Discipline, My Foo Fee!

Hey!!

How was your Christmas? Mines was nice, very nice. My family came over to my house and we ate Mustard and Collard greens, Turkey and Dressing, Macaroni and Cheese, and Ham. For desert we had sweet potato pies, lemon and chocolate cakes and a big ole bowl of Banana Pudding. We didn\’t do it as big as we did for Thanksgiving, but we ate good. I had to be at work the next morning at 6 am. Walmart was off the hook too on Christmas Eve, but the day after wasn\’t that bad………..until after my shift was ova. LOLThen it got ugly!!! Today I had to work from 10:30-2:30. I\’m home, well rested and blogging.

Eartha Kitt died last night. My daughter was sad, she has 4 of her songs on her iPod, and she loved her in Boomerang. We didn\’t even know she was sick. May she Rest in Peace!!!

I will finish this blog entry tomorrow!! Love ya

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Ok, I\’m back. I got sleepy and had to make a mad EXIT off this computer. LOL. I went to lay on the couch and decided to start on my *Lets talk about Pep* book that my daughter bought for me for Christmas. I got to the 10Th page and I was nodding. Last night before I went to bed I was thinking about how undisciplined I am in many areas. I can see a project from the beginning and then see the end results, but for some reason I can\’t seem to finish them. I don\’t know why. Well I went to look up articles on Discipline and here are the important lines that got me on track this morning.

Self Discipline~ Is the ability to get yourself to take action regardless of your emotional state. Self Discipline can empower you to overcome any addiction or lose any amount of weight. It can wipe out procrastinations, disorder, and ignorance. It becomes a powerful teammate when combined with other tools like passion, goal-setting, and planning. Self Discipline is like a muscle the more you train it, the stronger you become. The less you train it, the weaker you become. When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else. The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room. Willpower is your ability to set a course of action and say * ENGAGE*!!!!

After reading just that last night. It made me set personal goals before going to bed for today. I set out to do 10 things and to check each off before going to the next one. And then I set a BIG goal for myself to do. Its really really hard to discipline yourself. I can go see a play and be on time, go to a concert and be on time, go to Church and be on time * never late for Church EVER* but when it comes time to meeting at a family or friends house * I\’m always late*, when it comes to going to work and because we have a 15 minute grace period * I\’m always late but never beyond the grace. The older I\’m getting the more I hate being late. I HATE IT!!! So tomorrow * somebody hold my hand*, I\’m going to set a goal to be punched in for work NOT ONLY at 8:30 am as I\’m scheduled, but to be at my register at that time ready to ring up my first customer. Something so simple for the next person, is a hard one for me.

Well, I\’m headed off to bed, gotta be at work at 8:30. I\’m going to do my best at being at work on time without using my grace period. And I will report back tomorrow of how I did.

Above is a photo of my *niece* foo foo. She is my sister\’s dog and I love her to pieces!!! I love when she lays on the floor like this, she thinks she is a little gurl. When I knock on the door, she won\’t know who it is, until she gets on the top of the couch and look out of the window. When she sees that its me, she goes crazy barking for somebody to let me in. When I come in, I hug my nieces and nephews, sister and brother in law, she GETS MAD, she feels she should get my attention first. We be cracking up. Then once I give her kisses and hugs, she runs around the house running all over the place showing off. Don\’t let little kids come over and I talk to them Foo foo will let it be known that she\’s number 1 in my book. AND SHE IS!!! For Christmas my momma bought her a coat, and her fat butt cant even fit it. She is a miniature doberman, and the doctor * VET* told my sister that she had to lose weight. So they put her on this diet, then my sister went back and the doctor was pleased, as soon as she got home, they started feeding her a lot and that gurl is HUGE!!! When I come over her house. and I\’m about to leave, she\’ll wait until I open my car door, and she\’ll run and get in the back seat, and be looking like I ain\’t getting out this car. We laugh and laugh at that gurl foo foo. I\’ll just jump in the car and take her home with me, and if I\’m going to run errands that I wont have to get out, she goes with me all the time. She likes to sit in the front, and got a nerve to get mad when she gotta get in the back. LOL I love my niece. I have sooooooooooooooooooooo many photos of her on my phone. Above is my favorite. Enjoy!

God bless You all

Cree

Lacrease\’s Ramblings 2!

