omg, Nana JUST said…
“Lord, Im gonna have a hard time going, cause Im gonna be worried about what they gonna do with my stuff!”
For all of you that know her, she is a collector of Many Many Many Many …I could go on but for the sake of time, TRUST, Many of things -belong to her. Gifted, found, but mainly bought.
When she saw a ”store closing sign”, she went in a bought some stuff, she didnt necessarily have space for. Her reasoning for it, “well somebody had to buy it!”
As Nana is making account of all and everything, even she has to shake her head -and agree’s She’s collected a museum.
As a family, we’ve come to terms that she will probably out live Most. Cause she is too busy to take a rest. Yet if the dreaded day would come. We’ve collectively decided, we’d transform it as a bed/breakfast museum.
Yes another, Yes another …volvo
Tic Tac Toe -3 in a row. And its due time. On a mission: I want a new 2010 volvo and I want it by the end of the year. Not the suv or the Mercedes but the V.
Even though a recent purchase of a chevy avalanche, demonstrated an impressive feature. A VOICE activated radio, and to think -the old timers thought it was broken and took the crap back. But the sales man show him the new technology. when the salesman said Ray Charles …it began to play GEORGIA on my mind.
YET — I might say something the radio has no business listening too IE: in close the old timer in his voice activated radio, avalanche got caught off by some idiot that ran the light- he yelled A&&Hole … the radio turned to Rush Limbaugh. The Driver, impressed with his new RIDE. What ya’ll call it…WHIP??
Im certain I might say something the radio just cant handle and it might shut itself off. VOLVO here I come!!
INSPIRED: by my want and a new truck email.Sunday, October 24, 2010 6:53 AM
To: You
Subject: My New Truck
From: Cotine
Sent:
I bought a new Chevy Avalanche
and returned to the dealer yesterdaybecause I couldn’t get the radio to work.As random as they come…
Nana-says.tumblr.com:
- “Im just doing straight multiplication, this ain’t no calculus, algebra, OR TXT message!”’ (stay’s hate’n on the cell phone’s text feature)
- “My mind is like a computer, it not man made …but God Made …supercedes electronics!”
- There was He**a Traffic… “
(no she didnt just say that- and say she got it from our generation)
RANDOM QUOTES
(imagine the conversation and activities behind this)
“if the PO PO dont like it…they can meet me at the door!”
(A LIL MADEA In NANA)
“dont forget the point system and merits …everything you do right -get a point!”
(there is a point system up there in heaven- did they teach you that?)
To have like the white people “you got to think like the white people”
“I think EVE was a Black Women!”
(HUH? -check back later, there is diff more to that thought)
“sweating like a dog”
“i dont remember what i say i just say it- im ORIGINAL, you got to write it down”
“A chicken can give you an egg but it cant cook it”
(thought arrived on the simple fact of having COMMON SENSE)
~LAPOLEAN
Lapolean was a man first, gentleman, mentor & friend
The traits and qualities he had was from beginning to end
He treated you with respect and carried himself in a commendable way
and lived his life honorable all his days
He was a family man, wise and kind
He will be out of sight but never out of mind
He was a giant who know how to live
if you wanted a meaningful conversation he had that to give.
He knew how to share
He Knew how to care
He knew how to live. Take the example of his life and give the best you
can, do it right -No matter where
So reach out and give a helping hand,
stand up and be the best you can.
So when life’s journey comes to an end
we shall see him again.
The husband, the father, the relative & friend.
–~Always, Nana.
On the week of October 4th -Nana lost an old friend. While sitting in the hospital looking after her mother, She was notified of this loss. Mr. Lapolean, a friend since childhood days “was like a brother”. A moment of time, that could be titled “‘A small world” was captured one afternoon on a menlo park street. Lapolean & Nana reaquainted and that is where Angel (Lapoleans daughter) met Mrs Jones and immediately took a liking. (I wonder if she was striken by her beauty and charisma …something she beloved in her own mother, who died of cancer?) After meeting her, she later question her dad as to why she hadnt met that women before, almost implying he should have hooked up with her. Her fathers reply “she’s like my sister”. Perhaps the past time and the many years, would of made this friendship awkward to consider it something else, BUT then again, if they would of crossed that line, somewhere along the way -perhaps they could of capture the greatest key point in a relationship/marriage -FRIENDSHIP. Angel called Calm, inquiring on Nana, with happiness in her heart. She said she was searching through the phone book and saw Nana’s name, and said “I have to Call Hilda”. Wednesday wake @ jones mortuary. Thursday -his birthday, would be his funeral (how fitting his beginning and his end). She didnt have a tear in her voice but a smile in her words, and spoke with greatness of having had him. She gave the tip, to know your family “thats YOU!” she proclaimed. & said goodbye, with I love you!
