The Diary Game: 27/08/2022 | A Day with a Minus but Fruitful

Introduction

One of my usual weekend activities was hindered this week due to some factors that are beyond my control. Well, I missed it but there is nothing I can do to make it work, it might cost me more than I thought if I'd tried to make it work at all cost. It's the diary game and I'm just about to share with you how my Saturday was spent.

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A Day with a Minus

I have just themed today A Day with a Minus, that's because I spent the day without performing one of my favorite Saturday activities. The recent days have been associated with a downpour which occurs almost all day through with a few minutes break before it continues. If you don't have your own car, it's hard leaving the house without returning drenched.

I have always utilized the early hours of Saturdays to play football, unfortunately, when I woke up today, it was raining and then I doubted if I would be able to fulfill the usual practice. I got ready to step out but it was still raining at that moment. To get to the playing pitch, I would have to take public transport and in this case, I can't even head out without being seriously drenched.

I eventually stayed back at home for the day and got involved in other activities. Around 11:45, I began curation of Finance and Technology related content using SC05which went on for some time. I stepped out of the house to get watermelon, apple, and other vegetables from the greengrocers. It's quite unfortunate that I was only able to get fruits from one of them while the other hasn't come around for the day. Precisely, I got two apples which cost 300 NGN (2 STEEM), each costing 150 NGN, and sliced watermelon that cost 200 NGN (1.3 STEEM).

_{Sliced Watermelon and Apples at the Greengrocer | What3words Location}

I had planned to get a particular vegetable known as Efo Shoko (in the local language) and popularly called African Spinach but since the greengrocer that deals with this type aren't available yet, I left the place. I was on my way trekking back home when it began raining again. I seek shelter at a roadside shop.

_{A Selfie while under the Shelter and Capturing the rain effects | What3words Location}

An English Premier League match between Chelsea and Leicester City FC is scheduled to take place today and when I got home, it was just about 15:00 when the match would kick off. As a supporter of Chelsea, you would understand how important this game is to me, we lost the previous game to Leeds United and a win for the day would heal the last week's wound a bit.

Everything was going well until a Chelsea player, Gallagher was red-carded at the 28th minute for a brutal challenge on a Leicester player, having a yellow card already, he was sent off. I felt so discouraged after the red card until I saw the performance of Chelsea players which gradually restored my hope. It seems all will end well when Chelsea scored two goals, both scored by Raheem Sterling, I was so happy and just have to capture the TV screen during the match.

_{Capturing the TV screen during the Match | What3words Location}

The game continued heating up when Barnes put one back for Leicester City F.C, eventually, the game ended 2 - 1 to Chelsea's advantage, you can imagine how excited I was, shouting and jumping all alone inside the house. The Chelsea players put in their best to come out victoriously even with 10 men against 11 at such young minutes into the game. After the game, I stepped out to get the African Spinach from a near greengrocer, I took a selfie out there.

_{A Selfie Outdoors | What3words Location}

I got the African Spinach which cost 200 NGN (1.3 STEEM). If you have not seen one before, I have a picture for you below.

_{African Spinach shot inside my kitchen | What3words Location}

I washed off the Spinach with warm water and began the process of cooking it (stewing to give birth to efo riro). Around 18:00, I began curation with Steem4Nigeria official account, switched to my account to curate some articles and then to the SC05 account where I curated till 19:00. I quickly finished up my cooking and dinner is Amala (produced from yam flour) and Efo riro (Stewed Spinach and smoked fish).

_{Homemade Amala and Stewed Spinach | What3words Location}

I deem it fit to pen down my diary to share with you how I had spent the day, this began after my dinner and this is exactly what you have read so far.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, the day was associated with a missing event, nevertheless, the events I was involved in for the day were worth it as such I didn't miss playing football too much. I'm just going to interact with a few articles now and search for more articles to curate using SC05 for the next few hours. Thanks for reading my diary today and I hope you had a great time here.

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Written by:-
@fredquantum