June is HIV/AIDS Testing Month. June 27th is Testing Day. Get Tested!!! Know Your Status!!! Walking around not knowing does not make you not have it. You're just ignorant with HIV/AIDS. No Excuses. Go to http://www.hivtest.org to find a testing site near you. On June 27-29 in 20 cities select Walgreens will doing testing also.
Sometimes when I post about HIV/AIDS or STD awareness it takes me back to a funny day during my undergrad years. My friends and I went into the semester health fair basically to pick up a pamphlet of two for an assignment or extra credit for a class. There were 4 others with me when we entered to the ballroom. A thin woman with a booming voice said
"Hey Ladies Come over here so I can hook y'all up"
The room got quiet from all the hustle and bustle of activity. It seem like everyone was looking at us My friends and I looked at each other. We look all around us. It was just us there.
"You by the door. I'm talking to y'all"
We walked over to the table. She was with the local HIV/AIDS clinic. She loaded us up with a zip lock bag each filled with various condoms, dental dams, and lubricants. Never knew a little baggie could hold so much.
"Now you have no excuse. And you make sure the Sucka put it on and put it on right"
I had never seen anyone so matter of fact & in your face about sexual protection. But somebody need to be. Her words have echo in my head (not because she was so loud) ever since. "Now You Have No Excuse" As much stuff is out to protect ourselves, why is HIV/AIDS and other STD still on the rise. We need to safeguard our bodies much better. Too many people that eat right, wash with anti-material soap, & wear gloves while they cook but catch a disease transmitted sexually every day.
Okay let me get off the soap box. Protect Yourself. Respect Yourself. Get Tested.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Birthday Confession
I have to admit behind the smiles and fun this was the hardest birthday to get through at times. Around April I realized my birthday was on the weekend. Then it hit me what weekend is was. I got sad. Father's Day & my Birthday with without my grandfather. But I shook it off. He's been gone 8 years. I've gone through my birthday & Father's Day without him before. Last time my birthday was on a Saturday it rain and I slept through it. Not gonna do that this year. I'm good. Made plans for Friday & Saturday nights with my friend who has a birthday a few days before mine. I was great until a cousin called with birthday wishes and said "Oh I remember your birthday was around Father Day" The feelings I pushed aside in April came down so hard. I got off the phone and went in my room and had to cry it out until I took a nap. Woke up and decided to own the grief and breathed through it until now so I can type this blog.
If you have not figured out by now. I am an Unshamed Nerd that can be very corny sometimes. A person who celebrated me being a corny nerd was my grandfather. One way he celebrated my personality was when my birthday fell on the weekend he would give me a Father's Day Card and I gave him a Birthday Card. Always the humorous kind. It was our special joke. Only one we could shared. My preteen & some of my teen years I celebrated my birthday out of town because I was attending a yearly Sunday School & Baptist Training Union Congress. Every Year a different city. Even one year at Midnight the church memebers belted out Happy Birthday while traveling from Los Angeles back Home on a dark road. It was so sweet!!! That year my birthday was on a Sunday and waiting for me was a Father's Day card and I brought my grandfather a Birthday card all the way back from California. The year I was away for Summer School during my Undergrad years. I mail him a birthday card and he mailed me a Father's Day card. Yep Nerdy & Corny. But Ours to Share.
I missed giving him a card this year. I missed recieving a card from him this year. Though tears had to fall I can smile knowing I shared that with him. Somebody out there does not have that. I think we should all find special memories of our loved ones and if the tears come let them fall Then wrap up in the smiles & special feelings they give because you know that they happened. Tears will dry but Smiles & Special Feeling Last Forever. Now I KNOW I'm Good. *smiling*
If you have not figured out by now. I am an Unshamed Nerd that can be very corny sometimes. A person who celebrated me being a corny nerd was my grandfather. One way he celebrated my personality was when my birthday fell on the weekend he would give me a Father's Day Card and I gave him a Birthday Card. Always the humorous kind. It was our special joke. Only one we could shared. My preteen & some of my teen years I celebrated my birthday out of town because I was attending a yearly Sunday School & Baptist Training Union Congress. Every Year a different city. Even one year at Midnight the church memebers belted out Happy Birthday while traveling from Los Angeles back Home on a dark road. It was so sweet!!! That year my birthday was on a Sunday and waiting for me was a Father's Day card and I brought my grandfather a Birthday card all the way back from California. The year I was away for Summer School during my Undergrad years. I mail him a birthday card and he mailed me a Father's Day card. Yep Nerdy & Corny. But Ours to Share.
I missed giving him a card this year. I missed recieving a card from him this year. Though tears had to fall I can smile knowing I shared that with him. Somebody out there does not have that. I think we should all find special memories of our loved ones and if the tears come let them fall Then wrap up in the smiles & special feelings they give because you know that they happened. Tears will dry but Smiles & Special Feeling Last Forever. Now I KNOW I'm Good. *smiling*
Monday, June 4, 2012
Newest "Threat" to Marriage
I am not talking about Gay Marriage. You should know my feelings by now. But since I have your attention let me speak about "Marrying Yourself" the "newest threat" to the institution of marriage. LMAO
I was watching Anderson one afternoon and he talk to two ladies who married themselves. Marrying Yourself is a declaration of being whole within yourself and taking away from society's placement of guilt on one being single and not married after the age of 30, 40, 50, etc. The ladies then added to their declaration a ceremony & reception. Both Ladies had different reasons for marrying themselves. It's a bit much for me but the reasoning I agree. Well, Anderson had in the audience a man from the "Marriage Project" and he felt like "Marrying Yourself" is a threat to the institution of marriage. I wish I was there so he could have seen me roll my eyes at His absurd self.
