Month: June 2008

LOL I\’m back!!! As you all can see I have some extra time on my hands. I\’m posting back to back in one day.

I just got off the phone talking to my good friend *use to be bestfriend* Ms. Gloria for 5 hours. Yes, we had a whole lot to catch up on. Me and Ms. Gloria go way back, people use to say that we were partners in crime!!! That was long time ago. You know how things change, people grow, situations differ? Well, God told just before the change, that it was near an end of our friendship as we/others saw it. I knew and felt it happening, but I didn\’t want our friendship to end. Well something happened and I didn\’t have any control of it, and we parted for years. I laugh thinking about it, because God had told me wayyyyyy ahead of time, and I couldn\’t see no way possible that me and my gurl friendship was ending, and when it did…………………it was like WOW………… God? So tonight she called me and boy did we talk talk talk. Whew, how things has change, we had good conversations too. We have really grown up. Lord Jesus, know he bad!!! LOL I hate talking on the phone, but we both needed that and even tho our friendship will never be the same, if anything it will grow Spiritually, because that\’s where I am………and it seems she is too. God always kmows best.

I was suppose to go to another Wedding today. Whew Chile. I had a few dollars and want to save them for gas and nick knacks before pay day. I can\’t go to a wedding without giving, that\’s just ain\’t me. Back in the day, boooooooooy I would walk into a function ready to party, walk right pass the card box to the dance floor. Man, I was living foul back then. I always say look into the mirror and self examine yourself. Ask God what is it that you need to work on, so that you can become a better person to yourself, and to others.

Yesterday I was driving home from work on the freeway. I said Lord, I know that I\’m going to be rich one day, how I don\’t know. But please let it come when I\’m managing my money well. I know me I will give away all of my money, because I see so many people in need. If any of my family members call me at work and tell me that we are rich to quit my job right now. No doubt I\’m out!!! LOL I probably wont even finish ringing up the customer whose at my register. ROFL. All I would be able to see is my car keys and the time clock. My days of working will be over. I will be volunteering as soon as I get paid.

God knows I want to volunteer my time. People try to control you with money, and I cant be controlled by it, because it means NOTHING TO ME. So by me knowing that, I look to higher things, such as volunteering my time to people who need help. I love helping people especially the smallest ways. I\’m saying this right now in this blog entry. I will not be working for the rest of my life for MONEY, I will be doing everything for God! So many people need encouraging, people need for their business to be taken care of * simple calls to the phone company*. Teens need someone to love them, and talk to them. Even the people like doctors and nurses need people to cater to them. Yep, that\’s it. I want to cater to those kinds of people.

Two nights ago, I came home sat at my computer and cried cried cried. I couldn\’t stop. I kept thinking about the customers who come through my line. I had just just just got to work, when I turned on my at the register, this young white lady came through my line with her son. And as I always do, I say heeeeyyyyyy how you doing???. I try to make it personal, instead of the corporate, * HELLO HOW ARE YOU?* routine. I make all my customers feel as tho they know me. I ring up her things, and when I looked up at her to get her money, she was looking sad. I heard God loud and clear when he said…………ask her is everything alright? So, I said ma\’am is everything alright? She was digging in her purse like she knew she was short. She said no ma\’am, just bare with me, I\’m really having a bad day. So, I\’m like okay…………….what\’s wrong? She said, I went to pick up my son just before coming here, and my soon to be ex husband jump on me in front of my child * who looked to be about 3 or 4*. I said ahhh ma\’am I\’m so sorry to hear that, are you okay? She said yea. As she was digging in her purse, God said she don\’t have enough money. So I said maam don\’t worry about the .49 I got you!!!!!!! She thanked me and as she was about to leave, God said call her back and give her that $20.00 you just got off your debit card. I was like OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn\’t want anyone to see me doing that, because they wouldnt understand the whole story, also because she was just ready to go, I can tell. So I said maam come here, she came………. and said yes. I said dig in my right pocket and grab that money that\’s in there. *I didn\’t want to do it myself under a camera. She said NO NO NO, I said yessss, this is yours. And I looked at her with a mean face * just so that she wont try to talk me out of it*. LOL I said God Bless You. She burst out crying. I had tears in my eyes. I\’m so sensitive. Two of my coworkers ask me what had happened after she left. I didn\’t want to tell them, but I thought hopefully it will plant a seed in them so that they can bless others in ANYWAY they are moved too. This is serious. I think that everyone can do something to help someone.

When my daughter was just a young gurl, she would see me giving to people in need all the time. Now that she\’s 21, when we are out shopping or something, I ll turn around and be like dang, where Neisha go…………. LOL and here she comes walking up on me saying I gave that man/lady some money. She don\’t want to tell me cause she knows Imma bust out and start crying * for real*. That\’s just a real blessing. That tells me that she use to watch and pay attention to me, now she\’s blessing people when she\’s lead. I told her to never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever stop giving!!!! When she was 9 or 10 years old , she called the Feed the Children line and they sent her out a pamplet. When I got the mail, I said NEISHA, how did these people get your name to be sending you something. She was sooooooo nervous. She said I saw the commerical and wanted to send the kids some money. I hugged her so tight. Ahhhhhh my baby.

