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WHY I FEEL AWFUL THIS MORNING By Peter Essoka

My friend posted this...at the bottom is says feel free to share and so I am sharing :) because these feelings resonate very strongly with me...too I feel awful about what we do to ourselves. It is puzzling    how sometimes it feels we are our own enemies. We dig very comfortable graves for ourselves and we willfully climb the steps down to our own doom sometimes I think we are suicidal. We commit murder on ourselves. That’s what it means to be suicidal. I feel awful about what others do to us. We claim to be very  hospitable people. Our borders are relatively open and people walk  through us and treat us with scorn. They rob us of our manhood and  render us impotent. We watch bad things happen to us, bad things  that spite us, bad things that ridicule us in the eyes of others, bad  things we copy from other people. I feel so awful about it that I  sometimes feel if I were in some position of power, I’ll have a  differ...

DIY: Changing the Batteries of Watches

A couple of days ago, while getting ready for an event i ran into a problem...All my watches with the exception of 1 ( my iron man triathlon sports watch) had stopped working. Granted I have been aware of the  situation for the last couple of months years ...i'd made no effort to fix it. The lazy fiend in me always finds a way to justify purchasing a new watch instead of spending $5 on replacement batteries. And so as you'll have it, the very next day, I bought a new watch Unfortunately, this time around, my conscious went into over drive. It wouldn't let me enjoy my new watch in PEACE. After a lot of back and forth arguments with my self...which by the way made me look like a mad woman...I made a vow not to wear the new fossil watch until I had replaced the batteries in my older watches. The Patients : Upper Quadrant: Guess(L) Dooney & Bourke (R) Lower Quadrant : Japan Movement (L & R)  The Tools: The Results ...

Victoria VS Dove Ads

I recently came across this on the web. Sigh. Here we go again....I do wish Dove had some skinny models. I have a lot of size 0 friends..mind u am not a small or skinny...but i'v seen some of them do everything in the books including drinking up bottles of pediasure? to gain weight since most African men like some meat in their women :).....Sigh... As for Victoria Secret....need I even comment? There's a reason why they are modeling agencies who have to comb through the nooks & cranes of the world to find these women because the average woman does not look like this....and yes even for the ones that have healthy lifestyle habits....it is part of their jobs as models to maintain a certain size. Its part of what they get paid for. Their body is their JOB. So How do I feel  about this picture? I'm indifferent to it...because I am aware/educated on their reality of what these images represent. My biggest fear with the Real Women Have Cur...

Lights!Camera!Action! Take#2

What I've been up to lately when my face isnt 6ft deep in American College of Sports Medicine text books I took a quick gateway weekend trip to Atlanta: what can i say...a girl never forgets her first love I love this view of Atlanta At the Clayton State University Women Soccer Alumni game Good friends = Good times.... For a friend's birthday, I had some edible arrangements delivered I cooked some snails ALL THE WAY FROM CAMEROON ^_^.......Yummmmmmmyyy! Don't knock it till you've tried it I found a new restaurant in MA that I will definitely be visiting again... SUYA JOINT. ..the food was delicious and the atmosphere was good + CLEAN + PROPER. I'll definitely recommend it for anyone who wants to try West African cuisine irrespective of the country I went with a friend from Nigeria who was casually "offended" that they used a Giraffe next to the word SUYA instead of a cow..lol...what do you think?...

"Legitimate Rape"

An open letter from  Sandra Fluke.....I got this on my email.Spread the WORD! and Don't forget to vote Friend -- In a recent statement that was both factually inaccurate and horribly offensive, Republican Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin said that victims of "legitimate rape" don't get pregnant because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan tried to distance themselves from the remark -- but the fact is they're in lockstep with Akin on the major women's health issues of our time. Just this morning, the Republican Party voted to include the "Human Life Amendment" in their platform, calling for a constitutional ban on abortions nationwide, even for rape victims. Several Romney supporters and advisers stood silently by while this vote took place, and the  Los Angeles Times  reports that the platform "was written at the direction of Romney's campaign."  President Obama ...