(Black) Girl!

I'm a Black woman and this is my blog... PINK, music, photography, natural hair, nail art, crafty stuff and my random (and not so random) musings (rants, confessions, straight up AWESOMELY fantastic prose) all here it in one place. Welcome to my brain! *evil laughter*

[blackgirlfound]

Depressed

I hate this time of year. I'm so depressed right now.

[land-of-propaganda]

[babycakesbriauna]

Because God forbid a young, black male in America actually wants an education.

[hadeejasouffle]

Test your friends by rapping “first things first” and see if they respond with “I eat your brains” or “I’m the realest”

[blackgirlfound]

They're infinitely more real (and over 18) if they reply with "I Poppa freaks ALL the honeys."

Emphasis on ALL is important.

[jacquelynngaudy3d7f]

Click the picture for more

[blackgirlfound]

Yes! I'm doing this...

[blackgirlfound]

So my last post I was so hyped about my progress but the past few weeks I’ve kinda been in a slump. It all started when my gym had to close for a few days for renovations. I got lazy. Along with getting lazy physically I got lazy in my food choices. When I did get back to going to the gym I was kinda thrown off by the new machines. I felt kind of defeated like I did when I began working out. I was so used to a streamlined morning workout because I knew just how the machines worked and I could just jump on, workout, shower and head to work. With the new ones I’ve had to spend 15 minutes of my workout playing around with the machines and learning which setting I might like. That seriously cut into my already limited morning workout! But I’m doing better with the machines after I decided the excuses and acting like I’ve never seen technology before, wasn’t the move. Along with the renovations, there are new classes! Anyone who knows me knows I love to dance. So the new dance class entitled “Reggae Riddums” has my name aaaaall over it! Plus the Zumba instructor has added more soca to her class. I also bought a hula hoop. Watch out hoop people, I’m coming for you lol! I’m gifting myself hoop lessons in a few months. My weight has gone up a few lbs due in part to my period, which is typical for me. If I can go there with you guys, my period has been a BREEZE the past few months. I’m in MUCH less pain, my cycle is at 28 days instead of 35 (with a record of 46 days) and it’s lighter! Strange thing is I bleed for an extra day womp, womp. But anything is better than being doubled over in pain crying. Moat of the gain though is due to the food habits I’ve worked so hard to break (no fast food, no soda, less “unclean” food etc) that have come back full force. Ugh! I haven’t been as diligent with grocery shopping so take out or grabbing something quick is the go to. Since it’s the weekend I’m going to get my booty in gear, hit the grocery store and start fresh. Enjoy these gratuitous selfies of a natural hair enthusiast, a super teacher, what my lunches used to look like and what they need to start looking like again, and some silly girl posing a la Sears catalogue.

(Ha it’s me!)

[blackgirlfound]

So my weight loss journey, which I haven’t blogged about here, is going swimmingly! I’ve lost 40lbs so far and I have a waist now lol. I’ve been running, dancing and swimming ALL summer long! A few things:

Workout Clothes If you’re a bigger girl like me, Old Navy for workout clothes will be your best friend. As I’ve slimmed down I’ve been able to fit into XLs in Champion (Target’s line of Champion goes up to XXL) and some Reebok stuff. I don’t have any of their items but I’m looking into the Danskin Now line because they too cater to extended sizes. Looking cute while you workout is definitely a motivator. No dowdy tees shirts stolen from my husband’s drawer and huge sweatpants since I’ve found the right items to hug these curves!

Natural Hair and Swimming I have been swimming 4-5 days a week on average this summer which has made my shoulders like rocks, my bi and triceps are not bad either! Since I sport a natural do, moisture balance is key to avoiding breakage, crispy ends and all the other little nasties that come with chlorine, I cowash in sections with Tresemme Naturals in four sections (two front, two back), finger detangling, then coating each of my four sections with pure shea butter after each swim. I twist up each section and finish my shower, release the sections after I’m dressed, then bun it! I bunned my hair a lot this summer due to swimming so much, which kept my ends up and protected. Win/Win!

Working out with Le Huge Boobies I am a 38G… Let that sink in… My breasts laugh at conventional sports bras! I can jump, give my chin a mean upper cut and be out of commission. I can’t have that. I bought a Shock Absorber Bra on Amazon. Best $23 I’ve spent! I can hop, jump, jiggle and wine my waist through any Zumba or Socalicious dance class and my tatas sit tight!

