Month: September 2008

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Repost from yesterday

Wow, where do I start? First let me say Thank you Lord for waking me up another day. I have been feeling sick with a fever, headaches, coughing here and there, and plain ole not feeling well. I have called into work 3 days straight, and Thank you for me having the other days off because I truly don\’t know how I would have made it in.

Last night while I was laying on the couch, I just wanted this fever to be over with. I really needed you Lord, to come through for me because I was going back to work in the morning and I needed to be healed. You told me to put my hand over my head and to pray. You told me that I have always had power in my hands to heal, but since I always felt that the people on TV who lay hands on people and run around the Church are fake , I couldn\’t believe it for myself. I was obedient and did as I was told. I put my hand over my forehead, said a prayer and on the spot my fever was completely gone. Lord, you know me, and forgive me for this, but I wanted it to be gone so bad that I still couldn\’t believe it. I laid awake on the couch talking to you for hours last night, just laughing talking and listening to you. And not once did my fever come back. This morning, I was nervous to get up for work. I knew once my feet hit the floor and I got to walking around it was coming back. Nope. Got to work, started thinking about it, nope. Here is its 9:51pm, NOPE and I am FINE!!! This is the second time in 2 weeks that you told me to put my hands on my body and I was instantly healed. Did I talk about the TV preachers who lay hands soooooo much that now that I see the gift that I have, I can\’t believe it? Did I talk about them to much? What is going on?

Last night when I was up late talking and listening to you, I kept saying God, Imma be sleepy at work before lunch time. You said, no you\’re not, you\’re talking to me. I couldn\’t stop laughing, cause I know you, and I know you mean what you say. At work today I was not sleeping, and every time I think about how late I was up, it just spooks me out, cause right now its almost 10 pm and I\’m still not sleepy. I had only about 41/2 hours of sleep before working a 7 hour shift. plus being sick ain\’t no joke. I said to you, Lord, I hardly ever get sick, I said I know whenever I get this way, you are trying to get my attention. I said *what is it that you want me to see*? He said, remember when you and your 2 friends went to dinner last Sunday, and you walked into the restaurant, and everyone was looking at you? And I said yes, he said you have always had that kinda affect on people, and its time you start using it. With that said he gave me my first assignment, and right now I will not tell what it is, because I don\’t believe its good to speak prematurely, but around Thanksgiving time I will share all that he gave to me last night. All I can say is WOW WOW WOW! God is the balm!! Build a relationship with him now while you still have time. I slip a lot * not good*, but its a relationship like no other.

I surf the net a lot and I find a lot of things people say to be so negative. I really don\’t know where does all this negative energy come from. And you know when you are around others and you are this way, it can rub off on them as well. The same goes for a person who speaks positive things, they can easily influence others in their circle to be positive.

My sister was over to my house last night. Oh goodness we had a good talk. She is the kinda person that when she\’s not sure of the choice she has made she will ask others opinions. She loves to debate, we both do. I was telling her how to handle a situation without approaching it in a negative way. I gave her this example.

I said if you were invited to a dinner, and on the table were 10 foods laid out. There are 5 dishes on one side of the counter, and 5 on the other side of the counter. You then pile on your plate:

greens
corn on the cob
yams
barbecue
chicken and dressing
corn bread
potato salad
cake
banana pudding
the you get to #10 which is macaroni and cheese and you skip that one because you don\’t like cheese.

Now this is where the negative part comes in. Why would you go home call your friends and say to them. Yea, I went to this party tonight and all the food was good, but when I got to the macaroni and cheese I didn\’t get any because I don\’t like it. I hate cheese. You should have seen it gurl, it had cheese packed up all around the pan. Then they had the nerve to put extra cheese in it because this one lady couldn\’t stop talking about how cheesy it was. I even heard it was an off brand cheese. Ughhh, when I got to that dish I just wanted to throw out my whole plate. I don\’t see how people can eat cheese like that, it just looks like a big ole pan of yellow stuff. Then gurl you know what too, the handle of my spoon had a bit of cheese on it, and I got me another one. Imma have to stop going to places that serve macaroni and cheese because the smell gets in my nose and turns my stomach. Then as we were leaving this lady asked her daughter if she was going to take home some left over macaroni and cheese. The next function I go to, Imma make sure they don\’t serve that stankin mess.

And my question is? Is that all you got out of this dinner party? What did you like? Talk about the foods you did enjoy. Why mention the macaroni and cheese if you don\’t like it? Discuss how pretty the dinner set up was. Is that all you have to say about a dinner party with 99% of the foods you like? Why do the macaroni and cheese have to be the topic of discussion?

WE have got to watch what we say. I\’m the ring leader. I have to watch my words, they will become action. Everything starts with a thought. People are watching us, they are listening, they are learning. Always speak positive! * Im learning myself*

Cree

Click here if this video doesnt play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML_QydtOae8

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*Cree in real life*

Hey Family!

