While watching the show "Scrubs" this afternoon, I received the random confirmation that "Give and Take" and "Sincerely Yours" are the right titles for this entry.
On Wednesday, I returned from a long weekend with the girls on Martha's Vineyard. It was wonderful! 6 ladies, one three bedroom house, one car and one gorgeous island!!! It was a road trip excursion that we're already looking forward to repeating with some tweaks next year. Three of us started the trip on Saturday and stopped in Providence Rhode Island, stayed at the Westin and had a great dinner. On Sunday morning, all six of us met in Martha's Vineyard via ferry. We gathered together in reunion style and hit the main drag in Oak Bluffs aka Circut Avenue, had lunch, did some shopping and took pictures. Then, we arrived at our lovely abode for the next few days. We rented a house from friends of my parents, The Jacksons', and it had all the charm of New England. The Jacksons' invited all of us to their house for a cookout. We enjoyed their lovely home as they also own the house next door...(I know, I know), ate well and learned more about MV. Since it was July 4th, we headed to a good spot along the water where we could watch the fireworks. We parked the car, hopped on a couple rocks, wrapped ourselves in blankets and had a front row view of the Independence Day tradition that lights up the sky. Afterwards, we headed back to Circut Avenue for some dancing! Reggae, our pick of the night set the stage for a great party! It was so much fun!
On Monday we had brunch at what became our most frequented restaurant, Deon's on Circut and then we headed for the beach!! South Beach. We baked in the sun and played in the waves for two and half hours. After we soaked up the sun, we headed back to Circut for some souvenir shopping and then home to freshen up for the night. Once together (and we did a great job I might add of 6 women getting themselves together for a night on the town) we headed to Edgarton for dinner at Atlantic Fish & Chops. The food was outstanding, but as tasty as it was it didn't compare to our riot of a waiter. He was Asian with so much soul. He had a sly remark for everything and a lot of swag. LOL! The icing on the cake was when he brought out the cupcakes we had prepared for Stephanie's birthday, lit them and asked could he have one. We had 10 for 6 people so sparing one was no problem. The next thing we hear is Happy Birthday being sung behind us. Our waiter had given the cupcake to the bartender for her birthday. Hilarious!! All we could do was laugh and take note at this funny story highlighting our vacation. We went home, and prepared for three of us to depart on Tuesday. The next morning we headed to Linda Jean's, the well known Mom and Pop restaurant of Circut Avenue for breakfast. From there we took Toya, Diondra and Steph to the speed ferry. It was hard to say good-bye and break up the group, but we did and continued the day. Leah, Jina and I headed to the house from there to plot out our next move which led us to bike riding! We drove to West Chop, rented bikes and rode for an hour. It was awesome! We grabbed ice cream, deserrt for the evening at Jina's family's place and headed home. After we made our transformation from sweaty bikers to sexy ladies we visited Jina's family who like her were lovely inside and out. We met friends of friends and friends of family, further confirming how small this world is. Later that night we went to a local restaurant for dinner on where else...Circut Avenue. The sandman was upon so we went home to sleep and prepare to depart our blissfilled vacation.
Wednesday morning, Jina and Leah scrubbed the house while I prepared the car for our journey back to NYC. We welcomed Jina's parents who split the week in the house with us. I love seeing where people come from and family is super important to me. Jina's parents are beautiful people and I hope they enjoyed the house much as we did.
I returned to NYC on Wednesday night to a smiling RP3, who allowed us to use his car for the trip. He gave me a very warm reception and I missed him madly! The roles of men and women are interesting. RP3 and I spent 30 days together in June with no pause and for the most part we were great. However, from our early beginnings, I expressed my need for me time and girl time and he has honored that. Maybe this is strange, but I enjoy missing him. I enjoy the renewal and the refreshing of our relationship. I enjoy having to be reminded why someone is special in my life and re-learn my appreciation for them. I appreciate the relationships in my life and what they add to me. Iron does sharpen iron.
God, my parents, my syblings, my fiance, the girls all have their place and purpose. I am made whole because of the completeness of purpose operating in my life. Continuing in all this purpose talk, I am spending the afternoon working on media business and wedding planning. See you next Saturday as the journey continues =)
Sincerely Yours,
Kris
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Re-introducting myself/Welcoming myself back
Where do I begin...
I guess it would make sense to start at the beginning, but the beginning would focus too much on the past, rather the immediacy of the present. With that resolved, I will start at the present.
Change has been the name of the game for the past 11 months. Not only change, but in some ways complete overhaul.
