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MoMMa MarTinE

U Think YOu know EVERything??? You FoOL!!!

About Me

what about me? i'm a VIRGO sista, i LOVe my thick natural hair, i jus LOVE being BLACK!! i have grown to accept the imperfect ME (sometimes eYe see) the way that the CREAtoR has made me. i am forever learning something new and different (may not always be as exciting but i still take it in 'cause one day, it may apply to something that has to do with my life). i am forever working on SELF, attempting to be different if not better....i'd like to be a better momma, sister, daughter, friend.....you know what i'm saying? that's the best a sista can do for now.....
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Martine
Birthday: 7th day of Septiembre
Birthplace: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Current Location: Romulus, MI
Eye Color: brown
Hair Color: brown with ruby red dye
Height: 5 footer
Right Handed or Left Handed: da right hand
Your Heritage: Afrikan
The Shoes You Wore Today: some high wedged heels these days and cool crazy looking boots
Your Weakness: my daughter and son and milk chocolate candy and chocolate shakes
Your Fears: cock roaches eeewww i'm starting to itch now
Your Perfect Pizza: chicken broccoli and 'maters
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: to drop 10 lbs, tighten up and to frame all of the cool posters i've collected over the years...maybe not all of 'em
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: LOL or ri ri ri meaning: right right right
Thoughts First Waking Up: thank the ALL for this day...and whoo i gots ta "use it"
Your Best Physical Feature: my EYes, my 'fro and my BROWN SKIN
Your Bedtime: midnightish
Your Most Missed Memory: dancing my booty off at the MUSIC INSTITUTE
Pepsi or Coke: yuck. niether.
MacDonalds or Burger King: eeeewww. niether.
Single or Group Dates: group dates are cool. single only if u already halfway know your date.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: only herbal naturally decaf teas for me
Chocolate or Vanilla: of course, coacoa
Cappuccino or Coffee: neither
Do you Smoke: nah
Do you Swear: every now and then
Do you Sing: yes, i do. mostly in my car and at the party along wit the loud speakers....
Do you Shower Daily: yes, a couple of times a day...who doesn't?? nastee dawg.
Have you Been in Love: for sure
Do you want to go to College: i've already been
Do you want to get Married: when my SOuLMate is rEVEaled to ME, YES. where is he?
Do you belive in yourself: for sure
Do you get Motion Sickness: nah
Do you think you are Attractive: i feel that i am
Are you a Health Freak: nah, but i try to eat well and get a lil exercise...no pork chops @ all
Do you get along with your Parents: for the most part
Do you like Thunderstorms: i LOVe them....
Do you play an Instrument: not really. messed around with the clarinet, the guitar & i have some congos/cungas whatever u call them!
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: naw
In the past month have you Smoked: not at all...not a smoker...jus been around smokers, capturing the 2nd hand...
In the past month have you been on Drugs: not a druggie
In the past month have you gone on a Date: you know what? NO. ain't much haps w/that these days.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: come on, now????!!! u know it! siLLy question 4 a VIRGo child who works 4 a livin!!!
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: not into OREO cookies at all
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: not in the past month, no.
In the past month have you been on Stage: nah
In the past month have you been Dumped: nah
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: never skinny dipped. ever.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: hells naw!
Ever been Drunk: nope, just nicely buzzzzzzed.
Ever been called a Tease: yeah...by a few siLLy inSEcurE dudEs...Y not jus kEEp it movin? ....
Ever been Beaten up: oooh nooooooo. thankfully.
Ever Shoplifted: oh no...
How do you want to Die: peacefully
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: very financially able and one who takes pictures and a really GREAT mother and WIFEY too.
What country would you most like to Visit: Afrika and Barbados
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: brown
Favourite Hair Color: brown, sandy brown's cool too, salt n pepper is lookin real right to me these days
Short or Long Hair: kingly, nicely groomed locs, LOve me some thick curly hair on a man! med to long hiar is wonderful on a brotha, u can be bald or the waves (not pump but brush) well groomed and clean
Height: a brotha who's taLLer than I, for sure!
Weight: not good with guessing weight, but not a big rolly polly tho....ooooh and not a skinny guy either...
Best Clothing Style: fly, earthy, never flashy....one who's creative
Number of Drugs I have taken: only asprins and anything a dentist has given me...haven't been the sickly type....
Number of CDs I own: whooooo, i've lost count on that there
Number of Piercings: 5. 2 in one ear, 3 in da other
Number of Tattoos: 3 so far
Number of things in my Past I Regret: about 3 things for real...others are simply life's occurences
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My Interests

i like taking photos (b/w), i love dancing and singing to HOUSE music, long walks, people watching, true hip-hop, ska & reggae music, nag champa inscense, burning scented candles, shopping 4 shoes and denim, traveling, NUWAUBU, .......i'm one who most folks call "cool" and i love to laugh, talk, and kick back with my friends and sincere associates.....peace Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

