I loved the "Electric Company"

Do you remember Morgan Freeman on the Elec Co?

Yes, I remember Morgan Freeman on the electric co.

I never realized until my sister told me a few years ago. I went online and found the opening on some website and lo and behold it was him

Sabine,

I am so sorry you have left!! Many of us inna deh Yardie threads loved your comments and inspiration. Nuh boddah fi let nuh wan push yuh outta yuh Yard, Gurl!!

Hennyweh, please feel free fi come link us pon deh 'Yardie' or 'Stella' thread HENNYDAY!!!! Your comments, thoughts and jokes will HALLWAYS be appreciated han respected dehso!!!

Bless-ed love always,

Gill

Walk good Sistren...Walk good!!

my cousing sent this to me and I thought someone could use some inspiration
God Bless my cyber sisters and brothers in this struggle
UNO


By TD Jakes

There are people who can walk away from you.

And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk
away from you: let them walk.
I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you,
loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you,
staying attached to you.
I mean hang up the phone.

When people can walk away from you let them walk.
Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.

The bible said that, they came out from us that it might
be made manifest that they were not for us.
For had they been of us, no doubt they
would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19]

People leave you because they are not joined to you.
And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay.

Let them go.

And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means
that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know

when people's part in your story is over so that you don't

keep trying to raise the dead.
You've got to know when it's dead.

You've got to know when it's over. Let me tell you something.
I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I

believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful,
it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God
means for me to have He'll give it to me.
And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.
Stop begging people to stay.

Let them go!!

If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you
and was never intended for your life, then you need to......

LET IT GO!!!


If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ......

LET IT GO!!!


If someone can't treat you right, love you back,
and see your worth.....

LET IT GO!!!


If someone has angered you .

LET IT GO!!!


If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge......

LET IT GO!!!



If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction......

LET IT GO!!!


If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets
your needs or talents

LET IT GO!!!


If you have a bad attitude.......

LET IT GO!!!


If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better......

LET IT GO!!!


If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take
you to a new level in Him........

LET IT GO!!!


If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship.......

LET IT GO!!!



If you keep trying to help someone who won't even
try to help themselves......

LET IT GO!!!


If you're feeling depressed and stressed .........

LET IT GO!!!


If there is a particular situation that you are so used to
handling yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it,"

then you need to......

LET IT GO!!!


Let the past be the past. Forget the former things.
GOD is doing a new thing for 2008!!!

LET IT GO!!!

Get Right or Get Left .. think about it, and then .

LET IT GO!!!

"The Battle is the Lord's!"

During the next 60 seconds, Stop whatever you are doing,
and take this opportunity.

(Literally it is only ONE minute!)

All you have to do is the following:

You simply say "The Lords Prayer" for the person
that sent you this message:

The Lords Prayer

Our Father, who are in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name,
Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day, our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, forever.

Amen.

Next, send this message to everyone you know. In a while, more
people will have prayed for you and you would have obtained
a lot of people praying for others!

Next, stop and think and appreciate God's power in your life,
for doing what you know is pleasing to Him.

If you are not ashamed to do this, follow the instructions!

Jesus said, if you are ashamed of me, I will be ashamed
of you before My Father"

If you are not ashamed, send this message... only if you believe.

"Yes, I love my God. He is my fountain of Life and My Savior.

He keeps me going day and night. Without Him, I am no one.

But with Him, I can do everything, Christ is my strength."

God loves you and watches over you everyday.





All great achievements require time.
-Maya Angelou

Interesting article in the Vanguard (Nigeria) online newspaper.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/index.php?optio...5&Itemid=42

WOW that is WILD!!! how does a mistake like that happen???

WoW! Now this is an interesting story.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL14342169

They deported him accidentally and I've heard of people who were supposed to be deported upon release from prison and they "forgot" to deport them. Our system is really messed up. It's crazy.

