Alhamdulilah I had a pretty good 'Eid. It wasn’t because of what I did but rather who I was with. Like spending time with people that really mean a lot to me and stuff. I think the downside for me was that there were other people that I really missed during my time away, lol it was weird all day I'd be busy and having a lot of fun and then I'd lay down at night thinking about the other people that I was missing because I wasn’t home etc. :S. Yesterday when we were leaving Corvallis it was probably the hardest time, I really really wished I didn’t have to, at the same time I kinda wanted to.. parting is such a sweet sorrow innit.
My dad got home from work Wednesday night and just about everything was ready. Everyone else was packed, the house was ready, car was packed. Only person that hadn’t packed yet was me. It wasn’t that I was playing around all day or anything, I was working since I got up but there was just to much to do. Even with that I had planned it perfectly so I'd be ready when he gets home. I went offline around maghrib time was going to take a shower pray and pack before he gets back but while I was cleaning the kitchen I somehow (until now I cant figure out how) I cut myself down the front of my hand cutting the vain open and NOTHING would stop the blood. So I wrapped my hand finished the kitchen fast and ran upstairs so my mom wouldn’t see. By the time I had showered and wrapped my hand good and started packing my dad was back and he got all mad at me, even though he hadn’t packed or eaten yet. It was so annoying like even my sister who never sticks up for me told him "baba shes been working all day wallahi". Anyways alhamdulilah 'ala kulli haal I'm used to it.
By the time we left it was around 7:30 or so. At first I just kinda laid down in the back with my CD player listening and trying not to fall asleep even though I was dead tired. Then as usual when my mom starts getting sleepy I go up front and have to stay awake the rest of the trip. So about halfway to Portland I go up front even though I'm like mad at my dad still lol. When we get to Portland my dad goes out to get us (me and him) coffee and my mom and sis are like we'll go with you. I was like YES go go go please lol. So I took the cell and called yasi :D. It was a little before 11. We got to Corvallis at exactly 11:59. By the time we took our bags outa the car, got ready for bed and stuff it was almost 1. Having not slept the two days before (as yasi would acknowledge) I was so so so tired. My dad was like "I drove this whole way so I can pray Salaat al Eid. 7:30 sharp your ready or I'm leaving anyway". When I feel like I have to get up like that I don’t sleep good, I get up every hour or so just to make sure I don’t miss it, and I had promised my mom to wake her up so I got up at 3:30, 5, 5:30, 6, and finally got up and outa bed at 6:30. Took a quick shower, prayed fajr, and was ready.
When we got to the masjid not to many people were there yet but it was still kinda full. As soon as I walked in I saw Umm AbdulQudoos and I was like yaaaaay lol. Went up to her gave her a hug and we talked for a bit. MashaAllah AbdulQudoos like grew and hes walking now habeebi. The first day of 'Eid couse of all the people and stuff he was scared and didn’t want to come to me to much but after that we became buddies again. A little later, I'm standing by the stairs and I saw Tassnym walking up. I had the biggest smile on my face and so did she. I gave her like the biggest hug and then I saw her mom walking up behind her and I let go of her and was like KHALA FAYKAH!!! subhanAllah I would have NEVER thought I'd miss her mom more than her lol. She was like MARYAM!! And we gave each other a hug, neither one wanting to let go. And she was like "wallahi ashtaqtilik kateer ya habeebti" and I was like "ana aktar". After that me and Tassnym talked for a bit, said salaams to more people then went into the Musalaah to wait for salaah.
When we went into the musalah me and UmmAbdulQudoos started fighting like physically fighting lol over whos going to sit next to khala Faykah. I won :D and she was like "tayyeb ya Maryam just wait till we go out of the musalah" lol. While we were waiting for salaah khala Faykah just kept holding my hand and hugging me and was like ya Allah I miss you so much. She showed me the burns from kay on her feet :(. The khutbah was pretty long and about 3/4 of the way into it she could sit any more but she wouldn’t lay down. Me, khala Ghada, khala Aisha were like lay down and she was like laa laa I'll wait some more, finally she couldn’t take it and she layed down lol.