I miss blogging. Thank you Jesus for restoring my health. I had been feeling bad not weak or anything, just feeling funky with a fever and headache. I had been doing so good with my weight loss and working out daily faithfully. Feeling good, cut the pops, and ice cream. Been eating breakfast * which is a biggie for me* drinking lots of water, orange juice, and just doing my thang…… till this came along. I\’m feeling much much better, I didn\’t even want to come in my office, just lay on the couch. For the last 2 days I called off work * it killed me to do that*, and I\’m going to take one more day just to be safe. My stomach was really off the hook, I\’m thinking maybe it was something I ate. I dunno. But I\’m doing much better now and I\’m happy. With the loss of appetite and lots of working out, I have lost a total of 9-10 pounds.

Guess what? I finally learned how to text. LOL I\’m so old fashion on some things, my daughter showed me how. Mann, back in the day, I had 3 phones in my house all for different people. LOL All I know how to do is dial the number and still I wonder what button to push to send it. Times has really changed I\’ll tell ya that. There was a time when you left the house, that was it. You had to wait till you get home to find out who called you. Even if you had a pager, you still had to get to a phone. I remember going in the house breaking my back tryna get to the called ID. Now, I don\’t even check messages till days later. That\’s bad.

Did you all see the Presidential Debate tonight? I learned a lot tonight about the Characters of Obama, and McClain. I just wish that Obama would * boss up* a little on McClain. McClain act like he didn\’t want to shake his hand, and after all 8 good points Obama had to say about him, still he wanted to act like since he\’s been around longer he knows more. Obama all the way! Good debate!

My mind is kinda all over the place. Ive got a lot to talk about but Neisha is calling me to watch a movie, plus I\’m rambling tonight. Well, I\’ll talk to you all tomorrow about several things. Mainly about staying positive. I dunno what\’s up with you tube. But here\’s a clip to the movie Dan in real life. This clip is sooooooooooooo funny, I play it all the time at home. Take care

Cree * Hecallmecree*

If the video doesn\’t play here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byG7WFFLstA

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*To someone special*~ the note

Hey,

Its been a mintue since weve last talked. You wont beleive that has been reveiled to me. LOL You may laugh. You always say that I have something to say but never say it. Well I do have something to say this time, and its a trip that this just really came to me. All along you had a feeling what it was, but I didnt. Anyway, I really want you to email me when you get a chance. I wanted to post a video, but since youtube is acting up, here are the lryics to the song. You turned me on to it. So here it is.

GOD\’S GONNA CUT YOU DOWN

You can run on for a long time.
Run on for a long time.
Run on for a long time.
Sooner or later, gotta cut you down.
Sooner or later, gotta cut you down.

Go tell that long-tongued liar,
Go and tell that midnight rider,
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back-biter.
Tell \’em that God\’s gonna cut \’em down.
Tell \’em that God\’s gonna cut \’em down.

Well, my goodness gracious,
Let me tell you the news.
My head\’s been wet with the midnight dew.
I\’ve been down on bended knee,
Talkin\’ to the man from Galilee.
He spoke to me in the voice so sweet,
I thought I heard the shuffle of the angel\’s feet.
He called my name and my heart stood still,
When he said, \”John, go do My will!\”

Go tell that long-tongued liar,
Go and tell that midnight rider,
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back-biter.
Tell \’em that God\’s gonna cut \’em down.
Tell \’em that God\’s gonna cut \’em down.
[ Find more Lyrics at http://www.mp3lyrics.org/fmQ ]

You can run on for a long time.
Run on for a long time.
Run on for a long time.
Sooner or later, gotta cut you down.
Sooner or later, gotta cut you down.

Well, you may throw your rock,
And hide your hand.
Workin\’ in the dark,
Against your fellow man
But as sure as God,
Made black and white.
What\’s done in the dark,
Will be brought to the light.

You can run on for a long time.
Run on for a long time.
Run on for a long time.
Sooner or later, gotta cut you down.
Sooner or later, gotta cut you down.

Go tell that long-tongued liar,
Go and tell that midnight rider,
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back-biter.
Tell \’em that God\’s gonna cut you down.
Tell \’em that God\’s gonna cut you down.
Tell \’em that God\’s gonna cut you down.

Cree

Godlovesmealways@comcast.net neshacrese@aol.com

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Entry for September 22, 2008

Hey,

Lord Thank you for another day. Thank you for the peace of mind that you allowed me to see. With all the foolishness that I had in my life once upon a time, never did I know this kinda peace. Thank you Lord for telling me its okay to step out of my comfort zone, wow so much can be missed when you don\’t. Thank you for having me to * run late* for work this afternoon, I could have been in that really bad highway accident. Thank you for always looking out for me and my love ones.

Guess what? I lost 5 pds!!! Yea Creedog! LOL I have been doing the Dr. Phil weight loss race on his web site, and focusing on the 7 keys * I have his book* and I found out some things about myself and was made conscience of them. Im an emotional eater. I eat when things are good in my life. When things are on my mind or Im stressed about something, I lose my appetite. I caught myself last week wanting something to snack on and realized that I was eating off emotions. I was told to set a goal of how many pounds I wanted to focus on losing, and I posted 2, and end up losing 5. LOL Thats so funny to me, because every since Tyler Perry said he gets up at 5 am to work out, I was like shooooo Cree aint gon do that, but dang I can at least * when I do get up* excercise. I found me some really great excercises to do daily, and I was so sore for these last coupla days I didnt want to do anything but lay in my bed. Today my body feels much better. Im feeling so good right now.

