LITTLE LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKE ME GLAD

Some days we are carried away with the stress of everyday’s work, relationships, studies, financial obligations…..generally, routines that we follow religiously everyday like hypnotized zombies. Sometimes, I wonder what every other person’s daily routine is like. Mine is usually like this…
-wake up at three minutes to six in the morning (three minutes is what I give myself to drag me out of my yummy bed to say thank you to my maker by 6am)
-Finish my prayer about 6:30ish and jump right back to bed (there’s this unquantifiable satisfaction that comes from early morning sleep. Thank God am not in high school anymore, during our long vacs when we’ld come home from boarding school, my mum would give I and my siblings just one week grace of extra morning “sleep-offs”, the following weeks, we were either awakened by nice cane strokes or chores that had to be carried out instanta…chai!)
- I finally wake up proper at seven and fix breakfast for hubby and myself which I don’t get to eat till after a quick bath
- After eating, I get to make up, I don’t leave for work without it (not like my make up is anything to write home about, but just enough to make it seem like I didn’t fall out of bed that morning or had a wild extra wild night)
- Get to the office, at about 8:20, check my corporate mail, e-mail and a few routine blogs.
- 9am-4pm (work, work, work, work till am gasping for air, face one complaining investor or the other, and yeah! It’s amazing how I always have the same words for them “am sorry, your case is being handled! Kindly put down your name and contact and you will be notified as soon as your case is resolved” Bingo!!….and if Oga is away, it’s usually a field’s day!!!! OFFICE PARRY!!!, it means you can sneak in and out…but that’s usually not so often)
-4:15pm, sneak away from the office or should I say, attempt a mad dash for the door or “mission-impossible” moves like hiding behind a door, rolling my bag on the floor and literally crawling to the entrance of my office, or getting some poor colleague from another office to sneak out my bag. But NO! my Oga always has a way of spotting us out, he always barks out “hei you! Where are you going to? Come back here!”. If Oga by chance steps out of the office by 4ish, we usually spy down the corridor, but there’s this crazy stuff that always happens..just as you hit the lift button, he steps out from the lift and barks “where are you going to?”. Msheew, we don’t even get paid to do extra time, and we don’t even get much done once it is 4pm cos other offices close, it’s the official closing hour.
-4:35-40pm, get home and rest for about 15mins before preparing dinner. Hopefully, I get done around 6pm or after 6pm..depends on what it is.
-6pm-ish, do some laundry that has been waiting..washing or ironing (both I and hubby’s) he claims that washing gives him blisters..am yet to verify that..lol, but we made a bargain that if he can’t wash, he has to keep the house clean and wipe surfaces (wiping am sure doesn’t give blisters)
- Hubby comes home by 7:30 to 8pm, we have dinner together and chit-chat about our day
- Watch NTA news by 9pm or CNN if it’s dry, and usually NTA news bores me…..after the first 15mins, I unconsciously reach out for the remote.
-10 pm, pray and sleep!
And next day, we do it all over again!!
But that is not the essence of this post, the real deal is that despite all the rigours of daily life, we should find little little things that make us glad like calling a close friend to ask howdy and offering encouragement from God’s word, rendering help to a stranger that least expects it, taking time out to savour a huge chocolate sundae over an interesting book, kicking back and watching a nice movie, fellowshipping in His presence, spending quality time with someone you love, visiting the spa and getting that pedicure you’ve been procrastinating about and doing something that makes you have a good hearty laugh….afterall, laughter is the best medicine.