August 10

I have fallen off the wagon with this blog!

I am grateful that I am alive and well and that God is consistent and faithful with me - even though I'm all over the place. I am also REALLY grateful for my sisters!

Had an incredible family call and prayer time tonight.

They make me crazy sometimes, but I love those women!

May 4th

Being in Nini's study

May 3

Ife completing the Landmark Forum! Yay!

Gordon registering as well!

May 2nd

Putting a hurting on my ILP homework.

Church study with Nini

May 1st

Cheering Christy on in the Broad Street Run

Homework party at Marissa's.

Sunday evening at Ife's forum. She gave a heart to heart teary eyed share about how much she loves me. Wow.

april 30

Laziest Saturday ever!

LONG coaching call with Jason! Talked - and got into action about - acting and California! Woo hoo!

april 29

A leisurely day!

Ife starting the Forum

The Royal Wedding!

April 28

A nice ride from WV! Not running out of gas and not getting killed at a mystery gas station

April 20th

Gosh! Coaching convos with Jessie, Talks with Jason and being at a Larry Pearson evening session

April 19th

Grocery Shopping!

April 18th

Signing up for Right Management

April 17th

Mandy's party

April 16th

Mom

April 15th

everything worked out in communication.

Jen/Landmark

April 14th

For a delish lunch with Amarrllys

April 13th

For rave reviews on my resume tape from Cleve!

April 12

• Great study with Rhonda
• Not getting a parking ticket
• Great night of Angels - duckie died. :(

April 11

Grteful for the 84 degree day and for discovering insomnia cookie at TU

April 10

I am grateful for goddaughter turning 3!

April 9

I'm grateful for Kennedy's b-day

Sherine's b-day

I'm grateful for feeling like the belle of the ball with my gorgeous sisters

April 8

Grateful for being alive after dropping Jac off with Angie at the airport.

We slipped getting off an exit and spun 360 um, yeah. Thank you God!

April 7

Grateful for Kennedy turning 4 today!

April 7

Ugh! Without integrity, nothing works

ticket etc.

April 5

I'm grateful that my gorgeous, talented sister is 27 today!

Also grateful for a Bible Study on idolatry with Rhonda that made me see how I REALLY need to have a singular devotion to God.

April 4

I'm grateful that I got to have a random beginning of the week brunch with my bestie Katie! I also got to meet her friend Ryan. Fun!

Grateful that I was able to return a hyper-expensive computer cord to Best Buy (while wishing it was a certain fictitious 'Buy More' in Burbank).

April 3

I am grateful for my new Macbook Pro!

April 2

I'm grateful for my friend Olenga's wedding! Oh, Happy Day!

March 27 - Princeton 2

Grateful for BFFs!

March 27 Princeton

I am grateful for my day in Princeton with Mandy and Angie. Beautiful, relaxing and caloric! It's making me want to apply for another graduate degree....

March 20

I am grateful that God allowed me to be born to Olubanke Yerokun. I can't believe she's been gone for a year.

I am grateful for my friend Wendy being born 42 years ago today. I'm also grateful that she could relate to my loss, as today was the 6th year anniversary of her father's funeral. Also incredibly touched by the memorial candle she gave me.

(This picture gave me a totally unexpected feeling of comfort.)

March 19

I am grateful for the INTEGRITY today and the knew term I have for something that's hard. Integrity isn't hard, it's blueberries!

March 18

I am grateful for my new NYC BFF Wilzette! Met her at the end of the first evening and she lives about a 3 minute walk from my friend Kiki's house - which is where I'm staying! I was able to have a buddy to travel to and from Brooklyn all weekend. What. Are. The. Chances. Of. That? Wow! Thank you God!

March 13

Grateful for a successful and super fun bridal shower for my girl Olenga!

March 12

Grateful for a SUPER fun roadtrip to Laurel MD for the 1st birthday of the child of an old friend I hadn't seen in at least 18 years! Fun reunion of Ibadan peeps! Great times! Wish it hadn't been so long.

March 11

Grateful that after a long and stiffling day at work, I was able to go to a devo and brief dance party with Christians! I love the disciples! The dance party played some of my jams too! Pretty Girl Rock, Firework etc. Good times.

March 10

Grateful for rockstar parking for my job interview at the AP right at 18th & Market. The job has tricky hours though. We shall see how this all plays out...

March 9

I am grateful for my new hairstyle!!!

AND so grateful to have caught the 8pm Bolt Bus back to PHL!

March 8

I am grateful for time with my girl Kiki in her cute Brooklyn apartment! We talked love, life, workouts, Paelo diets and even made some INCREDIBLE sugar-free Paleo Carot banana muffins! (Forgot to take a picture of them. Ate 'em!)

March 2

I am grateful for JournalismNext.com! It turned me on to job openings at AP and put ICFJ - the International Center for Journalists back on my radar! I am now looking for new fab jobs and applying for journalism fellowships. Yay!

March 1

I'm grateful for dark clouds, finally meeting with Dr. Schwartz (even though I'm allergic to ALL my fave foods; wheat, soy, oats, barley, peanuts, cow dairy, goat dairy, vinegar) but most grateful for dinner with my girlies!

February 28

• Grateful for the special acceptance speeches at the OSCARS that reminded me to keep dreaming!


• LOVED the acceptance speeches of Colin Firth, the screenwriter of The King's Speech and the Director of the King's Speech. SO glad my movie did so well!

• Also was inspired by the documentary winners. I will watch all the nominees and figure out what it will take to get myself a little golden man one of these days!

