16 Week Challenge, Can I do it?

I met Andrew online via Facebook. We officially started communicating when I made a comment on a domestic violence (dv) post Andrew posted a link to. I sent him an e-mail exlaining my situation and how I felt lost, overwhelmed and unsure of what direction I’m heading in. He responded immediately and in that phone call advised me on several things I can do to start making changes and instructed me on the next 2-3 things I should do. I followed his advise and am now focusing on helping women overcome dv and regain their independence. At least now I know what direction I'm heading.

Andrew invited me to join his 16 week challenge. When I read what it was about and I saw what he was doing I was immediately excited and not only did I want to participate, but I also wanted to help out in whatever capacity I could. (There is a African proverb that states, each one teach one ) And I felt likethis was the principle Andrew was drawing from, where as a collective we can all succeed.

Now, as I started to think of my challenge it started to grow, (I never do anything small and I tend to dream BIG! lol…) Albert Einstein once said” Six degrees of serperation seperates us from anyone in the world., could I only be 6 degrees from reaching my 16 week challenge? I will do everything I can and ask for any and all assistance to help me reach this goal. 16 Weeks is not long, but when you have nothing to lose and everything to gain, miracles can happen! I expect a miracle.

Today I didn’t do much, I felt like crap. I’ve been fighting a cold, but the cold seems to have won, but I will not use that as an excuse like I have before. Let’ see what tomorrow brings.

From Foreclosure to Millionaire in 16 weeks can it be done?

Have you ever felt so profoundly lost! A loss of who you are. What you’re doing or where you’re going? Unsure of what you are doing, or where you’re headed and you ask yourself, how the heck did you get here!

Well, for the first time in my life I felt so completely lost. Somehow I had lost myself. I had no idea what I was doing, what I wanted to do, or what direction I was heading in, or even wanted to go. While web surfing one day I came across a video of a man who was homeless and he was preforming to the song Under Pressure, by David Bowie and Queen. As I watched the video and paid close attention to the lyrics of the song, I realized I was “under pressure” My house is in Foreclosure, my student loan is more than some real estate properties at this moment, and I owe a few friends and family members as well. How did I get here? It’s not that I was in denial, but I have a glass half full personality and always look at the positive bright side of life. I guess everything took its toll one week and I just felt as if I was that little hamster in the cage just spinning her wheels and going nowhere.                                                                                              

I rarely if ever, ask for help and I guess everything just took its toll and I was just overwhelmed. I had to admit to myself that I am not o.k. I was drowning and there were no life rafts near for me to reach out to. I knew that I needed help sorting out all the clutter in my head.

What do you do when your life is spinning out of control and you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place and you have nothing left to lose? Albert Einstein once said that the definition of “Insanity” Is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Well, when you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired and nothing you’ve done in the past has changed your current circumstances, then I think it’s time for a new approach.

I am embarking on a new approach and will post on here weekly (I am working on daily, but for now I can commit to once a week.) as to my status.

It's been a long time and now I'm back!

It has been a long time since I published a post on here. I am debating on whether I should continue to blog on here, or create a new blog spot for what I want to do. I forgot the e-mail I used for this site again, hahahaha, but I remember it now obviously, hence my new posting. I think I will continue on here since I already have it and I need to learn to continue what I started and stop starting something and moving on the next thing before the first thing is completed.

Since the last time I wrote on here, my dad passed away in December. During the time I was blogging he was sick and in and out of the hospital and nursing homes. After his passing it was hard for me and I have not blog since then. I had stopped taping my show, Living Life With Liz for a while as well. It's been hard since he passed and some days are better than others. I have wanted to come up here and write, but for some reason it never happened. Now I am back ready to blog again.

Losing my mind!!!!

O.K. I want to say I failed my mission in regards to the reason I started this blog, but I did not fail. Failure is giving up and not pushing and fighting harder to do what it is you wanted to do. I now have to blog at least 2x a day at the most for about a week, or so.

My forgetful self forgot my login information and because I have sooooo many e-mail address, I forgot which one this blog is assigned to.  I need a better filing system, lol.

I am back, I will be blogging more, so please keep checking back.

My tribute to Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze died today and my heart is saddened. I Loved him the moment I saw "Dirty Dancing" My all time favorite movie (Lord I must have seen that movie over 100 times!!) The movie reminded you of old time innocence, and how life was so simple and care free back then. The movie become a phenomenon and and overnight success. I have followed almost all of his movies since then...

Ghost was just as spectacular as Dirty Dancing, Patrick shed that tuff macho image and showed a more sensitive and enduring side. The scene where his character, Sam and Demi's character, Molly where on the pottery wheel molding the clay as the sweet tune of the righteous Brothers, Unchained Melody played in the background was so romantic and sensuous. (Heck it made me want to buy a pottery wheel and start playing with clay lol.) I just knew that I would not have had a man like Sam, around to hold me and help me mold my clay, hahahahahaha. As I digress, anyway the movie was a smash and you could not help but fall in love with Patrick!

