white girl...shouldn't it have been Crystal Light? Fusion Green Tea sweetened with Stevia leaf? ) eating our goddamn apple pie, and you say some shit like that to me? Get the fuck out of here. IT BLOWS MY MIND that my brother ALWAYS takes up for his friends. Do you guys know how much ASS I use to beat back in the day because people use to make fun of my brothers ears? How many brawls I got in over that boy? One time I saw someone steal my brothers bike and my 5 foot ass ( well..I was that height at the time ) marched over to those older boys, shoved the dude, and was like "GIVE ME THAT BIKE. ITS MY BROTHERS AND I'LL KICK YOUR ASS!" My brother NEVER takes up for me. I also might add that I kept calling the house to talk to him ...only to have the calls ignored by not only my brother BUT my father as well. WOW!!!

I called my old job back last week trying to get the job back and they were cool with it. Played a lot of phone tag with them but I finally got in touch with them, only for them to tell me that they aren't going to hire me back because I didn't put in a two weeks notice. The reason why I didn't put in a two weeks notice was because I had to ...well that's important but they totally understood at the time and the whole situation was completely out of my hands. It just blows my mind that they told me I could come back, I quit BOTH of my jobs, only for them to be like "Oh...about that...no." I mean I swear this dude TOLD me he had no problem with what went down. The fucked up thing is that this decision was made a few days ago and I've talked to MOST of the managers since then. I worked there for two years and was never late once. She told me I could talk to the GM tomorrow and settle it with him but I haven't decided if I should. At this rate I would tell this dude to go CLIMB A WALL OF DICKS AND GO FUCK HIMSELF.

Excuse me while I light a gardenia scented candle, say a pray to God, Jesus, Robert Downey, Jr., or WHOEVER the fuck, and listen to this goddamn Coldplay.

Edit: I don't have pics of my hair because I don't have a camera...yet.

It nearly took me two days to get home from New York City  but I made it some how. Our flight from NYC to Charlotte was delayed 30 minutes so that meant we missed our connecting flight so we had to spend another night in NYC. We woke up at 4 am to go back to the airport to catch a flight to Charlotte and when we got to Charlotte the flight to New Orleans was canceled. We then switched from US Airways to NWA *TERRIBLE IDEA!!! LAUGH IT UP* to fly into Memphis which would send us to Baton Rouge, being a lot more convenient than flying into NOLA then having someone drive us to Baton Rouge.

Our plan came late to Memphis by 3 minutes so we missed our flight. The next one wasn't for about 6 hours so we had to spend all of that time in that shitty ass airport.

I forgot to add that in the Charlotte Airport we went to Jamba Juice for wheatgrass shots and I overheard them saying the wheatgrass was molded but I swear I saw them bring out more. Well, after taking them, you already know what happened! Throwing up everywhere in the bathroom. Had to go get a refund and I am probably going to call Jamba Juice to bitch.

Continuing.

So finally it was time for us to leave and I just couldn't believe we were finally going to be getting. I felt like fucking Dorothy. Well, let's talk about how after all of that shit our flight was only 50 minutes? I seriously listened to a few songs on an album and BAM we were in Baton Rouge.

And of course they lost our luggage and don't really know where it is because the tracking system is down.

edit: Found!

David  is getting it! Look! I fell out when I saw this! 

"In life's rich pageant, Sagittarius woman is the contestant most likely to walk away with the crown. A radiant, regal figure, she presides over experience, exuding an air of deservedness directed towards all that she desires. To her, the world is an abundant place where she can reach out and grab all she envisions. Struggle is anathema to Sag: She keeps her eye on one particular prize at a time and, sensing the right opportunity, lets her Archeress  arrows fly with swift precision, hitting her far-reaching marks while remaining removed from the fray of embattling human interaction. She appears the perfect  leader, one who has it all-brains, body, beauty, and the ability to amass as much devotion from others as she does coins for her coffers.  Wealth, it would seem, is her personal birthright."

My friend let me borrow Sextrology: The Astrology of Sex and the Sexes by Starsky + Cox because she wants me to learn about it and to appreciate being a fire sign. This book is huge and I am eating it all up. The little paragraph up above isn't even half of what it says in this book. Do I think it's all true? Nah. I just really get into astrology when I'm single and around my birthday ( next Friday. I'll  be 22. )

I am going to embrace being a Sagittarius.

The time is now.

edit: In Rainbows Disc 2 is balls so far. I am going to give it another few listens but I will say that "Bangers and Mash" and "4 Minute Warning"  are the SHIT.

My mom was pretty cool. She let me get away with a lot of things and was just all around pretty chill. There was one thing she did NOT let me get away with though...

Mixing brown and black together.

I've been seeing a lot of people, especially girls, walking around with a black dress on and a pair of brown boots. Can we do that now? Is that's what's hot in the streets? My mother would sock me in the MOUF if she saw me leaving the house with black shoes and a brown belt or whatever. I still have anxiety about it! I don't even buy brown shoes that much because I'm afraid of mixing them with a black hair clip or whatever.

So is it alright to mix the two?

For the love of God, can someone PLEASE send me The Good, The Bad, and the Queen?!

for the people on my friends list that keep up with entertainment news:


Wow. I guess it's really official.

I'm currently in text messages with Michael because the boy he has a crush on is in Highland Coffees and I'm trying to talk him out of it because dude is wearing flop-flips with jeans in the fall.

I'm half joking.

I woke up at 3 am to listen to the new album because I realized I had received the e-mail.

There are some gems on there but I won't lie and say I'm not disappointed. It usually takes a few listens for me to get into a Radiohead album and then I fall in love with it so I am going to do my 8  mile bike around the lakes and I'll tell  you how it is then.

Reckoner is a beautiful song though and I love 15 Steps.

This is the second time someone has stolen one of jeremy's bikes. No, third. He had it locked up and everything. I think I can read  the future because the lock on MY bike was broken and something told me to just get a new one right at that moment so I did. It sucks now because we just started being able to ride bikes with each other since I recently got a new bike and now his shit is stolen so he has to use mine to go to class and now I am stuck in the house all over again.

One of my readers just told me my pop culture game is sick because I remembered who Mac Tonight was. That was the biggest compliment I've ever received. Better than when that drunk man told me I looked like Halle Berry.