Working on Memorial Day

No long weekend for me! Not that I mind because even if I was off today, I would've been stuck inside the house because it rained HEAVILY across Michigan today... talk about flight delays and power outages... I must say though, thanks to the weather, we had news to broadcast at work today... sad and pathetic, yes I know.

But then come to think about it, if it's between getting stuck at home and working for 8 hours.. I'd pick staying home today.. just because I could've cleaned and put away my winter clothes.. which I haven't been able to do for quite some time now because mother nature is on CRACK and couldn't make up her mind when it came to the weather.... So just for those who DON'T live in Michigan, the weather jumped from the 80's, to the 50's, and then now to the 90's. Lovely. Maybe mother nature is just mad at us....

Feels Good To Be 26

My birthday week is finally over, and it was a pretty decent week. Went to IHOP and the mall on my birthday. Then we had a BBQ at my mom's house... it was fun to get a group of people together.

I got some awesome gifts:

From my mom

From my brother. One of them says "You're Beautiful."

From my husband

From one of my co-workers :)

Here's to shopping! hehe. Now I have some GOOD reasons to go shopping.

Anyways, Saturday my husband sent me and my friend to a spa... got an hour long body massage. AMAZINGNESS.

Unfortunately, I had to work today (Sunday) and will for Memorial Day, but that means comp time for me. That means more vacation time for me!!! YAYYY.

On another note, the birds outside my door on top of my lamp are getting bigger!

This picture was taken on the 24th.

This one just 3 days later. Of course the mom and dad still yell at us when we leave the apartment. But that's ok.. haha. They're allowed to. The birds are just soooo cute and adorable.

Well, I'm home and going to relax and watch some Law and Order SVU. Here's to a relaxing night with just me and the TV :)

Birthday Time!!!

I'm turning 26 today at 7:59 a.m. exactly. I can't believe I'm turning 26. Not that age really means anything to me, because it doesn't. I believe age is actually what you make of it. I can't stand people who are so fearful of telling their age...like it's the biggest secret in the world.

I was raised with a mom who was always proud of her age. She doesn't look or act her age, and that's a good thing. And I think not caring about it, that's what keep you young.

So here's to 26 years of my life... of ups, and downs... the people I have met, the places I have been, the obstacles I have surpassed, the people I loved, the people I lost, the things I have achiever... It's all turned me into the person I am right now. Not that that's always a good thing, lol, but it's made me a stronger and wiser.

For my birthday, I will hopefully be able to spend it with some family and good friends. Not sure what exactly the plan is for the day... I told my husband to plan things... Why am I scared? lol. I will tell all in my next blog though :)

Busy Week

My husband and I are trying to save some money, possibly for an anniversary trip to New York in July!! Woo hoo! So instead of eating out, I've been doing a lot of cooking this week. Which is one of the reasons I haven't posted in FOREVER. That and I've become addicted to The Tudors, an amazing show about Henry VIII, that sticks to historical facts quite well.

So, I wanted to post a picture of two of my best things I cooked this week. I took a picture of the meatloaf I made last time, as well as these meatballs I made from my friend's grandma's recipe. Did that make sense?

That's my meatloaf up there. And here are the meatballs.

When I make food, I like to go ALL out! :) With sides and everything.

Other than that, I've been spending a lot of time with my friend, who WAS a co-worker.. Was is the key word here. She was fired last Thursday for the stupidest reason... at least I and almost everyone around us think it's a pathetic reason. I feel really bad for her, because she has spent literally half her life at this place... So I've been trying to make sure she keeps her mind off the craziness. Cuz I know once you're idle, that's it. You fall into depression. And we can't let that happen! I love her.

My birthday is coming up this Tuesday! I am turning 26. Wow. When I was younger, and thought ahead to 26... I thought I would've traveled the world by now. LOL. Boy was I wrong. Well, I've done a lot of traveling, but not as much as I would have liked to. So here's to the future, where I will travel a lot more!

I told my husband I don't want anything for my birthday. He bought me an amazing new car recently. A mazda 3... blue.. And it was part of the North American International Auto Show.

I call him Skky :)

I will also be getting my first tattoo next Friday hopefully! :) Will keep you updated on that as well.