Yesterday, me and my 2 co workers went to the movies, and then out to dinner. I really had a good time. We laughed and talk for the whole day. Our main conversation was about when men are up front and honest to the woman as far as where he stand in the relationship. If a man tells you that he is not ready to be in a relationship, but tells you that he wants to have sex, then its up to the woman to decide if thats what she wants. I think that it takes a real man to tell a woman how he feels. If a woman decides that she wants to have sex with him, then she must understand that with sex comes feelings. If she gets emotional involved with him, then she will be in lots of trouble trying to shake the feeling of falling in love. Because he has already told how what to expect from him……..sex and thats it. I tell my teens sex is the easiest thing in the world to get, try to get something thats hard. Sex is free. You can get that anywhere. Go for a long lasting, God given relationship with your husband……..not a sex partner. I dont care how good he looks, how much money he has, how good his loving is, that means nothing if you don\’t have Love.

I use to have gurls nite out at my house, where we would sit around and talk about relationships and I would invite a few of my male friends over to balance out the conversations. I really miss those. I had about 4 or 5 of them. This time Im thinking about renting a room in The Motor City Casino and have it there over night. Kinda like a sleep over, NO DRINKS, goodness…………. when you tell women that you want to get together and have talks, they want men and drinks there. Thats why I havent done anything in about 4 years with the women. With my teens when I threw them a hotel party all they wanted was music, and snacks. lol. Im seriously thinking about throwing one. I mean seriously.

Whew I can barely keep my eyes open. Im gone to bed. Talk to you all later.

Hecallmecree

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*32 or 33*

Hey,

What a day I had to day. Lord Thank you for letting me see another one. Thank you for my sanity, Thank you for showing me how to deal with all the people you bring my way daily. Thank you for the 5 years at Walmart that you had to teach me how to deal with people and their many personalities and Spirits. I\’m a work * under construction* Someone said to me: \”stop letting people get under your skin\”. I have heard that voice over, and over, and over in my head, and that\’s what helped me to get through. There are things that push my button, but see now I recognize the foolishness and I\’ll cut it off there.

Today I wasn\’t feeling to well. I think I was running a temperature. I need some rest that\’s what that is. I will be getting some tonight. I need to go and iron my clothes for work, but heck I\’ll do it in the morning.

Today these 2 older white ladies came through my line. They had separate orders. The first lady\’s order came up to $2 and some change, after I told her the total, she was fumbling in her purse. So while she did that I decided to grab her 2 bags off the spinner and walk them around and put them in her basket. So when I put them in the cart, I looked up at her. She seemed to be mumbling something, so I said to her * ma\’am are you alright*? She said, I feel like I\’m going to faint. so I looked at her and something * God* told me to hold her hand. As soon as I grabbed her hand she FELL OUT! OMG She was a tall, but small framed lady, but she felt like dead weight. I called over a manager who was walking by, to help me get this lady, she was heavy. Yall know I wanted to cry right? But I had to boss my game up and be there for this lady. So we were hollering out * Code White*, it took 3 of us to keep this lady from falling and hitting the ground. Just as we all got a hold of her, she came back. My coworker got got her a chair, and we helped her to sit down. Her friend couldn\’t believe it. She said that they have been friends for 60 years. LOOK AT GOD! AINT THAT A BLESSING?. The EMS came and she didn\’t want to go to the hospital, yall know how older people are, shooo, young ones too. But she was the driver, ain\’t that something? So she agreed to go with the EMS, and we found out that the pharmacist is her son-n law. So that worked out perfectly. I hope that everything will be okay with her. They were so cool too. Let me tell you, my coworkers are the bomb!!! When something like that happens, every body stop drop and roll for out customers. It ain\’t even about being noisy, they went and got her a wet towel, orange juice, water, chair all inside of seconds. My store manager will run, I mean run to make sure everything is okay. I really love how they handle things in time of an emergency. And don\’t let a child come up missing, shoooo we shut the store doors DOWN! I know some are saying, well that\’s what you are suppose to do when things happen to the customer. And yes that\’s true, and let me say WE TAKE CARE OF OUR CUSTOMERS!! After this was all over, I realize that this experience was something I personally needed. I\’m such a cry baby, and this was my first in my face kinda stuff. A person falling out in your arms…….come on now that\’s major! So I needed to Boss up, and really be hands on in a situation like this. So thank you Lord for the opportunity to help someone today. I really love your people! Thank you!

Huhhh, guess what? I broke up with my boyfriend of 22 years today! Its over, I\’m so through with him. He doesn\’t love me, and not one day has he shown me real love. After I love him, he laugh at me, and so today was the last straw. I told him to get out of my life!!! He is officially dead in my book, and I can show him better than I can tell him. His name is Yep, food!! I realize that *he don\’t love me*. I have done all my exercises
today, plus drank my 40 ounces of water.I\’m too beautiful for all this weight. I can\’t do it anymore. I\’m tired. Enough talking about it, Imma be about it!

