"Glückliches neues Jahr"

This is the beginning of another year. For those of you who had the most challenging year ever, be thankful that despite those challenges, you have made it through to another year.

For those of you who achieved at least 1 dream, now is a time of reflection on those achievements and a time to set new goals.

For those of you who found love, happiness, joy, peace, peace of mind and contentment - smile!!

As we venture in to this new realm of life, I have attached a quote of inspiration - "PASSION".

I would also like to leave you with these words:

"May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
Enough trials to make you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human
Enough hope to make you happy"

Glückliches neues Jahr everyone!

I'm So Sorry ...

Guys, I'm so sorry I ended up not making it. It would have been so nice to be the "rose among the thorns" seeing that no females showed up. It would have been even nicer seeing I'm an Alpha old girl as well! You guys really seemed like you had a good time and I'm truly sorry I missed out on meeting you.

We'll definitely have to do this again, but is there any way I can make it up to you?? ... Any special requests???

Have A Holly Jolly X-Mas :-)

To all my friends in Blogsville .......

Here's Wishing you and yours a Holly Jolly Christmas -

Here's to fruit cake, sorrell, lots of liquor, sex, love, family and all the other great stuff that come with this time of the year.

Merry X-Mas Y'All!!!

In My Sister's Shoes

A very dear friend of mine lent me this book, In My Sister's Shoes by Jetola Anderson-Blair. It is a very inspiring book of short stories written by a Jamaican woman who has had several enlightening experiences in her life in many aspects - professional, personal, spiritual, educational ... you name it, she wrote about it. I found it to be quite uplifting and she spoke in no uncertain terms about how stupid women can be some times in allowing men to treat us like dirt and whatever else was bad.

One of the Chapters entitled "You Have To Know When To Leave The Party", speaks about how to know when you need to move on from something, whether it be a job that was making you sick, a relationship that had you sad all the time or someone who was just toxic in your life. Sometimes the fear of letting go overcomes us in life. However, we should understand that our strength is demonstrated when we decide to do one of the hardest things and actually survive the ordeal to tell the story.

I recommend it to everyone, both male and female as it puts a lot of today issues into perspective.

Grrrreeaaattt!!

Friday turned out to be one of the best days of my life for so many reasons of which I'll share 1. I got a call from my boss today. I freaked out in a major way when I saw an overseas # calling me on my personal cell phone (gave the work phone to my co-worker ... no work on this vacation!). I didn't answer cause I thought they were calling me about work and then called my co-worker to find out if there was a crisis. She proceeded to tell me that the boss needed to talk to me. I "enthusiastically" asked ... fi wha?? Still not sure what he wanted so I went about my stuff for the day, and called when I thought there was nothing that could make the day go badly.

So, I called my boss and he proceeded to give me some wonderful news. In a previous post, I mentioned about my performance rating and how disappointed I was at the grade I got because of all the work I'd done this past year. Well ... after my discussion with him, he communicated with his manager who decided that she wanted to speak with me, and arranged to do so on her visit to Jamaica last week. The meeting took place, in which I again registered my disappointment in the rating I was given and justified my statement with factual evidence. She promised that she would look back at it and speak back to my boss about it and let me know. As I've witnessed the bull shit that happens in the corporate world, I followed suit of our conversation with an email summarizing our discussion and again stating my position. Believe me, there's a lot more to the story which I had actually started a post on but I'll leave out the sordid details.

Well, he called me on Friday to say that my performance rating had been changed to my well-deserved higher grade. Hence, an improved position for my oh so well deserved bonus payment!!!!

This news came at a time when I needed to hear it most and was so ecstatic that I could barely contain myself when he told me but I managed to just let out a sigh of relief and thank him for such wonderful news. Needless to say, after he hung up, I let out a scream in my car so loud, I'm sure people in the cars beside me could have heard!

So, I was a happy camper on Friday and this has continued into today and I positive that it will continue for the rest of this week. Merry Christmas to me!!!

Inspiration

This has been one of the most wonderful weeks for me. I have truly seen and felt the presence of God in my life and give him thanks for all he has done for me. In keeping with my joyous spirit, I got 2 emails this morning of true inspiration. Below is the link from one of the emails. Just click "View Presentation" after clicking on the link below.

Interview With God

The other email came in the form of picture attachments and for the rest of the week will share one picture each day.

God is Wonderful!

Lazin'

I'm on vacation people! 4 long weeks of lazin', chillin', relaxin', doin' nothin' ... lovin' it!