Put Up or Shut Up!

No image needed for today's diary entry!  Writing from the great crosslands of the state of Indiana.  Now some of u don't even know where that is.  I know because I've asked some folk out here....some think its up near the New York area or even out West...but no I was Miami made, but Indiana bred in the Midwest.  The land of corn.  It's like 40 degrees or so up here, and we decided it would be a good time to write some thoughts on the last few days. 

The holiday season in upon us.  A time to reflect...u know what, my time is kinda limited so let's just get to the good stuff.  Which always involves the best storytime segment this side of Sesame Street right.  Ok...I was on the L bus going from the beach to the Tri-Rail station on Christmas Eve afternoon...I'm in the back of the bus, chillin' listening to my Chad and Pharrell playlist on my Blackberry (hope someone checked out that blog that had some cuts on it!), when this girl gets on.  Now, when I first saw her, I'm like this girl is a straight up clone of Nicki Minaj.  No hobo when I say this.  She had the exact skintone.  Her hair was colored in half Vicki Secret "Pink" with the other half being bleach Brigitte Nielsen blond.  A capri top with a skirt with boots.  So she comes ALLLL the way to the back row where I'm sitting, and sits next to me.  So we're next 2 each other, and like 20 minutes into the beginning of our MTV Diaster Date segment I then tell her, "I like ur Timbos (boots), they tight...they tight!"  They actually were, they weren't trying to hit on her or anything, we speak truths here.  She was like thanx!  So I'm back to listening to my playlist and she's blurts out "Do u l...?" And I'm like "what did u say?", cuz I'm under my jams in the headphones, don't mess with me and my guy Pharrell...she shyly asks..."Do you like girls?"  I'm like, "HEEEECK YEAH, I like girls!!!" So then she puts her hands on her face in a very shy manner, and we're both just sitting there buggin' up laughing on what just happen.  She then is like, "I'm sorry (still embrassed), but I wanted to ask u that since I got on the bus."  Now initially when she asked me that, I thought that she was about to go into some kind of magic act, if u know what I mean. (Street hustlers get that!)  But she was cool.  So I asked her, "What may u think that I was gay?"  And she told me that, "your swag is poppin'!!"  Told her, "Thanks."  Then she started to shake her head, and was like, "it's always the pretty boys."  Interesting comment that let me know that the handsome guys she's interacted with have been gay, all 2 her disappointment.  Huh.  Her bus stop came up, and she turned a gave a smile and told me, "bye...".  I watched her get off and walk outside.  I think she was a cool doll.  As she walked away from my sight, all I could really think was that, "Boom, badoom, boom...Boom, badoom, boom..", and how how crazy our life is.

Another quick story on that tip, I'm at the freakin' library, of all places, down South of Fifth street in South Beach, and it was like raining so I had to wait right in front of the door.  This guy is like next to me...staring at me...he then walks over to me.  I got my Miami Nightclub shades on, looking straight ahead as he begins to talk to me.  "Hi..."..."What is your name?" "I don't give out names."  this kind of stuff...he then tells me he's from Italy.  I been known to dig in and out of Italian pizzerias, retail stores, and chicks in my life (please smile), but I'm not one who digs Tower of Pisas when it comes to my love life.  This guy, goes on to tell me..."you're so beautiful"  I'm like, "uh...thanks."  Not the first time this has happened so we cool..."ur skin..."  and then he's like, "your lips...", and as he says that he reaches with one of his hands to touch my lips and I'm like, "dude, don't do that.  Don't touch me."  I didn't even yell, it was a long day, it was raining outside and I didn't have on my Charlie Brown galoshes on, so this was just the nuts on my Diary Queen Sundae.  Ooops!..that might have been the wrong terminology to use, but...

Don't know how I got all in that...but the experiences u experience can be something.  I saw a 55 or so year old woman with a pair of sweatpants on.  But she had the right leg up, like LL Cool J, back in the day!  She still is an Around The Way girl, I guess!  I'm not mad at her for keeping it one hundred!...True meaning of Christmas (birth of Jesus), its not about the gifts really, had 2 throw that in...I've always believed I want my life to be lived in a way in which, "Every day is Christmas, and every night is New Year's Eve!"...and funny as kept, that is coming true...it's all about cool, fun and beautiful times and people right now.  I have started to embrace my lifestyle and just letting things happen.  I'm on a come into my galaxia tip, and I can say that confidently cuz I KNOW its one of a kind, and all the lessons and hard and times being by ourself have made us better.  Now its like, Vegas on acid. (sorry best analogy I could think of).  Its about living, having fun and just wanting to surround ourself with the best people and team of folks that enjoy things as well.  Its getting wild, and I'll make sure to share stories about the events I'll be attending, the NBA games (the Heat look sharp, the Lakers will be alright, just the 1st game, and Bynum was out), and the fun times going on in our life.  This stuff is not the usual life...and I'll tell all the stories as usual...one way from our heart. 

I have to write this...We're gathering a Ocean's Eleven list of people who I want on our 'team' so to speak.  And I believe they will be.  I really, really....REALLY want this one person to be our #1 pick as we start to re-form our franchise.  She's mad cool and hot.  It's not bout games, or sexual escapades or anything right now, it's about laughter and enjoying life.  Miami and abroad.  I wanna say more but all that needs to be said from my standpoint is 'Austino...it's time to put up or shut up!'  And for the first time in this poker game of life, I can honestly say without any hesitation or fretting over losing any chips...

"I'm all in."
Austin