Bonjour!

It's not quite Saturday here yet but that's ok.

I'm ready for the weekend big time!

Hicham is working today boooo but my parents are coming up to play golf! (shut up Jenn) I made BLT's + turkey + basil mayonnaise = yumm-o hahaha. Oh man do I hate Rachel Ray.

Anywho I hope everyone has a great Saturday and a great weekend! Enjoy!

Kisses,
Sarah

Who did you recieve approval from for this?

You know Sarah..always fugding the rules a bit It is still Friday for me as I have not been to sleep yet (even though it is 1am!) I spent the evening with two wonderful girls from the MENA forum. It is the first evening that I have spent away from home and the computer in months!! I had a blast. We met at one persons house. She served us snacks and we talked about our experiences past and present with the visa adventure. Then walked around downtown Seattle a bit in search of a late meal. Wow did we have a great time. I will have to do that again.

Saturday will be spent packing for the trip, trying on some moroccan clothes (was supposed to do that tonight but oops stayed out a bit too late ) and then going to my grandma's birthday dinner...98!! I hope I can live a long and happy life like her. Probably take my son driving as his road test is next week. He asked Omar if he can drive in Maroc. I said boy you done lost your fool mind!!! They don't have lanes or rules over there.

Have a great Saturday everyone. Will look to see what is going with the rest of you after I get some sleep.

happy saturday!!!

im happy and busy plannin my 'plans' that are in the works yeahhhh. cant wait to move forward and do something that is gonna benefit us in the future!

I'm up babysitting my nephew today and Youssef is ticked. My nephew (Jamison) is 2 mo. old and had some shots yesterday. His dad (who I freaking hate with a passion) decided he wouldn't watch him while my sister went to work today so at 7:15 my phone rings "Do you think you could watch Jamie today?" Welllll..i just worked 40 plus hours last week and only have 2 days off but sure - 'cus I'm nice like that. Anyway I had promised Youssef today we would go get job applications and look at 2 more houses before we make a final decision on one. So now he thinks well we can't go because I have Jamie, but I told him we'll just take both the kids and go - no biggie. So basically I tried to do something nice and it backfires in my face as always. We might have headway on a job though. The place my sister works for is a call center and they are always (she says) looking for bi and tri lingual people to fill jobs. So she asked her supervisor if there was a need for an Arabic translator and he said "yea definetely!". So she is getting him an application there today and he'll have to go for an interview to make sure he's "fluent" enough in English to be able to translate. I really really hope he does well. It starts at like $10 an hour but once you meet your sales goal or whatever it is like $12-14 and you can set your own hours and work over as much as you want making time and a half. Soooo he could be making like $20 an hour sometimes! AND it has health insurance so that would totally totally help 'cus them we would have double insurance. Hopefully our hunt goes well.

Oh yea i didn't post yet but we have Youssef's GC interview November 27th!!! YEA!!

Yahooooooooooooo it's the weekend! I am off for 2 glorious days! Hope you all have a great day.

What's everybody's plans? I would have raked leaves but they are frozen. I should get an oil change for my car but who wants to waste a day off at the oil change place? I need suggestions!

Jackie

I am going plastic and double sided tape shopping today
It's freaking COLD here today!!! and these windows just let it all inside brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr so I'm gonna be totally trashy and cover all my windows inside and out in plastic

That is exactly what I should do too! I am going to be 1/2 trashy and only cover the inside Home Depot, here I come!

Jackie

Morning-
I'm off today too, cleaning house and getting ready for my nephews birthday party this afternoon.
I plasticed up the bedroom windows already, haven't had the energy yet to to the others but I will soon, its freezing here some mornings I can hardly get out of bed.
Anyway, I only put plastic on the inside, thats all I've ever done. Jac, Do you usually do the outside too?
Amera- He might be disappointed that your together plans were changed, but certainly he knows that its actually wonderful that you were in a position to be able to help your sister when she needed you. Someday his family will need his help with something and it will affect both of you....he must know that.
Anyway, Have a nice Saturday everybody!!