Quiet

(whispering) yeah, eeerrriiilly soo:cry2:

p.s. well I have tried to take you all down memory lane 70's style, gave some info about myself on a personal level, and I don't know what else to do to get this party started. so now I'm going to sit in my corner:ph34r:

Yesterday was a holiday. So today people might actually be working. Me.....my daughter got kicked out of school for a skin irritation. I had to run her to the doctor and then back to school with a note saying it was a skin irritation. I don't know what's going to happen when she hits the preteens and acne sets in. She might be banned from school altogether. I told her father this is his fault...she's got skin issues and teeth issues and they are his genes. My people don't have these issues. I never wore braces and my teeth are straight as an arrow, so shouldn't he pay for the orthodontics? I think that's totally fair....don't you guys agree? You guys better agree, remember you're not allowed to disagree on Sub-Saharan. I should have gotten it written into the divorce decree.

Hey Uno a blast from the past



Remeber the metal skates you had to keep your shoes on to use them.

What about when your best friend did not have a pair, and you let them use one of yours (so now both of you have on one skate) and you would push with one leg and then balance yourself on the one skate. to actually move 3'' your were doing something.
But in general you were never really skating only walking on squeaky non rolling metal wheels trying to keep your balance.

Zainab cracking jokes = PRICELESS

Ohh sorry did not mean to offend (covering my face waiting for the SLAP) (please don't beat me) I sorry

Wait a minute. None of you guys look old enough to remember metal skates. What is it? Mary Kay or something? I liked the Floaters thing. Unfortunately it took me back to when I was dating so and so and we went to such and such dance and blah blah. Ahh memories
Glad to see you this morning Zee.

Thanks Chispas

I am not old enough to remember the metal skates

Neither am I, thank you very much. I don't know how We Destiny got into my closet. My daughter has the same kind of key skates but they are plastic. She wants us to go out with them on, and I'm trying to get her to understand that on her they are cute, on me, they are OLD! I have to pull out rollerblades nowadays!

My knees are totally ruined from using those skates on mud and stone streets. The worst thing we did was pile 5 people on a bicycle and ride down a muddy hill in the dry-season. I was sitting and the handle bars so you know my coochie took the brunt of the tumble.

Kay asks me questions like why do your knees look like that or what's the cut from. I always tell her, I enjoyed my childhood. They are the scars of laughter.

We were the trial and error kids, they just threw are butts outside and as long as you did not go to far, "you could do whatever you want"

In the playgrounds we had Monkey Bars, and MayPoles with none of that cushion or padding they use now a days just concrete to catch our falls.

Who rembers standing up in the middle of the the See-Saw.

The guys would ride their bikes down the block trying to go from corner to corner Poppin Wheelies.

The Candy House with NutChews, Wine Candy (Jolly Ranchers) and Sour Cherries for a penny and Icee Cups (frozen Kool-Aid in styrofoam cups).

Those were the days kids today don't know what fun is. ( Hey wait a minute I sound like my mother) No really I'm not that old, I'm still Tender.

I lived in the tropics so we used to go into the jungle and eat our way through it. There were always mangos, papayas, watermelons, star apple, bananas and whole host of other tropical fruit to eat. We never ever washed any of the fruit and would spend almost the whole day out playing. Of course we had to watch out for snakes or tarantulas, but as kids we didn't care. The worst thing I was afraid of was the boogie man (whoever he was) and any guy walking alone was the boogie man to me.

I was blessed to have both!

I can remember stealing mangoes from sister Grace's yard cause stolen mangoes are somehow sweeter. And sitting on the sea wall stripping sugar cane to chew out the sweetness. And sitting underneath the house to split a tamarind ball so that the boys couldn't see us and take it away. Eating crushed ice on the porch and watching the boys play football (okay soccer). And there was always the impromptu game of Rounders that ended when the goat ate half our ball.

