T-Boz turns 39 today
Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE.
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EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE
Today’s ‘Live Better With Willie Jolley’ Tip: Creating Empowering Goals
Today’s ‘Live Better’ tip for Success is focused on helping you over come this challenging economy. It is taken from my new book, Turn Setbacks Into Greenbacks. Get a copy today…you’ll be glad you did!
We have been talking about creating empowering goals. We’ve talked about ‘‘Giving Goals,” ‘‘Getting Goals’’ and the most important one of them all: ‘‘Doing Goals.’’ We all have things we do that are counterproductive to us reaching our goals. Like when I said I wanted to lose some weight, yet I was eating ice cream at night. It was counterproductive to my goal, so I had to stop! What must you do and what must you stop doing? Stay tuned. I have more on this subject!
Visit my website at www.williejolley.com for more information on turning your setbacks into greenbacks, and make this a great day!
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
April 26: Actor Giancarlo Esposito is 52. Singer T-Boz of TLC is 39.
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BLACK HISTORY
Apr. 26, 1844: On this day Jim Beckwourth discovered a path through the Sierra Nevada Mountains that now bear his name. Beckwourth Pass on U.S. Alt 40 between Reno, Nevada and Sacramento, California made overland travel to the gold fields of California possible. (Source: www.BlackFacts.com)
Today’s CHOCOLATE JAM is “I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun” by Rotary Connection featuring Minnie Riperton
Sittin’ here in this chair waitin’ on you
Ah, baby, to see things my way
But not a word do you say
You won’t even look my way
Girl, I’m spending my dimes, wasting my time
Talking ‘til I’m black and blue
Ah, can’t you see
I wanna get next to you
Dreams of you and I go sailing by
Whenever your eyes meet mine
(spoken)You’re so fine
And girl you make me feel so insecure
You’re so beautiful and pure
Why must you be so unkind
(spoken)and tell me I’m not your kind, blowin’ my mind
Girl my money is low and I know
That I can’t take you to the fancy places you might wanna go
Still I wanna get next to you
Ah I wanna get next to you
Girl you can bend me, shake me, make me
Whatever it takes to please you I’m willing to do
‘Cause you’re my dream come true
I wanna get next to you
I wanna get next to you
I wanna make you mine for all time
I wanna get next to you
I promise I’ll never make you blue
I wanna get next to you
I wanna get next to you
Thats my JAYUM, JB!!
I so love that song. It puts me in the mood for spooge instaneously.
Good Morning Family. I feel good, I feel good all over. The weekend did go by fast but it was a lazy one for me. My house is clean, fridge is full (sort of) and tutoring is almost over. Everyone have a great day.
Good morning Juicey. Y’all keep praying for President Obama. They arrested someone in NC carrying a weapon who said he wanted to “see the president” while he was in NC.
Good morning family. What it do????
What up fam? Yep, prayers are indeed necessary for the President.
G’morning… I’ll take an order of french toast, 4 strips of bacon, some potatoes and a tall glass of cranberry juice please.
I didn’t make dessert this weekend, something must be wrong with me. Who doesn’t have dessert on Sunday?? Anywho, this was a good weekend… got a lot accomplished and I’m ready to get this week over so I can have fun Fri/Sat/Sun.
Love,
What’s happening Friday – Sun?
Ex, it’s my birthday weekend
Gotta admit though, the older I get, the less I care about making a big production of my birthday. We had a semi celebration this past weekend because my bff was in town to see her new nephew (and her birthday is this Wednesday) so we had a pre-birthday-celebration for both of us.
Taurs Rules!
@ Love. Cool.
Taurus really does rule. I’m so glad I wasn’t born under any other sign. I’m such a stereotypical taurus too…
Stereotypical Taurus? And by that you mean …?
I’m dependable, passionate, loyal, conservative, friendly… basically, a whole lot of good stuff.
Former teen star Kel Mitchell, who rose to sort-of fame in the turkey “Good Burger” and as the dimwitted buddy on Nickelodeon’s TV show “Kenan & Kel,” filed bankruptcy last month and his production company owes more than $91,000 in delinquent federal taxes, records show.
Mitchell filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy March 26, listing $3,820 in assets and more than $1.7 million in liabilities, according to U.S. Bankruptcy Court records.
The bulk of his debt was a $1 million property dispute and $700,000 stemming from a lawsuit over attorney fees.
The 31-year-old was a long way away from fat Hollywood paydays when he filed and his possessions were few. Mitchell had $20 in cash and a 2004 GMC Yukon worth $3,000.
