I thought we were past this. I was mistaken, CLEARLY.

I encountered some Mass Natural Hair ignorance today. It made me annoyed, upset, and sad simultaneously during Each occurrence;  all  from the same individual.

*exhales loudly*

ex. 1.  Since I [clearly] have natural hair and are one of the Few individuals with it at my place on employment...people tend to ask me hair related questions. While completing one of the many tasks at work with a coworker I'm asked about KimmayTube's infamous leave-in. I start to explain what's in it, go on to explain What its supposed to do but I was interrupted with the individual expressed the sentiment that it MADE HER HAIR GROW. Now. You will Never here her say that. She actually preaches quite the opposite in the majority of her YT videos. Protective styling and ph balanced hair care are her never ending/ever evolving sermons. How does that make sense. Please explain that to me. And mind you, she has relatively 'long' hair. *SIGH* We are STILL on this as a people? Like...we're still believing in magical wonder products to grow your hair down your back. *hangs head* I'm so serious. Please just think logically. I'm not even going to go into that. Do research Before making 'handed down through the generations' blanked statements is all I'm saying. Moving on.

ex 2. A teenager working for the transportation dept at my job came to get one of my patients. One of my coworkers then proceeded to let him know that his hair was 'too nappy' to wear in the particular style (jokingly of course). -___- Seriously? Still doing that eh. Mmmk. Mind you, if he had on Anything but scrubs I'm sure he would've looked quite stylish. And I Know that's not just me. Since when do people Have to say Everything that's on their mind? I'm seeing that more and more. So that whole, 'if you have nothing good to say...shut up' (or something like that) holds no value anymore. Oh, you think you're HELPING. OH.

ex 3. In one of the days I had twists in my hair a coworker *sigh* asks me how long I've been natural and then [of course] asks why my hair is so short. *eye roll*. When I attempt to stretch it to SHOW that its pretty much APL in the I start hearing 'Nah, don't stretch it out to seem like you have more. Come on...etc' [Woosah]. THIS RIGHT HERE HEAVENLY FATHER. See this is the type of stuff you Dread when you First become natural when you start noticing the extreme degree of shrinkage that occurs in most African American hair. You're occupied with length because you want the world to see that you Are making progress in your journey. I'm not a new natural. I've been natural a Few times, but I became an Educated natural *praises* about two years ago. So I Know where I effed up with my hair.  Here's the thing though, I don't Owe anyone full explanations for anything. But the fact that this person is also Black, has never worn her hair natural, but is still tryna tell Me what's up with My hair floors me. I correct my own Family when it comes to references to my hair. But you don't know me. ;) Like....ma'am...you already forgot that your hair doesn't grow out your scalp that way? I'm Serious. Its like folks have amnesia about that painful burning session to tame the new growth every 6 weeks. *eye roll*


Educate yourselves before you speak. OR...even if you're possibly right or have a semi valid point....most people don't care to hear you ALL THEE TIME on trivial things. ;)

ADios!!

Taking the good with the bad

This is what I was greeted with at work. 

WOO YAY!!!

Aww Booo.......


This is what I went home with. #Pleasantries

Why I'm Not Cut Out to be a Nurse

If you follow me on twitter (@roxie2398) you would've known that my coworkers were talking about me today. Not in my face, but loud enough so could hear. Smh. Oh lets not forget about the comment about homework was just making sure knew that i looked 12. Just in case I forgot. *palms face*
The convo went some thing like this:

• dude: *insert incomprehensible ramblings from dude* 
• lady: "but isn't she so cute?! And her hair, and her little flowers...."
• dude:*convincingly* i don't think she is cut out to be a nurse.
• lady: goes on about my 'cuteness'  smh lol
• °dude: she should be working at Tiffany's or something! <--- -____-
• • Lady: I know right! 
• *high fives!!!* Ok I made that up lol

Fast forward a couple hours...hours....hours....

Dude actually came up to me later and gave me a list of reasons as to why I might not be cut out to be a nurse. (in no particular order)

Reason #1- I'm normal weight.
Reason #2 -I'm cute.
Reason #3-I take care of my patients.
Reason#4 I'm not a bitch.
(I'm sure there were a couple more. #shrug)
And to sum it up.... I mightve wasted 4 years of my life cause this might not be the profession for me.

This is real life. Pathfinder's honor. *salutes*

Jokes aside....seriously...think about it. To anybody that's every worked in a hospital, been admitted in a hospital, visited someone in the hospital....you can attest to a lot of these characteristics being true for nurses. And as arguably the persons most involved in a patients health advancement, shouldn't we do better? And the sentiments above were from Fellow Nurses. *side eye to Everybody*