Gimme Something Light....

Hello dearest blog visitors and readers and even my e-monitoring spirits😈😜, hope y'all had a wonderful week? I had a rather busy week and I'm presently hiding in my room (I'll explain why in a bit), lying in bed and writing while I summon up the will to exercise a bit.

I made a conscious decision to be more fit and be in better form this year. I had a bit of health issue towards the end of last year which made me ignore my physical form and the results are glaring on the lying scales I've been stepping on 😬😳 and my shrunken clothes. So I woke up this morning and started with water and lime juice to get my metabolism bubbly after which I made a healthy breakfast of beans and bbq fish (it's healthy in my head and body o). Let me add that I made the kids' breakfast of pancakes, sausage and syrup and did not even taste a bit of it as I was focused on my diet. 

Anyways, as I sat down to eat my healthy brekkie, I heard a small fizzy voice calling out my name in such an endearing manner. It was the chilled bottle of Pepsi in my fridge calling out for me seductively, Lord have mercy! 😩 I quickly polished off my brekkie and rushed to hide in my room. It was all I could do to resist Pepsi-Delilah-Dear. 

I got chatting with a friend who has been motivating me on my weight-loss journey (Journey??!! oh, who am I kidding, more like weight-Loss-Fantasy-Jog) and the conversation below ensued:

LOL. Ok, that was a really sad excuse NOT to go exercising and about the worst I've ever given unless you count the one I told my diet-partner two days ago when she told me the asun (spicy goat meat) meal I was having was not fitful worthy. I simply reminded her that goats eat grass and thus my asun was a sort of salad, no? #OkBye 😹😹🙈

Jokes aside though, health is wealth and we must all ensure we endeavour to keep healthy and fit this year, come what may. Surround yourself with people that will encourage you on your quest for a better body/health. And reconvert all your exercise bicycles-turned-clotheshangers back to their original statuses as exercise bicycles!!!!!!!

Do enjoy your weekend. 💗

For The Love Of Peppered Snails

I love snails so very much that I honestly cannot describe the intense satisfaction and joy I get when I am eating well prepared, tasty, delicious peppered snails. When I resided in the UK, I remember an old friend of mine visiting and telling me that all the snails in Lagos threw a party when they learnt I had relocated. 😋😂🐌LOL Such was and still is my love for spicy peppered snails.

A few weeks ago, a couple of friends and I were hanging out at the home of one of us when all three of us suddenly craved peppered snails. We mulled, deliberated and dragged on it for about an hour but the craving was pretty intense and eventually we started narrowing down our options of locating the best peppered snails place within our proximity. We picked a "joint" based on recommendations and description and called an Uber to take us there. Thankfully, the Uber guy grew up in that neighbourhood and knew the peppered snail place and he even highly recommend it and took us there. After a few minutes, our order was ready and packed for us to take away.

We decided to stop in a nearby supermarket and get some drinks to go with the scrumptious peppered snails whose tantalising aroma had filled up the car. As my friend and I alighted from the cab and asked the lovely cabbie to wait behind for us to quickly purchase some drinks from the supermarket, she jokingly asked me what I would do if, upon our return, I found out that the cabbie had eaten our peppered snails!!! Say what now???!!!! I very nearly turned right back around to grab my pack of precious peppered snails but we carried on into the store. She kept coming up with crazy scenarios of returning to an empty pack of peppered snails and a satisfied cabbie who could claim he was hungry and couldn't resist the aroma that had engulfed his car. And perhaps he would say he didn't have money to replace my precious snails and we would have had to work out a payment plan!! AH!!! It was hilarious and frankly scary at the same time. I wondered if anyone would truly do that.

I was traumatised and I hurriedly paid for our goods and rushed back into the parking lot. Thankfully, I didn't have to create a scene (yes, I totally would have because I do not mess around with MY peppered snails) because the lovely cabbie was chilling and waiting for us, as were my peppered snails. Hehehehe😀😀😀

Imagine my shock this morning when I logged on to Twitter and read about the story of a food vendor who sent an order of peppered gizzard to a customer via a dispatch rider. The *&$£! dispatch rider ATE all FOUR pieces of peppered gizzard that he was meant to deliver to a client who had ordered and paid for them! I don't care what sort of problems he must have been having that day, he had absolutely no right to have done that. 

While some people are saying that the poor guy was probably hungry or broke or whatchamacallit, methinks he is just very very badly behaved. He could have found other means to satisfy his "hunger" than to jeopardise the vendor's business that way. So because he could not control his longthroat, he has now put someone's business at risk while leaving a most likely hungry and irate customer hanging. 

We cannot keep justifying bad behaviours such as this and labelling them as "poverty mentality, suffering, hungry, etc". I have watched in utter dismay and horror, grown-ups scrambling in a hostile manner at parties for souvenirs. If you don't get that umbrella, matches or gift bowl to show you attended a function, will you die? How have we become so comfortable with such mannerless behaviours while defending such with excuses such as country hard?

Let's call a spade a spade and endeavour to do better for our own good and the good of the world entirely. 

Enjoy your day.

Happy New Year, Happy New Week, Happy New Me.

Happy New Year to my dearest blog readers and new blog visitors. I know some of you are probably wondering if I am just entering 2019, but it's better late than never right? And while I was wondering that some of you would be wondering just that (lol), a radio jingle just played on radio this minute and made me feel less guilty for leaving my new year greeting to you all till now. It was a Christmas jingle (LOL) which has probably gotten continuous airplay from last December. 😜 So you see, even though procrastination is not advisable, whatever you ought to do should still be done because it would always have meaning to at least one person out there. Like Nike's slogan, Just Do It. 

Last year was a blur for me as I was swamped with work, travelling and studies all through till the end of August when I had a health scare and had to slow down big time whilst getting ample time of work to recover (Yay to my Bosses and colleagues at work. Le best💖) I realised that life is but a whisper and we must seize every moment we have. We must live, love, laugh, go dancing, enjoy life and ensure we make meaningful impact in the lives of others. Life is indeed very short but we must not only hang on for all it's worth but ensure we get the best out of it before our lights get dimmed. 

This year however, I have a pretty good feeling that I would be writing more, travelling more and enjoying life more. I am not just saying these things but I will be putting major efforts into ensuring I get all of these done to the best of my ability. If you have any topics you want me to write on, shoot me an email at bukiotuyemi@gmail.com. I especially hope to revive writing more on my Let's Talk About Sex series and my #DearBuki series as well. 😀

Cheers to the new week (it's 6.10am in Lagos and traffic is still pretty much bearable for now. Fingers crossed for the rest of the week) and I do wish you all a splendidly prosperous day ahead. 

Buki O.

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