Hair be gone!

Soooo...a lot of things have happened since I last blogged. Where do I begin?

Let's see, Carmund and I grow more and more in love as the minutes go by. At least that's how it feels to me. I'm quite sure no one else in the whole entire world has found love like I have. Nope, don't even try to convince me otherwise. (I'm NOT stubborn!) Seriously, we've got something good going on and I can't fully describe it. I do know I love it!

On April 10, 2010 at around 8:15am I did my Big Chop (BC). For those of you who don't know what that is, it means that I cut my hair down to my natural new growth and rocking a little fro. I decided along with my hair falling out to go completely natural. At first I was just thinking I'll do this little natural thing for a while and then go back to relaxers aka creamy crack. It's funny how sooooo many Black girls are going natural in Bloomington. You wonder why that is? I'll tell you what I think. It's because there are no real Black hair stylist in the area. The closest is Indianapolis and who really wants to go that far?!?!?! I can't lie, I am traveling to Indy faithfully to see my stylist and barber and wouldn't have it any other way. Now I am realizing that being natural is more than just a hair change, it's a state of mind/being. I'm very proud of my heritage and how God made me. Natural it is...all the way! Anyway, after I rocked the fro for about 2 weeks I decided I didn't like it anymore and to cut it down even more. Well, what do you know?! I got it cut and hated it!! I've had my hair very short for years but somehow this seemed a bit extreme. I was practically bald in my eyes. Everybody who saw it loved it but I'm thinking it looks ridiculous. Now I love it and want to keep it short at least until the end of the summer. Let's just say I now know how bald people feel especially when it's cold...

Besides the big hair change I really haven't done much. I went to Boston last week (May 12th - 16th) for Carmund's best friend's wedding. It was a great trip! I told Carmund I wanted to go back to last week. The food was great, the drinks were on par, the people were fantastic, and I looked fabulous! LOL I got to hang out with Carmund's mom which is always fun and educating because I'm always learning something new about her. The best part of the trip I got carded once and asked by the nail tech if I was getting ready for prom. LOL I thought this haircut made me look a bit older but instead I've been mistaken for a teenager?! WOW! I had a great time hanging with Carmund's friends and spending more time with Carmund than I normally would. The wedding was absolutely lovely. It was definitely one of the best weddings I've been to and was executed perfectly (at least from my view as a guest and not as the planner as I would love to be). :-)

Oh wait, I just remembered I did accomplish something. On Thursday, May 6th I completed the Event Planning Certificate Program IU's Continuing Studies Dept was offering this past semester. I'm quite proud of myself for doing something I wanted to do and finishing it! Cheers to me!

I'm living and learning and when life throws you lemons I say not only make lemonade but spice it up with a little rum or something. LOL That's just the way it is...

1 year and forever!

It's been a long, LONG time since I've done this blogging thing. Hey, some of us are busy and work all day! :-) On Sunday, March 28, 2010 Carmund and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary (of dating)!! Yay!!! Time flies when you're having fun. The year went by so fast and so many things have happened in the past year of us being together. I'm not going to blog about everything...just the more recent things we've done.

A couple of weeks we decided to have a mini spring break vacation. I'm not in school but I can still "celebrate" spring break. I'm sooooo glad I did. It was a Friday to Sunday vacation. I had initially wanted to spend the vacay in Chicago. My goodness! I never realized how expensive it could be to spend just a couple of days in Chicago. We scratched that idea and decided we would spend a day and an overnight stay in Brown County. We L-O-V-E visiting Brown County. It's just so cute and calming. We left Bloomington Friday around noon and first stopped for lunch at Hinkle's. Yum! Great local joint for burgers and fries. Off to BC!! Carmund and I very much enjoy walking through the little shops and seeing what they've got to offer (typically the stuff is pretty cheap...to me). I ended buying a card game called Flinch. I've never heard of it and Carmund and I are still trying to figure out how to play it. It's a bit complicated but we'll figure it out...eventually. We had dinner that evening and stayed at The Seasons Lodge. The weather was absolutely beautiful and I knew it was a great start to our vacation.

I was still considering for Carmund and I to go to Chicago on Saturday to hang out with a friend and have fun but when I checked the weather forecast it said SNOW! I said NO! We were off to a great start and no way was it going to get ruined by stupid weather. I said, "Carmund, we're headed south. I want to go to Louisville." We left Brown County Saturday afternoon and headed to Louisville, KY. It's a short little drive (maybe an hour and 20 minutes). Carmund and I both share a love for museums and I knew that there was a center in Louisville about Muhammad Ali. As soon as we got in town we headed straight to the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, KY. If you haven't been there I suggest making a special trip to Louisville just for this. It is a beautiful facility. I was impressed as soon as we sat in the auditorium for the orientation video before you start looking at the exhibits. It's super cheap to get in ($9 for adults or $5 for students). You can't get any better than that and it's worth every dollar. Afterwards we checked into our hotel and then headed to 4th Street Live which is in downtown Louisville. It's just a block or so of shops, restaurants, bars, and a Borders Bookstore! We decided on eating at an Irish pub for dinner and enjoying the basketball game where we watched UNI beat Kansas. Again, the weather was absolutely perfect. It was as if Jesus was smiling on us and wanting us to enjoy our little getaway.

We headed back to Bloomington on Sunday. Pretty much the weather held out until we returned and then it started raining and getting a little nasty outside. We topped it all off by going to church that night and it was amazing! We were so relaxed on our vacation. I feel better whenever I think about it.

For our 1 year we didn't go all out but I felt like a million bucks simply because I was with Carmund all day!!! We went to church, had lunch with our favorite married couple, the Warsaws, we watched a couple of episodes of Family Guy on Hulu (fell asleep watching them), went to dinner (was suppose to go to Sweet Grass but they are closed on Sundays so we went to Outback Steakhouse...yummy!!), and we rented and watched The Hurt Locker (which I need to take back to Blockbuster today). It was a great day!

I now can't imagine my life without Carmund and soooo glad I don't have to! He's so much fun and caring, and sensitive, and loving, and understanding, and genuine, and nice, and thoughtful, and cute, and silly, and okay okay I could keep going but I won't. Did I mention he's sooo cute?! Okay! I'm sorry but you know how it goes...that's just the way it is!

I love you, Carmund!

The Black List

Now, this is something I came across just now on YouTube. It's called The Black List. I believe it's an HBO documentary type of deal. They interview highly achieved Black people on their life's stories or their views on being Black in today's society. I love the concept here. I came across one with Chris Rock. Check it out!