Though he is still acting and doing voiceover work, Mitchell’s income had fallen to $40,000 a year for the last two years.
An Orland Hills woman collapsed during her daughter’s Gold Coast wedding reception and died Saturday night, police said.
Susan Miller, 63, of Orland Hills, collapsed about 9:30 p.m. Saturday during her daughter’s wedding reception at the Newberry Library at 60 W. Walton St., according to a police report.
Chicago Fire Department ambulance No. 42 took Miller was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead according to the report. Miller suffered high blood pressure and high cholesterol, the report said.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office was not immediately available for comment.
Miller’s daughter witnessed the entire event, according to the report.
Police are conducting a death investigation.
Wow Leonard. One’s mother dying the day of your wedding? OMGeee! What kind of anniversary will that be?
Ex – roll em one mo’ gin and you’re gonna see the NOT SO NICE qualities of the taurus woman!!
When she saw the “for rent” sign in the Far Northwest Side home, a Park Ridge woman realized the mother-daughter team of self-described psychic healers had not taken her money to cleanse it of evil spirits — they stole it.
Laura Santini, 61, and her daughter, Rosann, 35, were indicted this week in Cook County on felony theft charges for allegedly scamming the woman of $62,000. The two haven’t been seen in more than a year, authorities said.
“They basically were able to convince the victim that some money she had gotten was cursed money and that somehow that curse had transferred to other money that she had,” said Chicago police Detective Milorad Sofrenovic of the Grand Central area. “They told her that in order to be able to remove this curse, they needed to take this money physically to a shrine in Indiana and with prayers drive the curse from the money.”
The alleged scam began in early 2007 when a flurry of fliers began peppering car windshields on the Far Northwest Side and nearby suburbs.
“One does not live without problems such as love, health, marriage and business,” the flier read. “Why endure them when a gifted psychic can help you with whatever your problem may be?”
It was enough to entice the woman. Recent troubles had left her looking for help, so she began meeting with the two women at their home in the 8400 block of West Castleisland Avenue.
As the meetings continued, they gathered information about the woman — including details about a large sum of money she had recently received. That’s when they allegedly told her they needed to cleanse her money, Sofrenovic said.
The woman initially resisted, Sofrenovic said, “but they kept pressuring her to the point that they were telling her that a number of horrible things were going to happen to her and her family if she didn’t comply.”
Eventually, the woman handed over the money, according to Sofrenovic. And despite increasingly forceful demands from the woman over many months, the money was never returned. The woman realized she’d been had when she saw the for-rent sign at their home.
“The victim is an educated, intelligent, professional person who had a moment of weakness,” Sofrenovic said.
Naomi Campbell is refusing to testify at the war crimes trial of former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor about a huge, uncut “blood diamond” he allegedly gave her in 1997 in South Africa, ABC News will report tonight on “Nightline.”
The excitable supermodel and the genocidal warlord were overnight guests of Nelson Mandela, correspondent Brian Ross reports, as was Mia Farrow, who has campaigned to bring attention to Taylor’s diamond-fueled campaign of terror over the Liberian border in Sierra Leone.
Farrow tells Ross she learned of the diamond at breakfast: “Naomi Campbell came down . . . she said during the night some men had knocked on her door and she, half-asleep, had opened the door and it was representatives of President Charles Taylor and that they had given her a huge diamond. And we were like, ‘Oh, my gosh.’ ”
Ross narrates: “Prosecutors say Taylor was in South Africa . . . to buy weapons for the Sierra Leone rebels with blood diamonds and that Mia Farrow’s information about Campbell helps tie him to the purchase.”
But Campbell won’t cooperate. At a recent Fashion Week appearance to raise money for Haiti, she’s shown saying, “I didn’t receive a diamond and I’m not going to speak about that.” She then ends the interview by slamming the camera to the floor.
Word of the Day
April 26
spilth
\SPILTH\
noun
Meaning
1 : the act or an instance of spilling
2 *a : something spilled b : refuse, rubbish
Example Sentence
“A spilth of water fell from the bird as it climbed through the hot air to clear the lakeside trees, and a drop of lake water clung for a moment to the leaf of an ilex.”
So I guess biblically, a man who has solo sex spilth his seed? ;o)
Spilth??? Who knew???
Good Morning Beautiful Ones! For those of you that have been receiving bogus emails from my yahoo address, please just delete them. I have spoken with a rep from yahoo, forwarded those emails to them, and I’ve changed my password. So hopefully that’s the end of that! These hackers need to pull their lives together!
