I'm beyond annoyed!

I started a new job about a month ago. They let me work a week and a half so about 28 hrs. and then they go "oops you can't work until you get tested for TB, drugs, and all your vaccinations are up to date. And you have to go though orientation." Well I'm a federal work study and they have rules, only 4 hours of work per day and they wanted me to attend an 8 hr orientation. Also to top that, you can't go to orientation unless all the previous medical things are done.... Which you have to wait a week between TB tests (they make you do two.) Teh HR person I've been "Talking" to isn't helpful. She takes days to call you back, doesn't answer your questions. I talked to her on Thur. or Fri. about this and she said, "if we can't let you do orientation Tue. we'll set something up later in the week, I'll call you on Monday." We'll Mondays come and gone, I called her left yet another message and haven't heard anything. I'm about ready to say screw it give me my money, and I'll get a work study on campus... this is complete bullshit. When I was hired I should have been given all this information, not after I worked almost 2 weeks. Also not paying me because it was your screw up is just wrong....

Eid

Eid is coming up soon which I'm sure you all know. I'm super excited because it falls on Friday when I don't have and classes. I'm planning to attend Eid prayers isA, and maybe do something with friends afterwards.

I am making dua for Allah to protect all American Muslims just because the amount of bad publicity we have been getting at the moment and since it falls so close to 9/11-which means ignorant people might take it as us celebrating that. Also, for all Muslims to have a safe, happy Eid, isA.

OMG BEEF BACON!

If you can't tell I'm excited. The only part of pork I missed was the bacon. Most of the other products are just as good with turkey (sausage, ham) but I turkey bacon is just... yuck. (I never liked pork chops so I don't miss them, lol.) I finally found it at my local super market, and was so excited I practically ran too my sister jumping up and down, lol.

Now my bacon cooking skills are out of whack since it's been twoish years since I made it on the stove, but I didn't do too bad, almost got it the way I like it. Honestly it tasted really close, a ton better than turkey bacon. I think part of it is that it was the fat like the pork bacon does (yeah I know sounds grouse, but that's what give it the flavor.) Or it could be my mind saying, this is soo much better than turkey bacon and I forget the true taste of pork bacon. But whatever if they continue to supply it I will buy it. It's so yummy! lol.

Shopping

Well it's memorial day weekend which means HUGE SALES! I went looking for some stuff for my apartment once my hubby gets here. I was only planning on getting this dresser, which was 40 for my husband, since my current dresser is completely full with my crap lol. We were looking and I was like, I need a table and chairs. So I looked and found ...


200! A GREAT find! I couldn't pass it up lol. I didn't check with hubby to see if he'd like it but since it was originally like 1100 I figured it couldn't get much cheaper than that. I mean you might be able to find a table for that, but a table and 4 chairs? hahaaa. So all I'm thinking is elhamdollah I went and saved a ton of money on this.
We still have a long way to go on furnishing the apartment. Some cooking stuff, couch and stuff, and then TV and blue ray player.

I would love to get a couch like this

"Ground Zero Mosque"

This guy is soooooooo right!

School/Birthday

I started college today. I was supposed to go till 5 and got out at 10:10 sooo :D

My birthday is coming up in the next week, and I'm turning 21! I want o go out with friends and be like "WOOHOO, I'm 21! Can I have a virgin margarita?" I just think it would be amusing. lol. I got my new drivers license picture done today. No more hair in my picture now :) I have my pretty blue veil on in it lol. They didn't even ask about if i wore it for religious purposes or not, which was nice.

Schools about to start

I'm excited. :D FAFSA was a nice help this year and I don't have to pay for anything but books-which was ridiculous. The school wanted 600+ for USED books. So I went to Barns and Nobles and bought all used ones for a little under 400 :) I have an AMAZING schedule-My week starts out long, then gets shorter and NO FRIDAY CLASSES! finally, elhamdollah.

I'm also in Egypt right now. Saddly I'll be getting back the Sunday before school. I don't want to leave hubby, and less than 15 hrs to get adjusted to American time before school and fasting again.

I'm also excited because this is the year we start with more labs and interactive classes of civil engineering. I thoroughly enjoyed my co-op this summer-even though what I did would seem boring, I learned a lot and enjoyed myself :)

Classic Book

I posted a list of classic books a LONG time ago. I haven't looked yet but I think I can cross off two more books.

• 1984: A very good book., but depressing. I definitely recommend it to everyone.

• The Catcher in the Rye: It was an ok book. I didn't hate it, but I didn't see the point of the story.
  

I bought three new books that I'm super excited to read: A Tale of Two Cities, A Connecticut Yankee in Kind Arthur's Court, and Robinson Crusoe.

French Restaurant

I went to a French restaurant tonight for my friend's birthday. Here's the thing... French LOVE their wine, almost everything had some form of alcohol in it. Especially the few dishes I wanted to try. I did settle on this butter fried Canadian walleye, which was delicious. Now I'm home and super tired :D trying to type and making a lot of mistakes I'm sure lol.

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This is me! lol

Aren't my work clothes just lovely. lol

What do you think you do if...

You saw a girl in a black abaya and hijab, with a reflective vest and hard hat running down the middle of the highway after a truck that;s rolling away?

Haha, I did that the other day. I got out to pound some stakes into the ground and forgot to put my truck in park (yeah, I know I'm stupid lol.) I turned back for some reason and saw my truck rolling away. Then I ran after it. It wasn't going to fast so I threw the door open and hopped in. Then hit the break and slammed it into park.

Thankfully it didn't go out into the traffic, elhamdollah.

That's my stupidity for the day :)

I'm moving to Arizonia!

I'm moving there just to get away from the humidity. It's been so hot the last two days and working out side in it means sweat party! I want dry heat so bad. I can't wait to go to Egypt for a few weeks just to get away from it. :)

I'm kidding about moving to AZ.

Approaching 1 year

I'm happy and sad about approaching our year anniversary of being married. Happy because well I love my husband and everything he does for me. Sad because we won't be together for it.

I talked to him about us both going out to pizza hut with a friend or family and ordering food since it's the nicer of the 2 restaurants that our in both of our cities. I think it would be funny, we half a world appart but still doing the same thing. He said it was stupid to go alone so I told him to take a friend or bro, since that's what I was planning.

Sooo Excited for Tomorrow, isA!

Sister swim!! Woohoo! I haven't swam in like a year. (I don't include wading in the Mediterranean as swimming.) It cost a little to get in, but I get to jump in a cold pool lol.

My other plans, isA, are to buy a new hard drive, go visit a friends garage sale, and go to an interfaith picnic.

Clean out those PC/laptops!

Well my laptop overheated again today, and fried the hard drive. I got into the fan and there was soooo much dust stuck in it, it was gross. (I'm blaming it on Egpyt since I took it there twice haha.)

So my word of advice is go into your computer and clean out the dust. If you have a laptop, you may need to remove the fan and get the dust that's hidden between the fan and vent (that's what I did.) If you're not good with computers ask someone who is :) It'll save you money.

The good news, I get to upgrade my hard drive... double the amount of gigs. Bad: it costs money, lol.

Salam!