amarie24: (Eating/entertained Misty Knight)
2018-02-16 10:54 am

Happy Black Panther Weekend!!!!

Holy shit today is the day is the day is the day is the day of Black Panther opening up in theaters! -SQUEEE!!!!!-

If you've been following my Tumblr blog, ya'll know that my Black Panther tag has exploded in recent months! Go and check it out to be happy and cleansed in the swirling happy pot of melanin! OMFG!!!

I dunno quite when Imma get to see Black Panther (I...am a nursing student after all). But Imma see it and Imma be happy about it, too, haha!!! :D :D


Hope ya'll get to see it, too!




--Amarie
amarie24: (Celebrating Tiana)
2018-01-02 04:33 pm

Thank You Again, Silver!!!!

I got your holiday card yet again! 'Tis beautiful:




And your message inside is so kind as always:




As always, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

(Also, ya'll check out my brand new thumb ring in the picture? I bought it today at Walmart on our after-Christmas shopping spree. Always wanted a new thumb ring-ain't it pretty?!?!?! :D )
amarie24: (Eating/entertained Misty Knight)
2017-12-24 05:04 pm

Deep Condition Sunday

Ahhh...for a lotta us black gals, it's every other Sunday.

Just finished shampooing my hair in the shower, and then put some of my mama's deep condition mayonnaise in my hair under a clear plastic cap for 45 minutes. Washed it off in the sink and then put my everyday shea butter leave-in conditioner in my hair, combed it thru to shape my 'fro and voila!

Ahh, deep condition Sunday be a calming, soothing ritual. Yes, indeedy it do.

Happy Deep Conditioning Sunday and happy holidays to everyone!!!


--Amarie
amarie24: (Casual Tiana)
2017-12-22 05:48 pm

Have a Video...

Of a black gal going on a spree telling other black gals that they're beautiful.

I, umm...I got this shit on loop. On repeat. I just...I hear myself every single time she asks "Did you know...that you're beautiful!" and I hear myself every single time a girl says "I did know!" or "Uhh...well now I do because you just told me!" or "Aww! Thank you!" or "Umm...no."

I hear and feel in my heart every time the question is asked and I hear and feel in my heart every single kind of answer. I hear it. I feel it. This be my life.

...Now I'm tearing up like a motherfucker at my computer desk when I have eleventy-billion things to write before school starts again on Jan. 8th. Ahhh, here comes the waterworks anyway...


So, yeah. Fellow black gals, didja know...that you're beautiful? Ya betta know because you are!



--Amarie


P.S Imma go sob my heart out, now.
amarie24: (Default)
2017-10-31 04:11 pm

'Tis an Act of Providence?

Me, yesterday: Made a sad, desperate post about how I wish I had more bravery and discipline to set aside just 2 hours per week to write for pleasure.

My head instructor, Mrs. W: Sends out a mass class email/announcement night before that one of our other teachers, Mrs. L (she teaches us the Hell On Earth Known As Pharmacology), will be out for a while due to a severe illness, and so we'll only have a big ol' assignment on cardiovascular system drugs instead. But we still gotta come to pharm class 'cause of a big announcement she has to make.

Mrs. W, in class @1pm today (in a nutshell): Since Mrs. L is also one of our clinical instructors along with Mrs. W...this means that for this Wednesday and for next Wednesday, we will not have to go to our 6:30am sharp clinicals. Now, to make up for it, we will also have extra homework to get our clinical critical thinking continued. Gotta still come to pharm class on Tuesdays, but it'll most likely be funner and shorter w/Mrs. W at the helm.

Mrs. W, also: And anyone that hasn't done their foley catheter check-off in yesterday's lab gotta come and do it now. But after that, for the most part, we'll be done!

Me: I got a lotta extra homework, but...is this an act of providence? Is it...?


I wonder...
amarie24: (Eating/entertained Misty Knight)
2017-09-23 04:10 pm

Happy Music is Happy

Can't follow the lyrics, but I do so love and enjoy a lot of Bollywood music. Hopefully ya'll will, too!!


amarie24: (Eating/entertained Misty Knight)
2017-08-14 07:57 pm

This is THE Twerking Song

Like...ya'll, I'm twerking my ass right here in my computer chair. I was twerkin' while I was making my dinner. Twerkin' while I was puttin' on my favorite Titanic (1998). Twerkin' while I was washin' the dishes.

And I'm still twerkin' right here...in my computer chair.

What a terrible, terrible ear worm of a twerk song this thing is. Lord have mercy.

TW: Possible epilepsy warning

amarie24: (Celebrating Tiana)
2017-07-30 08:56 am

That Feeling When...

Trigger Warning: Mention of exercise & asthma

For the past few weeks, you've been wishing and wishing for at least just a taste of Fall because this hellish heat and suffocating humidity (which is about 75% of what exacerbates your asthma) is not your favorite. You want just a taste-just a taste.

You didn't even go for a walk yesterday because, besides the heat, the humidity was just too much for your breathing.

