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Last week I celebrated 50 weeks of giving thanks so this is the week after the jubilee and I certainly still have loads to be thankful for 251-255 I am thankful for hospitable friends. I spent the weekend with friends and their 3 year old son. I have not seen them in almost two years and I had a great time. I also spent the weekend watching repeat episodes of Sponge bob squarepants, playing indoor football and becoming an honorary 3 year old! I am grateful for the opportunity to be a child again for a few days! I am thankful for heating! It is so cold these days and just having a warm place to stay in definitely makes me truly grateful for warmth! I am thankful for help that comes just when I need it. I had been thinking about paying for something and wondering where the money would come from and someone sends me an email to ask me how she could send me money that someone asked her to give me. I am definitely thankful for gifts like this! I am thankful for my brother. I remember his bi...

246-250 Its been 50 weeks of giving thanks, thats something to be thankful for:) A friend's joy The wonderful gift of forgiveness The ability to let go and not worry about everything My future blessings:) As the yorubas say 'eniti o dupe ore ana a ri omiran gba' (He who is grateful for past gifts will recieve other gifts'. I might as well thank God in advance:))!

I was tagged by Jaycee on her last blog post and I am required to write 7 random things about me:) Let's see how this goes: 1. My childhood crushes were Micheal Jackson (as a cute member of the Jackson 5) and Arnold -Gary Coleman:) Like I said they were childhood crushes! May their souls rest in peace! 2. Buy me a great book and you will be my friend for life! Chocolates and teddy bears can be given as gifts but they wont be gifts I'll cherish for life maybe just the day they are bought. 3. I do not have a favorite food! I can eat anything as long as its edible and appeals to my taste buds. 4. I'd rather stay indoors than go out. 5. I was once really scared of the dark and thanks to NEPA would refuse to go anywhere in the house unaccompanied or run like I was chased by the hounds of hell when sent on errands through the house and return breathless convinced that if I turned round something would grab me if I wasn't quick enough. 6. All the pictures I ...

This will not run as a book review but I hope at the end of the day, you will pick up the following books and read them My first recommendation is ‘Ake’ by Wole Soyinka; I cannot tell you how many times I have read the book. It is one of my favorite books. It is an autobiography of his early years and you can tell that he was no ordinary child. His childhood experiences remind me very much of my own though many differences exist. For one I did not grow up in that exciting era of the egba women riots or experience the exhilaration of having an aunt who was the first to ride a car in the country. But I could relate to his fears while walking through the school yard on his way home and his attraction to the stories of gnomes and feasts meant for unseen creatures as I grew up with older cousins who made it a point of duty to scare us out of our skin everyday. His love for school was certainly more than mine and his exploits with his friend barely escaping a beheading and planning a birt...

So much of life, it seems to me, is made up of pure randomness- Sidney Poiter. • Someone asks me where I am from and I answer? The person then launches into a story of how three persons who visited a developing country where raped and beaten. Note, this was not my country, and even if it was, what am I supposed to say to that. My answer- Silence. Call it shocked silence, I could not even begin to fathom a response to the unnecessary tirade. • Are jobs not just available or are the years of experience a ploy to ensure that no one gets any job. Why then would you advertise a post and ask for someone who has 15years experience in a field that is relatively new? If you keep asking for those years of experience and do not invest in training new hands one day the pool you keep drawing from will be empty. Why do you need to know someone inside a company to even get called for an interview? I am just saying. • Why do people ask questions and then get upset when the answer they receive is not a...

241-245 A warm room and a place to lay my head: I went out with a church I visited for the first time to visit the homeless on the streets. My appreciation for the little things grew in leaps and bounds, they were just like me, the only difference was I have a certain roof over me at night and they have none! The gift of fellowship: I like to think I am a homebody, but ever so often I need to go out to talk to others and listen to them speak. I am thankful I have friends and family a phonecall away who I can fellowship with and the TERC fellowship that meets on friday mornings to share God's word. The beginning of swotting: Inasmuch as I love the times I have spent on other things apart from reading, I have to go back to the books, as one more hurdle crossed is bringing me closer to my dreams. The gospel of GRACE: I guess I have learnt a lot more about the heavenly fathers love for me while reading this book . God's peace: This does not need any explanation!

I have long toyed with the idea of running for public office, in my dreams that is! The title is probably the way my election campaigns posters would read:) The only elections I ever ran for any kind of office were in university and grad school, I was elected class representative in my 4th year of med school but I did not campaign once for this post. The elections took place in my absence! Thankfully I had two dear friends who took it upon themselves to campaign for me and I was one of the 6 class representatives chosen. For the second election I sent emails out to my friends and spoke to a few people and was eventually one of those elected as class Marshall. So the idea of running for office and having my face splashed on the pages of the dailies is not one idea I relish. If I ever ran for office, I doubt I would go with this approach! I'm just saying! It will not be 'business as usual' or 'godfathers rule and I am just a puppet'. I would probably be tagged as a tr...

236-240 A break from work for work of another kind A chance to get up, dust myself and press on Wonderful hosts- D&T Joy that nothing can dampen Me!

I am thankful for a new year! I am thankful for the friends I saw over the new year holidays! I am thankful for all the christmas, birthday cards and presents I received! I am thankful for peace and contentment! I am thankful for reunions!

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.-Brooks Atkinson I could not let a new year go by without posting on my blog especially with a fancy date like 1:1:11 and it trips me that no matter what continent I am on the date means the same:) I have not sat down to write any new resolutions, I think I did away with that habit a long time ago. Instead I think about what I want to accomplish in the new year and write them down. One project I would love to embark on is taking a picture every day and maybe at the end of the year or the end of a quarter I would have a blog post on the world through my eyes/lens ! On my list of must buys this year is something that would aid that project, a nice camera! One that does not give me blurred pictures even when my hands shake:) For the more concrete plans they lie buried in my secret thoughts/diary. I am grateful that 2010 is over and I am happy that I have a new clean slate...