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[Peace.... 281]

Well I am up and just on the net. Fasting all day long with Farid who will sleep all day long.

What to do? What to do?

Well today, I got up and was drinking my coffee outside and looked at my watch and it said 7:15 a.m., I said OMG, I rushed into the bedroom and woke up Mohammed and said honey your gonna be late for work you have to leave in 15 minutes. He rushed into the shower and was out the door in 15 minutes and at work at 7:55. I got a call from him upon his arrival at work and he said.......... honey, you know why there was no traffic today on the way to work?????? I said, no why, he said because IT'S SATURDAYYYYYY and I don't workkkkkkkkkkkk todaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy. I guess I don't get the happy wife award today. I thought today was Friday for whatever reason and I thought yesterday was Saturday all day.

[ErikaAndHamit 73]

Thays awesome foreverwaiting lol omg!! Well only mews here is we aren't doing Ramadan fasting..me BC I'm a milk making bank for my trio and finding myself runnongvlow on funds lately lol hubby said triplet boys us enough to worry about minus the fasting so he's being naughty this year. Otherwise nothing going on here mimolicioua whens the interview???

Edited July 22, 2012 by ErikaAndHamit

[R and F 34]

Thays awesome foreverwaiting lol omg!! Well only mews here is we aren't doing Ramadan fasting..me BC I'm a milk making bank for my trio and finding myself runnongvlow on funds lately lol hubby said triplet boys us enough to worry about minus the fasting so he's being naughty this year. Otherwise nothing going on here mimolicioua whens the interview???

I tried sending you a pm and it says you can't receive any.

[ErikaAndHamit 73]

I tried sending you a pm and it says you can't receive any.

Ill delete some of the messages (i have like almost 400 lol i never clean my mailbox...ugh) hmmm I woder what its about! lol yikes and where did my avatar piccy go?

[ErikaAndHamit 73]

I seen your comment RandF and I did delete some of my messages now lol...however, I do not see any updates from Mimolicious....Ill keep looking...I hope her AP is short as possible ughhh

On another note, how does one make a pic small enough to put for the avatar? Seems like it needs to be ridiculously small...I dunno how I will shrink a pic down that small....I want to show off my trio! Or maybe it's better to out it in the siggy? I;l try! oh screw it...lol i gotta go!

Ok tell me some of you VJ computer savvy peeps, how to put a new pic (albeit large ones) in my avatar and my siggy...it's driving me mad!

Edited July 22, 2012 by ErikaAndHamit

[msheesha 548]

Good Morning. Did anyone watch the new episode of "Locked Up Abroad"? American woman arrested and imprisoned in Egypt...

[Mithra 1,185]

Good morning!

Yes, I watched that last night. I felt bad for the woman and could understand that a strong desire to be a mother could cloud judgment but sheesh...her husband should've known better. It was sad.

Good Morning. Did anyone watch the new episode of "Locked Up Abroad"? American woman arrested and imprisoned in Egypt...

[msheesha 548]

Good morning!

Yes, I watched that last night. I felt bad for the woman and could understand that a strong desire to be a mother could cloud judgment but sheesh...her husband should've known better. It was sad.

Yeah, I watched it last night also. Good point about a strong desire to be a mother clouding judgement. I was continually surprised at her lack of awareness - about legal vs. illegal adoption, about the consequences of misrepresenting facts to the US Embassy/Consulate, etc. I also found it surprising she'd agree to do the show and have it broadcast while she was still living in Egypt. I found the fact that she remained in Egypt after her incarceration there surprising also. I imagined I would have a sense of wanting to be in the USA after such a traumatic experience living in another country. It was extremely interesting to watch. I didn't get a sense of her taking a lot of personal responsibility, did you?

[Mithra 1,185]

She portrayed herself more as a victim of circumstance rather than actively taking part in fraud. While she did state several times that she had lied it didn't seem to occur to her that her lies were, in fact, fraud and therefore, illegal. She was upset that they charged her with human trafficking and kidnapping she kept saying that she didn't do either. Whether her intentions were sinister or not, she was trying to take a child that wasn't legally hers out of the country and that is kidnapping. I guess hindsight is 50/50 and all but how do you walk out with a baby in your arms without signing any paperwork? I can't believe that she thought adopting a child in Egypt was as easy as going to the store to buy a babydoll. Her husband had to have known what they were doing was illegal. He was buying a child for her. I get wanting her to be happy but come on. I was also surprised that they remained in Egypt after all they went through. I, agree, it was very interesting to watch.

