You never know how or why God will place certain people into your life. My freshman year of college, I ran with a pretty close-knit group of friends. We’d go to parties together, hang out at the local malls, attend various events on campus and even formed an intramural softball team.

One night, after attending a party on campus, Devin (a girl in our group), had one too many drinks. I’d left the party before most of my friends and was back in my dorm room listening to music and talking to my boyfriend when someone knocked on my door and told me that Devin was lying out in the quad, stinking drunk.

Well, this was the month of November and if you’re from the midwest, you’re kinda used to snow being on the ground……which it was. So I said to the person who’d knocked on my door, “Devin’s lying in the quad? And you just left her there?” The person replied, “She’s grown and not my responsibility.”

I could not understand how one could be so concerned to knock on someone else’s door to tell them about a friend who was lying in the snow drunk, and not do something yourself? So after hearing that bit of news, my boyfriend and I left my dorm to help Devin. And when I said she was drunk, I mean she was drunker than a skunk.

Read the rest of this entry »

There used to be a time when I would help Jalen (my little cousin) to clean himself when he’d go into the restroom. Heck, it took forever to get him potty trained. He was nearly 3 years old before he got potty trained (blame his parents). But now that he’s 4 years old, and I guess he’s gained some type of independence overnight.

After spending a month with one of his grandmothers, then a week with the other grandmother, Jalen has come back a man. When he excused himself the other day to go potty, I got up to accompany him to the bathroom. I figured I’d do my same routine and make sure that he’s cleaned himself and assist him in washing his hands, but this time he stopped me at the bathroom door.

He said, “Nikki, I got this,” and slammed the bathroom door in my face. It kinda took me aback. My little man is growing up. Which is a good thing, but I wasn’t expecting it so soon.

Oh, and speaking of Jalen, his mom is pregnant again……….with a 5th child. Also another boy. This will make 5 boys and both she and her husband are under the age of 25. Jesus wept.

Jalen doing his Simba routine

Have you seen the previews for this movie? The film stars Antwan “Big Boi” Patton, who is one half of the hip hop duo Outkast, and Faizon Love. The premise is as follows:

Superstar rap mogul, C-Note (Big Boi), runs into fierce opposition when he tries to join the super stuffy Carolina Pines Golf & Country Club. Undeterred, C-Note gets the brilliant idea to buy the land adjacent to the golf club’s 17th hole, which he cleverly leverages to gain membership. C-Note’s crew wreaks havoc as they bring their larger-than-life style to the club. As the club’s hoighty-toighty leadership desperately tries to revoke C-Note’s membership, our hero realizes that his family’s honor – and secret record-breaking golf history – is at stake. As he takes on the fight of his life, C-Note pulls out all of the stops to bring down the club’s backwards establishment and welcome them to the 21st century.

My guess is that the writers and director were trying to create a Black version of Caddyshack with a message, but something tells me that it’s going to come off looking quite buffoonish.

And not only that, actor Jeffrey Jones is also in this film. In 2003, Mr. Jones was arrested for possession of child pornography and employing a 14-year-old boy to pose for pornographic photographs. There are various types of wrong associated with this film.

I’m sure by now most of you know that Saaphyri was named the winner of the first season of Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School. If you didn’t get the chance to watch an episode this season, you definitely missed out because it was funny as hell and full of drama, which is damn good for ratings.

Personally, I thought Leilene had changed the most out of all of the women on the show, but something deep inside of me knew that Saaphyri would pull an upset in the end, and she proved me right.

Her final speech was very heartfelt and she came with it from the top of the dome. Nothing was written on paper, she just let her heart speak and her emotions flow, and let us walk in her Uggs, er….shoes, so to speak.

But the one thing I loved about Saaphyri, was her unforgettable quotes. Saaphyrisms, as I like to call them. So let’s look back at few of those Saaphyrisms, shall we?

1. “Want some lip chap?”
2. “You better quit interrupting my prayers before God directs me to whoop yo ass!”
3. “Bitch, I’m from 54th and Crenshaw!”
4. “Whoa, you mad, huh?” (Said to Leilene after Leilene’s rant from being called an unfit mother)
5. “I spent my rent money on those boots.” (Said when giving away her Uggs to thrift store for charity)
6. “She looked like Pamela Anderson on crack.” (Saaphyri talking about Brooke)
7. “I can make you a lace for the front of your head.” (Said to the guy wearing seashells on the prom episode)
8. “You go bitch, you’re fierce.” (Regarding Leilene’s modeling of the dress that her team made)
9. “Hell yeah bitch, don’t you get eliminated.” (Regarding Becky when she said she’d split her winnings with Saaphyri)
10. “Just go down bitch, go down!” (Regarding Shay during the final pop quiz)

And finally, who could forget the opening dialogue between Saaphyri and Mo’Nique upon the girls entrance into the house….

Mo’Nique: “Saaphyri, let’s burn this horrible name and free yourself from the oppression associated with it. Now tell me, what is your real name, sista?”

Saaphyri: “Saaphyri.”

Mo’Nique (with a look of awe on her face): “Oh.”

The Mormons are gangsta! I have seen them ride their little Huffy bicycles in the toughest of ‘hoods and no one bothers them. Just going door to door with their Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints paraphernalia in hand trying to spread the Word.

Their bicycles are never stolen, and if they are, I’ve never heard of an incident of it happening, not even in the news. And they are bold too. Even in my middle class neighborhood, on Christmas Day of last year, some Mormons rang my doorbell to pass out literature, then sped off on their Huffys.

On Christmas friggin’ Day! Who does that? Talk about being a radical for Christ. They are some ride or die folks for real.