Ok, its Sunday afternoon and here I am blogging again!! I\’m sleepy, and too lazy to get off this computer and take a napski. Now watch tomorrow at work its gon be pumping, and when I come home I\’m going to pass out!!! LOL I use to love taking naps, but now I just can\’t see myself sleeping in the middle of the day. I\’ll doze off at the computer, but to actually go and lay down in my bed, I have to be dead tired to do that. But I have to take one today, cause I went to bed late and was up early this morning.

Church service was off the chain today. The topic was * Gods got a miracle kicking inside of me*. One thing that Pastor said that stuck to me was…. *Don\’t get mad when folks don\’t help you, sometimes we are so busy being weak that we can\’t be strong.* That is the absolute truth. We look to * people* to do the things that God wants to do. We assign people to do them for us and when they don\’t come through LIKE we want them to, that\’s when we get mad and upset. That kinda behavior keeps you in bondage to folks. Depending on * people* instead of God will have you out of your mind and * holding on* to the next person who show you a little bit of love. That could spell disaster.

There was a time in my life when everything revolved around my friends. I have always had a good circle of friends, that all are in my life today but I realized that we didn\’t have to hang out daily, and talk on the phone all day, or sit up in each others house 9am-3am. If I needed a ride somewhere, I knew who to call. And see I got depended on them, and where was room for God? I knew him and loved him, but never realizing that he was the one making it possible to get the things done by my friends. Now I\’m at a place where I love all my friends, but I\’m not depended on them. My help comes from God, and yes sometimes through others. I had to learn how to break off friendships that didn\’t encourage, and wasn\’t good for me. It was hard, but God comes first and the best part about it was, he always wired me up about them first. He would warn me before the storm.

I can\’t wait to cook on Christmas Eve!!! I\’m working tho 7-4 and when I come home its on and poppin!! Christmas will be at my house this year, last year it was at my sisters place. She had Thanksgiving at her house this year, and next year on Memorial Day my other sister will be settled into her new home and we will be there. I will be cooking Collard Greens. I love these babies!!! If I\’m at a function and there\’s Collard Greens I\’ll make an announcement and say * I\’m plant manager of these greens*!! LOL. My 17 year old niece loves them too, and we monitor every body\’s plate. lol They be cracking up at us. Ain\’t nobody getting a big plate but US!!! LOL I\’m making a big big big pot Wednesday night with some ham hocks, my sisters and mother is doing their thang with their favorite dishes. I told everyone that\’s coming over on Christmas I LOVE GOING TO THE MOVIES on that day. I\’m going to see my gurl Taraji Henson and MY BAAAAAAAAAABY Brad Pitt in the Curious case of Benjamin Button. I have been waiting on this movie for the longest, we\’re going to an early show so that I can get home to entertain my family and friends. So go and check it out .

Aiiiight I\’m sleepy.My sister just called and wants me to come over to play some games of Clue. Its 4 degrees here in Michigan and I almost went through the phone on her. Then she told me that she was going to bake a lemon cake tonight. I didn\’t care for them until she made one on Thanksgiving. I just might take that smack back and go over there!!! And as soon as I walk in the door, I\’m going to go to her theater room and get my TYLER PERRY\’S* WHY DID I GET MARRIED* MOVIE FROM HER!! This chick had my movie since before Thanksgiving….WTH!! Then as I was leaving her house on Thanksgiving I said OHHHHHHHHHH GURL CHECK IN MY TP. She gon hug me at the door way with those *puppy eyes* and say * paaaaaaaaaaalease can I keep it one mo day? After I gave her the Big Sista Stare down, I said OK. Here it is Christmas and still I haven\’t gotten it back. lol My sisters, my sisters. Every time they come to my house they have to take something outta here. I love them sooooooooooooooooooooooooo DOGONE MUCH!!!! I\’ll get her tho. Ill get her!!! Jesus Thank you for my HANDPICKED * BY YOU* SISTERS AND BROTHER!!!

Well back to work tomorrow and its gon be off the chain. That\’s cool. Time will go fast.

God bless you all

HecallmeCree!

Lacrease\’s Ramblings!

Hey Hey! Thank you Lord for the wonderful things you allow me to see yesterday and today I want to share that story in my * ramblings*.

Yesterday we had the biggest snow storm in *OMG Lacrease Mental History*. lol I mean it started at about 4:30 am Friday morning, and it ended around 1ish almost 2ish that afternoon. When it was all said and done with the blowing wind, we had about 10 inches of snow. When I got up to see how far the snow was up to the house, I could barely open my side door. Snow was blocking the way to open it. I hated to call into work but I had too. I couldn\’t even get to my car that was in the driveway. Snow was everywhere!!!! When I called into work, they said that it was 25 plus people who called in. They didn\’t too much mind because it wasnt busy,so they didn\’t count it against us as far as our point system goes.

But baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaby

Believe me when I tell you they were there today!!! The day after. I had to be at work 10:30-3:00 and I guess you know when it was time for me to go, I was gone! I love it when its busy like that and time goes fast, but today I was feeling under the weather. I dun sat up there and caught a freaking cold. With all those coughing folks I do business with daily, I\’m not surprised. Today was back to normal, the snow is still on the streets, but as long as the rodes are cleared enough to drive they are gonna be out and about. And since we are winding down to Christmas, the rush is on!!! Are you done shopping?

Sometimes I like to challenge myself to do things that\’s * crazy* . I don\’t like to put people in a box and NOBODY can do me. The weather was bad yesterday but after I got my front yard, drive way, and back yard snow plowed, I decided that I was going to go out and gas up, plus go to the grocery store. Even though about 20 plus people were getting stuck on my block, I had to take care of business. I went to the grocery store with no problems, and then to the gas station. As I was standing there pumping gas, I looked out into the busy street leading to the express way I 94, people were stuck everywhere!!! It was unreal. Every where I looked people were out of their cars helping others, people were on cell phones calling their families and toll trucks. People were walking with shovels looking for people to dig out. Then God said: You see why I cause these types of storms? This is how I get you all to see that you need each other. Had this been a regular day, no one would pass each other. Oh I said God you ain\’t gon make me cry at this pump!!! LOL He said look at the lady calling for the toll truck to help her, and he is about to turn around. Look at the car that\’s stuck over there and someone is pushing him so that he can get unstuck. It was amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing to see this happening while God narrate. My eyes were looking at every thing that God was saying to me. He said when people get into this kinda trouble, everyone is eager to help each other, because they don\’t want to see them stuck. I was wowing all while pumping gas. lol People who wouldn\’t even have met were communicate with each other. See God knows what he\’s doing. See in my mind * Lacrease\’s*, I just can\’t see the reason for snow. I just can\’t. But this is not about me, and its waaaay bigger than I can imagine. God knows how to bring us together. Seems like we are only getting along when we are in something that effects us all. I was truly bless to experience people blessing people.

Tyler Perry is coming out with a new movie with my gurl MA to the dayum D E A ! lol That boy is silly. I can\’t wait for this one for real. There are a lot of Madea fans out there, that have been waiting for this movie. I have been reading some comments on line about Tyler Perry playing Madea. And people kill me with when they act like they can\’t separate the movie from the man. Then they say….. he\’s dressing in drag, and the bible says not to do that.. This is a movie GOOF BALLS!! IGNORANT DUMMIES! IS * not are* YALL DUMB? This is a MOVIE. In every movie people prepare for roles. This is not their real life. Denzel Washington is an agent in * Inside Man* but not in real life. Tyler Perry doesn\’t go around in his real life dressing as a woman. Grown folks can sit up and watch cartoons that beat the mess out of each other, and call it * Cartoons*. But those same people can\’t see that Tyler Perry\’s character Madea is a * Movie*. My goodness. People purposely make up blog entries just to talk about my boo, and it use to make me real mad, but now I laugh at those people, cause they don\’t know any better.

If there\’s one thing that I can\’t stand, that\’s someone who ask you questions about YOUR friend when they don\’t have the power/personality/friendship, to ask themselves. One time me and my coworker whom I\’m very close with had a disagreement just before it was time for me to punch out. When I went into the break room people were asking me what was wrong because they had saw us going back and forth. I wasn\’t going to tell them anything between me and my friend. That\’s our business!!! Listen when you open up about a situation that happened with your friend, that leaves room for Satan to come in and cause discord. Because when you and your friend talk and bring the situation to order, those others won\’t be around. And what you told them when you were mad at your friend will be all they seem to want to talk about. And if you let anger guide the way when you were telling them the story, when your friend finds out that you were running your mouth and telling the story to others, there is a chance that you and your friend could fall out. I know. I recently lost an on line friend over this same thing. I\’m serious about stuff like this. I will cut you off with no hesitations. Friendship means a lot to me. I\’m the kinda person that gives Credit to everyone upfront, and the minute your credit score go down, then that\’s it. See I don\’t have time for all the mess, mind games and stuff.

Which brings me to my final topic. For the year of 2009 my main focus is going to be 3 things.

