Don’t really know what woke me from my sleep this morning, but after I decided to finally get up for the day after stirring awhile in my bed, I check my phone’s screen for the time thinking, we should get a wall clock for our room, it was 7:30. Rella had not started her morning exercise of chasing the chickens this morning I wonder why…oh! That’s what made me get up, having to save the poor hen and her chicks that would be out first in search of food from the claws? No, not claws but weight of an overzealous dog. Yeah! She puts them under her weight when she finally catches them and they don’t survive it, she can’t even bite the tiniest skin off their flesh and she has killed about five of them in last month.
So I hurry to get the dog ‘I don’t know what to do with’ into her cage. Opening the door, I meet her lying down with her forelimbs crossed waiting for one of us to come open it. She’s like ‘Here she is’ and gets up to greet me, I get a stick to ward her off telling her I’m not in for ‘jump on me’ greeting style this morning. She grabs, lowers her head and heads towards her house, she’s beginning to like the routine, and she knows what to do but would prefer my participation. So she wriggles through the cage door she ate up all by herself.
“Come, come out” she obeys, I open what’s left of the door which is the frame, point to her new ‘project for freedom’ which is the big wooden table used to block the entrance to her cage she had started eating the legs on a mission to eat the whole table. I pointed to her damage with the stick in my hand and rebuked her for it, she ran inside. I repeated myself over again and she repeated herself too. She gave me that look ‘I know I’ve been naughty’ as she sat like a really obedient dog and I closed her in. she’s just good at being cute.
I release the remaining chickens, ever vibrant in the morning. I move on to the shop, opened the gate and the shop, got the hoe to clear the weeds growing around, baba iseyin’s charges are too high. Set up the goods in front of the shop for display, none of the other shops on the street were open yet their owners and managers hadn’t come. Cleared the little bush I could, after sweating an amount, I’m leaving the rest for next time. While setting the shop I called customer care of my network provider to complain about being inhibited from browsing the internet on my phone and was given a simple solution that worked after I got through.
I get some
change to get toothpaste that had finished, missing mummy’s role for getting the toiletries in bulk or in advance so things like this don’t happen. Got back and freshened up, today’s day three. I slip into the lady gaga like jacket we used to celebrate the end of Bsc by my class, don’t know what my motivation was.
Stayed mostly indoors listening to Papa’s message, tweeting, typing, eating, stealing glances at
AfMag because of
Sta Kunbi who’s watching it, answering calls by customers till I got tired of having to run from the living room to the shop so I transferred to the shop.
Sales weren’t much, enjoyed soaking garri with chilled water, enough sugar and fried fish, it was like a delicacy. I continued typing got tired and continued with the concluding part of the trilogy I’ve been reading for a while, finished it and wasn’t excited or really satisfied with the end.
Sta Kunbi went to blend the pepper and told me to cut fresh vegetables for dinner. I cut the vegetables after I was done with the book; my spirit was lifted as I sang while I attended to sorting the vegetables. I packed all the goods back in when I was done with the veggies, was conscious of what passers-by thought about my gaga jacket as I looked for their facial expressions.
Closed the shop and went back in still in high spirits, joined my sister’s preparation for dinner. Called my sister-in-law and her husband to check on them, they seem to forget so I have to remind them to care. NEPA had done what they knew best to do and I don’t think they planned to return it while we were still awake today. It was getting dark and I wanted to light the lantern, it happened as I tried to remove the glass, I don’t know how it slipped; all I know is that it just shattered and scattered as it landed on the floor.
Sta kunbi didn’t even act like a housefly passed, I got the broom and packer to clear it up, and she shook her feet so I can sweep what may have reached her side, no sorry, nothing. Then she took the washed and cut vegetables and said glass might be in it, she spotted one piece and I scanned for another. Then she said “WE might have to wash it again” I stretched the colander to her immediately “Kini? You can’t wash it ni?” That was it! She succeeded at washing down my enthusiasm today. She’s not my favourite sibling at all and not close to it. I didn’t say a word, but I was put off and prepared to sulk if she wanted to insist on anything else. I washed the veggies again and there was glass in it indeed. I left the rewashed in the colander and everything else.
I’m done with this! I’m not liking this, my sister is quite annoying.
I leave for the dinning where my laptop was, pressed the ‘on’ button and started typing how my day went, got my dinner as
Sta Kunbi prepared the efo riro without complaining and was eating opposite me now. Sometimes I think she’s purposely trying to get at me. The little battery left had died so I closed the laptop lid and ate my food. Done with eating, I did my dishes and saw the ceramic bowl I used for garri and had forgotten to wash, picked it, something crawled over my hand and the bowl flew out of my hand as I reacted in fear and it shattered as it hit the floor this time injuring my big toe, not a sound from my sister, I decided not to say anything too.
Cleared it up, got my things from the living room and went in to sleep for the night after taking a shower. Because I don’t know what one word to use to describe my day, this was how my day went.
How was your day?
