Convert Get Together

My local masjib/school started a convert get together to help us though this and to learn more about Islam. I live 20-30 min away from my school/masjid so I don't tend to go down there on a day I have off for school.

Last night I went to the first one. We went up north to join another group of converts, and watched a great movie. Muhammad-Legacy of a Prophet. I definitely recommend seeing it. Afterward, we discussed the movie and just other random stuff-it somehow turned to a conversation about wearing the hijab.

I absolutely enjoyed it and I hope to go to more. It definitely helps to learn more about my religion and I get the good feeling inside me when I do.

Dearest Statics

I wish you were easier. I hate taking 6 hrs to completely finish you... Why must everything get messed up when I use one wrong sign on you, or mix up cos and sin??

But I got it done =D elhamdullah. I do like the class just not the homework.

I have a job interview tomorrow wooohooo!! I had one earlier this week with JCPenny but i didn't get called back. :( Tomorrow is Bath & Body Works-I love this store and I hope it all goes well insha'Allah.

Hmmmm... what else... OOO I forgot, so my friends from my college/masjid started up a convert group and I was invited to go up north with them to watch a movie at a house with the group up there. I think I'm going to do it because I don't have any work now that statics is done :)

I'm looking for a co-op in civil engineering and I realllly need help-if anyone knows of one pleaseeee tell me :-D

Anyone know?

A few days ago I put up my dress :) I was wondering if anyone knows of a place I could get a long sleeve, satin turtle neck and a satin veil? (white for both obviously) I need them so I can wear my dress :)

THE DRESS!!!

Here is THE dress. =D

http://www.davidsbridal.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplayView?storeId=10052&catalogId=10051&catentryId=6096834

Have a looksey and tell me what you think. :)

Bridesmaids

For receptions, do any Muslim couples have bride's maids? I've never seen any, but then I've only been to one wedding. I was wondering if there is something against it in Islam, or if it is just not part of the Arab culture?

Homecoming

Tonight is homecoming at my school. I hope we win!! This afternoon is the parade, which I'm going to... only for candy :) lol.

I don't know if it's the seasonal change of weather but I'm getting sick :( stuffed up nose, and I've been queezy a lot randomly. Sometime's it goes away with eat sometimes it get worse after I eat. and I've been realllly tired lately. Hope I'm not turning into a pig haha...

I think my husband is right.

I'm watching a show. Criminal Minds. This lady is abducted and she runes to the door to try and escape but just tried pulling it, then she runs to a window, bangs on it and screams. My husband was right when he said Americans are stupid... just break the window and run away. Maybe it's just cuz it's TV but who knows. I hope I never have to find out if i think of using the window, isA.

Happy Eid

Happy Eid :)

So plans for the week are:

• college
• work
  
• eid party hosted by college
• info sessions on a couple different companies for the job fair
• job fair for co-op (mandatory in my major :D )
• interviews
• birthday party for my grandma
  

Please make dua for me that I get a good co-op job. :)

I hate it when people think that...

you converted for your husband. I was talking to a lady at school today and she said that. Then later in the conversation I had to add in that I was interested in Islam before I started really talking to my husband. I was interested in it in like Oct. and we started talking a lot in April. I got a surprised look from her.

I just wish people would realize that:

No my husband did not

• make me convert
• make me wear hijab
• make me wear abaya

I chose to

• convert
• wear hijab
• wear abaya.

If I had converted for him, I wouldn't be praying or fasting... since it'd be easy to tell him I was since he's still in Egypt. BIG :( I wouldn't feel bad when I miss prayers (did that yesterday... bad me! lost track of time when doing homework :S hope it doesn't happen again.)

To be honest I have become more attached to the veil since I got married. I think I will start to like abaya more than I already do when I'm back with hubby... I started wearing it right before I left him :( I like the knowledge that he's the only guy that can see my hair and stuff. It make me feel more special than what I did before. I don't know if anyone else feels/felt this way or am I just crazy. If you say I'm crazy it's ok, I'm pretty sure I am :D

Anywho, plans for the day are as follows

• juma
• come back to college and do an online quiz
• go hang out with a friend
• eat iftar
• go with said friend to first home football game of the season... go my team!!
  

I'm alive, I swear.

I've been sooo busy. College has been taking up all of my time. Today is my first time fasting again, thanks to my friend and traveling.

I went up north to my parents cabin for the weekend with my family. My brother and his wife took us off roading it was fun until we go stuck in mud that was like 6-12in deep. We tried calling AAA (they're a pain in the ass) and since we weren't on a "road" they wouldn't come and get us. We were less than 200ft off the road... I have a few other things about AAA that annoy me... but that's a different story. I went fishing twice with my sister, I didn't catch anything :( but my sis caught a small fish.

