Is that similar to "fixin"? Like I'm fixin to go shoot some yoties. [/quote]

Fixin has been around since the first of us rednecks reached the South...

fixin to
vernacular peculiar to the the southern US, means one is about to do something or it is in the process of being done.
I'm fixin to whoop yo skanky butt, however I must first wax poetic.