Ahhhh

I'm so upset right now, I just finished reading A Rich Man's Baby, by Daaimah S. Poole. It's a good book don't get me wrong but she just ended it! No resolution or anything my favorite character goes missing for a year and then all of a sudden the book is at the last page!!!! I wanted to know what happened next. See Brenda Jackson, Rochelle Alers, Adrienne Byrd, Celeste O. Norfleet, man I could go on and on but the point is they wouldn't do this to me. See in their books there is a happily ever after. In this book it just stopped. I'm upset because this was a new release meaning if there is going to be a sequel it may not be until 2009! Yeah it's close but who knows in what month. I had to write her and of course I wasn't ranting like I am now but I had to politely ask when she thought she was going to write the rest of the dang story!! This is the second book I've read this year that didn't have a happily ever after. Gather Together In My Name (Author is a locked sister, Tracy Price-Thompson) almost brought tears to my eyes. If I wasn't in public when I finally turned the last page I think I would have sobbed. I called my friend and we had a conversation filled with cut off sentences as we both could not find the words to share the emotions the book evoked. You should really read this book! It was GURD not good but GURD intentional misspell. See even Trisha R Thomas, didn't play with my emotions like that, though in the beginning her books didn't have a typical romance happy ever after, it had one that I could see as real and she continued with it until she showed how the dysfunctionality (yes it's not a word so what!) of Venus Johnson landed her happiness in the end! Now, Ms. Poole just played with my emotions all over again. UGH!!! I read another one of her books back in high school, Yo Yo Love and I think that one had a happily ever after but I can't remember right now. Ugh I'm so frustrated. Think I'm going to start on my Angela Winters novel since I'm not tired, and my next Brenda Jackson saga is missing a novel so I don't want to skip a character. Grrr

(I donated some of my books to the library)

Yeah I know this has nothing to do with hair but my blog is changing, it's not just about my hair it's about me. This rant, is me! LOL any way yeah my page is still under construction if you view it in Internet explorer it looks busted so hopefully everyone uses Mozilla Firefox, it's much better anyway. I've been too busy to finish the codes for this site and finish it to make it look pretty. Finals week is coming up and I have to make sure I don't end the semester with less than a 3.0..I had an episode with my school when I found out I was missing a credit and no one bothered to tell me the correct information just let me assume that I was good. Good thing I looked at it got everything fixed so that I do graduate and transfer to my new school without a problem in January. I also have video that I need to post but because I've been so busy, I haven't had time to edit it. Hopefully I will soon.

I think I have a date tomorrow, well sort of kind of. He's my homey but he did invite me so technically it's a date but it's not a date. EH, I don't know maybe I should ask him if it's a date. LOL! I've been fretting about what to wear it's a bridal shower and I haven't been to one of those yet. Am I supposed to get the bride a gift too? Shoot I'm broke, maybe I'll get her a card or something. Other than that I'll just offer her some prayer! Okay I'm done with this now. Tomorrow is my first Saturday off and I have A LOT to get done in one day.

-DiVA Out Yall!

Can I Take a Picture of You for my Blog?

Introducing Jaime and Fab (Click photo to enlarge)

This did start as a hair blog so it would only be right to talk about hair from time to time! Yesterday I did the craziest thing... me and my sister are shopping for the EaglePalooza concert last night and out of the corner of my eye I spy locks. Of course my camera is always in my bag so I'm like:

Me: I want a picture for my blog!!!
Sis: you're crazy leave those people alone!

But nope not me. I walk up to complete strangers and ask to take pictures of their locks for my blog. They were nice enough to let me and I was so excited that I didn't really interview them and right now I'm sad that all I have to share with you all is this one picture. I really really wish I got to ask them questions. I did give them my blog address so I REALLY hope they read this so that they can e-mail me and hopefully I can ask them:

How long have you been growing your locks?
What method did you use? Why did you decide to lock?
What type of attention do you recieve due to your locks?

I have other questions too so Fab and Jaime please email me so that I can do right by your locks and showcase them correctly. They are beautiful and I loved them and I want more pictures of them!!

The blog is still under renovations, blogspot rejects all the codes I use. I'm editing a video from the concert last night so look forward to that, it probably won't go up until next week. Bye! Have a great weekend!

