Month: August 2007

Say a prayer for the people effected by Hurrican Katrina. I can’t imagine what these people went through. I wonder how many of them still havent found their way. Have you ever thought what you would do if this happened to you in your city? I hate to say this, but I have a strong feeling that something even worst is on its way. Decide today that nothing in your home, or even the money you have in your bank account, can ever take the place of your life and your love ones. I feel that we should all from this point on, understand that nothing is promised to any of us for tomorrow. Watch this footage for yourself.

God Bless You

Lacrease

Last night when the Mega Millions winning balls were announced. My sister called me screaming and hollering that her boyfriend Dee, his brother Rick had just called them and told them they he matched all the numbers to the Jackpot of 250 million dollars. I\’m screaming, they screaming, we all are on the phone screaming, hollering, and happy as all get out. So, I told my sister to put Dee on the phone, cause I have to hear detail by detail of the conversations, cause I can tell if something aint right. Dee gets on the phone and I asked him, what did his brother say when he called. He said that Rick was screaming and hollering in the phone, saying he swear on his daughter, and that he was crying and everything. Told Dee that he called his wife who is a nurse to leave the job and come home right now. So, I\’m like okay, maybe this is real. I\’m asking him question after question after question. So by now I\’m convinced!!!

My daughter walks into my room and said \”ma I see dollar signs in your eyes\”!!! ROFL. I\’m like dang for real. LOL. So after a long time, we were talking and making plans, cause Rick told Dee that he was going to hook him up! LOL We are on the phone making big plans! All of a sudden Dee says to me, Imma call you back, my line is beeping, Rick is on the other end. My heart started to sank. I had a feeling this was the SIKE call. I called back in about 5 minutes. Dee was so quiet. I\’m like Dee what\’s wrong, what what? He said my brother was LYING. I said what? He said my brother play a lot and I don\’t know if he is telling the truth or not. My sister was so heated she went to bed! LOL So, Dee was like naw, I\’m about to put on my shoes and I\’m going ride and see if they have company or not. Too see if lights are on in the house, he said if its a lot of cars and they have the door open, ITS TRUE. Dee went ova there, and alllllllllllll the lights in the house was off. They were in the bed sleep. You know if anybody you know hit a lottery, WE AINT going to sleep ROFL! My nieces and nephews was hott!! My nephew who is 16 kept asking his momma before they found out it was a joke, can I throw this old cell phone out the house, momma please, momma please just say the word. Let me throw this in the streets, cause Im getting a new one. When that boy heard it wasn\’t true, I thought my nephew was going to be taken away in a ambulance! ROFL!!!!!

Thats what we get for \’mentally\” spending somebody eles money!

God Bless You All!

I was sitting here thinking about the time when Gerald Levert was here in Detroit promoting his new CD, “Do I speak for the world” at a secret and private location. A friend of mine had won two tickets off the radio and she invited me to go with her. After the party was over, she and I went to the bar, and there was Gerald and Joe (his bodyguard) along with some members of his entourage. He was sitting on a couch that was in the bar, and as bad as we wanted to go over there and talk with them, we just talked from a distance and admire his smile and atmosphere. After a while, we finally got a chance to talk with him and laugh. We were so happy.

When I heard of his death, I was devastated, felt numb, still till this day, cannot even believe it. However, it reminded me, that we should live everyday as if it is our last. Not doing any and everything, but doing the right things. Had I known that would be my last time in my life seeing Gerald in such an intimate and private setting, I would have surely walked over to the couch and talked with him for hours, I would have made sure that the throw away camera I was carrying had more photos to take. I would have made sure that I told him how his music made me feel through out my life. I would have made sure that I kissed him the cheek, and told him that I loved him. There are so many things, that I would have loved to share with my Teddy Bear.

I say this to say, that we don’t know the hour or day our love ones will be taken away from us, We must live each day “like its Golden”, loving each other, caring for each other, looking out for each other. Therefore, when it is their time to go home, we will have Peace, knowing we loved that person to the best of our ability.

God Bless

La’Crease

Hey,

Its been a while since Ive heard from you. I miss you!!! How are you? How can you be away from me this long? Don’t you miss our little friendly debates we had? Do you realize that it will be a whole year come Oct? This is really hard. If you ever get married, make sure that you can give her your time, roses and gifts are nice, but TIME is everything. Guess when we talk, I better savor the moment, won’t be running off at the mouth like before…………………..that’s for sure LOL! It was all good tho. Right? I know you’ll probably read this entry sooner or later, just understand how I feel. Just know that I know. God told me one day, and when I share with you, what it was, you are going to crack up. But knowing you, you probably said it on purpose, cause you know I’d pick up on it. Silly self. Well, here are 2 of my absolute favorite songs, they are both classics. They are for you. Enjoy.

Cree

Here is another one of my favorite songs!

When we were young, I remember my auntie use to play this song all the time. Its # 29 in my iPOD since December of 2006! Check it out!

