a diva is A dIvA IS A DIVA @#&*!

Remember my intial blog? Where I stated that a DIVASAURUS is not like Mariah Carey or Naomi??? Well I was wrong; there are some days where people make you shamelessly act out. I mean over the past three days this DIVA had to tell a few people off and force them to see reality! Let's start with today and work backwards shall we?

I was having a rather personal conversation with an 18 year old, and needless to say she was dim very very low lit ;-(
She was professing her love to me (TO ME?) about her incarcerated 21 year old boyfriend forever (yeah right tell me about it) anyway she wanted me to understand why she was making the lons ass trip to Rikers Island to see him. Let me remind you that I am still stuck on the part where she wanted to talk to me about this???

Let's call her crayon.. Crayon says she is in love with this REPEAT OFFENDER and he ironically wants to (you guessed it!) MARRY HER.. So I begin to ask her a series of questions that should lead her to question her actions and the ignorant comments coming out her mouth. Crayon begins rolling off her answers not even thinking twice but what more can I expect from her? Crayon says he violated parole and it wasn't his fault! REALLY? You don't say!

I then explained to Crayon that she has a full life ahead of her and most likely she will move on from JB (Jail Bird) Crayon says "Maybe but I want to be with him and he says he won't get locked up again" So I had to roll the statistics out for her..

Most repeat offenders tend to end back in jail so JB as bad as it sounds you may call jail your second home.

Ok next..

I don't want to say who let's call her Weirdo.. She has her 1st's all mixed up like seriously her to do list needs some help. She has been broke all month and the minute she gets some dough she buys RIMS??? Like why are you all testing me? I love to speak my mind but then I end up friendless ya know?

Next..
The 30 year old that wants to embrace her age as the NEW 20! I don't think so. If your 38 then guess what? Your 38... now if you want to play "you are as old as you want to be" then cool but I like to embrace my age! I am a quarter! Ok I am being a crazy DIVA because when I hit 38 you better believe I am going to say the same thing "It's the new 20!" LOL

Am I the only one with a crazy model from the 80's type mother??? Ok yeah I am sure I am ... She drives me crazy!

Did the little mexican lady from the laundromat dry my cocktail dress!!!! I begged her not to!

Calm down DIVA bring it back diva 5. 4. 3. 2. 1 whew...

later yall

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NOW back to business..

Yes I am fabulous of course did you expect anything less? But I learned some time ago that you don't have to spend tons of money to look good (Thanks TJ MAXX). But you should know that my spending habits are not the issue well not anymore because I have changed my many ways for example I no longer take a car service to work! I know right? But I determined that I was spending too much money, this same money could fund my non profit ventures so I had to put a stop on that. Yes how ironic a DIVA wants to give back and is using her own funds as well... amazing? I know! Oh no need to flood my comment box telling me this!

That being said aside from me funding my organization I have many loans that are guess what? DUE so I am forced to allocate and change a few things in my budget to make things a bit easier for the DIVA. So I want to share a few things YOU can do to stay calm in this tough time.

1) Remember your goals for the future... Yes sometimes you have to struggle first before the good times role in.

2) Allocate properly... what needs to be paid NOW and what can wait. We all should know by know that credit card bills should be paid NOW and sometimes even before the due date. Just get it out the way. TRUST ME

3) Grind GrInD GRIND... I often say these words because I beleive in everything I do and I am certain things are going to get better; so tough it out.

4) Thrift shop... if you have to spend money on clothes check out thrift stores they are amazing!

5) If you have the time pick up a second job or start a home business making cupcakes or crafts :-)

Sarah Lyn Cupcakes coming soon!

6) Stay positive... I just got news that I have to pay an extra $200 bucks per month to a loan shark LOL (Pace University thank you!) But I am still smiling! Life is not perfect ya know???

Later :-)

oh!!!! No Lattes I learned the hard way $4.06 is a lot of money to shell out a day...

Divasaurus