Wedding Heist

 I remember being the page girl for my uncle on his wedding. His bride to be had asked me to be the little bride for her wedding and I was so thrilled to hear that, at same time surprised she chose me over my sister. I was over moon when I heard that, ohh my God this experience is not that easy to come by but am really lucky to get a taste of it. I looked forward to the wedding and I was treated like the little bride of course, along side with my groom. Our apartment was below my uncle's apartment which was more like a family house to us, my grandpa owns the building anyways. We had guest sleep over for the wedding but I was surprised to have slept in a separate room from my siblings. Funny enough, a room was reserved specially for the little bride and groom just for the night. 

Whoopee, I didn't bed wet that night and my family was surprised too cause I was a pro at that. When I was done taking my bath, I wore a simple stay at home dress, ran upstairs to my uncle's apartment to dress up for the wedding as the little bride. See my joy as I wore my new shoes and my new pair of white socks. Had my hair a bit decorated, wore my gloves and was ready to move with my groom. Pictures were taken after the church wedding then we moved to the reception ground for the remaining event of the day. The bride and groom with their bridesmaid and men on suit coupled with the little bride and groom did a wedding entrance before the official opening.

I can't remember exactly who it was but I had remembered seeing either of my sister or my groom with an ice cream which I asked how they got it cause I wanted one too. Luckily for me, I was told the money for the ice cream was gotten from the dancing floor where the bride and groom was dancing. I was actually scared of collecting money there, that was a public space and people could possibly see me doing that. Ohh my God, how am I suppose to do this. Am obviously not among those picking money for the wedding but I had to think about the ice cream am about to get then thought about the possible case scenario I could find myself before moving myself to the dancing floor for the wedding heist. It took me some time to muster up courage to pick up money from the floor as I danced and convinced myself that other people were also picking money from the floor. I danced for a while before zooming off the place to where I was going to buy the ice cream. Finally, took a deep breath for a successful forty naira robbery. As I sat down to catch my breath and wait for any possible over sabi FBI agent coming my way before using the money. I felt relieved and got two twenty naira ice cream for myself before we went home.

Why Writers Should Stop SEO Madness

 Google search served an update to creators on August 18, 2022 focusing on helpful content other than SEO content. That is one blow but before I burst your bubbles, let's talk small 2022 tips about SEO for the benefit of our first timers or rather new bloggers. If you're wondering what SEO means, worry no more cause you're in the right place.

SEO is the process of optimizing your website to be found in search engines for a particular keywords or phrases. SEO is an abbreviation for search engine optimization. If you're new to SEO, just have it at the back of your mind that this job can be very daunting at times especially when you put in all your effort trying to get immediate result. Look, it doesn't really work that way dear. Using SEO techniques properly to attract audience to your site still boils down to creating engaging contents for real people. Getting traffic to your site is actually great but you should focus on getting followers who really care.

According to google's 2022 update, the content you produce should have a people first approach, whereby the content you make is made by people and for people. I understand that blogging can be a little bit of a lone wolf to bloggers in different ways but having a natural passion for what you do is an added advantage for success. Here is the flip side of SEO, is no longer about fighting hard to rank top, it's about the content. The goal is to focus more on original content than search engine optimization if you really want to make it and stop all this SEO madness. 

A great article on a great topic will definitely have a great traffic and a great subscriber count. Quality first then quantity, no matter who wrote it before marketing comes in. Don't wait for celebrity help, do your part well and put it out there. One day, you hard work will pay off while being consistent on the goal.

Three Weeks Of Being A Prisoner

 Hey guys, who missed me? Anyways, I know you've been waiting to hear from me for while but your baby girl has been a little busy tho not too busy for you shaa. What's up people, am back with small life update for you. 

Ok, tadahh. Finally, I got to experience camp life in full with no ten naira change left behind. Lol, forget am laughing but on a serious note I didn't remain any change for them cause I got to participate almost in everything that I could find myself except for a few. No doubt, it was definitely stressful but I did have some fun out there. I have always looked forward to this experience and that's not just me, every Nigerian student does. The stories you want to tell for yourself, meeting new people from different cultures and most of all getting to serve your father land in different ways, starting from the orientation camp where we got a taste of military lifestyle and out of the camp to go add value to our nation.

There are so many activities done in the camp to keep us busy and agile while learning new skills and probably practicalizing them. Every activity in the camp is a competition and it's done on platoon basis. Ranging from parade, dance, drama music, Mr macho, Mrs NYSC, debate, carnival etc and lots of more.  I swear, it really felt like back in days when I was in boarding school when you're told what to do, how to do it and when to do it. Sleeping in bunk beds in hostel and sharing bathrooms and rest rooms with more than one person also reminded me of, when I was in school. We did morning meditation everyday which is more like school assemblies those days except on Sundays.

Thinking about this stuff actually makes me miss that lifestyle, you know. Funny enough, everyone was stressed and tired of camp life within first to second week of our stay. We literally kept a count down to our departure because we were in a hurry to leave and have our freedom back. But guess what, last days are actually everything you can find in a mixed feelings. Lol, how does this sound to you. Anyways, am only trying to make point that's all shaa.

What's Next After Blogging: The Little secret to every blogging site.

I bet so many new bloggers have have a lot of questions in mind and this is one of them. Don't worry, I gat you for real and am going to be straight with you on this, telling you the bitter truth about every site that has a blog. When it comes to blogging, is a whole different story and a bit difficult to stay on trend unlike every other form of creativity that doesn't have to be writing. Usually, people find it quite hard to read unless they're in dire need of something. Technically, getting traffic to your blog will always be on a jerking roller coaster per article, except an article goes viral which is also rare. To be frank, this affects every single blogger including all the major websites.

Asking of what's next after blogging is actually a good question at this point and I would like to say, "keep logging after blogging". You will definitely, thank me later for this little piece of advice. Don't give up on yourself will always be my life anthem. It's  simple to crack, the more quality content you create the more presence you create. That's the little secret to blogging itself in  time past up on till now. And that's the smooth reason why most people who are successful bloggers took it as a full time job to get where they're now.

Listen, try experimenting other different forms of logging to create media awareness for your brand. Use other social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, youtube, podcast, tv etc and possibly books to hold all the aces for new audience. Take your time to digest all of this, don't be in a hurry to act without thinking of what's next after this because nothing is certain for the future. We only make plans with hope for a positive result. But the truth is that, we can't put our eggs in one basket waiting for miracles to happen.

Personally, I do all of that in blogging tho not consistent yet still waiting for a day my hard work will pay off regardless of  unserious I seem with my blogging career all because of slow pacing of time. In other words, keep logging after blogging and don't stop with the chase. Do whatever you wishes to do with your time and space but always be consistent no matter slow you may be. 

Thanks for sticking with me on my space. You can also catch up with me on my social media platforms @constance Adione and don't forget to start saving up for memberships if you need more from me.