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My last goodbyes to my friend ……..Gerald Levert!

 

 

 

 Gerald said that I was his #1 Gurl!

 

Hello Family!

 

Thanks to everyone who sent me love and hugs through email……..Lacrease sure did need them. Thanks sooooooo much!

 

This morning in Church I was thinking back on how good God is, how he will make a way out of no way. How he does things in his time…..not ours. As I was thinking back on his goodness. I thought about how he answered a prayer for me, and how when things turned out the way they did, I couldnt understand it for the life of me…….why. Now I understand so clearly.

 

I was working when this lady came through my line buying a Gerald Levert CD. And the first thing out of my mouth was \”youre buying my husbands CD\”? We both laughed,  she told me how much she loved her some Gerald Levert. We stood there talking for a long long long time. We started talking about the concert that was coming up. I told her that I couldnt find anyone to go with me, so I went out and bought me a ticket to go solo, AND GOD BLESSED ME  TO SIT IN THE FRONT ROW. She said omg I bought tickets too, my sisters are going with me. We exchanged phone numbers and decided to all go together.

 

I met her at the concert, met her sisters and everything. We started getting cool, talking about Gerald all the time on the phone, then she would come shopping at Walmart and come through my line. We would talk about his  play Casino that was coming up. Then one day I was sitting in my car getting ready to go in to work, when a commerical came on to win tickets to a private party dinner party for him. He was giving out autographs, photos everything with him in a SECRET LOCATION. The only way to go to this private party was to win tickets!!!! I sat in my car thinking that I had to be at this party, but it was THE VERY NEXT DAY, and I was headed in to work.

 

Later that evening, Pat came in and she said gurlllllllllllllllllll did you hear the private party that Gerald is having? I was like yessssssssss, she said Crease Im going home and Im calling the radio station and we are going to see Gerald. I told her to go head and get started and when I get home we can do it together. That night I got home, it was late, we hooked up, we both called the radio station trying to be the 8th caller. Can you imagine a 38 year old and a 40 something women calling the radio station trying to win tickets? We couldnt get through, it was in the last hour. I was ready to give up! Pat called me about later 12 ish screaming in the phone, hollerring LACREASE WERE GOING TO SEE GERALD LEVERT, WERE GOING TO SEE GERALD LEVERT! Im like Pat quit lying, are you serious? She was like yesssssssssssssss Lacrease we are going, she said gurl I cant breathe, gurl hold on a min, it was sooooooooooooo funny. So once I finally believe her, it came on the radio and I knew she was telling the truth. She  kept screaming LACREASE WE ARE GOING TO SEE GERALD LEVERTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!

 

Then I started thinking. I said Pat what are your sisters going to say about me going with you and you only have 2 tickets? She said Lacrease they love Gerald but not like we do. I started getting worried that when she call them and tell them, they would want to go. She said Lacrease, dont worry you are going, they only go to concerts with me so that I wont be alone. I kept saying Pat you sure, cause gurl Im geeked. She called her sisters on the 3way and they were like Lacrease yall go and have a good time, we dont want to go, we are just glad that she found someone who love Gerald that way she does. I was happy. I COULDNT STOP THANKING HER!

 

We made plans for the next day, and we were on our way! The location was the most elegant hotel in our city. It was very private about 75-100 guest. Your name had to be on the list, and we were in the HOUSE!

 

That night was truly one of the best nights of my life. After the private party, me Gerald, Pat and his SO COOL ONE AND ONLY…………….. bodyguard BIG Joe( in the white shirt) went into the bar in the lobby and had a drink. I dont drink but woooooooooooo they ordered me some 1800 and I was not good! OKKKKKKKK lollll Gerald was like you okay???? lol I said boo I dont drink. We took more photos, talked, and they went to their rooms, and we left. I had a great time.

 

So I say all of that to say. It was meant me for to meet and hang out with him last year. I still thank God because it was for me to meet Pat and be her guest to the private party. That has helped me a lot, knowing I will never see him again. And see I always loved Gerald since I was 19, but I never seen us together like that. You know how fans want to be the wife? I looked at him as a person who was cool, and good to hang out with, and we did just that. Pat could have chosen one of her sisters, but she chose me and I thankful.