I switched careers for a while. I left full-time finance to purse non-profit work. This is the most rewarding, however the hardest work (other than my current relationship) that I have done is non-profit work.
The King's Daughters, Inc, my mission and focus took center stage for a year. Now, I have to work on the next steps to make TKD, it's best. In addition, I began working for a very elite non-profit.
Working in non-profit has been an interesting learning curve mentally and emotionally. It has also helped me realize certain steps on my path of life: some sensible, some backwards, but they all count.
I want TKD to be a worldwide movement. As such, I need to do some more work on myself. That has led me back to media and working to build my ever growing media career.
In the past five years living in NYC, I have enjoyed singing on stages for 50 to 5,000 people, recorded in basement recording studios and participated in sessions at Chung King studios. I have appeared on MTV, had TKD appear on BET, been featured as a spokesperson, news host, been published as a writer for a national publication and the list goes on! I have been shown so much favor since manuevering this complex city. However, I have learned that everything I set out to do when moving to NYC is not nearly as important as the person I would become.
I have become a well rounded, mature, self aware, woman who genuinally loves people. I am not without my flaws, hang-ups and inconsistencies, but I am better today than I was five years ago. I've grown up a lot.
Where am I?
Spiritually: I am building on the foundation started years ago. I am discovering God in a new way everyday. He is not to be put neatly in the box most spiritual people like to keep Him in for our comfort. He's beyond our conceptual finite minds. As such, I am following Jesus to a daily relationship with God and all it's splendor.
Mentally: I am intrigued by all the chaos of this world. Some call it signs of the times. Whatever you call it, the atmosphere, the envoirnment, the world as we knew is shifting gears and will most likely never be the same. The Bible descibes many of the events taking place and their increased frequency as signs of Jesus' return growing near. The state of our world calls me to spend more time praying for others and petitioning God for greater revelation as to how to overcome.
Physically: I want to be in better shape! I just turned 28 with the realization that I actually have to work to stay in shape. LOL! That sounds crazy, but when you have never had to work to do this, to me it is crazy. Those pesky 5 or 10 unwanted pounds seem to stick around a lot longer. I have been working with a dynamic trainer that I hope to begin training with her regularly. Hopefully she will help me to kick these pounds to the curb!
Emotionally: I'm in a great place. I have greater control over my erratic emotions, however I am not without them. I have embraced that I do have emotions (this took a long time). They are not all bad, they are sensors that help me locate myself. Sometimes, I am way off base and sometimes, I am discovering. For sure I am ever evolving.
Financially: I have learned how to budget a lot and a little. I don't have all the money I want, but I have learned to live with what I have and make it work. My debt has decreased greatly and that is not all due to my doing, but financially, I'm in a good place and getting better.
Continuing with the question where I am...
Drum roll...roll...roll...roll...!
I'm engaged to be married!! Whew! I can exhale, now that I got that out. In February 2010, Richard Albert Pope III asked me to marry him and I said yes. He surprised me at my job on 2/1/2010 and proposed marriage. I no longer have to whisper to myself that I am engaged. It has sunk in and the lovely symbol he gave me is a constant reminder=)
RP3 (as I call him) and I have an interesting story. It is a story of divine intervention, blessing and favor. I will let him come back and tell the story as his version is better, but for now I will say, he and I began courting in July 2009. We let our parents (who introduced us) know our courtship status in person Sept 2009. In Dec 2009, Richard asked my father for permission to marry me and my father gave his blessing. In Jan 2010 Richard and began ring shopping. On Feb 1, 2010, he enlisted the help of my friends to help execute his surprise proposal at my job. Since our meeting, we have travelled the entire tri-state area and more: NY, NJ, CT, PA, MA, RI, MD, FL, AZ. Our relationship has been a wonderful adventure with it's ups and downs, but the discovery of one another, of ourselves and the ability to love beyond our personal limits has been liberating. It is true, "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." I feel free.
We are getting married in January 2011.
I also attend a new church. First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem. I have always been civically involved on the local level. It's interesting that it took me 5 years, to become a member of a local church. All things are purposeful for it's season. In this new season, FCBC is purposeful.
Personally, I feel that I am coming into a more accepted, true self. Professionally, I am working on becoming what I believe: a media personality with the ability to own and operate media and financial empires. TEAM RADIKL in the building!!!
Today, I am Connecticut based and headed to the beach w/my lover.
More to come...
Kristen (The King's DaughterBillionairessKL in RADIKL)
I guess it would make sense to start at the beginning, but the beginning would focus too much on the past, rather the immediacy of the present. With that resolved, I will start at the present.
