Few Things!

Ok to say few things in points:

1. I hate to shop for clothes in Libya, you all know why and I have said this before, things of bad quality and expensive, even though I enjoyed going out with my best friend Riha.
2. I finished reading "In t he Country of Men" FINALLY gosh it took me 2 months to finish it, any one suggests something good to start reading?
3. My in-laws' house will be crowded next week, my sisters-in-law are coming back for visits (one from the UK, and the other from Egypt) , it's going to be so much fun for Meral since both of them have daughters almost the same age as Meral :o), I am working on creating a playground for them at home since Meral has a swing and slide a car and a inflatable swimming pool which I am going to make a sand box out of it since it's not summer yet.
4. People what's wrong with Allibeyah FM??? it's been off for couple of days now!?
5. My husband is coming back today, he's been away for about 2 weeks, I missed him :oD
6. Oh guess what I was asked about "ma feesh 7weja?" mentioned in Piccolina's here, today by a guy!! an ex-coworker!! it felt weird coming out from a male!! duh lol

Yeeha I am back!

Finally the phone line and therefore the internet is restored at the office, for the past week felt like I was trapped, and so disconnected from the world, especially with not much going on around at work I was literally sitting down here playing with my fingers and yah playing Solitaire.. I was checking form home but you know how the dial-up connection is like .. ssslllllloooowwww! Anyway GPTC needs to hire more technicians and pay them a decent salary so we don't need to stick up their.. necks and call them every day to come fix the lines.. anyway feels good to be back :o)

Now to our little meeting, Piccolina, Maiuna, Damoon and I, met on Saturday they're such lovely young ladies, we knew each other from before back when we used to go to the scouts "kshaf", what a small world, but we haven't heard from each other since 1996 or around that, I barely remember that time though.. so it's kind of a reunion.

Ah one more thing.. the surgery is not going to be on Thursday, yah Anglolibyan I chickened out I think I'll keep postponing it til forever :os ...

This Monday, is it? ughhh

So I was hiding from my dentist, and checked another one, because I knew something needs to be done, the new dentist is great mashallah, he's practiced in Canada and that kind of calming me a bit.

So yesterday he took an x-ray, then told me a surgery is needed to extract the wisdom teeth, they're into the jaw bone and will not come out by themselves and the older I get the harder they become to extract them and the healing will take longer, so I booked an appointment :o(

SO THE BIG DAY is going to be Monday, he'll extract all of the four wisdom teeth at once, I am so NOT looking forward to that day, I am actually scared since he told me about it :o(.. I am so damn anxious, he keeps assuring me it's OK and I am in safe hands and so on and so forth but still, I can't relax I guess I am panicking...

I am not afraid of the surgery itself I just hate the healing afterwords...I hate what I am going to go through after the extraction... and thinking that I might not be able to sleep at night, and will not be able to eat, and will not be able to take care of Meral, makes me more frustrated add to all that my husband will travel two days after the surgery, I am anxious to the point I woke up with rapid heart beats this morning; happens to me all the time when I am anxious or stressed.

InshaAllah khair,

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Update: Appointment postponed until next Thursday... I can relax for a while now.. :oS

Typical Libyan Day!

Hellooo,

My mother-in-law is back in Tripoli, and I am back to my normal routine, no more running around to drive Meral or pick her up, and no more thinking of what to cook for next day’s lunch.

Usually, I am the one responsible for dinner, before I start here is how the story of our typical Libyan lives goes… Our little apartment is right above my in-laws yes typical Libyan style (this temporary situation is 3 yrs & 1/2 old now!) so in the morning I drop Meral down stairs for me to leave to work this is really handy and really typical Libyan too :o), then since I am at work my mother-in-law does the cooking for lunch for the whole family, you know the typical Libyan lunch at 2.30 – 3.00 P.M., then I come back eat my share then go upstairs to continue with the house cleaning chores while Meral is napping , I think my little one has a typical Libyan in her too, after that, I manage to come up with a reason to go out, I hate staying home, yah I like to nassreff (go out a lot that is) so there is always something I need to buy, or some one I need to visit, I usually take my mom-in-law out with me, drop her at her sister’s or if she wants she can come along while doing my thing …don't want to say it's typical Libyan life style but IT IS!!

