It was a tough night

I woke up around 2 from a very familiar sound. The sound of rain smashing on the windows. I woke up with a smile. I went to the livingroom to look out the window, hoping I'll see big raindrops on the window. All I saw was the trees swinging back and forth and no rain. Not even ONE raindrop.

I never could imagine sand on the window could sound so much like raindrops. I went back, disappointed, to my bed. After a while the scent of dust/sand reached my nose. I felt like I was suffocating, I don't want to breathe SAND!!! It was such an awful night, and I hope I'll get to sleep tonight breathing air not sand.... I hope hope hope hope hope hope so.

Windy and sooo much sand everywhere

Ye, I guess you can say that we have sandstorms here. And guess what? Yes exactly, I cleaned the whole home yesterday. Can you tell today? No of course not, there lies cm thick layer of sand on the floor.
Great, just GREAT!!!!!!!!

Challenged!

I got an award from Jigartala. Thank you so much! I have no idea in what category but anyways LOL.


When you get it you're supposed to write 7 things about yourself and also give it away to 7 others and "link them".
So here we go. 7 things about myself:

1. I was dressed in black veil and black abaya for couple of years. Then I stopped and now I'm back in the black abaya-because of where I'm living. I don't wear it because I want too. Nothing wrong with it though, I believe it's everyone's choice to wear what they want.

2. Even though I love reading books I can't remember when I read one last.

3. Some movies I have seen them for about 100 times but still want to watch them if they are on TV. Like "Grease" and "Dirty dancing".

4. When I'm watching a movie on TV and it's commercial time, I change channel with the hopes of "Tom & Jerry" being shown on another channel , hahaha.

5. I HATE commercial breaks.

6. I often take quick decisions even though I really need to think them over. Trying to change that though :)

7. My biggest dream is to live and work in Sweden and spend vacations abroad in let's say: Lebanon.



Here's 7 GREAT bloggers:

My lil'sis
Zaaam
Kaaisaa
Ange
Umzacharia
Angie
Cecilia



Remember to challenge 7 other bloggers and link them in your blogpost, don't forget to link me too :)

^^

Most women (mostly Saudis but also women from other countries) wear this:
Most don't wear gloves though!
Some doesn't wear the face veil.
I and many other foreigners just wear a black abaya without the veil. No, no one is wearing any other color on the abaya, only black. Some might be decorated with pearls etc but the abaya itself is black.

Most men wear this(mostly Saudis I assume):

Most foreign men wear "normal" clothes such as jeans and shirt.

Well it doesn't get much more interesting than this. Sorry :)

And ye, both pictures are from google. I didn't take them myself.

A swede in arabia

Hot chocolate and a cheese sandwich.

(Unfortunately we bought the wrong bread this time. Usually we don't eat white bread...)

I got my nachos!

I got my nachos yesterday :) And a plate of fettucine pasta with cajun chicken and shrimps. The person who was sharing with me got all the shrimps, phew!

A post is coming up, soon hopefully, about what is being worn in KSA by women and men.

Wanted to share this with you all

Poem found on someone's blog who found it on someone else's blog...

“Woman was made from the rib of man,

She was not created from his head to top him,

nor from his feet to be stepped upon.

She was made from his side to be close to him,

from beneath his arm to be protected by him,

near his heart to be loved by him.”

I've been thinking

And I can't stop thinking about it....

Please could someone bring me nachos?? The same as we ate in the weekend. Oh it was so tasty, even if it was cheese on them but the salsa was really spicy so in some kind of way it all made sense.

Oh where are my nachos????

Picture borrowed from here

Just thinking...

When I was a teenager I had a dream about adopting a black baby and raise it by myself. I couldn't imagine myself being married. I wanted to be pregnant and have children, but I never wanted to give birth haha.
Okey of course I didn't wish to get pregnant at that age, but it was like a dream of the future for me.

What did you dream about as teenagers?

I don't know...

I closed my swedish blog but somehow I'm missing it, even though I'm not bloggin. I'm not even blogging here. For the moment I'm just feeling tired and feeling as if i have nothing worth reading about. So why blog?

The reason why there is privacy setting for my swedish blog is because I am not ready to delete it but I dont want to keep it open either with all my posts available. So even though it says that you dont have access to "this blog" when you try to go to it doesnt mean someone else has. Because no one but myself got access. It's closed for time being. Knowing myself well enough, I can easily say: the swedish blog will be back. But not now. Maybe tomorrow, maybe next week or maybe next year. I don't know.

Uffff I'm stuffed

Pancakes filled with nutella. 3 of them. And a big glass of orange juice. Aaaaargh 2 pancakes would've been more than enough. I'm so stuffed now

Let me know

Your favorite songs. New and old

How do you eat avocados?

I just ate one. It was delicious. We bought 3 pieces like a week ago. I cut one open too early so I had to throw it away. But this one, mmmm it was so soft and creamy. The best way, the ONLY way, to eat it is with lemon juice and salt. Some may not agree, and that's fine by me...How do you eat avocados?