• Also glad my friend Anne (I met her when I went to see Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, Sanaa Lathan and P Diddy in 'A Raisin in the Sun'. Yes, that makes us BFFs!) did so well and has SO much fun hosting!

February 27

I am grateful for Christopher Carter being in town and treating a couple of us to lunch! I had forgotten how thoughtful and generous he was. We talked about possible plans to get a crew to spend Memorial Day in Miami.

*Memorial Day Weekend 2010

February 26

Grateful that I got the coach I wanted at ILP after initially being assigned to someone else!

I am grateful that the ILP program seemed meant to be on about 100 levels. For e.g . a couple of people in my program had recently lost parents and were dealing with that...and two of the dads in the program were dads to all girls. AND I got the coach I wanted, and two of my friends are coaching in this program. It just feels like I was meant to be in THIS very program!

I'm also grateful for a fun date with Mike and for the new Adele CD.

Was too tired to hang with some friends who were in town for the weekend, but it was a full day!

February 25

I am grateful for my Dr's appointment with 'witch doctor' Alternative Medicine Physician Dr Marc Schwartz. I am not grateful for the news he gave me. He thinks my lifelong digestion issues/stomach problems are as a result of the fact that I'm allergic to most foods. Here's the list he game me.

Wait for it: wheat, oats, barley, cow dairy, goat's dairy, eggs, cocoa, soy, peanuts, paprika black pepper chili and vinegar. He has me eliminating all those foods from my diet, for now, and taking a BUNCH of supplements. Here's hoping I feel better soon...

SUPER grateful for my dinner with the 'Calling In' crew at a cute BYO, Sonata, in Northern Liberties. Had the most chocolatey dessert I could find. It should probably have been called 'Death by Chocolate'. Had it in defiance to my doctor's orders and loved every bite :)

February 23

I am grateful for my new obsession and inspiration. Isreali Palestinian Journalist, activist and author Rula Jebreal.

Check out this interview

Here she is on the set of the movie based on her book MIRAL which I'm reading now. Talk about living my life and doing it better than me!

February 21

Overwhelmed by family drama as I was picked up from my brief vacay and went right to work to do the overnight shift, so I'm honestly finding it hard to feel grateful today. But I'll find something...



I'm grateful that my friend Omar gets to live his dream of moving to South Africa to help out the campus ministries of our South African churches for a year.

Here's to figuring out my dream and calling and living it one day!

I guess I just learned, for the millionth time the benefit of being grateful - even when it's forced, it makes you more grateful. All of a sudden I can think of a few things.


I just saw part of the BET Honors 2011 Awards and it inspired me to dream again and to make contributions to the world through my dreams.

February 20

I"m grateful for the girls and I being able to keep two seats each to ourselves. (Sorry for two bus related posts so close together) When you spend 10 hours on a bus, two days apart you don't get to be grateful for much else :)

February 19

• I am grateful for the inspiration from Trudy's dance show.

• Glad I got to meet some of the fiercest and most beautiful dancers of the night Natasha and Jasmyn. I need to get into performing, dance and acting asap!

• Life is too short not to follow your dreams...

• I am also BEYOND grateful for the hospitality, beauty and incredible warmth of the gorgeous Gayle family home.
  

February 18

Getting rockstar seats on Megabus all the way to Toronto!

February 17

I'm grateful for time with Dez and for our turbo time at Whole Foods! I love shopping with others, since I'm not a natural shopper. I always end up discovering things I would never have noticed! Now I actually know which yummy wraps I'm packing for tomorrow's 10-hour bus trip.

February 16

Grateful for all the time my sister Ade spent helping me get my new resume together!

February 15

• I'm grateful for brunch with Brad.



• I'm SUPER grateful for getting my therapy reimbursement papers together! I've been putting this off for about 6 years!


• I'm grateful for Angels tonight. GREAT lesson from Doug Jacoby on God's nature - very helpful and much needed!

February 14th - Part II

Read that the big upset of GRAMMY night was my girl Esperanza Spalding beat Justin Beiber for the award for Best New Artist. (I am yet to watch the taped show on ole DVR). Frankly, not sure how either of them qualifies, they've both been out for at least a couple of years each. I need to read the GRAMMY rules. I often think that albums remain GRAMMY contenders years after I expect them to be ineligible.



Anyway, go Esperanza I own your album, not Justin's. Just a reminder of my superior musical taste!



Anyway, this all brings me to what I am grateful for and TOTALLY obsessed with, Esperanza's fro! Enjoy!



*Just watched the part of the GRAMMYS where the Best New Artist award was given out. What is wrong with people?!? I think that if Espy, as I like to call her, didn't win I think Florence and the Machine or Mumford and Sons would have probably won the award before Justin Beiber! These are the music academy voters we're talking about!


(random pic of Esperanza where's she clearly made-up. She's always stunning!)

February 14

I'm grateful that my eye doctor found me contacts that are the most comfortable ones I've ever tried! Grateful he didn't stop at 'good enough' when it came to finding a pair of contacts that feel great at least 90% of the time. I didn't even know that much comfort was possible!

Also REALLY grateful to be able to eat dessert again! Yahoo!!!

February 13

I am grateful for AMAZING music! I'm grateful for the GRAMMYS which I had to DVR tonight cause one of my friends called me and we ended up talking for 4 hours missing the entire telecast!



It was a fun, super helpful catch-up and networking conversation. I need to rework my entire resume as a result, but it was all much needed!