Lastly my niece.... I wanted to take her fishing just so I could shove her out of the boat. She's only 8 and is annoying as hellllll. I mean it's not the whole kids annoying, but the spoiled little brat annoying. If she doesn't get her way she whines and throws a fit that can last forever. She also has NO respect for her elders. She told her mom to basically shut up and her mom didn't do anything... I almost blew up on her for that. She also tells us what to do. I don't understand how parents can let their kids get THAT bad. I mean, I understand that some parents don't like spanking their kids cuz they think it's abuse but when they backtalk and have no respect for anyone that's their older they need to do something. I hated time out, they should try that (and not the time out that makes them go to their room, but the time out where you have to stick your nose in a corner and don't move until you're free.) I also think that spanking your kid is not bad, as long as you don't do it to hurt them.

Hmmm..... well college is crazy I have no free time. I also miss my hubby a TON. Tomorrow is the MSA iftar again. I have linear algebra homework to do... I HATE clac II whoever thought of this stuff needs to go back in time and not think of it lol. I'm a trig person, I guess.

OK so for the good stuff, My 2 month anniversary passed :D The traveling home from up north was not as bad as I thought it would be. I have less than 3 hrs until iftar :) Tomorrow will be Wed. which is hump day!! WOOHOO lol.

I think it's my pig out day...

Not every month, but most of them I notice I pig out a couple days before my break from praying. Well today's fast has been really hard, I started getting hungry around 10 and super thirsty. I also noticed that I was more hungry last night. So if I wasn't fasting I have a feeling I would be shoving everything in site down my throat, lol. Can;t wait for maghrib. FOOODDDDDD lol. onl 2.5mr hrs elhamdolallah

First Day of School

Today was the first day of my second year of school. I had 3 classes today. (I was late for 2 out of the three, one cuz I left late. The other see below.) I don't have my lab tomorrow!! Which is great because I don't have to get up at 630-7 to get there on time. My fist class is Calc. II at ten, fun fun... oops I lied... last semester schedule. First is Physics II, then Calc. II (I didn't fail, last sem. was all I not II lol) Then I have a nice 2 hour break where I will go to the library and hang with all my muslim friends that avoid the union like the plague during ramadan. (Kinda funny actually.) Then back to my last class which is Linear Algebra. So far what I've heard of this class... well let's just say I should run away screaming with my tail between my legs.

OK now to rant:
PARKING!!! I HATE YOU!!! I parked way out back for my first class, managed to find a nice spot for my second, and the third was a HUGE pain in the butt. OK people... I know you're not all rocket scientist, but parking SPOTS are made for a reason!! If they're not there DON"T INVENT ONE!!! I literally was working my way through a one way aisle that is actually 2 way praying someone wouldn't be coming from the other direction. People parked in the aisle, actually invented a whole new row in the middle of an aisle and were parking on the grass... GRRR. When I finally found a spot (after 10-15 min) I couldn't turn into it so i kept backin up (with the little space I had to opperate my car in) and ended up hitting the truck next to me. So I backed all the way up (hoping I wouldn't hit anything) and finally managed to pull in. I get out to look at my car, I have a nice long dent in the passenger backseat side, but I don't care, my car is old so... The truck of course didn't have any damage lol. So I didn't bother leaving a note or anything. (don't report me to the police!!! lol) Hopefully tomorrow will be a little more less crazy. It's always like this the first week or so, but I hate it!

Fasting

The first day is done, and I'm onto the second day! I don't remember it being this easy last yr. Last yr I fasted even though I wasn't muslim yet, I was starving by the end of the first day. This time I was hungry, but not like I remember from last yr. The only problem I had was that I had a horrible headache. I don't really have any muslims around me, I'd have to drive like 15 min at least to find one, so I didn't eat with a muslims family, but I did eat with my aunts family. :) I told them I got married too and they didn't kick me out of the house (they're the ones who have been giving me the most problems about my conversion.) My cousin actually congratulated me :) I know they're not happy though.

FAFSA I hate you!!!

For anyone from a different country, FAFSA is an application for student aid. The gov't can give you a loan/free money depending on your financial status all for college. Well, now that I'm married, my financial status has obviously changed... It turns out after you file your first application you cannot change your marriage status. Which means I get no aid from the gov't. I have enough money for next sem., but that means I will not see my husband for about a yr cuz no money for plane ticket. IsA, it will all work out.

I Love Arabs P's and B's

Haha. I was letting my husband look online for something last night. He was looking up something on an Islamic site. I told him about Sunni path after he was done checking the sites that he trusted. He went to the google search bar and typed in "Sunni bath" O started laughing and he was like "What??" When the search finally came up he was like "O, oops." I was like, "Yup, we're all going to get together and have one big Sunni bath." lol

On another occasion when I was talking to him about getting to the airport to go to Egypt. He told me "take a cap." I was like "WTF?!?! Is there something that I don't know about that's called cap??" Then I realized he mean cab and laughed my head off. Just picture yourself with 2 huge bags getting into a baseball cap and going to the airport... HILARIOUS.