NEW MONTH AND THANKSGIVING

Truly glad to see this new month, July's gone..hello August!! Thankful for so many things and counting my blessings.

On the 31st of July, at about 2pm, i got a call from my lady boss asking me to come and meet her at  where she was to pick my salary cheque....Hurray! I calculated the distance of where she was and the traffic in that area and felt it would be better to take a cab/drop. By the time i picked up the cheque, it was already 3pm, i usually cash my cheques and make the usually monthly deductions before paying what is left into my savings account.

To cut the long story short, i got robbed after making a quick dash to the bank.....Not robbery of a gun to my head or any other violent means but "pick-pocketing" by the driver who brought me back to the office. I had sat in front of the car, clutching my bag on my laps and when i stopped in front of my office, the door wouldn't just open...so i asked the taxi driver to please come down and open the door, but he leaned from his side to open it.......Sincerely, i can't say how it happened and how he picked my money from my bag and even from the nylon bag (the type the tellers give at the bank) without me knowing.

I asked myself a lot of "had i known" questions.....maybe i should have sat at the back of the taxi, maybe i should have boarded another taxi, maybe i should have driven myself in the first place, maybe i should have checked to make sure my money was intact before coming down and a million more "maybes'"......i truly had no inkling or feeling that anything bad would happen on the 31st and YES, i went to the police station for the first time in my life and made a report after bawling my eyes out. The Nigerian Policemen and women are a funny set of people. The first female officer i met told me that the taxi driver used jazz and i should do "midnight' for three days while another told me that it's usual and they get reports everyday, one other man even asked me to describe the driver and i did, he was like "oh! it must be the fair guy that operates around wuse 2, when we catch him, we will call you to identify him"!!! *SMH* So, they even know the criminals.

But in all, i give God the glory 'cos it could have been worse. I could have been kidnapped, raped or shot because a person that has the mind to "fap" someone's whole sweat for a month can do worse.

31st July gone and i am thankful;

1. I wasn't stolen with my money .

2. For the gift of life, friends and family.

3. For a roof over my head

4. For my lovely, wonderful, awesome, God-sent husband (even though he is "isi-aki" sometimes.. lol)

5. For my gift from God...my baby boy.

6. For good health

7. For a job i can call my own

8. For battles fought for me by God which i don't even know

9. For my brand new nephew

10. For a return plane ticket to go and see this new nephew (IN ADVANCE THANKING)... Received by Faith!!

11. And for all i was, all i am and all i will be......eternally grateful to My God!

May the month of August be beautiful for us all!

SOME WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE DAY

Whenever you feel discouraged or your plans are not coming forth the way you anticipated, when the tides of life drag you back and forth, when you take one step and it feels like a million steps backward, when the answers to your prayers are not immediate.....be still and know that He is God.

Be encouraged by Esther's story! God can lift one up from a place of unknown to a place of favour, people may not see your potentials, many may despise you, there might be a lot of casting down....life's circumstances didn't favour Esther but God definitely made a way in the end. 

HE WILL MAKE A WAY!!! 

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WHAT I AM READING NOW

One of my good ways of relaxing is by reading a nice novel. I usually love intrigues, that way i can't tell what will happen at the end and my attention is kept focused till the story ends.

Right now i am reading Joseph Prince's "Unmerited Favor"- It is a nice Christian book that thoroughly explains the scripture "I will have mercy on whom i'll have mercy". Sometimes we think we have what we have because we have been good children of God or because of our hardwork....but it is all by the grace and mercy of God

I borrowed this book from the lady at the frontdesk in my office hoping i would read it in 48 hours but i've been with it for four weeks...*shamefaced* But it is  a must read....*thank me later*

I am also reading Jeffery Deaver's "Bone Collector". I tend to read multiple books at the same time, there's always some kind of reading material in my bag. I had seen the movie some years ago and i thought i'ld read it to find out the difference, i already have a mental picture of Denzel Washingtion and Angelina Jolie so i act it out in my mind while reading ...weird?

