Yeah I finally get to include singing animated camels! Happy Hump Day Everybody!


You might remember this catchy tune.

Very cute and entertaining video. What a great way to start the day. Hope everyone has a great hump day.

hi all. happy hump day.

we have been up since early this morning watchin the news...its very bad whats going on in Lebanon and it seems like it is going to get worse.

Happy Hump Day!!

Good morning

Happy Wednesday MENA! I love the camels.

oh oh oh I just saw a commercial for a coffee brewer that I just HAVE to get! It is made by Keurig. It looks totally awesome. I wonder how much it is.

Have a good day.

J

hey sweetie. i miss chatting with you. hopefully one day soon we can chat.

Hi Jess! I was thinking about you and George this morning when I heard the news from Lebanon.

The coffee brewer is $199 on the Keurig website. It rocks! I want the Platinum B70. I can't afford a Lexus, but there is no reason I can't have an awesome kitchen appliance. Anybody else have one of these?

J

cute

Happy Wednesday eveyone!

My office got the industrial one and I just love it. I do not drink coffee but I do like tea, so now I can have my tea in the morning. I loved it so much that I got the B60 on sale at Macy's a few months back. Like you I can not afford a new car but I bought myself this little luxury item and I have to tell ya sistah, I really enjoy it! Treat yourself, you deserve it.

That coffee maker looks cool! We have something like that at my work, I love it! The only problem is, where do you buy the little cups? Do you have to order them online?

We have a Keurig at work, too. You can order the K-cups online and I believe they carry them at Bed Bath and Beyond. A few stores are having a special on the Keurig lately. I've seen them on sale for $149 with a coupon for a free box of K-cups.

ETA...You can also buy a Keurig filter for $14.99 to use your own coffee.

Evening everyone! Will spend the day in Cairo tomorrow and am so excited!! I love this city so much.
We are doing something a little different than before...always had taken the bus or train to Cairo then all the taxi's but this time we hired a private driver to pick us up at the apartment, drive us to Cairo and be our private taxi.....don't know why we had never done this before, but we hope everything will go well.

Take care and enjoy the rest of day!

have a great day in Cairo....






Love the video



My mom wants one of thoose wish I had the money



As for me still in a ton of pain from the tooth, The vicodin is really upsetting my stomach I hope it stops hurting soon

Hi everyone! 2 days until the weekend! i am thinking about telling Ammar to work this thursday because they are saying snowfall and accumulation will hit Friday afternoon/Saturday, and he has no idea how to drive in it-- and I just have last year's 3 days of experience. Better just to stay home!

I hate my ex husband. He's refusing to pay me child support. The freakin' week and a half before Christmas and it was due Dec.1.

my mom really wants a coffee maker like that too. they had one similar to those at one of my jobs...was so easy to make a quick cup and you can order all kinds of flavors and kinds of coffee. not sure about this particular brand though!

i entered a contest to win a new hybrid lexus! *crosses fingers!

bridget: that sucks! he can't just refuse to pay! take that !@#$% to court asap!

I want this one: http://www.espressozone.com/8113.html

Just like in Italy - espresso cartridges, no messy cleanup, only $700!

My friend at work's ex did the same thing and it took her 4 months to resolve it by going through the state and having his wages taken automatically. My ex is different in that he is a scumbag and doesn't claim even half of what he makes. He spent this past summer jetting all over North America to race his dragster race car and hiring a driver to drive it wherever the races are and now he's crying poor and says he cannot afford to pay me any longer. He lives in a million dollar house, drives a Mercedes his wife (who he cheated on me with when we were married) drives a BMW suv but he's piss poor apparently. My blood pressure is through the roof at the moment.


I LOVE those coffee makers and was going to buy myself one for Eid before this sh!t hit the fan. There is a similar one on sale at Target though it's a different brand that's going for about $70 though. The eggnog coffee from Gloria Jean's is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have it at work but we don't have as many flavors here as we did when I was working at BU last year and the admin refuses to take requests.

well if you drank that everyday and stopped drinking starbucks, dunkin donuts, or whatever... you'd make that $700 back in no time! LOL!!!

i don't know how you can stand it! I hear stories like this all the time (my mom's friend got dumped for the 20 year old secretary recently after 30 years of marriage) and they got married the other day....and the @#$ moved into their nice home and took over her life!
Why is he treating you and the children so badly? Especially at this time of year! How low can you go!? I hope you get it resolved soon.

