*pearls of wisdom*

Hey Everybody!!!

First I want to say Thank you Jesus for waking me up another day. This weekend has truly been a good one. You know Lord whats so amazing? Everything that happened good or bad, has to run by you first. Then it happens. So no matter how good our bad it is, you know about it first. And by knowing that, it softens the blow. We can make it through it. And I Thank you!!

I love y\’all.

That\’s what me and my 2 Sisters say to each other when we are about to hang up the phone. Me and my Sisters are sooo funny. We have people cracking up. When we are on the phone or in person, somewhere in the conversation we get on a subject that causes 2 Sisters to double team the other. They usually gang up on me , because they know they can\’t get with me alone, so they have to double team me. LOL Ill pull out my Lawyer tactics and rip dey butts apart. ROFL

You know I hate to post negative stuff. I cant stand people who gossip. If you have a story to tell, tell it, don\’t gossip about it, and don\’t stretch your opinion!!! No matter how many days I\’m off work, when I get there something has always jumped off. If it aint got nothing to do with Cree dog, don\’t tell me jack!!! I don\’t care. People love to see what Cree has to say about everythang, and as soon as my face go blank, they have this look as if to say………….DANG I SHOULDNA TOLD HER.

And I\’m going to say this too. Just to get it off my chest and on to paper. I know I can be funny, and silly, and a person you can talk too. But when it comes to business. I\’M A DIFFERENT PERSON. I can be aggressive, I ask a lot of questions, maybe I don\’t smile, and maybe my voice speaks with authority. Maybe I *come across* unconcerned about your answers or reasons, but you wont see or find the same Cree that laughs and jokes when I\’m taking care of business. Maybe I do grill. I don\’t curse people out, I don\’t disrespect people, I just ask questions I need to ask. And if you can\’t help me, then I need to speak to someone who can . I\’m not mad at no one, I\’m not upset. I just need this taken care of, and that\’s the bottom line.

I\’m posting this for a reason. Ladies. Men, take care of your business. If you need assistance open your mouth , speak to people who can make it happen. Don\’t just settle for the first answer. People love to tell you stuff to put you off. If you stand for the okie doke, then thats what you\’ll get. If you call a store to ask them what time they are closing on a Holiday and they say * I dunno* I\’m not sure. don\’t just say………..well aiiiiiiiiight then!! Tell them that you will hold on, and that you need to speak to someone who knows the correct time. Don\’t be mean, don\’t be rude. Just ask the question find out what you need to know.

I have a question? How do you walk past someone and the word * Hello* don\’t just drop out of your mouth? Is that something you have to think about? I\’m just sayin. When you walk in front of someone, how the word excuse me don\’t just fall out of your mouth? . So what you have to say it 17 times a day, it shouldn\’t be rehearsed. Teach your kids those basic MANNERS. Its only polite.

Know that we train people how to treat us. If you never seen me sit on the arm of my couch or chair, don\’t do it. You wont see me doing it, why the hells you doing it? If you don\’t know how to work a $800.00 TV, PLEASE PASS ME MY REMOTE CONTROL!!! Maam/ SIR…. THANK YOU. If you\’re riding in someone Else\’s car or sitting up IN *dey* house, and they don\’t smoke. Don\’t ask them is it aiight to smoke. WTH.

I can\’t stand all about me people!!!! Its too many people in this world to make it all about YOU! Cause Imma say this, when you\’re in my presence, its all about ALL OF US, not just one person. One of my Sister Pearls who is going to ATL with us next weekend. She made a mistake and canceled the flight which leaves out of Georgia at 12 something pm, and kept the one that leaves out at 6:40 am. She said no no, Imma just take the Marta to the Airport, you guys can sleep, it was my fault. I SAID NO YOU AINT. WE HAVE A TRUCK, YOU MADE A MISTAKE, WE ALL MADE IT WITH YOU. WHO EVER IS UP AND WANT TO RIDE CAN GO WITH ME, BUT WE WILL TAKE YOU. But you are not riding ANYTHING alone in a unknown city. Its not about me me me. Its about us!!!

I have a co worker who I love dearly, but anything flies out of her mouth. She\’s a cute young gurl, but THAT MOUTH IS OFF THE CHAIN, and it just corrupts anything good. I said to her: When you\’re talking to someone, and you\’re being outspoken and in * hurting people\’s feelings* mode. DO SOMETHING IN YOUR MIND INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARY SCHEDULED CONVERSATION and said GURL YOU TALKING TOO MUCH? She laughed and said yeah……but I just keep going sometimes? WOW. I asked her that because when I\’m talking too much the same voice speak to me. We gotta learn to listen to that voice. OUR MOUTHS ARE KILLING US!!!!

