porsalin: my birthday!! 06/04/2010

seems like i haven't had the time to blog, AT ALL, lately. so much so that i couldn't blog about my birthday, which was exactly 2 weeks ago.

because many people say 19 & 20 are boring years (b/c nothing really changes from 18) & i somewhat agree, i decided to make this one matter to me. i decided to do things (for myself) that i have been thinking about doing for a long time, but just never got the guts to. and, for the 1st time in a long time, i didn't really ask for any gifts (only a NIKON camera).

gifts to ME from ME (F.U.B.U = for u, by u)

hair cut phase 1

hair cut phase 2 (& i got my nails done - ignore the colors. i must have been drunk when i told the man i wanted those colors).

i've been looking for something to do to my hair (b/c the whole curly fro/straight thing just wasn't cutting it for me). i decided on a cut, but i thought just a cut would bore me and it needed a little POP (for lack of a better word). with that being said, i went with the idea of dying it (light red). since my hair is already this awkward brown color, the light red came out as a brownish-orangish-red.

though i liked the cut & color, it didn't click in my head that my hair grows like its on steroids and that the color wold grow out and that i'd have to continuously cut (& dye if deemed necessary). but that was the case and a week later, i had to get my hair cut again (& the color is gone).

note to self: think before doing things like this! nevertheless, i still love it!

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gifts to myself from others

this is all i asked for for my birthday (well, this & blue roses, but no one got those for me!). i told my grandmother this is what i wanted and she got it for me. i was (still am) the happiest person in the world to be able to walk around and take sexy fotoz with my sexy NIKON COOL PIX L110.

ok. there's a story behind this gift. around january, i was at my grandparents house, chillaxin in the kitchen and i noticed my grandfather had a G-SHOCK on the table. first, i was astonished because my 70-something year old grandfather had a G-SHOCK. second, i was shocked because it was a fairly dope watch. i told him that i had two fake ones (courtesy of canal st.) and that i wanted one. i talk about things that i would like to have ALL OF THE TIME and i didn't even think my family listened anymore. but the sunday after my birthday, my grandmother told me there was a gift from my grandfather in her office. i open it & this is what was there. it almost brought me to tears that he not only remembered, but cared enough to get it for me. :)

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my momma knows the way to my heart (food!) so she took me out to dinner for b-day. my mom, little sis, and i were accompanied by UNI (HASAN SALAAM), my aunties TESHA & TAWANNA, my uncle AMIR and my ace boon TIYA.