Let the celebration continue...

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So in 49 minutes I will have lived for 14,965 days....I can't believe it's happened again so soon! It always seems like the monthly count down is so freaking far away but then the next thing you know it's the day before and then the day, and then the day after.  It just goes to show you that life goes on even if you aren't  paying attention.

I love the fact that I have lived this long.  I sit and briefly think about how there were a few times I didn't want to be here....like literally...and between constant prayer, some couch time and some friends that God has used to say and do things even when they didn't realize and I'd never and have never said anything to them.  I just take it all in stride and learn my lessons and keep it moving!

Right now i'm on a small sabbatical from GSU due to some financial issues, getting some training/internships in the sound engineering area, still working to gear up my confidence level in singing again and i'd love to play  the piano again, somewhat close to what I used to and then learn some more.  Music makes me smile.

I am noticing that i'm losing energy these days but I am in better shape/tone than before. So I just need to continue to do what's necessary to stay on top of everything.  I love celebrating and this year I said I was going to do just that with EVERYbody, i mean i love my birthday and my sign (Aries) but I just love celebrating period!

To those that bring positive energy in my life, I thank you.  I love you and appreciate what you bring into my personal space.

Celebrating Life - Road Trip!

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Life is what you make you it!!! you should be rocking and smiling right now as you read these words..So this year will be "41" for me.  March 21st is my actual birthdate but starting a few years back i started celebrating from March 1st with my Pisces birthday month folks mainly because my day is the first day of Aries meaning i'm a cusp baby and plus i just like birthdays..mine and everybody elses! LOL!  But as I get older, I start thinking about other significances of celebrating things.  And I started thinking about how a young college student would feel when she's about to give birth in about 3 weeks and on top of that was hoping that she'd be getting her degree not getting a daughter.  So there's a LOT of emotion going on in her life, in her head.  So as my life outlook changes so do my celebration reasons!

This weekend began this year's life celebration and it includes attending a wedding of one of my girlfriends that i met in Atlanta.  We have 2 AWESOME things in common: We are both from Texas and we are both Dallas Cowboys fans!! *CB4L*  She has found her prince charming and I get the privilege of witnessing it.  I met her through a group of friends and i like for ALL of my friends to know each other so i ended up road tripping with another friend....welp! I'll have to pick up these thoughts later......

Ok i'm baaaack!!!!  I tell you what, when you are single and pretty much do everything alone, specifically road trips, you never know what habits that you have that could be bothersome until you travel with someone else.  One thing I notice is I tend to (for whatever reason) allow myself to be corrected about something I do/am doing and i'll apologize for it but when someone does something I just ignore it/adjust to the new environment and keep it moving.  I don't know if that makes me a push over or what...but I have to believe that if someone has proven to be a friend, truly stepping in to assist me during a time of need,  that the personality difference is just that.  A personality difference.  I experienced some stuff during this road trip that could have genuinely hurt my feelings back in the day but I had to keep the fact that this was a part of my life celebration going in my head.  I did find myself shutting down emotionally because I was literally told in stereo that I talk too much.  So I shut it down and allowed a reunion to happen, funny enough when i shut it down i was then told that it made the scene awkward.  i laughed it off but i'm thinking "you want me to stop talking, right? So i did...i'm over it.".  No hard feelings I just now know new information....AND I see/know some habits that I have that I have to modify when i'm not rolling solo....enough said.

NOW, to describe the wedding weekend!!!  It was MARVE-lous!!!  I got a chance to see some of my family, me and my ATL homegirl/road trip partner stayed with my cousin and his family one night (Friday) and checked into the hotel where the wedding party was for Saturday.  The wedding was at 4pm, we stepped up in there at about 4:30...LOL...luckily my girl (the bride) had a delay and we got there on time! LOL!! Thank you Kalilah!!   The ceremony was BEAU-TI-FUL, all weekend me and my homegirl had an impromptu photoshoot...I have to say that gal was on it with her fashion!  We had fun!!!  Then on to the reception at Sneaky Pete's!  OMG! I still see that name and giggle. We had a blast! The reception was soooo much fun!  Family/friends were positive and then at the end...the DJ overloaded us on line dances! I did some I knew and learned a few too! LOVE IT!!!!!  So on the way back we took some pics as we crossed state lines which put a tad bit of a delay in our return to the ATL but it was worth it.  Although i did learn a new travel law...that you can split up a hotel bill and pay via two different credit cards but can't do the same thing for a rental car. *interesting*

Overall...All in all I had a blast and was happy that I made my way to Texas to witness my girl get hitched!  Great road trip!!

I will continue to blog about my birthday/life celebration as the days go by...... March 1st to April 19th

Still Pushing...

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Well I'm still Expecting nothing but GREATNESS!! My mindset has tried to backslide to what I used to struggle with but I refuse to let it. I will fight tooth and nail to keep myself going forward!  In a few weeks I will be celebrating my 41st birthday, I'm a spring baby, first day of Aries, March 21st but I start celebrating on March 1st with the Pisces.  One other thing I have come to realize is that during that time 41 years ago as a young college student hoping to finally escape the confinements of living in the country my mother was looking to escape to something new and was not really looking forward to becoming a mother even though she was madly in love with a fellow PVU classmate.  She was looking forward to marching across the stage grabbing that piece of paper that said "Bachelors in Nursing" and who knows what else she would have done.  But her plans were put on hold and she chose to love the little thing that was wriggling around in her stomach a lot more around March 1st, that came out screaming (i think) March 21st and that turned a month old April 19th; the last day of the Aries sign and the last day of my life celebration.  That thought pattern just came to me today, I'm looking at life via a much much bigger picture!  For that reason, I have a renewed reason to keep pushing and fulfill my destiny.

