Good Evening!

Today was a good day!! I didn\’t have to work today, but I have a full load ahead. Plus as I mentioned before my friend LaSonja is getting married on Sunday. I slept in late today, my phone was ringing this morning as usual. I laid on the couch just thinking about some of everything. Why do I think so much? I\’m always sorting things out in my head. There was something I was suppose to do this morning and still I can\’t think what it was. When I have business to take care of, if I don\’t do it, it will stay on my mind until I do. I did go to the cleaners to drop off my black gauchos that I\’m wearing Sunday. I love those babies, now I have to go to the mail Saturday after work and find me some shoes to go with it. Normally I wear my boots but its gonna be too warm for those.

After I left the cleaners, I ran in the store to buy some bread. As soon as I walked in some guy who works there was standing near the door. I walked in fast and in a hurry , looked up at him and said hey boooooo how you doing? He says: I\’m doing fine and you, I said pretty good, pretty good. * my momma talks like that*. He says: I see you are doing pretty good, I felt your Spirit when you walked into the door. I was bending down looking at bread trying to hurry up and get outta dodge, cause I was LOOKING RUFF!!! LOL But when he said that, I looked up at him and said thank you so much, I try to, Lord knows I do. So I went and paid for my bread and as I was leaving, he said wooooooooeee let me open up the door for you. He was flirting a little, but it was something else. It was my Spirit. If I could be this way all the time, that would be a good thing. Its hard work, and I\’m willing to do it. God wants his light to shine through us.The bible says: 16 In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. Matthew 5:16 (New International Version) We must all encourage each other, and stay in the race. Tomorrow I\’m back to work and I must remember these same words I\’m sharing with you all. Be a light……….. Lacrease.

This morning when I was thinking about God, I started remembering the time when I was in my early 20\’s. I had just moved out from my parents home and moved into my own place. God would tell me things before they would happen and I was like wowwwwwwwww. He would whisper things to me, and when it was actually happening I would think about how he told me it would be. In my mind that was the good part. But when he told me that my daughter\’s father and my *supposedly* best friend exchange phone numbers. I didn\’t like that part. I couldn\’t put together a loving God telling me something after/before it happened, without stopping it. I couldn\’t comprehend that. So, guess what I did? I said God take this THING away from me. I said I\’m tired of knowing stuff before it happens, and when I tell others they don\’t believe me………….. and it end up happening anyway. I said I don\’t want to know. So guess what? He took it from me. Yep, he show did. For a long time, Cree-dog didn\’t know nothing!!!! I was in the dark just like eerrrrrrrrybody else.

As I got older I started going through my own challenges. I had went through so much mentally with my daughter\’s father that I needed God. I was mad because I had pushed him away. I prayed and prayed and prayed and I told him that I was sorry and that I wanted my gift back. I knew I was young and inmature and didn\’t know what I was experiencing. When he finally gave it back to me, it was stronger than EVER!!! I wouldn\’t trade my gift in for nothing in the world!!! Everyday he tells me something new, and the more I share it with others, the more they don\’t believe. And when it come to pass, I really don\’t have much to say. I just don\’t. But that\’s okay and its all good. I\’m keeping my goodies to myself. AND I GOT SOME TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

* rolling my eyes* tryna focus. Okay……………

I sit back and think about me and my husband * if the Lord say the same* and how I want to treat him. Something in me wants to just spoil him to death. When I give LaSonja her gift in a card, I\’m going to write a one page letter to her. Its mostly going to be my words, and Scriptures in the bible about marriage. I\’m so happy for them.

Well, I\’m closing for now, gotta go and read my bible lesson for today. Let me tell you all about that again. My and Neisha are doing this One year bible study, its dated daily and they have it so that you can read the Old Test, the New Test, psalm, and proverbs. Its sooooooooo interesting, and its not too much at the same time. Here is the link, please if you\’re not reading the word daily. Here you are! CLICK ON THAT LINK BELOW AND LETS START READING DAILY!

