What You Not Gone Do In 2011

In 2011 there needs to be some changes. Changes in the way many of us act, think, and feel. Changes in the way some of us dress, present ourselves in public, and most definitely changes in how we treat one another. With no further ado here are The 10 Things You Not Gone Do in 2011.

What you not gone do is …

10. Wear things that are meant to sleep in/lounge around the house out in public. Example: pajama pants, head scarves, rollers, acne medicine, etc. Doesn’t matter if you are running to the store for a quick second, please take the time to go out in public dressed appropriately. And for the record Uggs and pajama pants is not a trend, it’s not cute, and you look RIDICULOUS!

9. Facebook front. Don’t get on Facebook talking about what you have when you really don’t have it. There are people on there who know you in real life and they’re ready to call you on that BS you posted last night. You ain’t got to lie to kick it!

8. Try to live like a celebrity. Some of us look ridiculous trying to buy the things celebrities have with the budget we have. I overheard a conversation in Walmart and a woman was reading about Sheree from the ROHA and her Aston Martin. The woman said she was going to save up to buy her an Aston Martin. *BBM blank stare* One thing said makes it safe to say that you don’t have the money or the lifestyle that can afford you such luxuries, “save up.” Do you and stop trying to be the Cincinnati version of a RHOA.

7. Walk around the mall, grocery store, or department store screaming obscenities when you yourself are a hot ghetto mess. You need not draw any additional attention to yourself.

6. Quote people like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ralph Ellison knowing you have no clue who any of the aforementioned are. Oh and STOP quoting from other people without using “quotation marks”. You didn’t come up with that, it’s not yours, give credit where credit is due.

5. Put a status update using all abbreviations, none of which actually exist. I don’t know if I’m reading Enlgish, French, or Spanish. “What good do your words do when they can’t understand you?” E. Badu (see #6).

4. Talk like you text. LOL, OMG, and STHU are cool for text messaging, but if you want to laugh out loud please laugh out loud. If something surprises you say Oh My God, don’t scream OMG! These types of things are meant to give more expression to the words that you type because the person cannot see your face. We’re losing the art of conversation.

3. Wear a tacky, tattered, unbeweaveable, or colorful weave. Look weave is cool, I wear it and I wear it often. However, I draw the line at anything that looks plastic and stuck to my head, not a color that one can actually be born with such as pink or orange, or tracks and glue showing. If you walk out the house looking like an Easter egg basket, a birds nest, or a black hefty bag has been layered on your head remove the weave ASAP and slap the hell out of the person who put that crap in your head!
(check out I Am Not My Hair and draw your own conclusion. http://nicole-aworkinprogress.blogspot.com/2010/12/i-am-not-my-hair.html)

2. Put all your business on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, or any other social networking site. It’s not cool to air all your marital, relationship, job/career problems on Facebook. Seriously deal with that mess off of Facebook and with that person with whom you have the problem with. Otherwise you may find yourself dealing with a bigger problem-divorce, separation, alone, and in the unemployment line.

1. Keep talking me to death. For the last several years people have been saying what they are going to do with no action behind it. What ever “it” is, JUST DO IT ALREADY!

There are several that I wanted to include, but didn’t. These are the 10 that I found were heavily carried out in 2010, 2 of which I know I am an offender. If you all have some, please add them in the comment section.

I wish you all much peace, prosperity and many blessings in the upcoming year.

Be safe and responsible tonight. Happy New Year World!

Nicole