Happy Halloween!!

I hope everyone has a safe but fun one!

I got an Award!!!

My sissy pooh Liz at http://beeyum.blogspot.com nominated me for this award! Thanks sunshine!! she was the first one to follow me on here & i abs. love her Blog!!!

To accept this award I need to name 7 things about myself that people might find interesting...here goes:

1. I have a twin sister, we are 1 min. apart & she came out first lol so she's 1 min. older then me ;-).

2.I'm a vegetarian, i have been one for about 5 going on 6 yrs, when my mom cooks meat i get sick to my stomach just smelling it.

3. I'm currently in community college getting my General studies out the way, after i graduate i'm headed back to school to study nursing.

4. I'm a home-body, i rather just stay home, watch a movie and put the BlackBerry on silent.

5. I'm abs. love tattoos . (only have 5 tattoos but i want MORE).

6. I'm a night owl.

7. I'm scared to fall in love.

I only nominated (5):

• http://chelleroyal.blogspot.com/
• http://www.thisissharona.com/
• http://atasteofvogue.blogspot.com/
• http://withlovestarz.blogspot.com/
• http://www.thefuturesociety.net/

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1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
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4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
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Soul Searching...

Wrongfully Convicted..

Twice in July 1984, an assailant broke into an apartment, severed phone wires, sexually assaulted a woman, searched through her belongings, and took money and other items. On August 1, 1984, Ronald Cotton was arrested for these crimes. In January 1985, Cotton was convicted by a jury of one count of rape and one count of burglary. In a second trial, in November 1987, Cotton was convicted of both rapes and two counts of burglary. An Alamance County Superior Court sentenced Cotton to life plus fifty-four years.The prosecutor's evidence at trial included a photo identification made by one of the victims, a police lineup identification made by one of the victims, a flashlight found in Cotton's home that resembled the one used by the assailant, and rubber from Cotton's tennis shoe that was consistent with rubber found at one of the crime scenes.On appeal, the North Carolina Supreme Court overturned the 1985 conviction because the second victim had picked another man out of the lineup and the trial court had not allowed this evidence to be heard by the jury. In November 1987, Cotton was retried, this time for both rapes because the second victim decided that Cotton was her assailant. Before the second trial, a man in prison, who had been convicted for similar crimes, told another inmate that he had committed the crimes for which Cotton had been convicted. A superior court judge refused to allow this information into evidence, and Cotton was convicted of both rapes. The next year, Cotton's appellate defender filed a brief but did not argue the failure to admit the second suspect's confession, and the conviction was affirmed.In 1994, the chief appellate defender requested that two new lawyers take over Cotton's defense. They filed a motion for appropriate relief on the grounds of inadequate appeal counsel. They also filed a motion for DNA testing that was granted in October 1994. In the spring of 1995, the Burlington Police Department turned over all evidence that contained the assailant's semen for DNA testing.The samples from one victim were too deteriorated to be conclusive, but the samples from the other victim's vaginal swab and underwear were subjected to PCR based DNA testing and showed no match to Cotton. At the defense's request, the results were sent to the State Bureau of Investigation's DNA database, containing the DNA patterns of convicted violent felons in North Carolina prisons. The state's database showed a match with the convict who had earlier confessed to the crime.When the DNA test results were reported in May 1995, the district attorney and the defense motioned to dismiss all charges. On June 30, 1995, Cotton was officially cleared of all charges and released from prison. In July 1995, the governor of North Carolina officially pardoned Cotton, making him eligible for $5,000 compensation from the state. Cotton had served 10.5 years of his sentence.Arising from this case is the incredible story of Jennifer Thompson, the victim who had identified Cotton. An aspiring college student at the time of the crime, she made it her purpose to study the assailant's face so that he would be brought to justice. She identified the wrong man. Today, Ms. Thompson speaks out about her experiences and the dangers of relying solely upon single eyewitness testimony to convict.

We talked about this case in my General Psychology Class the other day and watched the "60 minutes" special on it and it blew me a way.. i mean i heard of such cases but none like this. it was crazy how she really believed he was the guy that raped her and she even studied his face why he was raping her so "if" she was still alive she could identify him but she still picked the wrong man. they both looke alike to me except ronald cotton had more hair sort of like a bush or whatever but other then that they def. favored each other and when they had Jennifer thompson look through the pohot line up they didnt tell her the person that commited the rape may not be in these photos so it took her about 5-10 mins to decide on a picture and the one she picked was Cotton's photo because he looked like poole... due to this they now show you one photo at a time so you can focused on each photo one at a time. this goes to show you memory can def. play tricks on you.