One Year Bible OnLine – May

Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight here is My #3 pair of Favorite Hollywood Men!

Maxwell, is one sexy brother. When he sings, he does something to me. He brings out all the Love that\’s inside. He makes me want to fall in love. He sings with such passion!! I\’m waiting on his next CD. I hope its soon because its been a while. I hear he\’s married and doing good, I wish him well!!! Maxwell. I\’m waiting on you boo!

Johnny * Blow* Depp!!! The eyes. The eyes. Eye contact is a mug!! He\’s sexy, he can get into any role, he lovesssssssssssss his children and I love that about him. I loved him in The Astronaut\’s Wife. He was crazy tho. LOL I\’m waiting on your next project Johnny!

Please click below and LISTEN to the lyrics in Maxwell\’s Song! One of my favorites ever from him. Imagine yourself in Love with you husband/wife!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh I love this song. I wrote a Love story by listening to this song.

I\’m gone!

Cree

Hey,

Today was a good day!! I woke up to hotness this morning. Its been 60ish and 70ish all year. Then this morning I woke up early, it was hot denamug!!! You know how you try to go back to sleep, but you gotta pee and as soon as you open your eyes, its like the pee know you\’re awake and want to come out faster and aggressive? LOL Well that\’s how it did me this morning. After I got up I stayed up, make some spaghetti for dinner before I went to work * my daughter loves mines* and I work for 7 hours today. Time flew by too, maybe because I was off for 2 days in a row * which never happens unless I request it .*

This morning, I forgot to read my Faith for a Lifetime Inspirations. I thought about it when I got to work, and the first thing I said was Lord, let today be a good day. And it was. These days, you shouldn\’t go a day without praying. When I\’m reading my bible daily, I feel so good. I feel so good you can slap me and I probably won\’t feel it. As soon as I close it, there is the enemy trying to make up for that time I gained with God. It amazes me how Satan just wont give up. Then I hear God will this calm, soft spoken, but with authority voice overpower the enemy.

Everyday I try to examine myself to see what areas I need God to work on, I am truly a work in progress, God aint hardly done with me yet. He knows everything there is no know about me. I was thinking recently how big of an influence I have on people at work because it\’s so many people, and when I\’m upset about something, they watch me. They want to see how I handle things, they want to see all this God stuff I talk * in season* is still the God I serve *out of season*. Its funny too, because in the middle of my ranting and raving, I can hear God say: Aiiiiiiight Lacrease calm down, cause when you\’re not upset anymore, you\’re going to have to explain to them why you\’re not acting Godly. LOL Isn\’t that amazing? And it never fails!!! That\’s why Christians have to be careful of what you say to and around people, because they want to know if you are going to *be yourself*, or if you are going to do *what Jesus would do*.

Aiight, I\’m getting sleepy, my eyes are crossing. Here is day 2 of naming my Top 10 Hollywood Favorite Men. When I get to the last day and person, I\’m going to write a full page on this person.

Idris Elba

Something about those male Virgos!!! I\’m 5 years and 3 days older than he is. He seem to be a good and loving person. I love his accent, and I love the way he carries himself. I loved him in Daddy\’s Little Girls and I plan to see all his movies.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have seen all of his movies, he is my favorite male actor EVER! I loved him in Terminator and when he became Governor I was upset because I wanted him to still do movies. Its okay tho, as long as he\’s happy, I\’m happy. I was hoping for a Terminator 4! But that may never happen. This is one bad dude!

Have a Blessed Day!

Cree!

I\’m here!!

I said to myself that I wasn\’t going to blog today, that I was going to chill , finish painting and read a book. But I\’m addicted to blogging as you can see.

Well the real reason why I\’m here is because after last night when I posted, I got to thinking about something. I can be selfish sometimes with myself. I like to be alone at times, I like to go to the movies alone sometimes, I like to take rides around the city alone, I like to shop alone, I like to go to the book store alone, and when people demand my time, I can act selfish.

