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Stolen from Nice Anon’s blog!

Itching to work with: I think it’s more like itching to work at
Listening to: moving forward by Israel and new breed (yep, still on that)
Driving: a 2008 Nissan Versa. I’ve been told it fits my personality?!
Shopping fix: buying anything on sale just makes my day. Even if it’s something I don’t need, I’ll still buy it and give it out.
Signature scent:. Just discovered B&BW Exotic coconut…loves it!
Necessary Extravagance: can’t really think of anything.. I am cheap
Maintenance must haves: my Victoria secret fragrances
Fear Factor: God has not given me the spirit of fear.
Speed Dialing: brother, mother, bestie, fav cousin, Jaycee, 911.
Latest splurge: a super cool bathroom scale that also counts calories... (This weight loss business eezz not easy)
If I weren't: at work, I would be at home watching small claims court TV shows. Judge Mathis, anyone?
Dreaming of: the day when I don’t have to spend weekends studying.

So Saturday is my date with destiny a.k.a the financial accounting section of the CPA exam. Everyone’s been telling me how hard it is. I can’t even say I am ready but I am doing my best. The other day I came across this.

The LORD spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people. He said: "Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The LORD Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread, Isaiah 8:11-13

Meditating on this has really helped me get through the past couple of weeks. I am determined to stop living in fear so yea bring on the 4 hour exam!

P.S I found the verse to be also quite effective in dealing with all the craziness around us: Swine flu, bad economy, unemployment and whatever else is out there.

P.P.S how’s everyone doing? I will be back in full after Saturday!

New Schedule

up until the end of november...

7.30am. leave for work

5.30pm- 6pm: get home and grab dinner

6-7pm: go jogging/walking( yes o! only so many fat jokes a sister can handle)

7.30pm arrive at school library

11.00pm/ midnightish get home from library and fall into bed..

ALL I CAN SAY IS GOD DEY!

so i promised to post some of my new music faves, here we go..

You guys were right.. I finally go into the new WH... this has been on heavy rotation

This is the song from the last post... apparently imeem only works if you have an account.
This clip also includes the song he has with Mary Mary.. in short the whole album is faya! its called the power of one.

This is not really new but oh well..



And of course Chrisette. everytime this song comes on the radio, i turn it up, sing as loudly as i can while trying to do my best woman scorned face.. Praise Jesus for tinted windows :)

I have some more but its bed time so to be continued

have a great weekend people!

P.S Mgbeks can i just say thank you for being my unpaid albeit unlicensed shrink, I heart cha mucho *muah*

VOTD

But it is not the one who commends himself who is approved,

but the one whom the Lord commends

2 Cor 10:18

Been a while....

Since I did a random post, it’s Friday and I need to procrastinate so what better way?

1) I still can’t believe summer is over, its back to the crazy studying again.. Oh well. Unto everything there is a season right?

2) I went back to FL for my coz’s bridal shower and mehn I had serious thoughts of moving back. I so did not want to come back here.

3) Speaking of the homestead, I got some new music from my fam and it feels like I am in music heaven. I will share some of my new faves later.

4) While we are on the music subject, I seriously cannot get into the new Whitney CD… maybe I need to grow into it? Heck, I just finally got into Chrisette Michele and her album has been out for a hot minute. How awesome is that “blame it on me “song? I listen to it at least 5 times a day and THAT’s not counting the times it comes on the radio!

5) Am I the only one who really does not care about the whole Sony deal? I don’t think there is anyone in the world who believes ALL Nigerians are crooks. In the words of madea “it’s not what you are called, it’s what you answer to” so anyone who wants to dispose of their Sony items preferably PS3s.. I am willing to send you my address.

6) Speaking of madea, this is the first time a Tyler Perry movie comes out and I am not there opening night. I just don’t feel like it. Come to think of it, I don’t feel like a lot of things. Hmmm.

7) I am really quite nervous about certain areas of my life. Help me Jesus

8) On the bright side, can I just say having convictions and sticking to them, no matter what, is a beautiful thing.

This is my new theme song.. i have to listen to it EVERY morning

I forgot!

Happy day before monday lovely blogville people.

How did the weekend go? I had one of my little moods this weekend. It finally became official that I won’t be able to go to naija this December among other things and I was quite depressed. I mean life was going so good and bam! Everything changes I went into full self pity mode. Complete with the sitting on the couch in PJs and not answering any phone calls.

I mean why is it that when life is going really good something ALWAYS comes to ruin it?

Well, I got my answer today. A good friend( why do people always say good friend, if they were a bad friend they wont be a friend. right?) invited me to come and watch him play at the youth Sunday at this African Baptist church, I actually ran into a blogger there( shout out to Taynement). The kids did an awesome job, anyways their whole theme was seasons and they talked about each of the four seasons and what they symbolize. Spring for planting, summer for nurturing, fall for Harvesting and winter for resting. And it actually occurred to me that I was crabby because my season was changing and I didn’t want it to change. I was enjoying spring too much and forgot that summer and fall were coming. As our people say no condition is permanent and i believe one of the tricks to doing life successfully is the ability to anticipate and accept change.

