1st day of Work

Man this first day was crazy. I don't mind it though. I love little kids. They always remind me of how much fun it was to be a child. Kids are the future, just like we once were or as we are right now. They tell the corniest jokes but it's so hilarious in my perspective. They tell the longest stories that take forever to get to the ending but even their stories teach you something new. I enjoy their laughter and those innocent smiles. My child hood was bitter sweet, 50 50, a sunny and darkened sky. I have some of the most wonderful memories and a few bad but its a part of life. All my coworkers kept asking "how are you so good with kids". My reply: "because I'm such a big kid at heart" I really am. I've been working with kids for a very long time. I've seen them all. Those who are over active, those with emotional issues (low self-esteem), sickly(sickle cell, bipolar, depressed, cancer ect), those in poverty (like literally had nothing).

I just become that person that they feel they are missing in life like an (older sister, cousin, mentor, teacher, best friend) For example I met this little girl about 3yrs ago, she's 12 now and she still refers to me as her best friend and she hugs me so tight and greets me with a smile and runs up to me every time she sees me. I love kids, I think some just want a little attention and just to know that someone in this world cares. If I can help out that way, I am willing.

well thats all for now.

Micheal Jackson and my thoughts on his death

Hey bloggers. I know everyone is tired of hearing about the death of Micheal Jackson but I'm gonna put my input in anyway lol. When I was a child I only knew a handful of artist (seriously) and one of them happened to be Micheal Jackson. My father was a big fan, therefore I was a big fan. I can only remember my dad listening to Jackson 5, Micheal Jackson and the temptations when I was probably 3-9. Then I grew up in the hip hop genre listening to pac, and all the other artist that were coming on the scene and kinda left micheal in the past with the "old folks". I guest I just kinda lost interest in him as I explored new face and sounds in music.

I had Micheal Jacksons poster on my bed room door from the cd "Bad" (I swear lol) He was hot too, I don't care what any of you say lol. My dad gave it to me. I remember me and my sister Walli would watch his concert that my dad taped almost every weekend. It was an HBO special that only aired once on national television and my dad just so happened to tape it. I think that was in like "92".

My favorite songs were "man in the mirror" "heal the world" "remember the times" "bad" "dirty dianna" "you are not alone" and (more recent song) "butterflies"

I hear alot of people saying "know body likes an artist util they die" well forget what they are saying I know I liked Micheal. And yes I made fun of him and joked about him just like everyone else but that doesnt mean I didn't respect him as an artist. He is legendary, and he will forever be remember. I think he was inspiration to both the older and younger generation. His music was so positive and made you feel that you could change this world if you really wanted to. His appearance changed so much over the years, and I know it was hard to recognize the once young Micheal that was once part of the Jackson 5 but I know his heart still remained the same.

R.I.P

MICHEAL JACKSON

NEW MOVIES

There are so many good movies coming out that I can't wait to see this year, and next year. They all look so good check out the trailers!

"2012"



"G.I JOE, THE RISE OF THE COBRA"


"Halloween 2 (remake 2009)"


"THE FINAL DESTINATION"

Friday NIght

(this is only one plate out of like 7 that we were eating lol)

Transformers 2 was so good! I loved it. I had a blast at the movies last night with my sister and cousin asisha. I didnt think it would be better than the first one but it was. We went out to Chilli's to eat before hand. I never ate there before but the food was absolutely delicious lol. I couldn't finish it all there so I sure brought me home a doggie bag (I never understood why they called it that but okay, lol)

We played a bunch of games trying to win prizes trying to win thes little rubber toys out of the machine (below picture) They were so cute. I named my little monster/toy/ball lucky because it almost didnt make it out of the machine lol. It fell out of the mechanical hands about 7 time. I used alot of Quarters.

Too bad Domo didnt come with us. She's been acting really distance for the last 2 months but i'll save that for another blog.

ANYWHO I had a ball!

I can't seem to find any trucks for my friend Chris (that's him in the above picture) and his sons mother (jenniva). I'm looking up different used trucks but I can't seem to find any in the price range of $1000-1050. Does anyone know any sites or sources I can try? I've found some nice cars for a decent price but no trucks. I guess I'll call him with the heartbreaking new of "no trucks available" later lol.

well other than that I'll be going to the movies later on to see "tranformers 2"

See ya bloggers!

2009 Fireworks--->Hart Plaza view!

It is now 5:25am. I havent been to sleep yet. I had so much at the fireworks though. I have live footage that I took with my camera, check it out. It was so crowded. We didnt make it in until 1am because we were stuck in traffic for 2hrs. But I had a blast though....I didnt even get bitten by any mosquito's lol

(WARNING: YOU MAY WANT TO TURN DOWN YOUR SPEAKERS TO WATCH, IT'S EXTREMELY LOUD!!!!!)

