PARIS

Happy Sunday beautiful people,

I come with the awesome-st news ever! its official, i will be going to Paris in a week's time.

I have always dreamed of a white Christmas and yes i know it rarely snows in Paris but i do hope it does this time round. My first wish has already been granted, all HE needs to do is sprinkle some snow flakes, not a whole mountain, just a few so i can have a White Christmas.

I am truly lucky to have been to Paris before,about 5 years ago, i went with my friend Shirley and we had an awesome time, but we were 2 young girls and very new to the place so we were quite skeptical to try anything out of the book least any of us gets lost or arrested. We were fresh out of Uni and we were timid but it was a great experience.

But am a grown woman now, very eager, more adventurous  better fashion sense, and in a better state to truly appreciate Paris.  

My friend Shirley now works and lives in Paris, which should make going around alot easier as now i will know where my boundaries end. So going back to Paris at this age and time is mind blowing, the last time we went in the summer and we did what every tourist does, visit the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Champs-élysées, Chateau de Versailles and went to the outskirts of Lyon which was beautiful. A Paris Christmas experience should be different and hopefully equally good or better.

This time round, i would love to experience Paris like a true Parisian, call me the Ugandan Parisian:)  I have many things i would like to do that i wasn't able to the last time. I would like to explore Paris in its true fashion-is-tic and artistic glory. I will take lazy walks along Avenue des Champs-élysées , check out the designer store (it doesn't hurt to window shop now does it?) stop at the little cafés and restaurants along the way, and yes just sit and look at people and take pictures.

I most definitely would love, love, love to stop at Ladurèe, and despite the fact that am on a tight budget, i will love the high tea experience  tea and yummy macarons by the widow watching Parisians go about their life...damn even if its just one macaron!... It is the perfect recipe for undecidable chic!

 

I want to get lost in the beautiful streets of Paris in the early evenings, go to the nearby bars and cafes, check out the Opera, Eiffel tower and the Louvre again at night,am sure the night view should be breathtaking with all the Christmas lighting. Get lost in the beautiful never ending gardens of the Chateau de Versilles. Take the train to where ever and explore, check out some of the hidden little vintage shops, go to one of the Christmas flea markets, stay in and warm up to a cup of hot chocolate or preferably a glass of wine, afternoon walks along the banks of the Seine River, and ooh yes most definitely try ice skating. Yes i know it seems like too much to do, but yes,yes,yes God willing, i hope to accomplish every thing in 3 weeks.

It even gets better, we will be going to Brussels and Rome for a day or 2 in each if all goes well, so i get to shoot 3 birds with one stone. I am beyond excited and grateful, i was to go in the summer but i postponed it, and a few months ago i almost cancelled it all together, but with an amazing support system of family and friends, i was able to pull through and still go ahead and plan for my trip, and am more than glad i did, it will be the much needed holiday after almost 6 years, and i have my God to thank for everything, it wouldn't be possible without HIM.

I am going to have an awesome time, i see it, i feel it and i cant wait.

Grous bisous.

SnapShot ; Me~ Photo shop.

Hello Everybody,

Hope your all having a lovely week.

I get really boring times while at work, so on sometimes i have to give myself a feminine check ,lock the door, play loud music,make up and take pictures. Just a reminder that life is beautiful.

 

 

Stay well, have a lovely Tuesday and thank you very much for stopping by.

xoxo

Babies Day Out

Hello there,

I am such a baby lover,  i think they are the cutes things in the world before they start giving you a headache, you could call me any day to baby sit and i will have your back.

So last month, i was feeling super broody and i hadn’t had time with these little monsters, so i took 4 of my friend’s babies on a play date. So being the cool auntie that i am, i took them for ice cream, 1 wanted to take them to the cinema for Madagascar3 but apparently some of them were too short, hahaha who would have thought of that! That couldn’t spoil our day and cheerful mood so we went for face painting and played away until their mommies come for them . It was a day well spent and everyone was happy.

What worries me however, is that despite the fact that i want 3 children,i may end up with a football field of kids when i start having my own, hahaha well only time will tell.

A year Older

Hello Everybody,

Today is my birthday! yeeeey or is it naay...damn am growing old. Well older and wisher is guess.

Sadly am at work, miles away from my family and friends so its just me myself and i in Room 23

Well we sorry i will have a hard Friday night party in Room 23 with loads of all thing legal...blaaah :(

I want that...cake,cake,cake....:)

I thank God for seeing me through my everyday life, i can never thank Him enough, i am blessed.

XOXO

Remmy

Hello there,

Its been a while, was on a much needed short holiday. Hope Ur all doing well.

These were pictures taken by my brother as i imitated my mothers different faces..lol

Some of you must have probably read me a while a go complain about my hair being brittle,soft,sparsely populated and doesn't really grow, well this is how i look like after Bantu knot outs, not so adorable i know, but i got to love it regardless.

xoxo

Remmy

Un Anniversaire and a Trip from Hell.

Hello Lovers,

Yesterday Black Gold marked its first anniversary...yeeey! and being the very forgetful and busy-bee that i am, i unsurprisingly forgot. Ooooh well, better late than never i believe.