 

Ok enough about my boo. So this lady that you see in this photo is my gurl Pat!

 

God Bless

Lacrease

 

 

Check out the way he is looking at me! Ahhhhhhh, that smile!
 His dad and best friend Eddie Levert is sitting beside him!
This was taken last year, at a record shop.
Pat and Gerald Levert at his private party 2005!
 

Gerald and two of his fans!
 

Lacrease and Gerald ( not my favorite photo of us) We look like a old couple that\’s been married for umteen years!
 

Big Joe and Lacrease. Gerald\’s one and only bodyguard! He does not PLAY!
 
Enjoy!

 

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Gerald Levert 1966-2006

My boo Gerald Levert passed away.

I\’m so sad.

I still can\’t believe it.

This is one time I want \”death\” to be a rumor. When I was growing up my momma use to always play Barry White and Luther Vandross. I just didn\’t get it. All those  love songs. In 1986 I heard Gerald Levert for the first time. I was in love and going through with my daughter\’s father. That\’s when I needed me some \”therapy\” music. Here it is 2006 and I swear I\’m his biggest fan.

Today when I heard about his death, I was in the break room on my hour lunch when my gurl KiKi page over head and told me to dial ext 150. I called and she said Lacrease are you sitting down? I said WHAT KI-KI, because I can hear in her voice that whateva it was, it was going to be \”spooky\”. So she said again Lacrease are you sitting down? I said what Kiki tell me, she said Gerald Levert had a heart attack and died! I\’m like nooooooo, omgoodness, its a rumor. I wanted to believe so bad that it was, I wanted to wake myself up, even if it meant starting my work day over. I just can\’t believe it. Not Gerald Levert my boo! For some reason I had a feeling that it was true.

I didn\’t want to cry at work. I\’m just a private person, and I wanted to punch out and be by myself. I couldn\’t think. Then to top it off, my co workers was coming up to me asking me was I okay. They were hugging me………and that\’s what took me over. I had one of those cries where you can\’t stop, my eyes were so red. I love my coworkers, because even though I met Gerald several times but didnt know him as a personal friend, they knew how I felt about him and his music, and they really comfort me. They know I can be a tough cookie and keep things inside sometimes. But not today.

When I got home at 7:00 I had 14 people who called. My daughter had their names written out for me. I\’m sitting at my computer watching videos. I HAVE EVERY CD HE HAS EVER MADE! For some reason I can\’t pull them out yet. I was suppose to go with my coworkers tonight for dinner , but I don\’t feel up to it. Just feel like being alone. My boo Gerald Levert is gone home.

 

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To make a long story short……….

My teens experience racism at the hotel.

They all got up for breakfast the next morning,  went down to the lobby, and when they showed up 14 deep, they were told to \”sit down and to line up for breakfast in 3\’s\”. But just as they were going to do as they were told, a big family of Chaldean\’s came down. The person in charge let them all line up together for breakfast, while my kids sit there and wait for them to finish.

I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooo outraged, That it was only God that kept me from going down and SETTING THE WHOLE BREAKFAST AREA OFF! When they came back to the rooms, some was upset, some couldnt believe it, and some wanted to RAISE THE ROOF. But me being their Leader I AM, they knew that I wouldnt like how they handled the sitaution, so they just sat there until their turn.

Later on that morning just before checkout. A few of my gurls went down and knocked on the housekeepers door and ask for some extra towels. The lady told them that she didnt have anymore… with an attitude. 