The past 3 days

(that's just one pic I took at my moms birthday party)

Hi bloggers. I know it has been a couple of days since I've blogged. I've been having so much fun, and I really needed that "lift me up". Sunday went great. We threw my mom a party which ended maybe at midnight, and then my cousin threw her an after party at his house and we partied til about 5 in the morning. Man i was so freaking tired but I got up monday morning, probably about 10 to clean up the mess from the party and about 6:00pm everybody was right back at our house again. It was myself, my two sisters, my cousins asisha, xavier, isiah, domonique and her boyfriend bryson.

They taught me how to do the turbo hustle because at my moms birthday party i couldnt do it to save my life lol. Then they taught me some more hustles, both old and new. Man I haven't even attempted to hustle since I was younger. I wasnt as interested in it after my aunt sandra died since she was the one who taught me and would always do it with me. Then we played the alphabet game. Have you guys every played that? It was hilarious to hear the names we were coming up with for each letter. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time lol. We also played alot of other games and just chilled out. Everybody probably left about 2 that morning.

Where are we.....TUESDAY? LOL. Okay Tuesday was another fun day. My cousin asisha called me, wanted to come chill out. Then domo called and said she was coming too. Then my aunt called telling me she was stopping by to bring my cousins linda and Aj over to hang for a little while. SIDEBAR: Linda stays in California. We've only met her once, when she was 7, now she is 18. So it has been a course of 13yrs since we've seen each other. BUT BACK TO THE STORY. Everyone came to hang out again, we watched a ton of movies for the first half of the day (haunting in Connecticut, crank 2, dance flick and drag me to hell). All on bootleg of course. lol

Then we spent the rest of the night, playing my games. We played tunk for shots. We didnt use shots of liquor though. We used shots of water lmbo. I know it sounds extremely easy to lose and drink cups of water following a lost, BUT trust me when I tell you, IT'S NOT! Man I kept losing, that water was making me so sick ugh lol. We had a plast though. Domo left early so she didnt get to play, but everyone left at like 3 that morning. Our house has been the party house for the past 3 days!

But today I have a meeting at 2 for my job, I start Monday FINALLY! and then a group of us are going down to the fireworks tonight.


So that's all for now! talk to you later bloggers!

scam

that job was such a scam. They want you to pay 100 to start working. You don't get paid until you take a placement test, and during the course of practicing to be in a customer service position you have to pay $25 a month! WHAT! ARE YOU SERIOUS? LOL. That's some crap! but it's okay, I have one job so I'll work with what I was given. In the mean time, I back in front of the t.v. lol.

HUmmm

I am bored (nothing new, right? lol). Not to mentiton that I have a slight headache. I have a interview at 7pm so hopefully it goes well (wish me luck). I'm really looking forward to starting work already. Besides that I've been planning some event's. My mom's birthday and father's day are both on the same day (June 21st). So I need to go do some shopping tomorrow. I think me and my sister are just gonna give them both a barbecue and invite all of our family over. The both of them stated that they didnt want anything so I guess cooking for the day and a little something on the side will be nice. I have also been looking up water parks so that I can begin planning my little sister birthday party (July 30th). I Know my pockets are gonna be so empty when I finish with her, but she's a good kid and she deserves. I've found a few that appeared to be fun, If anyone else know's of any fun water parks, let me know please! Thanks.

Well I'm off again...SEE YA!

Job fair

I just got back in from the job fair....lord!!! there were so many people there. I am definately glad I went though. I landed two interview today though. I have one saturday and the other one is when ever the hiring manager calls and tells me, which will probably be later on today. My feet are killing me even though i wore flats...guess that didnt really help any. I thought it was really funny that some of the employers kept asking if I was old enough to work. Come on now, do i really look that young? lol. I don't think that I do. But I guess everyone has different perspectives of what others look like.


well that's all for now bloggers!

UP LATE

Well I'm up late updating my resume so I can get up early and attend this job fair tomorrow. (yep, i have two jobs lined up and still searching) you can never be TOO determined. I'm downloading some music and playing mafia wars too. I'm sleepy as heck though...so I'm about to call it a night in a few minutes.



