i'm a boring person....
....yes i am, cuz i never have anything exciting to talk about. i wasnt even going to post today, but i figured what the heck.well as of lately, alot of things have been changing, though i dont want to write about it on here, and besides the one person that probably reads this blog already kind of knows what's going on. besides that i've just been busy with class, work, and this play. my african american art history class ended last week on friday. hopefully i'll get an A in that class. My walking and jogging class ended today and i think i got an A in it. next thursday my strength training class where we lift weights at will end. from what the scale tells me, i havent lost any weight, but i do think i've lost some fat and gained muscle, at least that's what i want to believe. i do think however that my calf muscles are alot tighter than they were about a month ago which is good because i want my legs to look nice. i think i have nice legs, i have big legs, and for them to not be defined would be a waste! i also want to lose this stomach. to everyone else it may seem that my tummy is kinda flat, but it really isnt. i just gain weight all over and no one believe i weigh 200 lbs,b ut i am 5'10. i do hold in my stomach alot of create the illusion that it's flat. after these classes are over i think that i will continue to walk at least 2 miles every day. i will also try to lift a few weights. i dont want to be some big muscle body builder chick, but i do want to tighten up and lose the cellulite thats trying to form. even if i dont lose weight, losing fat will make me leaner and i guess lose some inches...if i can get into a size 10/12 i will be happy instead of getting a size 14/16.
today as i was walking from my PE class to go home to shower before i went back out to work, someone in a silver truck slowed down, but i put a mean look on my face and they kept going. they then went into these townhouses parking lot then came back to turn around. so i figured they wasnt trying to bother me. as they got back to me, a guy was int he truck and he slowed down and ask "do you need a ride young lady"...i was looking mean at him, as i usually do when i'm walking and was like "no thanks". if it was a cute guy, i probably wouldve sad no thanks with a smile (well wait, i probably wouldve still looked mean cuz i dont like guy's slowing down in cars trying to holla, like my mama told me "keep walking if a guy does that or honk's his car horn at you, you are not a call girl"), but this guy was like 40-50 years old! ewwwwwwww he looked like somebody's daddy. how gross! i swear, the tme i do have folks try to holla at me, it's usually old men, lil teenage boys, or some thug guy that looks a mess! nice guys dont be trying to holla really....
as for the play, it's going alright. it actually went pretty well last weekend. the crew that i had every night changed a bit, but people caught on quickly and the scene changed went smoothly. i invested alot of time going to these play rehearsals. i'm just glad that there's one more weekend to go which is this weekend and then it's finally over. they had a good crowd every night between 30 and 50 people. one night there was 100 which was good because they're doing the play at the high school in town and if they had it at their other theater which we were kciekd out of for the summer because they have to tear the building down, they wouldve had to turn people away because that old theater only seated 90 people. hopefully things will go well tonight, for the 2 shows tomorrow and the show on saturday. wish me luck.
a good thing came out of helping with the play. one of the actors in it (there's about 20 kids, between the ages of 7 and 19) mom works in the education department on campus. the program thats he's doing for the summer is a camp that brings underprivaleged kids from c'dale, cairo, il, and some other city and bring them to camp for a week. this program is for kids who cant afford to go to $150 summer camps for theater, music, or whatever else. wellt he lady, she's an assit. professor on the campus has been helping out with our play that we're doing. she told me that she needed someone to help with the camp under the theater section since they have people already helping with music, media, and science. she wanted representative from the theater depeartment and asked if i would help. i was like sure if it's ok with my boss to take off for a week. my boss said that that was fine, so i accepted. this is a paid position, alot more than my work-study job. so i guess this will be a good thing. i also like working with kids and it's something good that i can put on my resume. this starts the week after next, and the kids are entering the 4th and 5th grade. good, hopefully i can reach out to some of the ones that might not have someone encouraging them at home and let them know that there's alot out there in life that they can accomplish.
my trip home was cool, but i didnt make it down to the Ttaste in time. my slow beind thought it ended at 10pm instead of 9pm and we got down there at 8:30. we bought tickets, well my mama did, that was a waste because at the end of the night, the booths started to run out of food like buns for sausages and stuff. so me and my lil cousin thatw as with us ended up eating crab legs, ugh. so my lil cousin is 14, she just turned 14 last month. her mother doesnt allow her to date yet, which is good, but said she couldnt date until she's 21 years old, which is bad. i guess she doesnt want her to make mistakes she did, since my aunt had her first child at 16, had the next at 18, and had the cousin i'm talking about at 19. so my lil cousin's older bros, my other lil cousins, who are 15 and 17, dont allow her to talk to any boys, lol. it's so cute how they be on her if a guy try to talk to her. they will stand int he way of the guy and her. hopefully that wont lead her to be trying to sneak around. she still has baby dolls, so i figure that's kinda good because i want her to stay young and not try to act grown untils he is grown. but while we were down at the Taste, some guy came behind us asking "can i have some of your crabs"...that sounds gross right? like he was asking for crabs like an STD or something, which neither of us have, but he was talking about the crab legs. i'm assuming he was trying to holla at my lil cousin which is a no-no cuz she's only 14. so i told him no. he asked me why i was being mean and why i said that like that. i told him that i didnt think my mama would want us talking to him, she was standing a little away from us looking out for her god-daughter and her friends. the guy said fin and left and my and my little cousin laughed. we later went to some pizza place down down and sat down and ate since it was like the only other thing open besides Bennigans, but it still had like a 30 min wait, which was quicker than Bennigans 50 minute wait.
the next day we went to visit my grandma and grandpa in edwardsville, il and BBQ's and ate. it was sad to see my grandma walking with a cane though. she's only 63, b ut she's always had healthy problems because she had daibetes at an early age and has had some strokes. she also however lived and unhealthy lifestyle. 9 children, married 7-8 times, smoked, drinked, partied, and he weight didnt help that either. she has atritus problems and tyroid problems, and high blood pressure. she isnt able to bend her knee, so she needs a cane. it hurt me to see that, when she was getting around without a cane about a year and a half ago. i mean she had problems, but she was able to do it without that. she's been talking about getting a wheel chair...it hurts me to see that because it feels like she's just giving up. i've prayed to ask God to heal her, but i dont know if it's just her time to go through that or what. or if she's prayed for her self for healing, which she said she did, but maybe she's doubting that she will get healed....then the other thing is that she lived unhealthy, so maybe that's justt he consequences she has to reap. i just dont want her to be in pain though.
well i guess i've typed more than enough. lol. it's time to go back to MYSPACE and THEFACEBOOK and waste time at work. my boss went to her cousin's wedding this weekend so she's been gone since wednesday. so i've done nothing at work but get ont he computer and waste time. anyways, i'll try to poast later. you people have a good weekend. :-)