Today Ronald Cotton and Thompson-Cannino are best friends. In fact, they’ve written a book together: “Picking Cotton: A Memoir of Injustice and Redemption.” They sometimes travel together too, giving talks about the ways memory can deceive us, and they are working to change the way police conduct photo lineups. I need to buy that book!!

i will Never...

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."

<3

I think...

untitled.

This wk.end was a Good one for me. Friday i went to school until 1250, ended up taking a nap and got woken up by my twin sissy pooh so we could head to her school for the Haunted House at the fair grounds. i had so much fun i was abs. terrified but it was all fun, laughter and screams. i even fell in the clown haunted house when were almost at the exit two clowns jumped out of no where and i stepped back and ended up slipping and fell on my left knee but i hopped my behind right up and was dying laughing. they damn near scared the shxt out of me.. LOL the scariest house we went to was indeed the last one it was called "The Slaughter House" when they told me the name of it i was like "oh hell naw i'm skipping that one" lol but everybody kept saying if you went in the other four you have to go in this one so i went. i know one thing i can't stand being in the back i need to be in the middle because some of them end up following you i'm not with that shxt at all. lol so everytime i was in the back i threatened my twin that i was NOT going in the other one's in they left me back there [big ass baby right? hell yeah! lol] it was a blast though. so i thank my sissy pooh for inviting me and buying my ticket =) now i want to go to fright world haunted houses with our mom and ti.ti and some of my close friends along with my sis close friends i think that would be pretty cool but being that this wk. our schedule is crazy busy. i doubt that will happen and halloween in sat! this month flew the heck by! last yr. i was a "hippie' for halloween (LOL) this year i don't plan on wearing a costume unless i decide to get one but i doubt it. i think my titi and sis and mom are just going on the chipp stripp. last yr. it was pretty live and it was good to see everybody, ppl i haven't seen in yrs i ran into that day and my close friend was in town from NC so it was nice to see him, even though he pissed me off that day. but it was all fun. so i'm hoping sat. it doesn't rain or anything and it ends up being a pretty decent day. but anywho tomorrow or should i say today being its 12am, i have classes from 9-230 and then at 8pm me and the twin sissy pooh taking the lil bro's to see monday night raw (wrestling) lord knows i'm going to be bored out my mind but i asked them months ago if they wanted to because i knew they liked the B.S so i will just prob. txt all through it lol. but then again we always have fun with our lil guys so it shouldn't be that bad. (crossing fingers). & thursday me and my sissy pooh suppose to volunteer at the mall and give out candy to the lil trick or treaters. i never did this before and neither have see but her school has always done this i believe and she's helping this yr. and i told her i would come along and help as well. but i need to go to bed so i'm going to end this post.. Night!

I hope everyone will have a Great Monday!

Microdermals

Microdermal implants, which is also known as surface anchors have evolved from the techniques of pocketing, dermal anchoring, and transdermal implants. Basically, a microdermal implant is supposed to look like a transdermal implant, but be a realitively safe procedure, similar to body piercing. The end effect is to give the client the appearance that the jewelry is screwed into the skin.The jewelry used is similar to transdermal anchors, but smaller. The base is flat with holes, which is supposed to aid stabilization of the jewelry. The tissues are meant to grow through and around the base of the jewelry, to increase stabilization and decrease risks of rejection. To minimize longterm risks, you want to make sure that the jewelry is made of titanium rather than a type of steel.

I have been debating if i should get this done or not,i have an addiction to piercings and tattoo's, i just love it! but i haven't decided if i will go through this or not, I might just go ahead and get them done for my bday (a bday gift for myself lol) we shall see.

Rih-turn!!

My Idol Rih-Rih is back at it!! I love her new single "russian roulette." i cannot wait for her album to drop November 23rd!

Changing.