  • My gurls group * Raisingurls to Women*


  • Cree\’s Family and Friends * feeding the homeless*

  • My new Women\’s Group *Sistagurls*

Next year I want to be helping people randomly. Being tuned in through God to meet the needs of his people. I enjoy helping people. I remember when I was in my teens and I would go out with the gurls next door to us. They come from a family of ministers and musicians. THE WHOLE FAMILY!!! lol And we would go places and have fun, but I was the youngest and neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr had money. This gurl name Lynn use to take care of me. She would buy me what ever they had. I thought she was rich. LOL My momma always trusted me with them, and when I was younger I would say when I got older I\’m going to be just like her. I\’m going to help the young gurls who don\’t have much, who is Hungary, who needs to talk, who needs a friend. And its funny because I\’m that person today. I love helping the young gurls at work, they just don\’t know what I do its because a seed was planted in me to do so. And for that I thank God for * not having money* when I was younger. This gives me the chance to plant seeds in others. And everything I do is in my heart and will stay. It\’s no body\’s business but mines and God.

So in 2009 I\’m stepping up my game. My Vision is huge. Sometimes I have to shut my mind off because whats about to happen in 2009 is endless.

Be Blessed! Lacrease

My dream

Hey!

How is everyone? Lord Thank you for this day that you allowed me to see. Thank you for your many many blessings. Thank you for my friends and family whom I LOVE DEARLY. They are handpicked just FOR ME. Thank you for knowing me……..Lacrease.

This morning I had a dream that I was married. I think about being married so much that I FINALLY had a chance to live it out in my dream. Something I never get to do. I was married to this guy who was wonderful. He wasnt all that fione, but he was my husband. But he loved me and I loved him. I can still feel his Spirit while typing this. I had never seen this guy in real life, he was just someone in my dream. He had kinda like a Wyclif look about him, with lots of hair on his face, brown skin and he had a cast on his arm. He loved me so much. And I loved him something serious. In my dream he asked me for a piece of gum and I didn\’t have any more. So he looked over at me and said, we\’re married now, you can give me half from yours you\’re chewing. In my dream I was like yesssssssssssssss, that\’s right…….. here baby!!! We were so happy to do that, I can still see myself sharing a kiss with him and sharing my gum.

I remember looking at my finger and seeing this huge ring on it and feeling so good that this ring represented my marriage to this wonderful man. I remember playing a game with another couple, and having so much fun looking over at him. But coming to the end of the dream, his past was catching up with him, and he was going to be killed. That was so weird, because we knew it ahead of time, but in my dream he didn\’t die. Instead we enjoyed every minute of being married. Making love with him didn\’t seem like a sin, it was real. We were married. He loved me so much. Do yall know I can still feel that love we had for each other and it was JUST a dream.

Here is a photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and his BEAUTIFUL wife Mrs. Coretta Scott King. I just LOVE THIS MAN TO PIECES!! He is surely my hero on earth. I love this photo.

I adore this photo of Ed *Ex Atlanta Falcon Foorball player* and Lisa Hartwell * she\’s from Atlanta Housewives*. I feel like crying. This is beautiful. Look how his hands is wrapped around her stomach. So romantic and so beautiful.

*To be continued*… DONE

Hey,

Last night I was lying on the couch thinking about how I use to be when I was young and at home with my parents. I had this terrible attitude. To be honest I can\’t remember a time being happy with myself, unless I was prancing in the mirror at my * light skin* *glass hour figure* and *long hair*. Boy was I lying to myself. I was truly unhappy. For one I was a virgin and raped by a boyfriend, and just couldn\’t get over the fact that I use to exercise my bragging rights that I was a virgin at 17. And when it happened my whole turned upside down.

Nothing about me was happy. I had an attitude if I had to pick up a piece of paper off the floor. I hated everybody who didn\’t agree with me, and woe if you cross me, I had a tongue so sharp that it could cut you mentally and physically and have you bleeding from the inside out. My parents use to warn me that if I didn\’t change my ways, that it would be hell to pay. She said people out in the streets ain\’t gon put up with your mouth and attitude like we do. I had a answer for that too. OH WELL and in the words of Morris Day * aint nobody bad as me*!!!

I had come from a very close family with the best brother and 2 sisters in the world, not to mention the best parents who put us first no matter what. When my attitude was full bloom in its cancerous state, my sister who was 3 years under me, was beginning to act just like me * but worse*.

*To be continued*

* Continued* ~ Sunday morning 4:17 am.

My sister was always getting into trouble at school, getting kicked out of a high school, and fighting every gurl who she didnt like. To this day, with the family we had, how in the world did we end up with terriable attitudes?

