Under the Influence.....

Hhhmm...as most of blogville is now aware of Blogville Idols there is not that much to say except check it out!

I am a contestant (yay!) and I will try (to serenade)...ahem...not to burst your eardrums... lol

VOTE MIMI!!!!!!!!!!! lol.


meanwhile one flu just hit me recently, and the whole of my head, nose, eyes ache a whole lot...but being the strong headed. never giving up person i am, i am not pulling out oh. i have committed to this course, i shall stay faithfully on it...even if it is for you blogville residents to endure my benylin-coated, honey and syrup drowsed voice, even if it is just ONE TIME! lol...

its all in the name of fun! I dont even know who my fellow contestants are but I got nothing but love for all of you oh...in fact go do your thing babes and bobos and hemaphros! lets rawk this thing with one love (shmuck, seriously is there mary j. in those cough syrups? why do i feel high and light headed...lol) if i start to sing 'One Love, one heart lets get together and feel alrriighhhttt' know that I am paying tribute to a certain someone (Go Majek! or is it Bob Marley? its the Benylin!)

OK bloggers and anonymouses and people, support this idea (even if you don't want to support me though i still got my pom-poms and am shouting GO MIMI! :)


~Mimi~

Blogville IDOLS + Update

BLOGVILLE R U READY?

BLOGVILLE IDOLS COMING SOON

check pink-satin's blog or 9jaopeke's blog for more details. Also, the blogville idols website is here.

TO people who found my raw-pepper eating habits that i talked about in the last post funny / weird, you guys never jam! it is sweet, and it is very healthy! thank u LB, i was starting to feel like the only weirdo here who ate raw red pepper.
Meanwhile you guys know the wristwatch i said i got as BOGOF, when I went to buy my mum her birthday present, after I put the post up, like some 30 minutes after, me still rawking my wristwatch walked past my mother and the following conversation ensued:

Mama Mimi: Mimi, come here
Mimi: Mother, wetin?
Mama Mimi: I said come closer
Mimi: (seeing her eyes on my hand thinking oh men) mummy what now?
Mama Mimi: Let me see your wrist watch
Mimi: Why now?
Mama Mimi: I like it ni
Mimi: Mummy how can you like this funky wristwatch. I bought you a classy one and I purposely picked out this one for myself with the hope that it will be too funky for you
Mama Mimi: its not funky at all o. In fact I prefer it to the one you gave me yesterday. remove it, let me see
Mimi: grumbling, I remove it and hand it over
Mama Mimi: (wears it) it is fine o. see
Mimi: mummy it was on my hand, I saw it. In fact i saw it thats why I picked it for myself!
Mama Mimi: I like this one now, I like it a lot o.
Mimi : still grumbling, ok you can have it
Mama Mimi: ehn?????! are you serious? (like that wasnt what she was aiming for before)
Mimi: Yes!
Mama Mimi: Ose my dear. thats two wristwatches for my birthday. Thank you. I like it. See how fine it is?

I just turned round and walked in the other direction. She really didnt have to rub it in my face, did she?

Meanwhile I met one human on the bus today. Some men approach women like interviews. Thats how I got on a bus on my way to work. I got to the upper deck and sat down. This guy started to stare with his mouth wide open. After a few seconds the guy came over and introduced himself o.

'My name is XXXX, I work for XXXX and I have a BSc in marketing , I graduated from University of Lagos but I am now doing my masters at XXXX in International somethin somethin somethin'

All this while , I had my mp3 player in my ear. The guy didn't even care that I wasn't paying attention. He just continued to talk. I am serious if I was looking to hire someone for a job, I will hire him because he was just marketing himself!!

'I am from a family of.... My parents are in ..... my siblings are all here in the UK and we're all independent. I'm a very busy man. I dont have time for rubbish and I dont do fraud, in essence what I am trying to say is, I have the means to take care of you'

Wow! this man was proper telling me history. I wanted to laugh but I couldnt. Some other people were looking like is this guy serious. lol. It was funny. The way and rate at which he was spilling out info without me uttering anything ... It just got me wondering how guys approach women differently. Anyway gist for another day. Hows everyone? Check out the blogville idols thing.

