Do You Know What Today Is?

It's my Blogaversary!! Ok well actually yesterday was my blogaversary...but better late than never. So basically it has been a WHOLE YEAR since I started this blog. Isn't that crazy?!? Like I have referenced in many other posts, I often start things and don't finish them...so I am really glad that I have kept up with this blog, especially through my first year of optometry school...

Right now it is 3:30 in the morning and I can't seem to go to sleep...ugh! (Maybe it is from all that sweet tea I had at my sister's house)...but I must say today was a good day. Hanging out with family is always great! Early in the day I saw Sex and the City 2 with my sisters...the movie was...umm...aight.. It was a little too real for me. Too much real not enough fantasy. But I enjoyed it none the less...

I have been meaning to make a new "logo" for my blog..Honestly I want to just revamp the whole thing, but it is soo time consuming, to get everything the exact way that I want it...with the right shade font and what not, so I've been putting it off.... I just need somebody to hook me up with photoshop. But honestly, if I was to put photoshop on my netbook, I am pretty sure it would stop working..lol. I have NO IDEA why I am so wired this early in the morning...

Well I guess since it IS my blogaversary I should reminisce on the past year...Hmm...well this time last year I will say I was in a much different place. A lot more apprehensive about a lot of things, and in a weird way I was "dreading" starting school, but mostly I was dreading moving away from my family and friends. But now that is out of the way, it's cool. I have grown and learned soooo much!

When I decided to start a blog I had no idea what I was going to name it...so I just started searching the internet for something that will lead me down a creative path/outlet...and from all of my randomness I came up with "Reason to Believe"... I think it was mostly because I think there are always "so many reasons to believe that everything will turn out fine." Often times I worry about what will happen next in my life or if I make one bad/good decision how it will affect something else...but honestly I feel like I have been blessed with so much in life...yes I have lots of inner battles and struggles, but at the end of it all, I still have a Reason to Believe... you might be thinking "What do you Believe?"(that is the point)...you can believe ANYTHING you want or you put your mind to, but first I think you need to believe in yourself! The world is yours for the taking... I hope that made sense...Gosh I am getting sappy, maybe cause it is so early in the morning.

Anyways...HAPPY Blogaversary to me! This is completely random, but check out "Nessa," I put her in that
cute dress, big floppy hat, with a parasol..Figured she'd look cute for the blogaversary too. *wink


1. Toms Shoes follow up
2. 1 year blogaversary (Recap)
3. First Year of Opt school (Looking Back)
4. Diversity/ Janelle Monae
5. St. Louis/Midwest
Until Next Time...

Some random hair thoughts...

So one of the things that I like about my hair is the fact that it is versatile... Back when I had a perm I honestly had two styles...wear it down or in a ponytail. That got boring quick!! And I think having my hair like this had led me to be a much more creative person. I just kind of make up things as I go along..or how I feel in the morning/night before. I saw this quote on  BGLH (Black Girl with Long Hair)  by Eboni and I loved it...

"It’s… sad that we as a population are being bamboozled into thinking the only way we’ll be not just beautiful, but successful and respected, is by altering our hair to look like someone else’s… Our hair is good enough. WE are good enough just the way we are."

I liked this quote because I completely agree...I think BAMBOOZLED is the word that I have been searching for. Like Eboni says, I don't think being natural is the ONLY way, but often it seems like that is what black females have been indoctrinated to believe since their first perm. Often people ask me if I plan on being natural forever...umm honestly I can't answer that question..or the other question I get is if I have something against females with straight hair. By no mean do I, and i hate that it seems like it has to be one or the other..I think they are both options, but it is good to have options. Whew that was a tangent..

So this is random, but I saw a new video of Janelle Monae's...and although I like a good amount of her music, I am honestly getting really tired of her SAME OL' hairstyle...like its ridiculous. The first few times, ok first 30 times I saw it..I thought it was cute. And on many hairblogs, people try and imitate the her style... I'm not hating, I just think J. Monae is beautiful and she should just try something different...lol.

But then again everyone is different and I can't impose my personal views on others...but still. I just wanna see a different hairstyle. But do you think it is actually possible to wear the same hairstyle for 3 years straight? I would go crazy!!!

But on another note, I do love love love love Shingai Shoniwa from Noisettes. Her voice AND her hair AND her style! Last year I did a post on Noisettes, check it out here... Anyways, I just wanted to close this post with some cute pics of her. Yay for REAL Black female artists...

