About Me

  • About Me: "DIPPED IN CHOCOLATE, BRONZED WITH ELEGANCE, ENAMELED WITH GRACE, TOASTED WITH BEAUTY, MY LORD, SHE IS A BLACK WOMAN!" -Yosef Ben-Jochannan

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Tam, Tink, Smurf, T, Princess
  • Nationality: Black and other
  • Religion: Missionary Baptist
  • Heroes: Mom, Dad, Sister, Grandparents, Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King, Malcolm X, Alicia Keys, Laila Ali, Jada Pinkett-Smith
  • Interests: Learning new things and having new experiences. It's a weird mix of stuff, but: Yoga, japanese culture, photography, cooking, astrology, reading, singing, bikes, massage therapy, meditation, plants, eating out, blogging, self improvement, sleep
  • Expertise: Astrology, poetry, food, writing, etc
  • Occupation: Soil Conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA)
  • Industry: Agriculture

College

  • School Name: Tennessee State University
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 2006
  • Attended: 2002 - 2006
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): Agriculture Sciences: Concentration in Agronomy
  • Greek: ΔΣΘ
  • Sports: Intramural Softball
  • Organizations: MANRRS, Peer Counselour, University Honors Program

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Alicia Keys, Toni Braxton, Anita Baker, NeYo, Busta Rhymes, Beyonce', Kelly Rowland, Destiny's Child, Amerie, Aaliyah, Mary Mary, Kirk Franklin, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nickel Back, Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia, Green Day, Norah Jones, Maroon 5, Lil Wayne, Tupac, TI, Ludacris, SWV, Isely Brothers, Carlos Santana, Carl Thomas, Juelz Santana, Dixie Chicks, Ciara, Tweet, Panic! At the Disco, Eminem, Lincoln Park, Jay-Z, Missy, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Nickelback, Amy Lee, Evanesence, Hinder, Gwen Stefani, the list goes on...
  • Favorite Genre: All
  • Favorite Songs: Sexy Love-NeYo, Hips Don't Lie-Shakira, Unfaithful- Rhianna, Deja Vu and Check Up On It, Signs, Speechless, Be with You - Beyonce', Heaven-Mary Mary, Summer Breeze and Atlantis-Isely Brothers, Encore-Lincoln Park and JayZ, That's the way Love Goes- Janet Jackson and he Nsync version, Tweets whole CD, I just Died-Amerie, U + UR Hand-Pink, 24 play-Janet Jackson, Say Goodbye-Madonna, Sweet Escape, Mist Blue
  • Favorite Lyrics: "If Everyone loved and noboy lied, if everyone cared and nobody cried, if everyone shared and swallowed their pride, would we see the day when nobody died?" - Nickelback "I'm not here for your entertainment, you don't really wanna mess with me tonight. Just stop and think a second, I was fine before you walked into my life. And you know it's over, before it began. Keep your drink, just give me the money. Just you and Your hand tonight again!"
  • Guilty Pleasure: Me&U- Cassie; Girlfriend- Avril Lavigne; U+Ur Hand- Pink
  • Songs I repeat the most: Me&U, Sexy Love-NeYo, Hips Don't Lie-Shakira, Unfaithful- Rhianna, Deja Vu and Check Up OnIt - Beyonce', Heaven-Mary Mary, Summer Breeze and Atlantis-Isely Brothers, Encore-Lincoln Park and JayZ, U +Ur Hand- Pink, Figured you Out- Nickel Back
  • Band I wish I was in: Evanesence

Travel

  • Places I love: Canada, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
  • Places I've been: All over the East Coast, the Mid West, the Dirty South, some of Up North and Canada
  • Places to see before I die: Puerto Rico, Bora Bora, Italy, Dominican Republic, Hawaii, Jamaica, Mexico, Cancun
  • Dream Vacation: Some where exotic when the weather is mild

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Law and Order Criminal Intent, Girlfriends, House
  • Favorite Channels: UPN, The Food Network, Style Channel, HGTV, MTV, VH1, Bravo!, BET
  • Favorite Reruns: Girlfriends, Flavor of Love, America's Next Top Model
  • Most Addictive Show: The News, Girlfriends, House, All Law and Orders, Wife Swap, Flavor of Love, Iron Chef, How Do I Look?, I love New York, I Wanna Look like a Star
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: David Lettermen
  • Favorite Theme Song: Just For Today- India.Arie (The theme song to The Tyra Banks Show)
  • Show I Secretly Watch: General Hospital and Passions
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Second Time Around

Books

  • Favorite Books: A is for Attitude: An Alphabet for Living, The Tipping Point, The Da Vinci Code, The Giver, 48 Laws of Power, The Art Of Seduction, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Awakening, The Coldest Winter Ever, Reach!, Tears for Water, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Green Mile, The Notebook, Memoirs of a Geisha, Cheaters, Leslie, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, The Bluest Eye, God Don't Like Ugly, The Devil Wears Prada
  • Favorite Authors: Toni Morrison, Sister Souljah, Eric Jerome Dickey, Zora Neale Hurston, Stephen King,Robert Greene,The list goes on
  • Favorite Characters: Janie (Their Eyes Were Watching God), John Coffey (The Green Mile), Sayuri (Memoirs of a Geisha), Chante (Cheaters), Winter (The Coldest Winter Ever), Jonas (The Giver)
  • Recent Reads: The Devil Wears Prada

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Ray, A League of Their Own, Two Can Play That Game, Meet the Fockers, Hair Show, Hitch, Payback, Memoirs of a Geisha, Butterfly Affect, The Green Mile, The Devil Wears Prada
  • Favorite Soundtracks: The Body Guard, Waiting To Exhale, Romeo Must Die
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "No no, that wasn't a question"- The Devil Wears Prada
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Nicole Parker, lol

Style

  • Where I shop: New York and Company, Gap, Old Navy, Guess, Hollister, Victoria Secret, The Colony Shop, Delias, Nine West, Charlotte Russe
  • Can't live without: Wife Beaters, my polo boots, jeans, dresses and skirts
  • Guilty Pleasure: Victoria Secret Underwear

High School

  • School Name: Munford High School
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 2002
  • Attended: 1998 - 2002
  • Organizations: Band, Choir, FTA, FFA, SADD, and many more

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Italian, sushi, my peoples home cooking, chinese, the list is terribly long!
  • Favorite Dishes: My mom's spaghetti
  • Favorite Desserts: My late grandmothers cheesecake and my sister's fruit pizza
  • Favorite Drinks: Water, white russian, tequila sunrise, fruit punch-lemonade koolaid
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Milano Double Chocolate Cookies and Rice Crispy Treats
  • Best meal ever: When I went to this restaraunt called Virago's in Nashville and had a cruch shrimp roll and a midnight mimosa (black berry juice and champagne). The atmosphere, the food, just wonderful. And of course my mom's spaghetti always rocks!
  • Favorite Restaurants: Viragos, Mama Minellos, Qdoba, Samari Sushi, once again a long list.
  • Foods I hate: Ethiopian