Happy Valentine's Day from This Guy and His Pet Rooster!!

My co-worker comes back from her lunch and she tells me that she has a picture to show me. 

She shows me this picture of a homeless guy and his pet Rooster, she said that she could not believe her eyes. The rooster's name is Garfield, and he was walking up and down State Street in Chicago. How random is it to find a guy with a pet rooster out on the street?

His sign does say Happy Valentine's Day, I just thought I would share this picture.

Back Fired!?

Have you tried to help somebody before and things just did not go as planned?

It back-fired and blew up in your face. Then you find yourself wondering why did I even offer assistance or even put myself in that situation. It happens to all of us, we try to do something and it doesn't turn out the way we intended.

So I'm going to stop volunteering my help, and my advice. Just wait until I am asked for help or for  my advice. That seems easier than taking it into your own hands.

Keepin’ It Real by PractiKAL - Seg. 3

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If you made an attempt at following the challenge in Seg. 2, you are on your way to doing something good to your body.  Whether it has been 1, 2 or 3 days so far, you are cleansing your system of all the foods that take forever to break down and pass through - it is almost like weaning yourself off of something.  

Now, lets get back to “Keeping It Real”.  I want to share with you how it was for me when I first started my challenge over 10 years ago.  I challenged myself just like I challenged you resist going to FAST FOOD JOINTS like McDonald’s, etc.  After my first week I felt like I was being starved BUT I SURVIVED.  I could notice my clothes were fitting a little looser. 

WHY was I feeling like I was being starved: Because when I eliminated the junk food, I found I was not eating anything healthy so I did not eat.

WHY didn't I eat: Because my ENTIRE diet consisted of junk food.

NOTE:  Not only did I stop fast food I also gave up POP, chips, cookies and all candy. I really pushed myself by giving up all of the above at once, but you know what, I did it and I saw results.

I didn't want to be that extreme with you guys by saying “just give up everything” because giving up everything all at once like I did can cause you to throw in the towel and give up.

IMPORTANCE:   I did start eating plenty of fruit, salads and drank lots of water.  Instead of McDonald’s pancake breakfast with an extra syrup and ketchup for hash brown, I ate Instant Maple and Brown Sugar Oatmeal with one slice of wheat toast instead.  I never liked oatmeal nor the sight of it,  but when I saw a TV commercial that oatmeal helped reduce high cholesterol (and mine was off the chart) - I incorporated it in my diet.  I figured “well since in a on a role with doing good for my body, why not try it. 

So right now I am just checking in with you and want you to STAY  MOTIVATED and do not give up.   Stay focused on what I told you to envision in Seg. 1.  You are on your way.  I can’t wait to tell you about #OperationPeelTheCoat

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KAL

Any Questions E-Mail Me: karen.holmes.8723@icloud.com

2014 - A Work In Progress

This is pretty much going to be a run-down or summary of what happens in 2014....

I will update as things happen...


1. My nephews make six months
2. Chicago blessed us with a surplus of snow
3. One of my friends/brother gets robbed. (sad day)
4. Chicago decided to have two of the coldest days I have witnessed (-40 &-30)
5. Having conversations about making T-Shirts
6. Fun night with the bros
7. My brother becomes an uncle again (his sister had her baby)
8. My mother starts up her ideas for my blog.
9. Spent the day with Br33zy and Rick.
10. Vicky started to show that she care about my friend.
11. My nephews decide to come visit me.
12. MiMi started walking.
13. Making money.
14. DiBiase is in school.
15. Ricky started working.
16. My Aunt birthday.
17. The Seahawks demolish the Broncos in the Super Bowl
18. My other Aunt's birthday
19. I watched my nephews for the first by myself.
20. I was selected to join the YearUp program (IT program)
21. My cousin gave birth to Ivory my new cousin.

Communication is Key!

Communication is the key and the base to all real relationships. You can't even call yourself a friend if you never talk to that person. Some people think just saying hi, how you doing, and bye is having a conversation; but that is basically checking up on somebody. Some people suck at communication, we all know or have a few people like that in our life. How is a person going to know if you're going through something or need some help if you don't talk to them about it. Even through text messages, for an example if I never hear from you after I have reached out numerous times there is no point of me even texting you. Communication goes a long way, there has to be some kind of communication to get any where.