I'd like to meet:

hmmmm, i'd like to meet everyone in my family!!! i hope they all come to the family reunion. i'd like to meet Maxwell (he seems to be so cool), Tricky and the guy who played the character THE UBS GUY from Mad TV...i wanna hop around and do what he did on the show...lol. Oh yes, i'd like to KNOw who my SOuLmAtE is (probLee a man eye already know--wouldn't that be buGGed oUt?)....most of all, i jus wanna meet GenuINe folks.....
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Music:

hmmmm, i'm not sure if u all want to know what i like in music, it's quite a bit... i like all of the old stuff that was once played on WLBS 102.7 back in the day--i do mean all of it!!! i like the stuff that The Electrifying Mojo used to play...i LOVE HOUSE music too....i like what's good. i'm a HIP-HOP head for life tho...(real hip-hop) i appreciate folks who can really saaang and those who play real instruments (not that i can do either, i just appreciate fine art). does anyone remeber Depeche Mode, The English Beat, Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers, Coltrane, Basia, Digable Planets (i still play that album),Loose Ends, Res, The Time (Get It Up), Eric Roberson, Desomnd Dekker, The The, Inner City, what about De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, David Ryan Harris? how about The Pet Shop Boys, D'Influence, whatever happened to FreeStyle Fellowship? The Double XX Posse? i do really love the Slum Village albums...i remember them when they had a whole bunch of bros on stage with them!!! how 'bout Mica Paris? Omar, The B-52s, Maxwell, Amp Fiddler, Prince (the first few albums r thee bomb), The Roots, Rafael Sadiqq, Soul II Soul, Common, New Order, and Gangstarr, Follow For Now, Sade.... those r just a few....'cause i can certainly go on and on.......................

Movies:

Some of my fave flicks...The Inkwell, Sankofa, WheN wE weRE KIngs, All About You, Hav Plenty, The WIZ, Fame, Pretty In Pink, Kirikou and The Sorceress, The Color Purple, baGdad caFe, Like Water For Chocolate, Daughters of the Dust, Dancehall Queen, The SpOOk Who Sat By The DoOr, SoYleNT GrEEn, She Hate Me, DeMon Knight, BLOck PARty, Saw and Saw II, Kama Sutra, Running Scared, New Jack City, City of God, Slam, Beloved, Tsotsi....

Television:

i'll admit, i still like ER (i set my vcr for that one), Mad TV, sometimes, i look @ Saturday Night Live, Being Bobby Brown (was the joint)...yes, i like to laugh! i like those cable shows that do the profiles of a certain type of crazy person....folks who've scammed others, killers, etc. then, i'll look at a (so called) reality show....right. i like CNN, MSNBC, FOX News....

Books:

NIGGER, NO Woman No Cry, tHEy cAme BEfoRe ColumBus, Mama Day, Nuwaubian scrolls, Harry Potter book series (yes, i like them darn it).... How To Kill Your Boyfriend In 10 Easy Steps by DV Bernard (out NOW), The Ankh, The MisEducatIOn Of The Negro, From The BrowDer File

Heroes:

hmmmm, i'd say my mommy (Beverly King). if she's dealt w/ME.....whoo!!! big ups, momma....although i may not say it enough, I LOVE YOU. thank you. i would say that I am my own hero--for real. if I've survived the foolishness of some of the folks i've encountered (and some of my own foolishness), yeah, thas STRENGTH!!! thank the ALL!!! big shout to my own SELF.

My Blog

whas up fellas?? answer this 4 us...if u can.

i jus wanna know what you guys/men are lookin for in a sista??  lemme know why a particular sista isn't the chosen one...why u seem to like HER sooooo much, but yet, she ain't the one....u don't ...
Posted by MarTinE on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:39:00 PST

jus being ME

all i wanna say is:  EXPRESS YOURSELF!!!  stop trying to pretend as if u don't have any emotions...you're gonna blow the F up!!!  i know it's killin u to be that way---holdin everything...
Posted by MarTinE on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:39:00 PST

thanKFUL tO be ME!!!

greetinz folks...it's late and i'm only here to say a lil somethin.....i'm a lil bugged by them people who claim to be so righteous...  U know who they r...them fools who always talkin 'bout what...
Posted by MarTinE on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:30:00 PST

what Is A FRiENd???

i'm jus sittin here thinkin of the folks i know and associate with.....there are some who i feel are FRIENDS of mine and some who're jus cool. simply,  on the list of "folks I know".  friend...
Posted by MarTinE on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:53:00 PST

how come this and that.....

greetings folks.  i jus wanna ask:  how come when your auto is almost paid for, you seem to suddenly have to spend more and more loot on it??  how come when u take a sick day (off work)...
Posted by MarTinE on Tue, 09 May 2006 06:58:00 PST

something for your mind EL KULUWM

I Am In The Love Of The All And  All Love Is In Me. I Am A Part Of The All And The All Is A Part Of Me. I Am One With The All And The All Is One With Me.  I Can Succeed As A Part Of The All ...
Posted by MarTinE on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 05:20:00 PST

just kickin it

hey folks!!!  i'm here to say a little something...for the most part i may be babbling, so pardon me.  i do wanna say RIP to Jay Dee (another young brotha gone...a true loss)........today is...
Posted by MarTinE on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:58:00 PST

people i know and love

peace everyone.  i just stopped thru to express myself once again...last nite, i went to a party (Porter Street Lounge), right?  there was music and dancing going on....most of all, there wa...
Posted by MarTinE on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:20:00 PST

this is me for now

...hmmm.  i really don't have that much to disclose...i know 1 thing, i've been working my butt off to make sure that the (2) babies are well taken care of and to attempt to not fall into a ...
Posted by MarTinE on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:49:00 PST