Themysteryishalfme.

It’s Daniel.

Me: Daniel? Which Daniel?

Him: Daniel, your biggest stalker on Face book, I just called to wish you a happy birthday. Sorry I woke you up…and please accept my request (all this very calmly)

Me:?#@$#*! Thanks but my number. How…?                                                                                                                   

Him: Will you please accept my request first?

I have 174 true friends on Face book (by true I mean, I know all of them personally: either they are family, old acquaintances, OGs, OBs, friends, family friends, childhood friends etc…I know them!) then there is my 175th friend. Because he is a friend to 24 of my friends (most of these are my older cousins and their friends who I know) Daniel, not real name…i love these Bible names. Our Guns will be Mathew, Mark, Luke, Joshua. I have not planned for our Roses yet, may be daddy has? When I was way younger, I wanted 12 of them (like I said younger) Today with the un conducive economic climate, age catching up, many things to do first and also the fact that they won’t have grandparents (my side) to babysit for me whenever daddy & I want to run the empty nest business, I cut the number to 5…I am still stuck there.  Four guns and a rose, I am kind like that. Dad doesn’t have to scratch his head so hard for just one name. See? Selfless just

Where was I again? Oh yeah! So Daniel had been sending me friend’s requests since February. I am not flossing but I actually ignore all requests from people I do not know. You too? see, it 's normal after all. So somewhere in May, he Inbox-ed me everything he knows about me (all of it true btw! Scary, huh?!) He was also wondering why I kwepanka…in brackets, what will the duchess of Cambridge do? …and was also kind enough to remind me of Face book’s initial role –social network! Lots of Uhuuusas (is this how Eddy Murphy writes it?) and i let it pass!

I eventually accepted to just see what he has cooking… He is actually a cool guy. Speaks very well, pretty funny and with the only half picture of him on Face book-he is decent.

He had been inviting me to all sorts of stuff; Wakina drinks, Bird Watching (like seriously??) Last week, he had a few foreign crazy friends over and they were going outdoor Air-Gun-shooting…imagine i was also invited, hmmm I have suffered in this world (shaking head slowly…)

Being home alone, my nights have become longer...Insomnia visits me a lot. Today i was up from 3am, I ended up on face book and I found my dear buddy online…I agreed to breakfast (a blind one...who knew?) later that morning to mainly get this mystery solved.

Through security check, walking towards our meet point, I only see wazungus and some chap on a laptop (is he?) I call him. ‘Come back to the lower lounge, I was waiting for you from here.’ I turn around; I see a familiar smiling face doing a slight wave. As I approach he stands up!

And I am thinking, my vision is getting worse, i need to eat more carrots, blah, blah!

Oh well, our (yesss...our) Daniel is exactly my 12 year old nephew’s height! OK. I know my height is also something else, but even in my flattest pumps…eh! Our nice-to-finally-meet-you hug was the weirdest ever (a full bendingo on my side and I guess on his toes to reach my shoulder?)

Like I earlier said, Daniel is a cool short guy, he joked about our height extremes…while he knew mine; he was looking forward to seeing my reaction at his and how poor I was, at hiding it…. None the less, we enjoyed our luscious breakfast.

Bye for now, Be kind to one another J