kinda almost skinny: The Other Blog.

I know it's been a while...but I just wanted you to get a peek into some of the other things that I do.  kindaalmostskinny.tumblr.com is one of them. It chronicles my weight loss journey. Hopefully, it will inspire and/or aid some of you. Check it out when you get a second. I'll be back with another blog soon.  xoxo...

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Baby Mama Drama: The Truth

I was chatting a few days ago with an acquaintance of mine who also is friends with the father of my eight year old. At the time, I didn’t realize that they knew each other. (It’s funny how small the world is sometimes.) At any rate, said acquaintance was discussing how impressed they were with how well-mannered, intelligent and well taken care of my daughter is, and noted...

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Life is Short.

I’ve learned that there are lots of people who don’t know how to deal with their inner demons and emotions – and as a result, they hold grudges. I learned this because when I was younger, I was the same way. I’ve learned that there are lots of people who don’t know or understand how to deal with their feelings – and so they lock them away. I learned this from experience and...

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Television Graveyard

It’s funny how random thoughts pop into my head sometimes. I know that I’ve mentioned reality TV’s supply and demand  on here a time or two before. We en masse have a tendency to look for the things that are entertaining (ie drama, madness and mayhem), and, thus far, reality TV has provided that in spades. It is the same reason that we used to watch sitcoms back in the...

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Not Many of Us Have Them...

I have a friend who’s mad at me that helped me anyway because I needed it. Those are the kinds of friends I have. Those are the kinds of friends everyone should have. I realize, though, that everyone doesn’t have those kinds of friends. And, like it or not, everyone needs friends. Everyone needs someone that they can talk to, bounce ideas off of, cry if they need to, laugh with, work out with, wake up in a jail cell together like “damn…they got us, son…” (not that I’ve ever done that…*looks away*), and so on and so forth. Sometimes your friends...

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Hey Kettle, the Pot's Calling with Something to Say

It’s been a minute since I talked about marriage, hasn’t it? Well now, since you’ve brought it up… I guess I should throw kids into the mix too, balance it all out? Now if only to figure out where to begin… Okay. I’ve got it. My girl Carrie Pink has her own blog that she contributes to on a regular basis, and her words always get me thinking about the things that I think...

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A Year Later...

And I still cry. Yes, I said cry. Those of you who know the tumultuous relationship my shorty and I had may not understand why I’m still so upset. Why I still think about her. It’s hard because sometimes she really was the only one that got it without me having to say a word. At the same time, she knew just how to drive me absolutely, utterly inSANE. It was this insanity that was too much to deal with. But I wish I told her that. There’s so much that I wish I told her. Things that she needed to hear so desperately, things that maybe would have...

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Emotion Commotion

“N!gga, stop playing with my effing emotions!!!”                                                                        “I’m over you and your petty condescending bullshit!!!”  ...

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A Lesson in Less Humility...Self-Analysis 3 (The Year Before 30 Series)

I always get a little bit uncomfortable when someone genuinely compliments me. Seriously. As a budding business owner and entrepreneur, I find myself constantly making moves and doing things the way that I think that they should be done. I am not a person that does anything small – every idea that I have is big, and the perfectionist in me always wants to execute every idea...

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Scared to Settle

I might have settled if I hadn’t gotten that phone call that day. Or, rather, not gotten that phone call. I’ll explain this later. We are so cynical in this day and age. To be considered a romantic, be it a hopeless one or otherwise, is usually considered silly and inappropriate. After all, there is no such thing as your soul mate, and if there is, there might be more than...

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My Mother's Child

As a child growing up, I always aligned myself with my father more than my mother. Understand that I loved both of my parents dearly, and I still do. It was just a…thing for me. I didn’t see what I had in common with my mother. Why, you ask? My father was the logical thinker. Anything he did was based on a logical train of thought that led to a well thought out conclusion. Not so much with my mother. My mother was a creature of more than just habit. Passive aggressive by nature, she often let her emotions guide her thoughts, actions, and deeds. I...

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Guard Up...Self-Analysis 2 (The Year Before 30 Series)

There is something about being guarded that intrigues and saddens me all at once. I’ve always seen myself as this open and honest person, always willing to place my feelings, no matter what they may be, out there on the line for all to examine. When it comes to the people that I am closest to, however, I clam up. At first, I thought that it was a recent thing, but when I go back into my archives, I realize that this is a recurring trend for me. Why is that? I don’t do it all the time. It’s a Sagittarius trait, I believe, not so much a phase that...

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