**SINGS** "It's my birthday so you know I want to r-i-i-ide out..."

It's my birthday and just like my last birthday I'm newly single. Yeah, it sucks. What sucks is dating. I hate dating. Guys suck, and not in the good way. You meet a guy, you waste all this time talking to him, meeting him, regaling him with all of your first date stories and anecdotes, all for him to stop calling or not show up when he said he was or to find some little thing about him that you don't like that would then make you the one who's disinterested. What a waste of time. Guys are wack.

Being involved with someone for as long as I was really made me forget how tragic dating can be. I'm not trying to be jaded or anything but after awhile you just wonder, why should I even bother with this shit? Ugh.

So now it's my birthday today and not only do I not have a man in my life I don't even have any plans after work. I'm so over it. No birthday sex for me today. It's like that episode of Sex And The City where Carrie turns 35. You know the last scene when their in the coffee shop and she admits to the girls that she wishes that she had a special man in her life to spend the day with. I feel ya sister.

I mean I guess I'm gonna be okay. It's 5am and the day is just beginning. I'm sure by the time I get off work one of my friends will have stepped up to the plate and to take me out for a drink or something. I got my friends, I got my blog and when all else fails I got my gin. And when I get down to the bottom of the gin bottle I've always got King Jesus and like Vickie says "Long as I got King Jesus, I don't need nobody else..."

I ain't gon' lie, sometimes my days get a little lonely but I know I'm never alone.

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Playing In The Background...
"Birthday Sex"
by Jeremih
from the album "Jeremih"
and
"Long As I Got King Jesus"
by Vickie Winans
from the album "Live In Detroit"
and
"Never Alone"
by Walter Hawkins & the Love Center Choir
from the album "Love Alive II"
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Posted by Adam Benjamin Irby at 05:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBacks (0)

Hey Y'all,

I'm back. I know it's been a while and it's been very stop, start, stop, start, but here I am. It's been crazy, but here I am once again. Mostly I wanna thank all of y'all who have held me down during this transitional period in my life. The emails, the Facebook messages and the Twitter replies I've read them all and thank you, thank you, thank you so much for all the uplifting words.

For lack of a better term, I'm really feelin' like I got my swag back. I kinda lost myself for a minute there, you know, I forgot who the fuck I am, you ever done that before? That shit is crazy, but it's all in the past now. I'm looking forward to better days and all of us making this journey together. You ready to walk wit' me?

Restarting the blog is my birthday present to myself this year and there's no better time than this for a new beginning.

Let's go!
-Adam Benjamin Irby

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Playing In The Background...
"I'm Back"
by Monica
from the album "All Eyez On Me"
and
"What's The Word"
by Lil' Kim
from the album "La Bella Mafia"
and
"Pucker Up"
by Ciara
from the album "Fantasy Ride"
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Posted by Adam Benjamin Irby at 03:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBacks (0)