Drinks I have cut out all the big bad beverages and have been drinking nothing but water, protein shakes and black coffee. (The occasional glass of wine too.) When I want some juice, I blend any fruit I would be eating for a snack with ice and BAM. SOME JUICE DRANK!

Eating Out Cheesecake Factory is NOTORIOUS for it’s ridiculously high calorie menu. The husband and I went out for dinner and, listen some of these dishes contain more calories than one should eat in a day! I’m not an expert in that area so whenever my husband and I want to eat out, I’ve been using Myfitnesspal to help guide my choices BEFORE I get to the restaurant. This way I've made my choice before I'm ravenous and about to chew the corners off the menu itself. These yummy Mexican Chicken Lettuce Wraps were 260 calories for all three at Cheesecake!

[defendfeminism]

Women do not have to:

[lucrezialoveshercesare]

be thin

give birth

cook for you

have long hair

wear makeup

have sex with you

be feminine

be graceful

shave

diet

be fashionable

wear pink

love men

be the media’s idea of perfection

listen to your bullshit

have a vagina

[goldnpoc]

This is very true, but it’s important to remember that if a woman is feminine, graceful, shaves, diets, wears make up, or does any of these things in the list, it doesn’t make her a slave to patriarchy or any less of a feminist than you.

[blackgirlfound]

The bolded

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

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Black Tumblr, Here yall go!!!

[jawnsbejawnin]

[email protected]

[maiflaur-blog]

WHOA NO NOOOOO

[xashleyc]

Wow

[prettyboyshyflizzy]

Make this bitch homeless 😤😤😤

[prettyboyshyflizzy]

I want her finances on the back of a milk carton

[coutois]

Keep on coming out of the dark, gremlins. Just keep exposing yourselves….

[cypresscapers]

I just called Memorial Hospital. I spoke to a “Shane” @ 10:55 am Central time 8/19. He said that the hospital is aware of Guthrie’s comments and are addressing them.

I told Shane that until Ms Guthrie’s employment services with he Hospital are terminated they should expect their phones to be bombarded by calls and their inboxes to be be stuffed. 

Hit these craccas in their goddamn pockets. It’ s the only language they respond to with any common sense. 

I suggest you all get on this phone campaign. 

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^^^^

[smallrevolutionary]

ok CEO is named Gary Kerr

the hospitals “corporate call center” is 713-338-5555

Charles Bumpass, Chief Compliance Officer at 713-338-4113, 713-338-4307 (fax), or [email protected].

For more information, contact:

Corporate Compliance Department 909 Frostwood, Suite 2:206 Houston, Texas 77024  713-338-4322  713-338-4307 fax

Memorial Hermann Standard of Conduct that this spoiled jar of mayo violated

“We endeavor to not discriminate against any patient for any reason including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, disability,citizenship, or any other classification protected by law.” - page 5 of Standard of conduct manual

"Provide a work environment for all employees free from harassment and intimidation.Memorial Hermann prohibits all forms of unlawful harassment, including harassmentbased on race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy,disability, U.S. military service, or any other characteristic protected by law.

·         Harassment is verbal or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility or

aversion toward an individual because of his/her race, color, religion, age,national origin, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, disability, U.S. military service, or any other characteristic protected by law, and that:

·         Creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment; Unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance; or          Otherwise adversely affects an individual’s employment opportunities.

Harassing conduct includes, but is not limited to:Epithets, slurs or negative stereotyping Threatening, intimidating or hostile acts   Denigrating or insulting jokes and display or circulation of written orgraphic material" - page 11 of Standards of Conduct

http://www.memorialhermann.org/uploadedFiles/_Library/Global/Standards_Of_Conduct.pdf

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MemorialHermann

Twitter: https://twitter.com/memorialhermann

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/memorialhermann

[smallrevolutionary]

UPDATE:

THIS IS THE CEOS CONTACT [email protected]

713-704-4000

PLEASE BOOST

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[blackgirlfound]

I am SO abso-fucking-LUTELY here for the gratuitous show of side meat (you know the crease(s) of body meat that show up when one bends to the side/lifts leg high on ballet barre to twerk sumn) that was NOT erased from this video. I mean seriously. My ass is gigungous and I have a small waist AND the side meat! Seeing that shit in a video I feel so celebrated!

Also someone go check on Drake. He still in that chair somewhere.

