I woke up this morning with the thought…

You need to go find that church…get up Courtney

So i hopped on the internet to get the correct address for the church *up the street*, and to see if they had a website that highlighted “what they believed”. I think it’s important to find a Church home that has the same beliefs that you do….and also, so you dont wind up in some type of Cult where they tell you that you should drink some type of *lemonade* instead of grape juice. After milling around for a minute, Incog mentioned the church in Porter Ranch that some of his friends had mentioned and that Lael’s sister goes to, so I kept it in the back of my mind as a trip for next weekend if this Sunday wasnt *for me*. :thumbsup:

I got in the car and drove to the church that I had seen many times after hopping off of the 118 Freeway, but realized, it was kind of empty and didnt seem to lively and….well, that’s not what i’m used to. Sooo….I decided to give the church Incog mentioned a try. :couple:

A little background: it’s a particularly new church out here in Northridge/Porter Ranch, CA called The Shepherd of the Hills It sounds dumb, but i knew/felt like it was were I was supposed to be by the fact that when i walked in, I was greeted and felt completely comfortable by my surroundings….:blush:It was a great sermon, today on pornography….mentioning the fact that a few days ago, 6 boys jumped and raped a 13 year old girl in a park out here in Los Angeles, while 9 other people stood, watched, and clapped….:wtf: It made me sick to my stomach….but it brought light to a perspective that is sometimes overlooked…

After church, I headed to the nearby Walmart to pick up a new Bible. I needed something a little bigger than the one i carry around in my purse. My dad gave it to me back in 1989 - he wrote in it and everything, but it’s only the New Testament, and while I find joy in reading Psalms 23 on my way to work in the morning, I still need something to get me through the rest of the week. Don’t get me wrong, I have other “bigger” Bibles, but they are my old Student Bibles and I guess, I need something more…..Adult.
All in all, today has started pretty good….soo…
I hope that everyone has a blessed day today and has an excellent start to their week…remember to keep God first in everything you do….

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i guess if anything HAS to go wrong with the upcoming Trip to Costa Rica this friday, i’d hope that it’d go wrong BEFORE we left rather than when we got there, and we were residing in some strange land….

Friday morning i woke up with somewhat of a headache and the sniffles….which turned to a cough and sniffles on Saturday. :thumbsdown: I dont know WHAT the deal is….maybe my body is finally reacting to all of the moving and running around that i’ve been doing the past few weeks without much sleep and rest. I dont know what the Customs policy is in Costa Rica, but i’m pretty sure they’ll have a problem with letting someone who’s already sick into their country. This can’t be good. It’s time to break out the theraflu.

Besides being sick, on Saturday, we drove out to my mom’s house to hang out with her for a while. :thumbsup: We had lunch at BJ’s and drove out to Camarillo to visit the outlets for a little bit…I didnt really feel like shopping much so we didnt really spend time to walk around like we usually do. One thing i did find out though, was that if i wait until July, i can get $100.00 off any new phone from Verizon Wireless being that I will have been with them for two years…..glad i didnt purchase a phone yet.

After we got back home, we decided to go checkout the Longest Yard and Star Wars. He’d already seen Star Wars, but he didnt mind seeing it again being that i spend the past few days catching up on the episodes. The Longest Yard was pretty funny….those gay cheerleaders had me rollin…:lol: …. By the time Star Wars came around, it was time for me to “dope” up again on Tylenol Cold and Flu…..so i left the theatre to stand in line at the SLOWEST concession stand on this earth….when i returned to my seat, the movie had JUST started, so i was right on time. Unfortunately, the medicine started to kick in after a while and i had a hard time trying to stay awake. But luckily, he understood…and was patient enough to fill me in on parts when i nodded in and out during the movie.

All in all, it was a pretty okay weekend….i slept a LOT, probably more that i have in a long time…but hopefully it will be worth it and i’ll be feeling better by the time the plane leaves Friday night. Wish me luck!

Happy Monday ya’ll!

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PHOTOS FROM OUR TRIP

It’s over….the weekend is over. Our weekend started Friday afternoon where we all boarded a plane through Continental Airlines with a 2 hour and 40 minute ride to Houston, Texas. It was a cool plane ride…we got there on time with just a little sleep at about 11:00pm. After that, the adventure officially began.
On our way from Baggage Claim, Bri called the hotel to make sure we had a room and that they knew we were on the way….BUT, they didnt have our online reservations and therefore, only had a suite left and oh yeah….we were going to be “required to pay the difference”….:???:…drama went on for about 15 minutes and ended with a “we’ll see you in a minute” directed at the Manager. After that, it was a shuttle ride to the Rental Car Depot. Once there, we were met with a higher rate than expected, and were finally able to get the price that we were quoted when we realized that the reason the price was so high was because the guy was trying to get his little commision by adding insurance and giving us a more “enhanced” mini-van. :wtf:

