Funny mummy

May 21, 2007

If you want to make my mother look positively disgusted, mention to her that you think you might marry the sibling of your own sibling’s significant other.
She claims that culturally (Nigerian culture, that is) it’s just plain absurd for siblings to marry siblings from another family (note:  I’m not talking incest here).  When my sister and I [...]

A lesson from my sister

May 20, 2007

My sister worked the last day of her last shift in her part time gig of over five years three weeks ago yesterday.
Her reason for quitting was that she had had enough.  There was no one incident that propelled her to quit, but she just decided that one full time job was sufficient to provide [...]

Bridal shower update

May 17, 2007

This past weekend was Nora’s bridal shower and I arrived an hour before the shower bearing a punch bowl, the ingredients for punch, and some lemon squares.
I thought I was oh so prepared for this day because I had actually done some things in advance:  I baked the squares earlier in the week, I knew [...]

Patting myself on the back

May 16, 2007

I made a somewhat last minute decision early Monday morning to take the day off.  Unlike most impromptu days off, where I sleep until well past noon, then moan about my lack of productivity, I woke up before 9:30am and proceeded to work on my room.  Amidst all the dust bunnies volplaning around me, I [...]