Another movie which I was surprised I liked was, "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everyting! Julie Newmar.,"Patrick played a drag queen called Vida Boheme, ohh  did he do it with class! And he looked great.

He played Vida with class, sophistication and glamor. I would not have thought that he could pull it off.. Patrick is such a sexy, macho man's man, it was hard for me to think that he could pull of the drag queen character in the manner in which he did.  He showed another side to his acting and that he was not a one dimensional actor.  He had depth and no matter what critics thought you had to give him his props. He put his all into his characters and you loved them, believed them rooted for them and even cried for them.

There are not too many celebrities I want to meet, or interview on my talk show, but Patrick was one of those people I wanted to meet and will never have the opportunity.. He leaves behind a legacy of movies, stage productions and though we will never see him again, but he will live forever in his movies and I am truly thankful for that.....

YOU WILL BE MISSED PATRICK SWAYZE!!! MAY YOU FINALLY FIND PEACE AND HURT NO MORE....

Enjoy Life

Life is precious! today I was at the movie theater about to watch a movie when a fire broke out.  Everyone filed out in an orderly fashion and thankfully everyone was ushered out and no one was hurt.  Times like these make you realize how precious life is and how without a moments notice tragedy can happen.

What in life are you putting off? What is procrastination preventing you from achieving. Live for today and live out your hearts desire because tomorrow is not promise to you, or anyone

Consequences of cheating

I was in the store today picking up a few items when I over heard the Steve Harvey radio show blaring from the speakers. It just so happened that they were reading today's Strawberry letter. As I heard the story I could not believe what I was hearing. A women wanted to know if she would be wrong to sue the women which caused her to contract Herpes, because she was sleeping with the women's husband. WTF??? YOU HAVE SOME NERVE.

To explain her story, she was having an affair for over 20 years with a Deacon who was married. The Deacon's wife knew about the affair the whole time. She goes on to say that she was a "GG" (Good Girl) because she remained faithful to the Deacon sleeping only with him for the entire 20 years. Somewhere throughout this crazy mess, she discovered that the Deacon's wife was cheating on him with a friend of hers and a colleague of her husband.

This women caught an STD, Herpes from her lover, but still continued to see this married man.  As she stated  " I was devoted and extremely faithful to him!" She then called the wife to inform her that she was infected as well, to which the wife retorted, "That's what you get for sleeping with him!"  The mistress later discovered that the wife was the one that infected the husband, not the other way around. NOW, she wants to sue the wife for catching Herpes, because the wife knew she had it, or should she just beat her down. She then had the nerve to sign it "3's a Crowd" So this women writes to Steve Harvey to ask if she was wrong for wanting to sue the wife for contracting a STD,  or should she just beat her down.

This women has got to be the dumbest, no sense of security, Home wrecking Hoe on the planet.  Let me get this straight! You ingratiate your ass into this women's life, sleep with her husband for 20 years and your mad, you want to beat up the legally married wife?  You're lucky she hasn't kicked your damn teeth in! I know people who has gotten beat for less a things.  Where do you get off being mad! What right do you think you have to bitch and complain.. If you had any class, or couth about you, you would have never brought this to light. You should have taken the shame of being a two bit home wrecking hoe to the grave with you and not let the world know of your ignorance and jezabel ways. How the hell can you even fix your lips to say you were faithful to him, how the heck do you remain faithful to someone who is legally committed to someone else? Do you think because you were dumb enough to give up 20 years of your life on a married man, that you were a good girl, REALLY!!!!!, YOU CAN'T REALLY AND TRULY BELIEVE THAT!!!!  Did you ever, ever think about the position you put the wife in? The agony, frustration, hurt and humiliation you put this women through while you were sleeping with her husband... You're right 3 is a crowd and you have been and overbearing, suffocating dark cloud over this women's life for 20 years. WTF??? She should sue you!!!

To the wife of the Deacon, you also got what you deserved as well.  As the story goes. The Deacon was engaged to another women, the best friend of his current wife. He cheated on his fiance' and left her for her friend, the current Mrs. So what goes around comes around.  You slept with your best friend fiance' married him and thought that he was going to be faithful, what the heck were you thinking....  This is a man that you should have stayed away from, from the very beginning. Did you think you were going to change him? Did you think you were so special that he was not going to cheat on you? (Oh he did it to her, but he won't do it to me!) His actions were an indication of the kind of man he was, unfaithful, a liar, a cheat. Is this a man you really wanted to marry and be with? The kind of man you want to father children with? A man with no morals, sense of family, or conviction. Sometimes women don't know what they are getting into when they meet a man, but in your case you knew because he was your best friend fiance and you slept with him and married him.  The truth is, all of you got what you all deserved!!!

It's hard for me to feel sorry for you knowing what you did yourself. In your case you made your bed and lord did you, your husband and someone else sleep in it. How the heck does he have the nerve to call himself a Deacon... This is why so many people are losing their faith in the church....

Michael Baisden stated correctly when he had a show segment titled "PIMPS AND THE PULPIT" God must be seriously rolling over up there asking WTH?