ON the way to the hotel we listened to the FM shuffle since we werent sure which stations were cool. Finally we made it to the hotel and after about 30 minutes of stress, got a pretty OKAY suite. The suites in Houston are different than the ones in LA. The one in houston had 2 Queen sized beds, a pullout couch, and a refrigerator with a pretty big bathroom. THe ones in LA have a pretty big bathroom, with 1 KING size bed and a seperate living room style area with a little mini-kitchen. We were happy though. :thumbsup:

Once we were settled and had jumped on the beds enough, we headed out to meet some of the RHOmeos. It was a very INTERESTING night to say the least…:chat:…all i have to say is…Inebriated, is NOT the same thing as inuberated and MOST people should know what the word means by the time their in college…lol. ALSO: there is no such thing as having a degree in Doctor or a degree in scientist. Let’s work on that as black people….:lol: After hanging out for a while, we were HUNGRY. So we went to the Dennys that wasnt too far from our hotel. Dinner was good, but after dinner, there was a little guest scurrying under the table next to ours. We screamed *all of us*, jumped up on the seats *literally*, and ran in the other direction when we thought the coast was clear. The manager’s response to our running to the entrance and trying to explain about the mouse: “oh okay”. :???::???:

After Dennys, we went back to the hotel and hung out for a while until we fell asleep. THat was about 5am. We woke up at about 10am, popped in a Chris Rock dvd on the Portable DVD, laughed for a little bit, and then knocked out for a while. I woke up a little later and was doing the yawning stretching thing when i realized that DMario was sitting in the room….lol…I didnt realize until i had stretched out a little because he was sittin gin the chair behind my bed and he hadnt said anything while i was awake.
After 2 showers, we were told that we had to switch to a different room since it was lower in price and the room we originally asked for. Then there were 4 more showers, a trip to walmart *where EVERYTHING was cheaper than it was in Cali* and a pullout bed stealing excursion. Hey…smaller beds meant, less room and plus there wasnt a pullout couch and we had an extra person with us now…lol….6 people became 7 when DMario got there.

Before we went to the picnic, we stopped at Sonic for “Brunch” so to speak. It was WAY past breakfast and JUST past lunch….so we figured WHY NOT….since we hadnt eaten anything except for the few snacks we bought at Walmart. If we were smart, we would have gotten alcohol for our own hotel afterparty, but we didnt know the liquor stores in Texas close at 9…..:wtf:…who knew?? :hissy: The liquor stores in Cali close at 2am. *sigh*….anyways….that was the first time I’d eaten at Sonic and they had GRILLED CHEESE! WOO HOO! They got a gold star, just for that…..*giggle*.

And ON to the picnic. I must say, we had a lot of fun and met a lot of people. I felt like we danced all night. Good thing i wore flipflops throughout the day and not those boots i packed. :blush: I think i woulda cried. All of the people were cool before inebriation…*giggle* . The RHOmeo tea was especially good…designed to allow you to drink for a long period of time without feeling it TOO much…or for some, not at ALL.. :thumbsup: We strolled, danced, drank, and talked from 4pm til 7pm. At about 7pm we went to the plots on the Prairie View campus so that we could see what it was like over there. I’d been to the plots at the Universities in ATL, but not any others. HBCUs are cool about having plots for the different organizations. Schools like USC dont do stuff like that…. But it was cool to see the plots and take group photos around the campus.

We went back to the picnic and danced, drank, talked and mingled until about 1am. After that half of us went to Jack in the Box, and the other half to McDonalds….When we got back to the hotel DMario was sickly and we were all tired…so we wolfed down the food, figured out the sleeping arrangements and knocked out until Bri woke us up in what would have been a Home Alone reinactment *when everyone was running through the house trying not to be late* if we werent all still half sleep and….well, black.

So the synaposis of the hotel situation. There was another Brianna Goodman who registered for the next night. When the manager called the online booking company that we used, they figured it all out. Apparently, he’s going to be reimbursed for having to put us in a suite for the first night because the online booking didnt send BOTH reservations, but ONE since they thought it was the same one.

We were late in returning the Rental Car, but it didnt matter since Andrea called and let them know we would be late. We made it to the Gate for the last call, gate closing for the Flight. Again, we were the last ones on the plane and sitting ONCE AGAIN two rows from the restrooms.

It was fun……would i do it again? Yes….but i must admit that i missed incog a lot. :hug: :heartbeat::heartbeat: Glad to be home and back in the drones of having to go to work this morning. :hissy::hissy:

1 more month and 1 more week until Costa Rica…..THANK GOD…..

Hope you guys all had a great weekend!

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