Song of the Day:

12:51 by The Strokes

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Breaking up Is Like Throwing out the Trash

One of the perks of being in that phase just after graduation and right before you start working, taking some leisurely time off under the pretense that the financial crisis isn’t helping Egypt’s employment rate much… I think I lost the trail of this sentence. Anyway, one of the perks is having all this free time to do all the stuff you usually want to do but never get around to because there just aren’t enough hours in a single day and not enough weekends in a single week.

Today I happily did two of those things. One of them was that I got to write in my blog. The other is that I cleaned up all the junk that has been piling up on my desk for almost a year now (since I moved to my new room when my sister got married… Yup, my sister is celebrating her one year anniversary this month… Wow, one whole year! Time sure does fly) and also the junk that has been piling up on my old desk in my old room… I’ll assume the junk there has been piling up for two years. And by the way, you should know that I consider myself to be one of the most organized people in the world.

Yes, yes, so anyway, of course I’m not writing to tell you all about the awesome time I had with a huge, blue garbage bag and little dust particles. What I am trying to write about (with a somewhat long and chatty introduction) is the things I came across from among the junk that has been collecting on my two desks for the past two or so years. Or in particular, one certain thing I came across from among all that junk. It was something I had spent around two weeks making for a certain ex-boyfriend of mine while he was in California. Of course my millions of fans that have been following my blog regularly know exactly who I’m talking about, but I’ll refrain from allowing this ex-boyfriend to read this post about him when he Googles his name. It doesn’t feel appropriate.

Long, chatty and emotionally-confused story short, I threw that thing I had found in the big, blue garbage bag along with the dust particles and other junk. It feels weird that I would throw out something that a little over a year ago meant the world to me. And that is how I discovered that breaking up is not only like losing a toe, it’s also exactly like throwing out the trash. Or maybe those are two stages that come after each other. Break ups: It’s like you lose a toe, then some thousand tear-soaked tissues later, it’s like you took out the trash. Sometimes my own witticism scares me.

 

P.S. I am truly sorry to all my fans if the font, text size and spacing are inconsistent throughout my last few posts. I have had this Macbook for probably two months and I am still Mac-illiterate.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The Long Awaited Idiotic Comeback

I have spent all day (a few hours actually, but I always dramatically exaggerate) shopping for a Mother's Day present for my soon-to-be mother-in-law. First of all, don't ask me how it is possible that I have gone so long without sharing with the world (or actually a handful of people) how I came to have a soon-to-be mother-in-law. I think I am still comprehending that one and I haven't formed real sentences, just a bunch of letters and squeaky sounds like "OMG, OMG, OMG" and "eeeeek".


Back to the point at hand. The present. I don't know why shopping for presents have always given me panic attacks. Could be because I base a lot of judgement on an individual on the gift they get me that I am overwhelmed by getting judged all that much in return. The thought of this present is making me so unease to the extent that it brought me out of my four-month blogless dry spell.


But enough about the present. How about the fact that I have a soon-to-be mother-in-law? Oh God, it's still too soon to process.


EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKK!!

Monday, March 9, 2009

22 Things I Want to Do Before I Die

1.  Backpack through Europe

2.  Go to Australia

3.  Go surfing

4.  Learn a new language

5.  Be a mom

6.  Have really long hair

7.  Go on a road trip through Egypt

8.  Climb St. Catherine

9.  Work for Google

10. Write a novel

11. Play an instrument

12. Go into a sex shop

13. Visit 100 countries

14. Live alone

15. Go on hig

16. Camp in the desert

17. Take self-defense classes

18. Go swimming in the ocean at night

19. Go to a strip club

20. Audition for reality show

21. Go to the movies four times in a row

21. Live in another country

22. Meet Nawal El Saadawi