It's Mondayyyy

[Jenn! 918]

Except for some reason I've never been able to stand Kevin Costner. Every time he comes on screen I feel slightly nauseated.

Me too! I think it goes back to sixth grade when my teacher had a crush on him and talked about him incessantly. Ewww.

[in_my_eyez 0]

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" Martin Luther King Jr.

[dollface41601 0]

sarah.....napoleon dynamite was the first movie sofyan and i watched together and i swear....one year later....he is always saying...GOSSHHHH!!!!

[noura 0]

Noura, do you mean the Kill Bill movies? Oddly (for me) I loved those. We watched Dances With Wolves yesterday.

yep, that's them! I'm having major cramps today - feel like crud, meanwhile, Said is outside cleaning the laundry room . I wish I felt like doing something w/ him - I hate having a day off where we could do something together and I feel like poop!

[brnidokiegurl 0]

No work today, wouldnt matter anyway, cant move around much with the ice. Power did finally go off few hours earlier this morning but sun out now, but still pretty much confined.

[mybackpages 0]

Well out of town guests are all gone, gotta get back to real work this week, interview in Casa tomorrow, need to do laundry and clean in general and the temperatures are dropping like crazy outside. All week it was balmy and warm but tonight execting freezing temps and sleet. Everyone is wishing for a day off tomorrow. And somehow I need to fit in a nap today!

Hope everyone is well...so much to catch up on VJ...i hate it when i get behind!

[UmmSqueakster 54]

It would have been fortuitous if our office were closed today, but alas. However, I did look at my time off for this year, and I have 28 days! wooooooooo!

28 days!?!??! Wow, you're so lucky! Is that including federal holidays? Still, that's a lot.

Some are left over from last year. Counting days the office is closed, I think I have 35 days off this year. I *heart* my job!

[Jenn! 918]

It would have been fortuitous if our office were closed today, but alas. However, I did look at my time off for this year, and I have 28 days! wooooooooo!

28 days!?!??! Wow, you're so lucky! Is that including federal holidays? Still, that's a lot.

Some are left over from last year. Counting days the office is closed, I think I have 35 days off this year. I *heart* my job!

So jealous of you! I don't get to carry over any unused days. We might go to Morocco this summer, so I took an extra week unpaid (we have to decide if we want to do that at the beginning of the year) to give me a total of 15 days. I so miss Europe!

[brnidokiegurl 0]

Who was wanting the restaurants in Austin? how did that turn out? im thinking i heard Austin had alot of rain like 5/6 rain with flooding, havent talked to my friend that lives there yet to know for sure

[LebaneseMama 1]

I have today off I have been treating myself real good in the third trimester. Today I woke up and made myself hasbrowns and eggs. I ate the whole plate. My next task is to gett off the computer, take a shower and get dressed and then go grocery shopping. We'll see what time that happens

Yesterday my diaper bag came in and I swear I was soooo excited I started jumping up and down. I packed it right away and it's all ready for the hospital (I know way too early ... but when your pregnant with your first baby you tend to get a little OCD). I wore the bag to my mom's house and showed it off. Everyone was laughing at me saying they have never seen a pregnant lady with no kids toting around a diaper bag when she is 7 months

OOOOOOOOOHHH and I will be getting a hair cut this week !!! Any suggestions ?? My hair is really long and I want sometime short. I have my graduation pictures on Saturday so I will get the hair cut Saturday morning. I want short hair for when I give brth and be a mommy. I have been with Ali for 4 years and have never gotten a hair cut (just a trime once a year) and he's finally agreeing that I need a hair cut.

So if any of you see anything that would look good for a 22 year old Lebanese mommy post the pics

[MrsAmera 41]

Argh it snowed last night! Woke up and took the 3 year old to school on the icy roads, then made a stop at Wal-Mart for a shovel and baby formula - thrilling i know. Got home, shoveled the driveway and sidewalk while Youssef was inside in bed cuddling with the baby - yes I'm a little ticked at this. This is just a general question/comment/complaint - but is it a ME tendency or maybe Moroccan to be very private with people and your life. Youssef doesn't understand why people ask him questions and I think it's just a way of having a conversation being polite etc. He hasn't even told his friends that we had the baby yet and I think it's kind of weird and in a way hurts me..