Today I'm going to a fiance party for my future SIL...via webcam. They asked my fiance if he would play the music and he said sure! He is taking his computer downstairs to where the party will be and setting up his webcam so that I will be 'with' him watching the party and chatting while he plays the music.

So I'm all excited...I've showered, I'm doing my finger/toenails, make-up, hair, plucked my eyebrows, I even shaved my legs and masked. Is this all a bit much? I'll be wearing my red dress (he REALLY needs to get me another color-so I have pictures in TWO dresses ).

I little ditty about this party...His family was visited about 2 months ago by some friends (they brought the WHOLE family). The next day, one of the son's told his parents that he wanted to marry one of my fiance's sisters. They called my fiance's family and his sister agreed! Now 2 months later, they are having a fiance party! When I was there several months back, his family got a call from relatives in Italy and they had watched a video of one of my fiance's sisters fiance party, and one of the girls saw my fiance's brother and wanted to marry him. So they called my fiance's family and after my future BIL talked to and saw this girl on webcam, he said he wasn't interested. I can't quite wrap my mind around this at all!!!!! But I have to say it is very very interesting to witness!

Have a great Saturday everyone

Good morning everyone!


I have a lot of house cleaning to do today that I've totally been neglecting the past few weeks. I hate it with a passion, so I think I'll procrastinate a bit more and do it tonight. I'm going to see my sister swim and then out for pizza with the family.

Sarah - Have fun golfing, if you can. Those sandwiches do sound yummo!

Congrats, Amanda on your interview date! Youssef must be so excited!

Maggie - who didya meet? or is it a secret?

Have fun all!

Today is my youngest sons' 21st birthday, so we're doing his party at my sisters at lunch today (we don't get him at night, his friends do). All I have to take toward the meal is broccoli with cheese sauce and sodas. I got off easy because I have way too much homework.

I just finished reloading the analysis software on my computer for the economics research project and realized I forgot how to use it since the last time. Now I have to get out the manual and figure it out again. I still have 5 variables to collect the data on for all of the congresspeople, and that's due Wednesday night - fed into the software I still have to figure out how to get it into again.

I also have a Spanish test Thursday night so I have a list of irregular stem-changing verbs to memorize, as well as the whole food list. Then our script for our final exam skit is due the 16th, so I have to get my part written and pray that my teammates write theirs.

I also need to get the checkbook balanced and the bills paid again (didn't I just do that?) and of course the laundry is always there to keep me busy on the weekends.

I can't wait for Mondays!

MarocAmer and Zuki (of Zuki&Zizi). They are a blast, but then I think most of the MENA girls would be fun to hang with. Just some little issue with distance

Im working, bah humbug

Tonight Ahmed and I will be gathering the last of our evidence for his interview and getting in some last-minute study time. Monday is the big day! I cant beleive its almost here!

The way they do things there is so different, isn't it? My husband friend decided he wanted to marry my husbands cousi. She accepted, but it seems so odd to me that you don't get to know each other first. But hey, different strokes for different folks I guess.

I did find it interesting that the girl asked about the fiance's brother. I have never heard it done the other way around. Of course, I haven't seen enough of their culture to know if this is common.




I am wishying the best for your interview! Keep us posted.

Woke up early, had a leisurely morning, did laundry, paid the rent, went grocery shopping, gassed up the dork mobile, made lunch and cookies with my youngest son and now are watching Angels in the Outfield. I am procrastinating and avoiding the housework, but there's always later or tomorrow morning. I bought the ingredients to make beef noodle soup and I'll either do that tonight or tomorrow. A nice hardy nap in the afternoon would rock to day too...

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I did find it interesting that the girl asked about the fiance's brother. I have never heard it done the other way around. Of course, I haven't seen enough of their culture to know if this is common.


