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It’s Working   It’ Working – Warning Long Blog – My Tribute to Whitney - Love You Whitney

Lord you are magnificent in all Your glory.  You are teaching me patience and I am grateful.  Teaching me to listen and to rely on You.  I trust You Lord ! 

Whitney Houston;  Diva ! First of all she is the prettiest women I have seen.  I remember watching her in the 80 and thinking WOW what beautiful features, nice figure and an awesome smile and on top of it she was chocolate.  She was like me.  She came at a time when videos were just becoming popular.  We use to have to look at album covers to see an artist, but now we had an opportunity to see artist perform.  Her style was totally totally classy.  I watch her videos over the weekend and her outfits were the bomb.  In jeans she was classy with her motor cycle jacket to her big hats and furs.  I could see the influence of the church/God in her presence.  She brought all that influence to Hollywood, it was who she was, she was doing her, nobody else.  I watched her every move.  The way she moved her dress as she sang, the way she placed her legs as she hit a note, the way her mouth moved as an instructment as melodies of love flowed out.  The way she stood on her feet with such authority and power and SANG.  My mother would say she stood flat footed and SANG and I knew she meant the woman had a voice came across with power. My mom did not listen to non gospel music, she was a strict pentocostal woman of God.  So when she showed interest in this songress this was the real deal.  I knew Whitney could sing.  Her range was unbelievable but believable, it was her gift.  She showed confidence, she exploded and was an immediate success.  I admired Whitney for coming onto the stage with clothes on, she was a singer that did not have to get naked to pull her audience along and keep them interested.  Which showed she knew she had it going on.  Her voice to this day puts chills down my spine and gets my attention.  No other woman’s voice has done that for me.  Luther does it as a male artist.  Whitney had such a passion in her voice she took command of the stage and I hung on to every word.  In a conversation I had with someone, we felt she no longer knew her worth as a commercial artist but as a woman.  Sometimes artist listen to the media and take on the negativity and get pulled into a deep dark hole. I do understand, if my life my all over the news, from my divorces, bouts with drugs, etc no telling where I would be.  I embarrass easily and would be humiliated to think that the world knows my most intimate business, financial included.  I sometimes think that stars should be bigger than me and stronger, but they are so much like me, they are human.

Praying for Bobbi Christina and Whitney’s mom and even Bobby. 

For the past month and a ½ my furnace has been acting crazy.  It worked when it choose to work.  Me being the cheapo that I am I kept calling a guy (jackleg) who was not a furnace specialist.  He was charging me 70 here 40 there and he could not get the furnace to work.  Once it switched off while he was walking up the basement steps L  I finally shared my problem with a friend.  Then things began to unfold, their suggestion did not pan out for the furnace, but in my obedience I found the phone number to my mother’s furnace man.  Praise God ! Praise God !  He came over yesterday, looked at it, called the parts shop, told me he fit it today after he picked up parts and by 10:00 a.m. my furnace is working.  Only costing me 228 bucks including part and labor.  It needed a circuit board.  My obedience was that I shared my dilemma with someone.  I am weird in asking or seeking out help.  I don’t like to bother people or seem like I can’t handle things.  As soon as I dropped my guard and humbled myself there were immediate results.  I have messing around this issue for weeks.  For one I was thinking it would cost me loads of money and I was stuck.  I was not trusting this to God.  God knows all and I needed to trust that it was something that I could manage.  Living, managing a house and being a landlord has not been the easily thing for me.  Expenses are high, water bills, repairs, etc.  So I freak out if anything happens and freeze.  My thinking went straight to the negative “I need a new furnace”, where will I get money from to repair.  This has taught me to Trust God in EVERYTHING. 

I am excited about our upcoming group tonight, I did my reading and I am prepared to participate J  Tomorrow night I will be facilitating Fit for the King as the assistance have to teach one class per month.  Kathy/Kim from True Image is our guest speaker and will be leading us in our exercise routine, boot camp style.  I have some surprises/gifts for the ladies of our group in recognition of Valentines Day. 

Beauty:  Yesterday I picked up Physician Formula (drugstore) which is the dupe for Naked pallet.  It is a really good dupe for only 9.99 and I paid 40 bucks for the Urban Decay Naked pallet.  Now it is much smaller, I will keep it in my personal makeup bag for touch ups.  I think these colors go on much better than the Naked pallet, they were smoother.  I will see how long they wear. Oh boy I forgot to put on my eye primer, so I will test tomorrow.  It wears well I will pick up a couple of the other pallets in different colors.  I also picked up a Milani bronzer completing the set of 3.  I love these bronzers as cheekbone highlighters.  The one I purchased yesterday is the darker of the 3.  I also picked up another Queen Ebony Brown bronzer that I use to contour.  It is the deepest of the Queen collection and it blends really well into the skin.  At CVS I found an eye shadow pencil brush to use in the crease of my lid.  It was in a pack of two for 5.49 really good buy and an additional 20% off. The brush does what I need it to do.  Because a Sigma brush was gonna cost me 10 plus shipping.    Now I am enjoying my Vichy line of anti aging moisturizer night and day and eye creams.  I had a 10 off coupon for Vichy and a CVS 20% off couple bring the bring down within reason.  In the package there was a large day moisturizer and then a ½ size night cream, making the deal even better.  I have several 10 dollar off coupons I may get a set of eye cream as back up.  Yesterday I did a facial with honey, apricot scrub and my Cetaphril.  It was the best !  I have a CVS 10 dollar off coupon to use on anything in the store.  I make take advantage of the buy one get one ½ on the Cetaphril cleanser.  That would be my most practical buy, or I could get another eye shadow pallet from Physician makeup.