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Welcome back.
The issue with having two blogs running concurrently is that sometimes you are at a loss of words, so to speak. For instance, the glaring similarity is that I’ve got the same heading for posts on different blogs!

So the heading says what this post’s about. Welcome back.
I survived the holidays, though they were still going on over here till Monday!! Yippee!!
About my holiday, I went to my village home, spent about four days there. The account’s already been posted on my other blog. Pictures, am still debating whether to put them. Time and laziness being the prevailing factors!

I got back on the night of 29th and my body’s still operating in village- mode. I still feel sluggish and oba my brain’s also gone to sleep. As I had no network signal, I couldn’t keep in touch with This Musoga and maybe it was fate that prevailed so I could get back on 29th before midnight.
29th was This Musoga’s birthday. Had I not got back in time to make that call, the story would have been “The girl that forgot her boyfriend’s birthday”. Luckily, I made the call in time but he was too busy buying groceries, to put in a lot of words.
The solution to this was to call later. The Musoga decides to call just as I’m drifting off to dreamland. I admit, I can be quite grumpy when you call and I’m sleepy and this always gets on his nerves!! I’ll be too lazy to say anything; I’ll just keep on saying “mmh, mmh”!! Then the one that sets him off, he tells me something, and then I go “yeah, yeah, so what’s up”!! That’s my I-Really-Want-To-Sleep cue to whoever is on the other end.
This Musoga sometimes decides to clock the talk credit. Meaning I’ve got to stay on the line and listen and then yap back!! These sacrifices!!!

This Musoga and my mum have something in common- a birthday. The night of 29th gave me a whole kind of respect for my father. We got back to Kampala at about 10pm; he had a bath and decided to take my mum out. Even if they just got out for about 2hrs, his man who’d been up since 4am that day, then driven to Kampala for 4hrs, still took her to celebrate her milestone.
On the other side of the coin, I paid for this night out starting from 10am today! When we get back from the village, we usually carry beef and fish from home and the following morning, my dad distributes to various people. Because he was out late, it meant I had to wake up and sort, pack and deliver. This took the whole day. As I sit here, I still have got three deliveries to make which I’ve postponed indefinitely!!

I’m really having issues with MTN!! All my text messages have not been delivered and the credit’s still deducted. These Ugandan things!!

Happy New Year!
12.00am 01-01-07, found me driving past the church at the junction to Bidandi Ssali’s mosque in Ntinda and Hips Don’t Lie by Shakira was playing on the radio. My reason for being in Ntinda was to buy more booze for the people who’d gathered home to see the fireworks and celebrate the New Year with us.
I couldn’t help but notice the huge contradiction!
The year’s started out well, so far so good.
Still chilling at home, eating anything that comes my way and watching a lot of TV.
On the down side, it has been blighted by the execution of Saddam Hussein. I’m such a believer in the basic human right to life. I abhor death sentences. They should have left the fellow in the gallows and thrown away the key and let him ponder on his life for his last few remaining years. Surely, he wouldn’t have lived another 50 years, would he?
Now they are also going to execute the brother.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

Meditating on the previous year……….
- What happened to Sebagala’s buses?
- Global Fund, Mukula, Muhwezi?
- Nsaba Buturo, still insisting he was right to steal?
- NMS and Rutagi?

This Musoga and I will post an analysis on our previous year.
Bye for now.