I also remember playing in the urban jungle. We played double dutch and sang cheers while we jumped. We also used milk caps to play skelly in the street. And the lumber yard had the coldest water on the block, but we weren't allowed in there because it's dangerous for kids in a lumber yard, so we would sneak in to get a drink from their fountain. You fought not to be the last one because by then we'd get caught and go running out the lumber yard and you didn't really get a good drink of water. And the Penny Candy Store!! 25cents and a dream at the penny candy store...peanut chews and nowalaters (what were they called?) and Alexander the Grapes and lemonheads.....

I was thinking recently about Cabbage Patch Dolls because I was looking at those American Girl Dolls that are like $120 and thinking, that back in the day Cabbage Patch Dolls were all the rage and came with a birth certificate and they weren't near that price. But maybe with inflation it was similar? I don't know.

My parents did not care what we did (for some time) as long as they could see us from the window. We used to play outside with some friends and my sisters and I played soccer a lot. I remember we used to challenge the boys to games all the time Sometimes we would mix it up and rollerblade or skateboard but that was not as fun as beating the boys at their own game (I grew up in Saudi Arabia so beating the boys at ANYTHING was considered worthy of celebration). Of course, as we got older we had to stay inside more but we found ways to circumvent the system (we were not very law abiding )

Going to Ghana in the summer was a different story. There are 2 places that we normally stay: 1 is the town that my grandmother lived in and the other is my father's village. Whenever we were with my grandmother it was spectacular because we lived with her for a while until our house got built and she spoiled us rotten. She gave us all kinds of goodies that my mom was not too happy about. And then our cousins would come from all over and hang out. And we would play these small video games that were just one game you played over and over and over again.

The best was going to my dad's village because it was basically just family everywhere. Every house was a relative's. So, whenever we went, my parents would not even care where we went until it started getting dark. They knew that we would get food no matter where we were and if anything happened there was someone to take care of us. That was the biggest differnce and so freeing. We would walk all over the place. Take naps in several places, eat 2 or 3 lunches in different places, help a cousin with laundry, go to the market with an aunt, go to the farm with a bunch of cousins and just follow people as they went about their daily business....no parents around, no cell phones, no one to keep tabs on you, because everyone was family. Its the same today (with a few minor changes).

Wow, there is so much more I could share.

yoooo, whoooo, did I here my name?
I see y'all trying to get sumffin' started. lemme see
Zain said "I don't know what's going to happen when she hits the preteens and acne sets in."
they gon' put her lil but in quarentine until she's finished blossoming into a beautiful flower
den herr come destiny talkin' bout "Hey Uno" a blast from the past Remeber the metal skates you had to keep your shoes on to use them. What about when your best friend did not have a pair, and you let them use one of yours (so now both of you have on one skate) and you would push with one leg and then balance yourself on the one skate!"
girl, lukah' here, dem boys get the big ol' speakahs and setum in da window play'in "flash light, neon light' and e'ry body got a drippy curl talkin' bout I'm mixed with "porto rican" on my daddy'nem side and engine (indian) on my momma'nem side, see hur grandmomma was cherokee! den its dat one fyne brotha that know how to skate real good doing dem "crazy leggs" (holla, watch out der' nah!) but, wait, we had block parties, and its always them two families that gots to fight e'ry damn year fo' nothin' and speakin' of icee cups, do you remember dem penny strawberry cookies....oouuii, dem cookies was da bomb. don't forget about yo' pickle with the peppermint stick inah middle. Now damn..Hollah
oh, I can't leave out chis, talkin' bout "coochie", now girl thats a good one. roflmao
alright y'all keep'em commin!

Chipas, Zainab and Zee playing in those environments must have been awesome. I don't care where children are, they always find a way to have fun.
Ladies what about the toy trucks made from cans and or large juice boxes and pop bottle tops for wheels being pulled by a handle made from a metal wire hanger. I'm kinda cheating, I have seen the kids in Jamaica pulling them.


Mrs Chi Town (Uno) I have three words for you:

Chinese Jump Rope (with the rubberbands); Jump in, jump out, jump side to side, jump on, jump in, jump out.

