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It feels like a pretty long time since I last posted on my blog but you know, life happens, laziness, buziness, nothing-to-write-aboutness and so on. Last Saturday was an interesting one, we decided to go to Six Flags Over Texas with the Lubwama girls, that was something else. The place gave roller coasters a whole new meaning in my view. Ok first of all the only roller coasters I had been on were the really mild ones in UG and the ones that we go through in life, (you know how we always say "our lives are like roller coasters") complete understatements I tell you. The girls had been there several times before so they knew the rides like the back of their palms, Sam, Mich and I were new at this so we only had them as a guide, absolute bad idea. I knew we were in real trouble when we got onto our first ride and the words of caution were something like this " For safety precaution please keep all parts of your body inside the vehicle " aaaaaaahhhh!!!!, what does that ...

Yesterday I was watching a program on TV and the topic was gays and lesbians, earlier in the day someone else was talking about the same thing over the radio. I thought, eh! this issue is huge, it's really crazy out here, these guys are just gone and the way they justify their cause. At the back of my mind I thought (anti that's why I think Mich should grow up in UG at least co...) Today I was checking out news in Uganda and there it was on the front page " Kampala Homosexuals speak out ", ouch !! that hurts, it hit close to home, my people! ( I became patriotic after leaving the country you know). I've known for a while that these people are there but I guess it's different now because I'm looking at it from another angle. I probably don't know these people personally but they are fellow Ugandans, my heart goes out to gays and lesbians around the world but it especially goes out to my country men and women. Just reading how passionate they are about ...

Wow wow! it's blazing hot down here in D we are at a constant of 100 degrees but it should cool down towards the end of the week. I'm constantly grateful for house AC because I don't know how else we would make it through. A radio presenter gave a friend some sound advice, in case she was lazy to cook dinner that day all she had to do was put the ingredients for the meal in a sauce pan and carry it with her to work. Then leave it in the car and by the time she was ready to head home in the evening it would be ready to serve having marinated and boiled/roasted/baked on steady heat. I found that funny. Mich likes to read, no let me rephrase that, Mich likes it when stories are read to him and then when the story is over he says "thiii end". The other day he wasn't feeling too good but he lead the prayer before he went to bed and it went something like, " Dear Jesus, thank you for today, I pray that you take away the pain in my stomach and throw it in the wa...

I've been thinking about life, (hmm! that sounds very intellectual), any way I was thinking about life and how we live by setting goals, with the purpose of hitting the mark hook or crook. By eighteen I should have had my first boy friend, by twenty five I should be married, by this time I should have a job and a promotion shortly after. I don't know what your goals are but I just find it interesting the way God shuffles mine around. I'm learning the joy of living in uncertainty just knowing that God is the only certain part of it all. I know for the most part, well at least in some other peoples lives He allows things to work out exactly the way they plan. You know, by thirty they are married, have kids, have earned their degrees and are working at a top position in a prestigious company. That's good and all, the only problem is the confidence is all in self, feeling like they have accomplished all this by themselves (well not all but some). My experience has been diff...