L8RZ,

~Mimi~

Stalker Gist + Meme

Hhm, first of all i'd like to thank the lovely lovely people who left me messages on blog and Ugo and blogsis, excitedjade who dedicated posts to me, it was very nice of you. Wish I could start off by thanking everyone one after the other but you're all just so lovely and nice. Thank you. I had a nice and quiet day. Just a couple of friends over, cooked and had fun. Birthdays are mainly for giving thanks and reflections for me, and I'm just grateful that I have started a new year.

Blogsis, 'Moni tagged me in this meme so here are 7 things you don't know about me:

* I once ran a cross-country race for my team in high school, without practicing for the race at all. Someone pulled out in the last 5 minutes and being one of the peeps in charge (was actually in charge of marching but busybody dey catch me), I volunteered when no one was willing to go. I didnt know the route as I had never practiced, so I had to follow the crowd, I can run fast but not for long because of the second point below..

* I am asthmatic...(so I got a lot of attacks on that day and I must have overdosed on my inhaler...sometimes I just do things like that to push myself to see how far I can go..I did finish the race though technically I should have landed in the hospital and wasnt even the last person but I doubt I will try a stunt like that again)

* I eat these raw, i also eat them cooked of course but emphasis is on raw

* I can sing the Halleluyah chorus in alto

* I have 9 uncles and 8 aunts of which one of the aunts is my mate...(go figure!)

* I am an extremely fast reader.. I finish novels in a few hours (not talking of danielle steel flats)

* I lurrrvvvvvvv the smell of fresh laundry especially just outside the door of laundry rooms

So here goes my stalker gist. It was about 5 or 6 years ago. It was a sunny sunday and I had just had an oh-so-lovely day where I had spent my sunday watching over the babies in the creche department of my church and I was walking on cloud nine as this was my favourite thing to do. The service was over and the parents had come to collect their little tots so I went to the main church building. The head usher saw me and said someone had been looking for me but that he didn't know where the person was. I said ok, little did I know it was not okay at all! I went outside to the car park with Twix (I mentioned her in Nostalgia ii, if she could be my better half, she would be!). A young man suddenly tapped me on my shoulder and I turned round to face him. Twix left and the following dialogue ensued (cant remember it in full but I will try my best)

Stalker: Hi

Me: Hi, can I help you?

Stalker:You're name is Mimi right?

Me: Yes it is (I am now very puzzled as I have never seen his face before)

Stalker: (breathes a loud sigh of relief and a wide smile appears on his face) Oh thank God. You don't know how glad and happy I am. You have no idea. This is the happiest day of my life.

Me: Really?Sorry, do I know you from somewhere? (looking confused)

Stalker: No you don't but I hope you will know me very well

Me: (thinking he is just a random guy wanting to try his luck) sorry I don't have time for all this.

Stalker: ahhh, you will have time o. See, you don't understand I have been looking for you for over a year now. It has taken me so long to find you so dont think you will just walk away like that. (!....he surely got my attention this time)

Me: looking mightily puzzled....stares at him

Stalker: You are the love of my life (ha, this guy is serious oh!)

Me: What did you say?

Stalker: I said you are the love of my life. I have searched high and low for you (trips mehn..me i jus dey look, american wonder!)See, you may not remember this (he puts his hand in his jacket and brings out a photograph of me and shows it to me).

Me: (still staring at american wonder...i am so much in shock i cant even find a name for the psycho standing in front of me..) Where did you get this from??!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stalker: It is from over a year ago. It was a wedding you attended that you were a bridesmaid at. I didnt attend but I saw your picture while one of the photographers put it on display and I just had to have it and you in my life. I bought it and went to the church that the wedding was at for several weeks without seeing you. I asked people there who you were but they said they werent sure. There was another church close by so I started to attend there and later started to ask of you and a lot of people knew you. They told me you were no longer at that branch but at another branch, most people were not so helpful in telling me which branch it was but eventually I found someone who did. (Is this guy for real?) They pointed me towards this branch and after so long I found you

Me:You're joking right..This is a joke.