So, how’s everyone doing? What’s the T? *scrolling up*
I wanna get next to you
Happy Birthday to Tboz and Giancarlo Esposito! He’s a brilliant actor. And Tboz looks GORGEOUS in that pic!
I am not an Ushet fan but I love there goes my baby. I think he is singing about Chili.
Well, ya know he ain’t talkin’ about that fool he was married to!
Juice,
I do too (like Usher’s “There Goes My Baby”) though I have no idea who he’s tawkin’ about.
I LOVE when he says “wrap my hands around your waist and kiss your face”. Those lyrics make me melt!
Happy Monday Black People!
And a Happy Deltaversary to me and my LSs. Sooo sooo long ago and yet it seems like yesterday.
Soror JB- ITA- I like There goes my Baby by Urchin but ever since he did his wife dirty, I cut him all the way off. Not that he cares but in my mind, I feel better giving him my azz to kiss.
Make it a great day folks!
Off topic. Why come ‘that’ T-Boz up there in the picture ain’t in any of the versions of T-Boz that I’ve seen occasionally on TV. Every time I see her (e.g. Real Housewives of ATL) she looks a hawt mess… funky hair and stuff? She need to take cues from her picture and have her people fix her up like that all the time… at least when appearing on TV.
dam, i done finally got in the door. Hey everyone, hope all is well!!!
I know someone who SWEARS she looks like TBOZ.
Even has the pic up top as her FB profile picture. *sigh* Well yeah, if she lost about 25lbs, took off her braces, waxed her upper lip & chin, grew her hair out, and turned the lights out, yep she’d be a dead ringer. 
well, dam. thats a whole lotta work….LOL
Why Yes. Yes it is.
HEY CREENJ
Soror congrats on your anniversary. As of this year I have Bren a soror for 19 years.
Also you are absolutely crazy by the way. I am already saving up for the convention in 2013!!!!!!!
Hey there Hersh. You wrong for your T-Boz dead ringer friend.
Hey crenee…How you be? How is the princess?
{{{hugs}}} Hey cren!!!
>exy, I say that to myself everytime I watch ‘What Chilli Wants’ when she’s on there. That wig she wears is a hot & spicy mess! 
And although I like her new show, I’ma need Chilli to brush the baby hair into her hair, please & thank you. 
LMAO @ hersh’s friend for thinking she looks like TBoz!
I’ve heard from a few people that I look like Jill Scott, but I definitely don’t see that…Maybe it’s cuz our breasts are ’bout the same size??? 
i’m great YLY, and my princes and the princess are my very reason for living. ok, i guess the vern too, but don’t tell him i said it. Maya is a chubbster too. I have to post some new pics, but haven’t had time, but i’m really on it…
Hey there Creneej! Good to see you back.
I’m not trying to be mean. But I couldn’t be more serious. I wish I could forward a pix of her but that would be wrong on sooo many levels. And she’s had that FB pic up for months!! Ever since they did that post your celebrity look-alike. She asked me “Don’t I look like her though?” My response: Heh heh. So what’s going on for the wkend? She really shouldn’t ask me again about that. I love her like a play cousin but that’s just not right forcing me into that type of scenario.
Thanks Soror JB- 23 years and going strong. And yes…start saving EVERY ducket, sixpence, chinese yuan and euro you can for convention. As much money as they will be charging I think they are guaranteeing the founders will make an appearance.
Cren, Maya is the punkinest! She’s so cute! *pinching her cheeks*
hersh & jb, I think PD is pledging, but she won’t confirm it. I hope she’s pledging Delta. I have several cousin’s that are Delta’s.
12 of she is pledging this semester then she is not pledging Delta. You must be a dophmore unless it has changed, which I don’t think it has. She is a freshman correct?
jb, she’ll be a sophomore after she takes one more class and she’s taking it in summer school. Hmmm, well maybe she’s not pledging…She just said “Ma, I can’t tell you cuz I don’t wanna jinx myself”. So, I just thought she may be pledging. Dang, I wonder what it is???
ITA w/ Soror JB. She is not pledging at this stage b/c she’s got to have so many credits, letters of recommendations, interviews, etc. PLUS it will cost almost a $1000 for her to pledge. You would have heard about that car load of money by now.
Ohhhh, okay. Well, I know she’s running for class vice-president so it ain’t that…Huh…I’m just gon’ leave that alone.
A12,
Oh and despite my feelings on the epidemic of fake hurr on Black womenz, I love your wigs and thangs lady. Just saying. 
I don’t see Jill Scott. I’ve always thought of you as more Alfre Woodard-esque with a lil thickness.
