Some of you may have heard/read me talk about her, one of my three "best" friends in real life. While she was here me her and Tassnym were inseparable. She was seriously one of the best friends I have ever had. She came here a newlywed when she was 18, stayed for a year and a half left 7 months pregnant when she was 20..

She had a lot of experience in life, and could give the best advice. She grew up in a big family, her father was married to two wives and she had quite a few brothers and sisters MashaAllah.. She was the second or third oldest daughter so a lot of responsibility on her. When she got married she married a brother 10 years older than her that was previously married and divorced with a 4 year old son. But it didn’t put her off couse she was only looking for deen..

I remember we used to stay on the phone for HOURS everyday. When all the fitnah about/with yusif was going on the first person I turned to was her.. before Tassnym or anyone else.. The summer she left back to oman I would call her at least once every two weeks and she would call me when she could.. and then the horrible news came that she wouldn’t be coming back, but instead going to Australia :(. I haven’t seen her almost two years, and haven’t talked to her in around 7 months. I don’t know if shes in Australia or Oman.. I just miss her so much..

Alhamdulilah I had a pretty nice weekend. I was able to go down to Corvallis. Got to see some people I missed a lot, attended the wedding, and chilled out for a while which I really needed. There is a very big chance (maybe 60%) that I'll be moving back within the next couple months. Allahu 'aalam if it is whats best or not, but inshaAllah khair.

All day Friday and everyone was asking and begging me to come down for the wedding on Saturday. They knew we couldn’t make it on Friday for everything since my dad had to work so they were like the least you can do is come on Saturday. I kept telling them to make duaa. Half hour before my dad came home I got this idea, my sister was talking to her friend dora and I go "hey heblah" and shes like "What" and I was like "you wanna go to Corvallis tomorrow?" and shes like "nope." And I was like "ok listen to me, tell dora to call tonight. When she does baba gonna ask what she wanted and tell him she was begging us to go tomorrow" so shes like ok.. I came online a few minutes later and told Tassnym the plan and she goes like its fool proof lol.

So that night Dora calls and everything played out. My dad and sister weren’t on the best of terms so I told her to let me do the talking after that. So my dad gets all quiet and then he asks "whos wedding" and I go "'adil" and he goes "ADIL!!! Hes getting married.. MashaAllah" and I go like "ya" and he asks whos he getting married to and I told him and then hes like "you know who 'adil is right?" and I'm like "ya.. hes 'amu Mustafa from ashlands son waleeds best friend.. (we've known waleeds family since before I was born) right?' and he goes like "ya hes the one that stayed with him in the hospital after his accident".. so ya at the end he called up my bro and told him we were coming down :D.

We left around 11 from here and got to Corvallis at around 4 or so. My dad had a stop to make and then we headed to the masjid. The wedding was after iftar/maghrib so there was still another hour and half or so. By the time we prayed dhuhr/asir it was around 4:30. The masjid was a MESS because they are doing renovations and the men had been upstairs and moved everything out of one of the storages and stuff. My mom was like there is no way they are going to do a wedding here, so she called up khala Ghada who had no idea how the masjid was and said Dania and some girls would come to clean up/decorate. When the girls came it was, me, dania, nada, hudan, and a girl from Portland sarah. It took us around 45 minutes to get the place looking good enough for a wedding. Around that time people started to show up.

The actually nikaah (writing of the contract) was done at khala Ghada's house, and then the bride/groom khalas family and some friends came from there to the masjid. lol the whole way from her house to the masjid, which is maybe 5 minutes or so away all of 'Adils friends were honking lol.. like it was seriously to crazy :P. we were sitting in the masjid and we could hear them a couple streets down, and the masjid is like on one of the busiest streets in Corvallis. And then when they got to the masjid they all surrounded his car and wouldn’t let him out etc (we were watching from the window) it was pretty funny… they did a proper zafaa lol.