My son nibbles on anything paper...church bulletin, envelopes, toilet paper, newspaper, receipts..you name it. I managed to grab the novel off him as he snicked a bite off a part of the cover with his sharp baby teeth. Here's a pic taken with the You Cam on my laptop.....yeah, that's me in the background too for added effects....lol

I hope i get to finish the books by weekend. Here's wishing anyone reading this a fulfilling rest of the week.



God Bless!

FOUR MONTHS AFTER!!! *sigh*

Yeah, i know...four months later and i am back to clean out the cobwebs and dust up my blog. Na wah for me....i've considered shutting my blog down but this is my little sanctuary and when i do get time to blog, i absolutely love doing it.....it's like a mini journal for me but censored in a way. I also love reading other people's blogs and sharing their laughter, fears and joy.

So *drumrolls*, i have decided to reveal my identity, give my blog a little home makeover and even get to start sharing pictures of me and my life. I am pretty excited 'abourit" and the hubby encourages it so far as i don't plaster his face allover.

Can't end this post without a shout out to Toinlicious!!!! Thanks for asking after me while i was gone *hugs*.

May our days be merry and bright. God bless us all.

Eyes of Truth

HAPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter peeps!! Hope everyone had a wonderful celebration. The death and resurrection of Christ is the greatest sacrifice and show of love, my prayer is that we do not crucify him again by our daily actions or in-actions.
My day was kinda slow/tiring/draining/and i was in low spirits. My house-help left today back to her village, she had been so saucy in the last copy of days.....so, let her just "kukuma" go. Right now, i do not have a help and work beckons on Tuesday but i have faith that God will sort things out for me. He has never disappointed me.
Back to the essence of the post which is Easter. I wish everyone a glorious Easter season. Remain blessed!!

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HELP! I NEED A HELP!

Got home two days ago and my help/baby’s nanny told me “aunty, please there’s something I want to tell you”. I finished my dinner preps and asked her what it was she wanted to tell me and she went about this long story of how she got a call from village telling her that her grand-mother collapsed and was rushed to the hospital and how she was told to come back the next day to come and look after her grand-mother in the hospital……see, gist o!

I asked her if her grandmother didn’t have children. Correct me if I am wrong but my darling granny “Esther” God bless her soul, in her last years on earth was taken care of by her kids, she was a retired cook from a Federal Polytechnic and she shuttled between her children’s houses, she would spend a couple of weeks in our house and complain of how her goats in the village were dying of hunger, then my mom would take her to the village where she would stay for few weeks and attend funerals and all them occasions and afterwards my aunt would come and take her to Aba, needless to say she always complained that Aba had human-sized mosquitos that wouldn’t die even with the strongest insecticides. She always rotated round her children’s houses and village and i think that kept her going.

Back to my house-help matter, the babe said her grandmother has many kids all over naija. Next thing I knew, she threw herself to the ground begging  and saying she had lived alone with her grandma in the village. Whether she is saying the truth (Going by her antecedent behaviors my help can form eh! Gist for another day), I do not know but all I know is that I really need someone, being a working mother of a 14-month old son. I am not working just to build a career but to support my young family (my husband ain’t no billionaire). In this Abuja, life isn’t easy on a single income- I don’t know if I can keep begging for money for little things like pepper, salt and baby milk. Besides rent and school fees in this town is off the roof!!! As much I devote time to my work, I made a resolve to also look after my home. I cook all our meals, I bathe my son (morning and night), I pop in sometimes un-announced in between work to see what’s going in the home front. I just need someone to mind my baby a till I come home……I tire for Abuja day-care ( A friend went to pick her baby at the day care and got there in time to see him sucking on another kid’s pacifier…….eww!!! She told me of how the kids just share diseases/illnesses amongst themselves, bikonu…how would I combine hospital round with work and house?…at least lemme do work and home).

