Go Nikki, it’s your birthday, get busy, it’s your birthday!

Have you ever seen the MTV reality series, Made? The series follows teens who wish to be made into singers, dancers, athletes, models, etc. MTV sets them up with a Made Coach, usually an expert or celebrity in the field in which the teen wants to be made.

And when I was a youth, I wanted to be a dancer. So if I were approached by the Made staff at MTV, I would have wished to be made into an Alvin Ailey dancer. I took dance classes from ages 6-19. I was fascinated with Judith Jamison (a Soror I might add) and longed to be under her tutelage at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

So I pose this question to you……………..If given the opportunity, what would you like to be made as?

I promised myself that I wouldn’t get roped into watching another reality show. Well, that only lasted a minute. I’ve been watching House of Carters on the E! network, and man I tell you, this family is dysfunctional like a mofo!

If you haven’t seen the show, here’s a brief synopsis:

Backstreet Boy Nick Carter tries to reunite his family by living together in one house with his four younger siblings, including pop star Aaron Carter, for the first time in years. After years of separation and plenty of family trouble (including their parents’ acrimonious divorce, Nick’s arrest for DUI, and Aaron’s lawsuit against his own mother), the five Carter kids try to reconnect as a family while pursuing their own separate career and life goals.

Now, let’s meet the Carters as I see them, shall we?

1. Nick: He’s a former Backstreet Boy, who’s just trying to keep his family from cracking up. He buys a house for he and his 4 siblings to move into as he and his younger brother try to start their own record label. He’s the disciplinarian of the family, which ain’t no easy task. He’s the oldest of the siblings.

2. Bobbie Jean aka BJ: She’s an aspiring chef, who like Nick, wants some order to the family. She’s the second oldest and is usually the mediator of fights between Leslie and Angel.

3. Leslie: She’s still trying to find herself for the mostpart. She longs to be a rock singer. She gets terrorized by her younger sister Angel and goes through bouts of depression from time to time. She used to be an obese child and still feels like she’s suffering from the taunting and teasing, even though she’s no longer obese.

4. Angel: She’s the youngest daughter. I can’t count how many different guys she’s dating each week. She loves teasing Leslie just for the hell of it. She thinks she’s untouchable.

5. Aaron: He is a piece of work. He’s the youngest of the bunch and thinks he can do whatever he please. He drinks, he smokes, he has the worst acne, and is forever trying to show off his no-pack. He’s so rail thin, he could hula hoop through a Cheerio. Once a former teeny bop star, he trying to move on to the next phase of his life. Whatever that is. One minute he’s trying to be a hardcore rapper, the next it’s R&B. I look for him to be the next K-Fed in the years to come (and you know he ain’t shit). Aaron fights with Nick at every turn. Nick just wants to steer him in the right direction, but Aaron feels that Nick is trying to run his life.

After watching this show, you will come to the realization that no matter how bad you think your life is, it really isn’t that fucked up. Because the Carters, regardless of the money that they have, are in need of some serious therapy sessions.

Do not attempt to adjust your monitors. This is not a throwback 70’s post. Remember my quest this past spring to start growing an afro like former Lenny Kravitz drummer, Cindy Blackman? Well, I’m halfway there. I figure by February, I’ll have my hair the length that I want it to be.

This is the packed in version, but if I pick it out a bit fuller, you’d be shocked as to how much is really on my head. I’ve been rockin’ twists since last year, but every couple of months or so, I untwist my hair to see just how much my ‘fro has grown. Gotta love the naturals.

If you frequently surf my blog, you know that I talk about my little cousins Jalen and Tyson all the time. They, along with their older brother Jonathan, are the closest thing I have to being my own children.

Well, I found out this morning that Jalen and Tyson are going to have a new baby brother. That will make 4 boys for my cousin and her husband. I should be happy for them, right? Well, I’m not.

Don’t get me wrong, I love children, but my cousin and her husband have been having problems for the past year and she was on the verge of asking for divorce, but now she’s pregnant with her 4th child.

Her husband wasn’t half talking care of the first 3, so why allow yourself to get pregnant with the 4th when you know he ain’t doing shit as a husband, nor as a father. Sure, he spends time with his sons………………..after he shoots hoops all day or play Playstation. Then like an hour before he goes to work at night, that’s the time he gives to the boys. What the fuck?

Now why would you bring a 4th child into that madness? My family and I take care of those boys more than he does. I take it upon myself to help buy them clothes for school, take them to and fro to school, the doctor, etc. when my cousin is working and can’t get off.

I just don’t see how you say that you’re the only one doing something within the marriage and you want a divorce, but yet you allow yourself to keep sleeping with this man and get pregnant. Help me to understand this?