-DiVA0UT

Under Construction

my page is going through some dramatic changes. i'm trying to figure out this whole html/css coding so that my page reflects more of my style. so bare with me. i'm switching to one post view at a time so for anyone new coming to my blog just go back to old post to view the madness from before. i may switch to having my page hosted by mac since i mean i am paying for iMac or Me whatever they want to call it this year. off to school i go this morning, i really don't feel like going. i gave up on this semester a while back not good, but it's the truth. i turned in my term paper Tuesday, hope i did well. i won concert tickets!! i'm going to see Flo-Rida and Lloyd perform at my new school tomorrow, so i need to make sure to pick up those tickets today. orientation for the new school tomorrow morning...i feel like here we go again. new people, new school, not thrilled...i just want my BA already. i'm so mopey think i need to get back in the gym pronto lol get those endorphins back....guess there's underlying reasons to why i'm such an emo on this subject right now but that's another post. just wanted to say my page shall be funky looking for a little while. peace -diva0ut!

tagged and other randomness

I shouldn't be blogging right now, what I should be doing is writing my term paper for history. But I figure I've stayed away a full 13days on a quest to get back on the ball and it's only fair that I take a little break right? Well I was tagged last month but I never know what to say about myself really so I had to sit back and think about it. Then I got back a few grades in school and I realized that I was in I don't care mode with some things, so I had to get back on the ball with school...I'm not where I normally am but I think I can salvage a 3.0 for my last semester at this school. This post may be a bit long because I have some catching up to do (no video this time), but let me go ahead and get my tagged items out of the way first.
Okay so I've been tagged again yay!! It makes me feel all tingly inside because that means people actually read my blog and have a vested interest!!

Here are the rules:
1. Link to the person that tagged you..... 2. Post the rules on your blog 3. Share 6 non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself that have not been shared already 4.Tag 6 others.

This time around I've been tagged by: new2locs

-I've recently realized that I was on the wrong path to doing what I really want to do with my life and decided, it's actually okay...when I did that things finally began to fall into place.

-I gave my mother relationship advice when I was four, she loves telling this story. Basically one night I wake up as I hear my dad sneaking back in, I slept in the same room as my parents for a long time! But any how I'm still sleepy rubbing my eyes and in my infinite knowledge I say "Leave that fool heifer" lol jk, but seriously she said I asked why she was putting her self through the back and forth and that she should just leave him. My dads jaw hit the floor and I turned my little tushy over and went back to sleep! Not for the BS at an early age!!

-I'm getting a real room of my own soon- Long story

-I closed the door on someone that I've been back and forth with for a long time and I'm proud that I could do it.

-I voted for the first time this year. (Making this my 3rd historical event that I've lived through and I still haven't had a full reaction to Obama becoming our 44th President.)

-I write romance/erotica stories. (Wanna read one?)

I am tagging....

++Moke- The Secret's Lie With In
++Tosh- On The Road to Queendom
++Cassidy- Growing Up Loving the Curls God Gave Them
++Jocey- She changes her blog name to much!
++Teenz- Mentally Disturbed
++Someone who hasn't been tagged, you're it!!


Okay back to what's been going on in the past 13 days. Well the most important topic is that I am now 10mths old, well my locks are lol. I love my hair I love that if I'm tired I don't have to worry about wrapping my hair I can just plop right under the covers, wake up the next day shake and just go! Who wouldn't want this freedom? I haven't taken much pictures because eh, I don't know why just haven't been in a picture taking mode I guess. I have 3 sets of double headed locks not two, I said that in my last video that I had two but it's actually three. Otherwise my hair is behaving, and I'm loving minute of it, can't wait to hit the 1 year mark and see the crazy growth that so many people speak of.

Okay so that happened and hmm what else oh I have been in a long battle with my gym so long and draining that I couldn't even summon enough energy to get my behind to the gym these last 6days. So this is what happened:

I signed up at a rate for my trainer and was told I would get a certain amount of free sessions, two weeks into my contract I find out they left out the free sessions because I was getting a discount. Well honey that's not what we discussed, and rather than them honoring the deal they tried to stick it to me and make me pay more! What do I look like boo boo the fool? I don't think so I don't have money to waste. Long story short I got them to let me out of my contract without having to pay the 500+ dollar amount with a full refund. They didn't want to mess with me no sir-e bobster! Now, I have another problem because it seems they are not to be trusted with my account information some funny stuff has been going down. So, I'm in search of a new trainer one that doesn't come with a contract preferably. I have a potential candidate, remember Mr. Sexy that I spoke about like 2 videos ago the one that came into my store and made my cheeks turn purple. Well turns out that he was a trainer at one point in time and he's offered to help me out. -giggle- so I'll keep you all update on that as I keep you updated on my fitness journey. I'll head to the gym for the first time in 7days tomorrow. Oh I may take up boxing as well a guy at the gym offered to show me how for free. Yay!! I have the gloves and what nots but I just need to figure in the time to go and learn.

Okay what's next? Do you have people in your life that are back and forth a lot? I do, well it's just one person and I realized it's too childish I'm not down for it especially not for someone I haven't met before. I actually spoke quickly about him in my last tagged posting. But any way so we close the door because he asked me to not speak to him again and when I say okay fine have a good life and mean it he wants to play take backs a few weeks later. I'm 21 and trying to find myself I don't have time for any wishywashy people that refuse to reveal themselves the aura of mystery has vanished and if I see that you're taking away more than you're adding to my life then you have to go. So, when he contacted me last week on some guess who, I didn't know who he was because I erased all his contact information I was not amused and let him know just that. Take that ish somewhere go make real life friends, and real life girlfriends too! I really just needed to vent about that.

