Author: The Dopest Blogger Alive

Ladies we have all fantasized about that special day when the love of our life gets down on one knee, pops open that suede box and shows us a gleaming ring as he confesses his love and asks us to be his wife. However, ladies what would you do if the man you were madly in love with proposed to you without a ring? Let’s just say he said something along the lines of, “baby I love you so much and I’m so sure that you’re the woman I want to be with for the rest of my life and for that reason alone I don’t want to wait any longer, I want to marry you tomorrow morning as soon as city hall opens. I know I don’t have a ring for you right now, but I promise that after we get married I’m going to start pulling in some major over time and get you the ring that you want.”  Just imagine the man you love sitting there with love in his eyes awaiting your response as he holds your hand anxious for a response. Ladies what do you say? Do you accept the proposal or not and if you do accept the proposal do you tell people your engaged or do you keep it a secret until you have a ring to show? And lastly would you actually feel legitimately engaged if you don’t have a ring?

I personally would never accept a proposal without a ring, I believe that if my man loves me like he says he does he will wait until he can afford a ring and provide me the marriage proposal I deserve. Sadly, I have a female family member who accepted a marriage proposal from a man who claimed that he was going to get her an engagement/wedding ring after they had gotten married, and to make a long story short they stayed married for 9 years and during that time she never got that ring. After getting married, bills, children and other life issues came into play and it seems that her wearing an engagement ring just wasn’t a top priority anymore. In my opinion accepting a marriage proposal or getting married without a ring is a recipe for regret and hostility.  WHAT DO YOU THINK, would you accept a marriage proposal without a ring?

-Green Apple

I was invited to this kick back out west one day with my sister Green Apple. There I met Rod and noticed that in his room he had bulks of clothing stashed. Roderick Temple is a 28 year old African American man who is the owner and designer of Materialistic Enspiration, a clothing line that I consider flavor. Some of his styles consists of sayings known as “Fly Sh** Only”, “West Side”, and of course the original “Materialistic Enspiration” including the shopping bag logo with the word ME inside the bags. Rod sells his clothes from his home, where he allows people to stop by and shop or call their order in. I can appreciate someone who has a positive hustle because now days you will more likely hear someone with a negative hustle than a positive one.  Rod is a sweet down to earth guy when interviewing him, I had a chance to view some of his very original merchandise and there was this particular hat I had my eye on. He told me it was the last hat he had in that particular design. I offered to drop bread on it and he said no it’s yours and  gave it to me for free. He showed me love and of course automatically the love circulates from me. I can definitely see this clothing line expanding in the near future and I’m happy to be a supporter. Check out the interview I did with the designer him self! Express your thoughts on Materialistic Enspiration!

To see more of his merchandise follow his Instagram (lilrodsoenspired) and Facebook(Rod Rose Temple). Call 773.885.8922 to order!

-Juicy Peach

 Ok, I know the title is alarming but it’s true Shantia Dennis, a 26 year old McDonald’s employee was selling heroin happy meals out of a Pittsburgh location. Apparently after calling to tell Dennis you were headed to her the key phrase to alert Dennis you wanted to buy drugs was “I’d like to order a toy.” Now if you all are anything like me your first thought was, “what made her think no one else would order a happy meal???” Unlike myself, Dennis didn’t think that would happen and when a mother went home after ordering a happy meal she was alarmed when the box had a bag of heroin inside! The mother quickly called the police who set up an undercover scheme and they too used the phrase “I’d like to order a toy” and received 10 bags heroin!

Dennis was then arrested last Wednesday on the spot caught with 50 bags of heroin, money, and marijuana in her bra. On Thursday she was charged with criminal use of a cell phone, delivery of heroin, possession with intent to deliver heroin and possession of heroin and marijuana. No other employees were arrested and all claimed to have no idea of what was going on.Store owner, Iftikhar Malik, is believed to have no connection to the drug sales. According to the Associated Press, Malik also owns another location in Murrysville, Pa., where an employee was charged with dealing heroin earlier this year. I don’t know if any of you are fans of the hit AMC TV series Breaking Bad but this sure does sound like the drug plot just instead of chicken it’s happy meals! One location, ok I can believe him being unaware but TWO! Yea seems a little odd, but in a statement Malik said, “The allegations related to this employee do not represent acceptable behaviors and are not consistent with my values, as such, we take these charges very seriously and we are fully cooperating with the authorities. We are also conducting our own thorough internal investigation.” I don’t know about you all but next time you order food don’t just check to see if the foods right make sure you are drug free! That’s my juicy news for the day, go ahead let me know your expressions!

-Gorgeous Grape