New Year musings

Happy New Year y’all! (Yes I’m well aware that January or Jan-worry as #KOT [Kenyans on Twitter] have been calling it is almost over..but I reserve the right to send salaams until the first of February!)

Moving on..so its a new year and with it come all manner of changes. I didn’t sit down and make resolutions on the 31st but I have been thinking this month about the changes I need to make in my life. Some stick…some don’t but yeah ni kujaribu tu au sio?

Food:

I have consumed my weight and half over the festive period. Gatho!! From hanging out with my family, the beloved and my closest friends, I have eaten like I was paid to do so! Uwi. All manner of forbidden foods, drinks and shisha were consumed with a quickness these last three months..and I’m paying for it. I had started a healthier food scheme last year (after similar excesses in Dec) and was doing well at it (with the exception of “that time of the month”, “I feel sadness that only chocolate can take away” and other emotional eating habits). Lakini I was well and truly dragged off the wagon and my clothes have refused to agree with me as a result.

So I’m back on the wagon. There is something about living with mother that just brings out the healthy eater in me..I eat fruits everyday regardless of where I am..lakini now I’m learning to enjoy more greens in my diet (instead of my staple bread and cheese). So we’re on the right track. Eating out less (my purse is thanking me for this as well) haha and not eating when I’m bored. (Serious temptation). So pole pole we’re on the right track for this year. I can never diet..I love fries too much. Lakini reducing the frequency of such sinful foods is best methinks.

Work outs have resumed as well. Sweating like mad! I’m still a bit inconsistent lakini yeah..better that than nothing I miss my long rambling walks in Nyeri. I think I need to plan a trip there soon!

Hair…right now I’m in love with it. Uwi. I had braided it for some time because I could not be bothered with it. So when I took the braids out, I decided to show my hair some love. I put a hot-oil treatment, a moisture treatment, and a henna gloss treatment. Not all at the same time but in the space of two weeks after I removed the braids. I got the black organic henna from one of my trips and I loved it! It made my hair darker Not that obvious black of hair dye..just 2 shades darker. Also had it trimmed. Love! Admittedly I got lazy at some point and had it straightened but I’m done with that for now. Currently rocking a bantu-knot-out. I’m on day 3 and I love it! My hair gets fluffier by the day! I simply apply a little oil on my scalp and massage it in and add some leave-in and I’m done. So in love! The henna is still in effect (you can tell I’m a henna lover huh?) One problem I have is that I can’t get natural black henna in Kenya. So if anyone knows where to get some..holla! I do use Nupur henna but mainly as a conditioning treatment since it has no colour effect (boo!) I plan to stay away from the heat as much as possible, and do some protective styling soon!

Have a couple more changes to make..but yeah. Let’s move on.

Also have to get used to some unpleasant changes. A friendship break-up is hard. Going through another and it sucks. When it reaches a point where you start questioning yourself. So many maybes and what-ifs. Then at some point you just have to let go and realize people make time for people they want in their lives. This is the second time I’m going through this with a close friend, and it does make me re-evaluate the type of friend I am. Lakini as my sister says, in every relationship there are two people involved. So there is only so much I can do to fight to keep this. I’m letting go.

ION:

Safaricom suck….seriously in all of EA they have to have the worst internet services ever! So slow…mara the modem refuses to load. Did I mention how slow they are? They piss me off! I use Orange in UG and Zantel in TZ…what bliss! I can actually surf like a normal human being (not go make tea while waiting for the page to load), send emails, finish blog posts (yes Safaricom cut one of my blog posts in half. How it did that? I haven’t the faintest). So yeah..just needed to vent and get that out of my system.

ValFM:

• Since I fell for you- Gladys Knight
• This bitter earth- Randy Crawford and Joe Sample
• God must love you- Babyface

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