This white guy name James that comes into Walmart all the time. So on yesterday he came through my line and since it wasn\’t busy we chatted for a moment. After I rung him up and gave him the receipt. He looked at it and said. dangggggggggg, I thought the scanner charge me extra for this coffee, because I was going to go and stand in that service desk line to get my bounty.

I said James: Now you will stand in that line knowing full well it was a scanner error instead of telling me so that I can correct it on the spot, but you\’ll go and collect 2 funky dollars, turn right around go outside, lose your wallet, call the closes Christian to God you know and ask them to pray for you. I said now what good is that? I said people don\’t realize that when they try to capitalize on someones MISTAKE, they are only setting themselves up for something greater to happen to them later. I said now if someone SEE YOU drop a $20.00 bill, and they pick it up TO KEEP IT FOR THEMSELVES, and then you catch them, you would want to KILL them just because they KNEW IT WAS YOUR MONEY. I said its the same thing. He just stared at me, and said Wow I never looked at it that way Lacrease. He was really amazed. Yep, I said and all that time you spend standing in line to get those funky 2 dollars, someone can be outside stealing your car.

One last thing!!! Watch what you say and do. Do everything our of Excellence. don\’t have do anything. If your name is on it, DO YOUR BEST. Don\’t look at a Budget, don\’t look at your situation, pray about it, tell God how you feel about it and it will happen for you. Stay positive, go for the best. Put your all in it, make it happen. Build Credit with people by your works and not your mouth. Let me post that again. Build credit with people by your works not your mouth!!!!

I like to rent 2008 cars and trucks when I\’m going to a special event. Just yesterday I took back a car I rented for the weekend. So they know me there. I needed a ride to Hertz because they wont let me car stay in the parking lot for the weekend at that location. I end up getting a ride there, and then I told him my story, he was like * What you didn\’t have a ride? Next time call me and I WILL PICK YOU UP*. Think he would say that to anyone? Nope!!! ITS ALL ABOUT HAVING PEOPLE/FAVOR CREDIT. And I\’m not talking about AMEX, VISA, OR MASTERCARD. I\’m talking about honesty, integrity, truthfulness, and trustworthiness. People see that in you, be the best you can be. don\’t be scheming on people, don\’t be HATING, DON\’T BE FAKE, DON\’T BE LYING, AND MAKING FALSE PROMISES. BE UPFRONT AND TRUTHFUL.

I\’m still learning this stuff myself.

*WINK*

My Saturday night with Anita Baker * front row seat*

Hey,

Here are MY reviews for Anita Baker Concert this past Saturday. I wrote it for the Anita Baker fan club who was waiting for me past 2 am that Sunday morning to get home to post my reviews. I love loyal people!!! So here is my repost.

Wow Wow WOw!
Where do I start? Let me tell yall something before I go into the reviews. Can’t nobody touch Anita. Thats one bad chick!!! I had tears coming down my eyes watching her dance, and pranch around the stage, as if it was 1986. Not only is she so beautiful and have the prettiest skin, but when you watch her, for some reason you can’t take your eyes off her. She opened with Mystery, and to make things better SHE TAPED TONIGHTS SHOW FOR A DVD!!! Yep the camera’s were in the house EVERYWHERE!!! She put on the longest Anita Baker show I have ever seen. She talked to the audience as if we could have our way for the rest of of the night………and we did!! I can’t remember the songs in order. But she sung. Sweet Love, Mystery, Fairy Tales, Just because, Same ole, Love, Angel, Give you the best that I’ve got, I apolize, My funny Valentine, you bring me joy, watch your step, I think 2 more, Ill have to find out. And last but not least Body and Soul. Let me say this. Anita disect that song like a scientist in a lab. The way she sung that song, people shouldn’t ever want to listen to it on the CD. She killed it!!!! I had tears in my eyes. She got a standing ovation. People were going crazy after she was done with that song. I don’t even want to hear the original recording any more. LOL

Let me say this too. Anita don’y play and I love and appriecate that about her. She was having problems with her music, and she made it known too. She knew she was taping for this show, and she kept telling the sound people she couldnt hear the piano, all she could hear was the bass. She made them move faster than a ball roller down the street. LOL She gave a shout out to her Target, Kroger,CVS, her neighbors, her school friends, out radio personality Charles Pugh, and Diana Lewis. When she spotted Diana, who was sitting in about the 8th row up, she signaled her people to GO AND GET HER AND SEAT HER IN A BETTER SEAT. I LOVED HER FOR THAT!!! OMG I LOVE THAT. Diana Lewis * black woman* has been a anchor for Channel 7 News for a long time, and I just admired Anita more to honor her in front of us. People were cheering and everything when Anita did that. Anita people went to get her and set her on stage with her to see the show up close and personal.

