Today I practically froze all day. For this apartment to have steam heat and 5 furnaces, it doesn’t do nothing for the temperature inside. I have a long sleeve shirt on, socks, pants, blanket and my legs and feet are still frozen. The windows in this place are crappy. I’m really afraid of how it’s gonna feel once it gets colder out. For the last two days it’s been 60 mph arctic winds and it’s currently 16 degrees outside. Can you see why I want to move back to Florida? This sucks!

I had that lousy landlord fix the shower and cabinet, but still waiting for the windows and closet to be fixed. I don’t even think I’ll be able to sleep tonight. I could barely sleep last night because it was so cold. I spent my entire night shivering. This really sucks, I am really missing Florida right now.

In other news, I played SecondLife for a bit while I froze in my apartment. I roleplay as a “Merrow” on SL when I’m bored from time to time. Merrow’s are the result of a Tekeli’li and a human mating. According to the SL Chronicles of Atlantis, Tekeli’li originated in Atlantis and separated themselves from humans when the destruction of Atlantis came to play because they found humans to be destructive. The have no hair on their bodies and are covered with scales and fins. They also protect the Atlantean crystals which are suppose to be very powerful.

Here’s a few picks of my SecondLife as a Mermaid:

At my MerFolk Group Weekly Party - I'm the one with the light blue tail

Here I am admiring my tail at home on my own little reef I designed

Well, I’m about to take a hot shower and thaw out a bit. Goodnight.

I decided to name this post Auricular because this word isn’t used very often. This post has nothing to do with the meaning of this word so it’s a more of a random title (More about this word later in the post).

I really hate the weather here. It is so cold today. It was 24 degrees today and that really sucks when you have to catch the bus. I had on 2 shirts, 2 hoodies, my wool coat, a pair of gloves, and a scarf and I was still cold! My hands were so cold that they hurt. I really feel sorry for anyone that is homeless in Ohio because the weather is absolutely dreadful. If I was homeless I would make it my business to move to warmer much more bearable climate even if I had to walk the whole way. I always find myself looking forward to the summer when I am in Ohio because that’s the only time the weather is actually bearable and won’t cause me to get ill. Any other time of the year the temperature is up and down like crazy and everyone is contracting Influenza. Luckily I’ve managed to avoid getting really sick which I have to credit my evasion of getting ill to taking vitamin C tablets daily.

In other news I spent today with Brian just as planned. I basically slept in his arms the whole time. All those nights where I only got 4 hours of sleep has finally caught up with me and I’ve been doing nothing, but sleeping  every time we’re together because that’s my only opportunity to actually get some sleep. I am still tired even now and of course Jeremiah is still up right now. *Sigh*

I decided to give Sweetvanillasugar a rest and focus on GrowBlackHair.NET more. That’s the site that has been making me money. My goal for the next 6 months is to get enough clicks to earn at least $100+ a month instead of every 2-3 months. My site comes up on the first page when the key words “grow black hair” are Googled, but I need to add more information and write more articles. At least 4 articles a month if not more. Sometimes I run out of ideas, but when I do I review a hair product until another idea comes to mind. Right now I’m currently in the process of reviewing Carol’s Daughter Hair Milk. I’ve gotten a lot of requests about this product so I went to Sephora and purchased a bottle to test it out on both natural and relaxed hair. If you want to read the review check out my site in a few weeks.

Last but not least, I deleted and edited my categories today. I had the category “Personal” and “Private” which are literary the same thing. I mean those are actually synonyms to each other so I decided to combine those entries and rename the category to “Auricular“, but who really uses that word or knows what it means? So I ended up changing it to “Confidential” instead. I also changed “Writings” to “Literary Works”  — a little more unique I must say.

I can not stand the weather in Ohio. I left out this morning around 10:20am on my way to school and the weather was quite nice for Ohio around this time. It was in the 40s, but when I left school around 1:30pm I felt the chill through the double doors. The weather went from 40 something to low 30s in a matter of hours. It will be in the low 20s tomorrow and back to the 40s by the end of the week. The weather in Ohio is never consistent. You never know what to expect. I can’t wait until I am able to move from here again and stay gone for good. I really hate cold weather.

