My upcoming trip to Florida

So I am getting a little excited. I’m going to Florida in about a month. I’ll be in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale on July 20th – July 26th. (The 26th is my BIRTHDAY!) Anyways I am going for my wonderful sorority's, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., National Convention. You may be thinking wow, that’s cool, which it is, but its not all play. We have meetings during the day and other events at night, and since I am a voting delegate I am pretty much in meetings all day. But, during my free time, I am planning on enjoying the beach and having some fun in the sun! I have a friend who lives in Ft. Lauderdale and he has agreed to show me around, and take me to South Beach!!!!! That’s all for now, I’ll put up some pics and some updates about my trip in about a month!

Busy Bee...

Sorry it’s been a while since I posted, but I guess I have been really busy? Yeah I have. Work has picked up a lot, so I have been trying to get most of my work done before I get home. And when I do get home the last thing I want to look at is a computer screen, so needless to say I haven’t been able to post.
Well, I had a pretty good weekend. I was off on Friday so I took my cousin Devin to a movie, and I knew exactly the movie he was going to pick, and I knew I wasn’t going to want to see it. “Devin, what movie do you want to see?”
“Romanda, can we see the Fast and the Furious 3, Tokyo Drift!”
...sigh “Sure Devin, but are you sure you don’t want to see Nacho Libre!”
Anyway, as surprised as I was the movie was actually pretty good. I was impressed and now I want to learn how to drift! Then we went and ate lunch at Imo’s Pizza so overall it was a pretty good day.
Saturday, me and my friend Kenny went to the zoo and we took my cousin Devin along with us. We had a pretty good time. Although a lot of the animals weren’t out or either sleeping. We saw a lot of bears and a couple of elephants, and of course, MONKEYS. Even though Kenny and Devin thought they were pretty smelly, I still enjoyed watching them.


Sunday was good also, we had a church service in the park and then my dad and I fell asleep on the deck. It was great. Then I met up with some friends I don’t get to see to often and we barbequed a little and had a good time. So all in all this was a pretty good weekend, even though it was pretty busy, it was well worth it!

Being Grateful

So I watched Flight 93 today, it is a movie about one of the planes that was attacked by terrorists on Sept 11. It wasn’t one of the planes that crashed into the towers or the pentagon; it was the plane were the passengers fought back. The movie itself was really good, sad though, but pretty accurate from what I hear. After watching this movie it made me think of how we take life for granted. The little things in life that mean so much to us can all be taken away in the blink of an eye. So, I decided I was going to make a list of 10 things that I am grateful for. This list is not in any particular order:





Ten Things I’m Grateful For

1. God: Without him there would be no us
2. Jesus Christ: He made the ultimate sacrifice and died for our sins, and we really don’t deserve this
3. My Faith: This gets me through life
4. My Family/Friends: I put these together because I consider my friends to be my family
5. My Health: Even though I get sick a lot, it could be a lot worse
6. My Job: Even though we may complain about working, we are blessed to have one
7. My Sanity: Seriously I am so glad to be in my right state of mind, I think of all the people who don’t even know who they are or their family, so sad
8. Grace: Wow that’s all I have to say about that
9. God’s Word/The Bible: This is my shield of protection
10. Tivo: Hey I had to throw that one in there! :)
    

What are you grateful for?

But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, move up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow guests. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."—Luke 14:10-11

Small Talk

Ok I don’t like small talk. Ok, so I am not so sure why this is so hard for me but I just don’t like it. I never have, and maybe never will. To me it’s just so awkward. And I don’t like awkwardness. It’s like you have to search for something to say. Like, ummm…so do you like baseball? No. Ummm….well, what about Michael Jackson? Nope. Wow, so now what. Now don’t get me wrong, I love to talk but only when there is something to talk about. And for some reason, I attract shy people. And I am a shy person myself, so talk about awkward. And it seems like I’m always the one trying to fish for something to say. Ok so I guess the reason why I am on this kick, is because I have a friend, and for some reasons we won’t discuss at this time, the conversations are just plain awkward. It makes me so sad because I used to be able to talk to this person without any problems and now it’s like…so how was your day? Fine, yours? It was good, and then the unavoidable…SILENCE! Wow! I know I have to somehow get over not liking small talk or just plain dealing with it, because I meet so many people each day, and that is how most conversations start out. But if after you get to know a person and the conversations are still like that, or if you previously had great conversations and they end up like that then maybe there is a problem. Any suggestions????