So I have been known to wear out a song… I mean I would play it every day morning noon and night if I could. My current fave is an oldie but a goodie. It has been great for my current mood. Here is a video of the live performance. It’s pretty good for a song that has only eight lines J

I am,actually, not Crazy… Yess!!!

So a friend sent me this, its called random/weird thoughts people our age have, since I have had majority of these thoughts. I now officially feel better about my sanity J

1) More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can

think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell

my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves

me.

2) Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're

going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to

be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the

direction from which you came, you have to first do something like

check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to

yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're

crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

3)I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

4)Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know"

feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose

not to be friends with?

5)There is a great need for sarcasm font.

6)Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and

suddenly realize I had no idea what was going on when I first

saw it.

7)I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually

becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting

90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's

laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little

bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the

only one who really, really gets it ( nacho libre..anyone?)

8)I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than

take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

9)The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to

finish a text.

10)Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say"

11) I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

12)Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron

test is absolutely petrifying.

13)Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart",

all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

14) How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod

and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

15) Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in'

examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete

idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and

said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"

16)What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?( ok.. not this jobless)

16)MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I

know how to get out of my neighborhood. ya know?

17)Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the

person died.

18) I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the

shower first and THEN turn on the water.

19) Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty,

and you can wear them forever.

20)I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

21) Bad decisions make good stories

22) Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their

profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got

the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if

I do!

23) Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go

around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly

nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be

a problem....i swear!

24) You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work

when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything

productive for the rest of the day. (right mgbeks?)

25)Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't

want to have to restart my collection.

26) There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are

going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far. (the library at school has rocking chairs..lol)

27) I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me

if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I

swear I did not make any changes to.

28) "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.

29) I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people

watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will

they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't

watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and

leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'

30) I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello?

Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and

goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone

and run away?

31) I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not

seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste. ( for realz)

32) When I meet a new person, I'm terrified of mentioning something they

Haven’t already told me but that I have learned from some light

internet stalking( guilty!)

33) I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle,

then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

34)Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising

speed for pedophiles...

35) As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers,

but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.

36) Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.

37)I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they

drive behind obeys the speed limit.

38)I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

39)I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or

Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.

40)The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw

they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words,

someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think

about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people

eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by

myself. There's nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard

before dinner.

No Title Post

I do not care what anybody says, the quarter life crisis is very real . It doesn’t have to be a bad thing but I think 25 is one of those ages where you just have to stop and ponder the direction your life is taking. I did my pondering and made some life changing decisions that I am quite proud of.

No matter how much I try to fake it, I am an introvert; I can only hang out with people for so long. After a while I need to be by myself or start to feel like I am losing my mind. This weekend was my chill at home and recover weekend. I only ventured out to the grocery store and church and I feel so much better. Ready to face the world again..lol

So I called into Vera’s show yesterday, quite interessante I must admit. The topic was happily single : Myth or fact . I was quite amazed at some of the opinions expressed. I think my favorite were the people who kept saying it was impossible to be single and happy say whaaa? Don’t get me wrong, companionship is awesome and there is nothing like having someone who loves you and all that jazz but if you can’t be happy by yourself how you going to know what a bad relationship feels like? In the words of my darling Mgbeks “marriage is not for everyone” I encourage you to listen to the show if you can.

Oh and I happened to mention that I wanted to be single for two years and apparently that’s too much? One of the lessons that God has been teaching me lately is that of delayed gratification. Just because you want it now does not mean you have to have it now. It’s the reason why you can’t build a multimillion dollar business in a year. You have to go through due process or you will get the good thing and it will slip from your hands because you won’t be able to appreciate it.

I passed my second CPA section so I am now officially 50% a CPA. God is just too good. Especially since it was my first try and no one I know has passed that section on the first try.

VOTD

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God

Ecc 3:11-13

Party over here!!!

So today is my birthday. I officially hit the quarter century mark today, i don’t know about anybody else but my birthday is usually a reflection day. As I look back on this past year I can’t help but be thankful because God had indeed been good to me.

I am thankful for Redemption. My Father sees me even when nobody else does. I am in no shape or form perfect but he still always comes through to bail me out of my mess.

I am thankful for my Really great family

I am thankful for remarkable friends.. I am awake at this hour because my friend in naija who I haven’t spoken to in ages called to wish me happy birthday…

The random friendships I have made off blogville, from my regular blog commenter s to Gmail buddies.. I am grateful for you all.

I am thankful for resilience, The strength that God has given me to bounce back from all the crazy things that happened to me this year.. I really can’t take that for granted.

I am thankful for my recent employment upgrade, I love my new job/boss and I honestly can’t complain.

I am thankful for Rent, yes I said rent, the fact that I pay rent means I have somewhere to lay my head at night and that in itself is a huge blessing.

I am thank ful for my ridiculously fun church. I love love my church, I have met some great people there, I look forward to Sundays and Wednesdays and there is nowhere else I’d rather be on those days.

For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the eartth

your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

Psalm 139:13-16