Today I started on the new site design for sweetvanillasugar. It’s starting to look really nice. The base is a nice vanilla color and I created a colorful, simple, candy theme. I really don’t want anything super elaborate. I’ll leave that to the free designs I create. I know sooner or later I’m going to have to purchase Adobe photoshop though because I only have 23 days left to use it. Well I gotta go to bed it’s really late and I plan on spending time with Brian tomorrow. An empress has to get her beauty sleep.

This is how it looked outside in the middle of the day yesterday during a huge snow storm we had. It snowed all Wednesday until about 7pm. Crazy huh? It was an estimated 20 inches on snow that fell, but I haven’t been outside with a yard stick to check the accuracy of that prediction yet. I’m currently waiting on my refund from my school so I purchase my books for class and have bus fare saved up to catch the bus. It will also aid in me being able to pay my phone bill and I can just pay my web-hosting bill for the entire year so I won’t have to pay it again for 12 months.

Hopefully I can find a job before the money actually runs out so I won’t be scrapping for change just to get back and forth to school. It costs $4.50 a day to catch the bus and I’m down to my last $5. I really wish God will bless me with some type of employment. It’s not like I’m not making a conscious effect to gain employment. What’s the big deal?!

The good news is that Brian is coming back to Cleveland today. I am a little excited, but for some reason I find myself rather calm. Maybe it’s because reality of him being here with me hasn’t really set in yet. I love him so much and I can’t wait to see him, but I’m not nervous or anxious to say the least. My mood is rather quiet today…

I was invited to go to the movies to see some 3D scary movie with my friend Tenisha and Terrance. I remember the last movie we saw together…”The Unborn”. That movie really freaked me out. I couldn’t sleep well for 3 days because of the weird, freaky things that I witnessed in the movie. It took a really sick person to come up with the idea of making a paralyzed man’s body twist into a shape of something similar to a spider and then to add to the weirdness of that his head twisted completely upside down. That was the most disturbing scene in that movie to me! I hope this movie is not as weird. I don’t want to lose anymore sleep due to some stupid movie. My imagination is part of the problem because it will just run wild. Well I have to go write an article for Grow Black Hair Online before Tenisha gets here.

I know I haven’t updated in a while. I’ve just been so busy and it’s been so cold outside that I had no desire to walk to the library. Today is a little more bearable so I decided to update my blog.

I haven’t been able to sleep for 3 days. I don’t know whats wrong with me. I go to bed and I can’t seem to settle down. I actually feel like I’m half asleep the entire night and when I do fall asleep I have such a disturbing dream that it actually feels like I didn’t get any sleep at all… Sigh

I no longer work at the Sandbar. I’m working at a bar that is closer to home. It is actually right down the hill from where I stay so it is very convenient. Turns out the owner of the Sandbar is a complete dick. He claimed my sales were low(along with the other barmaids) so he started bringing another girl in on my shift, but you must remember this is Ohio(cold weather), we are in a recession, and I worked on non-busy days – Tuesday and Thursday. She of course called in all her friends on the shift to make her sales. – Mind you this bar is in Wickcliffe which is a ways from where I actually stay and my friends are not going to drive all the way over there to have a drink.

I already knew what the deal was and the customers were really cheap when it came to tipping me too. I’d get tips like .50 or $1. WTF?! At this new bar the cheapest tip I’ve ever gotten was $2 and I’ve gotten $5 just for a $3 beer. I also get paid per shift instead of just $2 an hour which equals out as more. On top of that I’m much more comfortable because I’m not the only “black” person in the entire bar. Don’t get me wrong I love people of all races; that’s what makes the world beautiful, but I have to admit being the only black woman working in a “hill billy” bar was really weird.

I ‘m also trying to get a job with the city… More about that in another post.

The only other new thing is I plan on taking a trip to Cancun Mexico this Spring or Summer and I’ve been talking to the love of my life for the past 2 months!

Well I have to go get Elijah. I will be back in to edit this after I pick him up from school…