Joy Leslie

Just one of them days… Here’s an original song that kind of speaks to my mood… Hope you like

And one more - just for fun

I wanted to take some time today to wish any American’s out there a Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you had as good of a day as I did, or better! I woke up, spoke to my family, spent some time checking out this stray mom cat and her kitten next door (so cute!), got ready and then went to the studio. There, I met up with my brother for lunch and then spoke to Uness for a few hours about the direction I wanted my next couple of songs to go in. It was a very cool experience to just sit down and listen to the different kinds of music that inspire me to do music. Hopefully, later today, I will speak with him some more. Then my brother dropped me off at my husband’s job… I know!!! I can’t believe he had to work that night too… but all-in-all, I actually had a fun night. I met some really nice people there (some of which were away from their families too) and I didn’t get home until nearly 3am! It was a fun night. So I hope you (whoever you may be) had a great night too!

OKAY - so down to some more business stuff. I’m having a hard time these days with anxiety. I don’t know where it all came from, but I was looking online for some shows that I could do and all of a sudden I started to feel really nervous about the whole thing. I mean - am I really read to do this? To completely put myself on blast for everyone to see? Am I going to be able to take the talk? the criticism? the good and the bad? Do I feel like I’m going to go out there with my best foot forward? I think I feel so nervous because I’m not as prepared as I should be at this point. I have to be honest - I’ve been really slow-moving with it. I think I’m stagnant because I don’t always know what the next best move is… but since I haven’t figured it out, I haven’t made much progress as a result. Soooooo it kind of sucks. Actually right now, I kind of suck. It’s totally an attitude thing and I need a major adjustment. I just don’t know how to kick my own butt into gear, you know? I have random ideas, but for some reason, I fear failure so much that I don’t even try them out. My brother said something to me yesterday that made a lot of sense. He said, “Joy, you won’t fail… You’re going to get back exactly what you put into this. So even now, you’ve been 100% successful at getting the results you’ve worked for.. and that will continue,” AND HE’S SO RIGHT! Which is the frustrating thing…. *sigh* Thoughts/coversations like this in my head make me feel like I’m either going off the deep-end or I’m having some major PMS symptoms. LOL! I know!!! I kind of feel like a wreck and I just want to pull myself out of it! Maybe I feel worse and worse because I’m not putting in as much as I know I should. Maybe this is all guilt… or maybe, I just need to stop talking about it and just do something already!!!

It’s a new day, you guys! I just gotta do something with it now…
In the meantime… Since I’ll be working on some other stuff - I don’t have a video ready… so I want to leave a friend-tribute. My friends are so awesome… I miss them all.

Two of my best friends, Natalia and Olivia

Surrounded by some lovely Latinas!!! Gloria aka Glow-yuh, Katita aka “Soul sista”, MOH Natalia, and other bff, Oliva

Evonne, my other best friend and my little girl scout.. and Christina. So much fun!!!

WOW bringing it back!!! With hubby, bff Olivia and her hubby Larry, my “summer sister” LuzElena and her hubby Mike

Don’t get to talk to her much, but I really love her to death.. This is my girl, Naddia.

THIS is really why I wanted to go back to school. You can only have this kind of fun with some cool college friends…

USC had some great people… my sister (forreals!) Kari, Rexanne, JC (aka I love Jesus), and confidante and little light, Amy

My friends are so great. Too bad I’m so far away from all of them!!!! LOL I love them.