Chan's World

windstorm 2008

2008-09-23T21:24:00.002-04:00

well we here in the louisville area had a bit of a windstorm. They are calling it WINDSTORM 2008 (original eh)

trees were uprooted and all over roads (and houses) and ofcourse powerlines were all over the place.

This happened last Sunday and there are still people without power. Schools have been out (which means I had nooooooo work for a whole WEEK!).

The main reason schools were out (they say) is because of all the traffic lights being out AND because of the kids being around the downed power lines.

Kids today did not have LOUIE THE LIGHTNING BUG to tell them about powerlines that are down. I have had his little blues song in my head this whole week! And younger people/ foreign husbands are looking at me like I am insane.

SING IT LOUIE!

Finally Ramadhan???

2008-09-01T23:49:00.000-04:00

Ok then

RAMADHAN MUBARAK

I'm ready for my close up!

2008-06-20T17:42:00.002-04:00

Look mom Im on TV

so now that I am famous Autographs will be $5

Boom said he will only charge $3 for a paw print

Apparently this ran a few times this morning (there is a longer version as well) but they came and talked to me yesterday

TEEE HEEEE

Hijab Hanger

2008-03-31T10:40:00.006-04:00

I know what you're thinking. It must be school time, that is why you are blogging instead of doing your homework. ANNNNNND you're right. BUT in my defense I keep getting error messages and that is the only reason I am procrastinating.

So I have become quite the sally homemaker and it is really sort of weird. My latest thing I am pretty proud of (besides my broiled chicken teriyaki) is my HIJAB HANGERs.
I am sure many other hijabis feel my pain in the whole how to store them and then find them. I have folded them up and put them away ... only to never be used again and forgotten about. Which leads me to wearing the same ones over and over. When I have loads of colors and designs. You get to the point where you are like ... well Black goes with everything (really it doesnt) and I have different black scarves on the couch or on my book shelf that I wear most.
FINALLY I have DONE IT!
introducing the the SCARF HANGER. For some reason Bed Bath and Beyond thinks this is for pants. I dont get how that would work but it works great on scarves.
TAAAA DAAAAAAAA:

Things I have learned on my trip....

2008-01-21T19:43:00.000-05:00

Mauritanian people are the nice-est sweet-est people in the world. They are GREAT!
Malaria Meds are a must. (while we were there two of his relatives got malaria. But it was really no big deal to them...sort of like having a cold)
Mosquito Nets are a must (they stop both flies and Mosquitoes!!)
Bring Food nets ( Did I mention there are lots of flies ...you've seen those pictures of people in africa, flies all over the place walking all over the the faces of little kids and they dont swat at them but you are swatting at the tv for them like it will help. yeah that is Maurtiania)
Bactrim Forte ILOVE YOU!!! Aspergec I HATE YOU! (Stay away from fresh camel milk on the roadside and bottled water ONLY...UNDERSTAND)
I love the US Health Department and their resturant rating system. DO NOT ... I repeat DO NOT eat a Hamburger from a resturant in Mauritania the night before you are going to get Henna on both hands and both feet. Trust me ... you have been warned. That is all I have to say about that!
YOU CANNOT WEAR HEELS IN THE DESERT! (yes I did learn that the hard way on Eid)
Squatter toilets are NOT more sanitary because urine splashes on your feet. well like little dropplets ..... UGH ... you know what I mean
ALWAYS have your Embassy's Phone number incase your husband has been taken by the Gendarmerie in a city you dont know, in a country you do not speak the language and you are left with only the driver and cook/helper, neither of which speak a word of english. More than likely there are no phonebooks so write down the number before you go OK!
Camels are VERY tall and Donkeys are very LOUD!
Aly's Family ROCKS! I love them Very much!

saharan adventure in T minus 36 hours and counting

2007-12-07T00:28:00.000-05:00

Yes OBVIOUSLY I have a paper due. and it must be an important one ... worth... say 70% of my grade...beacuse there would be NOOOOOOOOOO other reason I am just playing around on the internet!

Anyway there is that and Aly and I leave on SUNDAY! yes SUNDAY! Oh my GOODNESS!