Why are people prejudice? There are so many other issues that can be discussed right in their own homes, instead of wasting time on ignorant issues as that. As much as I am * ignorant* to believing that people have changed, its sad to say………..there are people who still don\’t get it. This customer came through my coworker line, and when Jennie said to her * ma\’am I need to see your ID with your credit card* so hands her the ID, and says * If I was white, you wouldn\’t ask me that*. My coworker being JENNIE, turns around to my register, and says. Lacrease she said that if I was white, I wouldn\’t have asked her for her license.*. The lady looked at me and
I said to her with a smile * her nieces and nephews are mixed. Her brother married a black lady. And I said they just left her line, she\’s not like that. Why do people do that? I have been knowing Jennie for almost 5 years, not once has she ever act prejudice to me or to anyone that I work with. That\’s just so unfair to put that on someone. As high as gas is and food, the focus shouldn\’t be on the color of someones skin. When its time to be with The Lord, who will stand there saying, I don\’t wanna stand by this black man? I mean for real!!!

Its all about love and helping each other. That\’s all I want to do in this world. Find peace people. Get understanding. Pray pray pray. Love each other, help each other. Ask God how can you bless someone today. Don\’t look for others to do it, start with yourself. Listen to the conversations of people and ask God what should you do to bless them. Don\’t expect anything in return, just do it and walk away.

Gotta go and watch a movie with Neisha. Talk to you all later.

Cree

Yesterday I started writing the blog entry * Just talking to myself* when the phone rang. When I answered , I knew that Ill be on it for a minute, so I left the scripture and decided to call it a night to watch a movie with Neisha. I really had more to say, so hopefully I can remember it all.

There\’s this guy who really likes me. I really think he just wants to sleep with me. Like I told him, boo you got me messed up. For one you have a gurlfriend, she\’s pregnant, and #3 I\’m not looking for SEX, which is the easiest thing in the world to get. And for 4, I have 2 coworkers who live in the same Townhouse complex you live in, and they have told me the scoop on you.Then when he came through my line, I confronted him about the gurl he was in the store with, he says she was just somebody I met. I said then why are you ova here? Why the heck do he keep bugging me? Its been over a year and he still haven\’t gotten to first base with me…….. No means No!!!. Now when I pull out the *Virgo* in me, he\’s gonna wish he had never met me. I\’m not even going to cuss, I\’m just going to lay him out verbally!!! When I look up and see his *begging* looking face staring at me while I work, it irritates the heck out of me. I just wanna scream UGHHHHHHHH……. GET OUT THIS STORE!!

When I was a young gurl, I would lose something, and for the life of me I couldn\’t find it anywhere. So I use to pray and say God please help me find * such and such* I really need it, you are magic, you can just make it appear. Please God. I would most times end up crying because I wanted to find it so badly. As I got older I realized that the fun part in finding something is: that if you keep looking you will find what you-re looking for. Had God said * oh here it is Lacrease* I wouldn\’t be able to appreciate the things that were lost.When I lose something and find it I rejoice. I\’m happy. I\’m so Thankful. I Thank God for making it possible. That\’s a part of him teaching us. He doesn\’t want us to give up, he wants us to know that we got to keep on praying, keep on having Faith, keep on going. One of my favorite scriptures is:

The Parable of the Lost Coin

8\”Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins^[a] and loses one. Does she not light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? 9And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, \’Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.\’ 10In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.\” Luke 15 (New International Version)

There comes a time in your life when you look at yourself and you wonder why things are not happening for you. You have to wonder what part am I playing that\’s sabotaging my own self and success. At some point you stop to examine yourself and you say Lord, how can I work on me? What am I doing wrong, what do I need to do, what do I need to practice, what do I need to see, what do I need to learn? You just can\’t get up every morning with the same foul breath, you have to at one point say, I need to brush my teeth.

When I say that, I\’m referring to a coworker of mines whose last day working as a cashier at my store was yesterday. She was hit by a car years ago and till this day she wants to hold on to that. She said the reason why she\’s leaving Michigan and going back to Virginia was because the people here don\’t *understand* what she\’s been through. I said to her…… Rena, you got hit by a car 10 years ago, why would you want to hold on to something like that, when you are healed!!! You\’re okay! Things are going good for you. She got mad at me!!!!! I swear I saw fire shoot from her nose. I believe that God heals, and since I live on that, I\’m not going to sit and pacifier her accident. That goes for anybody!!! I have no comment, umbrella\’s, blankets, or pampers for* woe is me people*. I believe in praying and getting over what ever it is you\’re going through. Some take longer than others, that\’s fair.I understand that. In the meantime while youre going through, don\’t throw it up in people\’s face. That\’s not right to make others feel bad because of what you are going through that\’s not cool with me. I have a real big problem with that. I use to come in to work, make my rounds to speak to everyone, and ask Rena, how are you doing today. She\’ll say *not to well*. I would stay there and talk to her, and no matter what I say to her, it didn\’t help. The next day, I would do the same thing, Rena……. whats wrong boo, why you looking like that? Then she\’ll say * my leg hurt, or my head hurt, or my throat bothering me. This went on for months, before I realized that nothing is never right with her. So I stopped asking her.

