Saturday

[Jenn! 918]

Today is Saturday!

[Together4ever 1]

Morning all. Woke up at 9:30 am and that just felt oh so good!

I just gave my kids their "to do" list before I'll go shopping with them and I'm listening to the groaning and moaning now. "why do *I* have to be the one to put the laundry away?????", "mooooom....I don't WANNA clean the living room!!!!!"

I'm typing on my brand new laptop and lovin' it btw!! It's my early Eid present to myself. Figured I'll need one while in Cairo and also when we're at Disney in April so I can still talk to Usama each night. A friend of mine in our IT dept gets tons of special coupons all the time so I used that and got it for super cheap. The video on it is awesome....watched a few muslim comedians last night on youtube and laughed my butt off!!!

Once the coffee kicks in it's off to do a few chores then on to the mall to get the kids their webkinz. They're hooked on them!!!

Dawn - hope the job turns out better than expected. BTW I hate choosing shoes for khaki pants too.

JP - I used to be a shoe freak until I got Lupus and now I have to pay mucho $$ for shoes that don't hurt my back so I've had to cut waaaay down. I have like two sneakers, a brown, beige and black pair of sandals, brown and black mules, and a black and brown pair of pumps and a pair of flip flops (birkenstocks...yeah real sexy...not!) and that's it!

Henia - hope you get that email soon!!!

Jackie - I love anything involving philo dough!!!

Just waiting - you are so poetic! You should think of writing poetry....you never know when you might be discovered!

Mrs. Forgetful - there's nothing worse than waiting all day for a plumber/electrician, etc. They always seem to give you like an 8 hour window....like you have nothing else to do but wait around. I usually take that time to do housework that I'd normally procrastinate.

Nice blue sky and sunny out today, though the draft through the window says it's cold!!!! Usama was very depressed last night so I'm hoping he perks up tonight. It's so hard that I can't give him a hug when he is like this.

I do write all kinds of things. I'd explode if I didn't! Mohammed and I have written several songs and looking forward to writing more.

I want to mention something about the electricity in Egypt. If you take your laptop be sure to take a good regulator/surge protector with you. I fried a hairdryer, curling iron and motherboard in my computer in Egypt.

[Henia 11]

Henia - hope you get that email soon!!!

Just waiting - you are so poetic! You should think of writing poetry....you never know when you might be discovered!

Yup Doodle got the email and replied...and working on it as we speak (or shall I say as I am type )

Ye Jean seems to be a very gentle heart... I would to read her peotry if she ever wrote any

[Together4ever 1]

Ok Henia... prepared to be bored. LOL

(Both of the following are my original works.)

Illusion

Clinging with that which has no hands

For fear of losing what can't be lost

Nor ever held

Bears a painful cost.

And seeing with sightless eyes

The other who is not

But the seer who stares at all and nothing

Division is now sought.

In yin and yang, and black and white

The existenceless chasm widens

Good and evil, left and right

Soul's confusion ever heightens.

Yearning yearns and longing bites

A lusting's never tamed

Hunger's hiding comfort's secret

It's true source is never named.

Until molehill becomes mountain

Crushing that which can't be crushed

Freeing sudden realization

The chaos now is hushed.

Waken the sleepless slumberer

New ears as old as time

To hear the grand illusion sing

The song which has no name.

Remember now the landless land

And skies which know no end

Rejoicing in the weightless freedom

To die and be born again.

And this a song Mohammed and I wrote. I wrote the lyrics and he wrote the music. I have the MP3 we recorded and mixed on the computer but of course no way to share it here. His voice is beautiful

Whisper To The Sky

Life is going by like a movie film

but I'm standing still

feeling like a tree in the wind

watching it rushing by

while I stay behind

Seems everybody's doing

and I'm only dreaming

with my head in the clouds

while they're busy moving mountains

I am lost in the colors

of a world I can't touch

I just whisper to the sky

because hearts never lie

I'm hoping it'll reply

then maybe I will know why

god made me this way

just a whisp in the wind

Yes life is going by like I'm not even here

but I'm standing still

like a shadow stretched acrossed a sunny lawn

watching the world rushing by

while I stay behind

Seems everybody's doing

and I'm only dreaming

with my head in the clouds

while they're busy moving mountains

I am lost in the colors

of a world I can't touch

I'm adrift

in the middle of a sea

I'm feeling so free

no one knows what its like

to be... what its like

to be me

Yes life is going by like a fast rolling train

but I'm standing still

a lone passenger standing on the platform

watching it rushing by

while I stay behind

Seems everybody's doing

and I'm only dreaming

with my head in the clouds

while they're busy moving mountains

I am lost in the colors

of a world I can't touch

[Bosco 1]

And this a song Mohammed and I wrote. I wrote the lyrics and he wrote the music. I have the MP3 we recorded and mixed on the computer but of course no way to share it here. His voice is beautiful

Jean,

You can upload to a place like File Den and then place a link here.

Rebecca

[Henia 11]

Ok Henia... prepared to be bored. LOL

(Both of the following are my original works.)

Illusion

Clinging with that which has no hands

For fear of losing what can't be lost

Nor ever held

Bears a painful cost.

And seeing with sightless eyes

The other who is not

But the seer who stares at all and nothing

Division is now sought.

In yin and yang, and black and white

The existenceless chasm widens

Good and evil, left and right

Soul's confusion ever heightens.

Yearning yearns and longing bites

A lusting's never tamed

Hunger's hiding comfort's secret

It's true source is never named.

Until molehill becomes mountain

Crushing that which can't be crushed

Freeing sudden realization

The chaos now is hushed.

Waken the sleepless slumberer

New ears as old as time

To hear the grand illusion sing

The song which has no name.

Remember now the landless land

And skies which know no end

Rejoicing in the weightless freedom

To die and be born again.

And this a song Mohammed and I wrote. I wrote the lyrics and he wrote the music. I have the MP3 we recorded and mixed on the computer but of course no way to share it here. His voice is beautiful

Whisper To The Sky

Life is going by like a movie film

but I'm standing still

feeling like a tree in the wind

watching it rushing by

while I stay behind

Seems everybody's doing

and I'm only dreaming

with my head in the clouds

while they're busy moving mountains

I am lost in the colors

of a world I can't touch

I just whisper to the sky

because hearts never lie

I'm hoping it'll reply

then maybe I will know why

god made me this way

just a whisp in the wind

Yes life is going by like I'm not even here

but I'm standing still

like a shadow stretched acrossed a sunny lawn

watching the world rushing by

while I stay behind

Seems everybody's doing

and I'm only dreaming

with my head in the clouds

while they're busy moving mountains

I am lost in the colors

of a world I can't touch

I'm adrift

in the middle of a sea

I'm feeling so free

no one knows what its like

to be... what its like

to be me

Yes life is going by like a fast rolling train

but I'm standing still

a lone passenger standing on the platform

watching it rushing by

while I stay behind

Seems everybody's doing

and I'm only dreaming

with my head in the clouds

while they're busy moving mountains

I am lost in the colors

of a world I can't touch

SubhanAllah you are so wonderfully talented Jean!

[Together4ever 1]

And this a song Mohammed and I wrote. I wrote the lyrics and he wrote the music. I have the MP3 we recorded and mixed on the computer but of course no way to share it here. His voice is beautiful

Jean,

You can upload to a place like File Den and then place a link here.

Rebecca

I'll ask his permission. He's been busy reworking it so I don't know if he'll want me to use what I have or not. He's got an original work he did in Arabic that I am hoping he will let me share.