Sometimes, Our lives Reach Real Yearnings - inwhich SORRY will Never Do!
Smile upon the memory & Thank God for what once was. What it has given you in life: what it taught you, and how it will keep you, and help you carry through.
-Sincerely, Call Recipient
TEXTING
If Nana could wish something away …I think the text feature, perhaps even the cell phone …would not exist! -EVEN THOUGH she knows that a CELL is a necessary thing- she has little compassion for TEXTING. and refer’s to it as the “BEEP BEEP” - noise!~
I requested she be home by 3 but gave her til 4 …we are talking about Nana here - and she was traveling from the Sacramento area. Surprise Surprise- she did good with timing. Nana ran ragged on two days of eventful hours. She just attended her 50th high school reunion (50 years!!!- there isnt enough emphasis on that)
“You dont have a hitman out on me do you?” After requesting that she get in the car and cover her eyes as we travelled to an undisclosed location. The detective in her came out as she tried to mentally navigate her way- eyes closed.
A little obstacle course of characters, arrangements, and packaging -and low and behold …at 6:45pm Nana sat at the head of the table -with MUCH Surprise!!!
HER FAMOUS WORDS of many days, at any time, upon an abundance of circumstance “…You’ll live to be my age, You’ll See!” -sometimes I wonder -if that will be true —making it to be old (thought I was gonna say - the seeing part? HAH …I realize what she says has alot of relevance- sometimes the details or how she arrives at her opinion, fact, fiction -is questionable).
Why the old live in 2010:
NANA SAYS: Because they grew up on REAL FOOD, we now call ORGANIC. Because the MICROWAVE & FASTFOOD was not in. (dont think there was time for depression to sink in -up at the crack of dawn)
Nana says: you cant lay around until mid morning -by then the day is half over. (Besides the fact that Nana retired early and lost civilizations sense of time and BIRTHEDher OWN agenda and hours) ALWAYS up in the early morning hours. UP always into the late evening. A few kat naps, the doctor classifies as sleep ab… Thats about all her elements. Nana and the genes that created her, have the ability to age gracefully and with little elements.
TO THOSE WHO ARE CELEBRATING 50 YEAR REUNIONS. TO THOSE OF YOU TURNING 69. —You’ve succeed, if nothing else- time, and ability to SAY WHAT YOU PLEASE!
TITLE: “church” …I know an AMEN is coming!!
(disclaimer:no disrespect to God, the right idea of a REALn-True Religion, and righteous state of being) While other have come to find, learn, and strive to be CHRISTLIKE- the reality is most have grown into the sin we were born into.The conversation of religion goes loose, often times stirs mad passion, and brings about controversy (with all that sometimes people loose the point or miss the lesson, when there was a simple lesson to have been taken to heart).
AND ON THAT NOTION … Nana came through, like a member of the congregation- raising a finger in the air (baptist experience). YET this was no church and she had a lava lamp raised in hand. Sat it down as the colors began to change and said…” have a moment of silence” -after this moment you all can go on talking…
The glitter sank to the bottom and the lights stop and the moment of silence passed …
Nana said: there’s all types or religions, with religion, til it comes to sex …their all the same!
(For those of Us born after 1970’s, many are familiar with the term “CHURCH” -meaning “REAL TALK”)
About me
Random quotes, conversation, and philosophy of an: Arkansas born, California Groomed ...Woman, Known to many as: Mrs. Jones, the Lady with all the Hats, A shopaholic, CEO of classic fashion, the Bearevment Clerk, Care taker, The ADVENTURES of ALL ADVENTURES, to those she is beloved by, Nana.If there is something that must get done. Something most people might not want to do, when in fear and need a firm foundation to stand the challenge... CALL NANA. Her number has been the same for the last 31 years. She drives the same ol skool benz. She a collector of all types. She needs a gps tracker attached to her 60lb purse because some days -most days -keeping track or keeping up with her- is a RAT RACE. She will tell you in a minute she aint messing with all this modern technology and she dont need nobody knowing her every move. THANK GOODNESS she messes with the cell phones but will tell you in a minute --GET OFF, ITS CAUSING CANCER!
Your introduction with her might be edgy, but endure a Soul and Charactor like no other -when its all said in done, you will be grateful for the opportunity to have known her.
Her story is a story of many tales, many chapters. With everything she seen, knows, experienced, and thinks ...it need to be POSTED.
in dedication to Women, especially Women of Color(s). & to the many spicey women who carry the name NANA -cause "grandma" with all do respect, Just wouldnt work in the era of her taking the name!
