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The Dating Series: What is Dating? What does it consist of & when does dating become a relationship?

Dating is getting to know someone while enjoying their company on a series of outings & meetings; going to dinner, movies, having picnics, staying up all hours of the day & night on the telephone, etc. The list could go on. Essentially, it's two people enjoying each other's company doing the things they each like to do. The dating phase, pre-relationship is usually about putting your best foot forward & "auditioning" potential mates for the most precious position of "the one". Much like job interviews, people usually look the best, speak their best, and do their absolute best during this phase...because as people we want to be wanted & to feel affection so we want to be THE ONE to land that part, but this part of the dating phase comes back to bite us in the ass during the relationship phase when we've stopped looking, speaking, and doing our best...& turning into someone completely unknown to our partner *enters problems* ....that's another topic.

The relationship phase of dating doesn't begin until two people have mutually decided & verbally communicated that they are only seeing each other after agreeing that there is a stronger than normal potential for a relationship between them to go the distance...whatever their distance is...LADIES sex does not make him your man! The start of a relationship must be communicated not assumed & their is NO time constraint on when a relationship should come to be! That is a personal choice between the daters...fast or slow, in dating, best practice is to COMMUNICATE & HAVE FUN!

**Quote of the day**

"Pretty is as pretty does but beautiful is just plain beautiful"

Pretty is a surface thing...aesthetic & shallow, but to be beautiful is to illuminate from the inside with one's soul, intellect, and disposition...well, to me anyway.  Just my opinion of this quote.  To simply be pretty isn't enough. Every woman should seek to be beautiful...ppl remember & love trur beauty!

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Basketball Wives the movie...

Just like the rest of the world, well, the reality tv watching world, I have been disgusted by Basketball Wives lately.  Not that it has been the most upstanding show on television, but lately the envelope has been pushed over the edge...namely by Tami & Evelyn.  I cannot, for the life of me, understand how grown mothers could act like that off camera, let alone on camera for the world to see.  I mean, I have been embarrased for them!  I found myself going on my own rant on Tami on twitter last week...turning into what I was criticizing, but it frustrated me to my core to watch her consistently come at Keshia like that on the show...THE NERVE!  My blood was boiling!!

Anywho, so the blogosphere has been abuzz about there being a Basketball Wives movie in the works...and..hmmm, I'm just not sure how I feel about that.  My opinion, it just may be too little, TOO LATE!  Supposedly the movie will show what it is REALLY like to be on the arm of a professional basketball player showing; the traveling, drama surrounding their other women/groupies, trades, semi-single parenting,etc...!  Blah, blah, blah...that was the same description that originally got us to buy into the VH1 show but we got basketball ex-girlfriends, estranged wives, groupies, thrown drinks, girl fights and anything but what was promised.  I'M NOT BUYING INTO THIS MOVIE TALK!  Shaunie O couldn't deliver in all of 4 seasons of the show with real women that were involved with real life basketball players.  With that said, I'm not looking for her to deliver the goods in a fictional movie at this point.  It seems like a desperate move to redeem herself and blame VH1 producers for the negative turn of the show.

However, I have to ask...will you support a Basketball Wives movie??

Newest Obsession...SCANDAL

So I'm super late, but my newest obsession on television has to be 'Scandal'!  That show is too good and Keri Washington was born to play Olivia Pope!

Firstly, as a reality show junkie, I'm just happy to find a scripted show that I not only like but love! Not to mention it takes place in my hometown...most powerful city, DC!!!

When you think about the real life scandals of John Edwards, Bill Clinton, John Kennedy...and go wayyy back to Thomas Jefferson you do wonder about Washington's political underworld!

Needless to say the finale was last week and I cannot wait for the second season!!

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My Princess makes her blog debut!

Here she is...my Trinity Noelle, almost 2 months old.  This picture was taken Easter Sunday.

Isn't she precious?!?! Love her to pieces!

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& then "mommy" was added to the mix...

On February 19, 2012 @ 11:13am, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, my daughter Trinity Noelle.  Six days later, I'm still in awe of the whole experience.  I can't believe I gave birth (one of my biggest fears) and not only that, NATURAL birth! OMG, yes, I had NO pain medication...no epidural, drip, or anything.  After a series of false labor alarms last weekend, I entered active labor around 9:30am on the 19th, got to the hospital around 10:30 and gave my final push to push my princess into the world at 11:13am.  The reason for no drugs?  I got to the hospital fully dilated and it was just time to push...SCARED does not describe how I felt when I was told I wouldn't receive meds.  The pain from the contractions felt like someone was beating the hell out of me in the stomach and back with a bulldozer!  God must've heard my prayers from the previous months and he gave me an EXTRA quick delivery, but honestly the pain was absent during my pushing.  Anywho...as the title states "mommy" has been added to the mix!  I am someone's mommy!  Her dad and I are so ecstatic and I can already tell daddy's little girl can do no wrong!  I'm so happy for this new journey, the ability to give life, and for my daughter...my BLESSING!