Rantings of a Creole Princess

On Fat Black Women...

http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/revenge_of_the_curves/2012/05/why-black-women-are-fat.html

Ms. Brittany is Too Fly

http://pocketsandbows.blogspot.com/

From Mimi G!

Sewing Machine GIVEAWAY!!!!

She is seriously so awesome for doing this!

 

DAMN GINA!

http://www.blacknbougie.com/2012/02/valentine-wddda-ask-bougie-chick.html

What say YOU?

Babysitting While White

TBS WAS ON TV!!!!!

Blogger Shameeka Ayers on DIY Websites: MyFoxATLANTA.com

Blogger Shameeka Ayers on DIY Websites: MyFoxATLANTA.com

YESSIR!

That’s Just Something They Know

AWESOME!

Creative Cooking...Easy Baked Egg Rolls

Simply Lovely

Knight Blog

From Ms. Smart:

"Award Winning Crime Scene"

ROFL from pSerendipity!!!!!!!!!!

"And the Greatest of These"

From K. Rock

"Not Music to My Ears"

From Nerd Girl:

"Let's Talk Books"

NOTICE!

I promise I'm going to read all of your emails I received while I was gone. 

Some of them are really long.

One of them includes a word document that seems to be about 3 pages long.

That had better be good or Imma fight somebody.

David Allen Grier is a Food Blogger

DAG's Food Blog

That's hot.

Question...

When yall come over here...where do yall start reading?  Just whatever is at the top?  Do you read the comments too?  What about the chatbox?  Do you pay attention to what's in that?

No.

"What Did MrsTDJ Say?"

This is what I'm TERRIFIED of...

Every Latina a Slut, and other Hollywood secrets revealed



THAT'S MY DAWG!!!!!!!

From kiz4tj:

She is so beautiful to me with her evil, foot stomping behind. HUMPH! Catch up on da random vlog style

The REAL.DEAL!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MOM AND DAD!!!

oneblackman is DRIVING!!!!!!!!!!

SIP:  Please remember it's cold and the cold always affects those of demented personalities worse than others.  oneblackman?  DEMENTED personality. 

I'd like to take this time to remind you that views expressed by oneblackman most likely are NOT the views of Monnie.

Yall asked for it.

Blame yourselves!  LOL!

What say YOU?

http://hearmysecrets.com/

Hmmmmm...Instrastin...

Stand up! -- Ludacris

DAMN GINA!

Fake Psonya is GANGSTA!

CreoleInDC FAVOR!!!!!

 

Aiight...I seriously don't ask yall for much but I need to ask yall for a favor.

My girl Butta is in the running for a real life Soul Train award for her site, SoulBounce. 

Soul Train Awards x CentricTV.com - Best Soul Site Awards

 You can vote once a day per IP address until the polls close and I'm sorry...but Butta REALLY deserves to win.  Yall have no idea how hard she works for SoulBounce and the sacrifices she's made to provide the site with FABULOUSNESS we can connect with.

That said...please, please, PLEASE go vote for SoulBounce.  PLEASE put this on YOUR blogs.  PLEASE put this on your Twitter.  PLEASE put this on your Facebook!  She's currently trailing today's lead by 100 votes.  We can do that in 10 minutes yall.  You KNOW we can!  Just think of one of US...someone we really, REALLY know at the Soul Train Music Awards RECEIVING AN AWARD!!!!!!

She sooooooo deserves this!

 

 

From SIP:

I AM GOING TO BEAT PSERENDIPITY TO WITHIN AN INCH OF HER LIFE FOR THIS! 

"Star Student"

Just keep swimming...

Getting To The Other Side

From SIP:

Forward Notion is going through some things regarding a career decision.  SIP decided to answer his queries today using the gloves off approach:

When you are pursuing what you believe to be your passion or your calling, and you want something so bad you can taste it, how in the world do you know if it’s right for you???

Because I would do it for free. Because I would do it on 2 hours of sleep. Because even if I have to be on set for 4:00am…I don’t need an alarm clock to wake me. Because it doesn’t feel like WORK…it feels like moving in the middle of my LIFE.

All that to say, what we think will help us get closer to our dreams can turn out to be the very thing that takes us further away from it. So how do tell the difference??