Kick Ball with the big beach ball in the alley using people garages as the bases.

RED LIGHT - GREEN LIGHT (need I have to say more)

next level of
chinese jump rope, with the rubber band rope pull to your knees...ouch!; clap in, clap out, clap side to side, clap on, clap in, clap out!
wait til' the lights go out to play "hide and go seek *cough* get some"
eigth grade graduation singing "children hold on, to your dreams, believe in love, let love be the light to show the way, and love will shine on you one day"
and "super transfers on sunday", ride all day long for $.100
"garretts" cheese and carmel mix

I was downtown last week and had a medium bag of caramel crisp & cheese corn mix.

The opposite of Double Dutch what do you know about turning "Irish" ?

Mr. Freeze - you had to stay frozen until someone would run up to you and touch you (thaw you out).

Catch a Girl Kiss a Girl

We_Destiny,
I just noticed your "pervert" notice after being touched too many times. Reminds me of girls chase the boys? I think that one must be a universal game.

WELL< I do remember the metal skates and skating without all the knee pads and helmets!!!!! I also remember sitting on the handlebars of my brother's bike when we would "sneak" to the bowling alley and get SUGAR BABIES! and BIG RED soda with the money we took from my dad's pants..... Those were the days....

YES, you are starting to sound like my mother! But I remember the monkey bars and maypoles and MANY falls to the concrete!

I am (was) the QUEEN of the See-Saw

I rode down the block poppin' wheelies with the guys

And I AGREE - The kids today don't know what fun is.........

We_Destiny - we must be close to the same age! I LOVED kick ball!!!!!!! And chinese jump Rope!

What about : Tether Ball --- Hoo-La-Hoop --- Jacks ---- Marbles ----- Yo-Yo --- Pac Man

JJWashington - PAC MAN : I still remember my patterns up until the apple comes out (WHAaaT)

What about Galaxy? Joust: Picking up the eggs? Burger Time: throwing the pepper on the Patties and Pickles? Ohh!!! I was a game room junky; as soon as I got my allowance on Saturdays I was there all day.

Did anyone ever tie and tape a string to a quarter and keep pulling it back and forth to put more credit on the machine?

About two months ago I beat my cousins daughter playing Jacks got up to 6's but my nails got in the way.

I am young at heart!!!!

Uno...
You are my sister...or I think we grew up next door to each other... I got you on all of that.....but what about Catch A Girl Kiss A Girl

Red light, green light reminded me of playing Red Rover

We used to play kickball in the school hall. There were these pillars that we used as the bases. And it was so funny because while one group was using the pillars to play kickball another group was using them for freeze tag.

OAA...are you filing for a K3 or CR1? I want to add you to the list but I am confused by your timeline

we all played those games too.

I was trying to teach some of the young girls how to play double dutch and finally they gave up and I taught them chinese double dutch instead. They caught on to that much easier.

And boy oh boy do I miss block parties. They were so much fun. Went late into the night the police left you alone. We also had "play streets" in the summer time. One of the blocks would be closed off for the whole summer by the police and the kids could play there without dodging cars.

Basement parties were also the bomb back then and safe too. A fight always broke out, but there were no guns involved back then. It was fist to fist.

In the urban jungle we also used to open the fire hydrants and play in the water or try to wet the people passing in cars. Until the firemen came along and yelled at us and closed it off. Something about fires yadda yadda yadda....just spoilin' our fun!

