You Decide Your Own Level of Involvement

You know how you see people talking about natural hair journey. Well, mine is a freakin adventure.  I left a city with mostly black people where the stores were stocked with black hair products to a city where the white folks think hair I bought from the store is my own. I joined thirsty roots to find some help, encouragement, and all I got was, chop your damaged hair off.  I don't want to chop my hair off.  So I weaved it until my hair was au naturel.  And now my hair is great and growing. I've run into some problems.  For instance after I wash my hair and condition it...it's still very dry and very hard.  What the hell?  Dry and hard?  Comb breaking hair...hard as a rock.  I've been trying every other conditioner I can out there but not getting the results I was looking for.  I know I sound like a commercial...but this stuff is amazing! MARGUERITE'S MAGIC is the perfect name for it.  How my hair just takes to this prod...

Here are my glasses, I don't care for them very much. I ordered black and those are on back order, so I am wearing these for now.   Okay.  So.  Okay.  I didn't want to watch this show but this guy at work read the books, he recommended that everyone watch the show.  When he said it was Fantasy Fiction, people kinda turned their noses. I used to have a whole thing about fantasy fiction, I kinda felt like, magic was an excuse for everything and that it really wasn't explained.  When the real reason was, I couldn't wrap my mind around it.  I'm glad for this point of view because it helps me understand why some people can't wrap their minds around science fiction. Anyway...I watched it and fell asleep on the first episode.  There is far too much overtime going on.  Sometimes I can't even understand what they're saying; but I might be going deaf as well as blind...got my first pair of glasses last week. The last episode saw was whe...

Ugh, I hate that I haven't been blogging since November.  Coincidentally, that's when my new boss' boss started. I've been going out to dinners, I've been to Charlotte, I've been in overtime hell since then and my feet are HURTING. But now I'm back for the five people who did read my blog to share a few feelings about some things. THE HUNGER GAMES...are Awesome.  Old news I know.  I've been trying to find the time to read the last book.  I really feel like Katniss Everdeen is the reason behind the change in my behavior, lol.

Some writing groups are just awful.  Here are a few tips on how to loose people in your writing group. If you have members who look young, don't assume a mentor-ship role.  Remember you don't know this person, you don't know what kind of behavior would offend them.  Kiddo, you remind me of my son/daughter, champ, tiger. (It's condescending, ridiculous and absolutely takes the focus off the most important thing: the work.) Poor communication.  If you send four, five or six e-mails to one place and you do not get a response chances are you have the wrong e-mail address.  Have the wherewithal to figure that out. People Work.  Some writers actually work.  The reason why they joined a writing group is because they can't live off of their work.  Allow for the person to have some time before writing nasty e-mails about how unprofessional they are because they didn't answer by the deadline that was created.  It's selfish to ...

One of my favorites movies is Fight Club hence the name of the blog.  It comes from a line in the movie. Anway, there are a few things going on that people either know about it, but don't know what to do about it or don't know about it. In the movie, it describes a bunch of late 20 year olds to early 30 year olds about how their life has no purpose.  It's a rebellious film.  Which is probably why I like it so much but that is not my point. Even though Fight Club wasn't about Millenials, the whole idea still applies. We are a generation without definition.  We don't have anything to stand for, we can't decide what to be involved with so that future generations can look back and say what great men and women we were.  Instead we're coddled and hand held and just wandering. We can't be defined by our jobs because we're overeducated individuals who answer phones for a living.  We are a generation of people who were told that we were special and ...

My last post was in September so it just goes to show how busy I've been.  But I'm pretty annoyed or happy about a few things.  So I thought I'd share. I recently got two credit cards, one for JC Penny and one for the Limited.  Because my Bloomingdales card is maxed out.  No...just kidding.  I've had this new job for almost a year; I've paid off some bills so I figure I am financially secure enough to get these cards. Besides I work in a corporate office and people are starting to notice the holes in my sweaters.  Again, I'm kidding. At any rate, both compaines require you to call to activate the card.  But it's all a russe to get you to call to agree to some bogus fee you don't need. Pay Protection Insurance, Credit Card Protection Plan, like the devil it assumes many names.  And like they devil to sweeten the pot they throw in something that you are programmed to think you need.  A 40% gift card.  But with the money they'll be ...

Do you know why I named this blog, You Decide Your Own Level of Involvement? Because it's one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite movies.  In Fight Club Tyler Durden tells Edward Norton that he decides his own level of involvement. And I feel as though this is true for life. There is very little that I can control in life, but I do know that I can control my actions.  And with the magic of the internet I am able to do things that I've wanted to do.  Like write science fiction! Right now, my writing isn't enough to live off of which is why it's taken some time to get the novel out but the fact is, it's out. The Quest to Save Xanar is a science fiction novel about a Deltorian Princess who discovers that she has warriors. In this novel she learns why her warriors were gone for so long that they had become legends but mostly myths. Princess Arianna doesn't have time to complete her history lesson as the warriors bear bad news. Some one ha...