Your mama comes home this morning from her nightshift at work to wake you up straight outta dreamland. And she wakes you up with the announcement that it's actually a beautiful, glorious, cool. Hell, she even opened up all the windows and back door sans turning on the AC, so cool it was. She insists that you get your butt up, eat a hearty breakfast, and go for a walk this morning.

You're groggy as hell, but you notice that, with the windows & back door open, it doesn't feel like hell straight from Satan's balls is coming in to smother you.

So, excited (but still groggy), you get up and get dressed. Lightly moisturize ('causes Sunday is wash day anyway) your 'fro, make yourself a breakfast of turkey bacon, scrambled eggs, and buttered toast. Wait for it digest while you finish getting dressed, brush your teeth, and do the dishes.

Oh, and you also put just a little bit of lotion on your legs & arms. Especially your legs...because it doesn't do to go out with Ashy Knees And Ankles. 'Tis unbecoming of a black lady.

Then you get your sunglasses, Bleepy, and headphones...head out of the front door...

...And holy fucking shit, it feels like it's Autumn 'cause it's cool and breezy and sunny and pretty and there's next to no fucking humidity.

Holy fucking shit, you were glad you wore a pair of shorts to feel that nice, cool breeze!!!

And when you came back inside, sweaty and huffy, after 30 minutes of power walking (woohoo!), you didn't even need your inhaler.

Ahhh...this morning was a good morning. A very, very good morning.

I'm thinking my letter to Thor actually worked! LOLOL!

Also! I'm posting this from Pinky, who's up, running, and healthy as ever with her brand new (and better, holy shit) charger. I missed you so much, Pinky! Yay! :D
amarie24: (Surprised Tiana)
2017-07-17 02:34 pm

I GOT ACCEPTED INTO NURSING SCHOOL!!!

CHECK OUT THIS OPEN ENVELOPE!!!




...Fuck my life, I'm still in shock. Just fuck my life.



--Amarie
amarie24: (Celebrating Tiana)
2017-06-25 12:33 am

I MADE A FIC REC LIST!!!!

I'M NEAR THE TOP, WITH MY RAINSHOWERS FIC! CAN YA'LL BELIEVE THIS?! CAN YA'LL BELIEVE THIS?!?!? THIS IS THE FIRST-EVER TIME THAT I'VE BEEN ON A FIC REC LIST!!!

'CAUSE I CAN'T!! OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


-falls out of computer chair & faints-
amarie24: (Eating/entertained Misty Knight)
2017-04-04 10:11 pm

Ya'll! Lookie Lookie!!!

Look who's back! Look who's a black woman, too! Look who's back here on Dreamwdith, too!!

Lookie, lookie, lookie and give her all the best welcomes & wishes, friends!! :D :D :D




--Amarie, who's glad to see yet another black woman 'round these whitey Dreamwidth parts
amarie24: (Surprised Tiana)
2016-12-30 11:07 am

THANK YOU, SILVER! THANK YOU!!!

I got your surprised Christmas card just today!! Mommy handed it to me with a smile on her face just this morning! -SQUEEEEEEE!!-

I'm so happy that I shared this on my Tumblr, too!!!



I had fresh makeup on, but I immediately started crying and, thus, I ruined it...and so my ruined face is not in this picture...haha...hah. I hope you're happy with yourself, mister!!! And then I started laughing when I read what you wrote, too (From Silver, The whitest boy wishing you a white Christmas.)! OMFG, this is one of the best presents ever and I love, love, love, love it! Thank you oh-so very much!!!! Thank you!!!!!!

-hugs-

-goes off to cry some more-
amarie24: (Default)
2016-12-13 12:42 am

Holiday-Themed Awesome Sauce!

From the Captain America Barbershop Quartet, happy holidays to one and all!

A Christmas mix master post! Everyone put on your headphones, jam, and be merry!!

Selected holiday nail polish shades, featuring some of my favorites: overcooked turkey, undercooked potatoes, watery gravy, and sobbing over the kitchen sink. And by “favorites”, I mean the ones that had me doubling over my keyboard in laughter.

The Stark Tower’s holiday decorations!

A cutesy wittle puppy with snow on their nose! :D

Okay, these photos have my number for sure! Purtteh, snow-covered Victorian houses!! Hellz yeah!!!

The song Carol of the Bells played by basketballs. My people. Are. Lit.

This is what Christmas looks like on Madison Avenue. I tell ya’ll, I’d merrily dance right there on them stairs and merrily sprain my ankle. No lie.

And last, but most certainly not least, Amazon’s brand new Christmas ad beautifully tackles Islamophobia. My goodness, I tear up every time. Every single time.
amarie24: (doctor claire temple)
2016-12-10 03:12 pm

Holy Shit...I Did It

I just checked my final grades online.

I made my A's.

I made my two A's in my lecture and lab classes.

I...I just...I'm tryna not to sob and make a mess of myself. I know next semester is gonna be hell-times-two, but currently, there's just this weight lifted off of me. Mommy is affectionately rolling her eyes at me because I stressed out over that B on that one test, and wittle Dante is looking at me like I'm something new.

Holy fucking shit, I did it.

I made my A's.



--Amarie