She knew she was leaving this city, but no one else knew that\’s the reason why she started picking on folks. She made me so mad one day, that I told her that I be glad when she leave, and that hopefully the next time I see her would be on Judgment Day!!! What made me mad was, I was ringing up a customer, and my manager came over to talk to me about something, and then here she comes whispering, trying to get me upset. I knew what she was doing. I knew it because God told me that same day, that Rena is going to try to stir up trouble because its her last days and she wants to go out with a bang.I tried to ignor her, especially since I was with a customer, but she on at me. Then she repeated*** I see you quiet down here, you aint with your gurls*** that was the straw, cause see she was being funny. My manager heard the whole thing. You don\’t do people like that just because you feel its your chance to get revenge on folks who you feel * didn\’t baby you because you had a car accident 90 years ago*. You ain\’t finna talk to me *credog* any kinda way. Yeah whateva! So after I lit into real good. Later on she called me to her register and apologized to me, and ask me for a hug. I was shocked. Me being friendly said ahhhhhhh okay Rena, lets be cool, and don\’t do me like that anymore okay? She said okay. Didn\’t 2 days ago, we fell out again!!! I said gurl, you know what? I cant mess with you, goodbye, see ya later, Thank you JESUSSSSSSS you\’re leaving. I said you act like you hate me. I said do I gossip about anyone? She said no. I said do I talk about people? She said no. I said then what is it about me that you don\’t like? She said you don\’t understand my condition. I said GURL AINT NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU!!! I said to myself, aint nobody gon walk around here and feed you Oreo cookies and milk just because you had an accident umpteen years ago!!! I\’M JUST NOT GON DO THAT BOO. HELL TO THE *WHITNEY HOUSTON* NAW!!! And when she left yesterday * thank you Lord*, I didn\’t look her way. Some people have to be just left alone. That\’s what I did……left her alone and let her leave peacefully.

People, don\’t expect others to do cart wheels for you. At some point you need to move
on. Don\’t make family members and friends pay for anything, by keep on bringing it up. People get tired of that. There is a GOD, that specialize in handling those types of issues. PEOPLE CANT DO THAT!!! I CANT HANDLE MY OWN ISSUES, I AINT GONNA LET NOOOOOOBODY PUT THERE ISSUES ON ME. NOOOOO WAY. Take it to God. Let him do it, he made you.

Cree

The bible says:

2 Timothy 3

Godlessness in the Last Days

1But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,

When I was growing up, I use to read this over and over and over again, thinking this kinda stuff will never happen in my days……… because I\’ll be dead.

Well, they are happening right now as I type. Take notice. Ill be back tomorrow.

Cree

Congratulations to the Detroit Red Wings, we won the Stanley Cup Tonight in a 3-2 win in Pittsburgh!!! I wish they could have won in Detroit, but its alright they won and that\’s the good part!!!

I love Sports and next year I promise myself that I was going to go to more Basketball games too. My favorite sport is Football. So, watch out, you may see me on TV.

My gurl Janet Jackson is coming to The Palace of Auburn Hills Sept 27, 2008 and tickets go on sale next Saturday morning!!! I want to go so bad. Tomorrow when I get to work Imma see if I can get someone to go with me, if not its 0n and poppin by myself!!! My friends are soo cheap LOL They probably say……….* the tickets cost too much* I can feel it now, so I need to make up my mind as to what I\’m gonna do. If I drive that far, Imma spend the night there like I did in April for the Piston game that was at the same place. So, imma see. Huhhhhhh Imma hate to hear what they gotta say. I\’m expecting to pay at least $120.00 probably more with taxes and surcharges. Not including $10.00 to park.

Today my coworker gave me a flier to go on her family and friends cruise for 7 days to Montego Bay Jamaica, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel Mexico for Oct 25-Nov 1. I am there! Ive never been on a cruise before and I hear people say that you should go on one, at least once in your life. So, that\’s my chance and I\’m there!!! The first $50.00 is due June 15, 2008 so Janet……I dunno. LOL

Work was cool today. I had a lot to blog about, but I\’m sleepy now. So Ill blog about it tomorrow and oh yeah my favorite Hollywood person will be revealed this week!!!

Cree

Im back!!! What a wonderful weekend I had. Yall betta ask somebody cause there is a God!!! I am one tied Sista, I don\’t see how Tyler Perry does it, but as for me………….whew chile!!! Im tied!! LOL

The wedding was BEAUTIFUL!!! Oh my good ness. My friend looked so pretty, she loves her husband and he loves her!! You know how you can look into his and her eyes, and see love? Thats what I saw, they love each other. Im so happy for them both. I took lots of photos, I don\’t know how to work this camera to well, but I want to post a few of the cake and the beautiful Barrister Gardens.

Lasonga dancing with a guest. Lasonga after a long night. Bridesmaids, Tables, Lasonga and Darrell.