I love checking out other people’s blogs when I have time. Usually when I need a break from editing AND don’t want to get caught up on facebook ( I swear that place is like crack sometimes). I’ll go thru different photographer blogs and check out their stuff! As much as possible I try to leave comments because I know how much I love comments, and I want to just spread that love around. lol

Well today I get an nice surprise in my inbox informing me that I am the 500 commenter on Courtney Reece’s blog and that my prize is a $15 Itunes gift card! I was so excited! I never win anything( does that make me a loser?!) so the was definitely a pleasant surprise and really made my day.

Anyways, since a post is ALWAYS better with a picture… Here is a photo of the bucket of KFC Original that I had to move Heaven and Earth to get for my dear sweet mother because she had a craving for it. Okay maybe not Heaven and Earth… but the new construction they have going on really had me turned around. Don’t you hate it when you can SEE where you are trying to go but just can’t seem to figure out how to get there?! I literally wanted to park my car at Bill Miller’s BBQ and just walk to KFC. lol Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the chicken Ma. Love ya!

Today is my niece Destiny’s 2nd birthday!!! How awesome is it to have turned to on 7-8-9?! lol Of course she will never remember it but it’s pretty interesting to me. Right now she is Germany with my brother and his family visiting his sister-in-law’s family. My cousin lives over there too and they got to visit why they were in town. Here are some random pics from their trip this Christmas.

This last one is my favorite. I could barely take the picture because I was cracking up. You see that Jazz hand?! lol She was really singing too, though I have no idea what she was saying. lol What do you think? Another Alicia Keys on our hands? Hmm? Maybe?! Happy Birthday Titi! I love you!

Well no picture today. Though I spent most of the day editing. Okay at least half the day editing. I, like a great deal of the world took time out of my day to watch the Michael Jackson memorial on… pick a channel… and it was very nice. Being the crybaby I am ashamed to admit, I am surprised I did not cry like I thought I was… even though Stevie and Jermaine Jackson sang two songs that normally tear at my heart strings, and I felt genuine sadness for Usher who looked like he was so heartbroken singing Gone Too Soon.

I think the only time I really cried was when Paris got up there to speak. Man… that just broke me down. It has to be hard to lose the only parent you’ve ever known and have it happen in front of the world. My heart really went out for the family, because yes we lost a great entertainer, but they lost a brother, a son and father and man that hurts.

Some people complained that it got too much attention. Hmmm… I don’t know… for a lot of us, we grew up on Michael, and I know when I heard that he passed, I felt like part of my childhood died with him. I still remember having just moved to Korea when the Bad album came out & my brothers and I jumping off my parents dresser on to their bed and just jammin out. lol Man my mother would’ve beat us senseless if she had caught us… but it’s a wonderful memory that we wouldn’t have had without his music.

So I say let people mourn… in no way do I feel we should worship the man, ( I was basically creeped out and felt a little uneasy when they sang we are going to sing the king when they brought his casket out) but I think we never really know how a person is affected by something such as this, so we have no right to judge or tell them to get over it… and as far as Michael’s personal life we ALL got some kind of issue and we need to thank the Lord every day we don’t have to deal with them in the media as he did.

With that I will get off my little soapbox. Here’s Usher’s rendition of Gone Too Soon. Very beautiful. Hug someone tight and tell them you love them. God bless…

Yesterday was my dad’s 55th birthday!!! My brother called and he had each of my nieces sing Happy Birthday “Papa” as they call him on the answer machine… then later in the day they sent a video of them singing to his phone. It was too cute. Imitating Anaiya, my oldest niece, at Christmas time, my dad threw his hands in the air and exclaimed “This is my bestest birthday present EVER!” lol

Here are some pictures of daddy and my youngest niece TiTi acting silly during their Christmas time visit.

I didn’t want anybody else to feel left out, so here’s picture of daddy with Niecy and Anaiya. Niecy doesn’t seem too interested in the photo, huh?

I have been meaning to updated my site but being sick for the last week has pretty much left me out of commission. Darn cedar… it is kicking my tail. Anyways with that said I would like to say Happy Birthday to the woman who, thru her, God gave me life… So for that I will be forever grateful for that… even when we don’t agree. lol Love ya ma!!!