They said this day would never come (Obama, FTW).

I love the way having a Christmas tree around makes my house feel.  Rita and I took mine down today and it made me sad, so I took this picture of my favorite ornament that my mom made out of this door decoration that I had.  It turned out pretty cool.  If you'll notice, you can see me in it.  And Rita too over there.  That was probably right about the time that she belittled my sad feelings and said "girl bye, thats life, seasons change," and I realized and agreed that I needed to move on and now I have.

Lately I've been thinking maybe I want to try being a screen writer.  I'm going to loosely write a Curb-Your-Enthusiasm improvised type script and try it out as a youtube video.  A lot will depend upon who I can get to help me do it.  But that'd be so fun if I could do something really smart in that area.  I feel like one of my callings in life is to remind the world that black people are regular people too. The media has taken stereotypes of us to a whole other level. Especially for black women.  They are dragging us through the mud.  All of those VH1 shows burn me up. Seriously.  There's a large amount of white people (and asians, hispanics, etc.) that have never ever met a black person in life. They see that on TV and think that's what we are.  

And don't EVEN get me started on this whole non-coverage of the members of B2K being ANALLY RAPED by someone else in the public eye?  Girl, please.  Black people everywhere should be very concerned.  A member of 98 degrees comes out and says their Lou Pearlman was doing them up the booty at the age of 11 and there's no story there? Come on.  They're camping out in Nick Lachey's front yard straightaway.  AND his parent's house.  Early. Dateline should've been on this like white on rice (© my mom).  Are we catching predators only if they fit into the context of their hilarious show?  Britney Spears *almost* falls and its all over CNN, you know? That's just blatant. What more needed to happen here in order to get coverage? Now I have to go to gossip blogs to be updated on shit that mainstream media outlets don't cover (even though a part of me wants to say that that's pretty fricking cool)? Hello? Is this thing on???

(steps down off my soapbox for the evening) So definitely.  If I could do something to curb even the tiniest bit of all of this, it'd be superhuge.  I'm going to see if I can finagle being that type of writer.  That'd be dope if it just randomly came naturally to me.  I'm gonna play around and do a lot of risky random shit this year.  Hope over fear.  Something is going to work.