 That was the last straw. I couldnt put on my shoes fast enough!!!!!! I went down and bammed on the door, the lady came out and I SAID:  MAY I HAVE SOME BATH TOWELS, then she started  mumbling when she realized that the kids she said no to was with me. She went and got me some towels too, then I SAID TO HER: DIDNT MY KIDS JUST COME DOWN HERE AND ASK YOU FOR THESE SAME TOWELS? She gon say, I just got them in, I just got them in! I said ok………………….. she was sooooo scared. I tell people all the time you dont have to use colorful words, all the time, all you have to do is throw that strong eye contact on them, with a tone of voice thats low and HARD! That will pull it off. Body langauge , eye contact, and DIRECT WORDS will do it every time! ( wink)

Then later on when it was check out time, the receptionist guy, said to me………. your kids went through the housekeeping area this morning to breakfast! I WANTED TO SAY: ok anddddddddd do you think they meant to go TO THE WRONG DAYUM DOOR TO EAT???????? DAYUM DUMMY! But I said looking at him straight in the eye ( sarcasticly)…………. Sir, do you honestly think that if they knew the right door to go through, they would have went in through housekeeping? He said  well no. I said ok………………….COME ON YALL LETS GO!

You know whats funny about this whole thing? My kids kept watching me. lollllllll They couldnt stop looking at my facial expressions. They were watching to see if I would clown. I didnt and Im so glad, cause kids pay attention.

 

GBU

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Its a new day! God is on the move!

Hey Family!
 
What is going on? Well I have been on \”some otha stuff\” but ya gurl is back! Im going to try my best to keep blogging, I have so much to share that I have headaches, it needs to come out. Some of it has came out to my friends co worker ( Thanks KiKi) and some I\’m going to share with you all.
 
Where do I begin? When I first moved into this house 4 years ago, I layed on my couched and visioned people sitting all around my living room, I vision it being so filled up with people that it was mad crazy. And I was actually teaching the word of God. It tripped me out because I read my bible and I pray a whole lot, and I have a very close relationship with God, but I cant see my self teaching like I was doing when I visioned it. The trip thing about it is. Im the silly gurl in the bunch, Im the one who will say something so crazy that you have you in stitches. But to see myself \”teaching\” scriptures from the bible and break it down contradict with my shyness and getting up in front of people.
 
But when God came to me and told me that I was going to start a Teen Ministry, I was like okay good………….I can see that. I love kids. I love talking to them, I do that all the time anyway. But it was hard to vision it actually happening. I thought about it all day. Till one day someone that I didn\’t know told me that I was going to have a teen ministry and that the time is now! So I was like NOW? They said that God said NOW! But little did this person know that I had already set a date for my first meeting for August 13, 2006.
 
As you all know I had 17 teens for my first meeting. The second time I had 23, and now its almost 30! Its been only 3 months. What happened was somebody went home and told somebody, then they told somebody, then they told somebody, and that\’s how it spread. Now I have so many teens that I have to move ALL my furniture out of my living room, just to have accommodate them.  This Sunday after Church, I have to move all my furniture to another room just so they could sit down.
 
We had our First \”Destiny\” Hotel Party last weekend! We had a ball do ya hear me?  I got to the rooms ( we had 3) and at first we were like okay its kinda small, next time I\’m going to do my homework on hotel rooms. But when we realized the advantage we had by having 3 rooms we had a ball!!
 
When all the gurls arrived it was a total of 22 teens, but including me and KiKi it was 24 of us! WE walked directly next door and went to the arcade, we played pool, we went go cart racing, arcade games and all. We stayed there for a couple of hours, then we went back to the room and put on our Pj\’s we went room  to room alllllllllllllll night like a bunch of kids lolllllll. We had so many goodies and juice and pop and food it didnt make no sense! ( In a good way). We bought 9 gifts, some very nice ones at that, for our contest and hair show. We didnt have the hair contest, be we did have dance contest and singing contest. These gurls are badddddddddddddddddddd! They are talented!
 
But thats not what I wanted to tell you.
 
We had some drama and Im going to share it in my next blog entry. ( hehehe) ( dont be mad at me!
 
Lacrease
 
Tyler Perry\’s
Daddy\’s Little Girls
Febuary 14, 2007
get life. teach love
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What would your bestfriend have to say about you?

Me and my bestfriend Gloria

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 have been friends for over 12 years. This gurl is so funny and so real its a trip. She knows me like the back of her hand. But one day she was looking through my purse because she wanted to see my calender, and was shocked at what she found.