Change has been the name of the game for the past 11 months. Not only change, but in some ways complete overhaul.
I switched careers for a while. I left full-time finance to purse non-profit work. This is the most rewarding, however the hardest work (other than my current relationship) that I have done is non-profit work.
The King's Daughters, Inc, my mission and focus took center stage for a year. Now, I have to work on the next steps to make TKD, it's best. In addition, I began working for a very elite non-profit.
Working in non-profit has been an interesting learning curve mentally and emotionally. It has also helped me realize certain steps on my path of life: some sensible, some backwards, but they all count.
I want TKD to be a worldwide movement. As such, I need to do some more work on myself. That has led me back to media and working to build my ever growing media career.
In the past five years living in NYC, I have enjoyed singing on stages for 50 to 5,000 people, recorded in basement recording studios and participated in sessions at Chung King studios. I have appeared on MTV, had TKD appear on BET, been featured as a spokesperson, news host, been published as a writer for a national publication and the list goes on! I have been shown so much favor since manuevering this complex city. However, I have learned that everything I set out to do when moving to NYC is not nearly as important as the person I would become.
I have become a well rounded, mature, self aware, woman who genuinally loves people. I am not without my flaws, hang-ups and inconsistencies, but I am better today than I was five years ago. I've grown up a lot.
Where am I?
Spiritually: I am building on the foundation started years ago. I am discovering God in a new way everyday. He is not to be put neatly in the box most spiritual people like to keep Him in for our comfort. He's beyond our conceptual finite minds. As such, I am following Jesus to a daily relationship with God and all it's splendor.
Mentally: I am intrigued by all the chaos of this world. Some call it signs of the times. Whatever you call it, the atmosphere, the envoirnment, the world as we knew is shifting gears and will most likely never be the same. The Bible descibes many of the events taking place and their increased frequency as signs of Jesus' return growing near. The state of our world calls me to spend more time praying for others and petitioning God for greater revelation as to how to overcome.
Physically: I want to be in better shape! I just turned 28 with the realization that I actually have to work to stay in shape. LOL! That sounds crazy, but when you have never had to work to do this, to me it is crazy. Those pesky 5 or 10 unwanted pounds seem to stick around a lot longer. I have been working with a dynamic trainer that I hope to begin training with her regularly. Hopefully she will help me to kick these pounds to the curb!
Emotionally: I'm in a great place. I have greater control over my erratic emotions, however I am not without them. I have embraced that I do have emotions (this took a long time). They are not all bad, they are sensors that help me locate myself. Sometimes, I am way off base and sometimes, I am discovering. For sure I am ever evolving.
Financially: I have learned how to budget a lot and a little. I don't have all the money I want, but I have learned to live with what I have and make it work. My debt has decreased greatly and that is not all due to my doing, but financially, I'm in a good place and getting better.
Continuing with the question where I am...
Drum roll...roll...roll...roll...!
I'm engaged to be married!! Whew! I can exhale, now that I got that out. In February 2010, Richard Albert Pope III asked me to marry him and I said yes. He surprised me at my job on 2/1/2010 and proposed marriage. I no longer have to whisper to myself that I am engaged. It has sunk in and the lovely symbol he gave me is a constant reminder=)
RP3 (as I call him) and I have an interesting story. It is a story of divine intervention, blessing and favor. I will let him come back and tell the story as his version is better, but for now I will say, he and I began courting in July 2009. We let our parents (who introduced us) know our courtship status in person Sept 2009. In Dec 2009, Richard asked my father for permission to marry me and my father gave his blessing. In Jan 2010 Richard and began ring shopping. On Feb 1, 2010, he enlisted the help of my friends to help execute his surprise proposal at my job. Since our meeting, we have travelled the entire tri-state area and more: NY, NJ, CT, PA, MA, RI, MD, FL, AZ. Our relationship has been a wonderful adventure with it's ups and downs, but the discovery of one another, of ourselves and the ability to love beyond our personal limits has been liberating. It is true, "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." I feel free.
We are getting married in January 2011.
I also attend a new church. First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem. I have always been civically involved on the local level. It's interesting that it took me 5 years, to become a member of a local church. All things are purposeful for it's season. In this new season, FCBC is purposeful.
Personally, I feel that I am coming into a more accepted, true self. Professionally, I am working on becoming what I believe: a media personality with the ability to own and operate media and financial empires. TEAM RADIKL in the building!!!
Today, I am Connecticut based and headed to the beach w/my lover.
More to come...
Kristen (The King's DaughterBillionairessKL in RADIKL)
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