When I turned 22 I moved into my own apartment. I wanted to get to know me. I started partying and having what * I thought* was a good time. After many many years passed, I still didnt know who I was. My sister the one under me who also had a bad attitude, had gotten older , she finished High School with her high school sweetheart, and they both went to college and got their Associates Degree.

At some point in my life I started reading my bible. I felt that it was time for change in my life I knew God, and I wanted more than what I was experiencing. As I started reading books from the new testiment I had this strong connection with Paul. Paul was something else back in his day. Just as I was. When God began to work on my attitude, I began to change. I mean really change. The things that I loved to do so much I didnt like doing. When I would see young people with all this attitude, it would do something to me, because for the first time I got to see how I looked. I didnt like who I saw, and for some reason I always was in the presense of those kinda people. What I did the most, and didnt do anymore, I had to sit in the midst of . I saw first hand how it could ruin your life.

I use to be on welfare and when I had to talk to my worker about my case. I had to talk to her nice and if I didnt I knew she would prolong my case. At some point in my life, I didnt care that she was case worker, if she got wrong with me I would get wrong with her. Not even thinking or realizing MY attitude was riding on her decision to help me now or later. I was too stupid to see that connection.

The more I was trying to change my ways, the more God put people in my life that was just like me. I was looking at these people , like dang whats going on in their life that they are just funky acting? The more I saw them, the better my attitude became. It reminds me of Paul, just as wicked as he was before, when he became a *soldier* for God he had to *work even harder to gain back the people who was lost, and then gain NEW beleivers. Thats how it felt for me. Even to this day, its even harder.

Today at 41 Im alwaysssssssssss meeting or coming in contact with people with those attitudes. Its soooo funny to me, cause I see what God is doing. Who is better equipped to deal with these people THAN ME? LOL God said Im going to pair you up Lacrease with these types of people because you know first hand the roots of the problems, and you UNDERSTAND. And within the last 2 years I just realize this.

The first thing God trained me in this area is. That people\’s attitude is NOT about ME. For example. When I was mean and snapping at people, it wasnt about the actual person who Im giving the hard time too, it was about someting inside of ME. Something already there before I got to this person. So now that I know that, its easier for me to penpoint the problem when Im talking to someone about their attitude. And guess what else I found out? Sometimes its not that people have attitudes, they may just have something on their minds. I remember a time when I would get an attitude just because you had one. LOL Aint that crazy? Until I realized that it WASNT an attitude, it was that they had just lost a family member.

When I start my gurls group back up in April 2009, this is an area Im really going to teach on because there are a lot of gurls who walk around with anger build up inside of them, and it leads to having bad attitudes. After so many years of this, it can lead to very serious crimes. They need to learn how to FIND THE ROOT of their problems and get/ask for help in those areas.

My sister who was just like me, she\’s 38 and I cant remember the last time she had an attitude. LOL Its so funny to me, cause we use to be OFF THE CHAIN. The people we are today, we try to help people cause we know what they are going through. WE know that there is a root. We know how hard it is to break the cycle of a bad attitude. We both are constantly talking to people so that they can be happier in their lives when they penpoint the troubled areas and start smiling again. Its challenging yes, but I deal with soooooo many different Spirits daily, that even though its hard work, its so worth it. God gave me all the power I need to changed the lives of others in this area, and Im using it all!

God Bless You

Lacrease

Tyler Perry Wins in Court!!!

Everyone who knows me know that I love me some Tyler Perry. I admit, I was mad a little * got my nerves don\’t I?* that I wasn\’t invited to the Premiere of his new Studio. But that\’s life and I have moved on from those * thoughts*

I follow Tyler\’s work closely and I can always tell when something is going on with him that he hasn\’t talked about. I can always tell. I dunno why me? Its like I\’m connected to this man in a strange kinda way. And although he is extremely fione to me, I see him as a little Brother.

When I found out that he was being sued for Diary of a Mad Black Woman, I knew that had been on his mind. Preparing for court, especially when it was bought to his attention back in May 07 sometimes of last year. When something is on a Virgo\’s mind, especially involving other people, it does something to us. Even though our band don\’t stop playing, it does makes us * tired*. With a Verdict of not guilty, believe me, my friend Tyler Perry IS eating Shrimp * one of his favorites* today. LOL

One thang I know about Tyler. Us Virgos will encourage you until Jesus comes. A customer can tell me her cat is at home sick with the flu and failed kidneys, I will encourage that woman, pray with and for her, show her the Faith that lives in her, and will make her believe that when she gets home her cat will be sitting in the chair knitting HER a blanket. lol But baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaby when we * Virgo\’s* are going through something really deep, We want to shut off the cell phone, house phone, board the door up, throw away the car keys, and lock our selves away till the cops come knocking!!!! That\’s how we are. We want God to come down and talk to us face to face . We need a serious word from God. It has to come from him to us. WE will shut the world off.

