27th Birthday!!

So this past Friday (March 11th), I celebrated my 27th birthday.  It seems just like yesterday I was celebrating my 18th birthday.  Time has flown by so fast its not even funny.  Can’t believe I’m already in my late 20’s.

Bank Card picture of me at 19 yrs old

As far as what I did for my bday, didn’t do anything spectacular.  I’m really not into going out like I use to, matter of fact I wasn’t really into going out anyway.  I was already off from work anyway.  Went to the bank, to get my picture on my bank card updated.  The pic that was on there I took when I first opened up my back account when I was 19.  I look so young in this pic, as you can see, I barely had any facial hair.

After that, went bowling and lunch with the gf.  Later that night, I bowled in my bowling league.  To my surprise, my mother came down and watch me bowl.  She’s never came and watched my bowl, so I was happy about that (had to show her a thing or two).  And it helped that I did well too.  She brought a peach cobbler for my team and I to eat, which everyone enjoyed.  But of course, she wanted to cook for me and get a cake.  So the next day, she cooked dinner and brought a cake for me.  My brother and his girlfriend came over and hung out as well.  I’m thankful to have my mother in my life.  She will do everything in her power to make me happy, and I’m grateful for that.  I’m thankful for my family, and my network (facebook and twitter) of friends.  The love that I got was overwhelming.

I’m mad that I didn’t take any pictures from that day.  Thats gonna have to change.  I’m going to take at least one pic a day until my 28th birthday next year, and then post them in a blog next year for my 28th birthday, kinda just to see the progression of my throughout the year.  I know its an ambitious goal, but I’m going to do it!  Matter of fact, I’ma set a reminder in my calendar for me to take a pic everyday, should be fun…

Well, I think thats it for now, until next time…

Dominican Republic Trip

Its been a minute since I wrote in this blog, but I’ve just been busy, and it seems like every time I sit down and want to write, I get sidetracked into doing something else, and then never get back around to it.  I’m finally sitting down and forcing myself to blog.

So first of all, how is everyone?? I know that kind of a rhetorical question, but I thought I would just ask lol. A lot has transpired since the last entry, one being that I took a trip to the Dominican Republic in January.  It was a nice get-a-way from the harsh winter here on the east coast.  My buddy from college and his fiance decided to get married over there. I was one of the best men.  Beautiful ceremony…everything turned out real well, from the weather to the actual ceremony.  I brought my Flip camcorder and my girlfriend took video of actual ceremony.  Be warned, the video is kinda long, but you’ll get the idea, and I need to work on my video editing skills, its a lot harder than I thought.   I would recommend if you ever get the chance, to go to the D.R., we worth the money especially if you stay at an all-inclusive resort.   The resort we stayed at was called The Dreams.  Great resort.

Anyway, other than that, I’ve just been working and whatnot, and bowling.  My bowling game has been up and down.  As of late, I’ve been bowling good on my Thursday work bowling league, and not so good on my Friday night bowling league.  If I could just bowl good on both of the leagues, I would be happy.

Ummm, I think thats about it for now…hope everyone has a great one!

Trip to the Dominican Republic

So tomorrow, my girlfriend and I will be going to the Dominican Republic.  We are going because one of my good friends from college is getting married there.  His wife  and he decided to have one of those destination weddings.  For those of you who don’t know, a destination wedding is where you the bride and groom have there wedding ceremony and reception in another country.  The who idea behind it, is having a wedding/honeymoon all in one instead of each of the two events separately.  He decided to have one of these destination weddings it would be cheaper, at least he thought it would be.

So as they started planning and whatnot, they invited people and everything, some people could  attend, and some people couldn’t, which was expected.  Initial deposits were made by people and everything.  But what was thought it was gonna be cheap, turned out to be expensive.  So trying to be the good couple, the bride and groom decided to pay some peoples way.  Now that kind of defeats the purpose of having a destination wedding.  And then some people, who initially said they could go, backed out at the last minute, and left the bride and groom with the bill.  Kinda messed up, in my opinion.  But thats besides the point…

As I’m writing this post, it is the night before we leave. I’m excited cause this will be the first time that I’ve been out of the country and stayed in another country. I’ve been on a cruise before, and I’ve been to another country, but never stayed there.  I think that we are going to have a good time, and make the most out of this trip.  The weather will be in the 80’s. Drinks will be flowing, and I will be having fun!