Checklist:

Hold the mail (just went online and did that ...seee procrastinating on the paper paid off)
Shots (5 ... COUNT THEM 5 including Typhoid, Hep A, Menengitis, Polio, and Yellow Fever which I had to get the yellow fever one to get into the country)

Ok never mind about the checklist because I keep thinking about stuff and its freakin me out!
I did get this handy arabic Phrase book that is pretty cool. The arabic is correct (according to Aly) but the transliteration is Egyptian style, so Aly told me to read the arabic. Like that will be NOOOOOOOOO problem at all.

Me: Salaam alaikom Salma squiggle squiggle Line dot?

Maybe I will just do alot of pointing to the book.

anyway the adventure of a lifetime... I have NO idea what to expect or what will happen.

please keep me in your prayers and Du'aas

2007-11-08T19:35:00.000-05:00

Alright kiddos ONE month until my trip and I am flippin out

WHY:
1. UGH school is CRAZY! My professor is ...well...lets just say only one person in the class passed the midterm and we have all complained to the dean. I will be missing finals week (which is only a paper we have to turn in) so I have less time to do all of my work.

2. WORK is .....hmmm I am just going to say I am ready for a change. I will be quitting my job in order to go on the trip and I have noooooooooo clue where I will be working when I come back.
I am not worried about it so WHAAAAAAAAAATEVA

3. What we have to take there...."gifts" 2 desk tops, a laptop, a fax machine, his 5 sisters, 5 brothers (one brother and one sister is under 5 years old so they will be easy to buy for). I still have not got the final count of Neices and Nephews. We have not even began the conversation on Cousins.
All people under the age of 15 are getting candy!

Well My Visa is on its way back to me and I have had my shots and ordered my malaria pills.

Yeah its going to be an interesting month!!!!

Any tips will be greatly appreciated!

2007-09-23T14:03:00.000-04:00

It is offical. I am going to Mauritania later this year.
How offical you ask? WE HAVE THE TICKETS!!!!
"Are you freakin out?"
YEEEEEEEEESSSSSS!
"Are you excited?"
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!
"How long will you be there?"
almost 6weeks plus we are going to Casablanca for a few days

I am attempting to cram in any hasania arabic I can find because pretty much Aly is the only one there who knows english. And I am sure you have heard me talk about how he is not a good translator. (he likes to just answer for me and not tell me what they said. Or he will give me just a vague jist of what was said EXAMPLE: someone has said something for about 5 whole minutes...I ask Aly what they said and he says ... they are talking about politics. THATS IT)

OK also
So far ramadhan is going pretty well.... every night (pretty much) Aly and I have iftaar together... then he goes back to work ... then when he comes home we have dinner...pray isha and taraweeh then off to sleep.

Have you been having that problem where you have been looking forward to dinner...dinner rolls around and you eat a few bites and you are FULL!!! Oh man I am begging my stomach to let out a bit so I can finish my food... But no such luck.
Actually we eat dinner about 3 or 4 hours after iftaar because we are soooo full from just the dates and soup (oh and bread yummy breaaaaaaad) we cant even think about eating more.

I have only gone to 2 peoples houses for Iftaar and we have only had his brother (and my cute nephew) over to our house for iftaar. But Aly and I both have said we like having iftaar at home the best....it is exactly what you want ...when you want it.

GOOD TImES

2007-09-12T21:12:00.000-04:00

RAMADHAN MUBARAK!!!!

The last few Ramadhans have been pretty blah for me ..... I dont know if anyone else has had that problem.
So InshaAllah this one will be pretty cool.... well you know what I mean people getting together and learning cool things and all that rot.

My only thing is that now when all the dealers at work call me and are yelling at me or just fighting with me, I will be too tired to fight back and I will be just calm and quiet. ( they are not going to believe it is really me ahhaha)

Western Adventure

2007-08-25T21:22:00.000-04:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7475898@N04/

Well I am finally back from the WESTERN ADVENTURE!!!
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan was it fun
Ok we Started out in Jeffersonville ... Made our way to St Louis... had fun good times... then went to KANSAS CITY (thanks to Aly's Magic Box....called... Magellen)
From Kansas City we switch to a Church Bus to load everyone in
Granny
Justine
Aunti Allison
Uncle Jay
Kaleb
Yeshua
Mom
Drea
Aly
and Moi