Hey,

Today I want to focus on God and the things that he does. I hear a lot of people saying “where was God” were was God when my family member did this to me”? Sometimes you just don’t know the right thing to say to some one in that situation. We need to understand that its always a lesson to be learned in the experiences that we go through. I remember many times when I was like “Ok God, why did you let this or that happen, you saw it all go down, you knew ahead of time it was going to happen…….why did you let them do this to me”? I didn’t know till years later, that when you get to know him for yourself, and not just someone who exist, you will begin to learn and understand things about him.

I can look back on a lot of things and say. Lord, if you hadn’t told me to go back in the house and get this or that, I would have for sure been in that accident that I see right now. And so he begin to show me things that would have affected me had he intervene.

So, today and on all Tuesday’s. My blog entry will be the topic of “Look @ God”

Listen to what the man say @ 10 seconds. But pay more attention to what happens @ 15 seconds. Look@God!!!

Hello Everybody!

It’s raining outside like crazy today!!! I had to go to jury duty this morning how bout @ 7:45 am. When I got there the parking lot was on jam, $10.00 to park!! I’m still trying to figure out, how do you have to go to jury duty and pay that much to park!! Thats just deep to me, why couldnt they have an area for Jury Duty only people. Even though they’re going to send me a check for $25.00 ( whoop-de-doo) what good is that gonna do Cree when she have to park today? Then I had to snack @ lunch time, which was $4.00. So after that, that leaves me with $11.00. LOL I aint even mad, I met some nice people today.

I was looking cute today, well , except my hair, it was so wet it looked like a wet baby doll head with grease in it. LOL

Security aint no joke either since 911, we couldnt take in cell phones at all. The only people who could bring in cell phones for communication was the Lawyers. That was cool, but the dogone phone booth was taking people’s quarters. Jury Duty wasnt that bad, its just the sitting and not knowing whats next or what you have to do. I sat there watching people and how they respond to things, I had several out bust, yall Im silly and when I see stuff I laugh, not at nothing bad, or personal issues, people crack me up. Especially their facial expression, the way they take things, makes me laugh. It was quiet as a Church mouse when everybody first get there, thats when people are getting the feel of whats going on, and checking things out. But as soon as time go on, we start getting off the hook, talking and giggling loud with the people on our row and stuff.

As, I sitting there trying not to have any more laughing outbust, I had to think about something that would make me cry, so that I would’nt laugh. But the lady next to me, kept noticing where my eyes were landing and would laugh when I would. Man she was my gurl, she and these other older white ladies, were soooooooooo pretty. She looks just like Betty White, from the Golden gurls. We sat up and laughed our butts off. She is so funny. She was telling me stories about how she kept getting out of jury duty and this time she had to come. Her name is Ms. Dorthy, next to her was Ms. Linda ,and Ms. Vikki sat right across from us. We all sat there talking and having a good time, people were looking at us, not acting funny, but you can tell they wanted to know what we were laughing about. They talked about their kids, and mothers. And you know when one of us were called, it was like an Ahhhhhhh moment for us, we were so connected that we didnt want the other to go.

At break time I went directly next door inside the building Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, to get me a snack. I bought a Pepsi, some pretzels, and a bag of chips. I gets over to the Jury room, and I started eating my chips, grabbed my pop opened it up and took a squig, I was like dang this taste funny. So, Im like well maybe its these chips, I had tasted those kind before, but I was giving the Pepsi the benefit of the doubt. So, I took another sip, and I was like naw, thats it, let me go and get another kind. To make sure it aint me, I checked the cap and yep, just as I thought it was expired, the date said August 13, 2007. What does that tell you? That pop was made a looooooooooong time ago. So I gets over there the lines are off the hook. I went up to the lady who is an arabic or something, and said in my nice sweet Lacrease voice ” maam this pop taste old”. So she looks at me and start screaming LOOK, YOU DRUNK IT”!! Just hollering at me like I was her 8 year old. I got maddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd! I said let me tell you something, look at this pop I ONLY TOOK 2 SIPS, THIS PEPSI IS OUT OUTDATED AND EXPIRED, YOU GONE GIVE ME ANOTHER ONE. So she looks at it, because she thought that I wanted my money back, and said “Go GET ANOTHER ONE, GET SOMETHING ELSE DONT GET A PEPSI”!! I said do you think Im going to get another Pepsi and its expired? We were going at it, I said dayummmmmmmmmmmmmm, Im having a good day, and you don pissed me off!!!!!!!!! I wanted to choke that lady. It didnt have to be like that, if she wasnt so in a hurry to get that next dollar, had she looked at my pop to see that I didnt drink much at all, we would have been cool. I guess she thought I got my few sips out of it, and wanted my money back. Im 40 years old, gurl please I rather be sitting my fatt butt ova in the other room snacking on my snack, with my new gurls, laughing and giggling, than to be marching ova here, arguing with YOU, wanting $1.50 back!!! I’m a cashier for Walmart, I drink Pepsi’s errday, all I want to do is enjoy my lunch.

Anyway,

Before lunch time, it was about 150-200 people there. I wanted to stand up and say to the people that if anyone needed some lunch money that I had a few extra dollars for them. Cause let me tell you, I know what’s it like to be somewhere, and all you have is yourself there. You dont have lunch money, phone booth money or anything. I know that feeling. And so I kept having this urge to stand up and see if their was somebody who needed money.

