SPAM Poetry

creators hold power
constant focus brings success
paper money is not real
don't live in dream
wake up
Your life
The Mind Body Sanctuary Awaits You!
here is that fire
Enjoy

Back. Tired.

Well, I'm back from training and started working. After eight days of training, I was exhausted, so I started on Tuesday, and am currently done with what I had to get done, but haven't been sent the sample, which is the next step. Still waiting. Guess I'm too fast for my own good. But oh well, I have another day off. Unless they send me sample later today.
We leave for the beach on the 5th, so I want to get a lot done this next week, so I don't get too far behind. Plus of course the crap I need to get done to be ready to go to the beach.
My body is still adjusting to new schedules and working and walking so much. Last week I walked about 4 miles a day. I'm hoping even the small segments of walking I do here at home will help me to lose a little weight or at least keep me from gaining more. The worst part is being in the heat which always tires me out badly. So, I'm a bit achy, very tired, having increased inflammation and frustrated that I'm waiting for the next step, but other than that: I'm okay!
It feels good to be working, especially at a real job. Hey, I got my business cards and work cell phone yesterday, how cool is that??
Other than all of that, not a whole lot to say, but I will try to do a better job keeping up here, now that the training is done.
P.S. Ann Arbor (where I trained), MI, is a very cool college town. A lot more liberal and artsy than I expected. A good place to visit and SO MANY good places to eat. It was hard to choose every night.

HAPPY SOLSTICE!

Have a summer beer at 6:59 ET tonight and celebrate the longest day of the year!! ( the earliest solstice since 1896!)

More when I get back from training and love to the best BFF in the world Vicki for supporting me through this week.

I MISS ALL THREE OF MY BOYS!!!!!!!!!!

Stolen from a thief [LINK] REDUX

• If you get something out of a vending machine, it's most likely the: something salty, maybe Funyuns
• A word you sometimes catch yourself misspelling: tomorrow
• You least want people to see you as: unintelligent
• You're a little scared of: falling
• The least attractive thing you do in your sleep: grind my teeth... (DITTO)
• The number of contacts in your cell phone: 165
• How many of them are restaurants: 17
• You lose your cool when someone: people hear, but don't listen (DITTO)
• When you go to the drugstore, you often can't leave without buying: a Mr Goodbar, a gossip mag or a skin care product
• Your dance moves can best be described as: repetitive
• The majority of your underwear is: Body by Victoria Hiphuggers in Black or Nude
• Something you eat even though you hate how bad it is for you: Triscuits w/Sharp Cheddar Easy Cheese
• You think you're really not a great: athlete (DITTO)
• How much cash is in your wallet right now: $20 and some change, but normally no cash, just change
• The majority of your shoes are this color: I guess black, but I have too many pairs for there to be an easily discerned majority color
• You don't think you'll ever be able to get rid of your: my extra 40 lbs.
• If your breath is bad, it's most likely because you had the: coffee
• You feel embarrassed when you: forget anything I "should know"
• The last public place where you used the restroom: a bar 2 weekends ago
• Something you don't like to debate in mixed company: nothing I can think of, lol
• You don't think you can pull off wearing: anything that shows my upper arms
• Something you own entirely too much of: clothes & shoes
• Someone you would love to see in concert who might bring down your street cred: Bette Midler in Vegas
• The last thing that you spilled on yourself: coffee
• If you were on a reality show, the producers would likely portray/characterize you as the: the bossy one/annoying know-it-all

Another WTF.

I don't remember this video clip, although I know I saw it.
What fakaktah defintion of Black is this?? ReelPop said it best:

Barack to the future? No. Baby got Barack? No. Obamacize? Hmm...
Stephen Colbert does verbal aerobics around Salon.com columnist Debra Dickerson, who embodies Freud's theories on the narcissism of minor differences.

From Wikipedia:

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. In the United States, the term is generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry. Most African Americans are the descendants of captive Africans who survived the slavery era within the boundaries of the present United States, although some are — or are descended from — voluntary immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, or elsewhere. African Americans make up the single largest racial minority in the United States, though Hispanics compose the largest ethnic minority.

Or also from Wikipedia:

Black people is a term which is usually used to define a racial group of human beings with dark skin color. Some definitions of the term include only people of relatively recent Sub Saharan African descent (see African diaspora), while others extend the term to any of the populations characterized by dark skin color, a definition that also includes certain populations in Oceania and Southeast Asia.

Even by the African diaspora defintion he is still Black.