Happy January 1 2007 Beware: Adult language contained in this entry

HEY Hey HEyyy Happppppy New YEARR!!!!

Official day of 2007,  I wonder how everyone else's day has been so far.....

Mine almost started with a tragedy..... The lord must have been with us all this morning.

It started out fairly boring...... My landlord came to collect rent even though it was only the 31st.... Tsk I tell you they dont give us a break...after that I went outside and started to clean up the front yard a bit because it was just downright distasteful....

While doing this I was contempating whether or not we were going to go to my mothers house. I was kind of tired and feeling depressed because I dont like New Year's Eve....

                       

Anyway when Ben came home we decided to go because my mother had already cooked for us and besides it wasnt fair to the kids to spend it at home bored to death....

We got there, everything was good... We ate, danced, talked and laughed our asses off.

Now mind you I live in New York and I dont know about anywhere else but here in New York it can get kind of crazy with all the idiots and Lowlives we have roaming around....

Not only that but my mother does not live in the best of neighborhoods....and to add to that she lives in a housing complex which is also known as the PROJECTS.

I know some people will say EWWW the Projects but hey realistically its hard to be able to afford rent, bills and everything else there is and also pay to live in a private apt building or eeven owning a home. Projects offer reasonable rent fees for low income families as well as the advantage of not having to pay for light or gas... I know if they offered me to live in public housing I would most likley take it .....

Anyway where she lives at is predominately African American neighborhood with a mixture of Hispanic....

Well there we are sitting in her living room waiting for the ball to drop on TV, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!! We did not even get the chance to say Happy New Year when all we heard was glass shattering all over the place!! A BULLET had come right through her window!!!!! It went through the window through the venetian blind through a Wine Glass (she had her mini bar in front of the window) and through the SOFA!!!!! The sofa was in front of the window as well....OMGGGG!!!!  BEn and my daughter were on that couch as well as my sisters friends mother...... WE WERE ALL SHOCKED.... Ben grabbed my daughter not knowing if they were hit!! and ran out of the living room, My sister's friends's mother just stood sitting there in shock we did not know if she was hit!! The rest of us threw ourselves to the ground fearing that more bullets were going to come through....

After 2 mins we realized there were no more bullets coming through so we all got up and started making sure everyone was ok...THANK GOD NO ONE WAS HURT!!! The Lord and a guardian angel must have been protecting us because by an inch one of them could have gotten shot right through the back!!!!

After initial fear, it turned to anger that some FUCKING moron idiot could have taken an innocent life just because their dumb asses were BORED...We calleed the police 4 fucking times and can YOU believe the police did not show up till 10.00am this morning talking about "OHHH we are sorry we're late" What the FUCK... what do you mean Late.... You never freaking showed!!!!  I swear and I normally dont swear but I swear if any of my children would have gotten hurt or anyone in my family members... I would have been in jail today becuase I would have run outside and kill somebody.... Its UNBELIEVABLE that you think that you are in the safety of your own home and some jackass decides that they are just going to shoot becuase they have a bug up their ass ...... not knowing that they could have just killed someone!!!! My mom lives on the second floor... so I cant believe that if this person just wanted to have fun and shoot up in the air that it could have through a second floor window... I believe that this LOWlife scum of the earth wanted to shoot through a window....

NYPD SUCKS bigtime!!!! I bet you if it were a call that they recieved and it was a chance to brutalize a balck person they would have been there so fast it would be funny...but since it was just a bullet through a window and no one got hurt so they figure SO what who cares..... HAd they come when they first got the call they could have probably taken this asshole off the streets..... Because not only about 15 mins later 3 more shots were fired again right in front of the building!!!!

3 shots fired the first time and one of those shots found their way through our window and is right now lodged inside my mothers couch Thank GOD she had leather sofa's ...had this regular cloth and pillow sofa's someone would have gotten hurt....

Somethig likes this makes you realize how short life can really be..... ANy day anything can happen..... It makes you appreciate that the Lord decided that today was not your time...makes you appreciate life more and helps you not to stress over the little things...Just be grateful that you still have your loved ones aroud and you have more one day with them and yourselves!!

I finally got enough courage to leave the building and come home about 2:30am, I was waiting for this Police toi show up this way we could have walked out with them ...But I would have been waiting till 10.00am ...UNBELIEVABLE!!! They didnt even do anything once there. I mean what could they do..its not like the moron who did it was still going to be standing there(the idiot was probably so high he passed out) They couldnt take the bullet out of the couch because they said they would have to ruin the whole thing.... these couches were brannd new and my mother did not want them to ruin it....SOOO she will forever have a bullet in there  to remind her of the yr 2007 when we were all so very lucky!

I wish I had enough money so that I could take my mom out of there and get her a house...... I pray that everything goes well with Ben's promotion and our finaces that by next year maybe we can afford to put a down payment on a 2 family house in a decent area so that I can bring her and my sisters with me. I know one day I am going to make this dream my reality.....

Well I pray all of you are safe....and realize how important family is......

Take Care and Goodnight ALLL.....