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I asked my fiance if that was 'normal'. He laughed and said noooooooooooo. The whole family was giving his brother a hard time and joking with him about it. My fiance's take on this was that she must really be desperate to find someone to marry. The whole day his sisters and mother were doing the 'yo oh yo oh yo oh' (ok that doesn't describe it at all...the sound the women make with their tongues). Does that have a name?!

Im off....thank god....work kicked my butt this past week....I woke early with aunt flo, so im not feeling too good...but i managed to get our laundry room cleaned out, and all the hard wood floors swept and mopped...I feel like doing some shopping, with the money I dont have....lol....its a gloomy cold day herein chicago which makes me feel like doing nothing....maybe ill watch some TV and get some energy in a bit to do something....Happy Saturday people!

Trilling.

It sounds more like "la la la la la la la" to me but it's called zaghareed in formal Arabic.

ETA: I think it's called ululating in English.

It's also called zaghrouta

Yes in Libya they call it zaghrootah too

We also have trilling in native ameican tribes that the women do during pow wows. I wanted my husband to hear and see what his reaction would be. He was pretty surprised and ask they do the zaghrouta here and i said yep.

Cool

Not a good saturday for me. My husband WAS suppose to meet me online. After waiting for 20 minutes I called him and he told me that he was at his cousins house. I think he told me he was going to spend the night there. I am so upset. He could have called me to let me know his plans had changed today or left me an email. I feel like he gave no thought to me. I could still have been sleeping since I work nights. But, I wake up early for him and get ready for work early. Since I can't talk to him I guess I will just stay on visajourney for awhile.

Lavon

JP- I got your permission before, remember?

I am so tired after golf and turkey sandwiches. Nap time!

I hope everyone has a good day/night!

Sarah

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I did find it interesting that the girl asked about the fiance's brother. I have never heard it done the other way around. Of course, I haven't seen enough of their culture to know if this is common.


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I asked my fiance if that was 'normal'. He laughed and said noooooooooooo. The whole family was giving his brother a hard time and joking with him about it. My fiance's take on this was that she must really be desperate to find someone to marry. The whole day his sisters and mother were doing the 'yo oh yo oh yo oh' (ok that doesn't describe it at all...the sound the women make with their tongues). Does that have a name?!
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I didn't think it was normal for their culture, but my husband tells me all the time of his friends adventures. It appears that the women there are very forward...lol


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We also have trilling in native ameican tribes that the women do during pow wows. I wanted my husband to hear and see what his reaction would be. He was pretty surprised and ask they do the zaghrouta here and i said yep.
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I can't do it.

I am getting forgetful, I think. What no turkey sandwich for me?

It's in the mail, sans mayonnaise for obvious reasons!

Well, today is Jamal's birthday I LOVE YOU BABY
so we decided in the last minute to rent a car and drive up to Washington DC for a quick trip...I am so excited...4 hrs drive...a whole day of sightseeing and then back to NY...That is what reminds me why I fell in love with Jamal he is up for anything when it comes to travel...so I will be on the road tonight...

My new job is keeping me so busy that I have no time to check what is up in here... Amera, Congratulations on the upcoming interview...you are going two days ahead of me...Good Luck guys...

I love you all and miss you all

Dorothy

Thank you!




If I ate a golf and turkey sandwich, Id be in the ER.

hahah what?

Thanks for the huge laugh! I've been sitting here for hours putting 1s and 0s on a spreadsheet and this was just what I needed for a break.

i call it freaking irritating

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Hi Jenn!

are you trying to confuse the poor girl?!

What's this doing here???

It's Saturday! Didn't you know?

wooooooohooooooooooo! Saturday!!!! yay!
oh Snaps!!! it's only Thursday

I wish it was Saturday the 18th . . . .

Happy Saturday!

Happy LAST Saturday!!!

Time to move along!!

Or are we going to play "how long can we keep this Saturday thread going"????

I do not appreciate going back in time thank you

I've now officially moved to the "NEW" Saturday thread . . . sorry for making anyone re-live the past!!!

Me too, because then I would know our visa fate already