Home, Work & Fun

I know that I have been missing in action but I really wanted these past few weeks to settle myself.  I wanted to feel the joy of finally living in my new place and keep it to myself  for a while.  I love coming home, throwing down my purse, kicking off my shoes, pouring a [...]

Work…It Just Keeps Getting Worse.

I’m tired.  I feel defeated.  Today had to be one of the worst days at work.  Every day I walk in I feel like a failure.  Granted what I do now is a very small part of what I have done in my field for almost 10 years.  But somehow things at work are just [...]

Sometimes All You Have Is A Mattress

I have just spent the past 20 minutes looking at Los Angeles apartments on craigslist.  Even though I’m back in New York it’s just something I do as a reminder that I have to finish what I started here to get back there.  I look at the old neighborhoods I’ve lived in and frown as [...]

Career Fear

So I’m scared. There are a few moments in my life where I’ve acted out of fear. I dropped an honors English class because I was the only student of color and felt uncomfortable. Even though I scored an 11 out of 12 on my placement test and was personally asked by the head of [...]

Blizzard Causes Clusterfuck!

Ahhh!!! I hate snow. No wait not true. I hate blizzards.  The snow started falling around 10am.  I’m in my office starring out the window trying to decide if I should stay or go home early.  We are permitted to go home early but we will have to make up the time by having our [...]

Lazy Sunday Thoughts

* I should really continue to savor and not rush reading Eat, Pray, Love .  This book has resonated with me on so many levels.  From her struggles of leaving an unfullfilling marriage to traveling the world in search of a better self.  I’ve laughed and cried with this book and I’m only half way in.  [...]

Her Hand Says It All

 
My 83 year old grandmother still wears her wedding band. Though my grandfather passed away over 23 years ago, she still wears her thin gold band lovingly.  My grandparents bore 11 children together in Kingston, Jamaica.  I used to joke with my grandmother about how they must not have had television because they kept breeding [...]

Boss Gave Me The Forehead Kiss

Um…hmmm…ahh…ooookay. 
So, while taking my 15 minute morning break today to eat breakfast, one of my managers walks into the back office where I was.  Now mind you the man is dashingly handsome!  I’ve had a major crush on him since my interview.  We joke around alot and we are both playfully sarcastic with each other.  I [...]

Being an entrepreneur is a problem?

I finally got the low down on why my phone has not been ringing with job offers. I used to be an entrepreneur (well I still am sort of) and that was discouraging employers from wanting me. Let me explain. Yesterday I had an interview with a staffing agency. I had [...]

Bigger Than My Body Gives Me Credit For

 
For the past two days I have been in a funk.  It was so deep that I felt empty, alone and scared.  I pretty much slept these past two days away and barely came from under the covers to eat.  The reality of my new life hit me hard.  Not that it’s horrible.  Not by a [...]