I’ve gotten into the habit of quoting my damn self in these last couple of posts and might as well keep it going! I often speak of my friends and family in high regard, because that is exactly what they deserve. There is one common thread I’ve noticed in all of the people I decide to keep myself surrounded with. No one takes themselves too damn seriously!
I said actually the other day “never take yourself too seriously, because if you don’t laugh at yourself someone else surely will.” Understand there is a time and a place always to be stern and professional, but 75% of the time is not that time!
If the things we did were not meant to be laughed at I highly doubt God would of gave us senses of humor and the ability to be flawed. So when you are running full speed for the Long Island Rail Road and your boob almost pops out in the middle of Penn Station what can you do?! Of course you can do a kick the man who was staring at you in the throat or you can adjust yourself mid stride and catch that damn train.
Next time you’re on the subway and you’re dress rips all the way down the zipper in the back you could get mad a go straight home. Or you can grab a couple of safety pins and your friend’s jacket which is clearly smedium throw it on and continue to sashay through your night.
And next time you’re laying on the beach getting your tan on and a seagull decides to use your leg as a toilet you can get pissed and unsuccessfully try to strangle said seagull. Or you can use your friends t-shirt to wipe up the poop and run your ass in the ocean.
These are all situations I can recall so well because either I or my friends have dealt with. And we got a damn good laugh out of it. Causes guess what if the person it happened to wasn’t laughing you best believes my ass was! :)
-Becks
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Daily Insight: Let The Dust Settle
Throughout my adolescent and early adult years it would be safe to say that I know how to have a good time. I don’t let too many opportunities to have a classic time pass me up, and my friends are the same way. This leads to a hectic social life of which can be exhausting at times.
When did Thursday turn into the new Friday and the unofficial start of the weekend??? Oh yea I remember…it was when I was in school and there was no class on Fridays…no responsibilities, no reason to wake up early, leaving all reason to WYLE Thursday out! But what was the excuse for the rest of the week?? This lounge pops on Mondays, this happy hour goes on Tuesdays, ahh duh Wasted Wednesdays! That was the narrative of my life…
But now that I am not in the collegiate atmosphere anymore you would think the script would change along with the scenery right?? WRONG! I live my life to the fullest and have no regrets (at least after a few cups of caffeine filled tea). But there comes a time when you just need to go ahead and sit down and let some dust settle on that ass. I’m not saying you need to go to into a social sleep coma like Rip Van Winkle and wake up 30 years later with you best years behind you. All I am saying is maybe not every party is meant to be attended, not every happy hour needs to be wyled out, and not every open bar needs to be taken full advantage of….Ok wait, I lied open bars ALWAYS need to be taken advantage of lol!
But you get the picture…so as the winter months are being forced upon us at a rapid pace by Jack Frost himself take this opportunity to let a bit of dust settle on that ass. And when you brush your shoulders off, it’ll make that triumphant return to the scene that much more triumphant
-Becks
When did Thursday turn into the new Friday and the unofficial start of the weekend??? Oh yea I remember…it was when I was in school and there was no class on Fridays…no responsibilities, no reason to wake up early, leaving all reason to WYLE Thursday out! But what was the excuse for the rest of the week?? This lounge pops on Mondays, this happy hour goes on Tuesdays, ahh duh Wasted Wednesdays! That was the narrative of my life…
But now that I am not in the collegiate atmosphere anymore you would think the script would change along with the scenery right?? WRONG! I live my life to the fullest and have no regrets (at least after a few cups of caffeine filled tea). But there comes a time when you just need to go ahead and sit down and let some dust settle on that ass. I’m not saying you need to go to into a social sleep coma like Rip Van Winkle and wake up 30 years later with you best years behind you. All I am saying is maybe not every party is meant to be attended, not every happy hour needs to be wyled out, and not every open bar needs to be taken full advantage of….Ok wait, I lied open bars ALWAYS need to be taken advantage of lol!
But you get the picture…so as the winter months are being forced upon us at a rapid pace by Jack Frost himself take this opportunity to let a bit of dust settle on that ass. And when you brush your shoulders off, it’ll make that triumphant return to the scene that much more triumphant
-Becks
Monday, November 8, 2010
Daily Insight: Pul-Pitting
A wise man once said “until we all without sin let’s stop the pul-pitting.” If you don’t get the metaphor maybe you should brush up on your Jay Z lyrics a bit. I feel as though we are all guilty of this in our own ways. Most of us I know for a fact ain’t no damn Judge Judy so what gives us the right to sit on our high horses and judge other people?? We don’t ….that’s the simple answer we don’t have that right.
Next time you see someone you might turn your nose up at or do something you don’t approve of why don’t you take a step into their shoes? No one is perfect and that is completely evident in everyday life. So what gives you the right to determine if the next person is anymore flawed than you?
It’s just something to think about next time you open your mouth to convey a judgmental thought…I know I’m not without sin and I ain’t pul-pitting.
-Becks
Next time you see someone you might turn your nose up at or do something you don’t approve of why don’t you take a step into their shoes? No one is perfect and that is completely evident in everyday life. So what gives you the right to determine if the next person is anymore flawed than you?
