Toss It Out!

Yesterday morning, I had to throw out all the raw meat in the freezer. Out went the minced meat, goat meat, sausages, shrimps...all of the good stuff. My mum was able to salvage the Oha soup, pureed tomatoes, boiled meat and a few other things.

Yes, you guessed it. NEPA/PHCN issues are back again. We have not had constant electricity for a while. Funny thing is that we have 3 generators that are to supply us electricity but for some odd reason we have been caught with our pants down and not enough electricity to carry the freezer. Okay, not exactly odd reason. We had relaxed on fixing the generator that usually carries the freezer and the second one that carries it just stopped being able to do so about a month ago. I can't figure out why. The last one is a small one that just carries the lights and the fan.

I told someone about what happened to the food and she went " Ah! You would have boiled everything and tucked in." I can't help wondering if this chic is for real. I should sit down and eat all that food just so it does not go bad. Hmmm, I would go bad.

Anyway, NEPA/PHCN is lucky there was no kpomo, shaki, brokoto or roundabout in the freezer. If those ones had gone bad, I would certainly have gone after them. LOL!

Wise Sayings

I got this from Laspapi and I had to share. It's simple and direct.

'Beware of desperate steps.
The darkest night lived will turn to day'.

No matter what we are going through, we always have to remeber that the Sun will shine again.

Thank you Laspapi!

Acceptable or not?

Keep your sneeze to yourself

Don't share your germs with anyone else

Grab a tissue off the shelf

And keep your sneeze to yourself.

.............Barney and Friends

I did not go to work today because I had a cold. Mmmhmmm, "just" a cold.

I have always wondered about the proprietry of calling in sick because of a common cold. I mean, it's not like you are dying! However, I was at work yesterday and went through so many tissues, sneeze, had to wash my hands so many times, sneeze, talk to people, sneeze, cry off a meeting, sneeze, attend to a few "clients", sneeze. Half my face turned red from all the exertion (I am kinda fair in complexion). I had a headache/eyeache felt miserable. I could not wait for work to end so that I could slink off.

This morning, I woke up feeling better, but determined that I would not go to work today. I'ld rather do all my sneezing at home. Besides, I reasoned, I have my colleagues' interest at heart. I did not want to spread the love...em...germs.

So what do you think? Is the common cold enough reason to call in sick? Or just a lazy person's way of avoiding work?

Who were they?

On Saturday, I decided to hang out with my sister. We were to meet at Ikoyi, go to Lekki and then the mainland. On the way we (I was with my daughter and a friend) got held up in traffic. I was so sure that it was a fuel queue "go-slow" that I tuned my mind off and decided that we would get there when we get there.

We were stuck on Kingsway (In front of the British Council) for almost 20minutes when lo! and behold a siren was heard and Mobile Police officers started weaving through traffic. First one, then another, then another, then another and yet another. I wanted to see what car/entourage was vomitting all these people out but could not see that far back. Needless to say, the traffic started moving. We got to the front of the Church of assumption and saw that it was a wedding ceremony that was holding us up. For those that don't know, the church is about 2 minutes walk from the former british council office) and we spent 20 minutes doing the distance. Arrgghh! Anyways, what was more interesting was that there were about 2 large trucks for conveying mobile police men there. There was a Black Maria (I don't know how to explain this one o!) and several other vehicles that indicated a strong military presence there. My friend who is one of the shitty..em..city people readers claimed to recognise several "dignitaries" as we passed the church. Okay, so one society wedding on the island, the traffic is over. I can deal with that! or so I thought.

After meeting with my sister, we headed out. Near the shopping mall, there was traffic again. This time, just some police men and a smattering of mobile police men. Two wedding! Apparently one of them jammed to the teeth with some sorta "dignitaries". After some delay, we were allowed to move. I must not forget to mention that this particular group actually barricaded the road and refused to let anyone go through for a long time. How dumb is that?

On our way to the mainland, there was another hold-up near MUSON center. This time, there was a bomb squad complete with several K-9's -massive dogs, several trucks full of mobile policemen and of course plenty of "foot soldiers". This wedding obviously had a really really important dignitary.

My questions are: "Who were the people getting married and more importantly, who was attending?" Does any one know? Baba-Alaye?

Sans Yeux

I watched Newsline with my mom again, hoping that I would catch a cheerful story. There were a few weddings, the usual bank stuff. I thought, o.k, no bad news today. No such luck. There were about 3. Here's one.

It's a story about a 7 year old who was kidnapped and had his eyes plucked out. His father found him (after an agitated search) in a sugar cane farm sans yeux. The man, Mr A, who kidnapped him had been commisoned to get a pair of eyes for someone's juju. The jazz was so that Mr. B could be invisible. I am not even going to pretend to understand that. The medicine man (they were all caught by the police) claimed that he asked for eyes to be obtained from a cemetery. Mr A claims he just brought the boy and that Mr. plucked out the eyes, Mr B claims that Mr. B was the one that plucked out the eyes. While they are busy passing the buck, the young boy has lost his sight forever.

Baba Alaye and Olawunmi are quite right, our society has issues.

No more Newsline stories. And no, I am not running away from the unpleasantness of the stories.