Writing has with time become a pastime for me. There are moments I’m too bored to sleep or watch a movie or even scroll through my IG feed. Then, writing comes in handy, for some reason I don’t know. Now, is such a moment.

It is 0847hrs and I’m standing outside a government office, waiting for its opening hour, 0900hrs.The Meru in me has never been patient with the long queues at these offices and this explains why I’m here this early. Luckily enough, I’m the only client at the office. I even whisper to myself, “girl, you are doing this adulting thing REAL well”🤣

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It’s now close to 4 months since the first COVID case in Kenya. Suddenly, the working-at-home routine became a norm. At first, it was pleasantly welcome by many. However, it has now become quite boring,at least for me. June was am exception tho’. So much happened within those 30 days, that I’ll take quite a while to get over the month.

HAIR UPDATE

I had my locs unretouched, for like half of last month. For the first few days, I made sure to take 100+ photos of the hair before my parents started lecturing me about how unkempt the hair is. Just to bring you into context, my parents are the 1970’s parents. Now, people this age have unexplained beef with locs, tatoos😏you get me? So if locs that are waxed don’t sit well with them, (kwanza a few months ago my mum told me that she doesn’t want to see me in locs, for some very weird reason), how about unwaxed locs? By now I hope you get the situationship I was in.

So all this while I was flaunting my free locs waiting for THE hair lecture. To my amazement tho’, two days ago, my mum told me she actually prefers my hair unwaxed to when it’s waxed. In short, ladies and gentlemen, I’m not about to visit my loctician anytime soon. The excitement within me now is INEXPLICABLE!

BLACK-OUT WEEK

I don’t know what cold war KPLC had with my town in the first week of June. Yaani we experienced power shortage for TWO consecutive days. Mind you, I still had my online classes going on, and to add to it, I had a quiz scheduled for one of those two days. Thinking of it now, I never thought a time would come, when I would skive classes because of there being no lights. We are indeed making history.

BEING GRATEFUL

First off, this word ain’t spelt as “greatful”. I try as much as possible to ignore spelling mistakes because I know we can’t all be good at spelling and grammar and all. However, this is one word that totally pisses me off. I think it’s because very many people misspell it.

In the midst of this pandemic, I found myself complaining a bit too much. So at the start of June, I promised myself to find something to be grateful for, every one of the thirty days in June. Surprisingly enough I had something to be grateful for,every day. A huge lesson I picked from this challenge was that being grateful is among the hardest things in life, but very fulfilling.

WISDOM

Wisdom is the middle name of most of my friends. I listen to these friends and I realize how much God loves me, to a point of placing me amongst such wise people. People that give me a different and better perspective to life are a whole vibe, honestly.

So I had a lengthy conversation with my very good friend, Murume. It was one of those conversations that start off with no set agenda but it turned out to be such an eye-opener for me. His parting shot at the end of the close to 2-hour talk, he said “Just start, God will bless you with what you have!” I don’t think I need to add an explanation to this.

CANCER SERIES

Bucket list is an actual thing, and I’m all for it. I’d added writing my thoughts on Cancer to my bucket list. After procrastinating for a while, I finally did🎊and I’m so excited at what I came up with. That was quite a learning experience for me, and I’m grateful for it.

Just in case you missed this series, start from here.

BLOCKED

There’s this day I felt quite petty and decided to unfollow guys I’d been following on IG. Don’t ask me why because I’ve already clearly stated that I was being petty. The whole unfollowing idea became a really interesting game that I wasn’t willing to quit, until I got an “Action Blocked” prompt. You guys, I couldn’t access my IG page for like an hour. I’ve never been that traumatized btw.

6^TH HYPE

Siko sure where Kenyans had gotten the notion that the country would be opened up on sixth. Being the hype-masters and the hype-mistresses they are, sixth suddenly became a new dawn, greatly anticipated for. I was very careful not to join the hype because I could envision the disappointment waiting for me. As sixth grew closer, the hype became more intensely irresistible and I soon found myself at the centre of it😂😒.

After the president’s speech on that Saturday afternoon, we took an L. However, it is important to acknowledge how much this mzee‘s speech was shouting “extended lock-down” right from the start, but we kept hyping ourselves until he plainly announced that the lock-down would be extended. Well, there never is a dull moment in Kenya and so you can be sure there were tons of ‘me-me-s’ and tweets to console ourselves.

WE PLAN, GOD LAUGHS

As early as March, I’d already sent out invites for my birthday dinner on the LAST Saturday of JUNE. This is just to show you how much of an early planner I am. Also, I was among those people that didn’t think COVID was here to stay. Lakini si God laughed at my plot. So I ended up having a simple lunch date with my family, which was an excellent substitute to the dinner I’d planned for.

Also, stories of friends sending their friends money on their birthdays was just that…STORIES. This year I had a pleasant surprise tho’. My friends sent me money, and wow doesn’t it feel nice! One of my lawyer friends sent me 20 bob. A whole LAWYER. This friend’s explanation was that I was turning 20 hence the 20 bob. You know that’s another disappointment? How do my friends, rather, people I consider to be my friends, not know my age?!?

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On a not so related note, updating my journal now is a non-issue. Actually, I don’t have a journal. But in high school I used to have one, and I would update it at least twice per week. A while ago I was reading it, and couldn’t help but love how sweet and loving that Lennah was. One thing is for sure; I am not half as sweet and as loving now, as I was then😹. Aaargh, we move!

~Bible Vibes~

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

1 John 5:14