I must also mention, and this is COMPLETELY off topic, that I am trapped within my house at times. I have a lamp that hangs RIGHT next to my apartment door. And some red robin apparently laid its eggs on top of the lamp.

Beautiful aren't they? Well, every time I leave the apartment, the mother AND father start fluttering in the tree near our apartment, and start yelling at me! And even when I come home, they yell at me.

But it's gotten worse:

The birds hatched this morning!!! And now the parents are even more protective. This morning they swooped at my husband's head while he was walking out! SCARY! I had to take caution as I was taking this picture. lol. I try to be VERYYY careful and quiet as I walk out. I will continue to take pictures of these babies to watch them grow. It's amazing really if you think about it.

I think that's pretty much it. I promise to try and update my blog more often.

Purse Addiction?

My mom has been bugging me to clean out my old room at her house, lol, which has become her room. I have a few files there, and random crap, and well, LOTS of purses apparently. She asked me to go through them this past weekend because apparently her work is holding some community drive, and she wants to donate things we don't need any more.

So I went over and it took me QUITE some time to go through purses I wanted and DID NOT want. Whatever I didn't want, I put into a pile and asked my friend Jessica if she wanted some (she's a purse lover), and the rest I shoved into a big garbage bag and took home.


And let me tell you, it's FILLED with about 8 or 9, purses at least (too lazy to count). From Puma, to Coach, to Louis Vuitton, to New York and Company.

Sickness? I think so. I apparently am always addicted to SOMETHING. I gave up the purse addiction a while ago, and am now into shoes and lots of clothes. And the sad part is, I have so many purses, yet wear each one till I completely wear them out. Literally... For instance my current bright pink "barbie" purse, as my husband calls it.


I've been wearing it for MONTHS now, since I bought it. I don't color coordinate it, even though when it comes to clothes I'm anal about color coordination. So I guess I'll have to start changing purses more often since I have more choices now... Fun stuff. Did I mention I hate changing purses? It's really annoying. Although, it is good for finding things that may have gone missing and cleaning out old receipts and stuff.

On another note:

I am waiting for my meatloaf to be done. Mom's recipe.

• 1 pound ground beef
• salt
• pepper
• onion
• ketchup
• mozarella cheese
• bread crumbs
• an egg

Cook it for 50 minutes on 350 and you're good. I threw some Idaho potatoes in it soaked in butter. So hungry!!!

Time to go make rice :)

Weekend Is Over!

The in-laws left this morning, and here is an update as promised.

It was overall pretty good... His mom and step-dad stayed in a house they rented, along with some family friends... Who turned out to be pretty fun to hang out with. Their sarcasm and humor was similar to mine, so we hit it off well...

There was one dramatic moment that kinda upset me. On Mother's Day, me, my brother, my husband took my mom out for dinner... Bravo! Love the food there. We also had creme brulee, yum yum! So we went back to my mom's house, and stayed there for a bit.

My husband's parents knew we wanted to see them that night, but they were at the wedding of my husband's step-cousin who I cannot stand! lol. So they stayed there all night, and I was kinda sad about it, because they knew we were waiting for them to see them. By the time they got home, it was too late, so me and my husband just drove back to our place...

Additionally, one of my so called friends, which I wouldn't even call her that because of our many fall outs, went to the wedding and claimed she didn't want to be there and that it was so boring she wanted to leave right after dinner... Yeah, she caught the bouquet. Not cool.

So Monday I was still a little distressed about it, and I was talking to my co-worker and she said I need to learn to let some stuff roll off my shoulder, especially things I can't control. And I know she's right.

I've thought about it many times and I know my flaws... and one of them is letting things get to me when they really shouldn't. I am not really someone who holds grudges, but I do take things quite personally sometimes when really, I should just ignore it and just move on with my daily life.

I think it was like that while I was living with my father too, even though it's a little more complicated when it comes to him. He was very physically and emotionally abusive as I was growing up, and he treated my mom like crap too. But whenever he got upset at me for no reason, or for something that he shouldn't be upset about (which was ALL the time), I let it affect me, blamed it on myself, and got depressed about it.

It probably stems from that.. I feel the need to please everyone, and the need to have control over most things. But in reality, no one can control EVERYTHING... Not even me. lol.