Lately i have been feeling some type of way if you will.. I have been wanting a change. i think it's time to do some cleaning with "friends" i feel i need to get rid of some people who are negative and just down right needs to get the boot out of my life.. over the summer i have lost some "friends" ppl who i thought was True Friends but turned out to a "foe", and i refuse to be the fool or hold on to something that just doesn't seem to work. even so called "best friends" i'm realizing ain't my "BFF" at all. i don't even conversate with "BFF" on a everyday basis shxt we barely talk at all, dont get wrong i love her but as of recently things have been shifting and that once close bond is long gone. she only txt. me if she going through some shxt or call me if she need a baby sitter. i think the only reason we was even friends this long is because of my God baby AA but i don't even see him either but i don't see her, if i have something at my house i invite her she always comes up with an excuse but yet when something is going on with some other friend she magically finds a way to get over there lol. shxt is crazy. so i'm sort of removing my self from the equation. I realized i'm better off with friends that are guys i just click better with male friends, females are entirely too much. i have like two [REAL] friends and their males. we talk all the time, even when we are busy we make time to call, txt, hang out or whatever because at the end of the day we keep each other going. i cant say i have one Female friend that is there through it all and i can talk to all the time. thats why i rather be by myself and do my own thing. even the word "Best Friend" is so overrated to me and used entirely too much now-a-days so we def. need to abolish that ish a.s.a.p. but lately i just been in deep thought about "friends" and the dumb ish ppl been pulling lately, even ex boyfriends getting on my damn nerves, contanstly calling me and txting like obviously if i haven't responded the first 5 times what makes you think i'm going to reply to any other times and telling me to tell me stuff like thata suppose to change anything like really? let it go & let me be.. {LEAVE ME ALONE} lol. I'm just fed up with it all! i'm thinking about changing my number just to get rid of some ppl and whoever don't recieve the new number just won't get it. i need to clean out my circle of friends so i can have some space for much needed growth..

Just Breathe...

I really need a mini vacay somewhere, school is stressing me out beyond reason but i'm sticking with it and rolling with the many punches being thrown at me. [the devil really don't like me]. I think i'm getting sick too which adds on more stress because i can't miss any days of classes well atleast i try not to miss so many due to my horrible asthma of mines so when i actually do need the days off i can have them without going over the limit. and when i catch a cold, my asthma acts out of control. so i'm about to start using my nebulizer more often even though i can't stand using it because my medication makes me shake and its beyond annoying when your nerves are shaking and what not but like my mom always say "if you need it, take it." if i even cough she be like "oh hell naw, take your machine" LOL and i be trying to hold my coughs in so she wont say anything LMAO. she knows those hospital visits aint no joke and i'm far too friendly with those visits. =/ & another thing is i can't really take much of anything for colds, adult cough syrup mostly all kinds are too strong for me and cause me to have asthma attacks so i have to take childrens cough syrup. sucks right? yeah i know.. i can't even take aspirin. so i'm trying to get my life right.

This wk.end flew by...

I have had my nose buried in books since friday =/ i HATE school i wish i could pull a kanye and drop the fxck out.. I'm tired of papers, studying.. when will it ever end.. well before i go back to the books.. i hope everyone enjoyed their wk.end. the only break i had was yesterday when i went out to eat eith my brother since he left today to move to ATL. =/ sad, sad day for me yesterday I miss him already... i can't wait to move away from here as well..

--//->In other news i was asked to be a God Mother to my friend's Daughter she is having Identical Twin Girls and i think it's cool because me and my sis are twins and my sis is the God mother to the other twin.. Cool right? lol. i think it's pretty sweet. I already have a God Son Aiden who is 8 months and most recently my lil cousin baby mother asked me to be the God Mother to my new cousin Erik Ray and now my lil "shy-shy" Now thats [three] Babies. I love the kiddies. I have some serious Christmas gifts to get [damn] lol. but let me get back to the books. I Hope everyone enjoys their day off school tomorrow due to the holiday i will still be doing hw.. =/

Daydream & i'm thinking of you....

Congrats. to President Obama!!!!!

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

“Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama’s initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened."

----//->I am soooooo proud of him and everything he is doing.. a lot of people are prob. pissed at this but oh well it's just another thing They need to get over. Congrats. to my president!

Meet my new baby cousin: Erik Ray III

My lil man was born yesterday 7lbs 8 oz!! I went to visit a lil while ago. I abs. adore kids so i was super excitied to meet him and spent some time with him, i didn't want to leave. Glad i got to feed him and burp the "lil old man" as i call him ;-). I hated the hospital staff and everything about the hospital my cousin girlfriend was at the people was extremely racist. ugh. it's 2009 people!! but anywho i can't believe my lil cousin is a father he just turned 18 on the 3rd and his son was delievered by C-section on the 7th. two october bday's! me and his girfriend birthday is in december so we kept fighting over what month is better lol. but overall today was a good day. I can't imagine pushing out a child of my own i know i want children but i have to be married first or other wise no kids for me. i do know i want to adopt a child as well (2) kids for me sounds about right in about 5 yrs i have to get my life right before i even think about bringing a new life into this world so until then i have my God baby to borrow and lil brothers and new baby cousin their all the kids i need right now =)

The way...

Pink in October = Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Sending a nice txt msg...

