Sidenote:Someone tried to put me on to extemporaneous speeches the other day. She felt real special that she was telling me something new. I let her have her moment but honestly, it was the first thing they taught in Mrs.What’s Her Name’s Communication 101 class.
My weekend was a pretty decent one all things considered.
-I regained my touch in pool, I had fallen off recently and was beginning to lose just a bit too much. Once I get in that zone though…GOODNIGHT, thanks for coming, better luck next time.
-I also went DVD shopping and bought nothing but comedies. I have way too many serious movies in my catalog. Everything is some thought provoking drama or mafia movie. It felt good just to laugh and chill. “Hitch”, “Along Came Polly” and “Meet The Fockers” were some of the titles.
-Swore to myself that I’m done with my bakery addiction. It makes no sense to go 21 years without ever drinking or smoking but you can’t say no to a chocolate chip cookie or a blueberry muffin. If not for pastries I would probably be in Spartan-like shape right now. I’m taking it one day at a time though. Hopefully I don’t relapse.
-I got in one of those zones this weekend where I’m ready to make some more changes in my life. I’m never ever satisfied. Happiness is fleeting. You don’t just catch it and hold on to it forever. It’s something you have to work on constantly. Don’t know what’s going to come of the new changes but I just know a couple of adjustments must be made. I’ve been stressed out more days in 2009 than all of 2008 combined.
-I think the cause of that stress is because last year I just worked freely without pressure. This year I’ve put tons and tons of pressure on myself to accomplish certain things in a timely manner. Unfortunately when you’re surrounded by people who don’t share the same “fierce urgency of now” mentality, you have to wait…and wait…and wait some more. In school I was always the person that would do the whole groups work as opposed to risk having some slacker mess it up. Some teachers commended this “go getter” attribute while others encouraged me to “be more of a team player”. I’m still confused till this day.
Sidenote:Michael Jordan once said “there’s no I in team but there is an I in win”
-There’s a good chance I’ll be waving goodbye to DC some time this summer or maybe even sooner.
#1 Reason:I’ve operated from the same 10 mile radius for 12 years straight. If not for the exposure from going to George Mason for those 2 years, I would be an around the way n*gga…we all know how that movie ends.
#2 Reason:Financial.
#3 Reason:Everyone I look up to historically always made their biggest leap career wise after changing settings. Even if it’s just for a year or two.
#4 Reason:Mrs.Phella is somewhere on the road. I’ve always known the final person I would settle with would be from out of town. Just not sure where exactly, but I’ve had the premonition already.
#5 Reason:I’ll be able to play songs like “I’ll Be Gone Till November” and cry.
-I learned something really really insightful and it just escaped my mind as I typed this. See why I like blogging from the phone? It was a gem too that I really wanted to share, oh well..maybe I’ll remember another time.
-In other news, The Famous Firm has a big February in store. January started off very strong and the second month of the year should will be a bigger one. Expect a multitude of surprises.
-If you look to the right of this blog and scroll down a bit, you’ll see I have a CBox now. Basically you can type random short messages and stuff there. I’ll be using that to basically microblog since everyone doesn’t have a twitter.
-Steve Nash got dunked on so bad. My GOD!!!!!! Stop taking charges Steve and move out the way.

#5 made me smile.
I have that urgency of now mentality…
“It makes no sense to go 21 years without ever drinking or smoking but you can’t say no to a chocolate chip cookie”
I feel the same. Its a crazy thing man. smh @ myself
@ Sterling..that’s great to hear,everyone of us should have that.
@ Sean..I almost cracked again last night but I think I’m good now. The hardest part of going clean is the first few days.
Believe me Phella, I feel u. Used to eat Oreo’s on a pretty close to daily basis and someone convinced me that that’s not the healthiest choice I’ve ever made. SO, I’ve been Oreo-free for about a month now.
Saw a double stuff commercial on ESPN last night smh. Wanted to cry…but I shall stay strong.
Owww @ the Team Player shit….dont want slackers fuccin my shit up!!! You gonna slack? Just leave it up to me. Then you get Kobe-accused lol
@ the Jordan quote…I been sayin that for years…didnt know he said it! (Nobody’ll believe me tho lol)
Urgency is dumb important….24 hours to live mentality…but, if I can add a point, having that mentality without having stress = enlightenment. I’mnot there yet, but striving
@ AO…it seems this cookie epidemic is ruining several men across the country..who knew?
@ Nisarg..haha you’re right, I don’t believe you came up with that before MJ
And I think it’s borderline impossible to have the 24 hours to live approach and eliminate stress. It’s kind of an oxy-moron if you think about it
So you're coming to NYC. *running man* Ok! lol. *crosses fingers* & I have a multitude of names ready for Mrs. Phella. *rubs hands together in glee* About the flashdance personality thing, that made me smile and I had the sudden urge to buy leg warmers. In fact, I still want some.
My favorite song to play when I get on the BW parkway is “Homecoming” by Kanye.
I also feel your pain in terms of the sweet tooth. I tried to cut back by doing the 100 cal packs of cookies, but that’s not too effective if you have several of those packs lol. Not to mention the cakes and pies that happen to be freshly made whenever I make a weekend visit to see family.
@ James…yep cutting that stuff out is borderline impossible man. I got rid of that vitamin water with ease though. I’ve gone like 2 months clean since you mentioned how bad it was