Her band was on point. Anita is such a perfectionist, you can’t do anything but appreciate and accept that fact that her name is what it is and in order for it to stay that way, its to open her mouth and make things happen. She was taping and she wanted her stuff right. SEveral songs she had to go over because she wasnt satisfied with it, and yall know it was COOL WITH US!!! LOL Her sons were there. I was sitting front row, and he son came out and sat in the 4 chairs after mines. I knew it was him. I took a photo before she mentioned him, because I know how she is with her kids * just like myself* and I didnt want to be disrespectful to her or her son. He is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo handsome!!! OMG. Anita introduced us to him, and she sung Same ole love, and pointed to him when she said ALL I WANNA DO IS SHARE MY LIFE WITH YOU, I WANT YOUR SAME OLE LOVE. We all kept looking at him, he’s soooooooooo handsome. After a while he got up and went back stage, Anita said I embarrsed my baby so he left. LOL I wonder do they wonder whats all the fuss with his mom and the fans? They just dont know those people tonight was going crazy. I live the older crowd and very very very very mixed.

She was killing those twist and turns in her heels prancing around the stage, she kept on trying to fix her hair talking about * oh my hair is messed up* we were like gurl you are Anita Baker FORGET YOUR HAIR WE LOVE YOU!!! LOL At the end as she promised. Her son had went to the back as her band was playing she was looking for him because it was his turn. He played fairy tales for her, and he threw DOWN!!!!! That little boy is bad, just like his momma! lol People were clapping and yelling for him. I have plenty photos of him. The lighting was very bad as far as taking photos. Im really disappointed about that part tho. I will post the best ones I have. I took goo gobs too. My friend said the same happened for him. he was in the 2nd row and it was dark for him as well.

Look for the DVD. When we duno either? Just look for it soon. LOL This was her best one yet. It was longer, more personable, it was HOME. I cant wait to see next years!!!! Wow wow wow is all I can say.

I will post photos tomorrow. I’s tied and its 3:27 am.

beenwaiting4nita
Cree

Then when I woke up there was more that came to me!!!

Thanks everyone.. But you all know this was fun reporting. This is my kinda stuff…………anythng Anita Baker. As I drove around today running some errands. I couldnt stop thinking about last night. I cant wait for all of us to be together next year. Im telling you all, this will be a concert you wont forget. Please try to make this concert here in Detroit. Im just excited about this whole thing. Anita is one bad sister. Her back up gurls were on point, the music, everything was just perfect for a Anita Baker night.

She even said that people stop her on the streets all the time and say * I have kids just by the sound of your vioice*. HOW AMAZING IS THAT TO HEAR? WOW

Ok, this post may be all over the place because things are coming to me. At one point after she had finished a song, she was like whewwwwwwwwww I’s tied * something like that*, so she went and sat on the piano with her band member. She was making jokes saying * Tito bring me some tissue * like Micheal Jackson once said, And she was waiting on her people to bring her smething to wipe her face with. They didn’t move at all. So a few audience members called her over to the edge of the stage and gave her some. That was cute. She got soooooooooo many flowers. I didnt see her exhusband Walter like I normally do at the concert. To me . Anita seemed to be more free, she seemed to be happy. She’s wayyyyyyyy more giving of herself when she’s on stage. She is defintely a perfectionist, and if you think she will stand for anything less than that. You are dead wrong. Dont even step to her. She know who she is, she know what she has built and continue to be through out the years, and she plans to stay that way. And I just her for it, because she is Anita Baker and will be wayyyyy after she gone. She deserves it!!!

She kept saying, stand up sing, clap your hands, hold hands, this is a family show, this is how we do it!!!! She says as long as its clean. LOL Couples were dancing and just having a l
overs time. The crowd was so mixed. I love that too. All races were there, people were people and it was allllllllllll so friendly.

She was scatting all over the place. I love scatting anyway, and nobody does it like Anita. Her facial expressions and everything just makes it all better. I wish I had a boo with me last night. Who ever I marry he BETTA love him some Anita Baker!!! LOL

It just amazessssssssss me how she can just open up her mouth and this big voice greets you. Amazing. She was hitting notes that if you teamed up 5 of the hottest and greatest new comers TODAY, they wouldnt be able to stand against the voice of Anita Baker. And they know it too. Her pipes are well and working!!!! I just love Anita Baker. I just love her!!!!! Goodness. And to think she lives 7 mintues from me, is even better.

Cree

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