I told you all yesterday that I am learning to step out of my norm of things. Once upon a time I use to be the party gurl. I had parties at my house every weekend. One party my sisters friend woke up the next day laying in my drive way. The person I am today, would call the police on myself for just a person stretch outside till the break of dawn. But you know you live and you learn. Guess the point I\’m making is, 2 of my coworkers are coming over Sunday afternoon for a gurls day in. We are going to get something to eat, and come back to my house to chat and laugh. I don\’t like people at my house ,especially co workers. * I know I gotta get out of that trust mess*. People see you at work, and they are dying to see what your home life is like. Imma laid back kinda gurl, and I love and nice, clean home and plenty of peace. a part of losing weight is coming out of your comfort zone. And boy am I!!!! So yall pray for Cree! LOL

I was about 32 or 33 when I started driving and got my license. I was scared!!! Oh my goodness. I had met this guy who was a Virgo like me. We were so much alike, it killed our friendship. That was back when I didn\’t have any control over my mouth. He would come over all shob * my word* and smelling good. But he always wanted me to drive. I didn\’t know how to drive and he knew it. He would always throw up in my face, dang I wish you could drive so that you could drive me around. He wasn\’t saying it in a * lazy* way, but in a way that he was feeling me and wanted his * gurl* to drive. He felt strongly that it was so sexy for a woman to drive her man around. I felt terrible. Cause Imma bonnie and Clyde kinda silly chick, and I couldn\’t meet his standards in that area.

After a while we couldn\’t get past first base, he was reading me and I was reading him and he was moving too fast, wanted to marry me and N E WAYSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, we departed. WE were still cool after that. But guess you know your gurl went and learned how to drive, got her license and was like WHERE HE AT? LOL ROFL! Shoo. now you can\’t tell me nothing!! I\’m the baddest chick in drive especially highway driving! What cha say?? LOL Now I can\’t wait to drive my man around. All I do is highway driving everywhere I go. I love to drive and its all because of him.

I\’m continuing my Chemistry blog entries, by playing one of my favorite videos, and its #20 on my iPod.

Im gone for the night.

Be Blessed

Cree

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* Chic Chemistry*

Hey Peeps!

My numbers are flying high on the counter and I\’m loving it, at least somebody enjoys sharing this crazy mind of mines.

This is Chemistry week for me. And I\’m just loving and playing that Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye song over and over and over again * in my last entry*. I love a couple with great chemistry. So guess what I found surfing the web? Many, many photo shots of Taraji and Tyler. They look soooooo cute together….OMG. Even though its for the movie, they look good!! Hmmmm I wonder if she\’s single. He\’s my boy and she\’s my gurl. I love the photos.

Work was cool today. I had a headache, just trying to make it through the day and I did. Thank you Jesus for that. When I got home my sister was here, and then my other sister came over and we watch Biography it was good.

As you may know today was my first day trying this weight loss thingy again. I started exercising yesterday, and did good. Today I did the same ones, I\’m keeping track of them. I drank 40 oz of water and I ate breakfast. Eating breakfast is a biggie for me. I hate eating early in the morning. But its not that bad I see. I was working and zoning out thinking about myself. I\’m 41 and people look at me thinking I\’m 27. While I love that…….this weight is killing me. I have the *bomb shape* under this fat, and I want it back. There is no reason for me to be this over weight. I\’m sick and tired of it. I have to give up what I love most and sacrifice. I do good drinking a lot of water, and also walking which is my favorite thing to do. I love to walk. I walked the Brooklyn Bridge when I went to New York with some friends. The whole Bridge!! Yeah tell me I ain\’t a bad sista! So that\’s where I am right now in my life. If I post some photos of me at 27 yall would be like NAW, NAW CREE tell me you didn\’t gain that much weight? And the tripped out part about it is, my waist is soooo small. And then comes all these thighs. lol. You can set a plate of dishes on this behind and it won\’t fall off!! Lord help me. LOL Imma get it together. My legs are sore for working out tonight. Tomorrow I\’m going to do them just before work. I\’m trying to change the way I think. I can get into a mode and do things that way for a long time. Dr. Phil said changing the way you think is one of his keys. So guess what I did tonight before coming home? I shopped around Walmart and bought some of the things I need like mouthwash, toothpaste, smell goods . Well, I switched up and bought new fragrances. Yall should have seen me wanting to put them back and get what I normally get. But I didn\’t, and I\’m so happy. That\’s a start for me. Somebody pray for my strength and will power to lose this weight. If I can get up the nerve to post a video of myself I will. I know for sure that when I lose it, I am going to wish I did show footage. Keep me in your prayers okay?

The song below is one of my excercise songs. Its # 33 on my iPod

Well, I gotta punch a clock tomorrow. Good Night!

