My big plan!

.....was to choose "soup and sallad" at least once a week, remember?
 I failed last week because we were eating at the mall both those days and I couldn't resist my usual cashew chicken and rice - yummi!!!

But today we went to applebees. I ate california soup - delicious, oriental chicken sallad - strange but tasty, and fresh orange juice. That was good right? But we finished the whole meal off with brownie cake and vanilla icecream. Well lets say if I had chosen my usual pasta and cheesesauce + chicken/bacon + brownie that would be much worse. At least I made a good choice concerning the main meal. Right? :)

Tomorrow I'm hoping we go to a mall, I want to eat cashew chicken and rice =)
Or should I try something new?

Read this!

I know I have some girls reading this blog that are living in arab countries and around the world so please give me some advice!
Couple of days ago we had a sandstorm here, maybe you saw it on the news. Well my problem is now that the sandstorm is over,our home is still filled with sanddust and I don't know how to get rid off it. I mean it is everywhere, I can still smell it. It's in the curtains, in the sofa, in the carpets EVERYWHERE and I'm going crazy!
Please advice me on how cleaning my home in the most effective way, including the furnitures!

How to raise a child

Next door we have a family with at least one child. I guess the child is around 2 years old. She cries a lot. When she cries the parents doesn't comfort her and make her stop crying. No because they made up the brilliant method of just putting their daughter in the staircase and closing their door to their apartment. So here we have a toddler sitting outside the home crying for some comfort and love.....She do stop crying pretty quickly so I guess it's a good method. I'm sure it helps her innerself and make her a strong confident humanbeing. Or not......................................

A promise to myself:

To order "soup and sallad" at least once a week if available. Thank God, we are able to eat outside the home twice a week. One day use to be at the mall´s food court and the other day use to be at a restaurant. At the restaurants they usually have something you can order called "Soup and sallad". Yes it is exactly what it sounds like. So instead of ordering pasta smuthered in creamy cheese or wok chicken and fried rice everytime I'll keep it to once a week and choose "Soup and sallad" the other day.


Hopefully I won't regret this promise. But the only one who will be disappointed will be me. So no biggy :P

Chocking

I've never seen a woman driving a car here (might be because it's prohibited) but yesterday I did see a 10 year old boy driving a car. If it is allowed or not is still a mystery.

Is a promise always a promise?

You know sometimes how you promise things and intend to keep them FOREVER AND EVER? Well, what if things change and you won't be able to keep your promise even if you'd wish you could? What if life takes you to different places in life which makes it impossible for you to keep your promise? Then should we beat ourselves up for not keeping our promise? I believe in keeping promises. If not, then what's the purpose of promising things? None!

But sometimes things happens that makes us not wanting to keep the promises we've made. Is it then okey to break them? If the person in question doesn't deserve what we promised?

I have even made some promises that I've forgot. Promises about small things but yet still promises. I hope I haven't broken too many of them though. That would be horrible!

I have ONE promise that I keep thinking of. Why? Because this promise was made to a person who meant a lot to me at the time and still do till this day. I made a lifetime promise, but Iam breaking it everyday. And yes, Iam beating myself up about it. I feel so bad for breaking it but yet there is nothing I can do about it.

God and my own choices brought me to this place where Iam not able to keep the most important and valuable promise anyone can give. I hope God is hearing my prayers and helping me keeping my promise.

NEVER make promises you might not be able to keep. You might think at the time that surely you'll keep that promise forever, but you don't know what's in God's plan and where you'll end up so be careful!

I sometimes regret for giving such a promise but yet it was the most sincere and important promise I've ever made. I don't think I'll ever make that mistake again.

Knee pads

Yesterday we were walking around in the mall as a homeless couple. Meaning we were walking around for hours without shopping anything. Well as usual we ended up at the baby things section. I love looking at mini baby sneakers and baby socks. I just think they are so incredibly cute! We walked through it and ended up among bottles, mugs, baby hair brushes and combs etc and some other funny items as for example knee pads for crawling babies. My first reaction was: LAUGHTER! I thought it was so funny and silly and wondered who would really buy knee pads to their baby.. Maybe it's just me but at first I thought it was incredibly ridiculous. But then I got reminded of how hard the floors are here. They are hard as stone, I know how it hurts my knees when I kneal down to pray. They make sounds everytime and hurts because of the hard floor. So knee pads, I guess, isn't such a bad idea after all.

Picture found on google.se

We had some friends over yesterday

It was pretty nice eventhough the wifey only speaks french and arabic. I don't speak french and I don't like to talk arabic anymore... Or well I haven't been speaking arabic for about 4 months. I almost forgot how :P Not that I was speaking a lot of arabic during my stay in Lebanon, but I did listen to it everyday all day long and I had to speak arabic sometimes. But now, just the thought of having to speak arabic makes me feel awkward. Anyway it was pretty nice and I enjoyed the 2 hours or so visit. When they left they told me to keep in touch and if I ever wanted to go somewhere while my hubby is at work I could just call the wifey and go out with her since she has her own personal driver. If I will take her up on her offer I'd be challenged to talk arabic with her. I'm pretty sure I would, if only me and her around, she would do her best to try to understand me and she would(hopefully) not make fun of me.
Those who make fun of me don't mean to be cruel I understand that but it still makes me hesitate to speak.

The beat-up

Did you hear/read about the beat-up of the 15 year old girl in Seattle? And the 3 security guards not helping her?? I saw it on "Msn today". Google it! here's one link to the video  click here
It's awful how all of those people standing around watching 3-4 other persons beating up a 15 year old and even continuining beating her even as she lies defenceless on the ground.

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angie nader said...


oh your in KSA now? do you really feel yourself breathing sand?


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Yes I have been here since october. When I first arrived I think it took 2 weeks or so to get used to the dusty air. My nose was bothering me and sometimes even bleeding because of it. Now my nose got used to it and I don't notice that it's sand-dust we are breathing, unless when it's windy and more sand-dust than usual blows into the home through ventilation. I feel the smell of sand and feel the air I'm breathing really thick and dry. It's awful, I hate it!

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angie nader sa...


now im reminded of watermelon...and there is none here :(
we all go through uninspiring times... recently ive been feeling so drained and depressed...its trully pathetic! haha
take your time...i love reading your blog!
you always talk about the common things in life and i love it!

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Haha batikha/watermelon is my favorite =) I hope you feel better soon, it's difficult times when we are feeling like that but life is a rollercoaster with its ups and downs. Thank you so much for your comment, I'm happy you LOVE it, love is a big word =) I'll try to update more often, if I have something to write about ;)

To Batikha and my other readers

I've lost my inspiration for this blog. It just feels as if I don't want to blog because "I have nothing to say" kind of. But keep visiting me sooner or later it will be filled with new blogposts, God willing =)