Kids' ideas of Love (Part I)

I found this online and I thought i would share with you. Trop funny!

Titles of Love Ballads You Can Sing To Your Loved One:
"'I Love Hamburgers, I Like You!'" -- Eddie, age 6
"'You Are My Darling Even Though You Also Know My Sister.'" -- Larry, age 8
"'I Am In Love With You Most of the Time, But Don't Bother Me When I'm With My Friends.'" -- Bob, age 9
"'How Do I Love Thee When You're Always Picking Your Nose?'" -- Arnold, age 10
"'Honey, I Got Your Curly Hair and Your Nintendo On My Mind.'" -- Sharon, age 9
"'Hey, Baby, I Don't Like Girls, But I'm Willing To Forget You Are One!'" -- Will, age 7

Why People In Love Often Hold Hands:
"They want to make sure their rings don't fall off, because they paid good money for them." -- Gavin, age 8
"They are just practicing for when they might have to walk down the aisle someday and do the holy matchimony thing." -- John, age 9

What Most People Are Thinking When They Say "I Love You":
"The person is thinking: 'Yeah, I really do love him. But I hope he showers at least once a day.'" -- Michelle, age 9
"Some lovers might be real nervous, so they are glad that they finally got it out and said it, and now they can go eat." -- Dick, age 7

What To Do When a First Date Turns Sour:
"I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns." -- Craig, age 9

Good Advice About Love:
"Spend most of your time loving instead of going to work." -- Dick, age 7
"Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough." -- Lynnette, age 8
"Tell your wife that she looks pretty even if she looks like a truck!" -- Ricky, age 7
"Don't forget your wife's name. That will mess up the love." -- Erin, age 8
"Sensitivity don't hurt." -- Robbie, age 8
"Be a good kisser. It might make your wife forget that you never take out the trash." -- Erin, age 8
"Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind. Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch." -- Natalie, age 9

Will add the rest tomorrow.

Till then,

Black Beauté

Why I posted those lyrics two days ago...

You know how your hair breaks out in the winter? Well, throughout the months of September and October, I started loosing my hair; It was breaking like each tooth of my comb was a mini scissor . Every morning, I would see so much hair in the lavabo (I forgot the word in English) it will make me cry. Also I travel a lot for work and I am very lazy; I then thought I would braid my hair. “Many good things would come out of this“, I told my self. I would sleep an additional 30 minutes later each day and I won’t see my hair all over.

So since early October, I have been warning my boyfriend about the coming of the braids because I knew he didn’t like them. He is African American-I have a reason for mentioning this. You‘ll see!- I tried explaining to him why I needed them and his answer was always the same, “I don’t care for them.”

Early last month, I did some individual braids, which made me very happy. You have to understand that I haven’t done well with braids in the past. They always gave me headaches and pimples all around my head. The last time I braided my hair was I don’t know how many years ago. Additionally, like I said before, I am lazy… and busy. Few weeks ago, I took those braids out and I think he was expecting me to relax my hair and go back to my usual hairdo. But I did what I think are really cute corn rows that gather in a bun by the lobe of my left ear. He hated that too and we both miss him playing with my hair. But it’s not like black people’s hair grow fast or anything like that. I am still in love with my new do and more importantly, I don’t have to see my hair in the sink every morning, whether it is still breaking or not!

On the other hand, there is this guy (African) who wants to date me. Seeing my braids few week ago made him so excited it was scary. Seeing my new do the other day was like someone pumped some Amphetamines in him. He said “this is so hot, much better than when you leave you hair out like a white woman” Hum!

At work everyone liked the whole changing hair style frequently and they are just amazed about what I do with my hair. All but African Americans.

For those of you who have dated, who know, or who are with both an African and a black American-not at the same time I mean-, do they feel so strongly about what your hair looks like, or I am stuck with overly hair-emotional guys? Also are African men generally into braids and AA men into relaxed and “flowing” hair? Is it just a coincidence or I am getting to something?
So here is my last question for you. How much of your hair are you?

Black Beauté

I Am Not My Hair by India.Arie

[Talking:]
Is that India.Arie? What happened to her hair?

Ha ha ha ha haDat dad a dat da [4x]
Dad a ooh

[Verse 1]
Little girl with the press and curl.
Age eight I got a Jerry curl
Thirteen I got a relaxer
I was a source of so much laughter
At fifteen when it all broke off
Eighteen and I went all natural
February two thousand and two
I went and did What I had to do
Because it was time to change my life
To become the women that I am inside
Ninety-seven dreadlock all gone I looked in the mirror
For the first time and saw that HEY....

[Chorus]
I am not my hair
I am not this skin
I am not your expectations no no
I am not my hair I am not this skin
I am a soul that lives within

[Talking:]
What'd she do to her hair? I don't know it look crazy
I like it. I might do that.
Umm I wouldn't go that far. I know .. ha ha ha ha

[Verse 2]
Good hair means curls and waves
Bad hair means you look like a slave
At the turn of the century Its time for us to redefine who we be
You can shave it off Like a South African beauty
Or get in on lockLike Bob Marley
You can rock it straight Like Oprah Winfrey
If its not what's on your head
Its what's underneath and say HEY....

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
(Whoa, whoa, whoa)
Does the way I wear my hair make me a better person?
(Whoa, whoa, whoa)
Does the way I wear my hair make me a better friend? Oooh
(Whoa, whoa, whoa)
Does the way I wear my hair determine my integrity?
(Whoa, whoa, whoa)
I am expressing my creativity...
(Whoa, whoa, whoa)

[Verse 3]
Breast Cancer and Chemotherapy
Took away her crown and glory
She promised God if she was to survive
She would enjoy everyday of her life ooh
On national television
Her diamond eyes are sparkling
Bald headed like a full moon shining
Singing out to the whole wide world like HEY...

[Chorus 2x]

[Ad lib]
If I wanna shave it close or if I wanna rock locks
That don't take a bit away from the soul that I got

Dat da da dat da [4x]

If I wanna where it braided all down my back
I don't see what wrong with that

Dat da da dat da [4x]

[Talking:]
Is that India.Arie?
Ooh look she cut her hair!
I like that, its kinda PHAT
I don't know if I could do it.
But it looks sharp, it looks nice on her
She got a nice shaped head
She got an apple headI know right?
It's perfect.

Here we go

For a year or so, I've had this wicked pleasure of penetrating into other people lives' by reading their blogs... and sometimes even mocking them. Although the transparency of most of them spooked me out, there are few I really liked, such as Bella Naija. So i am shocking everyone who knows me, myself included, by having a blog.

No worries though. I will try to keep most of my dirty little raw thoughts to myself. Rather, i will focus on hair. Why hair? Well let's see:

• Anyone who is black or who knows a black girl knows not to mess with her hair.
• We loose all composure if it starts raining. We might even take off our shoes to run faster to the closest shelter.
• Hair salons are where you learned about what not to do in relationships and are where we -or at least I- discovered sex. This is a long story, which I reserve for one of those days my brain will be fried and i won't be able to come up with something fresh.
• It's one of the easiest conversation openers for all women, whatever their race or age might be.
• Some of us spend more money on hair than we do on shoes or clothes.
  

And the list goes on...

So in this blog, I will share hair stories, hair tips I’ve gathered here and there, non-hair related stuffs, etc. Sometimes, I will even talk about random things that have nothing to do with anything because it's my blog and because I can. Most blogs will be in English, others will be in French, and the rest, oh well!

Till then,
Black Beauté