Ims sorry bridget , thats soo #@#$ up , I swear what more do you need to be put through!!! i hope he has a change of heart but try your best to get attached to his wages..

Happy Wednesday everyone.

I really really really don't want to work today.

I hope you all have a good day.

i bialetti. and sometimes i'll use the french press. those are really the only ways i like coffee made.

jackie we have one of those at work. we used to have a different brand (sorry cant remember) but I liked the actual COFFEE for the old one WAY better than the Keurig K-cups. In fact, I dont like the K cup coffee at all, at least I havent had a variety yet I liked. but the little coffee pod system is lovely.

HAPPY HUMP DAY to everyone. we are still feeling a little under the weather so darn! looks like another day lounging and watching the food network

Happy Wednesday&Afternoon to all! Just looking out my window and wouldnt even know that it was winter if it weren't for the trees having no leaves...lol I wish winter could be like this everyday!

All those coffee makers everyone is talking about, I am in the dark, I guess I'm old fashioned and could never part from my plain old standard Mr. Coffee Pot...lol

I hope that precious pumpkin of yours feels better soon! I used to hate when my babies got a cold because they can't blow their noses yet. Do you have those syringes with the bulb so you can clear up her nose? It's wicked gross to do but my kids LOVED it. lol

My dad was one of those... besides bashing my mother everytime I saw him, he would spend TONS of money on us for frivolous stuff like trips to Europe, DisneyLand, Hawaii... then turn around and refuse to pay child support. His payments were rediculously (sp?) low anyway (he told me once how much they were and expected me to be impressed ) and then would refuse to pay for any extras if I wasn't physically with him because he "paid more than enough money to my mother" and she should be able to pay for ANYTHING I really "needed". My mother took him to court several times and he conveniently lost his job each time before the court proceedings and was able to pay for a much better lawyer than my mother. He then would end up back in the same company, in another state, with a raise after the settlement Oh, by the way, his payments were $200/month/child = $400 - we're talking someone who made six figures

Opps, Happy Hump Day!

Yup. This past weekend the girls were with him and he bought my youngest three outfits from Limited Too and my oldest three outfits from Abercrombie. Those in total probably cost him approx $500 and yet he is crying broke.

Happy Hump day!

Wow people actually get child support more then 3 times in 17 years. That is great. Yeah I get a total of maybe $1500 in 17 years. So I always had to provide for my daughter and since that is what I had to do that is what I did. I guess if I got income on a regual basis and it stopped I would be angry also, since I never have had this income source I can't sympathize. Sorry. I know I had a loser but stuff happens, the great things is that my daughter has never done with out and always has had more then most so I guess God provided her needs and I provided her wants and desires. So for those who get child support congrats.

Yea my son is 4 and I've gotten....hmm $0. His biological father is a lawyer, let's see and yet he doesn't feel the need to pay me. Forget trying court he knows every freaking way to weasel out of it. And if I threaten too much he says he'll have the court revoke my son's passport so he can't go to Morocco with us. My husband is planning to adopt him as soon as we can straighten everything out but he's just a poor excuse for a person.

Hey everyone, I'm so cold today. Sparrow, love the pictures You are so much better than me, I just barely got my wedding pics yesterday and its been almost 3 months! I am quite pleased with them although the photographer didnt get a photo of the kiss but he did get many really nice photos.

Are you feeling better? Did you do the cake/champagne for your hubby the other night?

Fighting the urge to go to the craft store for some retail therapy.

I am feeling somewhat better, I start coughing alot at night time when I lay down. Other than that, I have no issues. We did do the whole cake/champagne thing, I also made panini sandwiches with the panini grill I got at my bridal shower. I highly recommend eveyone run out and get one of these, they are awesome!

Hows things with you? I miss you alot around here!

I'm hanging in there.