70 post in, 63 followers and over 5000 views, i couldn't be more grateful to all of you beautiful people who take their precious time to read my blog every now and then, am truly flattered and humbled.

Thank you all very much.

For our first anniversary, i thought i would share something personal, an insight into the tragic world i soo nearly got consumed into.

Last month was one of my worst months thus far, i was not my best self. Every thing i touched turned to dump and everyone i saw or spoke to me was a bumbling pain. I was literally in hell. i hated myself, my body responded to me in the worst way ever, i hated my job, my life was a routine, and my mind body and soul was just so tired of trying so hard and going no where in life. I felt so alone,worthless,everybody around me was demanding,asking,begging and expecting everything and anything from me.
I just wanted to crawl onto the darkest hole,get lost and disappear from the world.

The irony is, no one or nothing drove me to that state, half way through this phase i got to realise that this bad mood, which at first i thought was PMS seemed to drag on forever. Day in day out i felt worse and worse and there seemed nothing that could revive my bubbly,ever smiling happy spirit.

I tried talking to people who usually cheer me up ,watched comedy, ate loads of chocolate,ice cream and meat,meat meat, but i just lost weight(not that am complaining) and felt even more sad. 

Everyone at work thought i was pregnant, and for a split second so did i, until i knew otherwise. It did make me wonder though;  "If this is what pregnancy does to women, then hello surrogate mother"

 Lol! i love babies so much, am sure i would not entertain a surrogate however painful.

I fed off pain, I preferred to associate myself with everything hurtful and dark.I could swear if there was a traditionally doctor/voodoo man around me at that time, i might have as well tried him out, all in the hope of getting my mojo back!

Bare in mind,i have an amazing group of friends and family who are always very supportive. Not to forget an awesome boyfriend who totally completes the puzzles and makes my life whole!

These people that i love so dearly, still couldn't get through to me and i was soo afraid i would so easily drive them away. I was grumpy, moody and very confrontational during this time, i seemed to want to struggle every girl my boyfriend talked to,everyone's happiness dint phase me.

 I was just a stone cold bitch in pain, who wanted to stay in her dark cave alone,away from the everything and everyone who was happy and merry.

This was a very hard time for me, am generally a very secretive person, i strive to make others happy, so i mostly laugh and drink away my problems.When people are always expecting alot from you, you get accustomed to giving,giving and listening to others as opposed to taking and crying your heart out to them, even when the opportunity arises, you would rather brush it off than engage in your misery. You would prefer to keep the happy going than be a party poo-pa. 

Most times however, its very tough, as everybody has always taken you for a tough cookie, one who can handle stress and pain very well, they usually pay less attention to you knowing you will survive it.

Have you ever walked down stairs with another girl and you both tripped?? she comes out with a little cut yet somehow she cries out louder? She and the others will expect you and them to sooth her and pretty much keep checking on her throughout the night just to make sure she doesn't bleed to death!You on the other hand, who cried out softy, probably came out more bruised, is acceptably expected to be fine. Oooh well, Remmy is a tough one, she will just get up,dust herself and just party on....

HELLO... i tripped too, just a little whatsup,whatsup wouldn't hurt a Shaka Zulu now would it??

 More often Ur family and friends assume a tap on the back is enough to sooth your pain and walk away. leaving you bleeding inside and hating the fact that they don't try as hard as you do, sometime this hard girl also doesn't know what to do..she is trapped and needs a way out...she needs someone to hold her, and somehow convince her she is OK and the world is better place after all. And even though no one gets through to her, maybe the fact that anybody would have tried harder may have helped shorten the misery.

After what seemed like a lifetime of praying for deliverance, stuffing myself with sweet nothings, silently screaming ((get me out of here)) to whatever god could listen,i got to a point where suddenly,with a very deem blinking light on the other side of the world, my environment turned from a gloomy winter...to autumn...then spring....then everything slooooowly started to blossom.

I started to smile,the people around me started to look bearable after all, i heartily chuckled at jokes and truly smile at my happy surroundings.

Some people would call what i went through a mid-life-crisis, others call it a breaking point, i call it Hell!

I think this is the point in life where some people join cults,tattoo their whole face,slit their wrists, relocate,or even worse, commit suicide, and everybody would never be able to point a finger to it, because one seemed or looked alright!

I write this while holding back tears...as i am forever grateful to God that i am out of that place unharmed and i would never wish such an experience on anybody,and pray it never surfaces in my life ever again.

I am stronger,happier and healthier.

Thank you alot to each one of you who have been with Black Gold throughout this one year.

All your lovely comments, and support mean the world to me and is truly appreciated.

Am humbled.

xoxo

Remmy

Lights...Camera...Action!

Hello Ladies,

Just me talking pics of my,trying to be fierce and all...acting up in front of the camera...Well you know what happens when a girl is bored. Wearing a turban and my favourite African earrings at the moment.

First 2 pics are without makeup, and the rest have make up and blush.

P.S, My first time wearing blush,something i bunished for women of colour, but hey,i actually like it!