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Great Day to You ALL,

My Weekend Has Begun!

How is everyone? Thank you for visiting my slice of Blogger.

In my previous entry, I spoke of the Revitalization of The Akua Projects. I have decided to restart totally anew. I removed all my old articles. You can still see them on my Facebook Page.

So to some things I want to share with you all.

For part of my revitalization of The Akua Projects' Designs By ASH, I have been posting web content for my social media accounts. My most recent series is 'My Favorite Dates'. Pretty simple, listing some of my favorite types of dates to go on. I also have a 'Quote of the Day' and 'I am No Chef, but I Cook Anyway'.

While I have been around, it hasn't been like I used. Really just enough to not be forgotten online. So I have a lot of dust to knock off. Disciplining myself to have entries three times day, etc. Getting back into the groove of showcasing and interviewing people that I find interesting and talented. If it sounds like a lot of work, it is. Also preparing myself to be personally more visible.

During my 'invisibility' I was recovering from a few relationship heartaches and down right breaks. I will save the details for a later article. I took myself on a serious journey to heal. I am not 100%, nor am I just as I was. I also don't think I should be.

This articles cover photo is from one of those cartoon apps. I remember the struggle of using Adobe and other programs to create these effects, now a few key strokes and there you go. I think they are kind of cute. My profile photo is also from the same app.

My weekend has begun. Some of you may remember I used to do event/club security. I still work security, but for a major security company. I am good at it and even though some say I am too talented for it, I like it.

While doing other types of security, I found the opportunity to teach. I taught an after school class in Jewelry Making, in connection with my personal jewelry making business ( Adorned By Rakia Ari). I loved it and really miss my students. I will find away to do this again. I actually have it in my business plan.

Those you that personally know me, may question why I am not using my given name. Rakia Ari is a combination of my given name and my son's given name. I am contemplating legally changing my name, but I will always be my given name to many.

An acquaintance of mine made a move yesterday that I can totally relate to. I am going to see if I can get him to sit down with me and have a chit chat, but he is ghosting social media. Sometimes social media can be more demanding than real life and you need to take a break. I just conceded to a tiktok account. At first, it was to support a friend but they changed their mind. Now, I am using to showoff my content series. It can be so easy to get caught up for hours, when you should be being extremely more productive. Then you can feel pressured to check in on all these corners as if you are going to miss something important.

Since I am returning to this venture and I will be online seriously, I will have two days out of the week where I will have not online activity. I have decided not to make it the same days every week. I used to be quiet on just Mondays. This time, I feel like I will need two days.

I am going to wrap this up, I don't want to let my Random Entries to be too long.