16th May. Today.

It’s a beautiful Friday morning. The birds are chirping really loudly outside, in different tones, different pitches, and different durations. I love the loud, prolonged birds, cos if I were a bird, those would be my chirps – full of character, almost annoyingly.

Usually, I open my WordPress to blog about something specific, but not today. Today, I felt like dusting cobwebs off my site, and also, I felt like checking up on you. Hi! You’re good? I hope you are. It’s okay if you’re not feeling A1 today – self-soothe, ask your loved ones to soothe you… Do something about it cos you can.

I am well. I have been well. Tony Elumelu classes have been trying to finish me, but i finished them instead, whoop whoop! Before I started writing this blog, I was working on something they need us to submit – financials. I’m talking about balance sheets, profit and loss statements, cash flow statements.. I hate that shit. In uni, I did an ‘Engineering Economics’ unit that I hated and only understood enough to pass the exam. I didn’t know I’d need that information at any point in my life. Look at me now, on YouTube, learning how to balance sheets!! I wish we also could balance all the aspects of our lives instead, you know? Anyhoo, a girl’s gotta do what she’s gotta do.

My chrome has several tabs open – Tony Elumelu Program, another where I asked ‘Did Methuselah die in the flood?’ (cos some scholars argue that he died the same year. Others say he died the same year, but before the flood, and others say he refused to enter the Ark. I hope the former is true.), Netflix tab, ChatGPT tab, YouTube tab… My favourite is the Netflix one. They’re suggesting that I watch ‘Deadly American Marriage’, a true crime film, or ‘Sweet Magnolias’, or ‘Blood of Zeus’ or ‘Nonnas’ or ‘The Four Seasons.’ Most of these films, they say, ‘May cause anxiety’, like, ‘Hello! As if I don’t have it already!? Haha! The ‘A’ in ‘Adulting’ sometimes stands for ‘Anxiety’ so Netflix films have nothing on me.’

No, I don’t duffer from anxiety disorder but anxiety is an emotion I identify with, but Jesus is working on my heart and I and I’m learning to relax, which is hard for people with ever-busy minds like mine. I’m going to watch ‘Nonnas’ cos it’s a feel-good film, as I retie a few of my locks, and then I’ll join a meeting at noon, then finish working on the freaking balance sheets and all, then I’ll have lunch, then play with my nephews, then prepare dinner, cook, eat, sleep, and then go to church tomorrow.

I’m glad the weekend is here. I know you are too. May yours be restful.

Let’s talk again soon. Be well, okay?

Okay, bye.

Yours, with luscious sister locks,

Njoks.

(Totally here for the rhyme, haha!)