Zaina, This sounds like the stuff my cousins and I used to do when I would visit them in Brooklyn. I spent a couple of summers with them and we would go from block to block for the parties. This always culminated in us opening up the fire hydrant and running through the powerful water force over and over again. I also remember playing stick ball and handball down at the park. This is where I saw my first junkie and hookers. My English was poor, but I hung tough with my cousins. The older cousins used to have basement parties and we'd sneak downstairs to watch the big kids grind under the dim blue light. There was no worry of guns or knives, just the worry of getting pregnant by Ms. So and so's son Rupert, Delbert, Fonso and "dem ova deer" . The scariest thing we did was jump the subway turnstile and walk from car to car when the train would turn! If my mother only knew what was going on when she sent me to NY!

hey every body,
this is a link that was posted on the K-3 forum concerning our petitioning issues.
go to this link to sign up for participation in a "tele-conference" regarding USCIS' services


http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/gc_1171038701035.shtm

I had metal skates too, hand me downs from my sister, mine did not fit over the shoe mine had the boot built in and they where white.(they were way to big LOL) I still remember the sound they would make when I would skate down the road. ching chong ching chong ching chong....

We lived near a hill and I had the bright idea to skate down that damn hill.....well what do you think happens when you combine metal skates, black top, and high speed??? NUMB FEET LOL

Oh and I had a pink bike with a banana seat LOL

I did not live in the jungle but I did live in the mountains and we would always take off into the woods no one knew where the heck we were...gone all day...never occoured to anyone that an animal could have eaten us...

I never learned to ride a bicycle.

Bassi wants to teach me. He and Kay want me to join them on bike rides. I want to just get a big tricycle and call it a day. Why bother now?

The saying that "It is just like riding a bike" is a crock. The last few times I have tried to ride a bike, I have fallen off. I am used to back-pedaling to stop the bike not the handle brakes. So I back pedal first, then squeeze the front or back brakes then fall off.

Think about it...they did go ching chong LOL the whole time I was typing that I was thinking Cheech N Chong LOL
those were the days we were young and had no worries!!! NOW look at us...visa what where how???

hey, has any one seen divine mercy? ,

She posted in the K3 forum yesterday. They got their I-129F approved and so they are going the K3 route now.

thanks Zee

I'm posting here, this is still the say anything thread isn't it ?
Well if not, sue me !
This immigrations process is getting the best of me and my husband .
This is the second time we've argued over NOTHING !!!
And I am soo very tired of it .
He's frustrated at how long it takes and asking me what are they doing with our petition,
like I know !
And I'm frustrated at explaining every little detail, every little p and q, and all of the money that goes into the process.
I am so tempted to just smack'em in the back of the head and he probably wants to throttle the hell outta me !
But, noooo, there's distance between us and I can't get to him and he can't get to me .
So we've agreed to take a breather for a while , and thats something else I'm tired of.
If we were face to face, after a good ole arguement ,
we could do some good ole fashion makin' up .
But, nooooo, theres distance between us .
Aw phuq !
Can y'all tell I am pisssssed ?
Okay, I am done for now .

Yes,,,,,,, I can see you are pissed off right now. Let it out girl. These are tough times, and your SO is probably the only other person, besides us, you can yell at and we won't tell you to give up. I only know our side of the journey, but I am guessing that he is getting pressure on his side and being asked a lot of questions about his departure. Scream, cry, whatever. Now I am going to be snarky so don't take offense to it. OK????

But when he arrives and you are tired of his behind hoggin' your closet, taking the sheets on a cold night, or the nooky when you are tired thing; remember how badly you wanted this process to end. It is like pregnancy, you can't wait for the baby to come and after those first weeks of a colicky baby, you wish you could put it back inside of you so you can get some rest. So..... are you still mad at him?

Chis,
I have stated it before, you are sooo very intuitive .
(damn, I had to catch myself from crying right then, ahem) moving on...Yes, he is being asked all of the time about his departure , he sent me an email this morning and told me that he is thinking about turning off his cell phone due to all of the questions , but he needs to keep it on due to his family and when I call. So technically, he is screwed either way .

But when he arrives and you are tired of his behind hoggin' your closet, taking the sheets on a cold night, or the nooky when you are tired thing; remember how badly you wanted this process to end.

And as far as the aforementioned statement, I'll take the first five years of that with no problem ,
but after that....
"let the games begin and I'm ready to ruuuummmmmbbbbblllllle" about my sheets.

so yeah, I feel a bit better