Every other day during the trial when I got time I would go to his message board to see what the people were saying, and many would say dang Tyler where are you? We haven\’t heard from you in a while. And I would laugh in my mind saying, YALL AINT GON HEAR FROM HIM UNTIL THIS COURT THANG IS OVER!! LOL He aint mad at nobody, don\’t take it personal, but Tyler Perry got to get through this court and THEN he\’ll be back. And don\’t expect for him to detail everything, he\’s going to straight up give you a WORD. His message is going to encourage you in some way. He knows his job description by God. Don\’t expect anything that can multiply or irritate the * atmosphere* concerning the WON case. He is straight up Ministry Minded, and for that I love him.

Today as Tyler was getting in the truck after winning his case, someone tried to hand him something in a yellow envelope, he asked them what is it? They said a script, and he said something to the fact of *Lady that\’s why I\’m here today*. LOL And it was in Madea\’s voice. I was cracking up!! I said to myself while the trial was going on that people are going to be trying to hand him scripts and he was going to reject them. So many people on the message board want him to read their stuff, and shoooooo I said to myself. If I don\’t know nothing else, Tyler Perry ain\’t going near any body\’s script. All you gotta do is tell a Virgo something one time and its a wrap. You ain\’t nevaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa gotta TELL US NOTHING TWICE. Especially on that same subject. lol So to all those people on the board, yall can hang it up, better send those babies to David Talbert. LOL

The fans were on the court house steps today and every other day. You didn\’t see Oprah and Gail, Sidney or Janet. The fans will show up in hard times, not saying that * Grown and Rich* won\’t. But they have the phone numbers, they can call him at home, on the cell phone, a couple of them probably are meeting him at dinner when its over. But today was the fans time to show support and plus I enjoyed seeing the * ride or die* as he calls US.

The Virgo in Tyler is probably catching up on all the neglected mail and phone calls, eating his favorite foods again, playing his Church music as he always does, and Thanking God this is finally over * for now*. \”The lady\” said this ain\’t ova. LOL oops sorry Tyler but that was funny. She said the jury was *Star Struck*. Dayum that was funny to me. I probably would have been too. If I could see Tyler every day, stare at that big stomach of his * I love a man with a big stomach* and get to *vote* if my boo had to hand her ova 40 plus mill, she would for sure call me star struck. I\’ll hand her ova a * Gurl Bye* Verdict!!!!

Strolling through my mind of the Tyler Perry files, hate to even think it but this is just the beginning. The higher you want to go, the higher the *snakes*. Tyler you cant give up boo, you\’ve got to do it for us all who love and enjoy your work. You can\’t fall off . This kinda stuff makes you stronger. It also gives you something to * write about*. Experience is a good teacher, put these things in your files of life. Never stop learning Tyler NEVER.

Listen boo, I love you and for all the encouraging you do for others, do if for yourself. I got a feeling you have got a long rode ahead of you. Is it do able? YOU KNOW IT! GOD IS RIGHT THERE WITH YOU.

My name is Lacrease W, and I approve this message.

Wed December 09, 2008

Hey Fam,

First I want to say Thank you Lord for blessing me with such a beautiful family. I love them so very much. Thank you for a peace of mind daily. I love living. Thank you Lord for creating me and for giving me a chance to be with you for ever.

Its Christmas time at Walmart and each day its getting busier and busier. This check coming up, we are getting our 4th bonus in a 3 month straight period. Yea, and if we do good this period Dec-Feb, we will get $1400.00 plus our regular pay check come March. Whew, and we have been humping too. Only thing *they* the customers say that our customer service is bad. I work close with the cashiers and I know some may not smile, but we are very friendly. It still puzzles me by what *they* mean by saying we need to improve on customer service. Maybe we need more sales associates on the floor to assist the customers. Maybe Walmart needs to review their return policy.They did hire a whole whole lot of sales floor associates this Christmas Season. Hopefully we will see $$$ soon.