After the khutbah we went out and just chilled. Me and Tassnym wore almost the same thing without meaning to :O lol. So we just talked, went around saying salaams and catching up on each others news, ate, and just had a good time. UmmAbdulQudoos took henna with her and had all the little (younger than 10) girls sit down and kept them quiet by putting henna on their hands for them. When we did leave the masjid it was around 11. Tassnym and her mom went home since khala was tired, but a group of us went around na'ayid 'ala al nass like we usually do. The last person we went to was khala UmmAbdurRahman. It was around 1. when we were there khala Ghada was like "after this everyone come over to my house and we'll cook and have lunch/dinner together." Some said they couldn’t but a pretty big group of us went. Me and khala Aisha said we would walk(her house is like a block away) , and UmmAbdulQudoos my mom and my sis said they would walk too but after a while.
When we got there it was me, khala Ghada, and a few more khalas. The khalas all sat in the living room talking and stuff while me and khala Ghada cooked, since it was her day to cook for khala Faykah and she had to cook yusif ammar and 'amu when they got back from the farms and she had to cook for all the people over at her place. Alhamdulilah that was a lot of fun. We get along really well and it was just fun. In general I like to cook and I enjoy it and when I'm doing it with people I love then I like it even more. So we cooked, and joked, and just had fun together. We made two kinds of rice, fish for khala faykah's, waraq 'anib, meat, mulukhiya Syrian style lol, salad and some other stuff. She had already made ma'mool the day before so we didn’t make any sweets. lol it was funny the next day I told Tassnym that I cooked with khala Ghada and she goes "when I was eating I could tell, it just tasted like you cooked it" and I was like "wow my cooking is that bad?" lol.
When we had finished all the work and everything was just cooking the rest of them showed up. Around that time I decided I could slip away and go check my emails. So I did that, answered a couple and was about to start talking to people on msn when Yusif comes home even though his dad didn’t end up coming home till way late after maghirb. His mom was like "what are you doing home" and he said that he slaughtered, gutted, cleaned, and cut three sheep and that he told his dad he couldn’t do anymore. Anyways I had to leave the front room and go back to the kitchen lol. In a way that was a good thing couse it was about time to serve the food and put khala Faykahs in things to send to her, and then yusif took them to her and left. After we ate and ate dessert it was past maghrib, everyone but me mama and my sis left. Khala Ghada had wanted me to show her some stuff online so I sat back online and started going through things for her. I also went on msn and left UmmQ a couple messages lol before signing off since everyone was with me. Their computer is like messed up big time so I downloaded some things and was working on taking off some of the viruses when she gets a call that guests are coming. So my mom was like its ok we'll go to khala UmmAbdurRahmans since we knew 'amu wasn’t there (he was with my dad at amu qais's bbqing and eating from the 'udhiyas).
We stayed at UmmAbdurRahman's until almost 11. Those 5 hours or so have got to have been some of the craziest/funniest/funnest of the whole trip lol. It was us, khala umm AbdurRahman, khala UmmAbdullah (Rasha), khala Khalida, and Layna(her American name is Layna but everyone calls her Leena now), and ofcourse the three boys ('aboodi, Abdullah, and the other AbdurRahman(aka bunu). At first we were all sane, talking and stuff. Then my mom and Leena started talking about some serious stuff, me khala Umm Abdullah, Khala Umm AbdurRahman started getting crazy, Khala Khalida and my sister started watching us like we were crazy :D. What started it was they wanted to help me prepair some things for the hafla the next day and my sis was bugging us so we wanted to get her to go take care of the kids but she wouldn’t so we ended up doing it :/. lol man I still cant believe how we were acting lol. We played karasee (musical chairs), warda maftuha warda maskuka (something like ring around the rosey) and you know just acted all crazy lol.
