Another week over. I don't feel much like celebrating it. I'm too uptight over the fact that we still haven't gotten Moh's appointment to give his prints. He called TNT again yesterday and argued with the woman for over 30 minutes again. They required him to jump through all these damn hoops. She said she needed his passport AGAIN. Well, this is utterly stupid because all the people waiting visas in Cairo have their passports inside the Embassy. This is procedure. So he took the copy I sent him and gave her all the info from the passport including his number. She asked him to spell in english all the information on his passport. After all that she said "oh well, we have no open appointments, sorry, " and hung up on him! The call center is utterly worthless and I don't know what they hell do there other then drain people's bank accounts and draw their own paychecks. Retarded. So we have to wait until Sunday to hope for a reply to my 2 emails now to the Embassy requesting their assistance so we can just get this over with. I am trying so hard to not think about it, but it was kind of poured over me like a bucket of sour milk the moment I got out of bed this morning. Yuck.

The good news is... tomorrow I can sleep late! Yippee! This going to work before the sun is up is for the birds, although the traffic is nice. I had a bunch of other stuff I wanted to say but I utterly forgot... maybe when I thaw out later...

Hope everybody has nice plans for the weekend.

Jean I can see from your post that hardly sleep lately...I am really praying for you to get this issue done very quickly ...
I am praying for you..Take care and have a better Friday

Thank you, Salwa. My prayers are with you too. Your wishes are very appreciated. I am really looking forward to 2 days of sleeping and relaxing (enshaa Allah). Have you and Mark made any travel arrangements?

(Say a prayer for Mohammed too. He's really having a hard time with all this. He feels like a criminal.)

I can't unfortunately do any travel arrangement since I don't know when i will recieve the Visa yet I called TNT and the guy said he can't give me a range Also the CO said to me not to book untill i finally recieve the visa but If i did recieve the visa after a week from now I may travel around teh 16 Of this month..I understand Mohammed Feelings,I had this feelings just of bringing all the evidences I had to the interview ..It's like I was accused of something and I was trying to defend my self I was telling Mark the same thing that I felt like a criminal ..SO i REALLy can imagine how Mohammed feels ..Just tell him all this is temporary and you will be soon together insha allah...I pray always for you and him and I want you to know that I am always thinking of you and I really wanna hear good news for you soon..
GOD BE WITH YOU AND HIM
Salwa

Has anyone heard from Jess?

She posted in OT last night, so seems like she's doing OK!

I hope your Friday gets better! I started out on the wrong foot this morning too. But I found out that the last piece of info I need to send all of the stuff for my hubbys AOS is in the mail and may even arrive today. So I'ma looking up now! This is going to be a good day. Smile!

May Allah cover you with blessings today!

Janine

Hope everyone is having a good Friday! Jean, I hope you find out some answers soon.

Things here are good. I'm getting off in about 45 minutes to go to a bridesmaids' luncheon, and then the rest of the day will be rehearsal stuff for my friend's wedding. Then, of course, the wedding tomorrow.

Speaking of which, here's an interesting tidbit. It's my best friend who's getting married. I'm a bridesmaid. She knows Amed, spent a week with us in Paris, and has even written him a couple of postcards and vice versa. She loves him to death. However, when our invitations came to the wedding and the rehearsal dinner, they were both made out to my name "and guest." Amed was really offended. I tried to explain to him that she had the invitation list ready to go months ago, before she knew if he would be here, and gave it to her mother to handle because she knew she would be studying for the bar exam when it was time for invitations to go out, but he said that was no excuse. He's refusing to go to the rehearsal dinner but did say that he would go to the wedding. He thinks it shows a lack of respect. I think it's a big faux pas, and I told my friend how much it bothered Amed, but if it happened to me, even though I would be annoyed, I wouldn't take it personally. Is this a cultural thing, or am I just out of it?

In other news, our AOS got transferred to CSC! I'm so excited because our local service center is 2 years behind. I'm hoping for a speedier process at CSC.

Well, I hope everyone has a lovely Friday and a lovely weekend!

I just realized what a creature of habit I am. It seems the Lean Cuisine veggie eggroll is my official Friday food... (I'm bored.)

Well, with all the crap that's gone down this week, I'm taking a break, I'm going up north. See you guys on Monday.

Try to have a relaxing time, Jamie! Hang in there...

I'm still trying to beg Salwa to pack Mohammed in one of her bags...

You don't have to beg ,I am ready to do it If it will work ..Bythe way I am leaving with one big bag that may fit him

hey everyone. i am doing fairly okay. not great of course. keepin myself busy cleanin my moms house...its crazy messy. i talk to george everyday. he misses me of course. i miss him and still am not sleeping well.................i hope everyone is well

Happy Firday, Jumuaa Mubarak and Happy Weekend to everyone!!!

I Fridays!!! because on Saturday....I can sleep

well, I've had a super busy day at work, gotta dance/work tonite til 10ish, then up at the arsecrack of dawn to go do a garage sale tomorrow. i know those goobers are gonna show up early even tho we said not to - i'm not into being haggled w/ at 6am!!! but... everything must go!!! Inch'allah, I'll make some $$. Have a good weekend all.
Noura

come on mom,,, pack your stuff!

have a great get away weekend Jamie!!! and what mom forgets can be gotten elsewhere... c'mon mom!! get packed!!
Noura

Seems some of my friends are kiddnapping me for the weekend to get me the heck outta here! No phone, no computer (ok, I am bringing the laptop ) just me and the kids. They seem to think this is giong to get the "real me" back. We'll see! I just need to let myself unwind a bit. I'm wanting to get a new job, but since I am having a hard enough time just doing my normal job, I'm going to hold off for a while. Plus, I saw my doc today and he told me things I don't even want to hear. Thanks to my stress levels, I have all sorts of $hit going on now!

Well, I'm attending a wedding tomorrow night. Lots of dancing (hopefully)... Love to dane. But the heels are going to kill my feet... have to see if I can sneak a pair of extra comfy shoes to the reception and hide them under our table...

On Sunday, my soon to be sister in-law's bridal shower... so I be busy this weekend, which is great... But I know I be thinking of him and wishing he was with me at the wedding. But life goes on and for now I'm willing to wait... I just hope soooooooooon.....

Wish all of you a great weekend...

BTW, some ladies and I had a plan to make Saturdays our praying day... We all pray on every Saturday that this process moves for everyone faster. Please pray with us...

Blessings to all...