Finally, the CBC 50th Anniversary Celebration weekend is over. Of course the pluses to this weekend was seeing the pioneers of CBC. Watching the VCD put tears in my eyes. It was a great experience to seeing all the people God had put and used to build His church. Although, I wish some people that meant a lot to me would of came back for this event, but it's all good, all in His timing. It was a crazy weekend nonetheless, with many events afterwards such as Texas @ Big Nasty's, BBQ @ Ben's, and Pistons game @ my place. With that, it was even draining in all sorts of ways. I feel as if I need another weekend to recover from this weekend. Man valet parking @ CBC ya gotta love it, despite those haters who kept knockin on their spots.

So now, as the Pistons would say, it's time to go to work. I need to try to get my schedule back to normal and finish out the semester strong.

5 more W's til a Pistons Championship

What a day, which left me woosahing up and down Main St. on my own. Today was the day where I just blew up. I felt like everyone was pulling me in all sorts of ways and at times ya wish you had some help. It started with going to the Secretary of State for my dad, and as I was sitting for a half hour wait, I realized that I already had done what he had asked me to do last year. Then I moved on to assembling this chair for my grandma which my mommy bought. It turns out that the chair was short way too many screws and I drove all over hardware stores looking for pieces. Yet, of course no store had the type that I was looking for. Frustration level continues to go up, as now I find out that my sis's apt fell through. Since she is not here anymore, I have to find a place in the EL for her.

Finally, came my cuz's commencement in which as soon as I got to my baby cuz's place, I knew it was gonna be bad. First, I had to transport more people than I intended to. During the drive, my aunt kept nagging me to death about gf's. During the commencement, my other aunt kept talking over the principal. After the commencement we were suppose to meet at the National Coney Island in Royal Oak for dinner. I'm pissed already because one of cuz's keep telling me that he has to go home. Which irritates me when people only think about the A's and not the rest of it. Then as some of us were chilling, at National's for 20 minutes. My brainiac cuz lead the rest of the party to Leo's and I'm thinking how the G is that 12 Mile and Main? And he kept telling us he knew where he was going too.

So I dropped off everyone at Leo's while I parked my car at the structure. I walked for a little bit to woosah my negative energy. I was pretty good for a while during dinner. Finally, I just lost it because everyone kept nagging me to do this and that. My fam from Memphis asked me if I would lead them back out to 16 Mile and my snotty reply was "sure if you can keep up", then there was my onion rings which I ordered, out of the 20 plus rings, I got to eat none because everybody else ate them. I don't have probs if people eat my rings, but it would be nice if they asked. Then I just snapped back at my cuz's grandma because she kept trying to force me to eat her food. Then the final blow, one of my cuz's tossed food at me and thought it was funny. I was calm for the first couple of seconds, then I grabbed what was tossed at me. I walked up to him, grabbed him by the neck, pulled his shirt and stuffed the food down his back and smashed it all up there. I had his face pinned to the window at Leo's and told him to sit down.

It just wasn't a good day for me, and I've been repenting since I got home. I know what part of it, that is eatting at me. I've been looking at next month and been doing some thinking. I have a free week soon and I've been thinking bout leavin here to get away, possibly the Dirty South.

Woosah

Exhausted is how I am feeling now, but let's start anyways. On my way to my cuz's place, I'm cruising down 696. Vroom, as this Grand Prix goes zooming by and this car is zig zagging at 95 mph. As I was observing this car, it was a girl driving. However, she decides to just stay in the left lane now and high beam, tailgate, and honk her way through everyone. I'm seeing this, and I don't think it is cool. So, of course I pull up next to her with my shades on and do a little drive and stare. She's like let's go, and I fast and furioused my way through at 110 mph. After smoking, I decided to slow down and actually wait for her to catch up. She finally catches up, and I pulled next to her again to see how she likes it when I do the same things that she is doing to others. She has the nerve to give me the number 1 finger signal. So I smiled and waved bye and smoked her once more. I don't want to say that I am the king of driving or whatever. However, I don't like it when peeps come out on the freeway with their road rage or think they are the king or queen of the road either and can push their way through.