[tchallmedia-blog]

Justice for Kendrick Johnson at The March on Washington 50th Anniversary - August 28th, 2013

Kendrick Johnson was a 17-year-old student at Lowndes County High School in Valdosta, Georgia, where he was last seen in his fourth-period class on the afternoon of Thursday, January 10, 2013.  After that, he never showed up to any of his other classes.

And he wasn’t on the school bus home, as he always was at the end of the day.

Worried like any parents would be, Kenneth and Jackie Johnson reported him missing to the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department.   Both in their mid-forties, Kenneth is a truck driver and Jackie, a school bus driver.  They spent a long night wondering if their child would come home safely.

Lowndes County High School is a complex of low lying buildings, built in a horseshoe shape around a large parking lot.  The old school gym is a small building, sandwiched between two larger ones.  There are surveillance cameras outside and inside the gym, where a student visited early the next morning following Kendrick’s disappearance.

Wrestling mats were rolled up and standing vertically, as they usually were, in the back of the gym.  Horsing around, the student noticed that one mat was different from the others.  Someone’s bare feet were sticking out of the top of one of the mats.  Was this some sort of practical joke?  But it wasn’t Halloween, so what was going on?

The student quickly left and called a teacher.  When adults came to the gym and unrolled the mat, inside was the body of a male African American.  It was impossible to identify him by sight; his face had been beaten beyond recognition.  Paramedics were summoned.

The Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department arrived after, though the exact time which they showed up is unclear. Searching the body, police found a wallet in the pocket of his gym shorts.  Opening it, the identification said, “Kendrick Johnson.”  Inexplicably, County Coroner Bill Watson was not summoned until 3:45 PM, approximately five hours and forty five minutes later.

When Watson got there, it was chaos. The entire scene around the body was trampled by everyone from curious coaches and teachers, to the cops themselves.  To say the crime scene was contaminated is putting it mildly.  Little evidence was gathered; no one was questioned; and no crime scene photos were taken.  The body was eventually carted off to the Harrington Funeral Home, where an interested worker did snap the only photo extant of Kendrick’s face in death.

[matronsaintsofathingcalledlife]

this fails to mention that Kendrick’s brain, heart, liver, and lungs were missing from his body—replaced by newspaper. 

we speak and remember his name.

[jamaicanblackcastoroil]

i read the sheriff’s son had something to do with it

[femalevillain]

amazon wishlist for Ferguson protestors

hey someone organized a wishlist of things for the protestors in ferguson (stuff like gas masks, food, drinks, umbrellas, earplugs, etc.) so help out if you can!!

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

if you can afford to buy something from the list pleas do if not please reblog this

[rezondadawn]

Hey I’d like all my followers to check out this link an sign this petition.

If we can tweet an post about racism an police brutality then we sign an actually use our voices to usher in change an reform .

All my black brothers & sisters I urge you to share this !

It could be your brother , uncle , nephew , husband or friend .

https://www.change.org/petitions/president-barack-obama-please-enact-new-federal-laws-to-protect-citizens-from-police-violence-and-misconduct

[morti-della-fossetta]

British woman Harnaam Kaur started growing facial hair at 16 as a side effect of polycystic ovary syndrome. She tried waxing, shaving and bleaching before being baptised a Sikh, which forbids the cutting of body hair. Photograph: Brock Elbank/Barcroft Media

[blackgirlfound]

She's freaking gorgeous.... IDC IDC IDC!

[anotherfashionbook]

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TRUTH

[blackgirlfound]

I'm here for every last bit of this video... LOVE YO'SELF!

[alternativealley]

Visit Original Link

[blackgirlfound]

Cried real tears when I heard this song for the first time. My father wasn't present and the part: "On behalf of every man Looking out for every girl You are the guard and the weight of her world."

I lost my shit. Lol. It's not funny but lol. But he's a racist sack of cow shit so blah.

[blackgirlsreverything]

wait so you haven't shaved your vagina in 2 years!!?

NO! 

I trim because of course hair carries odor…

and what law says i have to shave?

I’m not a hairy person….

shaving causes irritation and i don’t like it

and it’s sad that most of you girls have been fed the idea that women are not supposed to have hair…. because it’s a male preference

if you weren’t, you wouldn’t have it

[blackgirlfound]

I trim as well. I have a friend who gets waxed and I cringe every time. A couple snips w the scissors and I'm done!