The wedding itself was pretty nice alhamdulilah. I got to see some people that I hadn’t seen in a lo~~~ong time. including my psyyyyychooo aysha.. I hadn’t seen her since she came back from Pakistan, to busy now that shes married no time for her friends :(. As soon as she walked into the masjid she saw me and we both go "psyyyychoooo I miss you" (long story behind it :P) and then I pretend im mad at her and wont talk to her and shes like "dude Im sorry. I work, I have school, I'm married, and my husband lives in Portland which means I have to drive up there at least three times a week" I was like "awww its ok.. I was just messing.." lol.. A LOT of people came down from Portland so the masjid was pretty much packed. No one knew we were coming down so it was like a big surprise lol. Khala Aisha walked in and I go KHALA AISHA from like across the masjid and shes like ":OO omggg when did u come" and I was like "half hour ago" lol.. man I miss it there..

Umm AbdulQudoos couldn’t come since her husband was out of town so we promised her we were going to come over right after the wedding. In the car 'Amu Mustafa calls up my dad and he goes like "you all have to come over" so my dads like "sure" and we head over to khala Umm Abdir-Rahmans house. It was almost 10 when we got there, and we ended up not leaving until around 12.

When we finally did get to Umm AbdulQudoos's house she was like "ITS ABOUT TIME" and we like "sorry" lol.. my mom and sister went to sleep almost immediately, but me and her stayed up till around 2. We were like you guys take the extra bedroom and we'll sleep in the living room.. my mom was like "you have your room.." and she goes like "no no its ok, that way we wont have to put the heater on in two rooms" my mom just laughed and was like whatever you want. As soon as they go into the room she grabs chips, pop, fatayir, and some other stuff.. turns up the heater.. gets abdul qudoos from his crib and her blanket from her room and we chill out talking and stuff till we cant keep our eyes open any longer. Some how we get up for fajr and wake up my mom and sis, as soon as we pray we go back to sleep dreading the fact that the baby is gonna be up in a couple hours lol. He ends up waking us up around 9 which wasn’t totally bad since we had people coming over later and nothing prepared

At the masjid the night before my mom and "invited" a bunch of people over to Umm AbduQudoos's lol.. she didn’t mind, actually she was happy that my mom had. After we got up and ate something, drank a bunch of tea to keep us awake :P and stuff we started getting things ready. Me and UmmQoosy LOVE to cook and do just about anything together so we were having a good time. When we get together we get a little crazy lol.. and my sis is a witness to that, she'll walk into the kitchen and then be like okkk maybe I should leave lol.

Alhamdulilah had a good time though. Tassnym came, it was the first time for us to get to chill with each other since she came back from saudia.. all the other times I've seen her it was at the masjid and we were always busy. She brought a tape that she recorded in saudia of her and her cousins, so we spent a good amount of time trying to get the tape recorder to work so we could listen to it. And then we made cappuccino :P . Since she made me send her that one picture (the all to famous one that most of you have seen..) lol every time I talk to her she'll be like "when you gonna make it for me" so finally my I was able to fulfill my promise.

Abu AbdulQudoos ended up coming home a bit to early so everyone left in a rush. We were invited over for dinner at khala Umm Abdir-Rahmans again so we went there. Alhamdulilah that was fun as well.. had a good time. While we were there a bunch of people called looking for us lol, we were like howd you figure out we were there :P.

The next day I spent at the masjid most of the morning, and then at khala Aishas were we were invited to before we left. While we were at the masjid I tried calling UmmQaylah :S and ya.. didn’t get to talk to her. So I was like hmm I'm bored and walked to the store bought chocolate :P. Khala Aishas was fun though. Umm AbdulQudoos was there lol.. Abdur-Rahman and gets like so so so so so jelous of him!! We got home around 11, was tired.. took a shower and went to sleep..

InshaAllah we're going again tomorrow, I love and miss being in Corvallis.. but it seems like to soon for me even. Barley came home and unpacked now we need to pack again.. but alhamdulilah 'ala kulli haal.. Umm AbdulQudoos asked her husband about moving to a place almost next door to where we MIGHT move to and at first he was like sure and then he changed his mind and said it was to far from the uni :(. Now I don’t want to move to that place lol.. I'm picky.. but I got my reasons.. in a way I don’t want to move back to Corvallis at all.. but Allahu 'aalam where the khair is..

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