Documenting 2025

It's day 204 of documenting 2025. Today was my day off. The day before the party tomorrow. I enjoyed it actually....or I'm still enjoying it. After a long, hard nap in the morning....I took a walk with my sister and got home...to lounge again. While doing the habits on my routine, of course. It was good...but hopefully, tomorrow will be better. Today is actually my friend's birthday. I refer to him as PK whenever I mentioned him in former posts. He's the most wonderful person I have ever known 😊 I haven't communicated in a while....which is bad on my part. But I'm giving him the shout-out that he deserves, for being such an amazing friend. Happy Birthday PK 💜 I wish you nothing but the best of all good things to come. Long life, prosperity and extraordinary blessings 🎁 I'm sorry I haven't messaged you in a while...and I hope you got the letter I sent explaining why. I'm doing okay over here...and I'm sure you'll be fine too. Take care of y...

It's day 203 of documenting 2025. What a day!  It was quite tiring at school...but I got all my work done. And I have the day off tomorrow...as well as the whole school. It's to allow everyone get ready for the party on Thursday. I'm going to probably sleep late tonight and work on a few projects...or study. Then sleep in and enjoy my day off. And finally get ready for the D-day...when I'll be the busiest I can ever be on the job. It's the last week, so I can handle it. Let's get into Highlights for today....and then I'll share a story from the ongoing series behind the scenes.... Ursula's story. 365 Days With Self-discipline  📌 On Maintaining Composure "Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite." Quote by Ryan Holiday Today's Highlights is going to be packed... because I shared the whole note. If I just picked out parts of it, you may ...

It's day 202 of documenting 2025. It's a new week. There's still teacher work to be done...preparations for the party on Thursday has already started. Well, until then. Today...not much going on. I'm at school as I type this...and it's 12:32pm. I'm not sure of when I'll be going home yet...it's undecided. Weather? Windy with some sun. My mood? Just meh 😶 Anything else? Not really So, I'll just share the chat I had with my friendly psychologist this morning. And it's a weird one actually.... But first, Highlights. 365 Days With Self-discipline  📌 On Accepting the Worst  "True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy." Quote by Lin Yutang If you can’t stop worrying, accept that the worst will happen and let it go. Having released this negative energy, you can now think of constructive ways to deal with the aftermath instead of wasting your time fearing the worst. This techniqu...

It's day 201 of documenting 2025. It's a Happy Sunday indeed 😊 You know why? This marks my last week as a secondary school teacher! After it ends, so does my teaching job. I would admit, I'm a little bit excited to be finally relieved of that stressful job. But come to think of it, 🤔  There's no job that doesn't involve some sort of stress. It's all up to you to pick your poison (not literally...). What matters is the cha-ching in your bank account...you know what I'm saying? 🤑 Anyways, after the school vacates, it's all study for my exams. This time, it's POST UTME. JAMB is done and dusted ✅  This time, it's either I pass or I don't. Either I qualify or I don't. I did some research and turns out, my university of choice usually processes admission late. Other schools have started releasing their exam forms...but my school of choice, they haven't even started their semester exams! That means more time for me to study. As I study, I...

It's day 200 of documenting 2025!           🤩 🎉 🎊 🎊 🎉 🤩 200 days of consistently writing this blog and documenting my journey. I'm grateful to God for helping me all through. I said in the last post that there's a story to tell...and I'll share it. Before that, I want to announce that it's officially 165 days to 2026! On day 265, it will be 100 days to 2026. This year is almost over...and the lessons just keep coming. One of such lessons that I recently learned is that people will always talk about you no matter what you do....and nobody's really watching your every step because they have their own lives. You can do anything you want. And if you try to fit into their description of you, you'll definitely lose yourself 😌 Anyways, let me tell the story. There was a particular day I wanted to publish one of the posts, but my data connection on the fritz. I usually add a picture at the top of each post, and then I publish. But that day, I didn't noti...

It's day 199 of documenting 2025. One more day to the big 200! Super psyched! 😃 I don't even know what I'm going to write...or how special it's going to be... But it's going to be great. Wow! It's going to be on a Saturday! And I've got quite a number of plans and tasks.... Hmm 🤔  Maybe I can type it tonight and schedule it for tomorrow. It has to be a special post...staying consistent for 200 days is not an easy feat. Trust me, there's a story to tell. No need to worry about that now... Let's focus on today's post, which is going out by nighttime. My mornings and afternoons are very occupied these days...there's no time to type then. So it's only convenient to shift the posting to evenings/nights. Anyhoo... Today went well 🙂 I was able to finish recording all the scores for two classes, excluding two subjects taught by the same teacher. Guess what? The teacher didn't show up today. So, my record isn't complete yet. Asides that...

It's day 198 of documenting 2025. Man! It's pretty chilly here 🥶 I'm outside of course...this cold wind plus gloomy skies have become a part of the  weather here in Lagos. As it is, rain can fall anytime and nobody would anticipate... I wonder what the dry season would look like this year 🤔 That aside, lemme share how today went. I woke up late because I stayed up late the night before doing God knows what... (Doomscrolled....then stopped myself in time and started writing.) Anyways, I had to rush off to the school and started working. And by work, I mean my back bent over a hand-drawn record sheet...writing down scores of students and making sure no mistake has been made. And not all subjects were recorded because some teachers were not available. It was real hard work, I tell you. The kind that gave me a headache. When it was time to close, I still had a few more scores to record. At first, I wanted to take it home to finish it up. But then I thought, a...

It's day 197 of documenting 2025. OMG! 😲 I just realized that it's 3 days to day 200! Amazing! I've really come a long way...from the day I started writing this blog. Day 50...Day 100...and Day 150. These are the milestones of this documenting journey. And I've been documenting offline as well. Month by month, I write down certain happenings or "highlights" of the month...as well as how I can do better. Well, until then... Let's keep moving, yeah? So we start with Highlights and later on, we borrow some wisdom from Marcus Aurelius. Sounds like a plan 🙂 365 Days With Self-discipline  📌 On Eliminating a Negative Attitude  "I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can  never bring me success." Quote by Napoleon Hill All but a few enlightened individuals engage at least periodically in behaviors and emotions like hatred, sarcasm, ...

It's day 196 of documenting 2025. Although I was pretty sleepy today, I managed to finish marking the exam papers for the senior class. C'est fini! 😁 I still have the exam papers for the junior class tho...but they're just two classes and one subject. Tres magnifique! (You're probably thinking, "she losing it again 😒) It's just teacher stuff... Now I understand how teachers feel when their work of grading and recording is done...or almost done. Whew! Besides that, today was pretty great. I went to see a friend at her house...and it turns out, her grandma celebrated her birthday today. I couldn't help but kneel in front of the woman as I wished her well. I wonder how she feels about the many years she has lived. I couldn't ask tho...the visit was a short one. I'm home now... Thinking out loud by 8:32pm and still wondering what style I would choose for the school party outfit. The school's party is around the corner...and we teachers got the mat...