“I feel like a grown woman, now,” I told my girls on my most recent birthday, “Ain’t nobody got time for that!”

“For what?” they asked.

I started…

“Ain’t nobody got time….”

1. For men who give me mixed signals.
2. For drama in the workplace
3. To care what other people think of me
4. To wait for bananas purchased at Wal-Mart to ripe
5. To worry
6. To put myself down
7. To compare myself to others
8. To tolerate being an option to someone who I consider a priority
9. For naysayers
10. To seek validation from others
11. To refuse to listen to my intuition
12. To be insecure
13. To settle for less than what I deserve
14. For manipulative people
15. To be unhappy
16. To say “yes” to every request
17. To avoid change
18. To harbor unforgiveness
19. To wait for the perfect opportunity to pursue my dreams
20. To lower my standards
21. Atlanta’s Friday afternoon traffic on I-75N
22. For Black Friday shopping
23. For ignorant people
24. For MySpace (wait is it still online?)
25. To agree to a friends-with-benefits relationship
26. For micromanagers
27. For slow Internet
28. For REGRET

Ain’t that right, Sweet Brown?