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Thursday, February 09, 2006
Today my daughter and I took a break from the ordinary. When I picked her up from school we went out to eat at Subway and then to see a movie. But, not just any movie a "laugh out loud" movie :) We went to see Big Mamma's House 2. It was SO funny at points that I found myself laughing really loud. My daughter was giggling for most of the movie too. It was a much needed "fun" break.
Today I'm thankful for "spur of the moment" ideas that add fun and laughter to normally routine days.
sidenote: I'm still sick :( felt quite miserable but with the help of Tylenol Flu at least I'm feeling a bit better. I don't have the flu but this is the one I had in my cabinet and it's nearly the same as the "cold" version, so that's what I took - and it works.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Actually it feels more like a sinus infection but I think it's just a really bad cold. I've been feeling miserable since last week and now it's finally hit me. I slept most of the day yesterday while she was at school. Now I'm trying to work and all I want to do is lay my head down and go to sleep. I was thinking to run to Starbuck's for a "wake up" jolt :)
Today I'm thankful for Puff's Tissues.
So yea even if I'm sick and feel so bad I've still got to be thankful for something. Oh, and I'm thankful for the donuts I got at the shop yesterday, nice & quick breakfast.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
A few of you may know, but just in case you didn't.. I'm not Arab. I'm an American who was married to a man from Saudi Arabia and my children are Arab. (and well I'm no longer married). So, now that I got that off my chest *smile* here's what I need.
I'm working on a magazine called
Gulf Living and I need some help. I need the Arabic translation for some things, right now my immediate need is for the country names in the Gulf. Like Qatar
قطر written in ascii letters قطر
I need the following:
Bahrain
Kuwait
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
There is going to be more, all are going to be rather simple but it's just easier to seek outside help than to try and do it on my own. The magazine is geared towards expats as well as nationals with mostly country info: education, statistics, country info and then there will be working and living info. Mostly a resource center. Once it's finalized I'll be adding feature stories, like life, living, home, family, food, etc.
I'm in the process of looking for a job in either Qatar or UAE, so as I did research on the job market I accumulated such a wealth of information that I decided to share it with everyone. :)
Anyway if you're interested, email me at kelly.qatar @ gmail.com <- just remove the spaces.
Saturday, February 04, 2006
What a week! Between feeling exhausted, stressed and just plain blah, I really need to get some sleep. I finally got to bed last night at like 11pm. Had to stay awake and watch the NBC Dateline "To Catch a Predator III" episode. Oh my gosh I won't even go into that story, it makes me sick to know there are so many sick freaks out there in the world.
Okay, now back to why I'm thankful for Saturday Morning Cartoons *smile*
My oldest daughter, heck I'm lucky to get her up and awake by 2pm on any day... but my youngest daughter this child she wakes up when the sun rises. While I'm more like the oldest and could sleep all day and stay up all night. So Saturday morning is my only day to be "me" and sleep. She comes to wake me up, I switch on the TV and tell her to lay down beside me and she watches about 2 hours of morning cartoons while I get to go back to dreamland :) Then I get up, make her breakfast, feed the pets, turn on the computer.. and today I even went back to bed for another hour while she popped in a DVD. The joys of TV babysitting *laugh* This is a Saturday routine in our house. She needs to entertainment break too - with school, homework and everything else I totally feel she deserves a chance to just veg out and have some good old mind numbing television.
Friday, February 03, 2006
Meeting new people online is so much fun. I have been online since 1997, so I'm no stranger or "newbie" on the 'net - however over the past few years I've grown more and more distant from many of my online friends. It's not for any particular reason or anything, it's just that I don't enjoy being online as much as I used to. In fact, I don't like my job anymore either - sigh. I think that after spending 9 years online working that I'm just burnt out. I'm not the only one though, I know several people who have abandoned their online businesses and gotten what many would deem a "real job." I'm still hanging on - by a thread - and with each day and each new client I feel more and more of a desire to pack up and move on.
This is one of the reasons I started this particular blog. I found myself being so negative and depressing that I just had to come up with something positive -- therefore I'm making it a goal of mine to blog something positive each day that I'm thankful for even if it's something trivial or just silly. Call it therapy lol.
So, today I'm thankful for new friends. This week I actually opened myself up, been meeting a few people online and to be honest I'm actually kind of feeling a bit better. I had sort of isolated myself over here in my own little world and I think that was/is part of the problem. Being online just to "build" the Internet and having no social contact except with clients (who don't always treat me very nice) had sort of pushed me into a corner and made me feel isolated and not to mention bored and frustrated.
So my goal is to meet new people. I have joked that February is "Make a new friend month" to a friend of mine and she said that's a cool idea. I mean how many of us actually spend time making friends, building relationships and working on our social network? Usually you meet friends at school or work, through family or religious activities. But what about a single mom who is working from home who doesn't have a lot of family and rarely gets out of the house? See my problem? So I have to actually take a proactive approach and fix my situation.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Yea, that's the kind of day I'm having. I just want to @#$%&(!*^# go back to bed and start all over again.
I'm thankful for $%#&%&*(#$ <-- aren't those fun characters.
LOL
Thursday, February 02, 2006
I love text messaging my daughter. It's the lazy thing to do. I text her "do your homework" and before that it was "what do you want for dinner?" Isn't life easy. No more yelling up the stairs.
I send her anonymous messages too. Like "whatcha doin'" or "hey baby" hahahaha she thinks she has a secret admirer. Yea, I'm easily entertained.
I just sent her a knock knock joke.
Me: knock knock
Her: who's there
Me: "I love"
Her: "I love" who?
Me: I LOVE YOU
Needless to say, being a teenager she told me I was stupid. BUT the funny thing was that I sent the message from her horse. You have to know this big lug of a horse to know that he does love her -- well, he shows it in odd ways like pushing her around and trying to bite her shoes but he does love her :)
Here's a picture of him. His name is "In Nick's Shoes" (Don't get any bad ideas people, I know his name can be pronounced wrong and turned into something that it's not so have a clean mind. We bought him with this name and because he was named in honor of someone who had died we did not change his name out of respect to his previous owner/breeder)
Jump Nick Jump!
The Girl & Her Horse
Misbehaving
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Hey don't laugh. You know you like them. Today, I had 2 grilled cheese sandwiches. They were absolutely yummy. Kind of like food for the soul - a small piece of childhood memories in one simple thing. I should have made some tomato soup to go with it, but that's okay.
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