It’s just something to think about next time you open your mouth to convey a judgmental thought…I know I’m not without sin and I ain’t pul-pitting.
-Becks
Friday, November 5, 2010
Daily Insight: I Need You
A wise man once said “I could be congresswoman…or a garbage woman..or Police officer… or a carpenter..I could be a doctor and a lawyer and a mother and a good girl…God what you've done to me kind of lover I could be…I could be a computer analyst, the Queen with the nappy hair raising her fist….or I could be much more and a myriad of this hot as the summer, sweet as the first kiss. And even though I can do all these things I need you..and even though I can do all these things we need you…”
Jilly from Philly speaks truth ladies and gentlemen. I feel as though way too often in this society people women especially have this “I can do bad all by myself” mentality. Yes we know that our accomplishments are our accomplishments, and we are damn proud of them. I would encourage everyone to be fiercely independent at all times. But there are those people in your life that you can put down the Queen Latifah U.N.I.T.Y. independency by the waist side and say you know what I need you.
People are way too quick to dismiss those that we truly need for fear of seeming weak. But you know what sometimes you just gotta get weak like SWV weak. And you don’t know whose day you can make with those three simple words.
So next time you are all on your “uh uhhhh I can do this by myself I don’t need you cause Beyonce told me I’m independent” take a step back and realize it’s not going to kill you to say you know what I need you.
-Becks
Jilly from Philly speaks truth ladies and gentlemen. I feel as though way too often in this society people women especially have this “I can do bad all by myself” mentality. Yes we know that our accomplishments are our accomplishments, and we are damn proud of them. I would encourage everyone to be fiercely independent at all times. But there are those people in your life that you can put down the Queen Latifah U.N.I.T.Y. independency by the waist side and say you know what I need you.
People are way too quick to dismiss those that we truly need for fear of seeming weak. But you know what sometimes you just gotta get weak like SWV weak. And you don’t know whose day you can make with those three simple words.
So next time you are all on your “uh uhhhh I can do this by myself I don’t need you cause Beyonce told me I’m independent” take a step back and realize it’s not going to kill you to say you know what I need you.
-Becks
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Daily Insight: Seasoned
Every now and again..well let me be more specific every 5 minutes or a thought pops into my mind that makes me chuckle to myself. And sometimes when I think it’s extra funny I’ll share it with whomever I am around. As my friends and I were driving down I95 on our way to homecoming a conversation we had caused a thought to pop into my head.
A wise man once said “they call me a young Phil Jackson in the hood cause I’m seasoned in the game.” Now for those of you who do not have your sarcasm decoder on hand Phil Jackson is the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, and has been since BC time. I am saying this to say that no matter what you do in life make sure that you have some type of experience.
If you are the type to bust into splits mid-air on a moving party bus make sure you have done such an act before…if not the result can get quite messy. If you are the type to check through your significant others phone while he or she is asleep at least make sure you know the code so you don’t lock the phone completely entering a wrong passcode 6 times. If you know you have to stare at an excel sheet and do vLookup’s all day for your job at least know a tutorial website you can go to when you forget how to do that joint. If you’re someone who constantly exaggerates the truth make sure you tell two people who might compare notes a similar story…otherwise that ven diagram can be looking a little shaky and you can look like a liar. If you have to miss work cause you can’t let your friends have all the fun on a popping ass weekend make sure you have a full fledged excuse on deck…in case you were wondering the “family emergency” line works everytime.
If you are the type to dip off all the time just make sure you have a way to get your ass home in the morning cause I ain't bringing you back. And if you have the cajones to borrow an entire bottle of Grey Goose from your table at the club make sure you play it off cool enough to not draw attention to the huge lump under your coat ;).
Not everyone is going to be an expert at everything…all I am saying is whatever you find yourself doing make sure they call you a young Phil Jackson in the hood.
-Becks
A wise man once said “they call me a young Phil Jackson in the hood cause I’m seasoned in the game.” Now for those of you who do not have your sarcasm decoder on hand Phil Jackson is the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, and has been since BC time. I am saying this to say that no matter what you do in life make sure that you have some type of experience.
If you are the type to bust into splits mid-air on a moving party bus make sure you have done such an act before…if not the result can get quite messy. If you are the type to check through your significant others phone while he or she is asleep at least make sure you know the code so you don’t lock the phone completely entering a wrong passcode 6 times. If you know you have to stare at an excel sheet and do vLookup’s all day for your job at least know a tutorial website you can go to when you forget how to do that joint. If you’re someone who constantly exaggerates the truth make sure you tell two people who might compare notes a similar story…otherwise that ven diagram can be looking a little shaky and you can look like a liar. If you have to miss work cause you can’t let your friends have all the fun on a popping ass weekend make sure you have a full fledged excuse on deck…in case you were wondering the “family emergency” line works everytime.
If you are the type to dip off all the time just make sure you have a way to get your ass home in the morning cause I ain't bringing you back. And if you have the cajones to borrow an entire bottle of Grey Goose from your table at the club make sure you play it off cool enough to not draw attention to the huge lump under your coat ;).
