A Look Back...

A look at my first year with locks. It took forever because I procrastinate and then YouTube was tripping hard body! My hair has really grown...ooooooo boy oh boy I can't wait to see what happens in 2009. Thanks for sticking with me in 08!

A Dream Deferred

Now a dream fulfilled? Are we really here? As I'm sitting here in the student union watching CNN live inauguration coverage I have so much emotion coming over me. Just yesterday we celebrated Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s holiday and today 40 years later it would seem his dream is coming true. No dream is too big. Glory be to God we're going to make it!! I have my OBAMA shirt on no one is going to steal my joy today. I didn't really feel it on Nov. 4th but boy oh boy am I feeling it right now. I can't wait to see what this new administration will bring forth. I can't wait to do MY part in it all, what I would do to be there right now.

I promise I have two heads at sometimes..I say I'm going to do this, and another side of me says "nah uh, we're doing this."

For example, at work yesterday I say I'm going to be passive aggressive..nod and agree, say a lot of "I understand how that could be your perception". If only "we", me and my other self would have just stuck to that plan. I'm going on 22 and it feels like I'm just going through puberty at times, the crazy mood swings people speak about when they're "perioding". Yeah like my word? "Perioding".

Band guy still hasn't called and while one side of me could careless, the other side is being really whack so I had someone change my Myspace password so that I don't know it and keeps my other side from writing him and saying something stupid. Goodbye to Myspace for a while. That's fine with me seeing as before I added him as a friend I had not been using it often at all.

So my one year video still isn't up...pure laziness is the reason...I can't find the song to set it to so I haven't finished it. I finished my first week at the new school and I'm still alive. I think that means it was a good week. I cooked!!! That doesn't happen often, that picture is on my tumblr account. After that there isn't much else new.

Going back to meditating...my mantra for this week: “the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”- Ghandi

1 year!!!!

Okay it's not officially one year yet considering the back half of my head wasn't fully installed a year ago today but for the front half of my head it is! -cabbage patch- -butterfly- lol Oh my gurdness it came so fast I can't believe it. You guys have to see the pictures...and you will but not today, soon because I'm not finish yet.

How's everyone doing with their fitness challenge/journey? Well I got back on the ball Dec. 25th that was my Christmas gift to myself I couldn't wait until the new year to start it off again, because that would just be too much of a jinx. For Christmas before everyone woke up I put on my walking clothes and my iPod and started walking, I walked for two miles before the blisters on the heel of my feet said "nah buddy" so my sister had to drive me back home lol! But hey I walked the two miles.-snap- :) I continued to do quick little work outs at home and then Friday 01/02/2009 after picking up my books I went to the gym and did some upper body strength training with weights and some ab work out. Saturday I couldn't make it to the gym because of my schedule but that's another discrepancy in itself, but I wore leg weights to work and actually worked out in the store lol. Call me a hotmess but a girl has to do what she has to do! I did jump squats, goodmornings, lunges and ten push ups at work lol. Yeah I had my coworkers ready to give me advice about good exercises to do. If my ball was big enough I'd bring it to work and use it as my chair today get some core work done lol. Last but not least I started boxing last night!!! Oh my gosh it is the reason for which my body is sore and numb at the same time. This dude had be jump roping for 3 minutes!! I am a big breasted girl even with my 3 sports bras I still had bouncing. Then he had me squatting across the room, sit ups, and crunches, punching the bag. Learned my stance my jab and my stick! He said I was a fast learner and as much as my body hurts right now I can't wait for the next time. I'm walking around the apartment on my tippy toes just waiting to stick and move.

I think what has my body hurting so bad though is because the night before I went out with my sister and one of the besties! We went to this bar to meet up with my co workers. One of them was auditioning girls for a Cayote Ugly night at the bar, where the girls would be dancing on the bar. I decided hey that sounds like I'll get a good laugh from it so I immediately called for a girls night out. My sister wasn't having as much fun with it, especially not when one of the girls decided she was going to jump on the bar with a mini dress showing all the world her "business" so we only stayed for an hour. We left to go to a, well I'm not really sure what it's call in english but it's where you have a live band playing and you can eat or dance. Any how the band was a Haitian band by the name of Gabel, and they have this song "koute kem" which translates to Listen to My Heart. It's so sweet and the original lead vocal has this tone that makes you swoon. But any how, though I like that one song from them at first I didn't want to go in because the place looked so dead and it was a $20 cover but after enough talking outside we pay go in and decide to eat, I took a picture of their mural, didn't think I would be getting on the dance floor. While we're eating with our fingers, (griot is best eaten with fingers lol) and chair dancing acting stupid, a group of guys comes and sits in our area. My back was facing them so I didn't know who they were, later I found out it was the band. My friend kept trying to get me to dance with her so instead I turn around and asked the first guy I saw to dance with her, he smiled and he had a beautiful smile so I continued to be my regular annoying self. I asked his name, he gave me his stage name and then tried to tell me he legally changed it to Flav. I wasn't buying that we spoke about some other random stuff and to my surprise I find out he's actually the new lead singer for the group lol! I felt a bit slow. Here I am at their show and I only really know one of their songs and didn't even know what the members of the band look like lol. Well I asked him to sing my favorite song which they had already sang earlier in their set but guess what they sang it again!! That was so sweet and even though he asked me to stand in front of him as he sang it I was too shy lol and I didn't want my eyes being scratched out by a hater, I stood there for a second to mouth thank you and then proceeded to dance off to the side with my girls, we danced all night and just had fun not taking ourselves as serious as the girls that were half naked on the dance floor. Jesus needed to take the wheel on their wardrobe for real! After their second set he actually came back and sat with us, so my sister and friend proceeded to call him my boy friend for the rest of the night lol. I hugged him when we left and they started up again like you should've given him your number! Oops it's almost time for work. So long story short, we're friends on myspace and this morning when I responded to his message I gave him my number. We'll see if he uses it.:)