Cree

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*Tammi Terrell*,Dr. Phil, Cree*

Thank you Lord! Today I was slow getting outta bed. I was kinda depressed or tired I dunno. I never sleep in the bed late, today it was after 3pm when I got outta bed. What got me up and moving was when my boy Dr. Phil came on. I love him. He is so honest and he means well. He\’s another person people just don\’t get. I think some people like to be lied too. N.E. way……. I was watching the show and they were talking about weight loss. Just what Ive been thinking about and probably feeling depressed. I jumped outta bed, wrote down goals, went on line and signed up with the people he had on his show today. I did the thang here at home. Even started my exercises. See I started a weight loss group on line with 22 people, and I lost 23 pounds……and gained all by 2 pounds back. After a while we all started losing interest and that was it. We were doing so well. Anyway….ain\’t gonna cry ova spilled milk. I\’m just ready to get started again. I learned a lot from when I lost the first time…… a whole lot. For me its about portions and being conscience of what I eat. I\’m excited, the more I participate, the better it is for me.

Neisha got me geeked on Wikipedia. I found out a lot about people on that site. Some very interesting facts as well. Every Wednesday night I\’m going to feature a new person. This week\’s person is Tammi Terrell. I just love her voice, and I had heard so many different stories on how she died. I\’m closing for now, take care, and Cree will talk to you all tomorrow.

Tammi Terrell

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Tammi Terrell
Background information
Birth name Thomasina Winifred Montgomery
Born April 29, 1945(1945-04-29)
Origin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died March 16, 1970 (aged 24)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genre(s) R&B, soul
Occupation(s) Singer
Years active 1961 – 1970
Label(s) Scepter/Wand
Try Me
Checker
Tamla
Associated acts James Brown, Marvin Gaye

Tammi Terrell (April 29, 1945 ��� March 16, 1970) was a Grammy Award-nominated American soul singer, most notable for her association with Motown and her duets with Marvin Gaye. As a teenager she recorded for the Scepter/Wand, Try Me and Checker record labels. She signed with Motown in 1965 and enjoyed modest success as a solo singer. Once she was paired with Gaye in 1967, her stardom grew, but later that year she collapsed on stage into Gaye\’s arms during a performance. She was then diagnosed with a brain tumor which eventually led to her death at the age of only 24.

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Tammi Terrell in her early years.

Born Thomasina Winifred Montgomery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she entered the music business at the age of 13, regularly performing live. In 1961 she was signed to the fledgling Scepter Records (later Wand Records), recording under the name \”Tammy Montgomery\”. After coming to the attention of James Brown she recorded one single apiece for Brown\’s own Try Me record label and, in 1964, Checker Records. The year after that, she was spotted by Berry Gordy Jr. while playing live, and signed to his Motown label. Attractive and talented, she became romantically linked with both James Brown and David Ruffin, who was in the award winning group The Temptations.

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Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

Initially Terrell recorded solo, with only moderate success (she had a pair of R&B Top 30 singles in 1966, \”I Can\’t Believe You Love Me\” and \”Come on and See Me\”) . However, from 1967 onwards she recorded a series of duets with Marvin Gaye, producing hits with Ashford & Simpson written tunes such as \”Ain\’t No Mountain High Enough\”, \”Ain\’t Nothing Like the Real Thing\” and \”You\’re All I Need to Get By\”.

However, Terrell\’s success was to be short-lived. On October 14, 1967, while in concert at the homecoming for Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, outside of Farmville. she collapsed in Gaye\’s arms. She was rushed to the hospital, she was later diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. From then on her health deteriorated. Gaye later told his biographer David Ritz that Terrell was no longer able to record and that Valerie Simpson recorded most of the female vocals on the final Gaye/Terrell duet album, Easy. (Simpson is quoted as denying this in a book written by Terrell\’s sister Ludie Montgomery.)

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Terrell died on March 16, 1970 at the age o
f only 24. Marvin Gaye reacted to her death by taking a two year hiatus from concert performance and went into self-isolation. In addition, in 1971 Gaye\’s classic album What\’s Going On, an introspective, low-key work which dealt with mature themes, was in part a reaction to Terrell\’s death[1].

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(* – credited as Tammi Terrell, but allegedly sung by Valerie Simpson, see above)

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  • 1963: \”I Cried\” (as Tammi Montgomery) #99 US
  • 1966: \”I Can\’t Believe You Love Me\” #72 US
  • 1966: \”Come On and See Me\” #80 US
  • 1967: \”What a Good Man He Is\”
  • 1969: \”This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)\” #67 US

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NAME Terrell, Tammi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montgomery, Thomasina Winifred
SHORT DESCRIPTION Singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1970
PLACE OF DEATH Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Here is a video of Tammi and Marvin Gaye. I just LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THE CHEMISTRY THEY HAVE. GOODNESS! Please look at the look she give him starting at 36 and ending at 55. Ahhhhhhhh that is so sexy to me. Then she breaks out into her little SEXY dance, just after the rolling of the eyes look. I keep playing it over, and over, and over. See my husband betta watch out cause I love those sexy * only you know* what Im talking about baby LOOKS! Wow what a song! Find me a duet with this kinda Chemistry!!! Find me one PLEASE!

Marvin is looking good too . They look so good together!

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*Lacrease\’s Ramblings*

Whats\’ up!!!

Thank you Jesus for waking me up this morning. Thank you for such a beautiful day.

