Tag, awards to come

Athena [Let's Fly Away Now] tagged me to do this:

The task: fill in 12 likes, 1 love and 8 hates like Cassie in her therapy video (from Skins).
Below, the bolded things are what you MUST include, as they are in Cassie's video.
Also, please link it back to me, and link it onto 3 other blogs you admire!

  I tag:

1. Darjeeling Dreams
   
2. Anna
3. Afiori

(+I've quoted the things Cassie says in her video, I thought it was nice.)

"Abracadabra, Wow!"

I like boys with a sense of humor.
and girls with beautiful minds.
I like being alone, but I dearly love people close to me.
I like the Red sea.

I like optimistic, dreamy people .

I like the sun setting into the sea.

I like riding a falouka with people I love.

I like being squeezed very tight, until I can't breathe..BIG HUGS!

I like books.
I like writing and making plans of publishing what I write.
I like wearing lots of colours and my very old favourite pair of shoes.

I like my Moleskine.

I like existential talks with people I love.
I love seeing beauty in everything.

Today I am going back to the gym.

"In some ways, I love everything.
Its less,
its less of a thing to like,
its less distinct,
its less particular.

I like things that I like
but I love everything.
There’s more choice in like,
'cos even the worst things
have things you love in them.

&; I don’t know what you mean
about things I hate."

I hate grey, cloudy winter days.
I hate sugar in my coffee.
I hate what ifs.
I hate uncertainty.
I hate could have beens.
I hate it when someone reads my journal without me asking them to.

I hate lies
I hate pessimism.

"I hate this, wow. . .
Sorry."

Yesterday..

Yesterday was my cousin's wedding- well not really a wedding, it was her Katb Ketab (basically the Muslim wedding contract) and the rehearsal dinner. My cousin did not get engaged, it was her fat-ha, then two weeks later, her qiran. It was sudden, but I guess that's how it is when everything feels right. I am so happy for her!!! I still need to ask if I can post pictures, though. The one I have posted is candid, of them on the yacht which we got on after dinner.

According to here; "In Islam, marriage is considered both a social agreement and a legal contract. Negotiating and signing the contract is a requirement of marriage under Islamic law, and certain conditions must be upheld in order for it to be binding and recognized."

Extraordinary Recap:

So that was my one extraordinary thing for the 4th of August.

Before that was an amethyst necklace given to me by an AMAZING person; Galida...or how it's pronounced; Khalida, my mom's cousin's wife. She truly is an amazing person. And she gave it to me to cure my headache, it's also been giving me clarity, I swear.

And then there was my new job.

How has it been going with you? Gala Darling posted this today; amazing ideas!



I wrote this for you post that I can heartbreaking-ly relate to.. and has anyone ever felt that way?

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Sometimes, I wish a certain person would be with me, knowing that they would appreciate a certain view. And at other times, I wish people would see things the way I see them.

News and recap

I got the job!

That's where I am going to work. I am so excited. It is also an NGO (my previous job was also at an NGO) and it's an organization of dreamers. I think.

I think I'll fit in.

And I love all the comments I got on my last post! Please keep them coming. Oh and Athena, I love you!!

I posted my Extrordinary August post on Facebook last night and some of the suggestions included:

 

I found this on weheart it and the link didn't work...

• "Pictures, take of pictures of everything beautiful you lay your eyes on." BIRD
• "Do something you never thought you would EVER do!" Loveology!
• Sing, and listen to new music.
• Play chess. Visit museums. Make some new friends.
• Watch Liverpool v Atletic Madrid on 8 August! (obviously a football fan!)
• collect all the stuff you don't need, and get rid of them, sell them if you can, if not just give them to the bawab (or someone in need). refresh your belongings in that sense.
• take photos of a day in your life, whatever it is, take photos of it from the moment you wake up till the moment you sleep.
  

Extraordinary August

 

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Any ideas on how to make August extraordinary?

Mine so far are:

1. Smiling at a stranger.
2. Writing notes for strangers and leaving them on their windsheild.
3. Check ABC Adventures for inspiration.
4. Get a haircut.
5. Go for a walk, indulge.
6. Stargaze.
7. Watch- no, experience a sunset.
8. WRITE EVERYDAY.
9. Make at least one child happy.
10. Write letters for people you care for.
11. Let go of a grudge.
12. Cook a meal from scratch.
13. Learn something new.
14. Challenge yourself.
15. Inspired by High Fidelity; make top five lists.
16. Go watch an underground band perform!
    

Please email me ideas or comment on the post below? I love you!

PS MY COUSIN JEN NOW HAS A BLOG!

First Day of August!

 

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This is where I call home, not the pyramids, but the city; Greater Cairo.

I love this video... I wish I could go..

I had my hair cut- drastically.

 

Excuse the pose. Really.

I am taking my writing more seriously (Sondos is too!) and I actually intend on publishing something, someday. I hope "someday" is soon though. I wanted to post something about the men who raised me (my grandfather and my father) but I realized I have been posting A LOT about my family. I decided to give you a break (haha?)

Since it's August the first, I thought I would share what I usually do for the next 26 days. I was born on the 26th of August, 1987, meaning, this year, I turn TWENTY-TWO!! (it kind of scares me)

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Everyday, I am to do one extraordinary thing, provided that extraordinary is quite relative. Today is very special, I woke up at 6 am to find this post. Isn't that the cutest thing ever? Then boyfriend suggested that we go out for coffee, we cruised around the empty Cairo streets (unusual, but it was very early, and it's the weekend!), windows down, wind in my hair, coffee in hand = bliss?

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Will you do this with me? Make August extraordinary?

PS The getting fit challenge also starts today!