I’ve put it in prayers sha….and I’ve told my God who doesn’t fail to bring me someone who is good, fears God and has purpose…not a witch or wickedness personified. I don’t know how our mother did it o! “ko-easy ra ra”. Soon my baby go enter nursery and I won’t have need again for a minder……..but wait o! what or his brothers and sisters??? *bbm rolling on the floor crying smiley*

N:B- Anybody seen that “my oga at the top” video? Abeg, people should free the guy joor. Nigerians can like to drag an issue.

DOING SOMETHING I HAVE NOT DONE IN A WHILE

I just came back to the office some minutes ago. It was kinda boring in the office (given that “madam” traveled,  I had made sure I cleared my desk of any work early this week so I’ll be free by today and next week because this is the only holiday as good as I can get anytime soon).

There’s this container shop salon near my office, I pass it on my way home most times so I decided to check it out in my period of “lazy” freedom. It’s been long I patronized that kind of salon…don’t get me wrong, my favourite salon in Enugu used to be a roadside container salon till I moved to Abuja and things changed, there are few of them here and the closest salon near my house is far from that, it is actually an overrated beauty spa that charges loads for under-par service.

Anyhow, I got to this salon and I asked the lady there to take of my weave and do me some good old “washing and sehhtting”…yeah!  that’s the correct pronunciation where I come from lol. She did that and added some good dose of lotta-body (oh! How I’ve missed lotta-body! All kinds of hair mousse everywhere) and then proceeded to roll my hair.

*side-bar*- I haven’t rolled my hair in like five or six years. I have very long full hair that takes gazillion years to dry under a normal hair dryer and between, I had some bad experiences in Enugu where my hair stylist would crank up the dryer to the highest and literally melt my brains out so my stubborn long hair would dry fast given it’s unwilling track record.

So, today I did that washing and setting and sat under a half-broken hair dryer which the stylist made up for by wrapping with a towel. Needless to say, I spent an hour and afterwards, she styled my hair in a bun just like I used to when I was a kid. I totally loved it, it brought back nostalgic memories and besides bun up-dos’ are in vogue.

I really enjoyed doing something I’ve not done in a long while. Variety is truly the spice of life, it is giving me ideas now….I’m thinking of roasting fish for dinner of cooking something I haven’t eaten in a while.

Will I ever go back to the standing dryer?…well, I don’t think so. The persons who invented hand dryers and the act of blow-drying need the noble peace prize.:-)

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WHERE HAVE I BEEN????

Let me start by driving in my cleaning truck accompanied by volunteers *just like in extreme home makeover*.........Mehn!!! e don tey??? i am even asking myself....Please where have you been???

I must really apologize to me followers first of all for the loooooooooooong absence. Please accept my sincerest apologies for being long gone from the blogsphere without any notice, i have really missed a lot and would need  a lot of catching up on your blogs as well*chai*. Here is an update of what has been happening in my life:
1. I got this job in an NGO that sucks out the energy off me. It is a dream job but very tasking! The pay is not much but it is doing a lot of good for my resume. I am constantly busy on my toes...It is that bad that i even get calls at night sometimes from my boss which really pisses hubby off. As i am doing this post, my lady boss is off to New-York for a conference and i'm sooooo thrilled and excited. Was to go with her but was given the "boot" by American Embassy for some flimsy reason but boy! am i glad?! Heard people go there and come out depressed when rejected but i was over-joyed that i didn't have to travel and leave my baby behind (by the way he's 14 months now and says few words...hurray!). hubby says i should quit cos a job is not supposed to depress you but it should be something one looks forward to and enjoys. Actually, i don't hate the job, i just find it challenging. I try not to complain beacuse to find job no be beans.
2. I lost me some good old weight since i started working and by that i mean about 15kg.
3. I got this really annoying house-help *sigh* (her gist is for another day).
4. I've been busy attending workshops and conferences that i've lost count.
5. I am doing some self improving work through training and all sorts as i can't really afford to do my masters now.
6. God has been so good to me. I can't thank him enough. Being alive and healthy to see today is all His doing.