 
Well, when she opened it up, she was surprised to see all of her check days written down in my book from January to December. Yep, I sure did. I had her and my sister’s check days marked and checked off for the whole year. Even though we laughed and laughed about it, I think she look at me as “crazy”.  Because she cannot stop talking about it.
 
She always wondered how I always remebered her check days to borrow money before she could ask me. ( heheheheheh). Well, today my question for you yahoo 360 is
 
If I were to talk to your bestfriend about something yall did, or you did that always comes up, what  story would he/she tell?
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Lacrease and the Customers 1

Hey!!!
 
Ok, I\’m going to get right to this one. Yall know I am a cashier for Walmart right? And before I leave my house, or while I\’m driving I have to ask the Lord to please let me have a good day. I\’m not a person who have an attitude off rip, that\’s just  not who I am. People can sometimes tell what kinda mood Im in, but I do good at smiling everyday.
 
 This pass Saturday evening this blk guy about 41, walks up to my register. I ring him up and his order comes up to $4.68. He hands me a $5.00 bill and .68 in Canadian money. Now everybody and their 4 year old knows that  (we and/not too many stores in the US take Canadian money. So I looked at him and said \”sir we don\’t take Canadian coins\”. He gon say WHY? Where the sign at that says yall don\’t?? So I looked at him, and said \”aint no sign, we just don\’t take Canadian money. So I said\” out of 5 and finished off the transaction ( I probaly was wrong for completing the transaction knowing he was trying to start something with me). He looked at me and said well I want my money back? I said why? He says because I want to know where is the sign that says no Canadian money. This thang clearly wanted to argue with me. So I said well in order to get your money back I will have to call a CSM. He was like call em then. So Demetria comes over and say Lacrease what\’s the problem. I tell her to give him a refund, cause we don\’t take canadian coins, and he feels we should, so since we dont he wants a refund. Demetria tried to talk to him but he gon say. I don\’t want to speak to YOU, I WANT TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE HIGHER!!!! So she page for Asst Manager Mike. He comes over and let me tell yall what that thang told my boss.
 
He gon say. My order came up to $4.68 and I gave her $5.68 the change was in Canadian money. Mike said ok what\’s the problem? The man said the way she said it was not professional. I\’m standing there looking at this dummy like what other way it is to say \”we don\’t take Canadian money????????????????? Then he tells my boss I use to work for Walmart. And we looked at him like………….then you should know we don\’t take canadian money!!! He said that he felt that I wasn\’t professional about telling him we don\’t take canadian coins.
 
My thang is this. Why when people tell you NO, you cant do this, or NO we don\’t take that, do people get offended?  They take it personal as if this rule was just made for them on the spot . He made it seem like I had it out for him because of some old elementary lunch money he took from me back in the day. Then when it was time for him to sign the refund slip, he gon say. I AINT SIGNING NOTHING? I said you have to sign it. So he gonna reach for his money that was in my hand. I was like you gotta sign this slip first. Then he started whining again, so my boss signed it.
 
But check this out. When I handed him his money……………he wanted to snatch it from me sooooo badddddddddddddddd. OOOOOOO I can feel it (lol) But he knew that if he did, everything he told my boss about me would be null and void, and he would walk away looking like the fool. lolllllll So politely he took the money and left. ( I WAS CRACKING UP IN MY MIND)
 
So my question for you~ Do you feel that YOU are always right concerning anyyyyyyyyyyyyy matter you have at a department store, grocery store, restaurant or any public place? Please share, because I want to hear from you.
 
Ms. Walker
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Madea’

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I love me some Tyler Perry, but Madea is my gurl! This is one of my favorite scenes in Madea’s Class Reunion. I was at the taping of this show here in Detroit, Michigan.

What are you favorite scenes from any play and post them.

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Let folks go!

Hey!

Im going to let my friend Tyler ( Madea) speak for me today. Some may have seen it before, but today I really want you to get it!

 

Enjoy!

 

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