This morning my best friend Charlene called me at 9 ish to make sure that we were still going to see Tyler Perry\’s movie. I saw it 2 times already, but it was her first time. One thing I learned today was that going in the mornings is so much betta. There were a lot of older people there, and it was packed too. I just minus well face it, I can\’t deal with those young kids in the show anymore. Yeah, yeah I know I use to be one of them walking in talking, laughing, and stuff. I can\’t deal with that no more. LOL I took my mom this past Saturday and we were doing fine before the lights went down, as soon as they did, 2 teenage couples sat behind us. The guys weren\’t talking that much, it was the dogone gurls. My momma blocked them out, because she\’s used to blocking out kids * it was 4 of us growing up* but they were getting on nerves. I\’m sitting there, making all kinds of mouth noises like huuhhhhhhhhhh, OMGOODNESS I CANT HEAR, we ain\’t coming here no more MOMMA, dang I can\’t even hear the movie OUTBURST. Till finally the Virgo in me was dying to come out. Begging me. I finally turned around , with my teeth shinning in the dark like flash lights, and gave them this look lolllllllllll and said \” Can yall Please, Please let us hear the movie\”? They said at the same time * yes ma\’am*. ROFL! Dayum kids!!! Guess what goes around comes around huh? *That\’s what I get for doing the same things once in my life.*

My best friend loves her some Tyler Perry just as I do. She\’s married for 13 years and love the mess outta her *Tyler Perry looking Husband*. He favors Tyler so much its funny. Her husband is 8 days older than Tyler, he\’s a workaholic, sweet as pie, very attentive, ask lots of questions, and has that thickness. Oh speaking of thickness. OOOOOOOweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee we couldn\’t stop talking about Tyler\’s thighs in the car!! I use to date this guy who had thighs like Tyler\’s. I love a man with thick thighs. I told my one friend years ago, if you ever ever ever, ever, ever, ever, ever lose your stomach, goatee and thighs, WE ARE THROUGH! You can be thick and still healthy…..boy don\’t play!!! He would say Cree you crazy!! I meant that, LOL LOL knew it. I just wanted to reach into the movie and cuff one of those babies. LOL LOL!

Yall pray for me. Tyler says that with the fame comes fans, and people acting crazy, climblng fences and thangs and. I agree. There are some people who off the chain. But with him comes the Media. I\’m a huge fan of his, and blogs ever a movie comes out I battle with my fingers not to * go off in those people blogs*. Sometimes I can over do it when I\’m trying to get people to see my point.They sit back and wait on Tyler\’s movies and then they have a field day on him. Its unreal to me how they write about him. So with Tyler Perry also comes some things. There are a lot of fans who read the articles and feel the same way. I said that I was going to read only the positive ones, and if not, I was going to click out of it. That\’s foolishness to me, and I\’m not going to be bothered.

And were moving right along………..

When I got home from dropping my best friend off at home from seeing the movie, we talked on the phone for hours about being married. I just love and admire her. I love how she loves her husband. She respects him, she loves him, she adores him. Its hard on her tho, because he drives a truck to different states, and she knows that I\’m that friend that\’s going to make sure she stays on track. I know she gets lonely for him, but see I know what its like to be single. I wish I had a husband, so I\’m living and learning through her eyes about marriage. I always said that when I do get married * if its the Lord\’s will* that the #1 thing will be communication. I see a lot of marriages fall apart because they don\’t talk. How can you even go to bed when you and your husband are not talking? I need peace in my house. I wont even be able to sleep. lol I\’m touchy feely too, so he must be as well. There is nothing like a good touch of a man. That\’s very important to me. I love a man who wears good Cologne. That just does something to me for real. When my best friend got married, she always said that he reminds her of me and till this day. He\’s a Virgo and he\’s a sensitive man. Our feelings can easily be hurt. In my early 20\’s I use to be so insecure. I don\’t even see how Neisha\’s dad dealt with me. OMGoodness. I think back on those days and just shake my head. LOL I desire the kinda man where if he\’s way on one side of the room, and I\’m on another, that I wont get jealous. I wont have to run behind him wondering *what you doing ova here*. I can\’t live like that. I\’m not a needy person. I gotta talk to my boo daily tho when he\’s away from home. But all that *what you doing* every hour stuff, I don\’t require. I know me. I love my space, he has got to have his. When my gurls come over, we will have our space, and he will have his for his boys. Then we have our separate rooms for our office, and oh yessssssssss we will have a family room.

You know when you get older and you start looking at whats important, you don\’t care about all that arguing and falling out. I cant live my life like that. If I\’m wrong about something, its sooo much easier for me to apologize and say boo I\’m sorry…..lets make up and forget about that mess, lets talk about it. I love you. Back in the day shoooooooooo, bump that LOL I wouldnt talk for at least 4 days. Don\’t touch me, don\’t call me, don\’t come over. LOL SMH @ myself. I always like to see what the other person like and feel about a certain situation. And I would want him to do the same for me. Ladies love your husbands, men love your wives.

Watch the videos below…talking about some good music!!! OOO wee!