I can\’t be that way.

Maybe people see something in me that I don\’t see. Maybe I give good advice, maybe I listen well, maybe I\’m honest and will tell them to truth, maybe I can comfort them, maybe I lead them to God, maybe that\’s my job on this earth. I will never understand why people call me for advice or need to talk to me. But one thing I do know is, God told me to pick up my phone tonight to talk to a friend. When I picked it up, she told me that her daughter *she\’s 9* dad had committed suicide and that his funeral will be this week. I felt like crying, tears were in my eyes. And here I am acting funky and stank with my gift to comfort. Everything comes from God, and I know this, and I got to regroup my self, and stop being so selfish. We talked for a long time , she said only a few people she can call and I was one of the 3. I haven\’t seen her in years. Tell me that aint God. I listened to her and she needed that. And it taught me something too. I need to be ashamed of myself. But you know what? I\’m glad she called, because none of this stuff is about Lacrease. I see that Lord.We are all here to help one another, and that\’s what I love doing.

Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed with phone calls and visits, that I\’m not getting a chance to know myself. I believe this is why I\’m feeling this way. I\’m still learning Lacrease, and who she is. But Lord, I know in the meantime, that I am to encourage the people you send my way, and not to be selfish and to myself. Thank you for telling me to answer the phone, my friend really needed me, and I got some healing out of it as well. I lost a boyfriend to suicide and I know what she\’s going through. Forgive me Lord and work on me.

Tonight, I want to say Lord, I\’m sorry, and please work on me in this area. Teach me Lord to have more patience and to understand that to be able to listen to a friend is a gift and to minister is also. I know Lord that you can take this away from me at anytime. This is who I am. Again, this is who I am!!! I need to understand that. You taught me everything I know good, and I am to share it with others. Please forgive me for being selfish. I need for you to work on me!!! In Jesus name. Amen!

Okay, lets have some fun!!

Last night and the night before me and Neisha was having our *mother daughter* talk as we do every night before going to bed. When she asked me to name all my favorite *Hollywood actors MALE*. It was so funny to do this because she knows me like a book, and she knows what I\’m attracted to as far as people and personality. So, starting tonight, and every night, I\’m going to kick this off in a blog my Top 10 male Hollywood actors and singers. This is going to be fun. I\’m going to write a brief story on why I love and admire them, and when it comes to the #1 person, I\’m going to write a full page on them. I have made a list of 5 white and 5 black.

Ready?

George Clooney and Tyrese

George Clooney~ This is one fione older man! When I first saw him, I was like danggggg he SEXY. I remember a long time ago I was working at a drug store and this lady came in and was telling me that she was going to California to visit someone in her family, and that she was going to the set of E.R. I was like wow, I love George Clooney. When that lady came back from her visit, she came up to my job and gave me a photo with her and George Clooney on the set. I have that photo to this day. George, you\’re on my Top 10 List of my *Hollywood Men

Tyrese~ I will never forget that Coco Cola Commercial he did. Boy he can sing! But wait, he took the cake when he did Baby Boy. Tyrese is one of the sexiest men in the game these days. You don\’t hear gossip or anything about him. I love his role in Baby boy because it reminds me of my younger days, and I can laugh at myself. I loved him in the Four Brothers. Um um um. I love the closeness of the brothers. Did I mention how fione he is!!

Aiight, check in tomorrow for the next Set of my Favorite Hollywood Men!

I\’m back!!

I\’m blogging a lot lately, it has really helped me to clear my head!! Goodness all those thoughts wont sit in my head any longer, they are out in the atmosphere.