Things has changed to at SHS as my cuz, Frank and I pulled up to do our workout. However, SHS has security now and we were asked to leave. So we decided to see how many jump ropes we can do at 1 a.m. My cuz, got in 141 then Frank squeezed in 500, which is pretty impressive. Now comes my turns and they didn't think I could beat 500 nor come close. With no food throughout the day and still a little sick, all I needed was motivation. 25 minutes later and I'm on the driveway coughin my lungs out, I put out 1,050 jump rope. That's the bar for them now, and I plan on pushing 2,000 next time. Little did they know too that when I was little, my sis and I used to jump rope in the house all the time. We used to jump in and use one rope with 2 people. We bought Skip It's and were skilled to time that with one another at the same time. With that 1,050 jump rope I now reward myself at 2:40 a.m. of 4 egg tarts for dinner.

6 Wins to go for the Pistons

Well back from another short stay in the Big Apple. This time around, I feel a little more energy depleted having driven most of the trip then student teaching till 6:30 p.m. I'm glad that my sis was able to go and it was funny because we actually let her drive a little this time. The last fam trip I can remember that we took, was when we went to the Twin Cities. We decided to let her drive in Wisconsin so she could say she contributed to the driving. Well we stopped at the Rest Area then 10 miles later, she exited and that was the end of her fun. Yeah, she ain't exactly the greatest driver. But watching her drive through Ohio, I'm happy to see that she is using a lot of techniques that I taught her to improver her driving skillz.

I kept walking through the streets of Queens and Manhattan. I wanted to shop for myself, but I finally decided that I'd make a sack. I picked up my sis in Chinatown and took her to Ground Zero, Times Square, and got her, her first Bubble Tea. I wish we had more time so we could check out the PATH at the WTC. I hadn't been there since 2 years ago when Joyce and I went to see things.

We went back to East Buffet and I swore to myself that I would get around to trying everything. Yet again, I have failed due to my desire to stuffing my face with Peking Duck. The down parts of this trip was that I didn't get to go to check out Jonathon's place and being stuck on the N train for a half hour plus due to technical difficulties. Cool highlight was trying to fly through the Cross Bronx Expressway.

We return and I went to student teach. I tried to make it back home in time to see my sis before she leaves. Yet I missed out as my sis has left for Myrtle Beachfor the summer. The cool part is that I have another tv and computer to play with :)

Superstar

Wow what cool weather we are having lately. Last nite, I got up at 3:45 a.m. because the thunder kept shaking the house and causing all sorts of car alarms to go off. Man I couldn't sleep anymore, but cool lightning show nonetheless. I see there are blockades around my sub now due to flooding probs. Man, I hope the weather clears up as I go off to NYC tonight.

I was recording my cuz's grad party today. Little did I know that he graduated from IA. I got a chance to meet his friends, and I thought they were all a bunch of fruits. I should of kept that comment to myself though, as I had my fam table of me, Victor, Wendy, and Andrew. As Fred came over to conversate with us, of course Victor and Andrew told him that his friends were fruits. He asked why, and both of them directed it towards me. I felt bad for dogging his friends, but wooooo some of them are just out there. Too many brainiacs for me to handle at one time and didn't understand my lingo.

I treated my cousins to ice cream since Baskin Robin's was around the corner. So it was nice as my baby cuz and I hung out and chatted. My aunt wanted the 2 of us to hang out with the IA crew but we weren't feelin them at that level. However, throughout the party peeps kept asking me about my sis. It was like should I cover her or tell them the truth? I told them the truth to those who asked me. It was hard and I was bummed because you can read their expression on their face. It was the hardest when Fred asked me and I tried explaining it to him. He said he understood, but the sound of his voice was the sound of a heart being broken. I mean those 2 have a unique bond in the fam because they are the Memphis Generation.

So my cuz, Fred is expecting my sis to be at his commencement. I didn't have the heart to tell him that she won't be there for that either because she's going to Myrtle Beach the day before. I gave my sis a lecture about the importance of fam vs. friends in different situations. Sum it all up, cousin Fred is only gonna have one grad party while you have many days to hang out with friends. Fred has always been supportive of her academic success. This is why, it's frustrating living with my sis sometimes because fam is last to her unless there is a reward to her. I just need to woosah this out for myself.

NYC, hopefully I can make it there and back safely. Drop a dime on me to see where I'm at.