Sorry guys, I know I've been AWOL for a minute, it's this work wahala. Anyway I won't bore you with the details.
Last weekend one of my mom's friends came over and she had got her eyebrows tattoed. (I didn't know they did that in Nigeria) Anyway, they looked totally fab, and my mom is considering getting hers done. I don't know about tattoing my eyebrows, what if all of a sudden I want round eyebrows instead of arched eyebrows?...lol (I know I can be a complete ditz), then I'll be stuck with arched ones.......quelle horreur!!. Or what if I just want a totally different look altogether?
So with all this talk of eyebrows, I decided that I wanted to get my eyebrows done. Honestly it's just something I'm not fond of doing. I like the finished look, but I hate the process, I can say that in my entirely life I have gotten my eyebrows waxed a total of 5 times, okay maybe 6. For one it hurts so much and then I breakout in the areas they waxed and by the time my craw craw is clearing my eyebrows are pretty much grown out. So please what is the point? I wanted to try threading them before I left the states but I never got around to. So I had my Aunt employ the Lagos technique of 'scraping' sorry shaping eyebrows with a blade on me......it actually didn't turn out bad, it's thinner than I would have liked, so I have a little too much of the 'experienced' look, but other than that it's not bad.
Does anyone know if they thread eyebrows anywhere in Lagos?
So on to more important things. My baby is crawling (she's been crawling since New Year) and just started walking with support (holding the chair, bed, etc and moving from point A to B). I am very excited and also very nervous, cause the havoc this girl has caused just crawling, I don't even want to know what's going to happen when she can actually walk. God help us all.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Stressed
I swear stress is just following me everywhere. Right now my pimple and hair concotions are the least of my worries. I have 2 project deadlines for the 22nd of Jan and 7th of Feb. My client/boss is being a complete ass, and they are trying to renege on my contract. I think they suddenly realized "...damn we're paying this 'african' chick a little too much..." well that one is their palava, I'm not giving them room to say anything to me about it again (I kinda slacked off about 3 weeks ago and I heard it from them).
Meanwhile, I'm looking for a full-time web developer to help me with all the work I have to, I mean I am working from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. everyday, I don't have a fucking life! I interviewed 2 candidates today that were referred to me and it was a disaster. Why can't people just answer yes/no questions with a yes or no?. I asked this guy to tell me a bit about himself, and he had no clue...I mean the question is about him? Whatever the case, I need to find someone pronto cause this will just not do, I need more time to 'socialize'(lol) and of course spend with my family.
Oh, before I forget, I went to this place called Coconut Grove (Groove?) in ikoyi over the weekend, it actually wasn't bad. It was like a mellow 'Cafe Wha' for the NY folks. Complete with the oyinbo sounding music and live band. Definitely better than being trampled in a club though.
So what's new folks? How has your week/weekend been?
Meanwhile, I'm looking for a full-time web developer to help me with all the work I have to, I mean I am working from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. everyday, I don't have a fucking life! I interviewed 2 candidates today that were referred to me and it was a disaster. Why can't people just answer yes/no questions with a yes or no?. I asked this guy to tell me a bit about himself, and he had no clue...I mean the question is about him? Whatever the case, I need to find someone pronto cause this will just not do, I need more time to 'socialize'(lol) and of course spend with my family.
Oh, before I forget, I went to this place called Coconut Grove (Groove?) in ikoyi over the weekend, it actually wasn't bad. It was like a mellow 'Cafe Wha' for the NY folks. Complete with the oyinbo sounding music and live band. Definitely better than being trampled in a club though.
So what's new folks? How has your week/weekend been?
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Fine Face No Pimples
Have you noticed that plenty girls in Lagos have serious fresh skin? I mean even fresher than the girls in yankee, it’s not even funny oh! And when you ask them all of them will tell they use pears baby soap or some crap like that or they drink a lot of water. Abeg, who doesn’t know that water thing? Me too I drink plenty water and my face is ok, but not as fresh as I see on these girls.
Since I am trying to attain my MILF status at all costs, I too started using pears baby soap, those bitches were lying men, why can’t we just share the love and become one big bloody attractive happy family??!! Eh? Why are we women so bloody competitive? Even my sister oh? This girl used to have serious “patch patch” skin, all of a sudden she started looking real fresh, to the point that she looks younger than me. WTF?...... I’m going off track. Anyway I did some real investigating and here’s what I came up with (*disclaimer: please if you get big pimples from my regimen, no blame me oh! It’s not my fault that you didn’t do a patch test first – thank you very much) - Guys don't worry you can try this in the privacy of your bathroom, no one has to know you apply facial masks at night :)
Natural solutions (necessary in Nigeria, cause nothing is convenient, either you swim 7 seas to buy it, or you pay through your nose)
+ Juicing: I hear carrot and cucumber juiced at home works wonders for your skin and hair, I am yet to try either just going by what I have heard
+ Aspirin and Lemon juice, apparently a few aspirin (enough to make the lemon juice pasty) crushed in lemon juice applied as a mask (don't sleep with it oh!) just put it on till it dries then peel off and rinse your face, in addition to helping with craw craw it shrinks pores the size of craters (make sure you don't have any open skin on your face, it won't be a nice experience with the lemon juice)
+ Honey, a few people said this, but I tried it and got plenty craw craw, apparently I am allergic to honey, but some people swear by this, personally, I'm not messing with it again.