Next, last night we went out to a different club and boy oh boy I can't wait to get my BA and move out of this town again! But yeah those type of people at the club reminded me of that. They were a bunch of how would an investment of my time in you benefit me type people and it made me stand back and smile for a second because I think I'm going to be alright. I'm not wasting time just saying what I'm going to do but I'm actually moving forward and doing it. I had my little moment of doubt where I felt like STOP what am I doing am I going to be one of those people stuck in a career because it pays much and I just want to move out the hood? Yeah I switched lanes and I'm happy. I met another guy too, I'm not sure whats going on with that he seems like a nice guy but he curses a lot and I find it so unattractive. I'm not rushing to find a relationship I've been pushing back advances from people that just want to "get some" and although when my girlfriends call me about their love life I wonder what would it be like. I'm okay, I'm learning to love me first so I wont have to put up with the BS. I think a lot of young women don't know their worth when they enter these relationships and they stay in them just for the sake of being able to say they have someone. I guess with Mr.Wishy Washy that's what made me allow the back and forth, I wanted to feel like I was desired by someone of the opposite sex even if that person wasn't real. I needed outside validation and closing that door means I don't need it anymore. I define my worth, I validate myself, and even if my first relationship doesn't happen until I'm thirty, I'm okay with that. I've decided I'm worth too much to settle. I'm going places and I don't have time to baby sit a little boy with a "grown man complex". I want to do my own thing and look at my significant other and have pride and admiration for who he is and what he stands for. I love the way Michelle Obama looks at her husband, I don't know much about their personal lives but they look like what a man a woman should be to each other, equilibrium, the perfect compliment, the missing rib!

Okay I must stop now because my butt hurts and I realize I smell like club atmosphere. Yuck! A lot more has happened but I ramble too much and don't want to bore you. This collage of pictures is just me giving the yuck face to people at the club, random goofyness after the club.

-DiVA Out!!

Stlying it Up @ 9mths

I love the free style look believe me I do, but through boredom while trying to study my hands found their way into my hair then next thing I know I wake up with my hair styled lol! Just a simple braid out that has seem to have worked magic with my locks. I see growth like "wow" and it's making me vain I can't help but to stop and take a peek whenever I stop by a reflective surface. It's not my fault really it's the hair, it just takes over! This past week it's been doing weird things like making my hands run through it, it's like their having a love fest...my hands and my hair are just too much. LOL My hair has another trick that it can do, and I really can't believe this but rather then tell you, I thought I'd just show you!! Isn't it amazing?!?! I'm almost two months away from having my hair locked for a full year and I just keep thinking like wow, time is really flying by. Here are the pictures of what I did to my hair for the braidout, it's still crinkly but flat. It almost feel as if my hair was relaxed or something maybe from the braidout? Has this happened to anyone where your locks seem to have been stretched thin? I know they'll plump up once I wash them in a few days but for now they feel different. It may also feel that way because my parts are still visible. How dare my hair prove me wrong. Normally the parts are non existent relatively soon but this time they're still showing. Probably again because of the braidout. I like fullness so they need to go ahead and plump back up and do wild things rather than just laying their calmly. Locks have given me an all new form of confidence I actually wore my hair braided back like that to work. Yes I let the five head show y'all and I had no shame in my game. Something about these sister locks that has a girl feeling regal. I'm so proud of my pony tail you guys, this is how I'm going to wear it to work out so I don't have sweaty locks in my eyes. I've been working out and it's killing me not taking pictures to show you all the results but I'm sticking to the 3mths thing. I'm working out atleast 3 times a week and I find that I enjoy going. I'm thinking about taking on some boxing as well one of the guys at the gym offered to train me for free. Now, I just need to find the time to get there when he's able to train me. I'm going to try yoga at the gymt this coming Tuesday night I figure it will keep me out of the house waiting to hear who's the next President. Have you all voted? Well you should no matter which way you choose to vote (unless it's McCain, lol JK) I've been tagged again so now I have to go and think about six interesting things to write about lol oh jeez. Well it's getting close to the time for me to start work so I'm going to leave you all with this and I'll write my 6 things in another post.

(2nd collage bottom row left is braid out with rollers, bottom row far right is after I'd taken out the braids going straight back. top is just to show you the pre braid out look and it's must me lounging around the apt thinking wow my locks are lol *giggle*)

My locked homie Mely B also had a proud moment with her traditional locks recently she texted me yesterday: "Today I had an amazing moment that I want to share with someone who would understand where my joy is coming from....So today I went to get my hair done and after she washes my hair she alwasy puts me under the dryer. Today when I went under the dryer my drads were too long for me to sit under the dryer. She had to put a cap on my head so all the dread would be able to fit under the drying. I almost cried because I've watched this happen to other and dreamed of when that day would come for me.. Some would call it stupid but for us it's a stepping stone on our way to natural beauty :)"- Mely B
I just had to share her text with you guys because I know that you all will understand.

-DiVA0ut