Thanks for the birday wishes!!


whats for lunch? Pizza???????/

salmon, couscous w/ olives and shrimp in lemon butter and salad - almost ready!

Don't they already have all that stuff? Geeeeez! I hope he gets the visa soon!

So true, they think the PMS line can excuse their own stupid azz behavior. Uh, no.

Someone who just had a baby should NOT be shoveling. I had two c-sections so I'm not totally up on the recovery time for a vaginal baby but isn't it close to 3 weeks that you should be basically taking it easy????

Yup! Bottom line: Amanda, you should *not* be shovelling snow - you just had a baby!!!!

Hey I think I will watch that tonight! I like tom hanks he was good in Cast away..
rember wilson. I like most movies if it has to do with the airport.

I just can't express how much that furiates(sp) me!!!!

Well after I was finished he said "You should have told me you were doing it, I would have done that." Well can't you hear me outside scraping the shovel on the sidewalk?? Or the fact that it took me like 1hr 30 min to take Mikhail to school, go to the store, and come inside. Ok ok enough crabbiness! I think I need to go eat something or take a nap or lol I dunno! You all need to come over and gang up on him!


Noura - you're lunch sounds so good --- bring me some and I'll take a massage while you're up here haha

Holy cow! Can I come over? I just had a boring old turkey sandwich!!

I feel the exact same way. My friends are in college and all they care about is what their hair looks like, the perfect outfit and where they are going to meet guys. They say I have changed cuz I never want to go out with them. I say, yeah I have changed. First of all my husband is my number one priority. There is no way I am leaving him at home to go out with my friends on a regular basis (I'll only do it once every couple of months and it has to be a special event). Second, I am pregnant ! I can't dance, feel fat, all I want to do is eat and sleep and cannot stay on my feet long enough to straighten my hair. Oh and as far as the cute outfits ? HAHAHAHAHAHA. It's old granny maternity clothes for me (although I try to find cute ones ... but still I will never look 22 in them). Soooo my time is spent with my married friends with kids and my family cuz they understand me alot more than my friends in college.

As far as your dillema it's definately a Youssef thing. It's not a MENA thing. Sit down and have a talk with him ... and stop blaming everything on your hormones. Your entitled to have feelings. See what's up with him ... I have a feeling theres more to the story than you know. Oh and a mom of two should not be shoveling the snow alone. He does it and if you choose to help so be it .. but if you don't then it's okay.

Good luck girl

P* M *S

dayum right we have P M S < Putting up with Mens Shyitt > !!!

I knew I loved you guys for a reason *sigh* release of pressure *breathe in breathe out* whew I feel so much better!

You know when you get married , most of your friends tend to be married. When you have kids, most of your friends will be friends with kids. I don't know why it works that way but it does. When I got married 7 years ago, I lost almost every single friend I had because they just couldnt understand or accept the responsibilities I had at home. They literally just cut me off and I can't say that I made much of an effort after that. After that most of the friends I had were in serious relationships or married. I found it much easier to explain to them that I couldnt go to the mall because I had to go grocery shopping or whatever I was doing that day. I actually used to go on grocery shopping dates with a few girlfriends of mine and we would all buy our stuff at the same time.

This is all just part of your new life, you will still have some single friends for sure and that is when you really know who your friends are.

SOLD! .. I am gonna have me some Shrimps with Lemon butter... I gotta find the
FAT shrimps... off to the old Kroggers I go!

i thought it stood for "primary murder suspect"

now can you go hit him with the shovel so I can feel better too? j/k



Only Charles would tread in these dangerous waters

Very cold here but the sun is shining, yeah!!! We had so much rain over the weekend, but the big "arctic blast" didn't happen at the level they had in OKLA. One good thing . . . i didn't have to drive in to work as they said we could work from home.

I watched OCTOBER SKY on Saturday night . . . on USA channel, I think! I really liked that movie. Funny to see how Jake Gyllenhal went from being Homer in October Sky to the cowboy in Brokeback Mountain. I think he is a very good actor with very expressive eyes.

I am reading an interesting SCI-FI/Fantasy novel right now (one of a series, which I didn't know when I bought it, darn!): THE TRAVELLER by John Twelve Hawks. Very interesting concept dealing with people who are Travellers (able to go to different realms), the ones that defend them (Harlequins) from the groups that track them down to kill them (as a threat to the status quo) , o being on the GRID, current security requirements, invasion of privacy type stuff . . . conspiracy ideas that have come up thru biblical times, blah, blah . . . into our current state of affairs. Some of it sounds like a bit of hogwash, but some of it is quite interesting. The main protagonist is a young female, so that makes it even more interesting because these books are typically more male dominated . . . the usual fan base being more male dominated.

OK, I think I need to go do my expense report for last week.

I have been on hold with the DOS for 32 min and I just remembered they are closed today!

You should definitely see Donnie Darko if you haven't already. Sounds perfect for you!