But I didnt do it.

So later on as the day was turning old and there are about 30 people who didnt go out side or into the hall way for lunch. I heard this young white gurl on the phone ( we couldnt take in cell phones into the building) telling someone that she was mad because they told us that we had to stay till after 2 o clock instead of going home with the others who had left at about 12:30, and that she forgot her money in the car, and her book that she had bought to read. Her friend had dropped her off, and that she was hungary. So after she got off the phone, guess who she sat by out of all the 300 chairs there? ME!!!

She started telling me that she didnt have any money on her, and that how hard it is for her and her boyfriend with their one child to feed with either of them working. So, after she finished I said to her, I will give you a couple dollars to go next door to the snack house to get you something to eat. She looked like she wanted to take it, but she still resist. So, I said to myself if I keep talking to her, she will feel comfortable with me and she would eventually take it. We sat and talked for a good while, when I said again, gurl here~~~~ take these few dollars go and get you som
ething to eat, this time she took it and thanked me so much. I said gurllllllllllll this is no problem, I said I have been in the same situation times and time again with no money, its a honor to be able to help you. She went, came back and we talked and laughed, till they told us @ 1:40 we could go home!!!

All I kept saying was Thank you Jesus for sending her to me, cause he know how bad I wanted to bless someone. He knew. I try to be sensitve to the needs of others, and help them when I can. Im like this alllll the time, and so thats why I look back at times and see that God always helps me out of jams, makes me wonder when help is sent my way, did someone ask God to be a blessing to someone today, and it was me? Its hard out here, but we as seasoned Christians cant be about God bless you, and I’m praying for you all the time, we have got to be about action. And see I know first hand about that, cause God is/has taken me out of my comfort zone of this very same situation. Its time to be a hands on Christian, and there’s a time to be a praying Christian. I’m going to be more and more senstive to the needs of others. There are so many people out there that throw out hints and that are not as outspoken and upfront as myself. If we would be more senstive we could help out others in a heartbeat.

Im closing for now, I will talk to you all tomorrow~

Cree

Pearls of Wisdom

Here is the trailer for Tyler Perry’s new movie!!! Enjoy and dont forget to vote.

Hey Everybody,

I went to see Rush Hour last night @ 12:01, and again today. Yes, yes, yes it was that good and funny. Better than 1 and 2. And when I say I love me some Rush Hour 1 and 2, beleive it, cause 3 is even better. So if you havent seen it, go out this weekend so that we can set box office records for Lee and Carter.

Im sitting here saying to myself, let me go and blog cause I am a thinker, and when I think a lot I need to write it down sometimes, but everytime I go to write them down, my mind goes blank. I often think about how much power I have over situations in my life. Someone may call me and want to talk about marriage, or relationships, and I know at that same moment I have the power to chose to either speak life or death into that persons situation. Just today my niece called me and was telling me about how some kids that had to move in with them was going in the refrigarator eating the food up, and standing on the couch and doing things that she dont do even in her own house. I told her that her presentation of what shouldnt be happening in the house would be how they would take it. If she have an attitude, with her face all bald up and disfigured and say, Look, dont be eating up all our food, and dont be jumping on the couch tearing it up either. They would never respect what she said, even though it is true. The whole focus would shift to how she said it and the attitude she had behind it. Instead I told her to go to them, giving eye contact, talking in a very nice humble voice and say, hey, we have to ask for permission to eat food in this house, we dont just go in the fridge and get what we want. And also we dont jump on our couch because we are not allowed too. I told her that they would probaly be mad, ( who cares) because they cant do what they were doing in the past anymore, but they would think about you everytime they went to the fridge, and when they sit on that couch. I know the pressure of being 15-16 and having to be in charge of kids younger than you, they dont want to listen or act right. Its all about presentation, how it comes out, body language and facial expressions. A lot of people dont like to hear the truth, but oh well.

I had to learn that my attitude will get me no where. I use to have a terriable attitude growing up, always trying to seperate my 2 bestfriends, causing them to argu and debate. I was a messy gurl growing up. If I couldnt come outside, I would spend my day trying to convince my friend that she shouldnt be out either. How can you have fun if your best friend is not with you? Selfish thinking!! UGH! LOL Now, I never walk around with an attitude, that is just so childish to me. I use to attract people who were just like me, but as soon as I started building a relationship with God, he began showing me that I didnt have to be that way, so I changed. But then what about those people that were in my life that were still being the same way? I had to work twice as hard at changing, because it was still in my system, but only to Amen what they did, rather than do it myself. So, for my own personal growth, I had to pray and ask God to take me out of those friendships. It took almost 2 years, and now they are every once in a while see each other friends, maybe like 2 times a year. So, Im happy, I can be me…….Lacrease. And now with all my new friends, they are just like me………happy, loving, caring, sharing, and always smiling. Do I get upset sometimes and look ugly in the face? Heck ke yeah. Come through my 20 items or less lane, with 40 items, look at my face and then tell me how Im feeling? LOL ROFL. Im closing for now, talk to you all lata.

Thatgurl…HE…callCree