Monday Morning Randomness: Real Talk: Who's Pouring into Your Spirit Today, Part 3

4 posts in one day, LadyLee, you whine aloud???

Shut it up!! Hold your mule, we allllmost done!!! This is a special week for Dr. LadyLee!

Just listen...

I was going to title all this "LadyLee's Love Letters to My Baby Blog Sistas, Serenity and the LBeezy"...

LOL!!

Sorry, I've been running with those chickens a long long time. We have MANY hours of INTENSE convo. It's nice to see them set goals and be successful.

But these posts are love letters for Southern Black Gal, Dreamy, and some of them ollllld hens who old like me: That Opinionated Diva, Tayari, Atlien Nikki, Microphone Queen Sharon, Ms. Behaving, Chele and ya'll fellas too. Shoot, it goes out to everybody who dwells in the House of LadyLee, and who has been hanging hard for a minute. I can't name all ya'll, especially ya'll lurkers (The good nurse, Sherri, Gang leader Tiffy D, all yall) and for those who blow up my email!

Shoot, this is a love letter to my own doggone self.

I'm sure you've come across a few things that make you, uh, ponder...

So, let's keep it moving, shall we?

The ABSOLUTE wackest thing I saw last week. Well, on Sunday. But it is the wackest thing I saw. Sorry, this has to do with ol' Serenity again. A commenter left on her blog:

"All of your posts pretty much sound like you're showing off rather than truly being appreciative. It's like you find every single opportunity to show off something new you got, shoes, car, house.... whatever it may be, Please! not everyone is fortunate enought like you, are you sure it's found money????"

*crickets*
*steam blowing out of LadyLee's ears*

I was HOT behind that. HAWT!!! I was sitting on my bed staring at the laptop hollering about that one.

I think Serenity was cool after awhile, but I was wailing alll day. Goodness.

Serenity left an, appropriate response.

"I'm sorry you feel that way, however I do not have to justify a damn thing to you and if you are tired of my "showing off," you are free to not visit MY blog again. No, everyone is not fortunate, but you will continue to be unfortunate if you operate in jealousy."

Well, alrighty then. Very appropriate and to the point.

Alright ya'll real talk.

YOUR blog belongs to YOU. It's your blog. Speak your mind, write what you enjoy writing. I got lost on the two words "All posts" from the commenter. Goodness. Serenity has 1000 posts, over a 1000. I know in the last 10 somewhere, I've seen some discouragement, heartache, tears, etc... amongst her taking opportunity to celebrating her own successes and outlining the processes for her readers benefits.

I followed up her comment with a 1000 word kick to the grill (a nice one at that... remember, it ain't MY blog). I rep my folks who trying to do something good with their life, and are kind enough to share with others what's going on and how they are doing it.

Blogger CreoleinDC rolled up on a motorcyle with a boiling pot of HOT grits and dumped them on the commenter's head in a post of her own... OH MY!!!

Clutch the pearls! Tell em how you REALLY feel, girl!!

Man, ya'll better get in the HABIT of celebrating other's successes.

Life is like a grocery store line. I applaud you when the cashier finishes checking out your groceries. What I look like holding YOU back from getting your groceries. No babes, get yours! Because then it's my turn!!

Why we gotta be crabs in a barrel??? UGH.

You better check yourself. Your hatin' ways might be the reason you stuck in the column of "Low, po' and ain't got no mo'!"

Really though.

Again, please write your blogs for yourself. If someone else gets something out of it, that's the extra benefit. If not, well, they can keep it moving.

Go talk to some peeps who wrote their blogs for others. Wonderful bloggers whose blogs was once a joy for them, then it morphed into something they dredded- a chore, a drain, a bother, something they completely hated. I've talked to a few. And my heart goes out to them.

I love the LadyLee blog. We keep it smurfy over here. (Well, not today, lol). No, I don't get a gazillion comments. (That would drive me NUTS!!) I don't measure my success by that. (Are you kidding me???). I look at the amount of joy it brings to ME. That's what makes my blog successful... in my own opinion.

Real IMPORTANT events coming up this week. So with that said, I say this: My blog anniversary is this Wednesday, August 15th.

My 3rd Bloggaversary. WOW.

And this week is dedicated to those who "Pour into my spirit".

Question: Who's pouring into your spirit today?

I mean, when you are down, on your last leg, don't know WHAT to do, who is coming along with a figurative pitcher of hope, and FILLING you up and sending you on your way?

This week is dedicated to bloggers and others who take time to FILL ME UP and send me on my way to a better day.

Also, Friday is the 10th anniversary of me receiveing my Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, with concentration in Organic Synthesis and D.rug Design.

10 years. 1998.

I have a funny post about that.

Ya'll wanna know how CRAZY I am? I will give you a taste right here.

At the beginning of your Dissertation, you have an acknowledgment section. It is suppose to be all serious, thanking professors and family for helping you along, etc. I mean, this is a big serious BOOK that you have written and had published. A book of your original work, a book that contains all the original research that makes you an expert in your field, worthy of the title "Dr."

I wrote...

at the end of the Acknowledgment section...

In bold italics...

"In the words of my favorite rapper, Master P... I want to say...

Make em say UGGGGGGGGH!! Naw, naw, naw, naw, NAAAAAAAW!

I have finished this journey called my Ph.D."

Yeah. No lying. I had the audacity to do that. I know my advisor had to be red in the face behind that. But what could he do? I was FINISHED. Holla, Playa.

*LadyLee snatches Doctorate degree and does the cabbage patch all the way out the door*

LOL.

Okay, ya'll got some work to do. Give me some REAL TALK in the comment section or email me. You got something foolish to say to me, send me an email so we can spar back and forth and have real talk privately, because yo ish getting deleted out of the comment section if you hating.

(This here MY blog, I can DO that.)

1. Who's pouring into your spirit today? Is it good or bad?
2. What do you believe about yourself today?

Tell me something. By doing so, you're pouring into my spirit.

And I am more than grateful for that. It blesses my socks off. I can never get enough of REAL talk about yourself from YOU.

Enlighten an Oldgirl. Please. I'm doing this for a reason. I've made a couple of announcements over on other blogs, but not here yet. But I will this week. Chele, I want to order up a bunch of copies of your Confessions of a Beautiful Woman. Let me know what I need to do...

More details later.

Start your week off right by saying something good about YOU.

Get in the habit of celebrating YOURSELF. You are highly accomplished in your own right.

If you don't celebrate yourself, who will??

Well, I will... look out from a shout out from me... a note on how each of ya'll have blessed me, how ya'll have poured into my spirit...

That's the way I'm celebrating my 3rd Bloggaversary the rest of the week...