Day: May 20, 2008

Hi,

to the Detroit Pistons!!! Even though they lost tonight, they will WIN the series and then advance to the NBA Finals! I went to my first Piston game April 11 and I had a good time. I paid some good money for me and my daughter\’s seats. I\’m waiting for tickets to go on sale again because I gotta see my baby Shaq before he retires, and Neisha wants to see Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets. That\’s a done deal, we are there NEXT SEASON!

Today was a good day. Thank you Jesus! I believe that if you think positive you will have a positive outcome. I loss 4 pounds yeahhhhhhh Cree! For the month of June I\’m so serious that I will not be drinking any pop. This lady came through my line and told me she went down 2 pant sizes when she cut the pops out of her life. I can believe it too. Those babies can and will make you blotted!!

Since I have been reading my bible faithfully daily, I have learned a lot about myself. One day my sister told me that when people tell me something, I have to always give advice. And I was like * about to cry* what you mean? In a bad way? She said No, its just that sometimes people just want you to listen and not say anything all the time. So, I was like wow, yeah maybe that\’s true. Maybe I do, do that. When I think back on people telling me things, I do kinda give them advice. LOL So, I said God why do I do that? I find that to be true, and I\’m glad that I didn\’t take that in a bad way, because I never want to be preachy……..you know? He said to me that I am a Teacher by nature. I love to teach. I love people to get something out of everything that they are going through. I was like WOW, that\’s ME! I have to always give examples. And I hate to leave people not *getting it*. I want everybody to get the truth in everything.

Just a few weeks ago, I was working the 21 items or less lane. Even though there are 2 registered trained cashiers open, there is only one line. And when the cashier is finish, she will call NEXT. Well, I was working one of the lanes and these 2 guys walked up, I looked them both in the eye and said Sir there is only one line. Then ONE said well there are 2 registers opened. I said, I know but there is only one line for both registers. He says: but there are 2 cashiers. So, I looked at him as if to say : are you dayum dumb? I said Sir, you know how when you are waiting in line at the bank, and there are 5 tellers, but only one line? I said, well that\’s how it is here, at THIS WALMART. He got it instantly! As I was telling the story, he visualized it with a movie in his head!!!. But he still was mad because he wanted to be next!!! LOL I just laugh in my mind at people like that. They don\’t want to get it, they want it to be the way it make sense to them in their heads. He said forget it, Ill just go to another line. I was like…….. OKAY. Well, I guess that\’s the preachyness my Sister was talking about. LOL I just want people to get it, that\’s all. I want them to walk away saying to themselves…………….OH OK……….. I GET IT NOW. Lately, I have been just letting people think and do as they want when it comes to certain things.

Yesterday, this gurl came through my line, she was about my age……. She had a lot of things, mainly food. She had 2 bags of chicken. One of them had the price $5.86 on it which was WRONG, and the other didn\’t have the price at all. All I do is scan the items and pack them. So she said wait, wait what was $7.86? I pulled her things out of the bag and said: this bag of chicken wings rung up for $7.86 and the other which is the same it wrong up for $7.86 too. She said well don\’t I get it for the price on ONE OF THE BAGS FOR $5.86? And I said yes you do. But the other one doesn\’t have the wrong price/don\’t have a tag, but I have to give you the one for $7.86. She said okay that\’s cool. That was that. After she paid and I gave her the bill, she walked away looking at it. About 5 minutes later she came back for me to explain what I did, because she saw $7.86 on her bill 3 times. Yall, know this is my part right? I love for people to *get it*.

I said look

1. I rung you up both times for 2 bags of chicken RIGHT?
2. You stopped me and said…ma\’am what was $5.86? When I looked at the mistake I had to give you the one that had the ticket on it for the price of $5.86, but had to give you the other bag for the CORRECT price of $7.86 * it was a pricing gun error with the 5 and 7*.
3. I took off the $7.86 right * which was the 3rd $7.86 she saw, BUT IT HAD A MINUS SIGN BEHIND IT.
4. Then I rung her up for $5.86.

She kept saying, well why do I see $7.86 3 times? I said GURL because the third one is the one I took off, do you see this minus sign? She said yeah but what is this $5.86 down here. I\’m saying to myself……..ARE YOU FOR REAL? I said that\’s the one I had to give you for $5.86. After a few more times she finally got it, and she was happy, and I was happy that she got it.

The bible talks about Wisdom and Understanding all the time,. and that\’s what I want people to get. You don\’t have to agree, but try to understand what people are going through. I love how Jesus taught through parables. I LOVE READING THEM. I blow my nieces and nephew ears off by examples. Neisha has heard them all her life. LOL But I\’m learning not to be so preachy.

Yesterday me and Neisha was talking about the bible and how I always visualize the day that Jesus returns with his Book of Life in hand. And I told her to imagine this: You are walking up to this *huge house* and you see Jesus at the gate with this book in his hands. Then you look on the side and you see *homeboys and gurls* standing on the gate waiting to see if your name is in the book. Not only are they wanting to know are your name in the book, but they are waiting on their chance to get Jesus alone, so that they can beg him to let them in. * You know that\’s an earthly thought*. He looks for your name and he says * Nope your name is not in here, and you say. please look again. PLEASE. And he looks and says Nope your name is not in here. When I\’m telling them , they can go inside and actually feel the story and wish that their names were in this book. I tell them while you still have time, you better do whats right, trust and believe in him!!!

Well, I\’m on my way to bed, gotta work in the morning till 4. I\’m getting my brows down, and maybe see a movie.