GOODNIGHT

"Martin" I wish I had the season's on dvd

Don't you guys just love Martin, this show is old and still cracks me up. Especially when he plays sheneneh! If you never watched the show you don't know what you are missing! lol

Kelly

Today my sister Walli is suppose to be going to pay for the new puppy (kelly is her name) that we are trying to get my mom for her 51st birthday (shhhhh...don't tell her that I told her age, she'll kill me lol. but she doesn't look it, check out her pic on the "mother's day" post) ANYWHO BACK TO WHAT I WAS SAYING....my mothers biggest wish is to have a puppy, she has always wanted one as a child. She had a family dog when she was younger but never a puppy to call her own, so hopefully me and my sister can grant her wish. If everything works out, the puppy should be delivered late saturday or early sunday.......wish us luck

Norris Hull- The Voice of Walmart

This is a video clip of my cousin Norris "dre" Hull. He is legally blind, but has accomplished alot. He never uses his disability as an excuse not to do anything in life. And doesn't like anyone to feel sorry for him. He dislikes pity parties, he is just as normal as the next person He is loving, and a big inspirations to every one around him. I love him dearly.
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(THIS IS THE ARTICLE THEY DID ON HIM FROM THE DETROIT NEWS)

It's a big store and Norris Hull is pretty much in the center of it, so it's only natural for his assistant manager to ask: "Norris, have you seen so-and-so?"

Then DeEtta Whigham-Johnson will cringe, because Norris Hull has never really seen anything.

Of course, that also means he can't see her smack herself in the forehead, which is good. Besides, as Hull points out, "it's just a figure of speech."

"No," he'll tell her, "but I'll let you know." And chances are that before long, he'll have an answer.

Every weekday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Wal-Mart in Livonia, you can see Hull handle the switchboard, ride herd on managers, make announcements and show customers to the dressing rooms, counting by touch to make sure how many items they're taking in.

As we've already established, he will not see you. Between chronic cataracts and glaucoma, he's been sightless since birth. But this is not a hey-look-what-the-blind-guy-can-do story.

We're past that. When the governor of New York is legally blind, it's hardly surprising that a 39-year-old junior college graduate can excel in retail.

What raises eyebrows is how he affects the people around him -- the co-workers who watch out for him when he's walking the aisles, the customers who call him by name, the managers such as Whigham-Johnson, who tells him, "I don't know what I'd do without you."

The day he started work -- it was March 28, 2001, and he remembers the date the way he remembers most everything else -- he promised his new employer that "I will try to be the best phone operator possible."

From the look of it, he is.

He's got the touch

The nerve center of the mammoth store is a surprisingly tiny phone console, the same one you'd expect to find at your dentist's office. One handset, a few lines, some blinking green lights, separate buttons for holds and transfers.

Hull can tell by touch which function is which and by memory which lines want attention. Useful phone numbers are typed in Braille on some sheets of white paper he hasn't needed for years.

"Good morning," he says, "and thank you for choosing your Livonia Wal-Mart Supercenter. How may I best direct your call?"

He inserted that "best" himself, just to reinforce the idea that someone is going the extra mile. When people call for the pharmacy, he'll ask whether they need a prescription or something on a shelf, and then he'll give tips on how to accelerate the process.

The manager who hired him, back at the old store a few blocks north on Middle Belt Road, told him he had a great voice. "We'll put you on the phones," he said.

Now when Hull takes a vacation, the other employees threaten to transfer all the calls to his house.
God-given baritone

He does, in fact, have a great voice, a smooth baritone he slips into when he's sending an associate to the bicycle department or chasing down a manager. Customers will hear it and look up at the ceiling, maybe wondering if an out-of-work radio host hijacked the P.A. system.

"It's just a God-given talent," Hull says. The Lord giveth, and then sometimes you're born with only the faintest ability to make out colors. Before long even that goes away, but you look on the bright side: You can still remember most of them.

Hull grew up in Detroit and lives on the west side with his mom and a niece, close to the store. A subsidized ride service gets him to work and back for $5.

Off duty, he likes to play video games; he can tell from the voices who has the ball in NBA Live. He'll go out to eat, ideally at chains that have Braille menus so he can choose his own meal.

"I like to laugh. I like living," he says. Sometimes he'll dream that he can drive a car, but when he wakes up he hops back on the MetroLift bus, and that's fine.

"I'm not injury-prone," he says, running down his list of blessings. He's a good hand with a white cane. He has friends at work who will push shopping carts out of his way or guide him to where he's headed.

He's not out to be anybody's inspiration, he says; he's simply carrying on the best way he can. When duty calls, you answer.

He excuses himself to pick up the receiver. "Fantastic," he says. "How are you?"

cracking up lol

I'm sitting here watching "it's pimpin pimpin" (katt williams) this stand up always has me dieing laughing. "he not only decided he was gonna walk again BUT he was gonna race again" "he took off....TINK TINK TINK TINK....paper clips sparks flying" lol

He is sooo silly

I think I'm gonna watch "friday" after this.

I know--------->>>>>>> I'M A MOVIE HEAD LOL :)


Good night!!! Be safe and keep me in your prayers, because you are in mines.

