Just Talking about Stuff...

**First and foremost, if anyone from my "Real Life" circle of friends is reading this just know that I miss yall dearly...really I do.**
So there is this song in my head right now by Talib Kweli featuring Bilal..."Waiting for the DJ to...let your body rock...ohh...so I can show you..." yall know the rest. I've been looking over my past blogs and lately I've been in a super fresh mood. I dig that. I think its partly because of all of this "Me" time that I have while I am away from VA. Everything happens for a reason, sometimes we get so ahead of our self that we don't realize how much we need to slow down. "Well God, I'm listening to ya." My sistah friend told me this months ago when I had events going on and planning for video shoots, she said "Don't get so busy that you forget to appreciate yourself and your friends." I acknowledged what she said yet I still was on over drive. I now realize that I need to physically apply that to life instead of just writing it on a list of "Things to Do." Life is good, the weather is good, I am good...yeah.
Okay...another story: So I went to the store the other day *flashback* A few weeks ago, this guy...lets just call him "Guy", invited my cousin and I over for Thanksgiving Dinner. He said that a friend of his had a place in town and the whole crew was going to be over there cooking and so on and so forth. So *flash forward to the beginning of this story* I went to the store to get some stuff to do my nails, gotta take care of your self. I saw him in the aisle that I was in, he looked at the items I had in my hand and said"
GUY: What are you doing over here?
ME: Getting some stuff to go do my manicure.
GUY: Why don't you just go to get your nails done at the salon?
ME: Why pay for something that I can do myself?
GUY: O!...Lemme guess, you're one of those "I don't need no man to do nothing for me" type females huh?
ME: I never said "I don't need a man for anything"..what I said was "Why do I need to pay for something that I can do myself?"
GUY: Well, because its cheap.
**Right here is when my feathers got a little ruffled because why is it that WE always feel the need to resort to outside sources for things that we can do our self?**
ME: *sigh* Listen I am going to do my nails myself because I can.
GUY: Whats that on your arm? (Looking at my tattoo) Is that a scorpion or something?
ME: No...its a Sankofa Bird...
GUY: Sankofa, what does that mean?
ME: In short: Understanding your past in order to move forward.
GUY: Oh Lawd...you one of those...
ME: (I cut him off)...Go ahead, get it out of your system, a lot of people do...one of those "pro-black, poetry reading, finger snapping, blah-blah-blah..." I get so tired of hearing that.
GUY: (He trips over his words before making another ignorant statement)...I knew this one lady, I used to work with this lady that had these messages on her computer, those "I can do anything" type messages, do you read those? What are they called?
ME: Affirmations? (Your idiot)
GUY: Yeah...ha ha...you read those, you believe in those?
ME: (By now, I want to roundhouse kick this GUY in the face) Yes, I do...(I really did not feel like entertaining him anymore. It was apparent that my conversation was fading.)
GUY: Well, let me stop talking...I can see you're getting bothered. Plus, you cooking on Thanksgiving...
ME: Well...I'm having 2nd thoughts about that now (I grab the fingernail file and walk away)
What-A-Day...