I got up this morning and had my nephew come over and cut the grass. Whew it was high!! WE had so much rain, shoo I wasn\’t going to cut it just so that it could grow back in 1 hour. LOL But dang, it had gotten to high. I have a lot to do in the coming weeks. I had requested to have today off, because LaSonja was suppose to get married on this day, but she moved it up to June 1. So since it was already approved…….I\’m just chilling!!! My coworker called me from work and ask me can we open the BD list up to this lady who wants to join. I told her that it wouldn\’t bea good idea because it has already started, and guess what? Her BD is coming up next. Which mean I would have to tell the others that we have a new person. They\’ll look at me like…………you got us messed up!!! How you gon let another person join, and she comes in and her Birthday is next? LOL Gurl Bye!

One of my good friends was mad at me. I mean really mad at me. She use to live here in Detroit, now she lives in Chicago. She says that every time we talk on the phone, she will have my attention for a while, then…….all of a sudden she hears me typing on the computer. And she feels that I am disrespecting the fact that she\’s talking, and she has no time to waste, if I\’m not listening. Well, I get that part, and she\’s right.I\’m sorry if I can cook, talk on the phone with the cordless phone in my bra, ear piece in my ear, run to my car, paint, read, and push mute and talk to the person who is in the room with me. Don\’t get mad tho.. LOL EVERYBODY tells me the same thing. My phone rings all day.If I talk to everybody who calls me, then I wont be doing anything for myself. I talk to the same people about the same things, and still they want me to go over it over and over and over and over and over again. Now talk about a disrespect. Then when they see me doing well, they want to know the * secret*. How bout ain\’t none! How bout, if you had listen and watched me, instead of getting out all your stories out then you would know. I\’m talking about my other friend now. He calls and want to come over, and talk about his same issue over and over and over again. I\’m sorry. I gotta cook, and run my errands too……..how bout that?

But you know what? Its all my fault. Because I started off with my friends like that. I\’m a natural teacher and listener. That\’s who I am. Back when I got my own place my couch was a place where you could come and we\’d talk for hours. I cant do that any more. I\’m sorry. After a while, I get bored and be ready to hang up in the middle of a sentence.LOL I wouldn\’t dare do that tho.I\’m not needy or clingy. Seems like I attract people who always need to talk……..all the time. I dunno, its not a bad thing, I just can\’t handle all that anymore.

See, back in the day my door was open to everyone, you didn\’t have to call to come over, shoo it became overwhelming for me. I\’d look up and none of my house work was done, no food was cooking, the bathroom was nasty, the floors needed mopping. Naw, its a wrap for that stuff. Say what you gotta say, and lets DEPART for a minute.

I\’m sorry I need my space. When I get married. I swear my husband has to have his own space for the things he like. He has to have his own room for whateva. And the same with me. I gotta have a place where I can go to think and regroup myself. I have so many messages, and so many names on my caller ID that it\’s crazy.

The good part about it is, we made up. She didn\’t talk to me for over a month. But it was me who called her tonight #67 * Anonymous* so she picked up the phone. Guess I tricked her, she let me have it too. he he

I love my friends tho, I wouldn\’t trade them for anything in the world. When I get married whewwwwwwww, my list is going to be long. My friends WILL KILL ME, if I leave them out of my wedding. OMG! I really dread for that part to come, especially if we are working on a serious budget. Thinking about how many people I know, just gives me a headache. I\’m glad that I don\’t have to worry about that right now.

Speaking of getting married. I plan to continue to sustain from Sex until that day. My coworkers talk about me all the time at work, making jokes. They say I have cob webs. LOL I crack up. I tell them yeah I do, but when he knocks the dust off, it\’ll be a feeling better than the same ole thrill your getting!!! Shuts them up every time! This guy who I use to kick it with came through my line yesterday. LOOKING GOOD! OOOOWEEEEE. He gave me a big ole hug, saying gurl you don\’t look a day over the age we were at that time * 23 -24ish*. All this weight I\’ve gained. Boy Bye! LOL His son is going to College this year, and he\’s still married. That\’s a blessing! He\’s doing good too. It just reminds me that all the sex you\’re having with people who has no intentions on being with you, they go off and marry someone else. I could have save my stuff, KLINK KLINK and locked it down! Instead we left each other thinking about the past. We didn\’t say it, but of course we thought it. LOL

