II had to trim the video for YouTube so you miss my announcement that everything about this video was done solely with my iPhone. I recorded it with the phone, edited it with an app called Splice, added music and uploaded to YouTube. I’m typing this post using the WordPress app. I’m letting my smartphone be smart.
The Splice app did almost everything I needed it to do. My video was over 16 minutes and YouTube only allows you to upload a video 15 minutes or less. I would have liked to splice the video in the middle and cut out a section where I rambled a lot and then add a transition. But l could only set a beginning and end with the app. No splitting in the middle. At least not that I was able to figure out
In another note, remember how I’d been suffering from insomnia since about October? Now my body is making up for it. Last night I fell asleep at 8 and slept for 10 straight hours. Sleep is cutting into my productivity.
Have you been keeping up with the clean eating boot camp on the Black Girls Guide to Weight Loss site? By now you should be drinking a couple glasses of water before you have any soda/juice/sugary drinks, avoiding fast food and planning your meals…even. If they’re frozen dinners, and snacking on fruits and veggies instead of chips or cookies. How are you doing? My water intake is pretty great and I eat apples and oranges as snacks at work. I’ll talk more about my fitness goals in another post. Enjoy the video below!
Have you ever actually written the note to say goodbye to people you love?
For a year and a half I carried around a note to TJ in my journal. I don’t remember exactly what it said but I know that I was telling her how much I’d appreciated her friendship over the years and how I’d made my decision a long time ago. I remember the day when I felt whole enough again to throw it away…after 18 months. I have a will in my journal now and my eulogy. I’ve written out my last wishes to my husband and how I want to be remembered but I’m not on the edge anymore.
Have you ever researched methods of suicide and then decided that as soon as you got some money you were going to Home Depot to buy pesticide…and then talked yourself out of it because you read that these days there is not enough poison in it to do the job and all that will happen is you’ll vomit it back up?
Have you ever driven to the train station in Des Plaines with the schedule in the car and planned to lay on the tracks during rush hour so that it would be too crowded for anyone to see you until it was too late?
Have you ever been driving on the highway and come up on a curvy overpass and consider hitting the gas and just going over the side?
I’ve thought about it.
Yesterday I accidentally came across this post from my 2010 birthday. You want to know a secret? This was my goodbye post. I didn’t plan to be here to turn 34. I read it yesterday and thought “damn….and here I am another year later.” I’m a little shocked sometimes.
This past birthday I started my Project 365 and today I decided that I’m going to stick around long enough to see all 366 (leap year) pictures.
Jennifer was strolling through the frozen foods section of the grocery store in search of premixed stir fry combinations when her cell phone rang. She smiled as she registered the number as her sister and pressed the button on the blue tooth device in her ear.
Today is day 3. If you have never lost everything then you can’t begin to imagine how it feels to want something…anything. I haven’t seen my furniture, clothes, pictures…any parts of my life in almost 3 years. It’s been under lock and key in a storage pod. All I . . . → Continue reading: Week 4
I think I was enlightened about A Black Girl’s Guide to Weight Loss during one of Adrienne’s link share posts….I’m positive actually because I am now following at least 5 other bloggers because of it. It’s not necessarily information that we don’t already know but it’s all about the . . . → Continue reading: Phyllis Hyman Days
All day long Sunday, If I Were Your Woman played in my head. So I decided to share it with you…the original of course. And in my search I found Gladys Knight’s medley performance on BET back in 2005. Now THAT’S my kind of singing! As I sat and watched . . . → Continue reading: Monday Morning Motivation
See what had happened was….I forgot. I was going on about my cupcake making Friday and decided to catch up on some blogs in between and when I saw Pookah’s grinning face waving at me through the screen…I remembered.
And that’s so unfortunate that I forgot because I was so excited that I took tons of pictures this week!
I won’t go into detail about my father or our relationship but the older he gets….the better he gets! So I called Pops (in Demand) tonight because I was getting beat up from various familial sources and I needed someone to take my side. Pops (in Demand) had a very . . . → Continue reading: Pop’s Perspective
Diva: I wanna write this post but I’m too busy watching the good wife and being sleepy
TJ: Maybe you should watch the good wife another time and go to sleep
Diva: Oh sleep isn’t taking precedence lol. I only have 17 minutes of show left. Plus I know what I . . . → Continue reading: My Fairy Tale is Only a Fairy Tale
There is no consoling me….well maybe. I caught my cousin eating a deep dish pizza today called The Kitchen Sink. So I have not failed alone in the least.
And I may be giving up on YouTube. I have been trying to upload this video for MULTIPLE DAYS and . . . → Continue reading: Vegan Failure
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