Living Well Lifestyle Diet (Day 1)

So I've started my Living well Lifestyle Diet (LWLD). I'm sure you are wondering, what is that! and who its by... Well I made it up! And it's just a diet for my whole life. I'm dedicated to eating healthy, working out, having healthy relationships, promoting peace of mind and peace in my life, etc. This means decrease the stress, sleep well, exercise, eat well, no alcohol!!!!

So far I'm finding it a little hard to do it, but I'm encouraged. This weekend I went bowling. This is actually a nice exercise and fun too. It helps remove the stress. But  of course today is Monday. Monday means deadlines, work, stress. So what I decided to do is do what I can, and leave what I cannot do until tomorrow. I will go home, run, shower, and work a little more from home, then go to sleep at an acceptable hour! Yay!

In terms of food, I've stocked really healthy things at home! Carrots, celery, oatmeal (I love it), Bountiful Morning Cereal, and I have cut out red meats and fowl. Its a pescetarian lifestyle. I eat more Fish, Shell Fish, Eggs and veggies. I am actually sticking to the restrictions, the problem is I forgot to restrict myself from eating candy.

Today I started off well with Quaker Oats Oat meal. I mistakenly left my lunch at home and immediately l went for KitKats and Reese's Cups. This is very bad. I am including no candies to my diet.

As far as working out, I am doing great! I park my car off campus and force myself to do a 15min walk daily to and from my car with my bookbag on. This is good because some days I cant get a workout in.

I have to force myself tho to try to take steps again and sometimes bike to school. My lateness disease (lol its not a disease, I'm just always late to everything) keeps me from biking to school alot because I find myself in a rush late for meetings.

In terms of more positive relationships, I'm trying to be more patient... with friends, family, co-workers. I'm trying to be less snippy, more smilie, less busy, more available, less tired, more vibrant, less argumentative, more open-minded.

Some things are not worth going into debate over, agree to disagree, avoid toxic people, learn to say  NO once in a while, take time for ME, and most of all take time for GOD! Majority of things I'm doing personally in this LWLD come out of  the Book of Proverbs.

Anyway I feel positive about this Living well Lifestyle Diet! It's helping me be an all round better person. If I can Eat Well, Live Well, Be Well, then I think I can Feel Well. I'll keep you posted!

Outsourced..

I really didn't know what to expect when I started watching this show. I thought it would be a xenophobic spoof of The Office that was trying to appeal to displaced Americans in the work force... why would I watch that? well just to see scare tactics that people use to try to divide a country more...lol

But to my surprise Outsources is a really funny show. If you are an American, Indian, African, or anything in between and have a sense of humor, you will love this show. Its cute. It has equal opportunity jokes and really tries to combat stereotypes in jest. It also lets us realize how offensive we could be sometimes when we dont know it and makes us more sensitive to other cultures. Take a peak at the pilot episode and let me know if you liked it too!

The Lord can interpret your Dreams! Just Ask

Let me start by saying.. in Job 33:15, the bible defines a dream as "in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed.

Okay so those that read my blog know that I had a zombie dream. Well actually, for the past few days, I've been having really vivid crazy dreams. Some were really scary, some based on my real life, some based in fiction. Its even more weird when you have no meaning to what you are dreaming. So after church yesterday, and after talking to a friend of mine about another dream I had, I drove in my car and started praying to God. I prayed to Him, thanked Him for being my Father, a never ending God, in control of all. I thanked him for being a Magnificent All Powerful God, and all of a sudden I started praying about my dreams. I prayed and asked Him that He take control, that in the bible, there is nothing that says dreams are bad, and that, in fact;God helped Joseph and Daniel decipher dreams. So I asked HIM to reveal to me all my dreams. I told HIM that I am happy i can go to HIM and ask Him for ALL things, and that what I was asking for was that He as the Creator of dreams should also be my Interpretor. I asked that anything the devil tries to put in my head, the Lord should cast out, that I rebuke lies and deceit, because the Lord is the truth and light. I asked that dreams that have no meaning, I should be able to discern from dreams where the Lord is delivering His Word to me. As you know not all dreams are prophetic, some are just dreams, some are lies, and some are visions in sleep of things to come, changeable or unchangeable. I kept asking the Lord to reveal his message to me when there is one. That I am ready for it.