I love panini sandwiches but I have like no room in my kitchen to store one unless I get rid of the crock pot and george forman grill that I never use! lol

Mmmmmmm panini....

Haha Bridget I hear you on the counter space crisis. Wayyyy too limited real estate. That's one of the things I love so much about Arabic home design -- the kitchens are HUGE with miles and miles of counter top......

It's cold and rainy in SA.... mid 40s I went from flip-flops to boots overnight.

Aww, thanks I didn't even post all of them...the photographer who shot the wedding took over 400 photos so I'm still being lazy and haven't gotten prints...and then we had those disposable cameras on the tables and I didn't get those done yet either!

Just mailed AOS today. But apparently I got paid 2 days early so yay!

When my dad owed my mom child support (all of 2 years, they split when I was 16) he couldn't pay it because he couldn't keep a job, but one day he won like $1700 on a scratch off lotto ticket, and handed it all over to my mother, which took care of everything he owed her. Actually, it ended up paying for my computer and all my books for my first semester of college, which was nice.

It's really warm and damp here today--like 50°. Surprised me.

400???? Consider yourself lucky!!! I have over 1900 photos! It took 5 hours to through them.

so give us a link to see them, jp!!!

yeah I want to seeee to JP

me too!!! - I mean I want to see JP's pics...

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Hello MEMA people...

I am feeling so blah lately - holidays suck when one doesn't have family - Jamal doesn't care about them and at this point I don't think I do either, but deep down inside me I got this feeling of sadness and total disconnect - I want it to be over already...sorry for being a Grinch and a party pooper (spl) but I am just in a very weird place in life - one of these days when you don't really belong anywhere...

I came from Poland when I was 17 and always thought that my adjustment went pretty well - even thought I still have some of my polish accent left over and my writing skills need some work - but lately I feel that things got really weird - I lost the feeling of comfort and dealing with Jamal's adjustment had been stressful...

Also, I think that a lot of his adjustment issues are because of me being an immigrant just like him - not the real American - and all this stress is killing me lately and affecting my health...I sometimes wish that I could turn the clock back for both of us and maybe, just maybe we would make better decisions...who knows

Sorry for the rant and thanks for reading...

love always,
Dorothy

dorothy, i'm right there with you! if you want to talk, you know where to find me. i hope things go better for you this holiday.

I'm here for ya too if you need someones shoulder and ears. Don't hesitate to contact me!!!

amal

Thanks Jenn! I am hoping that things will get better. Too bad you went back to Cali

D.




Hey Amal - thank you!

awww Dorothy!!! ((((hugs)))))

I think my scrooge avatar and hum bug siggy pretty much sums the holidays up for me. I do love the bright lights and the hustle and bustle but it's almost like it's a very very low dimmer on my otherwise dark, black and dreary days lately, you know?

Normally it would be the icing on a very happy and beautiful cake but not this year.

I have no idea what it will be like when Usama gets here. I have heard about 50% of the people here say it was an easy adjustment and the other half saying it was hell. I do hope we lie somewhere in the middle but I guess you just don't know until it happens, especially if he's never lived anywhere else his whole life.

I do hope you take a day or two for yourself and just let all of the holiday cheer cover you and maybe make you smile a bit. Go to a dayspa, meet a friend for a drink in Rockafeller Plaza, see a play (that strike is over right???). Heck if I lived in nyc I'd definitely meet you somewhere and we'd have a BLAST!!!!! Is there anyone close to you that you can just go out with and spend a huge wad of cash on something decadent like a really nice dinner or a full day of beauty or massage? I always make a point of giving myself a nice present on my birthday and during this season 'cause I know no one else will get me anything I like. lol.

hope you feel better.

Ok one 32 page written final down and one to go and one regular old test final tomorrow at 7:30 am.

bah.

I can understand that some ppl have very rough adjustments but these adjustments should not be an excuse to behave badly. I'm sorry but I'm not buying the adjustment excuse for some of these behaviors. I can dig depression, sadness, withdrawal, moodiness and the like. I can't see beating the crap out of your wife, staying out all night drinking and getting stoned or whoring around. These guys would be abusive, philandering and just straight up dogs regardless.