I love you all

Cree!

Hey,

Alright, today is a new day, and when I sometimes go back and read my previous blog entries I ask myself………..what in the world was I going through? LOL I guess that\’s all in part of growing. I reread last night entry and said to myself……….Cree, get ova it! LOL With that said…..today is another day.

Thank you Lord for waking my up this morning and getting me started on my day. Thank you for teaching me to be quiet when my tongue want to lash out on people who talk to me any kinda way. Thank you for ministering to me when I\’m in the *wilderness*. Just thank you for everything Lord. Thank you. I appreciate everything you do for me, have done for me, and will do for me. That means all the prayers I send up for others and for myself. You are truly good. You have not forgotten about me, you always think of me. You know everything about me, all my secrets, good and bad. That was you who woke me up 2 nights ago wasn\’t it? I hear you Lord. I hear you. My tongue cant even say thank you enough for all that you\’ve done for me. I can\’t wait too hug and kiss you.

Tonight I was watching Kimora on her reality show, and I just love her style. She\’s beautiful, she has personality, she has class and style and she knows what she wants. She ask questions, she\’s honest and she very opinionated. She loves her children, she spends time with them and she treats her * servants* right!!! I was watching her assistant in action, and I was saying to myself. Hmmmmm I can do that. I know how to talk to people to make things happen. Its not what you say, its how you say it. I was watching one of her assistants work it out!!! LOL Her assistant had a lot of pressure on him to get her a place to shoot for her new fragrance, so he put pressure on the person who was helping him scope out homes LOL Even though I hate talking on the phone, I can make calls and get the job done. In order to do that, you have to really know the person you are working for. You have to know their personalities very well.

Speaking of know a person very well. My daughter knows me so well. She can hear a song on the radio and say…. maaaaa its this song by * such and such* you\’re going to love. And so when I hear it, ahhhhhh its so Lacrease. She does the same with movies. She can look at a preview and say, my momma would love this movie. I love that about her. That\’s the way you have to be with your assistant, you have to know what that person likes and dislikes. Its not about you, its about them. I wouldn\’t mind having a job like that. Plus I need some humbleness in my life. LOL

I love my co workers, so I may write about them often. I have never in my life met people like these. They are the same people everyday. WE don\’t argue, we don\’t have to go in the office with a manager to solve things, they don\’t he say she say, we go out to dinner together, some go out together, we support each other when it comes to bridal showers, birthday\’s and baby showers. It\’s really a blessing to meet women like these. Ive been there close to 5 years and no one has ever changed for the worst. Today I asked a co worker how did her date go this past weekend, and one of my other coworkers said: dang Cree you know everything. I said ahhhhhhh she told me that she would tell me how her date went with this famous rapper. She said no, I didn\’t mean it like that, I meant it in a way that people confide in you, they trust you around here. They always come to you with their stories and for advice. Which then open my eyes like Adam and Eve\’s opened when they realized they were naked in the garden of Eden.

Last week, God told me, he said Lacrease you gotta watch how you come off with people. He said when you have a track record of trying to do good, treating people right, talking with them, and being a blessing. When you get mad and upset, people see that. They watch how you react to situations. When you come to work talking about me, and then the next when you blow up, they see that. He said, watch how you handle yourself. So, I was like wow…… wow…….wow. I so get that! I agree. Just today, this gurl was walking up to my register, when out of no where this other lady came and jump in front of her. Now my first reaction on my face was to be like * NO SHE DIDN\’T* I heard God loud and clear say, now……..your facial reaction is going to determine how this gurl handle this whole SITUATION. I was like okay. So I looked at the gurl, then I looked at the lady who jumped in front of the gurl, the gurl wanted to go off and she kept looking at me LOL. I guess to see what did I have to say about it, but the way MY FACIAL expression was, it made the gurl calm down. Had, I geek-ed her up with my facial expression, she would have surely went off on the lady. We have a lot of influence on each other, we just need to learn to use it in a positive way. I\’m learning tho. Im learning.

Me and my best friend was talking on the phone the other day, she said Lacrease the Sun cant shine on everybody every day. I knew exactly what she was meaning by that. For the last few months Tyler Perry messages to his fans *seems* to me that he was down in his Spirit. But the last one seems as if his Spirit was lifted. Which reminded me of what my best friend said. And its funny to because people go to his message board and they look for him to inspire and uplift them ALL THE TIME, when sometimes he needs that lifting up too!!! He cant bring the * Sun* out on every email, of course he aims to be positive, but we all fall short and that\’s what they don\’t get sometimes. Tyler is human too. People are always watching and paying attention. Thats when we need to let him know too that we are there for him, it shouldnt be a one way street. We can uplift him as well. And I do.

Starting in June, I\’m about to give up my Pepsi\’s!! Yep, for a whole month I\’m giving it up and I will post daily of my progress. These soda drinks are really make me blotted. I can deal with my hips, thighs, and behind. But this stomach gotta go!!! I\’m about to catch a plane in July and I don\’t want my meat hanging all on my gurls chair!!!! LOL ROFL!

I\’m painting my bedroom a lavender color, its pretty. I\’m going to finish up tomorrow. I love earth tone colors tho. If it was cooI, I would have tan and brown all over my house, everywhere!!!!

Alright, I\’m going to turn in for the night….I\’m sleepy. Ill write tomorrow.

Cree!

My daughter Neisha wired up on this song. AHHHH I love it!!! I love it! I love it! This is me!