ETA - I also can't believe that her husband let her fill out the application for the child's passport with the fraudulant documentation. Did he really think they were going to get away with it? Did she? I keep talking about him because he's Egyptian, he speaks and reads the language, he knows the culture and the "rules"...he should have known better and shouldn't have put her in that position.

Edited July 24, 2012 by Mithra

[msheesha 548]

She portrayed herself more as a victim of circumstance rather than actively taking part in fraud. While she did state several times that she had lied it didn't seem to occur to her that her lies were, in fact, fraud and therefore, illegal. She was upset that they charged her with human trafficking and kidnapping she kept saying that she didn't do either. Whether her intentions were sinister or not, she was trying to take a child that wasn't legally hers out of the country and that is kidnapping. I guess hindsight is 50/50 and all but how do you walk out with a baby in your arms without signing any paperwork? I can't believe that she thought adopting a child in Egypt was as easy as going to the store to buy a babydoll. Her husband had to have known what they were doing was illegal. He was buying a child for her. I get wanting her to be happy but come on. I was also surprised that they remained in Egypt after all they went through. I, agree, it was very interesting to watch.

ETA - I also can't believe that her husband let her fill out the application for the child's passport with the fraudulant documentation. Did he really think they were going to get away with it? Did she? I keep talking about him because he's Egyptian, he speaks and reads the language, he knows the culture and the "rules"...he should have known better and shouldn't have put her in that position.

I also thought that her experience is an illustration of the amazing adapting abilities humans have - being thrown into that prison and being able to survive it for 2 years.

It's interesting - I didn't give the husband much thought. I can't imagine at any level walking into the US Consulate in Morocco with forged documents and trying to pass them off as valid!! Regardless of all the language, culture stuff, etc, she knew that baby wasn't hers and the papers she was submitting were forgeries saying the baby was biologically hers. It's mind-boggling that she didn't think about the consequences. On the other hand, she was thinking about her sick mother and wanting her son to meet her mother.

At the end, in the orphanage, did you think they were going to correctly and sucessfully adopt the child? I wonder why they just didn't correctly adopt a child to begin with! They never addressed that, did they?

[Mithra 1,185]

I guess I thought about the husband (the language/culture thing) and why he lead her to or went along with the whole adoption thing in the first place. Didn't he know adoption isn't that easy in Egypt? She may have thought it was easy because she didn't know the cultural/legal issues surrounding it but he should have. Walking out with the baby with no paperwork was the beginning of their wrongs. I can understand the not wanting to think about it because she had her hands on a much wanted child but she had to have thought something wasn't right then not looking back and thinking it wasn't right. Yeah I can't believe they thought after all that that they had a chance at adopting or even fostering (as she mentioned) the boy. I understood wanting to see him and making sure he was safe and being taken care of.

[rade2rising 205]

where is that user mimilicious? thought her hubby had his interview recently. anyone hear anything??

[ErikaAndHamit 73]

I know! I am wondering!

I seen the alst 5 minutes of the locked up abraod thing...now I knwo what happened...thanks guys LOL

[msheesha 548]

I know! I am wondering!

I seen the alst 5 minutes of the locked up abraod thing...now I knwo what happened...thanks guys LOL

Oops - sorry. But it's still worth watching - it was interesting!

[RFQ 110]

Well today, I got up and was drinking my coffee outside and looked at my watch and it said 7:15 a.m., I said OMG, I rushed into the bedroom and woke up Mohammed and said honey your gonna be late for work you have to leave in 15 minutes. He rushed into the shower and was out the door in 15 minutes and at work at 7:55. I got a call from him upon his arrival at work and he said.......... honey, you know why there was no traffic today on the way to work?????? I said, no why, he said because IT'S SATURDAYYYYYY and I don't workkkkkkkkkkkk todaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy. I guess I don't get the happy wife award today. I thought today was Friday for whatever reason and I thought yesterday was Saturday all day.

OMG, lolz...