Random Things about me!

1. My nick name is mimi (just about everyone calls me this)

2. I don't eat fried chicken, ribs, steak or any of that (no I'm not a vegetarian) I just never ate it a lot as a child because I didnt like it, I grew into an adult and still don't like it. and yes I'm black! lmbo

3. My favorite color is blue, my least favorite color is pink

4. I want to become a nurse, and also go to both photography and cosmetology school.

5. I love fruit, I can eat it all day. (minus banana's ugh)

6. I write poetry, I have over 200 poems, I just don't share alot of them

7. I never got to know any of my grandparents :(

8. Everyone tells me that I'm a daddy's girl because we look and act alike.

9. My favorite sitcoms are: martin, fresh prince of bellaire, one on one, house of pain, and my wife and kids

10. My favorite Rappers are: Tupac and Eminem

12. My favorite Movies are: Friday, Juice,poetic justice, scarface, Boyz in the hood, the color purple, the other sister (JUST ABOUT ALL DENZEL WASHINGTON AND MORGAN FREEMAN MOVIES), the "Harry Potter films" and set it off

13. I have two sisters and unfortunately a brother that I don't get along with

14. I really hate when females use alot of profanity, it's okay when appropriate but sometimes it can be so unlady like

15. I have a gym shoe fetish...I love gym shoes...I don't really wear heels and sandals and all of that, nope I'm not your girly girl, but I'll put a pair on when the occasion calls for it

16. I have no tattoos but plan on getting atleast 4 before 2009 is over with

17. I've never broken any bones

18. I don't smoke or drink

19. I have the sickle cell trait which causes my blood level to be low

20. I have horrible nose bleeds when it gets hot

21. I enjoy laughing and making people laugh (most see me as quite but I'm a really silly person when you get to know me)

22. I have one nephew

23. My best friends are my sister (walli) and cousin (domonique)

24. I cry when I see other people hurting (I'm so sensitive right)

25. I have more male friends than female friends (I just seem to get along with guys better and I NEVER have a secret agenda like some females, "they say he's just a friend" but want more. I just really enjoy having guy friends, they're cool :)

26. I hate when people do things for me than talk about. I'd rather for you not to do it if you feel you have to tell the world.

27. I don't like my middle name (nebula) but I guess I'm stuck with it lol

28. I'm 4'11 in height (yep you guessed it, I'm short)

29. I wear a size 4 in shoes

30. One of my most embarrassing moments was when I was rocking in my little sisters rocking chair and slid down the porch steps lol (I can laugh now but omg was that embarrassing)

31. I'm shy around people I don't know

32. I graduated in the top 10% of my class (2006) with a 3.6 gpa

33. I wish I had stability in life so that I could try and adopt my little cousin Mariah

34. All little kids seem to love me. I'm around kids most of the time

35. I love texting....I rather text than talk on the phone

37.I can't swim

38. I've only been in a fight once in life (I probably was like 11, I beat the girl up with a skate) lol...that's sad

37. I love comedy

38. The scary moment in my life is when someone started shooting in my direction on my way home from school in 9th grade

39. I just learned how to braid at 21 (seriously) lol...but any other type of hair style I can do really good.

40. Last BUT NOT LEAST I love Jesus Christ with all my soul, he's the best man I've ever known

I LOVE THIS MOVIE "JUICE"

This is one of my favorite movies and favorite scenes for a movie ever!

Another day

I'm bored at the moment. I wish these 2 weeks will fly by so that I can start my new job. I'm hanging out with my little sister today....I guess we are gonna kick back and enjoy the day, watch some movies, make some popcorn and all that good stuff lol....i know i know I'm a good sister right? lol. I'm a little disappointed because I wanted to go to battle creek the weekend to hang with my dad's side of the family for my lil cousin bay bay's graduation and open house. I barely ever get to see them. I see them maybe twice a year. I had intentions on going until my new boss called a meeting for today saying she was gonna call everyone and tell us what time to come. Then she never called, so that kinda made me mad because I could have left last night and enjoyed a good time with my family. But they'll be other times.



Well, I'm off to enjoy the rest of day!

Have a blessed day and be safe.

I cry by Tupac Shakur

(My favorite Poem)

Sometimes when I'm alone
I Cry,
Cause I am on my own.
The tears I cry are bitter and warm.
They flow with life but take no form
I Cry because my heart is torn.
I find it difficult to carry on.
If I had an ear to confiding,
I would cry among my treasured friend,
but who do you know that stops that long,
to help another carry on.
The world moves fast and it would rather pass by.
Then to stop and see what makes one cry,
so painful and sad.
And sometimes...
I Cry
and no one cares about why.