Happenings of the week

1) Interesting news items:
-listened to the 911 call by the Olympic skier who committed suicide. It was surreal and sad.
-Lauryn hill having a 6th child by an unknown baby daddy. She is a supposed icon of female empowerment, but to me she seems weird and damaged or maybe just an enigma.
-another young Nigerian woman possibly murdered by her husband. who poisoned Tola Spiff?
-Giorgio Armani's body at age 77 http://lindaikeji.blogspot.com/2011/07/goh-how-can-this-be-body-of-77-year-old.html


2) Tami Roman. One of Taynement's pet peeves is grown women/people that act retarded and I never fully grasped how annoying it could be until I watched this weeks episode of Basketball Wives. Tami just makes me want to scream!!!! She is probably in her 40s and is sooooo venomous to everyone, her daughters, strangers, friends, just so quick to pick a fight. Her 2 lows for me was when Meeka apologized and she said "yeah I heard her but this don't mean the drama between us is over" and then when she slapped Meeka at the club. Come on people! This was just worse than the childish shenanigans of the New Housewives of New Jersey and that is saying a lot. Oh yeah...i am a sucker for Reality TV :)


3) Big events. At each stage of life there are big events that are celebrated left, right and center. I remember celebrating my 10th birthday, as well as being invited to lots of 10yr old parties. Next was graduations from college. Left, right and center, everyone was graduating and celebrating. Now it's all about weddings and first babies. In fact, I called my good friend Jade this week after not talking to her for a month, and the first thing she says is "what, you are engaged?" and I was like "whoa. hi, how are you?" but then retrospectively i guess that makes sense.  So after this whole marriage, baby, age group passes, what will be the next big event? 


4) There is always some new fad out there. Some of them have been beneficial and some not so much. My newest experiment is the oil rinse face washing method. Check out http://crunchybetty.com/nitty-gritty-on-the-oil-cleansing-method and http://www.theoilcleansingmethod.com/ Now any of you who know me personally, know that I struggle with acne. Adult acne is so not cute! I was about to book an appointment with a dermatologist this week (always had one except for when i moved to bigtown, OH) when I stumbled on this article. Well, I decided there was no harm in trying. Day 1 - my biggest zit reduced in size. maybe it would have done this anyway, but at least it didn't get bigger from being clogged with oil lol. But the most notable thing for me, after just one day, is that by evening time, i thought to myself, shoot i forgot to use my oil wipes today  ( i have such oily skin that i sheen and radiate grease 2 hrs into my morning despite my cleansing and oil free Aveeno moisturizer) and this was like 7pm. So I went to the mirror and my face was not oily or sheening or dry, it just looked...normal. All I had done was, the oil rinse (used olive oil and castor) the night before, rinsed my face in the morning in the shower (no soap or cleansers), applied sunscreen, and then my bare minerals powder. Day 2  (castor and jojoba)- still no new gazillion breakouts. Big zit is essentially flat. 


5) Do you? I do. As in, yeah I have people on facebook that I want to delete but I feel I have to wait for a few weeks to pass since i just added them not too long ago. One of them is this my family friend who keeps posting what seems like 100 inane status updates. I hate when I get on my newsfeed and it's cluttered with his status updates that I don't give 2 cents about. For example: "VENEZUELA: Prez Hugo Chavez vows to stay in power till 2031. 20 years more to go............................​................You see why I was praying for him to recover from his cancer treatment. So that among the world leaders, there will be Our Hugo to keep the comedy going!!!!!!!!!!"  I really don't give a F$%*...so yeah looking fwd to when i can discretely delete him and others with their stupid statuses or people that I haven't talked to in years.  Oh yeah, that is something about me, I hate clutter. I constantly delete emails, texts, pictures, throw away clothes, documents, receipts, keepsakes.....anything that I can. I do have moments of regret, because I end up needing something and I can't find it. Like recently, I threw away my old BLS (basic life support) certification because it had expired and then when it came time to renew it, of course turned out one of the things they needed was my old certificate...lol. Thank God eventually they let me proceed without it. 


6) Thanks to the best gift ever :) I will be going to Nigeria in September after a decade and I am so excited and a little anxious. So if you guys are the praying type, please pray my trip goes well and that I actually return safely.


7) The Nigerian Blog awards are over and done with right? I ask because I saw what seemed to be results of the Nigerian Blog awards on the most random blog ever. I wondered if it was real because the winners were all people I had never heard of except for Modern African Cuisine. But it seems lots of regulars have stopped blogging, I mean where in the world is Solomon Sydelle...I miss her TTEC and kids' antics. In true declutterer fashion, this week I deleted/cleaned up my blog roll. Bye bye kpakpando, baroque, enkay, aphrodite and all my fav old bloggers. Solomon sydelle, Geebee, Kate, Jade, still giving you guys a chance....lol. Thank you regular bloggers like Taynement, GNG, lucidlitlith, sofull sistah. Thanks to the awards I added Ms Chutzpah's blog and can't wait to delve in.


Have a great weekend.