Now to start unpacking

Hey folks,
How are y'all doing this fine week? Happy, tired, hungry ... [insert mood here]? After a rollercoaster week I must say I find myself fairly relaxed today. Had time to do some car maintenance ... you know I'm not afraid of a little grease ... as well as hang out with fam.

• I recently relocated from the Windy and have started my new job. Should be an interesting summer by the looks of things.
• I love having friends who are down for a night of chilling and not doing anything. I had missed that aspect of my life and look forward to building a better harmony between the activities in my life. 
• I was watching mama Oprah's all time favorite guests and saw the segments with Dr Tererai Trent, a fellow country woman of mine. She overcame adversity and found her way to the US to pursue her educational goals. She recently earned her doctorate and is working to build a school in her village in Hurungwe. She is selling tshirts as part of her fundraising efforts and I encourage you to support her worthy efforts to educate her fellow villagers. [I know mama O donated $1.5 million to help with the project, but we all know education ain't cheap and every extra dollar helps.]
• O and shout out to SweetT who came out to her mama last weekend. You go girl!
• And finally Happy Birthday to the future Mrs Ty aka White Orchid.

Another step

... and so life keep moving, evolving and revealing it's mysteries.
Selah.

Hmmm

Greetings, salutations, the Lexus and the Olive Tree (business and pol sci folks should know the book).
It has been a while since I've taken time to sit and write something. Call it laziness or a forced sabbatical. In the 2 months that I've been away, soo much has taken place that I'm not even sure I have fully absorbed the changes.
I'm still quasi spoken for. The phrase it's complicated doesn't even begin to explain the situation. Word to the wise, look before you jump - in fact look twice.
I'm doing what I love to do. I decided to go against the grain and general advice and stick to the area of IT that I like - the paycheck is non existent but I love doing it.
You know you're in a different place in your life when you have time marked off on your calendar to attend to some fraying edges and buttons that fell off during the week.
O I turned 28 in the interim and I must say the late 20s have been interesting thus far. For my birthday, I dressed my niece as a mini me and we got our pimp stroll on. That kid is a flirt and our pick-up mojo is sync. Yessir, whichever team she ends up batting for needs to watch out.
Y'all have a great weekend folks!

Delta Goodrem - Last Night on Earth

And we're back ...

The thing about family is

That you don't get to choose them most of the time. They choose you and you are stuck with them for life. That hold true for everyone. What equally holds true is that we are able to build "families" of our own as we grow. These are the people who've supported us, who are kindred spirits and those who we know, if at 2am you need some advice about a break-up, they will not cuss you out proper.

I have had the great fortune to be able to choose my family and most of them live in the Buckeye state. There are people there that I literally call mom because they have been my mothers throughout the years and I am grateful to them. They've given me that motherly love that I have needed at times when I would have been hard pressed to get it from my blood family.

Now why did I feel the need to put it down, well one of these fine women who I call mother is Irish American and I've been invited over for a wee bit of a family gathering with lots of dancing promised as only the Irish can do.

So Happy St Paddy's day to you folks and especially to the woman that is a mother to me and happens to be Irish. :)