+ Water, I'm sure you've heard this from everyone already, drink plenty of it.
Shelf solutions
+ Neutrogena clean and clear soap
+ Dudu osun
+ Proactive
As for those of you with fresh faces reading this, please tell us what you do to have such positively glowing skin.
Since I am trying to attain my MILF status at all costs, I too started using pears baby soap, those bitches were lying men, why can’t we just share the love and become one big bloody attractive happy family??!! Eh? Why are we women so bloody competitive? Even my sister oh? This girl used to have serious “patch patch” skin, all of a sudden she started looking real fresh, to the point that she looks younger than me. WTF?...... I’m going off track. Anyway I did some real investigating and here’s what I came up with (*disclaimer: please if you get big pimples from my regimen, no blame me oh! It’s not my fault that you didn’t do a patch test first – thank you very much) - Guys don't worry you can try this in the privacy of your bathroom, no one has to know you apply facial masks at night :)
Natural solutions (necessary in Nigeria, cause nothing is convenient, either you swim 7 seas to buy it, or you pay through your nose)
+ Juicing: I hear carrot and cucumber juiced at home works wonders for your skin and hair, I am yet to try either just going by what I have heard
+ Aspirin and Lemon juice, apparently a few aspirin (enough to make the lemon juice pasty) crushed in lemon juice applied as a mask (don't sleep with it oh!) just put it on till it dries then peel off and rinse your face, in addition to helping with craw craw it shrinks pores the size of craters (make sure you don't have any open skin on your face, it won't be a nice experience with the lemon juice)
+ Honey, a few people said this, but I tried it and got plenty craw craw, apparently I am allergic to honey, but some people swear by this, personally, I'm not messing with it again.
+ Water, I'm sure you've heard this from everyone already, drink plenty of it.
Shelf solutions
+ Neutrogena clean and clear soap
+ Dudu osun
+ Proactive
As for those of you with fresh faces reading this, please tell us what you do to have such positively glowing skin.
Monday, January 08, 2007
Tagged
FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE
1.Telemarketer
2.Hair braider (hey, I had to get my hustle on)
3.Graphic Designer
4.Web Developer
FOUR JOBS YOU WISH YOU HAD
1.Trophy wife
2.'Madam' (one who didn't have to ho around though)
3.Trust fund baby
4.Anything else that will bring massive wealth without any work :)
FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN
1.Original Sin
2.The 40 year old virgin
3.Troy
4.Wedding Crashers
FOUR CITIES YOU'VE LIVED IN
1.Lagos Nigeria
2.Queens NY
3.Teaneck, NJ
4.Fairfield, CT
(Ok, I know 3 of my 4 cities are within driving distance of each other, but the question asked for cities, ok?!)
FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH
1.Prison Break
2.Family Guy
3.Futurama
4.American Dad
FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION/TRAVELLED TO
1. EMERIKA
2. Linz, Austria
3. Geneva, Switzerland
4. Las Palmas, Spain
FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY
1.Google
2.Plenty Blogs
3.Work related sites
4.Craigslist
FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
1.Yam and ukodo peppersoup
2.Grilled skirt cake from the cheesecake factory
3.Mongolian beef from P.F. Changs
4.Party Jollof rice, fried rice
FOUR THINGS YOU WON'T EAT
1.Cheese
2.Olives
3.Odon (warri people should know what I'm talking about)
4.Mustard sauce
FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU COULD EAT OR DRINK RIGHT NOW
1.Super rick dark moist chocolate cake
2.Asun
3.Guava
4.Shawarma (I actually haven't eaten this since I got back)
FOUR THINGS IN YOUR BEDROOM
1.A mess
2.Clothes
3.Bed
4.Too many baby gadgets to list
FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD IN YOUR BEDROOM
1.A permanent invisible maid
2.Perfect contemporary furniture that someone picks out and sets up for me
3.More gadgets
4.Everything within arms reach from the bed
FOUR THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW
1.Jeans
2.Top
3.My bling (engagement ring)
4.My weave..alright (said in the perfect Wendy Williams voice)...lol
ONE PLACE I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
Right here in fornt of my computer...:)
ONE FICTIONAL PLACE I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
Wherever the futurama folks live, they have it made!