Me and my coworker was talking the other day, she has a favorite manager and I have one too. They don\’t play favoritism, but its fair to say that some managers vibe better with an employee than the next. My favorite manager is a Christian, and we understand each other. One day recently, her husband called up to the job to talk with her because he is a bank manager and his bank got robbed at gunpoint. She\’s a private person like me, and she knows that if she tells me ANYTHING, she don\’t have to worry about it getting back to anyone. Anyway, she was looking for me, the others knew something was going on but they didn\’t know what it was. When my other coworker* who don\’t care too much for my favorite manager* came and asked ME what was wrong with her, I didn\’t know that something had happened at that time. So I told her I didn\’t know what she was talking about. So, I went to her later and
asked her what\’s wrong? She told me and that was the end of that. Later on my coworker came back to me * guess cause I didn\’t run to her and tell her what happened* she said yeah I know you know what happened. I said gurl……….why would I tell you somebody else business? Gurl Bye! LOL We laughed, people are funny.

This coming up week is going to be a busy one. I have to work 9 hours a day. Plus I gotta get my brows, lashes and nails done for the wedding. I gotta go and buy me some shoes, and do my hair. I\’m going to finish painting my room tomorrow, and straighten up my business room. I have my Sister Pearls Linda and Cookie coming to Detroit to stay with me July 23 until we fly out to ATL on July 24. I want to do something nice for them the day I pick them up from the bus station. But then again I dunno, because we\’re getting up early the next day. Neisha is going to Cincinnati for a month in June instead of July now. Which is cool. Then I have a wedding on the 7th of June. OOOOO goodness. Oh yea and my Anita Baker friends are coming to Detroit. Me and my best friend Charlene is going to Las Vegas in Oct. She called me to day asking……. WHEN ARE WE BUYING OUR PLANE TICKETS??? LOL My sister is about to plan our 3rd trip to Florida Disney World! We go 4 trucks deep, rest in ATL and then ride on out. Last time we went was about 4 years ago, we stopped over in the suburbs of Atlanta, we went in the room and this bug was so big, we couldn\’t kill that thing for nothing in the world. The skin/scab/crust/back/wings/scale/ peeled off and took off running. All the ladies were RUNNING AND SCREAMING on the bed, and the men were looking like WTH Shoo none of us slept good that night. We got another room, and the next day my Sisters mentioned the bug to the front desk person, and we got the room for free anyway!! They told the lady, we live in Detroit we aint use to bugs like that! Baby, when daylight came we hot tailed out of ATL. I hate bugs, just today a ant was on me, I was screaming,jumping and hollering, and made a mistake and flipped the thang on to my daughter. She was screaming, I was screaming, Then we just laughed. ROFL. Il\’l jump out of your car if a bug get on me, I don\’t care if its moving or not. I\’m jumping out!!! LOL

Talk to you all later.

Have a Happy Memorial Day. and

Be Blessed

Cree!!!

Hey,

Yep. today was a good day!!! When you get up in the morning and have God on your mind, you know its a good day. I went to work and had an even better day.

I read today that Janet Jackson will be stepping out on tour soon!! Yeaaaaaa! I hope that Detroit is on one of her stops. Even though I didnt want to go to the Palace again for another concert * went to see Destiny Child * I believe that she will be there. I’ts the only place in Michigan, that can hold someone like her. As for those who know me, knows that Janet Jackson is my second favorite female singer next to Anita Baker.

Above is a concert ticket that is in TIP TOP condition from when I went to her concert in Detroit on April 3, 1990!!! I love Janet Jackson. Look at the price of this concert. Yes, $20.00. With that money these days, thats parking fare, and service tax. LOL I don’t care how much tickets are, I am SO THERE! I have been waiting on this gurl to come back to Detroit for the longest.