After about an hour of complete crazyness we sat back down and kept on it but this time we were picking on each other. Like me and khala UmmAbdullah would start picking on khala UmmAbdurRahman and then theyd team up on me and so on lol. Khala Khalida wanted to leave at around 9 so khala Umm Abdullah was like ok fine but you have to play namshay with me first, khala Khalida not knowing what it is agrees lol. So UmmAbdullah is like ok Maryam give me both your hands, khalida same thing and she puts in one of her hands and she starts. Its something like ink a dink, and bubble gum etc but its about 1578/7854 times longer and she was going finger finger not hand hand lol. Ya Allah it was fun alhamdulilah and we had a good time, laughed a lot lol.. at around that time the kids come to me and are like tell us the story of yusif 'alayhi assalam. So I tell it to them for the gazillionth time and then Abdullah is like I want to tell u a story but he was shy to say it infront of everyone so he made me and aboodi go to the other room. After each one of them has told about ten stories they start attacking me lol. Like dude a five year old and two three year olds were jumping on me and I guess trying to re inact what they saw the 'amus do with the sheeps earlier :P. They were having fun though so I let them until I had had enough and was bruised enough.
We went home with Khala Khalida, the men were still there hadn’t even prayed 'isha yet. I was so so tired so I just like changed put my blanket on the floor and layed down with everyone else (mama, khala, sis) still in the room even though I didn’t end up sleeping for another couple hours.
The morning my dad wakes me up and is like "yellah me and Amu Kais are going to 'amu Mohammad Salah's office to pick up the order for your test when I get back I want you ready so we can go get them done couse I have things to do before jumu'a". The LAST thing I want to do is get dragged to the hospital the morning of the second day of 'Eid but I was like khair whatever. We saw my brothers car parked infont of the ER area and my dad was like what is he doing here, later on when we were leaving and going to go back see what was up with him he was leaving to and my dad cut him off lol so he stopped and he told us he was there to get an MRI couse of his back or whatever.
I have to say this was the worst part of my trip, getting the blood drawn. I've had blood drawn before a lot but only twice was it half ok, the time they did it for me in the ER and another time. Every other time it sucks. I either get poked to many times, get my vain punctured or something. This time the lady didn’t know what the hell she was doing or something. Couse first she punctured my left arm not up where she should but like half way down so it hurt bad, then she kept tying my right arm and untying then my left then she pocked my right arm. At this point my dads like what the hell and he comes into the room and they get into an argument lol. I'm sitting with my arm tied and like when I get blood draw, especially recently, it doesn’t hurt but I just get really dizzy and feel all weird, so the other technician noticed I wasn’t feeling good and untied my arm for me. Anyways finally she got what she wanted, but by the time she had I was out of it. I couldn’t even stand up. Alhamdulilah it was done with though.
When we got back the first thing I did was look for candy lol. I found a bag of mini snickers and ate a couple which made me feel a bit better. Then my mom told me I had to eat something with milk in it so I had cereal and started getting ready couse me and my sis were supposed to go to UmmAbdulQudoos's. So my dad dropped us off there and him and mma went to salaat al juma'.
Had alota fun at UmmAbdulQudoos's alhamdulilah. As soon as we walked in Qoossy started laughing and jumping I was like habeeeeeeeebiiiiii lol. I guess he remembered when we came over, couse of the two weeks we spent together or something. But ya it was the cutest thing. It was a little before jumu'a and we thought Jalal would come back and change since he was at Uni so first thing we did was iron like three thoubs for him so he could pick what he wanted lol. He ended up not coming so ya great lol.
After we were sure that he wasn’t coming we started doing henna. MashaAllah 'alayha UmmQoossy is good at it. She did both of my hands up my arm. And then started on my sister did one and a half when Jalal came home. He told her that he was inviting brothers over for dinner and stuff so she finished my sister fast and started cooking, he left to uni again. We had promised her neighbors (sister best friend) that we would come over for a bit and I wanted to check my email and stuff so when the henna dried a bit we went. That’s the only time I really got to sit online and stuff. After about fifteen mins I told my sis we had to go back so we ran back across the street and to UmmQoossy's. I was getting really really impatient couse I wanted to help Ummqoossy cook and stuff since we had to leave at maghrib and the henna was getting in my way lol so I was like at 4 I'm washing it off I don’t care what color it turns out, and I did alhamdulilah turned out good though. My dad was supposed to pick us up but he was at someones house and couldn’t so we ended up calling khala Radia so we were kinda late to get to the masjid lol, and ya Tassnym killed me for that.
omg omg I forgot lol. We dressed AbdulQudoos in a thoub and I got him one of my old small white hijabs and we put it like a ghutra for him awwwwwww ya Allah he looked so cute. Then Jalal wrapped it around yemani style and we put shoes on him habeebi he looked so cute.