FOUR PEOPLE YOU’D REALLY LOVE TO HAVE DINNER WITH
??? can't think of anyone???
FOUR THINGS YOU ARE THINKING RIGHT NOW
1.Too many bloody questions
2.I really should be working
3.I have so much work to do
4.Why do I have only 6 of my 10 toenails painted?
FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE THINGS/PEOPLE
1.My baby and the rest of my family
2.My laptop
3.Cars
4.Shoes
FOUR PEOPLE YOU TAG
Anyone reading this who hasn't done this already!
1.Telemarketer
2.Hair braider (hey, I had to get my hustle on)
3.Graphic Designer
4.Web Developer
FOUR JOBS YOU WISH YOU HAD
1.Trophy wife
2.'Madam' (one who didn't have to ho around though)
3.Trust fund baby
4.Anything else that will bring massive wealth without any work :)
FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN
1.Original Sin
2.The 40 year old virgin
3.Troy
4.Wedding Crashers
FOUR CITIES YOU'VE LIVED IN
1.Lagos Nigeria
2.Queens NY
3.Teaneck, NJ
4.Fairfield, CT
(Ok, I know 3 of my 4 cities are within driving distance of each other, but the question asked for cities, ok?!)
FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH
1.Prison Break
2.Family Guy
3.Futurama
4.American Dad
FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION/TRAVELLED TO
1. EMERIKA
2. Linz, Austria
3. Geneva, Switzerland
4. Las Palmas, Spain
FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY
1.Google
2.Plenty Blogs
3.Work related sites
4.Craigslist
FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
1.Yam and ukodo peppersoup
2.Grilled skirt cake from the cheesecake factory
3.Mongolian beef from P.F. Changs
4.Party Jollof rice, fried rice
FOUR THINGS YOU WON'T EAT
1.Cheese
2.Olives
3.Odon (warri people should know what I'm talking about)
4.Mustard sauce
FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU COULD EAT OR DRINK RIGHT NOW
1.Super rick dark moist chocolate cake
2.Asun
3.Guava
4.Shawarma (I actually haven't eaten this since I got back)
FOUR THINGS IN YOUR BEDROOM
1.A mess
2.Clothes
3.Bed
4.Too many baby gadgets to list
FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD IN YOUR BEDROOM
1.A permanent invisible maid
2.Perfect contemporary furniture that someone picks out and sets up for me
3.More gadgets
4.Everything within arms reach from the bed
FOUR THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW
1.Jeans
2.Top
3.My bling (engagement ring)
4.My weave..alright (said in the perfect Wendy Williams voice)...lol
ONE PLACE I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
Right here in fornt of my computer...:)
ONE FICTIONAL PLACE I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
Wherever the futurama folks live, they have it made!
FOUR PEOPLE YOU’D REALLY LOVE TO HAVE DINNER WITH
??? can't think of anyone???
FOUR THINGS YOU ARE THINKING RIGHT NOW
1.Too many bloody questions
2.I really should be working
3.I have so much work to do
4.Why do I have only 6 of my 10 toenails painted?
FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE THINGS/PEOPLE
1.My baby and the rest of my family
2.My laptop
3.Cars
4.Shoes
FOUR PEOPLE YOU TAG
Anyone reading this who hasn't done this already!
Friday, January 05, 2007
All in a days work
My baby's nanny didn't come the entire week cause her daughter is getting married. This woman only started in November and I have heard so many stories as to why she can't come to work or whatever. When baby's are involved it's not so easy to fire and hire, it takes a while for your child to get used to someone so I will need a very good reason to fire this woman. Anyway, back to my original story, my Mr. and Mom are supposed to be helping me with her while I work, since both of them can be more flexible with their time. So yesterday, my mom was out, which left Oga in charge. Generally, it's a pain in the ass to feed her with a spoon since it's very messy and depending on her mood she might just spit everything out back at you, so I am conveniently 'not available' when it comes to this mealtime.
Being the good wife and mother I am (insert evil grin here) when it was time to feed her yesterday I went and made the food and said in the sweetest voice I could muster to Mr. to please feed her cause I was very busy with work. And infact, I made sure they did it in another room so I wouldn't hear all the drama that definitely will follow. Well it didn't work. 10 minutes later, Mr. came down baby in one hand bowl of food in the other hand...."take your baby, she doesn't want to eat her food..." and he dumped her on my lap put her food down and bounced.
That's how little madam started with her shakara oh!.....screaming, crying, jerking, stretching.....(where are those people that say I have a quiet baby at times like this?), what song did I not sing?, infact old macdonalds farm had every animal I could think of, from a ram that went baaaa (what sounds do rams make anyway?) to a meh meh goat (this is old macdonald naija style....lol). Anyway, she finished her food after about 40 painful minutes of singing and nodding and stumping my foot to show that I'm happy and I know it. And of course she sprayed me and everything in line with her mouth with her food.