So I still push...this word also has another definition:

P.U.S.H. - Pray Until Something Happens

This year is looking up for me!  And MY prayer for YOU and YOUR family is to keep pushing!  Keep moving forward no matter what!  I speak peace and comfort over your household right now in Jesus name!  Be encouraged, there is a song that says sometimes you have to encourage yourself...basically look in the mirror and tell yourself how awesome you are!  I've been seeing different FB posts stating that if other people spoke to us the way that we internally and externally spoke to ourselves that we'd want to fight so the question presented is "then why do you talk to yourself with such negativity?".  Watch what you say, what you put into the universe. What is the universe you ask? It's your mental, it's your mind, we tend to relive verbal statements and our whole body and mind will react like it happened for real.  Put the positive stuff out there, put it in your universe, recall the great stuff, leave the negative stuff along.  Love yourself!

P.U.S.H.

I think that's all I have to say tonight....

Celebrate life with me from March 1st to April 19th

and

Keep on Pushing!!

~~Peace and Blessings~~

People....Make you keep on pushing

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When you are trying to live your dream, you run into people that are willing to show you the ropes, assist in any way they can and theeeeeen you run into people who do the opposite.  i'm seeing this watching other people who are making it happen.  I know negativity will hit you where you're weakest.  I think my biggest obstacle is negative thinking and vibes.  I'm a naturally friendly person, my name [Annissa]means "to be friendly; grace and favour" so when people pretend to be a friendly person and then put the brakes on without notice, it hurts my feelings just a little.  There is a part of me that is sensitive to that type of treatment.

Anyway, I will keep on pushing (in the words of curtis mayfield) no matter what, it just really trips me out when folks act up.  I've said it before and i say it again - when i ask the Lord to remove folks from my life and they leave they are gone for good and i'll leave them alone.

Looka look look a yonder, what's that I see, a great big stone wall standing there ahead of me but i've got my pride and i'll move along the side and keep on pushing

hallelujah! hallelujah!

keep on pushing!

**acknowledgement**
Curtis Mayfield - Keep on pushing link via Youtube.com

When it's all said and done...i am responsible for my happiness so i will have to learn to control my sensitivity if i'm going to make it.  At the end of the day God has my back and that's all that matters.

*peace and blessings*

2013 it is....

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I promised myself i'd do one black tie event a month and I started last night! yaaaaay!!  2013 will be a new, refreshing year for a BUNCH of people, myself included of course!  I got a chance to go to the 2013 Georgia Entertainment Gala - a 1st annual event!  I got to rub shoulders with Georgia's who's who and thanks to my friend Shawn Foote of CFox Productions, a crazy incident (i broke my shoe) was turned into a moment to gather and laugh and talk with other people.  We turned the area we were standing into the "shoes off" area. LOL!  Thank you Shawn!!  As I left the event with shoe and a half in hand heading to the valet to get my silver vroom vroom, I had a great grin on my face (sigh) however I now realize I missed some great photo ops of some great folks that i hugged last night!  Dang it!!  :-(  I have to start thinking on my "photo op" feet.

Oh well. It is what it is for that one.....however going forward, I WILL do better.  :-)

Ok gotta start this week with a BANG!!!

**Peace and blessings!**

~~The broken shoe - The End~~

Sliding Doors....

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So I'm watching "Sliding Doors" and if you haven't seen it, you should.  If you like drama and a GREAT, solid storyline you should see it.  It's an older one that came out in '98 but very very very good!

The basic storyline (without giving it away) is a lady goes to work and gets laid off. The story splits when she leaves, one version of herself makes the train to go home, the other version misses the train and has to catch a cab home.  That's when it gets interesting.  It makes one think of the choices we make and what other tasks we'd end up doing.  At one point, Gwyneth Paltrow's character passes by a place that both versions of her character are near and has a case of deja vu.  It's as if her spirit senses that she's supposed to be there.  The catch is in one scene she's talking to a friend about being tired at work and in the other scene she's on a boat on the river cheering on a new guy friend.  Clearly having more fun.  That just made me think about our life choices.

Anyway, maybe it's just me.  Hope your 2013 is going well...Remember to Expect Greatness!!!

*peace and blessings*

It's a new year of GREATNESS!

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2013 came in for me with awesome music and a great group of people! I was in volunteer mode for the Ken Ford 70s NYE concert and we had a BLAST!!!!

All last year I asked for a reset button..."Lord give me a reset button to stop this negativity...Lord i wish i could go back in time to stop the negativity" and guess what i got it!! It's so weird, my mindset is so different right now! Nope I'm not walking around hollering "BLESSED AND HIGHLY FAVORED" every second and grinning like a zoned out zombie but my mindset about life is really different right now! I'm accepting the consequences of some actions I did or didn't do last year and moving forward.  Either way I'm going to be blessed, no time to cry about what should've been done...it's TOO late!

This year is greatness, period. I'm not doing anything else. No self-pity, nothing. I'm stepping up to plate and handling business.  Get in where you fit in..And I got my ticket to the 2013 Entertainment Gala...You better get yours!!! I WILL be in the building!!  Now I have to find me a winter formal.

Peace and love...Love ya'll - Nissa K