Finally, Paypal is active in Nigeria! Just opened mine.

I was lounging with my dear husband yesterday evening when he mentioned that PayPal has come to Nigeria. Trust me, I ran to Mr. google for divination and was super excited when I discovered it was true.

I tried to open an account immediately but couldn't until this morning when I tried again and lo and behold, I opened one.

How I got stuck in ShopRight because I didn't have cash. How ripe is Nigeria for a cashless society?

I've always been an advocate for paperless and cashless society. In my office, my colleagues know I have soft copies of almost any document and hardly ever keep hard copies unless I am mandated to which usually gets to my nerves.

This is also my behaviour towards cash. I buy almost anything online with my debit card, pay for my cable, for flights, use PoS machines in boutiques and shops and even recharge people's mobile phones directly online.

I can't remember the last time I was at the bank because I've not had a reason to for a while. I use any online payment platforms you can think about. I use and love mobile money and I get angry that I can't use PoS in the general local market and the filling stations. So, these are the only places I go to with cash.

I got back to shape by eating only 'grass' for 3 weeks

Breakfast ready to be prepared

Recently, I noticed I'd blown up but I didn't realize how bad it was until my colleague who seemed to have found a new hobby with this big professional camera decided to catch me in action.

I'm not fat, I'm fluffy!

Ok.....this is just for laughs.

I was trying to get my husband out of bed this Saturday morning so we could go to the gym but he was feeling lazy and wouldn't get up, so I switched on my sexy voice to persuade him.

"Boo Boo, let's go now.... see, I'm really getting fat. You don't want to have a fat wife now, do you..". 

Guess what he said:

''No, Honey Boo Boo, you're not fat, you're FLUFFY'' 

 Lol, anyway, I got my way, we eventually hit the gym but I've not been able to stop laughing since morning. I mean, fluffy? was that supposed to me me feel better? Lol.

See my 'fluffy' picture after the cut.

Pictures from our Honeymoon in Dubai *Great experience*

There were 2 things my husband and I (that has become my favourite word these days, lol)  looked forward to most at the wedding: the exchange of vows and the honeymoon.

Tonia & Tony (Yimiton)'s wedding made in heaven

Hi friends, it's been ages I know but truth is that I  never knew it takes so much time and energy to plan a wedding. Yes, I (Yimiton) got married to the man of my dreams on the first Saturday of 2013. For those of you who didn't know, my name is Tonia and I married Tony who is a man after God's heart. 

In memory of my Dear Friend, Omoye Omoike-Okuribido. You’d have been 28 tomorrow.

Omoye, her husband & I on her wedding day

Omoye, if you were around, we’d have been making plans for your 28^th birthday for tomorrow. With all anticipation and joy and I, smiling from ear to ear like I’m the celebrant.

I met Omoye at my work place but she sooner became more of my friend than my colleague. She was younger than I but was so mature that I found myself asking her opinions on serious decisions. She was so full of love, so calm, so gentle and so beautiful in the inside. Her love was pure.

When I met Omoye, she wasn’t married yet but she was engaged. She loved her fiancé with a passion and it was so obvious, she made me want to fall in love. She treated her fiancé with so much respect and love, I learnt from her.  She was never shy too shy to show love, she was so inspiring.

He asked me to marry him and finally the 'lump in the throat' melted away.

 I know that feeling of 'lump in the throat' and I can authoritatively confirm that it happens and you feel it physically. A huge painful lump that just wouldn't go down.

I had that feeling a couple of years ago when something horribly painful and unexpected happened to me. Tears wouldn't take it away, neither would my resolution to move on, so I came to accept that the lump was always going to be there along with a painful ache, that feeling of a deep hole somewhere in my heart which was always just at the background as well as the feeling that something was missing which was never ever going to be found.