Anyways we got to the masjid lateish but alhamdulilah. Me and Tassnym somehow wore almost the same thing again :O, except this time Tassnym knew what I was gonna wear so I guess she did it on purpose. Alhamdulilah had a lot of fun. The program we had planned went pretty good, even though some of the things we couldn’t do. At the end the moms were crying :D lol. Tassnym sang this one nasheed and that was it they all cried. We were like wow. But alhamdulilah it went well and it was fun. After most of the people had left the masjid needed cleaning like a lot a lot couse of both days and all so me and Tassnym and some others worked on it which was nice alhamdulilah. We got some time to talk and chill together and it really felt like old times couse that’s how it would be. Last people to leave the masjid, cleaning, talking, and enjoying ourselves. That night we got to khala Khalida's at around 9:30/10. We hung out for a while and then went to bed at around 11:30.
Next morning we slept in lol. Like really really slept in. My dad and 'amu had been getting up from fajr each day, and then they would go out get coffee, watch tv etc and we would sleep. That day my dad came and woke me up it was around 10 or so he said he had things to do and he would be back later couse we were invited for dinner. So I got up and stuff, mama got up, sis got up, and then I ended up going laying on mama/baba's bed and laying down almost fell asleep when khala Khalida got up. So I went to help her make brunch lol. This was one of the funner/funniest times I've cooked. Khala Khalida starts doing commentary "first you take this and put it in that" etc, and then we start making fun of an arabi cooking show lol. The guy on it is Egyptian and speaks thick Egyptian slang so we TRIED to copy it LOL. Even though I'm masriyyah I cant speak it well and I don’t have the Egyptian tone of voice, my mom a little but me not at all. lol when me and yasi three wayed majida they were both clowning on my arabi accent the whole time saying I was a mix between khaleeji and shammy. Anyways so ya we did that the whole time we were cooking and my sister was like I DON’T KNOW YOU. lol because we cant speak Egyptian fluently we were trying to hard so it sounded really weird "fa ha nakhood al bata' dee, wan hutu fil saniya duh al gameela awy awy, wa nakhud shwaya min al salsa shufi helwa ad 'ay" lol anyways it was funny.
At first we were invited for dinner at Khala Majida's but 'amu called my dad in the morning and told him that he had to go see patients in Lincoln city so he had to cancel, because of that my dad accepted an invitation to khala Aisha's. Later in the day 'amu calls my dad again and tells him he was able to cancel all of his appointments and we were invited back so my dads like ok what do we do now, at the end all of us (them too) were invited to khala 'Aishas so we went. Before that though me mama and my sis went to Khala UmmAbdullahs for an hour or so, while we were there khala UmmAbdurRahman came and we had a nice time alhamdulilah.
Alhamduililah had a nice time at khala 'Aishas. As soon as I came in I like yelled (not really but kinda) at her couse her backs hurting her so bad she can barely walk yet she invited so many people etc. she laughed told me to be quiet. After dinner 'Amu Mohammad Salah had to go to the hospital couse one of his patients from Lincoln city came so khala Majida yelled out to him when he was leaving to check on my results or whatever. When he came back to pick her up a couple hours later he came in and everyones like "ya hala bil doctor" and he goes I'm leaving I just came to give you these results (to my dad) and then he goes "kul shay tamam alhamdulilah" and I was like alhaaaamdulilah (OMG I DIDN’T TELL U YET ZAINEB!!!!) so ya that really really made my day.
After we got back to 'amu Kais's it was around 9:30, my dad and 'amu headed over to 'amu AbuAbdurRahman and we chilled with khala Khalida. lol my sis was like do khala's hair for her so I did. Like straightened it and stuff and then my moms and then my sisters I was like damm what does this look like a salon? But it was fun lol . Drank like three cans of pepsi and slept at around 1.