It is too many broken people marrying other fragmented people all because they just have to be married. People stay in physically & Mentally abusive relationships because they are married. People cheat on their spouses front, back and all sides possibly bringing home STDs, HIV, & AIDS but hey they are married.
How dare he say "Marrying Yourself" is a threat. Just another way to throw society's guilt on those who choose to be whole by themself and feel someone else completes them. I would so rather they have the fancy party celebrating their self-love than for them to be in the real threat to marriage "Broken Marriage"
Well to those working yourself to be or remain whole before marriage or those who decided to be whole by themselves, GUILTFREE continues to be a "threat".
I was watching Anderson one afternoon and he talk to two ladies who married themselves. Marrying Yourself is a declaration of being whole within yourself and taking away from society's placement of guilt on one being single and not married after the age of 30, 40, 50, etc. The ladies then added to their declaration a ceremony & reception. Both Ladies had different reasons for marrying themselves. It's a bit much for me but the reasoning I agree. Well, Anderson had in the audience a man from the "Marriage Project" and he felt like "Marrying Yourself" is a threat to the institution of marriage. I wish I was there so he could have seen me roll my eyes at His absurd self.
It is too many broken people marrying other fragmented people all because they just have to be married. People stay in physically & Mentally abusive relationships because they are married. People cheat on their spouses front, back and all sides possibly bringing home STDs, HIV, & AIDS but hey they are married.
How dare he say "Marrying Yourself" is a threat. Just another way to throw society's guilt on those who choose to be whole by themself and feel someone else completes them. I would so rather they have the fancy party celebrating their self-love than for them to be in the real threat to marriage "Broken Marriage"
Well to those working yourself to be or remain whole before marriage or those who decided to be whole by themselves, GUILTFREE continues to be a "threat".
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Really, Ladies!!!
"I'm that Cute Bitch, tonight"
"Oh Hoe, You know I'll watch your kids"
"Ooh I don't hang with Females, they are messy"
"I got you a Cosmo, Slut"
Ladies, Tear each other down much?
When did the B-word or Slut become a term of endearment?
I thought a Hoe was a prostitute?
Fighting Words???
I know I am a tad Boughetto But I can not stand women referring to one another in such derogatory ways. It is so gross.
I am not B-word and my friends are not Hoes. We are Adult Women. We don't try to sleep with each other's bf, gf, or spouse. We are not jealous or envious of what someone has. We go out with our friends.
Recently I had to correct my high school aged niece on referring to some not likable girls as "them females". Not in my presence she won't. So now I see this language is spreading to our young. This has to stop.
How we expect men to not call us that crap when we walk around spouting like it's a proud title to be.
And I know some women are messy, nasty, skanky, & that will sleep with anybody's somebody. I know some men are messy also. Instead deleting a whole gender out of your Life, find men & women that are like you. If you are attracting messy people hmmm maybe...
I remember in college I first heard a lady say, "I don't have female friends cause Girls are messy" I was floored. I finally said "Hun, you are female are you messy? Find you some mess free girlfriends"
This madness has to stop. It's immature and drag the gender backwards. Before you let those rachet words depart your lips ask yourself would I want someone referring to me as... If your answer is not No.... Well... *sigh* Bless Your Heart
"Oh Hoe, You know I'll watch your kids"
"Ooh I don't hang with Females, they are messy"
"I got you a Cosmo, Slut"
Ladies, Tear each other down much?
When did the B-word or Slut become a term of endearment?
I thought a Hoe was a prostitute?
Fighting Words???
I know I am a tad Boughetto But I can not stand women referring to one another in such derogatory ways. It is so gross.
I am not B-word and my friends are not Hoes. We are Adult Women. We don't try to sleep with each other's bf, gf, or spouse. We are not jealous or envious of what someone has. We go out with our friends.
Recently I had to correct my high school aged niece on referring to some not likable girls as "them females". Not in my presence she won't. So now I see this language is spreading to our young. This has to stop.
How we expect men to not call us that crap when we walk around spouting like it's a proud title to be.
And I know some women are messy, nasty, skanky, & that will sleep with anybody's somebody. I know some men are messy also. Instead deleting a whole gender out of your Life, find men & women that are like you. If you are attracting messy people hmmm maybe...
I remember in college I first heard a lady say, "I don't have female friends cause Girls are messy" I was floored. I finally said "Hun, you are female are you messy? Find you some mess free girlfriends"
This madness has to stop. It's immature and drag the gender backwards. Before you let those rachet words depart your lips ask yourself would I want someone referring to me as... If your answer is not No.... Well... *sigh* Bless Your Heart