Ok then we Head to Colorado (estes Park) Wyoming, Utah (Great Salt Lake) Nevada (Vegas Baby VEGAS) Arizona (Hoover Dam, Grand Canyon, Sedona) New Mexico (Sante Fe) Texas (Amirillo) Kansas (Dodge City) and then Back to Kansas City

GOOD TIMES MAN!
Well I didnt have my Camera with me most of the time in Vegas... which is good because what happens in Vegas STAYS in Vegas!

here are the pics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7475898@N04/

what really happened to Hansel and Gretel

2007-07-29T16:57:00.000-04:00

So as you know Aly and I are moving (switching apartments to the cool one bedrooms with vaulted ceilings). This means going through tons of crap. I was looking at some of my old notebooks from different classes. WHY WOULD I KEEP THEM! Anyway I found a story I wrote while sitting in my Logic class on October 11, 1998. (yes I had the date on it ....I am a geek remember) . No I have no clue where I came up with it and why. But here it is:

Prince Azfar finds breadcrumbs and follows them until he see a ginger bread house. He sees these two nasty little German kids running a muck eating the walls and even peeing in the garden. It smelled like they were having a barbeque. So Prince Azfar, who already had his lunch and was not hungry, went up to the children to see what they were doing.
“Hi there.” Said Prince the prince
“Hello” said the little girl and boy.
“Smells like you are having a BBQ, what are your parents cooking?” said the Prince.
“Oooh we have no parents” said the little Girl.
“They left us in the forest” said the little boy.
“My mother said it is dangerous for little kids to cook, because you can get burned” said the wise prince.
“We are not cooking anything…we pushed this old lady into a fire” said the little girl.
“Oh no…how could you….what about her family…. They will miss her” said the Prince
“She was mean and would not let us eat her yummy house; why are you being such a brat anyway. Why don’t you go back to your fancy white wall life and leave us alone!?!” said the little girl.
After the little girl said that the little boy pushed the Prince Azfar. Now the young prince very angry but saw that if her fought with one he would have to fight the other and after eating all of those gingerbread cookie walls these kids were kind of big. So he said “Ok fine, I will go, but not because you told me to but because I wanted to watch something on TV and I see you guys don’t have a satellite and I know cable wont come out this far.” The young prince went home and watched the hilarious movie. After the movie he went to the Toy room of the castle and got the biggest water gun he could find. It was the one with dual loaders. He filled the water gun to the brim with mild and sneaked out of his house. He made his way to the ginger bread house. When he found the house he crept up to the window and peaked in. He saw that the horrible children were sleeping. They had cookies in their hands and crumbs on their faces so he knew they had not brushed their teeth before they went to sleep. He positioned himself and started spraying the walls of the house with milk. He sprayed and sprayed till all of the walls were drenched. Then he waited as the walls stayed wet and started to get soggy. Then after about 5 minutes the walls were so soggy that they could not longer hold the roof. So the roof fell on the mean children squishing them. The Prince ran back home, jumped into bed, and went to sleep.

THE END

hey cooky

2007-07-10T20:26:00.000-04:00

I had a very very "chef" week going on at the end of last week
I watched the entire series of kitchen Confidential (great show!!)
I watched EVERYTHING Gordon Ramsay on You Tube (he is much nicer in London)
and to top it all off I watched Ratatouille.

Before I watched all this I have been cooking alot more than usual.
NOW I think I will only cook ... my tastebuds just cant handle eating out anymore.
I have pretty much ruled out all of the fast food places for one reason or the other.
(ex: they cook their fish and fries in the same oil so NO... Everything takes like Bacon there so NO....They always mess up my order so NO)

Then there is the regular resturants. Aly and I would order Carry out or go in but I have started to rule those out as well for different reasons... mostly the reason is ... I CAN MAKE THIS SO MUCH BETTER!

Ok so now I have to stop being all lazy and get to cooking!

Well I am going to do that tomorrow because we have so much fruit and Garlic bread so that will be dinner.

Thanks for the prayers

2007-06-09T20:11:00.000-04:00

Ladies annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd Germans (heheheh that was for Drea) ok fine GENTLEMAN,

I have an announcement!
Take your seats ...take your seats... NO PUSHING!