Anyway, what I prefer to have for dinner is something light, sandwiches & burgers are the best (I do that for me) but since hubby doesn’t come home for lunch and sandwiches are his lunh, he needs to eat what he calls “Real Food” and to him real food is “mbakbka” yah typical Libyan ;o) believe it or not he eats “bakboki” almost every night again typical Libyan shaboob I guess..lol, I became an expert in making mbakbka so I am a typical Libyan woman. Well I say let him eat it while he can, that is before he gets diabetes, or cholesterol! b3eed elshar ;o)

One more thing, Meral has been potty trained by my Mom, yayyyy! I still have her in diapers for the night though; I am not ready for waking up in the middle of the night to take her to the bathroom, not yet :oS she has been potty trained but I am not yet trained for her potty training! However, for the day I just tell her she needs to keep the Barbie on her panties smiling because if she pees in it the Barbie will be crying, also Mom tells her if she wets herself then we're going to tell the seagull (she loves it) who's going to laugh at her… so she’s doing her best to keep it dry, I am proud of her, she's 2 years and almost 4 months now :o)

Hola!

After a rainy and windy weekend, today the weather is Masha'Allah, fresh and sunny. I am sitting here at my desk looking at the cars passing by and the sun rays reflecting on the buildings across the street, makes me feel like going out for a walk, which I can't, why? Tell you why..

Because some jerks driving by will start blowing their car horns and saying stuff that will make me angry and make me want to jump and chock them. As a matter of fact, I have always hated it when guys flirted or commented while walking by or even driving by, but just recently I learned it is actually considered harassment, and we are unaware of its emotional consequences.

So why they do it!!? Every time I try to find the reason why they act like that, I come to the same conclusion the fact that they are just irresponsible, and that is the best they have learned from hanging around the streets and occupying the corners. No matter how you are dressed, or how good-looking /unattractive you look if you are a female then you are going to get all that..... crap.

So anyway, I will just sit here do my work, and go for a walk later when I can find someone to accompany me.

A little bit about Meral, her passion is traffic lights now !! while we are driving around she'll be looking for them, saying repeatedly "Green go, Red stop" yah in English :o)

Hey Meral had a hair cut too, one thing off the long list ;o)

What do you think of my new look?

Getting ready to hit the roads, it's going to be a long ride home!

* The pictures are kind of blurry they were taken by DaMoon's cell phone cam.

A Puppy

I want to get Meral a puppy. Yesterday we were checking with the physiotherapist for her new schedule at the Rehabilitation Center of Janzour, the weather was amazing, it was almost sunset, and there were four little puppies playing around on the green grass they looked so adorable and Meral loved them she was chasing them and calling them to come and play with her.


On the way there we stopped at every furniture store looking for bathroom cupboard, even looked at the kitchen & house ware stores, I can't find them any where, any suggestions? However, I stopped at this place in Siyahya where they costume make for you, and I guess that is going to be it!

What I hate the most about shopping is actually the prices are kind of high comparing to the "quality" of goods they are selling, that is not fair. I mean I can't get myself to buy any thing knowing that it didn't even cost half of the price they are offering, call me cheap, but it is just not right. Also you can find it with a different price if you went to more public areas.

And yeah the running around continues, my mom-in-law will be gone for another week. I got used to the routine though, and to be honest I am more organized now. I am always organized when I am busy and have no time to do any thing, it is the time I put my time management skills into action.

Update!

I finally had a hair cut yesterday afternoon and I LOVE IT! I didn't have a hair cut for four months now and I hate it when it gets to the point when I can have it as pony tail.

My hairdresser is just amazing, this is not an advertising for her or any thing, but she's gooooood, I have always had short hair, and before I started going to her I used to go into the hairdresser's shop scared, and leave unsatisfied. But that has changed since I started going to Diana, 8 years now, I sit and tell her to do whatever she wants.

I just loved it and wanted to share :o)

I also, finally, got curtains for the kitchen! One thing off the to-buy-list.

Few things about my little Angle; Meral is master her speech skills now, I can notice how she's trying to say the words exactly how we say them, specially words with the letter "R". I am thankful for the smart girl she is, Alhamdolillah. At age of 2 years and 3 months, she knows the alphabetic (Thank you Immunemania for Elmo's easy ABC's book & CD). She knows how to count form 1 - 10 in Arabic, English, and French. She memorizes some short Surah's such as, Al Fate7a, Al E7'las, Al Falaq, Al Nas, & Al Kawthar.

I think Spring is great time for her to join day care, which I haven't decided on yet!

Have a nice weekend every one!