I know I\’m no where near perfect, and I know that I have a lot to learn about people. some things I may never learn. But there is one thing I do know about myself. I just can\’t stand stupid stuff. I try to ignore it when it comes my way, but some stuff you just gotta laugh at. One day recently me and my sisters were sitting around talking, and my baby sisters said to me and my middle sister, * yall cant stand dumb stuff can yall? So we started laughing and thinking about how we grew up. Then we started remembering stories about our dad. He use to always lose his shoe * laughing* and we just couldn\’t understand how you can be a grown person, * we were kids* and lose your shoes. He would be about to go, and when he couldn\’t find his shoes he would call THE WHOLE HOUSE down to help him find it. It would irritate us so bad. My dad would make you feel like this………. Okay yall sitting down watching TV, and here I am looking for my shoe all by myself. So we would have to get up and look for his shoe, and when he find it, he would be like okay Thank you. This happened with his keys, his pick for his hair, his hat, his lighter. To us that was * dumb stuff*. Now had he said, yall please help me find my keys or shows in a way that we would be like okay, yall lets band together and do this for him. But he made it to be a *woe is me kinda thing*. Like yall betta help me find my stuff, yall can watch TV lata!!! I hated that. And to this day, I can\’t deal with Woe is me people. My daddy was/is that person to this day. LOL Ahhhhhh I love my daddy to death, but he can call you and say hey what yall doing? And we\’d be like on our way to Outback Steak house, and he would go into this really woe is me mood, and be like *I\’m sitting ova here eating spaghetti out the can and drinking black water * my daddy is funny like that*, He\’d be like…… I been eating spam for days and aint nobody offered me to eat Steaks. He would go on and on and on, For years we wouldn\’t tell him when we were going to eat, cause he would try to make us feel bad. And he would;nt even want to go. It\’s something about making us feel bad. I dunno. But when I talk to people and they go into this oooooo she didn\’t do this, and he didn\’t ask me. I tell them to BOSS UP!!! Quit trying to go into that victim, woe is me mode and get up and do whatever it is that *they* don\’t seem to be doing for you, or with you. And for years after I got grown, I would say to my daddy in a respectful way and tell him. Look dad, you don\’t want to go with us to eat, but Imma get off this phone and do what I planned. If you wanna go, cool I\’ll swoop you up, but if you don\’t, stop trying to make people feel guilty.

But here is the worst end of it. I can be in the store after work shopping with coat, boots, car keys in hand, gloves, hat, scarf, mask on * lol* and a customer would come up to me and say * excuse me can you tell me where the salt is*? In my mind, I\’m like dayum, is she/he for real. Don\’t they see all these winter gear on? So one day I ask the guy who asked me a question while I was shopping for myself. What is it about me Sir that made you feel as if you can ask me that question and I\’ll know? He said: Cause you have on khakis. . Ain\’t that deep? Which brings me to this thought. I was reading a blog yesterday * Sunday* and this person said that they seen Tyler Perry at Church and she said she wanted to go to him and tell him she\’d seen all his plays and movies, but she said that she couldn\’t do it because she was in Church and that it would be disrespectful. I loved that. Had it been me, I would have felt that same way. I probably would have stared at him the whole time * Lord forgive me* but I wouldn\’t opened my mouth. I guess my post is really say that some of the things my daddy do, I cant stand. So I wonder what is it about ME, that Neisha cant stand, and wont do when she has kids. We have to do better at respecting people.