Ya know, I haven't seen that one . . . I think I'll put that on my list . . . I like offbeat movies . . usually the ones that no one else sees that play in art house theatres in the smallest room, hehe . . . but i haven't been going to movies as much as I used to.

My husband and I have been into anime recently. I borrowed some series from my brother's box-o-anime over the winter break. Love it all thus far

Hellsing - imagine a vampire manga(comic)/movie about england by a person who has no concept of what england or anglicanism is. That's what hellsing is.

RahXephon - Aliens take over Tokyo, all the inhabitants of Tokyo think that the rest of the world has been destroyed. The aliens have some weird dealio with music. I'm almost at the end of this, but the last 2 episodes won't play

Cowboy Bebop - Can't have an introduction to anime without this one.

I do know in Egypt they stay tight lipped about a lot of things due to the possibility of harmful side effects of envy.

HA!!! HAHAHA!!! And you guys laughed at me when I did this.... (snort) Its an easy thing to forget.

LOL, I know I was thinking of the same thing

I ventured out for the first tmie in the snow today. Out of sheer necessity of getting to work. We got light 'lfurries' which were NOT supposed to accumulate, but apparently they did not get the memo...And now more snow is due tonight so back to the Doctor's house I go, but this time without the dress shoes..

Happy Monday.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr day everyone.. hope everyone got the day off and was able to enjoy it
thanks everyone for the Bday wishes. it was an fine day...nothing special. Got truffles as a gift from my duaghter. and the good kind too...talked with the dH for a whooping 2hours... LOL (combination of him calling me for 1 hour then me calling back) He even called my family in Hu...I donnow why

Ok this has been totally strange. Every place Mohammed goes Mexican guys come up to him and start talking Spanish to him. Has anyone else's SO had this happen to them? Mohammed just laughs and says he's from Egypt.

It happens to my dad alot.

abdel has gotten this alot, so in return he speaks to them in Arabic.

I call Ali "The Mexican". He goes to english classes and seriously he knows more spanish now than I do. What was one of the first things he learned in English class ? "Que Paso ?" Which means What's Up . I swear I was laughing so hard. When we see Mexicans (we live in CA) I always tell Ali "Relatives of yours?" and he says "Yeah ... I brought them over". Funny thing is when someone speaks spanish to him he just smiles and nods and they have no clue he doesn't understand what they are saying.

So yeah my husband will be trilingual when he is done with his ESL classes.

When Mohammed bought his first car in America, the dealer asked for his license. He said that he had an international license and the dealer said 'Ok, give me your license from Mexico'. The look on Mohmammeds face was priceless.

Jackie

Hey . . . people walk up to me and start speaking spanish too!!! And with my last name (I am keeping the old one, lol), I have started getting junk mail and spam in spanish! I got to tell you that they always walk off scratching their heads when I say in english "I dont speak spanish" . . . they must think I am one of those 3rd generation Chicanas that does not want to be identified as such. So happens that I am of mostly Greek heritage (that's where the love of olive oil must come from . . . runs in the veins).

Oh, I get "Arabi" comments while I am in Egypt too and I have had that same confused reaction in Cairo . . . I blend right in . . . as long as I keep my mouth shut . . .. which my husband asks me to do while we are riding around in taxis, so we don't have to pay the foreigner price, hehe!!! I gotta great story about that one . . . but that is for another day!

People frequently ask me if I am greek, italian, spanish. Arabic is usually their last guess.

This happens to my husband frequently, especially when he is clean shaved.

Hehe, I do this too, especially so I can get cheap hijab prices. I go up, dig through and throw the ones I want at my husband. He negotiates the price. People must think either I'm extra modest/shy or that I'm deaf

My husband frequently gets the spanish thing as well. He volunteers with an tax group that does taxes for poor people, and people will sometimes assign him to translate for spanish speakers He's a translator, but not for that language, lol.

Allllllllllllllllllll the time.

My town is about 60 % Hispanic (maybe more) so it's not a totally off-the-wall assumption for a stranger to make. But at first, my husband just didn't understand it at all -- "Whyyyyy do they think I am Mexican ????!!!"

Most of his co-workers are Mexican-American, and they already made up a sort of "Mexican-style" nickname for him, because they say they can't pronounce Mahmoud.

One of the funniest incidents (well, it made me laugh) was when he was working on a project at a local military base. He went to the gate and the guard took one look at him and started speaking in Spanish. My husband said "I am not speaking Spanish -- I am Arab." The guy said "Ohh... sorry... OK go ahead" and just waved him through. No hay problema.

This happens to my husband too - it happened to my dad a lot too when he was younger (he's Italian). Youssef usually answers in French and says "I don't speak Spanish but do you speak French?". There is a local restaurant in town that he was going to work for until the owner found out he didn't speak a word of Spanish. It was before he had his EAD and they even offered to take him to the local Mexican grocery store to get him a work permit.....argh!!

hey amera and lebanesebride....if im preggo before march i will be a 22 yr old baby with a baby...."keeping my fingers crossed"