I woke up early today. Performed my morning ritual.
Waking up to a numbing headache is now a commonplace. I can’t wait to rid
myself completely of this cough and catarrh. The catarrh is almost completely
gone. The cough shows its presence lesser and lesser. Its just a matter of
time. Amara is on one stupid mad rush again. If only she had any shame. I tried
to tune their voice out, I dint achieve 100% success. I just remembered my
paycheck, and I lit up. It’s the koko today. I showered quickly and left the
house to the nearest access bank. I cashed the check and deposited it straight
to my account. I went to work at my own time cuz my boss is out of town.
Mehn Im freaking hungry. I went straight to Shoprite from
my bank. I bought porridge yam one of their latest dish. I've never tasted it
before so I decided to try it. I bought a yoghourt drink too. Immediately I got
to the office I hungrily ravaged the food. It was deeply filling but not deeply
satisfying. It got too much salt or salty tasting sauce like it had too much
seasoning cube. If that's the regular taste Im not tasting that shit again. I
like to believe it was mistake today until I taste it again. I worked on my
blog a little. It needs a lot of work though and is a luxury I cant afford at
the moment. Chris is back in the office doing his thing. Ifeanyi is back as
well. He went to cash his check. Chris has been dying to get a favourable
response from Diamond bank on a training programe like yesterday. He called the
bank and they gave him a shock therapy literally. They told him that any form
of response favourable or not has been postponed for two weeks cuz the person
in charge is on two weeks vacation. He is furious. His argument is why cant
someone else take charge until she returns?!
Ifeanyi on the other hand has his own issues too. The
management of his estate 1004 in Victoria Island cut power of their section of
flats until they pay N200,000 levy. Dude doesnt have it at the moment. He is
planning to take refuge at Festac town but the catch is, he owes someone in
Festac. On top of that doctor told him this morning that his former driver who
was sick whom he is helping with medical bills has HIV 1 & 2! Doctor said
its well advanced and the sick man is not responding to treatment. He said the
guy's wife just put to bed two months ago. The wife reached out to him for help
in the first place, now he is going to break the bad news to wife. Ify was like
he needs to hit the liquor store. Like his mouth needs a conjugal with a bottle
of alomo. I tabled my own case about the folks squatting in my apartment and
they were like dude they have to leave. Chris is point blank about it. He said
Nigerians love to beg but this is not a begging situation, I just cant live
that way. We all have our own shitty situation.
My uncle once said something that shocked me cuz of how
true his words of wisdom was for me. He said people our family love to help people but
they do it to a point that it really hurts us and we keep doing it. Why
do I keep doing this? I keep pitying them but do they do same for me? Im not
mocking their situation but they are compounding mine. Later Bisi called to say
hi. I asked her to see me before she goes home which she did. I closed work
early. Hung out with Doc for a while before going home. I had a heart-to-heart
sob chat with Cleavie about a particular woman in her life. I felt so much her.
I wish I can just eject her out of that situation. When I got home a little
storm brewed. I took my sweet and sweat
time to scrap off all the repulsive candle wax these people used to reverse-beautify
the aesthetics of my room. I mean I don’t understand how comfortable these guys
are with making everywhere messy and ugly!
So I told them please you guys need to remove the wax one
of you (which I don’t care) left in the bathroom cuz I took my time to remove
wax you piled up on every surface in this house like stalagmite on a cave floor.
Not that I said it like that but I wasn’t nice and cuddly about it. So Ibe went
off like “Are you now a landlord? You
shouldn’t have said it thy way you said it.” We exchange a few remarks but
nothing major or damaging. I wasn’t really bugging. Amara was cautiously in the
middle. I didn’t care, glad I have passed the message across. I wasn’t in a
good mood either. I went out to let the message marinate. And when my bed
called, I answered.
