Randoms for the first day of school....

• I'm not in school but my lil big brother is, starting Junior year in HS. Time has definitely flew.
• So, I spent about 4 hrs in the emergency room yesterday to figure out why I have still been feeling sick & getting fevers: SHINGLES.
• What's crazy about all this is that I've had the chicken pox 2 times as a kid and with me getting the tonsillitis, that virus woke up the chicken pox in my system.
• Shingles fact: 1 in 5 people who have had chicken pox will get shingles. How the hell did I get chose?
• This little girl from church whose hair I do, called my mother a total of 8 times in the past 4 days to try to get her hair done for school.... YESTERDAY. How rude is that? You wait until the holiday/last day because you were out of town. Whose to say I would have been in town?
• Then her mother called my house to speak to my mother like I'm lying about being sick.
• I swear I hate people. If I'm telling you I'm sick, guess what? I'M FUCKING SICK. Leave it at that.
• The tonsillitis cleared up by the way. AWESOME.
• That IV I had in hurt. (Yeah I'm a punk)
• Watching AMTV (videos on MTV in the morning), this is so different from the MTV I watched when I was 10.
• Hearing Anthony Kedis' voice is refreshing.... Red Hot Chili Peppers.
• I'm going back to sleep since it's still early.

You said do what?

So this weekend was actually decent outside of getting/being sick the last 24-32 hours. Friday night my mother & I went to go see my grandma in the hospital (she had a full mastectomy & it went well) and while we were there I got to see my uncles & aunts. One of my uncles, I'll call him Uncle Black Sheep Free Thinker was trying to enlighten me on the ways of the World. This is our exact dialogue:

Uncle BSFT: So you don't work? Or have health insurance? Why don't you get on WIC?

Me & other family members: She/I can't get on welfare unless I have a kid.

Uncle BSFT: So why don't you have one? You're what, 25?

Me: Yeah. Are you listening to yourself?

Uncle BSFT: Don't you hear it? *makes tick-tock sounds*

Me: Of course I hear it, but I can't afford to have kids. I can't even afford a $70 phone bill.

Uncle BSFT: That's why you have a good baby daddy.

Me: Do you hear what you're saying? Excuse my french, but niggas don't take care of kids like they are supposed to. I know too many girls my age & younger who had kids to keep a nigga and are out here raising them by their selves. I don't want that struggle.

Uncle BSFT: I was just saying, you get on welfare and at least I would know where my taxes are going to. And if the dude wouldn't take care of the baby, that's when you have us handle that.

Me & my mother: That's not going to do anything. *Mom only* When that baby needs a crib, diapers, and bottles; who is going to be able to get that? Not me & definitely not her.

Uncle BSFT: That's when the child support is supposed to kick in.

Right then I just changed the subject. How can you tell your unemployed, still living at home with her mother, 25 yr old niece to get pregnant so that I can get welfare? Not dissing anyone who needs assistance from the government, but you would think he would want better for me. Then again, nope he doesn't. This is the same man who said to my younger cousin, "I can't believe my sister has 2 daughters, over the age of 21, and none of them have kids. That's shocking." Why is that shocking? You should be proud of that. Obviously, we were raised pretty good.

Outside of that little talk, I had a good time catching up with the fam. It's a shame I really don't see them and they live so close.. But that happens when your family is full of thieving, lying, conniving niggas.