Walking into the unknown..

Lights blaring at her,
Horns hooting,
People scuffling,
Everybody seems to be in a hurry to somewhere,
Little children begging on the streets,


Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, says the Lord...

God are you there,
Can you see this,
Can you see me,
Can you even hear me...

Jeremiah 29:11
Thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

So rest easy God has you,
No you will not solve all the problems of the world,
Neither will everything be all sweet and dandy,

Breath in and out,
It's going to get better...
90 of 365...and counting..

Rooted...

I came across a cut tree stump today in the morning. 

When I saw it I thought I should have taken a picture of it before they cut it. The tree was so big and beautiful. Yes I am talking about a tree, I am an environmentalist of sorts. That is a story for another day. 

But so this big tree stump is right next to a stream... yeah you read right. I cross rivers and streams on my way to work. 

Where am I going with all this, a simple point. I am sure the tree never thought (yeah trees think) It would one day be cut down and all that will be left of it is a stump. It's the same thing with life. Do not get too comfortable and think that you have it all together. Live knowing that one day you could loose that which you hold on too so closely. So with that I leave you in the limbo mode of thinking for yourself.... Yeah!!! Like the bauss that I am.... lovely weekend. 

Saw this awesome quote

''The best use of time is to freely love

  the best way to love is to spend time

  the best time to love is always right now.''

It's the 87th day of the year 2014. Yes thank me later :-)

Then what???

I was chatting up a friend of mine and we were talking about how we are more prayerful when things are thick. You know when you're loosing a job or you just lost a job, when you lose a loved one... you know when life happens and you're not happy.

When this does happen I sometimes, please note, sometimes I become more prayerful and closer to God.
So what happens when all your prayers are answered and life is a sweet happy smooth all the way affair?
Do I forget God? Then does that make God like an antibiotic that I use when am sick or something.... I don't know. Think about it...

I will leave you hanging...on the thread or something close to that. It's like Homework...

Hope is all we've got... or so it seems

Another day, another chance to make  a difference in the ecosystem.

How??? well... since we have the option of writing things online, it means I will not write on a piece of paper, get dissatisfied and throw away the paper I wrote on. Yes so virgin paper is cheaper than recycled paper but people do not care really so they litter everywhere.... I have  evidence.

We can do better than this...

 

This did not happen overnight , it was something that am sure started with probably one piece of paper or one bag of trash....

Ok we'll look at the adverse effects of littering much later...

 I think we are surrounded by so much trash in our lives and the worst bit is not realizing it's trash.

I'm learning to see things for what they really are. The sun and how it looks is always available to me at no cost but if I choose to not see it, it's my loss.

Am sure we all have drama happening in our lives like it's being sponsored by Coke or some big company. But if you focus on the drama and fail to see the blessings that you already have around you. Then it's your loss... ''Loud note to self''.

I can go on and on about what's not working in my life and take five minutes or less to tell you about what's working. Reason, what's working does not seem to be as important as what is not.

I think the Sun is therapeutic,
 or taking pictures of it.... 

Hope never ends...
that's what I think and I'll stick with it..

I am blessed, I have a family that loves me, regardless of the fact that am eco-friendly. Check previous post for details. I have friends who actually love me, they have a choice you know, but they choose to love me. I am of sound mind , or so I think and  no you're not welcome to share your thoughts on that.

Nature speaks a universal language

Perfection is overrated....

He makes all things beautiful, In his time..

Well... this is environment friendly on another level. I guess it's less painful for the wood...

 I am holding on to hope in this crazy world, I am one of those folks who still believe in miracles. I may say I need a miracle now, but I know I see miracles everyday. I'm a  breathing walking giggling, sometimes sneering miracle. Keep the hope, God has you.....

Miss Beans :-)

Happy Monday,

Note to self, stay away from beans. I know they are healthy proteins, but the band in my stomach is just too much.

Scene 1

Silent Bus, 

The ones we now like, where you can sleep when heading home. No loud blaring music with words that you cannot even understand.  The silence does not work well with the band in my stomach. Ok may be it's the perfect situation for my band to get it's big break you know. rumble rumble... rumble and especially when am seated next to our greatest fan, ''mama nani'' giving you a not so approving look. Reason being beans are not only serious band catalysts but they also into saving the environment. 

Energy saving to be precise, biodegradable substances. I know people who can be used to run engines with the gases they release after a meal of beans. I contribute to the ambiance  

Scene 2

Official Meeting at work.

Those people who feel the need to pause unnecessarily when making a point. The 30 second pause is when my stomach after a meal of beans feels the need to holla at the world. Yes, letting my boss know that am in the room and I will not be ignored... yeah 

Scene 3

Hanging out with ''friends'' 

I always get kicked out of the room if I had beans. 

Long and short of this.... whatever you do will always come out. 

Careful what  you plant, the harvest may be good....

Lovely week....

DIY- Home Decor

Today am totally excited to post about what I did on my own. I wonder if this qualifies me to be a guest blogger on La Maison Chic

There was a lot to learn and hanging out with totally awesome people. Am telling you these women are wise entrepreneurs and  I want me some dose of that.

So yeah I was doing flower arrangements for the house.