okay lets rewind back... some time ago, my mom had a dream about me, that I would get into a car accident. Before I left on a trip,  she called me when she woke and started praying for me. We prayed... and prayed............................... and prayed. And I really dismissed the whole thing. I shouldn't have because God was truly speaking. If my mom didn't pray for me, I would have had a really bad situation. Basically, I was driving, I wasn't tired and I got a great nights sleep the night before, but all of a sudden, sleep befell me, and I fell asleep at the wheel and almost ran into the median. Well actually I did run into the barrier, but only my side mirror and wheel hit. We thank God that I got a phone call that buzzed me awake and got me to have control of the wheel. If I didn't get that call, I would be road kill! We thank God for that intervention. God moved someone to WAKE me. It wasn't my time, and God warned us so we could pray for his favor.

Here's the thing, I pulled into a rest stop which was only half a mile away from where I fell asleep and I called my mom and said "don't ever call me to tell me I will be in an accident!". I was freakin' FREAKED OUT at that time! at that time i didn't realize what I was saying. it was an ungrateful statement. I was basically saying that the Lord should not reveal things to me. so my mom basically put me in check to let me know... HEY! the Lord reveals things to people in many ways and if he has revealed something to someone to give you that message, you should be ready to accept that message at ALL times. Its the difference between life and death. So i really saw what she meant and thanked God and thanked him and thanked him! God is good...

okay going back to my dreams.... so after my prayer, I went on with my day. I even by evening forgot my prayer. I was on to other things... but I am living proof that the Lord does answer prayers... lets get to what I actually want to write about... this is going to be a LONG blog...

Okay so let me start by saying that I am a geek. I love everything scifi... I love zombie movies, vampire movies, alien movies, and high tech end of the world type of movies. As a christian, I know that bad, but I never cut them out. Bad bad me. I watch shows such as Tru Blood, Star Gate SG1, Haven, Eurika, etc.

Anyway last night my favorite cast from Star Gate SG1 was in my dreams. I was there too! Basically, there was something like a virus or bug that was making things rapidly rot. It started slowly and all of a sudden would quickly take over the world without warning and rot everything DEAD! This included the people, including my SG1 cast, you and me. THEN.... We would un-rot, and have a change to try to slow, stop or reverse the "bug". We tried it several times. All sorts of science didn't work! Nothing worked. I woke up, and rather than stay awake, I went back to sleep! I went back to trying to solve it in my dream and I started to pray in my dream. As I was praying I was saying that I am a child of God and that I choose life, not death. I kept saying that the devil has no power over me. somehow the rotting passed me and a few people over as it waved over the earth. and then as usual, it refreshed and the rotting started again, but this time, I knew where it was coming from. there was a bin with maggots/termite type bugs, and they were ready to start rotting evertyhing on earth. The team was recognized with a medal and made in charge of thing, but people didnt realize that it wasnt science that stopped the rot, it was prayer, and when people didnt realize that, the rot came back and even reached the space station where the SG1 team was. Noone was safe. But in praying over and over again, I kept getting spared. and the rot could tell who was of God and who wasn't. It had no effect, and ever ran from those who were God's children. We were ministering to the rot... and I woke up...

WOW. that dream was intense. I got up to go to the bathroom and midstream... yes i started praying and peeing... but mid stream i started praying. I was praying in my mind, and all of a sudden I started praying aloud. I usually dont like to pray aloud because my mouth is not as fast as my mind, but I was moved to pray aloud and it was just as fast as my SPIRIT b/c i was trying to understand what i was praying. Man!!!! what in the world... or I should say what in the heavens... My prayers as I was hearing myself was a revelation of my dream. I kid you not. I just started crying and praying. We thank God!

That revelation was not anything I didn't know. The long and short is that all of this is God's. He is the creator. He has control of all. even the devil. The Lord will allow the devil to test us. After all we all have free will. and get this... we all get 2nd chances. We all get a chance to do it over, but if we keep doing it over the wrong way, then we are choosing death. things of this earth are of the flesh. it may look pretty on the outside, but its really rotting inside. And there is no science or rational that can prevent it. Only the Lord has that power. So why are we looking to science, money, psychics, or things of the flesh? it wont stop the rot. And remember, God only gives us so many chances until our chances are up and he calls us to be judged.

For me, I want to be among the first wave, those that reach the gates and are permitted entry, and if I live to see the End of Days, I want to be part of that Second wave where Jesus calls us up to him. I dont want to stay on this earth to be part of that ROTTING and DEATH. Everlasting LIFE is my portion !!!! We thank God!!!!