This is bad chick. This the kinda music I LOVE.

Love ya, Cree

Me\’shell Ndegeocello – I\’m Diggin\’ You (like n old soul rec)

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*Empathy*

Hey,

Thank you Lord for waking me this morning and starting me on my way. Thank you for keeping my family and friends safe. Thank you for showing me who I am. I can\’t say that enough. I don\’t care how right I seem to myself, you always show me when I\’m wrong, and I just love you for that.

Today was one of those days where I\’m in the house looking * ugly*, thinking, and wondering what in the world is wrong with me? I have those days sometimes, when I\’m just too connected to people. Gosh I hate that. Sometimes I wish I could be one of those people that say * oh well too bad for them*. I\’m just not that way. As a matter of fact, let me share what I found out about myself.

I was going through my manual for my Teens group for ideas and work sheets, when I came across the word Empathy. I had heard the word many times before and known it had to do with an emotion, but I never really gave it any thought.

Empathy means: That you can sense, identify with, and understand what another person is feeling. You can almost get inside the person\’s head and heart. You have a shared communion with him or her. If you have empathy, you have compassion for others.

Empathy is the capacity to recognize or understand another\’s state of mind or emotion. It is often characterized as the ability to \”put oneself into another\’s shoes\”, or to in some way experience the outlook or emotions of another being within oneself.

So when I read it, I was just blown away. All of these years and I was wondering what in the world is wrong with me? Why do I cry when someone is talking to me, and they are telling me something that happened * to them*.? Just today, my best friend called me and told me about her friends wedding on yesterday. She was her Matron of Honor and the Bride was so nervous that she was dis taught. As my best friend was explaining every emotion there is for a Bride, in the middle of no where…….. I breaks out and start crying. WTH? Now at this time, I realized that God has given me a triple dose of Empathy, and so I start to clear up my face. I mean I was visualizing every WORD she was saying. After a few minutes I had to push the mute button on my phone, that\’s when my best friend couldn\’t hear me anymore, she said Lacrease Walker, I know you ain\’t crying? She already know! LOL I told her the truth, and asked myself……..gurl what is wrong with you? You were not there, you did not witness this situation, why are you crying? I didn\’t come up with an answer, but I got on line and took an Empathy Test. Are you ready for my results?

Your score: 68
0 – 32 = low (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20)
33 – 52 = average (most women score about 47 and most men score about 42)
53 – 63 is above average
64 – 80 is very high
80 is maximum

So then I took another test. Here are those results.

Your result for The Empathy Test …

The Kind Heart

19 Empathy!

Congratulations. You know that by helping other people, you really do make the world a better place for them AND for you! You know what it feels like to put your feet in someone else\’s shoes. Be careful not to let others take advantage of you, though; not everyone is as kind-hearted as you. Otherwise, keep up the good work!

I can be in a movie, watching it, and as soon a song come on, my mind starts to put the scene together with the music, and bam……crying like a dogone baby.This middle age white lady and her mother came through my line one day, the lady was hollering so bad at her mother, it was a shame. I love kids,teens and old people. When she did that I was so mad at her, I just bust out and started crying. Now I know why I\’m this way. Someone could be talking to me and need ministering too, once I hear their story and begin to picture it, oh my goodness, its over. That visual makes me cry. And here I\’m thinking to myself * gurl if you don\’t clear up your face while this lady tell her story*. LOL I\’m suppose to be ministering to someone and here I am crying more than they are about their own story. What kind of stuff is that?

For this last past week or so, I\’m trying to not be so connected with people. Now that I know about my gift a little deeper. I realized that when I give heavy eye contact, I become deeply connected to them. So now when I scan their items, I look away more quickly and then talk to them looking up once, and then as they are exiting my line. I can read body language, facial expression, voice tone everything. That\’s a huge deal to me. I gotta stop this. LOL Once we lock eyes, I GOTCHA, I\’m the spider and your the fly! If Neisha has something to tell me, and she knows Imma cry about it, she\’ll say…….. momma I got something to tell you and don\’t cry okaaaay? LOL

Even tho me and Neisha were born on the same day, we are so different. She is more the person that WONT cry, she will sit with you, comfort you, show the best hospitality, and ask questions to come up to a solution. Ill do that as well, but first I gotta get my cry out with the person. hehehe. Anyway, I can finally rest that nothing is wrong with me, I just got doused with a triple dose of Empathy and there is nothing I can do about it. When I learn to use it without crying all the time, I am going to be one powerful Sister. Can you imagine how many people I can relate too? Now I know why so many people come to me for advice, and conversation. Now I know!! Now I know why. Sometimes I feel like:

Everything is good.

Guess what? Ive been at Walmart for 5 years, and guess what they\’ve announce this year for OUR store? To be open on Thanksgiving!!! I said to myself……yall got thatgurltheycallCree messed up!! That is disrespectful to the employees, and the customers. From what I hear, they are taking volunteers first, then they are putting you on the schedule. Well, Ive been there for 5 years and I have never been wrote up for my attendance, I have been called to the office for a warning, and that was it. Lets just say that\’s the end of this conversation.