Here is one of my favorite Janet Jackson Videos of all time!! Plus I’ve added the lyrics. Some of these words, I never knew she was saying! They are deep too. I wish that she would go back to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for her writings. Janet I love you gurl!!!

The Pleasure Principal~Janet Jackson

You might think I’m crazy but I’m serious
It’s better you know now
What I thought was happiness was only part time bliss
You can take a bow
It was all just one big night out on the town
Riding in your limousine
We turned right and I said wrong which brings us to a stop
As the light is changing

Oh my meters running so I got to go now
It’s the pleasure principle oh oh ohh
It’s the principle of pleasure, ohh
It’s the pleasure principle oh oh

It’s true you want to build your life on guarantees
Hey, take a ride in a big yellow taxi
I’m not here to feed your insecurities
I wanted you to love me
This has become an all too familiar scene
It’s not the first time I paid the fare
Where’d you get the idea of material possession?
Thank you for the ride nowhere

And oh my meters running so I’ve really got to go
It’s the pleasure principle oh oh, oh hoo
It’s the principle of pleasure
Ohh, ah
It’s the pleasure principle oh oh, ohh, ah

I know, what you mean to me
Baby this is nowhere
You know what came in between you and me, human differential
Sa dat dit dit dit baby
It’s the principle of pleasure
Oh, oh oh oh ah

It’s the pleasure principle, principle
Oh oh oh oh, ah

You might say that I’m no good for you
I wouldn’t trust your looks, baby, if I could
I got so many things I wanna do, before I’m through
Hey, da dit da dit dat baby

It’s the pleasure principle
It’s the pleasure principle
Hey hey hey hey, hey hey hey hey

It’s the pleasure principle
Baby you can’t hold me down
Baby you can’t hold me down
After all the love that we’ve been through
After all you’ve put me through
Hey hey hey, yeah
Love me, hey yeah, love me, yeah!
Hoo ooh ooh ooh
It’s the pleasure principle
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah!
Oh

Hey,

Today was a good day!!! Matter of fact it was a beautiful Blessed Day. I have been reading my bible daily faithful since March 28, 2008 and as I have wrote before, I am really learning a lot about myself. You know how you think that you\’re okay, but when God steps in and say okay……you need to work on this, and you need to work on that, and you really start to see what he\’s talking about. Then, he shows you in examples? That\’s where I am right now.

Let me explain.

I love people, flat out. No matter how many stories I share about them getting on my nerves at work. No matter how many people I have done wrong in my life, or they have done wrong to me, I still love and have this connection to them that I can\’t deny. I am a people person. You can introduce me to people of all ages, races, I can relate to them in one way or another. But what I come to realize is that, I can get so connected to people, that I start to act like them for a moment. For example. If someone comes through my line with an attitude, I can easily get one with them. When in reality what they are upset, angry, disappointed or mad about *AINT EVEN ABOUT ME*. I am learning through God to disconnect myself from them in that way. I belong to the Lord, I am suppose to be a light. I can\’t go dim just because they have their lights off . I\’m suppose to be the person who * jump start* their battery *through God* and get them back to him. I\’m not suppose to get an attitude just because they have one. Wow, how blind am I!!! They may need to hear an encouraging word, they may need someone to let them know that everything is going to be alright. How can I call myself a child of God, and here I am putting * Charcoal Fluid* on their fires?

There are times I wish I wasn\’t so connected to people. I can\’t help it though, because that\’s the way God wired me up. I know people who use the *I don\’t care about nothing and nobody line a lot * and they really don\’t care. I\’m different. I like to know that everything is going to be alright with people. I consider myself to be a happy person, I have a good relationship with God * always working to make it better*and I wish everybody was like that. But it\’s not that way, and I have to understand that. Some people I can reach some I can\’t. That\’s the part I\’m not getting in my head. People will always make their own choices, and there is no sense in me getting upset. God tell me all the time * Lacrease let me do my work and you do yours*. LOL When I let him work through the people, things always turn out like he wants it. It\’s not about Lacrease. God knows what he\’s doing and I trust him.

