People at the We Are One Celebration Concert on Sunday January 18, 2009. Lincoln Memorial.
Singing: One Love
One Love January 28, 2009
Ummmmm…… January 28, 2009
Maybe you’ve already seen this, maybe not. Either way let me know what you think.
If I see anybody wearing a wedding dress and they aren’t getting married…..I will talk about you.
Check it out here.
January 20, 2009 January 28, 2009
At 5:30am on 01/20/09 my alarm went off. You see I requested a cab meet me at 6:15am. Well I couldn’t seem to pull myself out of bed so I reset the alarm for 5:50am. So I finally get up and get dressed. I knew I would not want to get up (I am NOT a morning person) so I had everything laid out.
Tank, thermal shirt, light sweater, velour jacket, regular jacket with hood
Leggings, thermal pants, velour pants, trouser socks and footies (you know so you can’t see them if you’re wearing sneaks)
Gloves, scarf
By the time I was dressed I decided to put on a little make-up. Powder and lipglass was gonna have to suffice. It was 6 am.
I got in the cab. Ready to go. And the driver could not find my destination in his GPS thing. It was a Tom Tom or whatever you call it. So we sat there trying to figure out how to get there. Thank God for my Blackberry. I quickly used the Blackberry maps to find the route. And we were off. You know he asked to see it right. You know I kept my eyes on my phone the WHOLE time he had it in his hand.
Anyway we get to some freeway and I realize he is about to go the wrong way. So I softly say “??? Freeway is to the right”. He doesn’t hear me. So I repeat a little louder “??? freeway is to the right”. He is still deaf. I say “go right, go right to the freeway”. He replies “Oh yeah, that’s right.” WHAAATTTTT???? You just looked at the phone and said out loud where you should go. It’s a good thing mama didn’t raise no fool. I can follow directions, I can read directions, and I know when you aren’t going the right way.
No one was going to stop me from seeing President Obama.
When I finally reach my destination (friends’ cousin’s house) he turns to me and says “You really know directions and where you are going.” And he is smiling. Excuse me? Aren’t you the cabbie? Aren’t you supposed to be able to follow directions???? He asks if I am going to the inauguration. I say yes. He says, well maybe I can give you a ride back and proceeds to hand me a card. WHAAAATTTT!!!!! I don’t think so. I politely declined and said I would be taking a cab from D.C. (we were still in MD).
I knocked on the door, got in the house, ready to go. It was only 7am.
Can you believe it? January 28, 2009
Sis. Melville called me last week because she didn’t see me in church. She had to leave a message because I didn’t recognize the number so I didn’t answer the phone.
I went through my saved messages so I could delete them and guess what??? I saved her message. It scared me at first when I heard it, but then I felt relief. I kept trying to remember exactly what she said and I couldn’t. Now I know.
Tell Me Why January 28, 2009
So tell me why I haven’t typed a thing since last week. In fact the first time I even looked at another blog was last night. I made sure it wasn’t someone I knew personally because I wasn’t in the mood to read anything sad. Just in case.
One week ago I was still excited from my trip to D.C. I was actually still asleep at this time because I took a vacation day. By the end of the day I was told Mrs. Georgia Melville had a stroke, was rushed to the hospital, and had to have surgery. Okay. I can deal with that. People have strokes every day, surgery, and therapy. Then they go back to work, or work part-time, or something. The point is…they go on.
Unfortunately by Friday the doctors had a different story for Ms. Melville. I couldn’t even keep it together at church this weekend. I am so glad I had to attend a child’s birthday lunch. You see there’s nothing like kids to keep you focused. One of my girlfriends chose not to celebrate her birthday last weekend with a big anything. This wasn’t because of Melville, she chose that before. I think God allows things to happen and we don’t know why until after. If she had planned a big party would we have been in the mood? What would we have talked about?
Friday after work I went to the hospital where she was. By the end of the night there were soooooo many people there. The nurses in ICU were so nice to us. We were way past visiting hours but they still let people go and see her. Saturday afternoon we got a call saying she had passed away. I didn’t want to believe it. So I don’t think I did until last night.
Tell me why I had to send an email to a (past) youth federation list about the funeral arrangements. I think that made it real to me. Last night was the first night I woke up about 5 times. I couldn’t get comfortable. I kept waking up seeing her in my mind. In the hospital, at church, at rehearsal.
Tell me why she called me last weekend because she didn’t see me in church. I hadn’t told her I was going out of town. So she leaves a message for me: This is Sis. Melville. Just calling because I didn’t see you in church this week. Hope everything is well. I’ll talk to you later.
I smiled and thought: When I see her this week I’ll tell her where I was.
Tell me why.
Would you have done this? January 21, 2009
There were soooo many people at the inauguration some decided to do this…..
Good Eats January 19, 2009
Hello everyone! I just left my aunt’s house.I just had some soup, veggie patties, and corn. Okay it is a mismatch of food but it was good. In additon my cousin made some sorrell. I haven’t had that in a looonnnnggg time. It was really good. So tonight I decided not to wear a thermal shirt. What was I thinking? 
It is really cold tonight.
The Bowie Project January 17, 2009
So today I visited The Bowie Project. This church started about two months ago. Their mother church is CPC (community praise center, shoe diva used to attend this church) in Virginia. Anyhow, the pastor was pretty good. I have heard him before and was glad to see this was his church. It holds about 300 people and it was full today. I’m glad I went.
The Flight January 16, 2009
So I am here in Maryland. What possessed me to come up here when the high today is 19???? Mr.President(elect) it had to be.
I met a really nice lady on my plane ride here. She is from Trinidad. She told me about the Black tie and boots ball I think on Monday night. It is a ball for Texans. Turns out she knew a couple that attended my church. They have since passed away. She also knows another family friend. Small world.
Well I’ll update later. Hopefully I get some good pics.