Not everyone is going to be an expert at everything…all I am saying is whatever you find yourself doing make sure they call you a young Phil Jackson in the hood.
-Becks
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Daily Insight: Coming Home
I’m going to go ahead and defer from my normal daily insight to go off on a bit of a tangent today. As much of you very well know I am a 2009 graduate of the best school in the world…yes Howard University. And this weekend we as Howard grads and all other random people who want to feel included will travel back to the Mecca to participate in the tweakend known as Homecoming. Now for those of you who do not know what a tweakend is it is a weekend in which you party your life away with minimal sleep a lot of good people and a whole hell of a lot of memories.
This brings me to my wise man quote of the day. A wise man once said “do you think about me now and then….cause I’m coming home again.” No matter how far and wide you may travel after your tenure at good ol HU you can count on coming back to the Hilltop to reconvene with friends, talk some ish, and party like it’s 1999. Howard has allowed me to meet some of the greatest people and have some of the greatest times in my short 23 years. Will I be back every year? I damn sure hope not, that would just mean I may need to fall back from the party scene a bit. But best believe I’ll be in there with my Alumni shirt stomping all over the newly cut grass on the yard, trying to avoid DC parking authority, rooting on a football team we know won’t win, eating fried fish and mac and cheese, running up to people I saw no more than 2 weeks ago screaming “I love yous”, sleeping 4 to a bed, house party hopping, standing in that long ass line in front of the Diner at 4am, and singing at the top of my lungs “I’m soooo glad I went to Howard U!”
So when the tweakend comes around every October don’t be afraid to stampede the good old Avenue of Georgia and create some more memories. I don’t know about ya’ll but I’m coming home again!
-Becks
This brings me to my wise man quote of the day. A wise man once said “do you think about me now and then….cause I’m coming home again.” No matter how far and wide you may travel after your tenure at good ol HU you can count on coming back to the Hilltop to reconvene with friends, talk some ish, and party like it’s 1999. Howard has allowed me to meet some of the greatest people and have some of the greatest times in my short 23 years. Will I be back every year? I damn sure hope not, that would just mean I may need to fall back from the party scene a bit. But best believe I’ll be in there with my Alumni shirt stomping all over the newly cut grass on the yard, trying to avoid DC parking authority, rooting on a football team we know won’t win, eating fried fish and mac and cheese, running up to people I saw no more than 2 weeks ago screaming “I love yous”, sleeping 4 to a bed, house party hopping, standing in that long ass line in front of the Diner at 4am, and singing at the top of my lungs “I’m soooo glad I went to Howard U!”
So when the tweakend comes around every October don’t be afraid to stampede the good old Avenue of Georgia and create some more memories. I don’t know about ya’ll but I’m coming home again!
-Becks
Monday, October 25, 2010
Daily Insight: Cuffing Season
A wise man once said “It’s the most wonderful time of the year” Now seeing that it’s not quite Christmas yet, I am using this quote as a meaning for the other most wonderful time of the year. Yes ladies and gentlemen summer is officially over and the temperatures are dropping, it's CUFFING SEASON! Now let me go ahead and put this is lamens terms for those of you who may not know what cuffing season is. When the temperature drops and people start going out less, out come the “boo radars” and people start looking for someone to settle down with for the winter.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with looking for someone to share those cold nights with under a blanket sipping hot chocolate watching a romantic comedy….ok wait I digress. But if you are looking to cuff anything like you’re the NYPD at the Puerto Rican day parade we might have a problem here. Don’t cuff someone just for the sake of having a warm body next to you. I say make each cuff count!
Don’t call up homeboy you stopped talking to 6 months ago when you found out about all his drama now because the temperature dropped a bit….don’t start sending Facebook messages more frequently to the girl with a possession problem because you want someone to make you hot chocolate…don’t send that man whose cell phone is off more than it is on a smoke signal cause you got a little lonely like Janet Jackson.
It’s going to be a long winter cause it’s cold as hell already in October. But don’t cuff something you don’t want to deal with come December just for the sake of cuffing. Make sure everything counts. I say pull out the long johns and thermal socks…it can still be the most wonderful time of the year even without a cuff joint.
-Becks
There is absolutely nothing wrong with looking for someone to share those cold nights with under a blanket sipping hot chocolate watching a romantic comedy….ok wait I digress. But if you are looking to cuff anything like you’re the NYPD at the Puerto Rican day parade we might have a problem here. Don’t cuff someone just for the sake of having a warm body next to you. I say make each cuff count!
Don’t call up homeboy you stopped talking to 6 months ago when you found out about all his drama now because the temperature dropped a bit….don’t start sending Facebook messages more frequently to the girl with a possession problem because you want someone to make you hot chocolate…don’t send that man whose cell phone is off more than it is on a smoke signal cause you got a little lonely like Janet Jackson.
It’s going to be a long winter cause it’s cold as hell already in October. But don’t cuff something you don’t want to deal with come December just for the sake of cuffing. Make sure everything counts. I say pull out the long johns and thermal socks…it can still be the most wonderful time of the year even without a cuff joint.
-Becks
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