Oh speaking of respect. OMGoodness! I hope my pressure don\’t go up on this one. I have 2 cars. Sometimes I drive my Lumina, and sometimes I drive the Malibu. I don\’t have a 2 car garage so I have to pull one out and then put the other on the street, or sometimes I\’ll put the one I\’m not driving back in the drive way. But all in all I want my space in front of my house free. When the dumpster is picked up on Wednesday mornings, if my car or any car is packed in front of the house with the dumpster there, they wont take it because they are afraid it will hit the car. Well this summer, this guy who lives across the street with his dad, parked his * SHOT UP 1000 TIMES BRAND NEW CAR* in front of my house. So, I\’m like okay, why he didn\’t park in front of his own house? The next day same thing, the day after that, and the next, the next and then it was happening daily. He would leave all day and then when it was time to come home, he would park in front of my house and then walk across the street 3 doors down. I guess you know I marched my big hipped self across the street like Oprah did in the color purple and knocked on the *DOE*. I know him, because he also worked with me. I said booooooooooooooooooy, why are you parking in front of my house, and you live ova here? I explained to him that if I need to exchange cars and park in front of my own house I need to do that. I said and plus my garbage won\’t get taken out if there\’s are car parked there. He said okay and moved it. He never did it again. As the summer went on he moved out of his dad\’s house and I see him whenever. Sooooooo, on Saturday me. my momma and Neisha had came back from shopping. WE see this raggedy car with the passenger windows missing and a big box sitting in the passenger side seat. So I pulled into the driveway and as soon as we went into the house and closed the door, we heard a knock on the side door. I went to the door and said who is it? Its snowing and cold outside, but I couldn\’t hear him, so when he said he\’s the dad of the guy who kept parking in front of my house. I opened it. This man is about 60sh, keep himself up, jazzy, nice car and home. He said *MY SON* car stopped in front of your house I just wanted you to know that its his car, and in a *COUPLA* days he would be to get it. I said ut unnnnnnn, he got to move THAT car. I said my garbage wont get dumped if its there, he must have saw my facial expression cause he know I was mad. My thang is this, how you live across the street and your sons car stopped in front of mines? That man does not want that car in front of his house!!!! Ju
st like the other one. I don\’t blame him. BUT HE AINT GONNA PARK IT IN FRONT OF MINES. My house is nice too, its brick, with a big picture window, tree and nice grass. Every time his son car * stops* he make him park it some where else but in front of his house. Made me mad!! That is so disrespectful and selfish. So yesterday me and Neisha went to go get something to eat, and as we were leaving someone was in the car of the old man\’s drive way. When we got back from McDonald\’s that car that was parked in front of my house was gone. Guess were it was? Next door to me in front of that gurls house. That is so bold. Now she wont get her trash dumped. Yea you see the dad don\’t want that piece of mess in from of his big nice home. So he tells them *go park it across the street…………they don\’t have men living with them to say anything. Cause yall know homes with husbands and boyfriends, other men just don\’t disrespect another man\’s house like that. Now I\’m going to see how long he leaves this piece of junk in front of her house. The killing part is the boy don\’t even live ova here. Huhhhhhh let me get off this subject. LOL

I\’m seriously thinking about moving to Georgia. Its in my heart so deep. For 17 years I have wanted to move there, and it keeps coming back to me. Neisha is going to law school and she is going to apply at a college there. Then she got on line and started looking for some house to rent. She been to GA so many times, she didn\’t want to live there, but after seeing one of out favorite shows * House Hunters* she has a change of heart. I\’m going back for a week in 2010 to see whats really up.

Well, Imma get up off this computer. got lots to blog about tomorrow. My Tyler Perry is in court and after the verdict I will write more.

Love ya

Cree

*Feeding the Homelessfor Thanksgiving*

Hey Fam!

I know its been a while since I\’ve written. But I\’m back. How was your Thanksgiving? Mines was wonderful.

Well as some of you may know. For as long as I can remember I have always had a passion for homeless people, and kids. Several years ago me and Neisha went to a soup kitchen and fed the homeless for Thanksgiving. We felt so good after doing it, that it stayed with me for years. Since then I always wanted to go out to the streets and neighborhoods and pass out Thanksgiving Food.

This year I decided this was the year. I wrote out a menu for 10 people, and took it to work and asked my coworkers to put their names by all the things they wanted to donate. Before I could even get to the 6th person, every item was taken. People were coming up to me asking where is the list, but it was already filled. This made me so happy and so full of joy. God knows how I felt about doing this project. I enjoyed the soup kitchen, but this was hands on. This was a project that everyone could be apart of. We were taking this to the streets. I wanted to meet and talk with the people who were going to receive the dinners. I wanted to be apart of their world for a moment. We had a good time preparing the food and packing them.

For the dinners we had. Fried Chicken from a restaurant * 2-3 pieces*, macaroni and cheese, string beans and white potatoes, dinner rolls. For desert we had cake, brownies, and cookies. And for drinks we had water, pop, and juice. Each bag had all 3 drinks and all 3 deserts. Next year this menu is going to be huge, and were going to feed more people. The support I got from people was over whelming. My mind could have never comprehended the amount of people who wanted to help. People were telling to me make sure they are apart of it next year.

When we went to take the food to the streets we were looking for people. It was so much fun, we found lots of them too. My nieces went and it was a wonderful experience for them, they too are excited about next year\’s Feeding the homeless and taking it to the streets!!

Goals and Vision~ to have my multiply and yahoo 360 family to start this in their city under the umbrella of *Cree\’s Family and Friends* Feeding the Homeless for Thanksgiving, and taking it to the streets.

Above are photos of my family and friends who donated and made this possible.

God Bless You All! He is the balm!

Lacrease

*check out the video of us preparing the food*

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