Nothing special, just some randomness...
So I am having one of those ‘silly’ days, so please forgive me for this blog.
This morning, I woke up at 7, got dressed and headed out for my daily ritual of walking the lake and spending time with Jesus. As I was walking and getting down with some old school Kirk Franklin, my keen eye picked up on a couple of thing...
Have you ever seen a duck sleep? They just sit there, right in the water, bobbing up and down with the waves with their little heads tucked into their feathers, knocked out. I wish I had that kind of serenity. It didn’t matter what was going on around them, if another herd of birds came around making noise, or if some kids threw sticks at them, they were just knocked out. I used to sleep that way as a kid, but now that I live alone, every little thing makes me stir. And now that I am still on earthquake alert its really bad now. Hence my ability to wake up at 7 am and walk...hilarious...
Have you ever noticed that older black men always start their phrases with ‘okay’? There are a group of old men that I pass by every morning and it’s always the same greeting. “Okay, how you doing today sweetheart?” It cracks me up because the man who owns the coffee shop I practically live at now always does that. ‘Okay, how are you Brandelyn?” My old professor from Cal did it when we went to his house last weekend. “Okay, it’s good to see you.” LOL! I just thought that was funny.
A friend of mine called me this morning to ask me about some medicine because he was sick and it got me to thinking about the last time I was really sick. It was last year and all of a sudden I was hit with the whole fever, chills, flu madness and it was not okay. After consulting Nana, I got on the phone with my boo at the time, put on tons of layers, turned on the space heater, crawled underneath every single blanket, sheet and cover I owned and settled down. I woke up the next morning feeling so much better because I sweated everything out, but it was also because the guy I was dating was extremely sweet about the whole thing. He stayed on the phone with me until I went to sleep and called me first thing in the morning to check on and called me throughout the day to check in. I kind of miss that, those sweet moments, but he turned out to more than a little shaky bakey, so I don’t miss it that much...
Yesterday was my friends birthday and although we talked a million times yesterday, I just wanted to give her a shout out and tell her how much I love her and appreciate her in my life! ROSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