I hope to blog more by God's grace. let me leave now and allow the cleaning crew to do their work, i'll be back soon to do some major blogging.

xoxoxo

UPDATE

Terribly sorry about my absence from the blogsphere recently, I’ve been a little bit under the weather and I lacked every miniscule of motivation and passion to write. As I am writing this, I am sipping moringa tea hoping it will turn on the light bulbs in my head. Have you guys heard about moringa tea? ya’ll should check it up, it is supposed to be nature’s miracle “cure-all”.

So tomorrow is a new month, am so thankful that God has brought my loved ones and I this far at this time of the year. I wish you all my blog friends a happy new month. I am already thinking of my new month resolutions and how to go about them. I find that it is easier to make resolutions and targets by monthly basis/break down New Year resolutions by monthly basis- it makes them easily achievable.

One of my new month resolutions is “operation flat tummy by force!” LOL. I might need to put a picture of what my tummy looks like so that you guys will see and I wouldn’t actually sound so vain…..Mehn, my tummy is bigGGGGGg! This week I tried buttoning my shirt but it wouldn’t, I had to throw on a camisole and leave the buttons open. I am thinking of registering at the gym but I don’t have a minder for my baby yet. Maybe I have to devise my own belly flattening methods at home.

Another resolution is to clear out my wardrobe. I have very few clothes that are my size now, no thanks to my post-baby body. I have already filled out a big Ghana must go and a travel bag. I intend to lose weight but I don’t want to keep the clothes with the hope that I’ll fit into all of them, I’ld rather lose weight and rock it out in new baffs.

Lastly, I really need to pray more. There is a big satisfaction I get from talking to God and I want to explore a deeper relationship with him.

Once more, happy new month my dears! I pray that God will grant you all your heart desires and keep you in good health. Stay blessed!

LIEBSTER BLOG AWARD

My sincere appreciation goes to Sugarspring for this wonderful award. Thank you so much!!!!!!! Your Easter story was such a blessing to me! I didn’t really prepare an acceptance speech and this is my first award so you must really understand that I am a novice at this:-). Please check out her blog here.

So here is how the award works

1. Link back to the person who gave it to you and thank them

2. Post the award to your blog.

3. Give the award to 5 bloggers with less than 200 followers that you appreciate and value.

4. Leave a comment on the 5 blogs to let them know that they have received this award.

I have very few followers so I am giving the award to them because I appreciate them. (Please if you are reading this, you are automatically tagged).

she also tagged me in the elevens game, and here are the questions and answers;

1.who on earth do you think loves you most(apart from God)

 My husband…I guess lol

2. if you were to sacrifice your life for someone, who would it be

Sincerely….i don’t know.
3. have you ever had a crush?

Yes, I was sixteen years and he was my older sister’s friend, he was about twenty-three. I told my sister I liked him and she went straight to him and told him I had a crush on him (very embarrassing). Anyways, I ran into him three years ago at House on the Rock Church. He is now a Pastor.
4. whats the naughtiest thing you did as a child?

This is really difficult, my middle name as a kid was “naughty”

5.If today was your last day on earth, where would you rather be, what would you do and who would you want to spend your last hour with?

In church, worshiping God with Hubby and the whole family

6.if you were given a second chance to begin life again, would you rather be someone else or the same YOU?

I love me anyday, anytime
7. what are you so passionate about in life?

Life itself and fulfilling destiny
8. if you were told to sing a solo for someone on the radio, who would it be going out to?

My husband
9. if you were told to make a shout out to just ONE person on TV, who would it be going out to?

My dad or mum (either)
10. have you ever cried for a friend? and why?

Ermmm…..i don’t think so, can’t remember any such situation
11. if Jesus was coming today, would you be ready? I don’t know, I ask him for grace everyday to be who he wants me to be and I live my life not holding back but opening my heart to Him to perfect me.

Can’t wait to update my blog, but I’ve been so saddled with responsibilities at the home front that give me very little time to write, but I shall do so soon by God’s grace.