Fifi's diary

Image source: Pinterest  In 2016, I started rediscovering myself. In all honesty, I wish I had started much earlier, but I am thankful that I didn't have to wait for much longer. It's been a very long journey filled with growth, learning, unlearning, challenges, love, tears and much more. Sometimes, I look back and wonder what I was using my mind for; whether I was thinking at all. I was growing okay physically, but moving at snail speed spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually. I just went along with the flow, doing nothing to consciously move forward, doing nothing intentionally, I wasn't even preparing for my future, and I was in my final year. Wow! Beats me too. I look back and I am proud. I have come a very long way from where I used to be. Of course, during the past three to four years, going through the motions of growth, it didn't really feel like it, but now, I see tremendous growth. I definitely still have a long way to go, and I really look for

Time: 11:13 am Feeling: Cold Over the weekend, I made some creamy chicken soup for myself and my brother. When I was in Uni, it was something I always made, because it's super easy to make. However, there were two things I didn't like in all the soups I made: they were always so flipping thick, and there were always surprises (lumps). This time around, I did things differently. I made use of some: Leftover chicken bbq, 10 green beans 2 sausages 5 small carrots 2 eggs (whites) 2 and a half tablespoons of flour 1 garlic clove 1 onion. 1 tablespoon of margarine. Salt. Thyme 2 Seasoning cubes. Some evaporated milk Pretty basic ingredients. I know, right? So, first things first: Shred your chicken. Slice your sausages into circles, they shouldn't be cut so thinly. Wash your carrots and slice into thick circles. Boil your carrots for 5-6 minutes. I boiled my carrots and eggs in the same pot. When the carrots were just right; somewhere in be

Time: 9:36 am Feeling: Full and sleepy I'm at work. Just had breakfast, and I feel soo full and sleepy. I wonder if I'll be able to eat lunch. Yeah, I brought lunch to work, and that's what I actually want to talk about. Source: Pinterest If you know me, one thing you should know is that I'm big on saving money and cutting down on unnecessary expenditure as much as I can. Lol, but as much as I do this, I like to enjoy myself once in a while; I just go "Lois, just spend this money, na one life". When I started working, in 2017, I found out that I did not like buying junk for lunch, for two major reasons: It was very unsatisfying, gosh! I'm not a big eater at all, I usually eat small helpings of food, but this just didn't cut it. It was usually a drink and biscuits and some candy. It was really expensive! It didn't seem like it, but it was! For something that's absolutely not filling. I eventually decided to try to take lunc