 

1. Toms Shoes follow up
2. 1 year blogaversary (Recap)
3. First Year of Opt school (Looking Back)
4. Diversity/ Janelle Monae
5. St. Louis/Midwest

Until Next Time...

Submit : To Yield or Surrender oneself to the will or authority of another

I was on a roll, knocking out the list of blogposts that I wanted to get done, but I had to take a little time to write this post about Marriage...For two reasons: Today is my parents 33rd Wedding Anniversary. Isn't that crazy?!? Yay for them! Secondly because of a convo I had.

So yesterday I was having a great convo with a friend about marriage. And I brought up the whole "wives submit to your husband" thing and "men should be the head of the household" verse/paradigm. So I have always wrestled with idea... but it initially came to the top of my mind this past Sunday.

I went to my LS's church and they started baptizing people in the middle of the service (which kind of caught me off guard)...anyways there was a husband and wife couple that were getting baptized together (which was awesome), and the two men had the wife just about to dunk her in the water...and then the pastor is like "WAIT, no we need to baptize the man first because he is the head of the household"... and they practically push (ok not really), but they move the lady out of the way and then baptize the husband...then the church goes wild..lots of clapping and "hallelujahs".. then they baptize the wife... it was just a weird moment. Maybe if they had already planned to do the husband first, but...that bothered me a little... (what happened to ladies first?)

So I say all that to say...hmm...this head of the household/wives submit to your husbands thing is weird for me... It's in Ephesians 5:22-24

²²Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. ²³For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

 ²⁵Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

So umm... definitely not completely sure how I feel about..it of course doesn't sit well with me, just given the type of person that I am. I also think both men and women should "submit" to each other. But that whole subservient/submissive role isn't going down...not ALL the time...

Until Next Time...

2 semesters down, 6 more to go...

So as I sit lazily on the couch, watching Gilmore girls, with no particular plans for the day. It feels good to think that I am a second year optometry student. This past year has been a whirlwind. From moving out of the glorious south to the midwest.. (yikes), to learning an abundance of information that I knew no idea about before entering opt school. I was going to make a list of all the things that I have learned, but that would take forever. So, I'll just type freely with whatever comes to mind, hopefully you can follow:

-I feel as though I have learned just as much about myself in the past year as I learned information.

-Leaving the womb, Atlanta, helped me grow in sooo many ways, its hard to even try and isolate them.

- I know for sure that I want to raise my family in the south... the midwest thing is not happening. The neighboring states just suck...my classmates and I were looking to go on a mini-vacay and all the states were boring. There were no beaches or warm weather or fun cities or great attractions...thats ok, i'll stay in the south.

- I think it's funny that whenever I tell people how excited I am to leave St. Louis they always tell me that I will miss it, umm they have no idea. Doubt if I will miss it at all this summer...guess we will see...

- I think I learned more actual school information these past two semesters than I have learned in a very long time...I honestly am not sure why so much info was crammed into two semesters, but whatev..

- Whenever I tell someone I am in Optometry school or they know you are in opt school, there is bound to be an eye question...last semester it used to be a little weird because I kinda knew stuff, but not really...NOW I know sooo much more information. I get soo excited when I actually kinda know what the person is talking about, and even better when I can answer the question with a right/definitive answer. Yes I know I have a lot more to learn, but more information than I think...

- This semester I was able to make new friends, go to many different places, and basically just venture out a lot more. I was able to appreciate St. Louis a lot more (even though I still don't like it), but it is just a different city, it cant be compared.

- School wise, I was able to study a little more comfortably... I still wrestled with myself though...I was never really able to study effectively in my apartment, but honestly I was just too lazy sometimes to go to the library, especially when it was cold and snowing.. I didn't get the exact GPA that I wanted this semester, but it's all good.

Wow so I blabbed on a lot...basically I am a much more mature, aware, and smart person after these two semesters.. I guess that is what life is all about.. I thought a rearview mirror picture is appropriate for this post (especially since I learned so much about mirrors and lens in my Optical and Geometric Optics classes)...Whew another post down...

1. Toms Shoes follow up
2. 1 year blogaversary (Recap)
3. First Year of Opt school (Looking Back)
4. Diversity/ Janelle Monae
5. St. Louis/Midwest

Until Next Time...