I'm going to give this weekend an "A", despite the tiny drama I let get to me. I think it taught me a lesson, a lesson I will most likely forget in a couple of weeks. lol

Onto other things, my birthday is coming up in 2 weeks and I'm super excited! Don't know yet what's planned for the day, but I know I won't be working. Well, hopefully, got to put my time off sheet in. Yeah, I'm also a procrastinator... another flaw!

It's been a while...

It's been a few days since I last wrote, and I think I should do some updating.

Work has been kinda stressful. There's a lot of politics mixed into it right now, and someone recently got laid off. And now of course everyone is on edge and watching their back, and even telling on others so they look good. So it kinda sucks... and isn't the same atmosphere as it once was. I don't enjoy it as much.

Recap of this past week:

On a good note, a Top 4o station I work with used my voice for imaging for the first time ever! Yay. It was so exciting to hear myself on the radio...well, in imaging. Before it was all commercials and different spots, but this is different. This could actually possibly maybe bring me some extra money in this future. Money is alllwayyysss a good thing :)

I made one of my favorite Iraqi dishes last night. It's called Timan Bagila, which in Arabic means "Lima bean rice." It's rice, and dill, and lima beans. I ate it with veal. Yum yum. Came out pretty good if I must say so myself.

I went over my friend Shefali's house tonight and she brought me back some awesome stuff from her trip to Hawaii (which she said was awesome... I think it's time for me to go on vacation).

A pretty shelled bracelet :)


A pretty necklace. The white stuff at the bottom are shells.

Can't wait to match them with my outfits. Yes, I am very color coordinated :)

On another note, my husband's family is coming in this weekend for a wedding Sunday that I REFUSE to go to. Long story short... It's his step father's, brother's, daughter's wedding. So his step cousin. lol. But I can't FREAKING stand her. Her and her family didn't show up at our wedding last year because they thought we said something bad about his step cousin's fiance... which we didn't. But instead of asking us about it, they just didn't show up. They told us they'd come, and then neither side showed up. Which I thought was pretty offensive. We didn't get a call after, an email...a message. NOTHING!

How rude?!!! So me going to their wedding is OUT of the picture. I'm sorry. But karma is a bitch. And just because they're technically family, I'm not going to say anything to them or confront them. And I usually don't hold grudges, but this was just fucked up. So this should be an interesting weekend. I love my husband's mom and sister... she's great. But the rest of the family...eh. OK, end of my rant.

So to end this blog, very randomly, I had some green tea from Meijer Organics today at work, and let me tell you, they were not joking around when they said "green" tea!!!


That is one GREEN cup o' tea. Hopefully it was also one HEALTHY cup of tea.

Will keep you updated on the in-laws situation.

Have a good night everyone.

My how time flies!

I accidentally ran into an old blog of mine today that I COMPLETELY forgot I had... I read through it while I was at work (yes, I know, bad me!) and so much has changed since then.

I started the blog in my senior year of college, I believe, and kept it going till sometime in 2006. And let me tell you, my how things have changed. Major things that have changed since then:

1) I used to be a teacher. Something I HATED with a passion (props to teachers out there). A job I took out of college because it was there. And something my dad kinda forced me into (a story for later). I am now a journalist

2) I don't live under my father's ruling any more (again, this story is for a later time)

3) My parents got a divorce and I stopped talking to my dad (this is alll part of a future blog)

4) I got married and moved out of my mom's house

I think those are the major things that have happened so far. But I can't believe how much can happen in just four years. It's scary. Makes me wonder what things will be like in four years from now. I hate not knowing what the future will bring. I'm the kinda person who likes to plan things out and know what's ahead. But I guess that's not what life's all about, and I guess things wouldn't be as fun and spontaneous if we were always one step ahead.

So for anyone interested, here is my old blog. I must caution you, it gets very strange at times. And my writing isn't really the best in the world.

On another note, I'm realllyyy excited it's May, because as many know (and I don't let people forget!) it's my birthday month. So here is a quick countdown which I've done for years((if you notice that was the subject of my last blog on my Live Journal) since I was in high school, 22 more days left till I turn 26. Wow, can I say that I'm in my late 20's yet? I guess I'm closer to my mid-20's. Oh well, four more years till 30. Ahhh! Craziness.