Hey. It's Veterans Day. I love Veterans Day. Aaaaand I'm giving notice at work next week. Gonna be sweet!

We went to Houston this weekend, and it was not as good as it was in June. Um pointed out that maybe it was because of the hurricanes, but it just seemed more decrepit. Not as hot, though, alhamdulillah. And, of course, I got more foreign candy sweets ( Read more... )

As I may have mentioned before, I'm trying not to write too much about wedding plans, but I'm so patting myself on the back for this: I really want to have a keris, an Indonesian/Malaysian dagger that's worn by the groom at weddings, but Mas is all, "Ooooh noooo, it's for dudes, not for you." Well, maybe not quite like that, but he doesn't really ( Read more... )

(Late) Eid Mubarak! I totally abandoned the internet during Ramadhan because I babysat at the masjid every night during tarawih (which I will have to discuss when I'm less traumatized, insha'Allah) and didn't have time for anything besides work, iftar, and that. But alhamdulillah, that's over and now I only have 77 days 'til the wedding. And less ( Read more... )

Alhamdulillah, they had that good dates at the TU masjid last night! Dude man, it was aaaawesome! Alhamdulillah ar-Rabbil alamiyn!

Weirdness! Yesterday was my first day off work for a week and a half and I got a call from a co-worker saying that my assistant had quit/been forced to resign. She had only been my assistant for, like, two weeks. Aaand she was my fourth assistant since November. We'll just have to see what kind of place I come back to when my vacation is over. A ( Read more... )

Ramadan Mubarak, everyone! I would go on, but insha'Allah I think other people will say it better. I hope this is a good month for everyone, insha'Allah.

I thought it had been a waaay long time since I posted, but ten days isn't so very bad. I wouldn't actually have updated today, but our newspaper is missing. Mom says she knows we got one, because she saw it on top of my dad's car, so I'm wondering if he maybe forgot it like a casserole dish and drove away ( Read more... )

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon. So, like, an hour after my last post I found out that Grandpa had passed on to divine justice and reward. He had, in fact, already died when I posted. His funeral was on Thursday. And now to be less morose, there was a drug dog at the funeral. Mas didn't sound shocked enough when I told him, which led me to ( Read more... )

Oh, did I say "tomorrow?" I meant, Almost one week later. But some crazy bad stuff has been going down. I normally don't like to write about bad stuff, but this will probably come up anyway. My grandpa is very sick and is, I am given to understand, not expected to live much longer, wa Allahu 'alim. Hopefully it will cause me to think much on the ( Read more... )