I truly believe that God will send you the pebbles. He always has in my life. I’ve always known when I wasn’t following my life’s dream but never believed it was something I could actually do. I’ve always known because I know my work ethic and I know when I’m not giving something my all. AND…I know that I’m happiest when I’m giving something my all. Listen to how you feel. In order to do that…you have to REALLY know and trust yourself and not give a shit about what anyone else thinks. Once you get there…in that personal ZONE…you can flipping FLY off that power. I PROMISE YOU.

I just go for it. That can’t be the right way, can it??

God has given you everything you will need to succeed and this is where a lot of people go wrong. They FORGET or BYPASS the things in front of them. You can’t just jump out there unprepared. God gave you what you need to be prepared. You got good sense. You have Mr. Google. You have the fortitude to read and process what you learn. Put that to work and WRITE IT DOWN AND MAKE IT HAPPEN! Folks step out all willy nilly without a plan and then…fall on their faces talking about they guess it wasn’t meant for them. I don’t agree. Milton Hershey went bankrupt 15 times trying to make chocolate candy before his research and proper planning caught up with his hard work. He had the passion but didn’t have the plan for a long damn time. He figured it out finally through preparation and PLANNING.

If I REALLY think this out and pray on it and decide that this is the direction I need to go, and THEN the daggum committee tells me that I wasn’t selected, then what?!?!?

So what you might not be selected. What does that say about you? About your body of work? About your passion? About your dream? Not a GOT.DAMN.THING other than the selection committee didn’t believe in you as much as you do, as much as your family, framily and friends do, as much as the most random person who gets to meet you does. Fuck them. You want this…then we have faith that you’ve done everything possible to get this. Hell…you could be bypassed because of a selection committee’s second cousin’s niece for all we know hell. The true great ones get this and they know one monkey don’t stop no show. Do it your damn self. Make your own rules and if you need help getting there…the beauty of being a child of God is that you never know who you already know that could be a blessing to you and your dream. Open your mouth and start talking. Once the Universe is made aware of what you want…the pieces will start coming together and you will already have the plan in place to follow.

So, how have ya’ll handled these sorts of things? Any advice?

Don’t be scared of shit. Least of all…failing. That’s just dumb. True failure is sitting on your azz doing nothing scared of how it’s going to look if you don’t get what you want once you’ve tried once. ‘GONE GET YOUR DREAM HELL.

I’m waiting and while I’m waiting…I’m getting mineZ.

SIP has spoken. Don’t make me fight you.

This is the same thing I'd tell any of yall.  If you have a dream...don't be dumb about following it.  WRITE IT DOWN and then?  MAKE IT FLIPPING HAPPEN!  Keep the naysayers out of your space, surround yourself with likemindeds and have a core group of people you TRUST to be your focus group.  You can do anything you fucking want to do.  Period.  Stop counting yourself out.

What say you?

Hmmmmm...

Someone told me recently that they love this blog because we have an extraordinarily high group of married women around here and it gives her hope.  She says she believes in the power of being around what you want to be which is a wife.

I never thought about it like that.

What say you?

Sorry Guys!

Sorry for it being so light around here today.  I usually blog at night but last night I was celebrating and this morning I was yanked up about carpet nonsense.

Imma do better.

Yall got anything yall wanna talk about while I go straighten up this closet?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

ACK.RIGHT!

"Pretty, Paid and Passed Over"

AMEN!

Proof in the Purchase

Sniffle...

Things to be Grateful For

Well? Whatcha 'sposed to do?

She's In Love With Another Man

Well? Whatcha 'sposed to do?

She's In Love With Another Man

FABULOUSLY Unique!

Playhouse by Aboday

Thanks Guys!

Thank you guys so very much for always sending me great articles, etc. my way when you see them.  It makes blogging sooooooooooo much easier for me when I'm busy.  YALL ROCK!

HotNESS Personified!

"I once was..."

Blogland

What other blogs are you reading that we should check out?

Good Read

"A Tale of Two Addicts"

Good Read

"Who's the Rabbit?"

The backstory...

"Getting from there to here..."

ROFL!

Five Things That Only Happen To Couples In Movies

Dear Alex:

"Grow For Me"

The CUTEST kid alive...

I'm Aidan's NUMBER ONE STAN!  "Let's Ride!"

Children at Weddings

"What Yall Think?'

12 weeks of pre-marital counseling???????????

Da hell?  "Switching Things Up"

Diasporique is back...

And even though Imma fight her if she doesn't stop being so dang overly sensitive about folks commenting on her blog, she has, once again, found something EXTRAORDINARILY fascinating. 

Worth Every Minute

Good Ish...

The Work Spouse