It is 26 days to the end of this year. I have had quite the year of my life and consider this one of those posts that reveal just how far off I was on my resolutions. These are the 26 highlights of my absolutely epic life!
- I registered a domain and went from wordpress.com to nilichoandika.co.ke
- Got serious about the writing and published 3 books in the Currents Series : Fire, Water & Wind
- Reached out to my friends, and I’d say I have attended more weddings this year than I did in the previous three!
- Talking of weddings, I’m still single and my aunts have stopped looking at that clock they consider when they say “time is running out on me.”
- Deleted my Whatsapp account: Give tired of those groups, with endless streams of messages that I couldn’t keep up with. Got tired of the chain messages promising me a miracle if I send them to the next ten people and the videos that ate up all my internet bundles!
- Started working on the implementation of a Teens Organization that I have been talking of for two years: Teens for Teens-Kenya
- Failed to buy a red pair of heels. I got a sexy pair but the joy of buying books had me looking the other way.
- Turned down two proposals, lost a good friend and still don’t know what is going on between me and the other one-it’s complicated.
- I read The Complete Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey and then…Grey. #smh
- Lost 5kgs in four weeks, was so sick I had to check into a hospital only to have the doctor tell me that the drastic weight loss shook me up! I have since gained it!
- Taught the Sunday School kids at our church for a while before work took me out of town.
- Bought a camping bag, and now I am all set for a life on the road: 3 white tee shirts, two pairs of jeans, a pair of boots, a pair of ngomas and 1 litre water bottle!
- Took the 21-Day challenge: Did squats for ten days and then I stopped! Successfully did the 25 second plank…that’s it, I cannot go beyond 25 seconds.
- Completed my 2015 Goodreads Challenge: Read 180 books this year 🙂
- Embraced my love for hair color: had purple, red, maroon and bronze braids this year- and dyed the hair medium brown!
- Was invited to three schools as a motivational speaker to encourage this year’s KCPE candidates.
- Started writing for Jabulani.
- Visited Java (as often as my love and need for coffee arose)
- Lost my Great Grandmother, and it reminded me of how much I still grieve for my Dad eighteen years on.
- Discovered my love for BDSM novels…I’m not really into Kink, but something about reading those books just makes my day…and thank heavens for Kindle!
- Developed a love for Photography
- I did the Hotline Bling dance…#thankyouDrake
- Fell in love with the TV Shows: Scorpion and Mr Robot (I am a sucker for geniuses with messed up lives!)
- Got so invested in watching Hannibal that whenever I visit hotels and watch people eat meat- and reach for their glass of wine, I cannot help but see Dr. Lecter staring at his guests as they eat someone’s tongue!
- Set “Sorry” by Justin Bieber as my ringtone! I know this has got to the most eye-rolling thing I have done, but that song is stuck in my system- and yes, I’m old but I love his songs!
- Avocado! Yes, that fruit goes with everything! I put it on bread, in my sukumawiki, I eat it for lunch, I just eat that stuff-like seriously, what a way to end this list…
There’s more, but all in good time.
nilichoandika 