Stalker: (gets visibly upset) how dare you say I'm joking!! I kiss your picture every night (WHATTT? i seriously couldn't believe what i was hearing) I pray to God that one day we will be together forever, I sleep with your picture under my pillow..how can you call what I feel for you a joke (he is now angry and is very upset, he is not joking o...ehn...what do I do...psycho...I have watched too many american films o but I was not even close to america..where did they find this one?)

Me: I'm sorry I dont know you and I dont think we can spend a forever together. Your feelings are quite flattering but I am quite busy with a lot of things, I am not looking for a relationship

Stalker: I was made for you. I will wait for you, you're my angel. I dream of you

Me: (now upset and the thought of him lighting candles to my picture and doing 'juju' to it suddenly scared me, I shouldn't wake up one day and start professing love for Mr Psycho!) ehm, I'm sorry but I cant help you out, but I would like my picture back please

Stalker: (raising his voice) NO WAY!!! you are mine, i will make you mine. no one can have you. it has taken me this long to find you. your picture ke? it is mine....(he starts to rant)...

Twix comes and starts to ask what the problem was and I told her...

Twix: Haaa...is all she could say (she looks at him in amazement then retreats.. yep, we both watched those american films together so I guess she knew better ..lol..she went to get help)

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Her brother and the security guard of the church now came and started to talk to the guy (more like bullying). They told him not to show his face around the church or me again. I was quite shaken as he wasnt quite normal and I didnt understand the kind of 'love' he had for me, but men, I no like dt kain at all! Meanwhile, I never did collect that picture as he refused to let it go, we offered to pay him all sorts of money but when Twix's brother and the security man started to bully him, he walked away quick, holding onto the picture. I dont think I ever saw him but then I left for England not that long after.

People, esp. in Naija, if someone takes your picture at a wedding, make sure you purchase them all!!!! You dont want no psycho sleeping with it under his pillow!!

~Mimi~

Thanks to God My Father!

Dear Father,



I thank You that some twenty something years ago, I was born.



I thank You that though I was a 6 month old baby born three months premature, hadnt developed my lungs fully and some other organs, and that even though my parents gave up hope sometimes as the stress was too much and i always had one form of complication or another, that You sent my sweet sweet doctor who strongly believed i would survive!!!!!! and survive i did!!!!!!!! I thank you because now I know you intentionally made sure I survived and made everything special about me!



I thank You for the spirit and the soul You put inside the beautiful container i call my body! I thank you because You are teaching me everyday to be a better person. God I thank You for Your creativity in my life! You sure went all out!!!! I didnt make me who I am but You did, so I thank You for all!!!



I thank You because I am not perfect but You are and I thank You for loving me sooooooo much!!! Hi Jesus, I thank You for coming down into this world to become a lowly human to die for my sins and thanks for sending me dearest padi/teacher/counsellor Holy Spirit too...



I thank You for the best gift You have given me this year and that is growth...



I thank You for the family members you surround me with...I thank you for my dear friends, both the ones I know well and the ones I don't know so well..(blog fam)...



I thank You for the hard times I've been through, the bad experiences and the people who have tried to hurt me or take something away from me. It has only made me stronger and much closer to You!!



I thank You for the things You want to do and people You want to touch through my life. I thank You that I know all is not going to be through my strength but by You. Just give me the grace and be with me and I know I will be fine!



Hhmm.. I can go on and on and on, but Lord U see my heart! Cant THANK U ENOUGH!



Lastly, I use this opportunity to pray for every person I know of in this life and everyone reading this, that You will show them the love You have shown me and that they will have their hearts' desires In Jesus Name. Especially for people who want to get married or have children... I pray they will have their dreams that You will give them testimonies better than mine!



THANK YOU MY FATHER IN HEAVEN!



i know its a great year already!



~Mimi~



Did I say I love You? Yes I Really Do.