LOL @ exy! Thanks
A12,
Imma need my “plate.” Something like I saw on FB yesterday. Pronto! My address is:
Exxy
123 Suave Lane
Bottom of tha Booty, FL 99999
Call me at 555-Im-comin to confirm delivery. Thanks, please and God Bless.
LOL! I just felt like cooking a lotta stuff last night for some reason. You know how Shugg felt like sangin? Well, I felt like cookin’!
Off topic,
It’s only this weekend that I realized that Zoe Saldana was the girl in “Drumline.” Cute girl. I knew she was familiar… I do remember that she was in Star Trek though. This seems to be her year for movies coming out. She’s in like three of ‘em out now.
Did you know she was the only female crew member on the first Pirates of the Carribean? She wore a big floppy hat.
I did not Pene.
Oh, and I made a chocolate heath bar crunch cake for hubby.
A12,
Why you wanna tempt a bruh like that. You know that old saying about the quickest way to make a man fat.. I mean to his heart … yeah you know the rest.
Well, it actually was a ‘guilt’ cake…He was a bit peeved cuz I’m always making cakes for other events, but I never make him one. Plus, he was peeved at me yesterday cuz he said that ever since I got my new phone, it’s all I care about. *sigh* So, the cake was sorta like a peace offering…He’s right though, I do be on it 24/7. So now I have to be more mindful of not being on it when we’re together.
Anyone watching VH1′s “Basketball BabyMamas”? (I dvr’d it and watched it after Treme) Doesn’t it seem like 13th grade?
Saw it for the first time last night. Thought they were a bit childish. The one who confronted the supposed “groupie” gurl needs to be hanging out with her husband instead of them chicks if she’s concerned about groupies and her husband. Yes, they were hating on the chick and her husband who invited them to dinner (still wondering why he didn’t bow out and let it be a chick date). I neva saw Shaunie, just heard them speak about them wanting them to include the lil chick in the “circle”. Whateva!
jazz, I’ve been watching it. That one girl that resembles MJB is so bougie! And Shaunie ain’t never on there. I like her, I was hoping she’d be on there more. The other girls are messy.
Hey all!
Hey CRenee! Its been a while since I could get on too.
*waving* Hey ceegirl! How you durin?
Afternoon, BBP’s!! Speaking of Chilli, I felt bad for her when she was waiting at the hotel restaurant. You could see the disappointment all in her face…
I guess I’ll do. Can’t wait for June though : )
Lilmocc I didn’t feel sorry for chili. I think she needed that. I think she thinks a little bit too highly of herself with her pickiness etc. There is nothing wrong with standards but I think she is too much. Also she demands that the guy be gorgeous….that stripper luscious was gorgeous. I would not have ran away from him like Missy did.
Missy ran cuz he was the wrong species.
Saw that for the first time last night. Don’t really know what’s going on there but missey needs to change that damn hairstyle. She’s in a time capsule somebody needs to break open. She does not look good at all. I hate the “greasy lip” look.
I am wrong for talking about the boy but what are your thoughts snout her son.
He’s a cutie, but what’s up with that hair do???
LOL @ ‘wrong species.’
A12, don’t you mean the wrong gender?
JB> That was the WRONG hair style for his little twists…
he looked like a little girl. He looks just like her though, but has his Dad’s complexion….
JB> She has been riding my nerves too. She won’t give ANYONE a chance. Homegirl has been trying to set her up on dates to see how things go, to gauge how she is on dates, etc. and she finds SOMETHING wrong with ALL of them. That guy at the ball stadium was trying to be nice when he first met her, but she had her face balled up before the man could even get all the way in the VIP suite. Then the other dude who didn’t back down from Missy ate pork and he seemed too “playa” like
….. If she wanted an Usher clone minus the cheating, she should have stayed with him and waited out his cheating faze….I felt bad b/c I know she really likes Floyd, but she knows it is a bad idea to get into a relationship with him.
Watching a few clips of these Basketball “wives” I totally can see the criticism that child support beyond what the child actually “needs” is a gravy train for booches to floss on the dime of the rich father.
Why should a baby momma be using up the “child’s” support to floss in expensive cars? How about saving the child support for the “child,” especially since these ball players/musicians’ money is a temporary thing?
Let’s be honest. Few athletes have a post-playing career making the kind of money that Jordan makes. Most will have to reduce the lifestyle to make the money last the rest of their lives …
>ex, yep wrong gender, that’s what I meant.
I am mad that Shaunie isn’t on BB Wives anymore than she is too. Evelyn and Jennifer (Moose) gets on my very last nerves with all the extra Bourgie shit. Puleaze!