LM you're just 22 too??!?!? Wow I thought I was the only baby here!

[LebaneseMama 1]

LM you're just 22 too??!?!? Wow I thought I was the only baby here!

We are babies with babies .... seriously though 22 is not that young. It took me forever to get here and I'd hate to think I was still a baby. I have PG horomones Amera .. don't make me cry. Just kidding ... Anyone else wanna join the babies with babies club ? I know you are all dying to join !

[Bosco 1]

Argh it snowed last night! Woke up and took the 3 year old to school on the icy roads, then made a stop at Wal-Mart for a shovel and baby formula - thrilling i know. Got home, shoveled the driveway and sidewalk while Youssef was inside in bed cuddling with the baby - yes I'm a little ticked at this. This is just a general question/comment/complaint - but is it a ME tendency or maybe Moroccan to be very private with people and your life. Youssef doesn't understand why people ask him questions and I think it's just a way of having a conversation being polite etc. He hasn't even told his friends that we had the baby yet and I think it's kind of weird and in a way hurts me..

LM you're just 22 too??!?!? Wow I thought I was the only baby here!

My husband's friends do not announce their wives pregancies until they are almost due, but once the babies are born they are proud fathers, sending pictures and showing the babies on webcam.

[jordanianprincess 0]

Argh it snowed last night! Woke up and took the 3 year old to school on the icy roads, then made a stop at Wal-Mart for a shovel and baby formula - thrilling i know. Got home, shoveled the driveway and sidewalk while Youssef was inside in bed cuddling with the baby - yes I'm a little ticked at this. This is just a general question/comment/complaint - but is it a ME tendency or maybe Moroccan to be very private with people and your life. Youssef doesn't understand why people ask him questions and I think it's just a way of having a conversation being polite etc. He hasn't even told his friends that we had the baby yet and I think it's kind of weird and in a way hurts me..

LM you're just 22 too??!?!? Wow I thought I was the only baby here!

Ok that would have pissed me off!

As far as privacy, I don't think its a Mena thing but I'm not sure if its a Moroccan thing. I have always seen it the opposite, there is absoulutly no privacy and everyone knows everything! I am a rather private person myself, but people in Jordan are not. It was not uncommon to have my personal business discussed among 30 family members on a daily basis, ughhhhhhhhhh!!!! As a matter of fact after we booked our tickets to go to Jordan, I was already getting calls congratulating me on my engagement

[peezey 0]

This is just a general question/comment/complaint - but is it a ME tendency or maybe Moroccan to be very private with people and your life. Youssef doesn't understand why people ask him questions and I think it's just a way of having a conversation being polite etc. He hasn't even told his friends that we had the baby yet and I think it's kind of weird and in a way hurts me..

I can understand you'd be hurt, that is a huge insult, IMO. There is a difference between privacy in say, financial matters, but babies' births are a huge deal in MENA families, meant to be proudly celebrated.

Argh it snowed last night! Woke up and took the 3 year old to school on the icy roads, then made a stop at Wal-Mart for a shovel and baby formula - thrilling i know. Got home, shoveled the driveway and sidewalk while Youssef was inside in bed cuddling with the baby - yes I'm a little ticked at this. This is just a general question/comment/complaint - but is it a ME tendency or maybe Moroccan to be very private with people and your life. Youssef doesn't understand why people ask him questions and I think it's just a way of having a conversation being polite etc. He hasn't even told his friends that we had the baby yet and I think it's kind of weird and in a way hurts me..

LM you're just 22 too??!?!? Wow I thought I was the only baby here!

Ok that would have pissed me off!

As far as privacy, I don't think its a Mena thing but I'm not sure if its a Moroccan thing. I have always seen it the opposite, there is absoulutly no privacy and everyone knows everything! I am a rather private person myself, but people in Jordan are not. It was not uncommon to have my personal business discussed among 30 family members on a daily basis, ughhhhhhhhhh!!!! As a matter of fact after we booked our tickets to go to Jordan, I was already getting calls congratulating me on my engagement

I'd say this is similar in Morocco, too, which is why many people try really hard to keep things private, however, a baby isn't one of those things.