Progression...Oh How It FeelZ So Good...

Hey everyone! Sitting here at my desk in the newsroom, staring at this "Arkansas Democrat-Gazette" hanging off the ceiling in front of me. It has been an interesting week. I'm so happy that Chad finally got a new car! It's great because I view everything as OURS :) Which means I don't have to rent a car to go to Regionals in Louisville, memorial day weekend. And, I no longer have to wake up a 6 a.m. to get dressed and take the MISTER to work before going in myself.

Today I officially stepped over the invisible boundary that somehow separated me from becoming my mommy. I've seen myself closely approaching the line as I change my daily habits. I now wake up at least 45 minutes to an hour early every morning. My routine goes a little like this:

• Use the bathroom
• Do 200 situps (did 280 this morning)
  
• Let Zeus out to use the bathroom
• Pick up Dishes in the living room
• Do dishes/clean kitchen
• Change the clothes from the washer to dryer, put in a new load in the washer, and fold up any loads that may be dry
• Get in the shower
• Wake-up Chad
• Get Dressed
• Begin rushing to get something to eat, let Zeus eat, grab my lunch and out the door we go

Growing up I use to wonder why my mom woke up sooooo early in the morning to only start cleaning. I told myself I was going to sleep in until the last minute, so all I had to do was take a shower, get dressed and get in the car. Now I'm slowly but surely starting to become Donna Jean. This morning it was official. I made some gumbo this weekend, which surprisingly was still in the refrigerator this morning. My inside voice said, "I am not about to throw this good food out". So what did I do? I put the rest in some tupperware and put it in the freezer.

At that moment that I closed my freezer, I had unknowingly stepped onto the other side. My mom and I are only an inch apart in height (not saying who is taller ), and the older I get and the more pictures that I see of her when she was younger the more I see how closely we resemble each other.

When I was little I saw a video tape of my mom on a talk show. The topic was "I'm turning into my mother" or something like that. It's funny to me that she saw her mother in her, and I'm doing the same. I think it's even more special since I never had the opportunity to meet my g-ma.

...... I sent all my mother's day cards out a week early (on purpose) I didn't want to wait until the last minute......

On Wednesday I had a 1A story in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. It's crazy to me how a newspaper can have such a monopoly over a State. It's the largest, and all the other smaller one's seemed to be owned by the same company. I appreciate this story not because it was on the front page, but because it put that hunger and desire back in me to write.

For so long I've wanted to write for a magazine, knowing that I may have to start at a newspaper first. But, since I had been focusing on graduation and Zeta I hadn't had to real opportunity to get another internship after my summer in VA. I needed that article, not to just add another byline to my scrap book. But, to remind me where I want to be and what I'm happy doing.

I enjoy working with youth and I've been going back and forth on whether I want to go to grad school to get my masters in higher education or a media related field. I think I just need to get involved with some type of youth/mentor program, and continue to follow my heart. Because if I don't work for Ebony one day.....too many people will be able to say I told ya so.

And, the one thing that has always motivated Evangerline Trice, was proving others wrong. Not, because I want to make them look "silly". But, because it allows me to step beyond what I think my "limitations" really are and excel.

......I think I want a new tattoo..... on my foot.... but I think I'll wait....

....I'm still on my natural transition journey...my blackberry is on crack, so I can't use my camera...but I'll put updated pics up soon!...My LS Court is going to add some color for me when I go to Regionals...EXCITED!..

...I've being seeing the Lord opening up doors....I've just had to have patience! Chad told me that when I don't see things going my way I spas out!.....Note to self...calm down...