I\’m gone to bed, gotta get up and go to work at 8:30. Then I have the next 2 days off. Yea, I gotta focus on me right now. I\’m going to share that this week what I\’m talking about………its a good thing too.

Aiight

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September 13, 2008 Tyler Perry Weekend!

Hey, hey hey!

First, let me say Thank you Jesus for waking me up at 4:00am this morning to pray. Wow you haven\’t done that in a while. Thank you for watching me sleep at night, and for waking me up to do that job. I admire you Lord, I adore you. I just want to look at you, kiss you, and for some silly reason….. smell your neck. Thank you for such a beautiful day. Thank you for life lessons that I wake up to daily. I love to learn, listen and love people. Thank you for my growth. I see it Lord, and I Thank you for showing me YOU.

Today my Maxwell ticket came in the mail, and it was SOAK AND WET. Its raining cats and dogs here. Yall know I was mad right? LOL It is funny tho, aint gon be funny if they scan my ticket and it won\’t go through. I know my Virgo self aint gonna stop thinking about it until I call TICKETMASTER on Monday. Its dry now but still.

Well, starting tonight Im doing a 3 part story on Tyler Perry. The Media, The Man, The Movie. Without further due, here is part 1.

The Media

Its fair to say * to me anyway* lol that I\’m one of Tyler\’s biggest Cheerleaders/Fan/Admirer. I absolutely adore and admire this man. But one thing that comes along with him is *The Media*.

Every time a movie comes out I get an instant headache, reading the critics/bloggers columns on his movies. I have a google alert for him, and no doubt my mailbox is always full. I\’m normally the kinda person who really doesn\’t care what anyone has to say about anything as long as I love it. But with them its different. Yesterday I had to beg God to make me close out this one article I read before I ripped into the writer raw. So, I sat at my desk and asked myself, why is it that you get upset when the writers /bloggers criticize his movies?

I realized that I, Lacrease wake up daily to learn. I love to learn. If I go to the store and buy some chewing gum, I will come out of that store learning that the store doesn\’t open on Sundays. That\’s just the type of person I am. I love to learn. No one is like Lacrease. I may not get a lot of things on the spot, but I bet you…….it\’ll come to me. I say all of that to say. I feel sorry for them. When these critics and bloggers go to a Tyler Perry movie, the first thing they want to know is why does Tyler Perry always have his name in front of all his movie title? Please let me answer that one. Please! Because he dayum wants too! That\’s why. There is nothing else to say after that. Its because he can! He did! How somebody gon ask you, how come you put your name in front of your movies? I have my name spelled out on my License plate. I will never ever as long as I live have numbers as my license plate. That\’s my business. That\’s how I want it. I\’m happy to be grown to do things my way. Those same people who have something to say about Tyler putting his name in front of his movies, are somewhere doing them………..OR SOMEBODY ELSE…………..as usual!

How is it that those same people can go to a movie and not come out with a lesson learned? These clowns don\’t get it. And I\’m reading saying to myself are they slow, or dumb? What is it? Hollywood got them so messed up they believe that they are suppose to go see a movie and be entertained all the time. I\’m sorry but ummmm, I don\’t want to go see a movie and laugh all the time. I wanna get something from it. When I get in my car and drive off from the theater, I want to reflect on that movie and say….. WOW I got that!!!!!

Not these people.They want to laugh, and leave the movies just like they came!

I went to see Tyler\’s movie Thursday night Friday morning at the 12:01 midnight showing here in Detroit. I loved it. Later that day * Friday Sept 12* after work, I opened up my mailbox…..OMGOODNESS. I had so many google alerts on Tyler. LOL They just don\’t get it. And you know what? After I read about 12 or so, I had to stop myself because I was getting upset and had to take an Advil. I realized that these bloggers and critics have seen themselves or someone they know in this movie and they are just not ready *to dance* to deal with this kinda story line. When you see THIS kinda movie you are forced to see yourself, your family member, or a close friend on the screen. FORCED! The good part about that is, he will write in a solution for you. And if they are not a person who prays often or have a relationship with God, then critics/bloggers will have a lot of negative things to say. They see themselves, their uncles, brothers, bosses on the screen and they don\’t know how to deal with it.

They don\’t understand Tyler, and I now know that after seeing the movie 2 times. His work is foreign to them. They need constant Entertainment. Tyler is leading people to God, and if they\’re not in that place at that time to see it, they\’ll miss it. Tyler is moving right along, and when its all said and done.. Tyler\’s work will cross their paths, some will reach for the life jacket, others will continue to stay behind. Its all up to them. Lacrease can no longer get upset when they write negative things about her friend. That\’s just the way it is.

I\’m also tripping on the number of screens that Tyler\’s movie is playing on. I\’m still trying to understand why his movie is playing on less screens than Brad Pitt and Jada Picket movie. Then when the numbers are read for the weekend, they get mad when Tyler beat the * name brand* folks out. If they all started out with the same amount of screens, Tyler would put a chock hold on everybody. And they know it. But that\’s okay too, because in not one article did they mention that fact. I have come to realize that it is what it is. And its okay.

Good Night!

Cree

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