Tales of the Day!!

 

Aha, my long weekend that started on Thursday is finally over! Do you want to know what movies I watched – Legend of the Fall, The Sound of Music and Fools Rush In; I don’t know but I was in the mood for some of my old favorite movies. The rest of the weekend was just OK, nothing special yet nice. Chirp I made the Mud Cake, It was soooooooooooo delicious and I couldn’t stop licking the left over cream on the Kenwood bowl.

 

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I started the day with a 2 and ½ half meeting, I was very tentative during the first hour but as time went by it started getting boring and I just felt that time was moving away too slowly, I was hungry and I needed to pee badly! I can’t count the amount of times I go to the bathroom in a day. I love the feeling of waking up in the morning and coming to work and plus I do like my job somehow, it’s just that I think I can get into a better place.

 

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I’m going to tell you some Short Stories about some of my Aunts……

 

I have an aunt who’s I don’t really know how to describe her, she’s nice and everything but I don’t know where her mind goes. Yesterday, in front of everyone she tells me “Damn, your eyebrows are so thin” Note – she believes that a girl shouldn’t do her eyebrows before marriage and if she does she should just clean them. I told her “You know that I don’t do them thin  but the Indian lady just went of the hook this time” Then replies back by telling me “On your wedding day, we might as well shave off all your eyebrows to make you look different”….Ohhh whatever, what is it to you! I’m not a kid anymore and plus if my Mom doesn’t mind then I don’t care. What if I get married when I’m 30, do I have to wait till then to do my eyebrows…Hahaha wake up lady, we’re living in the 21^st century and I just love myself too much!

 

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Then there’s the other aunt who keeps on saying to my mom that I’m so filled with love, she looks at me and wonders how I can daze off when the room is packed with people chit chatting and I’m just not into the conversation yet I’m in my own little dream world. She says love has drowned me away from this world and this guy whoever he is better hurry and come save me, I just love the humor this aunt of mine has. I love her.

 

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My dad comes from a family of 5 brothers (excluding him) and 2 sisters, all my dads’ brothers and sisters including their wives, husband, and kids are considered open minded. So I can say my Grandma’s (allah yir7amha) and Grandpa’s kids and grandchildren are all open minded. So towards the other aunts, uncles, cousins etc we are considered TOOOO OPEN MINDEDJ

 

I went to a private school and grew up in a very open minded environment, sometimes it was hard communicating with other family members. It’s really easy for me to communicate with my first cousins because we’re all the same but when it comes to other cousins damn we just think totally differently.

 

So I started wearing Abaya and Sheila when I was 16 but I didn’t wear it full time. I wore it when I’d go visiting to some family member or to places that I had to wear it etc but now I cover properly. My sister is 18 and she still doesn’t cover unless she’s going to a place she has to wear it. Basically, we started covering up in a more Cultural Prospective.

 

Ok now that I’ve explained all that, I have an aunt who’s in another city in the UAE. I haven’t seen her for a long time, her daughter is my age but she got married in 2006. She calls me up recently and asks me about my job and so on. Then she goes like “Do you cover up nowadays” I replied back and said “Saba7 el 5eir, weinich entee? I started covering a long time ago”

 

She then likes to ask questions like where do you shop or where do you make your Abaya’s, have you lost or gained weight? All she wants to do is compare me to her daughter and to be better.

 

The thing that I know is her daughter was so naughty that they wanted to wed her ASAP. My parents taught me to be respectful, they taught me religion very well, they made me start praying at the age of eight and they’ve made me become what I am today El7amdullilah I’m proud of myself and I thank my parents for everything they’ve done for me. But I don’t understand why people judge girls whether they cover up or not, my covered up friends in school never even use to pray!

 

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I’ve always been considered the open minded girl even in High School when I started hanging out with the Arab girls, though they were in a Private school most of them came from very traditional families and they adored my lifestyle and my relationship with my parents especially with my dad because most of them just feared their fathers.

 

I loveeee my parents, my sister, my grandparents and my moms and dads bros and sisters so much………..the rest can go to hell if they have a problemo with me or my family!

 

Ok so enough for today, Enjoy the rest of the week J

 

Adios

 

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