Oh, I also wanted to sing that 1,2 buckle my shoe song, does anyone have the complete words to it?
Being the good wife and mother I am (insert evil grin here) when it was time to feed her yesterday I went and made the food and said in the sweetest voice I could muster to Mr. to please feed her cause I was very busy with work. And infact, I made sure they did it in another room so I wouldn't hear all the drama that definitely will follow. Well it didn't work. 10 minutes later, Mr. came down baby in one hand bowl of food in the other hand...."take your baby, she doesn't want to eat her food..." and he dumped her on my lap put her food down and bounced.
That's how little madam started with her shakara oh!.....screaming, crying, jerking, stretching.....(where are those people that say I have a quiet baby at times like this?), what song did I not sing?, infact old macdonalds farm had every animal I could think of, from a ram that went baaaa (what sounds do rams make anyway?) to a meh meh goat (this is old macdonald naija style....lol). Anyway, she finished her food after about 40 painful minutes of singing and nodding and stumping my foot to show that I'm happy and I know it. And of course she sprayed me and everything in line with her mouth with her food.
Oh, I also wanted to sing that 1,2 buckle my shoe song, does anyone have the complete words to it?
Monday, January 01, 2007
Happy New Year!
I don't believe we're in 2007! it just sounds like it should be so far in the future. All in all I had a very good 2006
- I got married
- I had a baby
- I got a fantastic opportunity to do some consulting work for my employers in NY from Nigeria with the same salary (and no US taxes!!!! :))
- I got tenants who pay their rent on time (knock on wood)
- I moved to Nigeria with my family
- I have a family who loves me very much and parents that are ready to support me in whatever decision I take
Ok I'm going off track, bottom line 2006 was a good year and hopefully 2007 will be better. I don't have any new year resolutions per se, but I would like to make a few changes
- Workout more (ok fine, just workout period)
- Update my blog more frequently
- Work on my temper, it's gotten shorter and shorter over the years
- Actively seek out more business opportunities
- Be myself (don't let any of those snotty ex-QC mates of mine turn me into a snotty bitch as well, haba we've grown past that!)
Anyway, enough of this sappy mess. I had 3 weddings in a row on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, never again, those girls/women that go every weekend try. They were all good weddings, it was good to see familiar faces again but as usualy you know there are always the stuck up bitches who act like they don't know you. Whatever.
So that's how for the wedding on thursday, when we were leaving my cousin asked us to give her friend a ride back to Ikeja, this chick got in the car and started saying "turn left, turn ROIGHT", please what the hell is ROIGHT?!!What's up with everyone in Lagos having an accent anyway?.... So homegirl was flirting with my husband right in front of me sha......."oh you don't know your way [insert sexy giggle here]....oh ok don't worry I will show you the way...." I was like this chick is bold!, I almost left the front seat for her to come and sit down oh! Anyway we finally dropped her off somewhere in Alausa, that's how my Mr. was telling me the next day that the girl left her number in the car!! can you imagine!!
- I got married
- I had a baby
- I got a fantastic opportunity to do some consulting work for my employers in NY from Nigeria with the same salary (and no US taxes!!!! :))
- I got tenants who pay their rent on time (knock on wood)
- I moved to Nigeria with my family
- I have a family who loves me very much and parents that are ready to support me in whatever decision I take
Ok I'm going off track, bottom line 2006 was a good year and hopefully 2007 will be better. I don't have any new year resolutions per se, but I would like to make a few changes
- Workout more (ok fine, just workout period)
- Update my blog more frequently
- Work on my temper, it's gotten shorter and shorter over the years
- Actively seek out more business opportunities
- Be myself (don't let any of those snotty ex-QC mates of mine turn me into a snotty bitch as well, haba we've grown past that!)
Anyway, enough of this sappy mess. I had 3 weddings in a row on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, never again, those girls/women that go every weekend try. They were all good weddings, it was good to see familiar faces again but as usualy you know there are always the stuck up bitches who act like they don't know you. Whatever.
So that's how for the wedding on thursday, when we were leaving my cousin asked us to give her friend a ride back to Ikeja, this chick got in the car and started saying "turn left, turn ROIGHT", please what the hell is ROIGHT?!!What's up with everyone in Lagos having an accent anyway?.... So homegirl was flirting with my husband right in front of me sha......."oh you don't know your way [insert sexy giggle here]....oh ok don't worry I will show you the way...." I was like this chick is bold!, I almost left the front seat for her to come and sit down oh! Anyway we finally dropped her off somewhere in Alausa, that's how my Mr. was telling me the next day that the girl left her number in the car!! can you imagine!!
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