Okay so that describes the three pictures. 1st one is my books for school Jan 2nd, Jan 3rd the restaurant slash club for Gabel, & Jan 4th boxing!! Wonder what will be worth taking a picture of today? I won't continue to update the blog with the pictures this site just for those so that you can just flip through them easily. Today starts photo project numero deuce! Happy almost fully one year to me!!!!!

Something else is different...the blogspot address has been officially change to iNaturalDiva.blogspot.com...I'm still DivaLaReine and I'll have to tell you a story about how I got that name one day but not today just know that to get here it's iNatural.blogspot.com now! My picture website is iNaturalDiva.tumblr.com tres simple!

-Diva0ut

i Miss 2008

It seems just like yesterday when it was still 2008 the year my vertical driver's license proclaimed that I would turn 21. So much happened in 2008...okay well maybe not that much but it was a great year! Wasn't it a leap year? That's awesome, 2009 isn't that cool, it's going to be a day short of measuring up to 2008. I mean we spent 366 days together, I didn't even get to say goodbye in the traditional way. I slept as the year left c'est drole. I got my locks installed in 2008, I received my AA degree in 2008.

Yeah okay so 2008 wasn't that great lol but it's 2009 and I can't wait to see what this year has in store for me. Yesterday I picked up my books from school and it was awesome!!! I only had to pay $195.00 that already let's me know that 2009 is going to be a year to save money. Like I still have some of my paycheck left that's great!!!!! Yippe

Back in 2005 I said that in 2009 I would go to California do you think I should? I'm debating about where I want to go to grad school, it's between GA, NY, & CA. I've been to GA, & NY for quick visits, so it would be totally rad<---like that word? *wink* if I actually went to California this year!!! I'm thinking about it no plans for spring break yet, I want to get my passport in case I could leave and go somewhere exotic like Fiji or something wonder how much that would cost in March, and would I need shots? I don't know right now it looks like I maybe taking a family trip to Haiti, but if I do that I can't go where my Mommy is from because she won't relax. Or maybe we could take a cruise, that would be good, you get to see different islands. Hmmm I'm going to look that up.

So school starts Tuesday, and I want to be ooberly excited but I don't know if I will like it, that school is different. It's like stepping back into my high school demographic where I was the only "spot" in the class. Like one of these things isn't like the other one of these things just don't belong :(. We'll we shall see how things pan out. I want to speak to an advisor at the school of communications about doing a Study abroad for the Fall Semester, I heard financial aide would foot the bill so I'm down with that. Wonder what my choices would be as a PR major and Marketing Minor. There's sooooo much I want to see and do this year, I hope I can stop myself from being chicken and do it all.

I'm working on two projects for this year. They're both photo projects. The first one, is that I'm taking a self portrait picture of myself everyday beginning January 5th 2009 and ending January 6th 2010, at the end of it I'll put them in a slide show so that we can see how long my hair grows this year, yay fun isn't it? I know I'm a genius.

Then the second project comes from Yanaboo, she does video blogs on Youtube and she found this photo project online. Where you take a picture a day with something that you did that day. Her video explains it better so watch that! Here is the website link and below are some of the rules and Info:

Why do it?

Taking a photo a day is a big undertaking with big payoffs. Here are just a few reasons why you should consider doing it:

• Imagine being able to look back at any day of your year and recall what you did, who you met, what you learned… (Often we find it hard to remember what we did just yesterday or even last night, let alone a whole year ago!)
  
• Your year-long photo album will be an amazing way to document your travels and accomplishments, your haircuts and relationships. Time moves surprisingly fast.
  
• Taking a photo a day will make you a better photographer. Using your camera every day will help you learn its limits. You will get better at composing your shots, you’ll start to care about lighting, and you’ll become more creative with your photography when you’re forced to come up with something new every single day.
  

Bring Your Camera Everywhere

Make Posting Easy

Vary Your Themes

Tell a Story

Don’t Stop, No Matter What

Post early, post often

Nappy New Year!!!!

There are somethings that went down before the New Year rolled through so I'll update that later but I'm at work so that'll be later the video is enough for now.

Be safe!!

-Diva0Ut