Mandrakes
I was trying to make up a word that means verb: “with bravado aforethought, prove that you are not scared of [insert plausible calamity here] by defying every instinct and denying apparent danger by spitting in the face of so-called ’superstition’” .
Kinda like looking at this…
then filing your taxes.
Hamniti-shindwe-gorification
and I am actively pursuing the above activity by really roaming over the internet while I should be finishing up a report (which only needs like 1 hour of edit time *smh*)… Why is it when you don’t want to do something, time stretches itself until it comes time to actually use it ?
Like, I was going to take a shower and then sit down with my dinner and finish up.
I took a shower. Looked at the time and saw that it was like 9.23 p.m. so I decided it’d be better if I waited for a nice round number like 9.30 and what better way to spend time than to look up mandrakes- which are very fascinating plants that would find a nice stable home in the Kamba community (don’t write me a letter, I may not be a Kamba, but I’ve had some vigourous ‘and workin Mkamba in me so just chill… *sheesh*
Side Bar:
Me? I admit I’ll never sing “open their mouth, their grill gleaming (d® , 2005)” . It’s disrespecting kina Boyonce. Similarly, it was a waste of time for my dude to say “Under-arm-hair” Oh, but the fun you’ll have. Kwanza while playing with ‘is hunder-harm-’air! (Well, not really but it sounded good).
So, as I was saying, I believe in that ‘houses have an energy’; ‘blogs have an essence’ stuff that you can’t really admit hadharani as a true-African(I blog anonymously so I can). And I also believe that when you move blog-neighborhoods, you change a lot of the page/ neighborhood/ dynamic that gave you, the writer, that voice that people responded to so favorably.
See for me, once my kids untaught themselves Kikuyu and learnt how to speak it with a British accent, ever since my husband stabled the polo horses in Nanyuki as the humidity in Molo is very damaging and he’s moved up to a zero handicap ; ever since I got my ’shamba-boy’ one of those Jane Nyambura uniforms that are all the rage (since her abilities have been widely recognized in Kenya ever since she was a student at Joytown school for the physically handicapped and she won a prize at Nairobi show for her avante-garde designs) i.e. once I got money and moved on up from blogspot to blogsome, while this new zip code, wih the regularly swept streets, where the police respond to ‘loud music’ complaints (unlike blogspot where it takes anti-aircraft gun fights to get a traffic cop with a rungu and notebook and ask you for a pencil as the biro has melted by the time he walks to your house)
(OMG!! I just realized that that whole paragraph is one sentence… Sheesh, you’d think some Keguro would have rubbed off on me… oh well, I’ll comma splice).
Ya! I meant that ever since I moved on up to blogsome, I feel like I’ve lost that blogspot magic… (er… forgive the vanity implied there for a minute, I meant ‘magic’ as in pleasure to write etc.).
Side Bar 2:
Which brings me to my next point. Does feng shui really work? I’ve been pulling using that excuse everytime I tidy up the house and clear jamaaz things out (not this one— hukos in the past) and when he comes around asking why I moved stuff over, I’m like “baby, I feng shuid”…
OK, wrapping it up (which I have been as we all should - even if we have to go to Mobil to hook it up) . Or maybe it’s just me… but do you ever read the page of someone who’s migrated and feel like there’s something missing? No?
*yawn…. I should be sleeping*
ebu kwanza i open my mouth and sing:hear and now:numbari uno…
kwanza with the way i had commented int ur last post kumbe comment went to the other post…lordy!
I saw the Guess/Mutush/KM thing you’re tryin’ to do !!! Wewe! Lakini a rosay would not come amiss… Habari ya Nicky?
Comment by Nick — May 3, 2006 @ 6:14 am
mutumia ebu go back to blogspot.com…let me tell u where ur magic was in that template picha sista gal!!!! oh yeah u had attitude u had style u had grace rita hayworth gave…(oops did i just go into Vogue)…u got to go wit the flow….
rudi blogspot!!!!
Comment by Nick — May 3, 2006 @ 6:17 am
I know what you mean…..
Do I?
Me I could read a million meaning to that one, but er, because we are talking about BLOGS……ahem
Like Dshy? She moved with a “forgive me if I smile, it is to hide my tears”….LMAO, haki ya nyanya, that is so sissy I almost cried.
Even I mutumia, bila strokage, could never pull that you know.
Never go back to blogspot mama. Nefa efa! Some of us are still rapping at the barbed wire with prisoner bowls asking for Uji and wailing to get out as those kamaliza’s restrain the damn salivating mongrels from tearing us apart you see.
WhattamIsaying?
I have lost it….
I am just with man! How could you click on the ka wheelchair at Milo’s? Ma you dont fear fire and brimstone on your ass?
Like, sorta kinda vile parking spaces for handicapped should never be messed with man.
Maaan!! you have so totally done it this time…….
Comment by Mine was nipped, LMAO — May 3, 2006 @ 6:34 am
Wacha story zako Nick. Muts ain’t lost none of her hotness, she’s just drained from all the horizontal rumba. Ama siste??
By the way, I thought Mandrakes were those shrieking plants in Harry Potter. No? No? Oh well!
LOL at Feng-shuied! LOL. I always Feng-Shui my way out of a jamas house. Kila kitu hata toothbrush!
Comment by Ms K — May 3, 2006 @ 6:54 am
lol at “baby..i feng shuid!”…haha hillarious!! and I am curious to know what it is that has you fascinated with mandrakes?? you are one currazy lady!! As for blogspot…I’m still sulking after it maliciously ate one of my posts!! Not even an apology!! nothing. Without shame…bet blogsome would never do that!!
Comment by kipepeo — May 3, 2006 @ 8:11 am
Madam I cannot kee track of your thoughts as wayward as they normally are I came to the end of the post and still had not a general idea what you were saying.
Kwanza that XXL word he!
Say that mkamba line again as in he was working in (or with) you??? tihihi
Comment by Prou — May 3, 2006 @ 8:31 am
At least I was 7th!Now to read and comment!
Comment by acolyte — May 3, 2006 @ 1:49 pm
Okay now to comment on this eclectic post!As someone who has medicine men and such in the extended clan, you will realise that there are some very interesting plants in this dunia of ours and there is alot they can do ie sage and sandalwood.
Ms K nione kando I can whip up a lil some some for your probo!
I do think that a template changes your blog alot and I too am thinking of changing templates as I am tired with this one.But I am sure you will get your writing desire back!
Well I do feel to some extent that feng shui works but I think I am being too serious now!I think you should just washa some moto posts and things will be back to kawa.Or just get some mandrake!
Comment by acolyte — May 3, 2006 @ 3:00 pm