Just 2 weeks or so ago, my boss called me in the office to talk about my attendance, and to go over the policy, and then he said to me * Lacrease, you\’re too friendly with the customers.* So I looked at him, I guess in a funny way. Then he said * I don\’t mean like that, we need more cashiers like you, but you talk a lot to the customers. Now I can see if was rude and stopped and didn\’t ring while I was working. I was like WOW, with tears in my eyes about to cry!! I finished the conversation with him and went back to my register. Keep in mind I\’m a 5 star Cashier!! Why would you tell your employee something like that? He\’s not approachable, his communication skills are terrible and he\’s not friendly at all. so, I don\’t expect him to get me any way.

Here I am at my register trying to hear God over Satan laughing. I started thinking. I use to be the meanest, and ugliest person you can ever have working for you, the biggest retail thief in retail HISTORY, the gossip-est, big mouthed, cursing, revengeful coworker/employee in WORK history and you say *I\’M TOO WHAT? FRIENDLY?

That\’s why you\’ve got to know who you are when you wake up in the morning. You cant forget where you came from. You cant let people Praise you and enjoy it, because they are the same ones who will let you down. You\’ve got to know WHO YOU BELONG TO IN THE BEGINNING! Had he known where I came from, he wouldn\’t have never said that to me. His lips wouldn\’t be able to pronounce the words. He has no clue of the person I use to be, he don\’t know where God has bought me. I have came from a mighty long way, and for someone to say to me, *you\’re too friendly* is the biggest compliment I could ever get………when I think about it.

God is not through with me yet. I like to imagine a lot. In my head I see myself receiving my * paper* to walk through the gates to Heaven to meet my Jesus, and I see people like him standing along the fence………watching.

God Bless

Cree!

Today was a good day!! Thank you Jesus!! For some reason I couldnt sleep last night. I went to bed and listened to my iPod until almost 4 am. After I put it away, I still couldnt get to sleep, until it was almost time for me to get up for work. That was at 7:45am.

Anita Baker is my FAVORITE FEMALE singer OF ALL TIME. I loved Anita since 1986 * maybe before then* when she came out with *I just wanna be your gurl*, with Chapter 8. My momma was up on it, she would play that song to death. During that time I was a young teenager. I was into boys and songs like Anita\’s made you feel good. Especially when you\’re feeling someone special. I use to go up in my room and play Anita Baker songs all day!!! I would watch her videos on Video Soul, and would sing and sway with her. She made singing and being in love so easy. All you need was the man of your dreams and you could imagine being * caught up in the rapture in love* with him.

When Anita had a concert here in Detroit with Luther Vandross, * I still have the ticket stub*. I was in the house!!! My mother bought us tickets and it was one of the most rememorable concerts I\’ve ever been too. I have all of Anita\’s CD\’s and have seen just about every video clip there is to see of her. She lives here in Detroit, just 10 minutes away from me and I have seen her at my job once, and missed her twice.

I\’m in her world wide Fan Club*@ yahoogroups* and I\’m known all over as * Beenwaiting4nita*. That name came about because she left for many years to have children and to raise a family with her husband Walter Bridgeforth. I loved the fact that she put her marriage and family first, and I always said that a faithful fan will always be there, and when she returned I gave myself the name * Beenwaiting4nita* It was truly a long and worth wild wait. And now…. She\’s back!

Last year she announced on stage in Detroit at DTE, that she will have a yearly concert here because* this is home*. I \’ve been to every concert here for the last 3 Summers straight, and just 2 weeks ago I purchased a ticket and I will be sitting front row and center on July 12, 2008.

Anita Baker will always be my #1 gurl

*Beenwaiting4nita *

Here is one of my favorite performances by Anita

Hi,

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

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

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

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

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

I said look

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

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

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

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

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

I love you all

Cree!

Hey,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cree!

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