I usually send these here and there.. but today i woke up and HE was on my mind so i sent this: "Hey Love! Just thinking of you and wanted to say if no one told you today, i love you. I don't need a response just want you to know you mean the world to me."

When will it ever stop?

Today started off with me getting woken up by my aunt and mom after they came from church i was oh so tired from the previous night with the whole get together festivities.. so i showered and got dressed and did some hw and some reading for classes. then watched the game with the fam[ily]. later on at like 8. we hear gun shots and when i say it sounded like they were shooting in my house thats how close it was.. so i was stuck on the couch because its this big ass window in my living room where i was sitting my mom was on the computer across from me and my aunt was coming down the stairs so she was in the stairway when this happened so a lil while after i looked out the window and seen a gold car pull off and my sister was waiting for her ride so when it came my mom walked her out the house and i was standing in the door not thinking of anything from the shots i just thought somebody was being stupid and shot random shots but when my mom went outside our next door neighbor screamed and said " Angie your nephew got shot he laying on my floor." so i run over and when i opened the door all i see his his legs and a trail of blood from the door to where he is laying so i sit on the floor next to him and try to comfort him because he was in hella pain, he got shot in both butt cheeks so you already know he was dumb embrassed. this is the third time something has happened to him. he has gotten shot, stabbed and now shot again.. God has spared his life yet again!! things could of ended a lot worse. i can't even imagine him getting taken away from me. this is my first cousin and i call him my brother because we grew up together and we beyond close. and today was his Damn 21st bday some kind of birthday right? apparently he was on his way to my house and someone was following him he said he turned around thinking it was someone who lived over here but he didnt recoognize him and when he turned around the dude pulled out the gun and my cousin started running [let me remind you his leg his fxcked up from the last time he got shot] but he was going to run to our house but our door was close so he knew it was locked so he looked next door and their door just happened to be open so he ran in there.... I still can't believe this happened.. I'm so tired of the violence and everything i talked about in a previous post.. when will it all end. it's only so much my heart can take like seriously.. i'm just so tired of it all. Thank God the bullets went in and out so they did x-rays, stapled him up and we left the hospital.. I just hope we do not have to go through this again. Thank You Jesus for keeping & protecting me and my fam[ily].

Where The Wild Things Are...

I feel like a big ass kid but i can't wait for this movie to come out.. lol this was my fav. book as a child. I'm thinking about taking my lil brothers to see it haven't took them to the movies in a min. so that should be fun. I think i'm more excitied about this movie then the kiddies lol. I guess i'm a kid at heart. =)

Fall.

Derrion Albert

16 yr. old Derrion Albert Beaten to death for what? I'm sooooooooooooooooo tired of hearing about deaths, experiencing young friends getting killed over what? Foolishness.. I didn't hear about derrion's death until a little while ago and i watched the video with my sister my stomach turned i couldn't believe the shxt i seen. all these dudes against one, are you serious? I don't know anything about Derrion's lifestyle but i know he didn't deserve that, shit no-body deserves to get beaten to death. I could count on my hands and feet of how many people i lost to violence. when i was in middle school/high school every yr. someone got murdered, EVERY YEAR! that being from when i was in 6th grade until i graduated. even after i graduated someone still was getting killed from that school. it's ridiculous. we need to do better seriously. R.I.P Derrion!

You say it doesn't matter...

did we Skip fall & go straight to winter?

I Feel like it's winter time right now, it doesn't even feel like Fall it's Freezing.. I like it though maybe its just because the clothes, layering, boots and scraves and gloves.. but once the snow hit thats when i will prob. start complaing lol. i have a feeling our summer will be horrible for the simple fact our summer was shitty. so atleast i have some snow days to look forward too. [hopefully]. I can't believe it's october already!!! time is literally flying by.. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do for my birthday the Big 21! me & my twin was thinking about Just going to Dinner & Going out we was going to throw a party but the spot we was going to have it would of cost a arm and a leg and we would of had to be done at 1am.. wtf type of party is that? so i said Fxck it because thats ridiculous and all the liquor we would had to buy for the open bar would of been entirely too much. so i rather just get my tight circle of friends [not many] and just go out to eat & enjoy a night on the town, I will be happy with that. or we might have a lil gathering at my dad's house just for the hell of it either or i will make the best out of anything. anywho i should prob. be doing the Psychology homework but i'm pissed right now.. apparently Kanye west & lady gaga tour is canceled for what reason i don't know it was suppose to kick off in nov. but clearly thats not happening.. GRRRRR!! i was going to get my ticket sat. morning but from the looks of things thats not gonna happen. I guess i won't ever see him in concert :-(

what is love?