Peace of Food: Sunday Dinner

Today I decided to try something NEW!

Well it was my first time making it myself so it's new to me :) I successfully made some smothered chicken! LOL I'm a southern girl and I love comfort food, in moderation that is. It came out pretty good. It's not grandma's smothered chicken but the little one and I enjoyed it.

I didn't have any onions so I used celery and mushrooms with the chicken. Placed it over a bed of brown rice and served with some fresh green beans.

 

What do you do??

When it seems as if life is against you, what do you do?

No seriously, what do YOU do?

I know everyday won't be grand and exciting, but the past 2 weeks for me have been down. I lost my godmother 2 weeks ago. I had not talked with her in a few months and didn't even know she was sick.Then a few days ago my little one was admitted to the hospital because of his asthma. He is much better now, but when you have a sick child and you can't do anything to make them better right away, it really takes a toll on you. After he was discharged we came home and mostly everything was out of its place! Simply because I just have not had the energy nor time to deal with cleaning up.This week coming I am dealing with finals at school and trying to finish a research paper. Finances just don't seem like they are ever enough. I could go on, but I'll stop.

People tell me "Oh you'll be okay", or "This too shall pass", or "Joy comes in the morning". I'm sorry but although those things are true, cliches are just not comforting to me. At all.

One thing I can say that I am learning form all of this is that I need to get myself "spiritually plugged in". I am not religious at all, but I think my spiritual life has been abandoned the past few years and I need to get it back in order. Going to work on meditating... maybe... if I don't fall asleep like I did in my past attempts.

Hair

Of course my first post back is about hair :) It's one of my favorite topics!

So, in the past few months, I've changed my hair. Like a HUGE change... Like relaxing it after wearing it natural for over 5 years!! Yeah... I wish I would not have done it. BUT it was just one of those things that I wanted to do and would not have been satisfied until I did it. So I did it the day after my bday, Jan 11th. Here it is April 19th, and I want my "other" hair back! I miss the feel of my natural hair.

I didn't relax it to "fit in" or anything like that. I was just bored with my fro and was tired of detangling it. I should have just got a sew in or a wig, but whatever. Lesson learned. I can now confidently say, I am NEVER going back to the relaxer.

So now, I am transitioning AND I have a transitioning partner :) My sister decided to transition with me. She doesnt want to do the big chop. But me? I dont care. If I big chop, this will be my 3rd time doing so. No biggie for me.

The only big decision I'm facing now is if I want to let my hair loc or keep it loose. I am so in love with locs but 1) Im afraid I'll get bored with it too quickly and 2) I'm afraid of loosing my edges! My edges are fragile and I'm afraid that the weight of the locs might thin my hairline.

This is my hair now:

This is how my hair was before: 

Right now I am 5 weeks post relaxer, so just stay tuned for updates on that.

Peace!

It's Meee....

Testing, testing 1, 2, 3... Is this mic on??

I'm back... once again. Changed the blog name, getting a fresh new start :)


I'll be blogging about hair, life, food, fashion, fun... and whatever else comes to mind!