November 3rd 2006
<[[æly?]]> says: I went to get my tea… and I have to take it off the stove.. we have those bunsen burner like stoves that poof off a flame to cook things? I found myself wishing it blew up.
Shalini says: eeks
Shalini says: u stay away from the stove
<[[æly?]]> says: I’m addicted to cutting myself, intentionally or not.
<[[æly?]]> says: like today, I made banana muffins
<[[æly?]]> says: and I needed vanilla essence, so I screw off the lid, only I didn’t open the essence bottle correctly and ended up bleeding at 3 different places because the cap was made out of metal and it was supposed to snap free, it did at the wrong place and slit my skin instead
Shalini says: yikes
Shalini says: how about just staying out of the kitchen
<[[æly?]]> says: I wasn’t in the kitchen!
<[[æly?]]> says: I was in the dinning room
Shalini says: u need a plastic//rubber house
Shalini says: somehow I think u’ll still manage to do something
<[[æly?]]> says: Its inevitable.
I blame it on the stress.
On a side note, you gotta love Tammy when she comes up with this and this, bringing some humor back in life.
October 27th 2006
Day before yesterday was Eid. It was really really fun dressing up. Must have been the highlight of the day because we wouldn’t stop joking around and making fun. My sisters and my brother and I were up the night before doing some last minute cleaning, putting on henna and getting everything ready for Eid. On Eid we have this special Eid prayer after which we wish everyone Eid Mubarak.
My mom made sheer kurma which I absolutely love. It’s an Indian/Pakistani delicacy made out of milk and samiya/bambinos. It’s tradition to make it especially on Eid. But when you go house to house meeting people, you tend to get sick of eating the same thing..
After my brother came back from Eid prayer at the masjid with his friends, people started coming over to meet us. In the mean time, everyone was getting ready to go out and meet relatives. I think we did that until 1-ish, meeting relatives from my dad’s side of the family. And then we came back home, and got ready to leave to meet my mom’s side of the family. They live an hour or so away, my mom wanted to spend the rest of the day there (since my dad wasn’t here).
There, my uncle kept cracking jokes and throwing hilarious questions at us .. making us laugh for God so long. Lunch wasn’t ready yet so him and some of my other cousins went out to get some samose, egg puffs, chips.. loads of junk food. We sat down to watch a movie, Angrez ..something (indian movie, but in English)… that’s when I dozed off along with my sisters and some of my cousins (the movie was actually hilarious but the stress got to us). We woke up in time to eat some awesome biryani and chicken <33.
I didn’t get to talk to my dad. I talked to him when it was Eid for him but not for us (Eid was on Monday for most of the middle east and the US, but on wednessday for India/Pakistan). I didn’t get alot of Eidi either (it’s a tradition to give money on Eid as presents), but then again, my dad hasn’t said anything about it yet, so there’s something to look forward to.
All in all this Eid was okay, prolly better than last Eid because my cousins and their family are here visiting, so it was fun.