Now I'm going to put on some music and start cleaning up. I've been so tired lately and household work has been laid aside. By lately I mean for about 2 months.... I hope I'll shapen up soon.

Malcolm X, the movie, is on TV right now. But when it started I had just woken up and wasn't at all in the mood to watch such a "heavy" movie. I wish I'd watched it from the beginning it seems to be an interesting movie. Oh well, I'm sure I'll get another chance someday :)

I know I know

I haven't been updating lately but so many things are happening in my life lately that I've only taken the time to post on my Swedish blog. But soon I'll be translating some of those post and publish them here for all of you to read. Because those posts/subjects are really important to me. It's about friends on the internet and new muslims.
Hang in there!

My year of 2009, month by month

January: my husband comes and visits me in Sweden :)

February: depressed, but finally gets my broadband connected only 2 months delayed:(


March: This was the month when I left my own apartment and moved home to my parents. It wasn't easy moving and get rid of all my stuff. Oh my God how much money I just threw away by giving and selling all my things...:S

April: I jogged everyday and spent a lot of time excercising and trying to handle my extreme.

May: I took walks everyday for at least one hour to "memorize the Swedish nature and my surroundings". I knew I was about to miss it extremely...That was sad...Oh sweet nature of Sweden when am I going to fill my lungs with your almost perfect air and green grass scents? Soon isn't soon enough...


June: Planning for the wedding, we did it in a few days *highfive to my husband*

July: We had our beautiful wedding and later honeymoon in Turkey.

August: I stayed alone in Lebanon with my family-in-law, this was also the month of Ramadan.

September: Ramadan ended and we celebrated. My husband came and visited us. I was happy not to be "alone" anymore. I was missing him so much...

October: I got the flu, fixed papers for my visa application, a stupid hairdresser fixed the ugliest hair do on me(yes with a scissor), and I got depressed because of that LOL(not funny)


November: Me and my husband went back and visited the family in law again and celebrated the new year.

December: celebrated my birthday and I even got a birthday cake with candles and my name on it :)

An advice from me

Don't bake in the evening(or at any time for that matters) if you'll be too tired to clean up afterwards when you're done... 

Less tired today :)

I went to bed at 9 oclock last night. But I couldn't fall asleep immediately, but I got a surprise in the morning. I was "allowed" to turn the alarm off. Yey!!!! So we got couple of hours more sleep. So today Iam feeling pretty normal with minimum sleepiness :)



I've just ate breakfast, 2 wholegrain toasts with jam and cheese and a mug of nescafe.
I'm going to take a shower now and get ready because soon my cellphone will be ringing and my husband will ask me to go down meet him in the parkinglot. We are going to visit some friends.
It's thursday today and that means weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^o^

After lunch which was so delicious I got started arranging the home. Made the bed and mopped the floor. Just now I hanged the newly washed bedsheets to dry and I'm going to rest for a while before I get started with the dishes. I don't have a lot of dishes to do but only the thought of it makes me tired.


So what are you all doing on the day before christmas eve? I know that my parents are decorating right now or are already done. Because this is the day for it. As they have been doing ever since....Well ever since forever :) I so wish I could be with them... Christmas holiday is such a wonderful time, family gathers and everyone are happy and enjoying everyone's company...........

Christmas has always felt magical to me. It still does, even though Iam a muslim and have been so since 2000. But christmas is special. Christmas is the time of year when my family get together, its dark oand cold utside and cosy and light and warm indoor.. And you just feel so hopeful about life and believe that anything can happen. Anything at all. Whatever you wish for. Magic....

Heavenly!!!!!!!!!!

Cut chicken file, cut potato and chop up an onion. Cut a tomato too if you're into those. That's what I did since anyway I needed half of a tomato for the sallad. And to leave half tomato in the refrigerator is..Not a good idea, it just going to be thrown away since it's holiday and we won't be eating at home for the next coming 2 days.

Okey, back to the recipe.

Pour oil in a casseroul, let the oil get warm and put the potato in it. Make sure to move the potato around all the time so it gets "fried" a bit allover. Put in the onion and the tomato pieces. Let them all swet a bit, salt and move around so it doesnt get burned.
Now put in the chicken pieces which you already let roll around in curry, black pepper and salt.
Move everything around and let it swett some more. Then pour in some water and buillon for more taste. Let it boil slowly with a lid for about 15 minutes depending on how big the potato pieces are.
Boil tasteless but salted rice and serve with a sallad.


Bon appetite, I hope we are going to eat very soon because it smells soooooooooooo wonderful and I'm starving.

Oooooooooooooooh!

Mom and dad you're the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




I love you both so much and Iam so happy and thankful for your greatness!!!!!!!!!!!!


I'll be "floating on clouds" throughout the rest of the year and next one too!!!!!!
 
"floating on clouds" ye I know that there is probably no such "saying" in English, but I'm swedish so that's what happens with direct translation in my head :P:P:P