Wish Box

Ok, so I just realized that I have this fascination with collecting things. I mean it’s not bad, kind of cool I think. When I was younger I used to collect stickers and cool pencils. Then I started collecting cool socks. And after I saw the movie Unfaithful (rent it if you haven’t seen it) I started collecting snow globes. Well, I went into Claire’s Boutique the other day; I saw that they have wish boxes for each month. (They did these with snow globes last year) and they are so cute, so I had to have them. So far I have all of January thru June and I plan on getting the next 6 when they come out. There is a doggie, a kitty, a monkey, a teddy bear, a unicorn, and a panda bear. Too cute! The thing is I had never heard of a wish box before. So me being the computer nerd that I am, I googled “Wish Box.” It never got a formal definition, but from what I gathered wish boxes used to be used as a way of granting wishes. Go figure! If you write your wish on a tiny slip of paper make your wish and put it in the box, your wish will eventually come true. How cool is that! Now, I don’t believe in magic and things of that sort, but I did wonder if I were to write a wish to put in the box, what would I write. Would I wish for good health, money, true love, a great job, for all of my family and friends to become Christians? I don’t know there is just so much! What would you wish for?

Blackeyed Peas

Blackeyed Peas? No I do not like to eat blackeyed peas. Although, I do hear that they bring good luck or something like that if you eat them on New Years Eve. Maybe, this year I will try it. Or not. I’m not a big pea fan. Too mushy, maybe my mom made me eat them to much when I was little.

Anyway, I’m talking about the Blackeyed Peas, the band. If ‘yall haven’t heard any of their songs, you probably live in a cave and you should go out and buy one of their singles or something. This band is awesome. I’m not even sure how I started listening to them. I remember going to Déjà Vu in Columbia and hearing Let’s Get Retarded and thinking to myself, that’s not nice. But the song was so catchy that I liked dancing to it, and got excited every time I would hear it. But I didn’t know at the time the Blackeyed Peas had sang it. I remember hearing their name from a friend when I first started college, she loved them. But, I never thought twice about them because her taste in music was kind of weird. Anyway, somehow I discovered the Peas and am glad I did. Although, I haven’t really listened to much of their old stuff, hopefully I will be able to sometime this summer. I haven’t had the opportunity to see them in concert yet. I had a chance to go last summer, but my family was having a family reunion the weekend they were in town. Guess what, the concert was free, it was at the Fair St. Louis! And I missed it! Gotta luv family though! Some of my favorite BEP songs are:

1. Pump It
2. Don't Phunk With My Heart
3. Don't Lie
4. My Humps
5. Let's Get Retarded
6. Hey Mama
7. Shut Up
8. The Apl Song
9. Where Is The Love

These songs are pretty tight, but I can pretty much listen to any song they do and start boucin’. So check them out ‘yall! www.blackeyedpeas.com

Trials and Temptations

Isn’t God awesome? Just reading his word make me so happy. He is sharing so much with me, and I have learned a lot in the past couple of months. I have index cards in my bible, with bible verses that I wrote down a couple of years ago. Yesterday, the one with James 1:2-4 fell out and I read it. Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

It’s awesome to know that everything I go through is to help develop my perseverance through my walk with Christ. So that I may not be lacking anything, and that I may be complete. This trial that I am going through is something God is using to help strengthen me, and make me a better disciple for him. I don’t know what is around the corner, but I am sure it is something that I will be very pleased with! :)

Slow to anger

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
--James 1:19-20

This is the passage God shared with me last night. And with the struggles that I am currently going through this passage couldn’t be more appropriate. I have to hold fast to the decision that I made and know that it was the right one. Although I can’t help but continue to think that maybe I could have been a little more patient and understanding. But as I continue to pray that God keeps me strong and I stand strong in my convictions, I know that it was what God wanted me to do. And because of that I will be blessed immensely.