~Little Miss Irie~

Here am I now looking at 30 and I got so much to say.
I gotta get this off of my chest, I gotta let it go today.
I was always too concerned about what everybody would think.
But I can't live for everybody, I gotta live my life for me.(Yeah)
I pitched a fork in the road of my life
and ain't nothing gonna happen unless I decide.
(And I choose) to be the best that I can be.
(I choose) to be authentic in everything I do.
My past don't dictate who I am. I choose. (Yeah)
I done been through some painful things
I thought that I would never make it through.
Filled up with shame from the top of my head to the soles of my shoes.
I put myself in so many chaotic circumstances,
but by the grace of God I've been given so many second chances.
But today I decided to let it all go.
I'm dropping these bags, I'm making room for my joy.
Because you never know where life is gonna take you
and you can't change where you've been.
But today, I have the opportunity to choose. (Hey ey)
I used to have guilt about why things happen the way they did
cuz life is gone do what it do.
And everyday, I have the opportunity to choose.
From this day forward I'm going to be exactly who I am.
I don't need to change the way that I live just to get a man. (NO!)
I even had a talk with my mama and I told her the day I'm grown,
"from this day forward, every decision I make will be my own." And hey!
(And I choose) to be the best that I can be.
(I choose) to be courageous in everything I do.
My past don't dictate who I am. I choose.
(And I choose) to be the best that I can be.
(I choose) to be authentic in everything I do.
My past don't dictate who I am. I choose.
Because you never know where life is gonna take you and
you can't change where you've been.
But today, I have the opportunity to choose. (Hey ey)
I used to have guilt about why things happen they way they
did cuz life is gone do what it do.
And everyday, I have the opportunity to choose.

Places I have lived in the past 5 years:

But for some reason or another no matter where I go, I always end up tapping my heels together reciting "there's no place like HOME!"

YEAH-YEAH, go there, add them!!!

Someone should do a remake of George Thorogood's "I Drink Alone" because I sure SMOKE ALONE!!! But MySpace friends are ALWAYS Welcome... C'mon in...

You'd think life would be easy. With nothing but
Life to live, work to do, school to go to,
But people make everything so difficult.
Maybe if Hercules was here to save
The world from pain and loss it wouldn't be
So bad. Why must people live on other's pain?
Take their souls and hurt them beyond redemption?
Why must we take our lives for granted and
Forget to live? Maybe life is too hard.
Maybe our reason for living is not to
Live. Who knows. We all end face up in the
Ground to look up at heaven and see the stars.
So maybe they only wait for death to take
Them. Why do people forget to dance the dance?
Afraid to miss a step and fall into the
Shadows of the abyss? Afraid to live a life
And then lose it all to one misstep and
Fall to nothing and disappear. Tell me why
Life is so hard, so full of pain, so full
Of hurt. Tell me why we forget to live.