Take it Back!

You'll be so surprised to learn what you can do if you just determine that you will try and get it right. Often it takes an external disappointment or anger to spur you to action.
For example, I went to the salon Saturday. I call myself going to a professional for help, since I (thought) I didn't know what to do with my hair. The stylist says, "The only thing you can do when your hair is this length is put weave in it."
I shoulda left right then. So she's like, "We'll figure something out. I can curl the front, but I just don't know what to do with the back of your hair." So at this point, it's like, I appreciate your honesty, but wth you mean?  Clearly, I'd come to the wrong place.
So she came up with some whack, crunchy, spritzed-up situation. And yesterday I was so disgusted with it that I decided to fix it myself.
If you know me, you know my hair has been blonde, orange, yellow and bronze this year! So not only did I dye it back to black, but I curled it to perfection - hooked up the pin-curl look I've been trying to get the stylists to do, but they never seemed to get it. I can't tell you the last time I was so proud of myself. (I'm lying - Yes I can, last week when I made collard greens for the first time. After burning the first batch I came back with a vengeance and got it right!)
See, all you gotta do is put your mind to it!

Cliffhanger

In all my years of going to church, yesterday was a first:

The pastor was giving this passionate sermon about the children of Israel wandering in the wilderness, and he was getting to the parts where they started "murmuring and complaining" and saying they should just go back to Egypt.

 So he's like, "WHY would anyone want to turn back to bondage after tasting sweet freedom? I get so tired of people getting saved and I feed them and change their diaper spiritually and put it in so much work to help them grow and then they just turn back to where they came from. WHY oh WHY would anyone want to go back into sin?" etc etc

And he's jumping up and down and really just putting his all into it, and I'm like why why why? tell me?


And this man says, "I'll tell you why next week."

WHAAT?!!!! Pastor, what is this soap opera sermon u just preached?
If I hadn't enjoyed everything before then I would have been mad, especially since I know I have to work next week and won't be able to get the answer. It felt like watching a rerun of Fresh Prince where they played part 1 but didn't play part 2 right after it.

Deva's Christmas list

In case you're wondering, here's what I'd like:

Coffee maker (Keurig would be nice, but I'm not picky)

Red pumps

2 packs of Bohyme french refined hair 1B

queen sized blanket

silver necklace

new windshield wiper blades

a warm jacket (in btw a heavy sweater and thick winter coat)

The Princess and the Frog DVD

an iPod

rain boots

a bubble umbrella

CDs by Miguel, Ladyhawke, Lily Allen, Adele, Phoenix, The Bird and the Bee and Regina Spektor



Just in case you had an especially prosperous year....

Mo-Mama!

Ay, her hair looks like Robin Thicke's but it is tooo cute!

Glasses

Hey all you girls who wear glasses:

Do you try to wear makeup at the same time? I really don't think people can see it when we wear eyeshadow and whatnot under our glasses.

Maybe I should address that question to the ppl who look at us all day.

For Colored Girls

For the record, it wasn't as bad as it could have been - we've seen far worse from Tyler Perry.

But that's not my point. My sis just saw it and sent me thee craziest text message:

"The only good parts were the kids dying and the rape."

No, m'am, it must be Opposite Day. Those were actually the WORST parts. In addition to the Macy Gray cameo with Macy playing herself.

And then, becuz many atime we text faster than we think, she wrote:

"Oh yea I like when she slapped the dead racist."

(P.S. I think the young sister Nyla looks like Angela Simmons and Janet looked like Minnie Mouse)

Men

I just had to share this. My bf and I had a fight recently where he decided he needed to talk about my weave. Here's a direct quote:

"You just look like a better person without it."

- Really? a better person??

Then later he looks at this (horrid) pic of Lauryn Hill with a (pretty) curly natural 'fro and says:

"See how clean you could look?"

smh. I had no words.

Is it Just Me?

Does anyone else think the Time Warner Cable logo looks a little like The Eye of Horus?

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