Until next time…

I’m Posting every week in 2011

I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now.  I will be posting on this blog  at least once a week for all of 2011.

I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of The DailyPost, and the community of other bloggers with similiar goals, to help me along the way, including asking for help when I need it and encouraging others when I can.

If you already read my blog, I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and likes, and good will along the way.  Thank you in advance!

 

–James

 

Rick Ross BMF Gospel Remix…

This is probably the funniest video that I’ve seen in a long time!  Had me rolling for like 2 days…

FLEX ON THE DEVIL!!

Monthly Update (Sorry)

Hello out there,

So here is my monthly update to this blog.  I said to myself that I wanted to update this blog more often, but I’ve been so busy with everything, and by the time that I think about it, either I’m doing something else and forget, or I get too tired to even get on the computer.  So here it is, while I’m up with some energy I’m going to update you on whats been happening with me.

Things at work have been going well for me.  I recently did a technical briefing to my colleagues that went very well.  It was the first time that I presented something of that capacity at my job, and it was nice that it was received well.  I presented on everything that I’ve worked on, every project that I’ve been involved in.  So that was cool.

What else…oh yeah I finally did some serious research into graduate school.  For me, I think its about time for me to get back into school and get a masters degree. I’m leaning towards getting my degree in Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis on circuit design.  I know that it will be tough, but I know if I put my mind to it, it will get done.

Anyway, thats all that I have to say today.  I PROMISE, that I’m going to update this blog more often, even if there short little blogs. Oh and if your reading this, and you have a Twitter account follow me: @JDubTheQB

 

 

Lies

Have you ever encountered some one that was so misguided and corrupted, that they tell lies and swear its the truth…

I have 2 sisters (same dad, different mom) that are like that. Its pretty sad. I’ve tried to reach out to them, to build some type of relationship, but they don’t want anything to do with me. And then, create lies as to why they don’t want to build a relationship with me.

We have the same blood running through our veins. Instead of moving on, and looking to future, they want to hold on to the past. Its truly sad. Its very obvious that they needed that man in there life, cause they both have man issues.

But anyway, I just had that on my mind…

Relationships

So I was at a cookout today, having fun and whatnot. Conversating with people. I was talking with a few people about relationships, one being a man, and the other being a woman. The man, said that he doesn’t want to date black women anymore because they are too stuck up. They are all about the money, and if you don’t have money, you don’t have a chance.  He says that he’s not dating black women anymore, even though his actions say otherwise.  I guess he’s claiming that since he is a regular guy, not with a lot of money, that he doesn’t have a chance with a “pretty chick”.

Now the woman, who happens to be in her early 40s and black, is trying to counter his argument, is saying that isn’t the case. She says that its all about the guy’s “swag”.  Mind you, this is coming from a woman in her 40’s.  She explains to us that’s she’s currently being suited by 2 guys.  One of the guys treated her to a nice dinner, at an expensive restaurant, picked her up in a nice car, pretty much impressed her.  The only “problem” with the guy is that she doesn’t know what he does for a living.  I guess she never asked, but lets just say he doesn’t get his money legally.  Then there’s this other guy she went out with, they went out to dinner, I guess she wasn’t really feeling the guy, but didn’t tell him that.  So this guy is calling and she is steadily pushing him to the side.

So my thing is: whats wrong with these two people, I mean I’m not taking sides, but why is it that most men and women can’t find a suitable partner?  Are there standards set too high?  I can only speak for myself, but I never was that type of guy looking to play around.  I mean what are they really looking for?  My take on it, and this is what I told them, that the energy they put out is what they get in return.  They claim that there’s no one out there for them, maybe there the problem.  Maybe they have to change something about themselves, so that they can get that “ideal” partner.  But thats just me…

I don’t know, that was just something that was on my mind.  It may not have come out the way I wanted it to, but as I blog more, I will get better 🙂

New blog

Decided that I need to start blogging again.  I enjoy writing and saying whats on my mind…

Stay tuned…

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