Sounders 4-1 Comunicaciones. Great game tonight. If only the Sounders could play like this every week.

A letter to my cousin…

Tomiwa,

I was just about to go to sleep and I stumbled on your facebook page and I was reminded you were gone. I will admit, I don’t deal with death well… I try my best to fill my head with as many distractions as I possibly can, whatever it takes to avoid confronting the fact that I will never again see your face again on this earth. I know this is probably a cowardly way to deal with losing you, but I really don’t know any other way to understand this situation.

The day I found out you were gone, my world was shaken. For the first time in a long time, I cried… I felt like part of me had been ripped away… painfully and suddenly. I know people say that everything that happens is the will of God. I refuse to believe that the loving God that we serve would take you away from us so cruelly… for what reason? What could He gain? Did God want to rip out the hearts of your parents and sisters and then trample on them? No, that’s not our God… This is the doing of the evil one. The one comfort we have is that our God is the ultimate comforter.

These wounds may never heal completely, but I know that eventually, the pain will subside. I will always look back on your life with fond memories. I want to take this chance to thank you for looking after my parents for me and my brothers. I wish I could do the same for you… short of bringing you back, I’m not sure anything I could do would ever completely alleviate their pain… but I am praying for all of us left behind, who love you, especially the women who’ve always loved you, your sisters, and your mom. I’m praying that God WILL comfort us

I love you man. You were such a wonderful person and I will miss you greatly.

RIP Tommy Sho…

Lukewarm…

Do you ever have a day that starts out really bad... almost looks like nothing is gonna go right for you... then, somewhere along the line, something happens that tips the scales in the other direction? Not neccesarilly a big event, just something that puts you in a good mood. At the end of it all, you really can't say it's been a good day... or a bad one, even. I guess days like that, yesterday for me,  are proof that life isn't always black and white!Have a grey day!

… and if life is just a highway …

The next bit of this song goes, "then the soul is just a car." I don't really think that is entirely relevant to what I wanted to say here, but I thought that might be a catchy title... But I have recently discovered from a new reader, that my amazing titles aren't always so amazing... lol.

So, have you ever been a road so long that you forget why you're on it and where you're going? I'm speaking figuratively of course... with current prices for fueling up your car, that probably doesn't happen to most people. What I'm really trying to say is, have you ever done something for so long, that you really don't know why you're still doing it, but it just seems right? You try to justify it, but can't really think of a good reason to stay on that course... Well, I'm there... But, I've decided to take a chance and get off this highway and see what there is to be discovered.

I'd like to go into detail and not speak in code, but let's just say, if I did that, I might end up getting run off the road and it might not be so easy to get back on... But hopefully, I'll eventually be able to speak out, once I get on my new course... this is gonna be one hell of a road trip!!! ;-)

Is this thing on???

Hello world… it’s been a while? Why does it seem like every time I’m blogging, it’s almost like a reunion? I really need to get active on this thing… lol…

Anyway, I’ve got new motivation and I’m really gonna try to keep this going… for a while at least…

So basically, what I’m saying is watch this space… it’s gonna be a hot bed of activity real soon…

One of those days…

 

   

You ever have one of those days that just brings you down? You know what I mean, a day when it seems like everything is going wrong… well, I just did… at least it started out that way… but a lot of times, the way you feel is the way you think you feel… that’s why after emptying my viente caramel vanilla latte onto my computer at work, I refused to be upset… i know it wasn’t my personal computer, but that was the second time I have emptied the contents of a cup on company property… i probably won’t get into any real trouble, but i’m pretty certain it will be frowned upon… oh well, we’ll see how it goes tomorrow… i probably won’t be drinking at my desk for a while now…

I’m back… again!!!

Hello world,

it's been a while since I've written on this blog. 438 days to be exact. But for some reason, I've decided I'm going to give this a shot, again. I don't know if anyone will actually read this, but hey, I'm paying for it, so I might as well use it... lol.

Ok, so what has happened since I was last on here? Obama became president, Michael Jackson died... can't think of any other major occurrences, but I'm pretty sure I'm missing at least one. In my life? um... I moved... I have a roommate now. It's not as bad as I feared, but after two years of living alone, it takes a little getting used to. But hey, at least I get to save some money every now and then :-) ... life is pretty good, I must say... don't get me wrong, things aren't exactly where I hoped they'd be at this point, but I am very fortunate to be where I am on my journey and I thank God for it. I've got a wonderful family (spread out in 5 cities/villages and 3 continents), some good friends, a job that pays the bills and I live comfortably. I'm not exactly, 'living the life'... but I really believe that optimism goes a long way, and I always try to keep a smile on my face... I like to say, "lie to yourself, sooner or later you'll start to believe it..."

By the way,  I am now a season ticket holder for the Seattle Sounders FC of the MLS. If you told me this time last year, that I'd be cheering for an MLS team, I'd have called you a liar. But life doesn't always take you down a path that you expect. So yeah, those of you that follow me on twitter or facebook are probably tired of my constant updates about the Sounders. What can I say, I fall hard sometimes :-) ... We had friendlies against Chelsea and Barcelona and there were over 60,000 people at both of those games... we lost but they were both fun. Also on the sports front, Manchester United had a pretty good season, lost in the finals of the champions league in May, which was really painful... lol... and the Orlando Magic made it too the NBA Finals but lost to the Lakers (boooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!).

I'm guessing that none of this is news to most of you, but I didn't really know what I was gonna write when I started typing so I'm pretty much just pouring out whatever random thoughts are on my mind....

So the big news here really is still this debate about healthcare. I'm not too sure why people are so angry. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with someone else and having a debate about it, but all this fear mongering and outright racism is really appalling. I do believe that the crazies we see on tv are in the minority, but they seem to have some numbers behind them. Personally, I'm in support of the plan for healthcare. People seem to talk about Canada and the UK as examples of the evilness that is healthcare for all. I have been sick while I was in England and my aunt took me to the hospital. Didn't pay a dime... on the flipside, when I lived in Florida, I once had to drive myself to the hospital, in pain, after bruising a bone (felt like it was broken) because I didn't want to have to call an ambulance and have to pay close to $1000. I think healthcare should be a right to all, especially children. As a child in Nigeria, I remember going to work with my mom (she's a doctor) and seeing her react to a death for the first time. I was a little surprised to see that she was angry... I must have been 8 or 9 at the time, but I remember asking her and she told me that the baby's parents had tried to medicate the child at home and only brought the baby in when the child's condition got worse. My mother said it was too late and there wasn't much she could do to save the child. I know Nigeria has a long way to go when it comes to healthcare among other things, that'll have to be a whole 'nother post, but this is supposed to be the greatest country in the world and I know there are families that have to decide between hospital visits and paying bills and I don't think that shouldn't happen.

Ok, so I think I'm done blogging for now, hopefully, it won't be another 400 days till my next post... Enjoy life people!!!