I’ve been tagged by S23:
1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
Without further ado…
- It’s hard for me to consciously talk about myself. When I’m not trying to do that is when people learn the most about me. I stared at the computer for a while trying to come up with these 8 things lol.
- I’ve been wearing glasses since 1st grade. I wasn’t one of those kids that my mom had to fight with to make me wear the glasses (although they were bigger than my face) because I really could not see. The teacher would put me in the front seat closest to the chalkboard and I still couldn’t read a word of it without glasses. When I wake up in the morning I put my glasses on so that I can find my contacts and put them in…before I even shower. Driving, watching TV, and getting on my laptop without my eyewear ain’t gonna happen.
- My mom is currently in Iraq for the next year b/c she’s in the army. I’m confident that she’ll be fine and everything will be okay but dang I miss her
. - I officially gave up eating beef & pork about 3 years ago in an effort to slowly transition to vegetarianism. Never quite made the full transition…lol. I tried eating beef again at one point but after not having it for so long I didn’t like the taste and consistency, and it upset my stomach. I didn’t really grow up eating pork so I’ve not missed it much.
- I’ve never been in an official relationship other than high school which doesn’t count (to me, anyway). I have a feeling that when I’m really ready for the commitment that is marriage, that’s when I’ll find myself in an official relationship that will probably lead to marriage. People sometimes try to make me feel weird about that, but those people are usually in relationships that have zero long-term potential whatsoever. I just don’t see any reason to be ‘official’ with someone w/ no potential just b/c I enjoy their company even though I do want a relationship. I will elaborate in another blog entry this weekend.
- I totaled a car on the PA turnpike 3 years ago (lost control of the car). Because of the accident I’m a HUGE proponent of seatbelts b/c if I hadn’t worn mine I wouldn’t be sitting here typing this right now. The impact of the crash would’ve thrown me through the windshield at 75 mph. Just to paint a picture, after the crash the car landed on its roof and I had to climb out of the busted passenger window to get out. The tow guy had to slice up the back seat to get my stuff out of the trunk b/c it was so smashed in it couldn’t be opened. I walked away from this with a few cuts on my foot (had on flip flops), and some temporary muscle aches from the airbag impact.
- I get a little anxious on the highway because of #6 and I don’t like driving if I don’t have to.
- I’m quietly planning to relocate down south within the next year or so. I will talk more about it when I get some plans more solidified.
I’m not tagging anybody lol.
booo K! that’s cheating
Comment by Heartdrops — July 26, 2007 @ 4:57 pm
damn at 6, i thought i was gangsta for surviving a couple of stabbings and shootouts
Comment by eknight — July 26, 2007 @ 9:18 pm
Ummmm. What’s “down south”?
Comment by S23 — July 27, 2007 @ 2:15 pm
wish i can move with you. lol.
Comment by Dayrell — July 28, 2007 @ 7:52 pm
Glad you had that seatbelt on and are okay.
I had only one “official” relationship before marriage. One of my girlfriends still tries to make me feel weird about that. She’s been with her bf, for over 10 years and thinks my dating strategy was odd.
Comment by c2a — July 30, 2007 @ 1:10 am
Sorry to hear about your mother. That must be tough.
I have not had an “official” relationship in awhile. At least two years. Daaaamn. I need to get back out there!
I am a big proponent of seat belts as well.
Comment by Miz JJ — July 30, 2007 @ 3:26 pm
I’m the same way can’t do anything without glasses or contacts. Blind as a bat. Good luck with your move and I’m praying that your mom will safely return from Iraq.
Comment by Honest — July 31, 2007 @ 12:27 pm
i can’t see either - since third grade, it’s been glasses every day.
Comment by Sistah Ant — July 31, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
Hey, K,
Believe it or not, I just spent several hours reading your blog after finding it through Maverick’s Signs of the Times. Your stuff is really on point and made me think about my own life.
Sorry you’re having so much trouble with meeting men. I would say guys in their 40s might be better since they’re less prone to play games, but that doesn’t always apply. I would say find yourself a good Christian man.
Me, I’m 47, married nearly 21 years with three kids, 20, 18 and 7. And yes, I’m a black man who’s made his share of incredibly dumb mistakes during his earlier adult life that cost him. (Mostly through a drug and alcohol addiction, but I’ve now been clean of both for five years. Also some infidelity with various women over the years, which I confessed to my spouse three years ago. By the Grace of God, she forgave me rather than shank me through the neck with an icepick. Don’t get me wrong, she was really pissed for about two years.) It’s really hard to support both kids and a drug and extramarital sex habit — the money and time goes real quick.
I have a BA in Journalism from the University of South Carolina and was a reporter for a lot of those years.
Like I said, the time I spent chasing the drug and strange pussy, I could have spent concentrating on chasing really good stories and moving up the newspaper food chain. I’m no longer in journalism, ended up in corporate marketing support, which I found really sucked, and after six years was laid off in March.
I really liked your September post about your friend having trouble finding good jobs and the need for black men to go to college, trade school or the military to support themselves and a family. I also think that too many of us black folk who end up in Corporate America get shunted into those bullcrap staff jobs like HR, public relations, community relations and diversity instead of “line” (read: revenue-producing) jobs like business development or operations, that lead to upper management.
While a reporter in a large western city (where my two older kids were born), the paper I worked for wanted to groom me for management, but I resisted, thinking I didn’t want the responsibility. Then we moved back East (I’m in Southern NJ, not too far away from you). Now I wished I had followed through; I might have ended up a managing editor today.
Now I’m going back to school for certificates in web design and marketing management, courtesy of the State of New Jersey, which is paying because I’m a displaced worker.
Anyhow, I’m glad to see a young sister like yourself who knows what time it is and will not make the same mistakes many of us in my generation did. Although I grew up in a family with both parents who were married, it wasn’t totally idyllic. My father was a very angry man, and my mother was a quiet buffer between him and me and my two siblings.
I think what happened with me that I retreated into my own little world, and that I delayed my adolescent rebellion into my 20s, but I let it continue into my 30s.
Well that’s it. Sorry for the long post. Keep blogging, my sister. God bless.
Ashtray7
Comment by ashtray7 — August 5, 2007 @ 2:29 pm