So guys, I wanna start off by saying Happy Easter to anyone that celebrates it! We didn’t do much to celebrate it but I finally am getting into driving. So yesterday me and my partner practiced driving, she taught me some of the basics to maneuverability. Let me just tell y’all, it felt like I was just trying to perform a magic trick the whole time. It was so hard but I eventually got to reverse into a spot in one swift movement by myself so that’s a plus. My girlfriend is such a good teacher, she’s so amazing. I’m very glad she taught me because it is so difficult using your mirrors when you don’ t even know what you’re looking for. Watch me hit like a mailbox on my driving test. I doubt that it will work but if that happens, I’m just gonna try to distract my instructor. I absolutely need to pass my test so I’m gonna pull out all of the tricks for my instructor. That sounds so wrong but you know what I mean. Anyways, I’m hoping to get my license by late May? I hope I’m not dreaming too big but it is really humbling not having my drivers license when I am about to be 23 years old. I feel like the older you get and still don’t have your license, the harder it becomes. I just want to hurry up and have it so I can drive my girlfriend around everywhere like she deserves. I cannot wait to start driving everywhere so I can listen to my glee playlist from start to end, over and over again. That playlist and the burlesque playlist has my heart and everyone will be sick of me once I get a hold of that aux. As a matter of fact, I’m currently watching season one of glee as I’m recapping what went on last week. I know the whole idea of Rachel Berry is one big joke but you have to hand it to her, her ambition is everything. I’ve always admired it because growing up watching the show, she always inspired me to believe in anything I wanted to achieve. Yes, that girl was absolutely insane and needed serious psychological evaluation, but she had a point. Well she had a point sometimes, all the other times should not have been said. The point is, is that her ambition got her so far. Rachel never gave a crap about what people said about her surprisingly and that has always been admirable. This year I want to conjure up my inner Rachel Berry craziness, starting with getting this little drivers license.
Another commitment from last week is me having an upcoming appointment to get starter locs for my hair! I’m trying to get my hair to grow fast and super long so I’m probably gonna have these dreads for years and years. I just want to have hair down to my butt honestly, and it’s on the lower maintenance side in the long run but I still have to dedicate myself to take care of it. Usually, that kind of commitment would simply intimidate me but I already loathe taking care of my hair. Especially trying to sculpt it the way that I want every night to try to predict how it’ll look the next morning. God forbid my hair doesn’t turn out right the next morning, then my whole day is ruined. I just don’t want that kind of pressure on my hair, I want that similar feeling I feel the next morning when I wake up with box braids. It feels so good because you barely have to do anything with your hair, I just wake up and go. I cannot wait to do sweet hairstyles with my dreads, it’s going to look awesome. Also retwists do not cost that much so getting my hair done by someone will be way cheaper compared to how it would be if my hair was loose. Black hairdressers/ stylists nowadays cost an arm and a leg just to get a basic style. Don’t even get me started on the cost if you’re getting hair included. Most people require you to bring your own hair. That makes sense but now people charge way too much for the bundles themselves.
It’s sad because growing up, even getting your hair professionally done was never too expensive. You definitely see that people are getting too comfortable taking advantage of black people wanting to get their hair done in the studio, so they charge more than necessary. This is why I buy bundles off of Amazon, and I put my hands to work in my living room in front of a mirror. Doesn’t matter how long it takes me, I’ll gladly braid my own hair if it means that I don’t have to pay the price of God in someone else’s chair. I’m a broke barista and a struggling artist that lives just about paycheck to paycheck. Charging 400 or 500 dollars just to do my hair? You might as well rob me.
Moving on, the only downside that I’m worried about is the length of my hair. I recently cut my hair, somewhere in the middle of last year. This is when I also dyed it blue, so I was basically a gay looking smurf at the time. But now it has grown and it’s more of an ash brown, similar to cinnamon. It’s grown a lot since then thank god, I hated the short hair on me. I’m glad I did it though because I feel like I needed that experience. Before I cut it, I depended so much on my hair to make me feel seen, and pretty. I would just hide behind my curls and I never realized how much my hair made me feel until I cut it off. Overall, I am super excited to get these locs going, until then I have to go through the short loc phase that will make me look like a little boy for now.