These are things you would see on television on a series or a movie, but I did it after being challenged by Jasmine of cooking with Jaz. So she bought a bouquet of pink roses for only 200Kshs. (T.I.A * This is Africa*  yeah we get flowers for like 3 dollars :-). She then asked me to arrange them, am a lazy artsy chic, there are things that I can do but I do not do simply because am lazy about it. But now since I was home early and the flowers were there, it did not make sense to say '' just put them in a Vase and am sure they'll look good. ''

I didn't, instead I went all out on doing these beautiful flowers. I've never really been a flowers person but it seems to have grown on me. I like flowers but I wouldn't go out of my way to deal with them so this is a fast for me. The other thing is Roses, beautiful as they may be, have thorns... ouch. So I guess it's the same thing with somethings in life. But I usually want to get the roses without necessarily  dealing with the thorns. As in who wouldn't want it  easy.

The struggle is real... thorns are real

But hard as it was to deal with the thorns, I had the determination of Akoko and Lupita. Nothing was going to stop me. My dreams, were valid and have always been, but the worst is when you kill your dreams because of laziness or because you want it easy. The other thing am learning is thorns did not stop the flowers from blooming. Things do get hard in life, don't quit, just because its hard...

So I had that whole bunch of flowers and no fancy vases since the one fancy vase we have has a bunch of dried flowers already. My life has always been like that, I want something, but it's not exactly what I want or it's taken or everyone is doing it, or it's too expensive and many other excuses as to why I cannot get it.
with life work with what you have....

For Vases, we used the mason jars that we got from a friends wedding....

Beauty is usually a process...

The thing with me is I like fast things. I want my prayers answered instantly, when I ask someone to do something, I want to see them act on it immediately and all. It's something I get from my Dad, and him being in the military. Much as that is what I want, I never like it when people expect an instant result from me... yeah simply me. But yeah,  am learning that God is not into instant. He's also into humble beginnings. Humble beginnings sounds so sweet,  right, but ask anyone who's at that beginning point. It's not that sweet, but a lot is learnt at the beginning. Character is developed in the humility of beginning...  

James 1:4
and Let endurance have it's perfect result,
so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

I was hanging out with a famous baker and actress. She does awesome cakes. She told me that it started as a hobby and passion drove her to who she is now. We had an awesome time together with Lasagna prepared by Jaz and cake by Heavenly delights. I did the flowers and yeah the rest the pictures will speak for themselves.

Cut the flowers to match the size of your vase

Or Cut it to match what you want to achieve..

Careful with the thorns....

Cut the edge in a diagonal  manner to enable easy absorption of water 

Tools of trade, flowers, vase, salty water and a pair of scissors

The complete work....

Then we had Lasagna, for dinner and you can get the recipe from Cooking with Jaz

Then we had a chocolate orange and yeah yummy cake from Heavenly delights

In life am learning that I decide, what I get to deal with, I want the good things that this life has to offer and am willing to do what it takes. It's not going to be easy I know, but seriously something has to give and I will give it my all. It's day 79 and am going all out!! World watch out am coming :-)...

Facing my Culinary Fears

It went down for sure....

As I write this I still do not have a title for it. But I am sure about what I want to achieve. I want be featured as a guest blogger in two blogs that I follow.
Reason I want to be featured is because of what I was able to accomplish yesterday.

I got home to an empty house dirty  dishes and no food. The only food that was there was one egg and some left over rice. I hang out with the right people and one of them is a professional Chef. Usually when she cooks up a fancy meal, one minute she's walking in with ingredients and the next something fancy is being served. So after watching a video of the same from her blog, cookingwithjaz  I decided to give it a go.

Mine was the basic Stir Fried Rice with eggs.

My ingredients were as follows;

1. Rice from the day before
2. 1 Egg
3. Garlic.
4. Cooking Oil
5. Many spices all up in the kitchen.

How I prepared it is what the video in Cooking with Jazz showed. What I got at the end of it was an awesome meal and a sense of accomplishment. I cooked it myself and I also deserve to be featured in La Maison Chic la-maison-chic  , because it was a DIY affair. I did not order for Chinese take out (yeah we order for Chinese take out, while seated at the food court, you place an order and take it out to the house) , I made it myself.

This is how it went down...

My stir fried rice with eggs :-) ok with 1 egg 

After the first bite :-)

Three bites later, ok or more....

I stopped counting...

In conclusion, I made my own stir fried rice and I loved it. Lesson learnt, do not be afraid as fear can paralyze you. I actually never thought I could cook up a fancy meal. I normally do the basics, Ugali, Rice, Pasta and am still learning about chapatis. 

I can choose to hold back on so much within myself because am scared I will fail, or I can take a risk, do it fail or not fail. Other than cooking, there are so many other things that I stop my self from doing, because of fear. I am good at being scared and making safe decisions. So this is me venturing out... don't stand there and look at me go. Get out and conquer some giants.. let me know how that goes..

 It's good thing you cannot tell how  the food tastes from the pictures. Yeah, it's the 78th day of the year. It's good to be alive....oh and spruce up that meal, with a fruit or something. 

I had an apple.