So that was my dream!...

On a side note, yesterday in church they talked about spiritual maturity and how you can't be satisfied with just being born again. That maturing in your Christian life is a must! So in my prayer, I thanked him for this step in the process to spiritual maturity. God is calling me to MATURE. Is he calling you? If so, dont let it go to Voicemail, Pick up and answer that Call! Answer each and every time he Calls. Let the Holy Spirit be that special ring tone!

Anyway sorry to get all preachy today, but that dream just moved me this morning. So there you have it. I hope you learned something from this that I'm sharing! We thank God for it....

And BTW, I just found while writing this blog a great webpage that talks about dreams and the bible... a nice read. What does Bible say about DREAMS?

Have a great and bless week folks!

Voting outside of Nigeria

I had the privilege to talk to a friend of mine last year about the Gabonese elections. Apparently they have absentee balloting at embassies all over the world. People can register and can go to the embassies and consulates with their passports! They can vote and its handled in house! And best of all, their votes count... however small the percentage of overall votes...Go Figure!

 And it made me think. There are so many Nigerian living outside of Nigeria. In the USA, we are the largest African community. We are the most educated immigrant population too, but yet we cant put our heads together to fight for our RIGHT to vote in Nigerian elections. There's no "out of sight out of mind" when it comes to the rights of a Nigerian.

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Anyway I fast forward to a conversation I was having with one of my Nigerian Big Sistah. She was so upset at the whole hullaballoo about Nigeria at 50 and the monies being spent on it, when so little is spent on Nigerian healthcare or education. She was appauled by the groups here in america putting together parades and celebrations and making money off of independence parties while their counterparts suffer from hunger, disease, and lack of infrastructure. "What is there to celebrate" she said. I brought up that as Nigerians many times we can spend to go to Nigeria for December vacation, but we can't make a sacrifice to make our voice heard for the good out our country.

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Where are the rallies? Where are the protests? Wheres the action? Is there even one event focused on discussion and holding people accountable for Nigeria as a Failed state so far?

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Basically, if we don't take ourselves seriously, Nigerian crooks... oops i mean "politicians", wont take us seriously. Imagine if there was a great campaign with celebrities and dignitaries promoting forgoing leisure travel to Nigeria for the sole purpose of sparking a mass migration to Naija during election season. Imagine!

Also imagine if we could lobby to have absentee balloting now that we have our new biometric passports. I'm sure there's an independent firm out there that could be contracted to conduct non partisan, non-biased elections processes at Nigerian Embassies and consulates world wide. We are smart people. Lets think here! I would love to rally and lobby for such an ability. Just because I no dey 4 my papa land no mean I no dey Nigerian. I'm a Nigerian O! Green Pali for me o! I want to VOTE o!

Lets see which politicians would back something like that. Maybe only the ones that believe in a fair and free elections... ermm... none? God forbid! Well lets see. The thought is out there. I'm not claiming intellectual property rights on this. who ever is capable and sure of heart should get it done!

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Anyway until then, I have resigned to the fact that I just must prepare myself for voting in Nigeria! I will be there! I will be ready! I will Vote! and for the first time ever. Meet me at the Polling booth, its going down!

NEA Awards 2010

Oooooo! the NEA Awards are coming and its my first time ever going to them...



For those that don't know NEA stands for the Nigerian-Entertainment-Awards! All the hottest Musicians, Actors, Actresses, DJs, producers will be in attendance! My favorite Nollywood Stars! Oooo I hope to see Rita! no not from Koko Mansion. Rita Dominic. I hope to see Desmond Elliot! I hope to see ... omg the list just goes on and on! Check out the awesome fab promo they did for the event. I think this was well done, classy and naijafied. Not everything Nigerian has to be razz. Razz was cool LAST YEAR, this year is about class and swag. And this video definitely appealed to all Naijas! Shows that the Naija entertainment industry is coming up!!!



They sure will see me there! So now I have to figure out what I'm going to wear! Ankara, European, Long, Short, Sassy, Classic, what? Oh Lawd! Let see how this pulls off. I'll keep you posted too!

Leave a comment with links to cute styles or with suggestions on outfits.
Also let me know what you think about going to this years NEA Awards. Are you going? Do you think its going to be hot? Do you think its worth it? What do you think of the Nigerian Entertainment Industry? Let me know!