Oh my god, I forgot to tell you guys that I went to this super cute party over the weekend. A coworker of mine had her 27th birthday party at her apartment and she had a Princess themed party. That might sound child-like to some but it was so cute and the girls were dressed to perfection. The party was full of baddies with corsets, lace dresses, medieval robes, crowns, you name it. She had a princess hat station, and unfortunately I forgot to make myself one. My outfit was quite simple, I showed up with a blue lace see-through dress that had drape life cuffs. I threw on a black skirt and tank underneath because the dress stole the show, anything else underneath would have been too much. It even had a slit for the thigh and I paired the outfit with long grey lace up boots.
Her apartment was decorated with the cutest decorations and she even made “Princess Punch”. Let me tell you guys something, I am so glad I showed up when the punch was almost gone because I would have drank that whole thing. It was such a good time, a bunch of our other coworkers showed up and we all laughed and drank. We took a lot of smoke breaks outside and even saw this cat that was playing hard to get. I assume it was a neighbor’s cat because at one point we all crouched on the ground to try to call the cat over and it seemed friendly but scared. I know we all looked ridiculous to cars driving by because we were all squatting on the ground with our dresses on, in the dark, calling this cat over.
I was a little worried about this untasteful girl that was at the party. She used to work at my job but quit for another job and it was one of the few things a lot of us at work celebrated. Close to no one liked this girl because she was absolutely disrespectful and put on this facade that everyone saw through. I wouldn’t say she and I had this rivalry at work but towards the end of her time at the job, everyone knew we borderline hated each other. I would talk crap about her to one coworker and she would do the same to another. I genuinely did not like her because she treated me badly during one shift for no reason. We would joke around all the time and talk like regular coworkers before that. But after she decided to speak to me like she was crazy one day, I stopped talking to her after that. That’s where she stopped liking me, when it was just me reacting to her being a jerk towards me. Once you learn her actual name, you will understand why she acts the way that she does. Her name fits her behavior like a perfect shoe. She would remind you of those stereotypical mean girls that would befriend you just so she could talk about you and your secrets to anyone that listened. That’s how she operated, she would walk around like she was hot when she was actually the opposite. Mostly everyone knew that but sadly she is still friends with my coworker so I had to see her at the party this weekend. We didn’t speak to each other at all, stole some glances at each other but that’s natural because it wasn’t a massive space we all shared. We just stayed within our separate friend groups and it made the night ten times better.
I got to enjoy seeing my friends outside of work, we danced to the silly music that played at the party and forgot about all of the stress that work provides. Afterwards, two of my friends and I walked to this 24 hour diner and scarfed down this diner food that would probably cure cancer, I’m not joking. I got steak, fried shrimp, and fries and I think I saw stars. Whoever was cooking the food in the back, I wanted to give you a round of applause. Plus we had all been drinking that night so it was exactly what our tummies needed. This diner was somewhat well known because it was near all of the bars and clubs. They would get mostly drunk people stumbling into the diner around 11 or 12 because everyone wants fries when they are plastered, that’s a fact. But after 30 minutes we were all almost knocked out from the fried food. I wanted to unbutton my pants, get comfy and I didn’t even have pants on.
We walked to my friend’s aunt’s house to have a sleepover , for the rest of the night we shared a drink and watched the movie, Weapons. Personally I really liked Weapons, I know a lot of people felt that it was dull but I actually think that the plot was somewhat creative. Especially because the more current horror movie plots have been very repetitive. You can easily guess how the movie will end and that is so frustrating. When did everyone get so boring? When did everyone’s imagination become so restricted? That’s why I liked Weapons so much because it kept me guessing. Everytime something was revealed in the movie, it made me ask even more questions. The way the movie was executed was just more refreshing than the horror movies I’ve been seeing lately. That’s why it was the best way to end the night. We kept saying how we were so glad to not have taken the alternative route and decided to go to a nearby bar like the rest of the party. We definitely made the right choice.
I really enjoyed last week a lot, I had been closing every day that week so I definitely needed the Princess Party to help me unwind a bit. I’m gonna wrap up this week’s blog post, thank you guys so much for reading. As you know, I’m gonna post a picture from last week that I wanna add and I’m also gonna put 3 songs that I’ve been listening to that I think you guys should check out. See y’all next Monday, Princess out!
-Alyssa
Check out these songs:
• Doomed by Maphra
• Y Don’t You by KYANTII
• Gracie by Naomi Scott
Grab The Hooch! 
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