12. NOW WHO INVITED YOU!!!!!

Ok! The day was going great. Family had arrived and we started playing board games and watching football games, all the things that ordinary families do. At the blink of an eye, everything went into a downfall. I went to the bathroom, and when i came out, i saw my cousin Johnny was in the living room. The first thing that came to mind was, " WHO INVITED HIM". Everybody know that he is the thief of the family. Just last christmas he stole my presents and tried to sell them to my brother. Now tell me that aint a hustler. But i left that in the past, I just wanted to know who invited him because someone should have let me know so i could put my good china away. But i wasnt tripping, I just didnt let that swipper out of my eye sight. So Im over there playing monopoly and ole Johnny is not no where to be found. I must have went in my room and he was in there suspicious. I was like " Naw playa, u gots to go! You aint got to go home but you got to get out of here." So he took his swiping paws back into the living room and stayed there until it was time for them to leave. But in the mean while, You know how every family has that one drunk relative! Well mine has two! They just cant say no, so i had to say it for them! I had to let them know, they cant be coming over to my crib acting a fool. Plus, if they break it, they bought it. And I dont have the time to be dragging people back into they cars and taking them back to their house just because they cant control their liquor! Not I, said I. So the moral of the story is.... Make sure you send out a guest list, and dont invite any guest that might want to talk to your drunk uncles or your swiping cousins!

LOL! JUST KIDDING!!! That was just a relief from all the soul searching, mind boggling writings from earlier on in the semester. P.S. My family is nothing like that. I wish they would come to my crib stealing! I'd break his hand off and smack my drunk relatives with it for bringing that crap in my house! LOL!

11. Fight for Your Life

As the end of this semester comes to an end, i find it harder and harder to pass the courses. Its not the classes thats getting harder, its the increase in work and projects in every class that makes it harder to survive here at mc. It seems like when i finish one project, i have two more do a couple of days later. It is stressful because you want to put your all into your work but you cant concentrate on one topic when you have another topic of one of your other courses in the back of your head. Thank God for the Thankgiving break because it gives me time to catch up on my work. It helped me lighten my work load. Its like fighting for your life at the end of the semester and to me, it just keeps getting harder and harder as time goes on.

10. One Life to Live

I was in the middle of BIBLE 120, half way asleep, when Dr. Johnson said something to catch my attention. He said " You only have one life to live." Of course i was laughing inside because i couldn't believe he said something so lame out loud for everyone to hear, but then i started realizing. This is my only life. Am i making the right decisions that i can prosper from in my future. Am i doing the right thing. Do i want to be a nurse, or am i just doing it because of the money and the prestige that comes from the title. These were some hard hitting topics that I could only figure out in time. But luckily, we live in a society that we dont have to stay in our first profession in order to make a living. We have options. We can go back to school and pick up another major or we can get certified in our original major and comp out of all of the "annoying" duties of our careers. Thank God for financial aid. lol.

9. CHANGE

The day is finally here. The day for change that is. Obama won the election! everybody was proud and happy that we finally got our first black president. But why put the emphasis on his race. Is it because they think that because he is black that he will steer america in a different path that what the white presidents did or is the emphasis on his race emphasized because it symbolizes the progress that america has undergone in the last forty years? I personally feel that it is the change that america has undergone in the previous years. Two generations ago, my grandparents had to fight for the right to vote, now we have a black president. Its a beautiful thing that we came together, both democratic and republican, to vote for one person that fights for the same goal as us. To be honest, i thought i would never see the day that we had our first black president. Although i do feel that the south has an enormous fear of change, we still have progressed alot from what we were. I dont feel that this fear comes from racism, I feel that it comes from tradition. A tradition that no one wants to let go.

8. STOP CALLING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think everyone gets to that point where they have that parent that just won't stop calling them. My mother calls me about 2 to 3 times a day, just to speak and ask what i am doing. It drives me crazy. Thats the main reason why i took the ringtones off my phone and put it on vibrate. So one day i was watching t.v. and i looked on yahoo and saw an ad saying jennifer hudson's mother and nephew was murdered. My mouth dropped to the floor from shock. I was thinking " How could something so tragic happen to someone so positive. And that is when i realized that i should be thankful that i have a parent to call and check up on me because you never know when death will come knocking on your loved ones door. I hate the fact that i was getting agitated from here act of care. It was quite selfish of me and i could only ask God for forgiveness while i held my head down in prayer. I said all that to say this, be thankful for all the ones that care about you in your life because they may be here today, but tomorrow is not guaranteed!