Next morning got up packed everything in the car and stuff, sat with khala for a bit and then left. My dad had some errands to run and we tagged along. We were sitting in the car at the shopping center and we saw these two niqaabi's walking so we were like who is that, at first I thought it was khala Ghada then I realized it was Khala Naila and Dura (sisters best friend) so we all got out of the car and went in the store with them. So we went around shopping with them, they got AbdulQudoos this very very cute outfit and stuff. And then I found a skirt that I got UmmQoossy's sister in saudia (she took it with her for me) and I remembered how much she said she liked it so I found a shirt to match it and gave it to khala Naila to give to her since I knew I wasn’t going to see her again before I left.
After that we were invited over for lunch at khala Mervana's. Alhamdulilah that was nice too had fun left there around 4. We had to go pick up the rest of the 'udhiya on the way to salem and then my dad had some errands to run in salem. While we were in the car in salem I called UmmQaylah and we talked for like 15mins, but the battery was so low and I didn’t want to finish it so we had to hang up. lol you should have seen how we were talking, well me, couse my mom was sitting a couple feet away from me I was like talking in code. But ya my mom like loves her to bits lol so its all good.
Got home around 9:30, was pretty foggy on the way back especially the closer we were to the river. My dad got me chocolate in salem lol so I was eating that the whole way back :P. When we got home I was so so so so so so tired, just took a shower, prayed (didn’t even wait for them) and went to sleep.
Over all the trip was really nice alhamdulilah. I really wanted to write more but I cant now, and if you could tell the ends a lot more rushed than the beginning but alhamdulilah 'ala kulli haal maybe later.
Comments:
as salaamu 'alaikum
wow! I read like most of it! Maybe its becos i was bored :P MashaAllah its interesting though : ) Alhamdulilaah you got the moms to cry in the end :D
take care sis
wa salaam
Amatullah ~
wow! I read like most of it! Maybe its becos i was bored :P MashaAllah its interesting though : ) Alhamdulilaah you got the moms to cry in the end :D
take care sis
wa salaam
Amatullah ~
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: 1/28/2005 10:57 AM
: 1/28/2005 10:57 AM
wa 'alaikum assalaam wa rahamatullah,
lol alhamdulilah you found it interesting. And I dont blame you for not reading it all :P, I can get carried away sometimes..
one little q sis, who are you :S lol.
anyways take care,
was salaamu 'alaikum
lol alhamdulilah you found it interesting. And I dont blame you for not reading it all :P, I can get carried away sometimes..
one little q sis, who are you :S lol.
anyways take care,
was salaamu 'alaikum
as salaamu 'alaikum...
Oh, dont worry abt who I am :P Just think of me as someone who likes to read ur blog out of interest. Some of the stuff you say kinda relates to me and im like "Hey, me too!" so yah, its cool.
So just to let you know that I read your blog i thought i should reply on your lonely, empty comments area : ) I know you dont give a flip if no one replies :D
take care sis
wa salaamu 'alaikum
Amatullah ~
Oh, dont worry abt who I am :P Just think of me as someone who likes to read ur blog out of interest. Some of the stuff you say kinda relates to me and im like "Hey, me too!" so yah, its cool.
So just to let you know that I read your blog i thought i should reply on your lonely, empty comments area : ) I know you dont give a flip if no one replies :D
take care sis
wa salaamu 'alaikum
Amatullah ~
# posted by : 2/03/2005 9:57 AM
: 2/03/2005 9:57 AM
lol ok..
Jazakillah khair for you interest in my blog lol.. as for the comments, there was a time when me and UmmQ kept each others comments full but now we just dont get around to it I guess. And it really doesnt matter to me, couse I write for myself more than for anyone else. But jazakillah khair for posting some, its a nice surprise when there is one :).
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Jazakillah khair for you interest in my blog lol.. as for the comments, there was a time when me and UmmQ kept each others comments full but now we just dont get around to it I guess. And it really doesnt matter to me, couse I write for myself more than for anyone else. But jazakillah khair for posting some, its a nice surprise when there is one :).