According to my new REALLY awesome Rheumatologist "you have no active Lupus Antibodies in your system now" that was a few weeks ago (my follow up appointment OCTOBER woo hoo ...not I will see you in 6weeks or 12 weeks ... it was a "I dont need to see you until OCTOBERRRRRRR"

So Thursday I went to my Kidney Dr (also really awesome) "All of your tests came back normal......see here where they were all really High and scary they are all in the Incredibly normal range........ I dont have to see you for another YEAR!" ( I was on the 3 month rotation)

*We are not sure if I have no protein in my urine because the meds or because I have no lupus going on so I am going to keep taking the meds and worry about that later.*

I would like to OFFICIALLY thank all those who were praying for my sooooo hard and let them know YOUR PRAYERS WERE ANSWERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only bad thing that happened: I had an allergic reaction to this antibiotic he gave me so i have been basically sleeping since Friday morning. It was pretty gross ...except I got Angelina Jolie lips it was ... well ... odd. Anyway Red splotches everywhere and itching and swollen hands and feet from the itchy splotches.
***Lesson learned I am allergic to levaquin and that family of antibiotics.

Cakes with meaning taste better

2007-05-25T19:26:00.000-04:00

4 Years !!!!!!!!! (and lovin every minute of it!)

I have been waiting for this cake since my birthday! In fact I made a cake a few weeks ago because I wanted this cake soooooo much and it just did not taste the same. I think because it was not a special occasion cake...those are the best. This is the same lady who made our wedding cake and that cake was AWESOME so I know this one will be good too.

Top view

Side View

Have I mentioned how much I love cake?

Derby mom

2007-05-07T23:53:00.000-04:00

Is my mom not the cutest person in the world!
Yup that is mom at the Derby. Its pretty rare for Louisville area people to go to the Oaks AAAAAAAND the Derby in the SAME year and NOT be in the Infield. Mom is well connected.
She went in style and had a great time hangin out with celebs.

The lesson I have learned from all of this: Derby cookies are the best cookies in the WORLD!
(and Knowing is half the battle)

whats up

2007-04-29T23:11:00.000-04:00

I finally got to see Wednesday's LOST episode. I am sooooooo a SUN KWON fan now!
she totally rocked this episode.
When she was getting the Ultra Sound I was like YESSSSSSSSS! hands up in the air and everything.
Anyway I am now back to thinking that they are all in like purgatory or something like that.
They are all dead or whatever.

Moving on.... I have a new Doctor's appointment tomorrow. I went thru a bunch of hoops to get this appointment so I hope he is worth it!

Also.... Aly and I are thinking about going to Mauritania in July (so I really hope this Dr. is good he has to patch me up for my African adventure).
So yes I am a tad worried about going to the Sahara in the middle of summer.

Ok last ...but not least... I am baby sitting my nephew next weekend (Derby weekend). Yup no mint juleps for me... I am going to be watchin Nouh....yup two month old sprinkler system. And the sucky thing is that Aly will be busy and so it will be just ME! And then Aly's going to be like ohhhhhhhh whats the big deal ... its just a baby.
I can just see it
me: Oh my God Aly the baby just peed on me and it got in my hair.
Aly: (chuckles)....he's a kids. He dindt do it on pourpus (yes I am trying to type with an accent)
me: But that is gross and I think he did it on purpose... he had that crazy look in his eye when I was changing him
Aly: Are you Okay? (said in that Chan you are crazy tone he always has when he says that)

Ok so wish me luck

The Year of the Chutney

2007-04-17T20:46:00.000-04:00

At work I heard this old song by Crash Test Dummies MMM MMM MMM and I thought ... I wonder how they did the video for this. As soon as I got home I looked it up and I was POSITIVE the Boy who "shook and lurched all over the church floor" was Wentworth Miller.

I looked up Wentworth Miller and nope Not him... he is to old BUUUUUT I did find out he is Chutney (no wonder he is so Cuuuuute).

Chutney is when a person is really mixed. Most of America is technically chutney but they dont like to admit to it.

I am as Chutney as it gets
Barak Obama CHUTNEY
Wentworth Miller CHUTNEY
Tiger Woods CHUTNEY
Cameron Diaz CHUTNEY
Kimora Lee Simmons CHUTNEY
Frankie Muniz CHUTNEY (does he even know what he is?)

So there you have kids.... move aside pure breeds......we chutneys are taking over!

Conflict Resolution Chan

2007-04-15T13:12:00.000-04:00

As many of you may already know I am currently working on my Masters in Dispute Resolution.
This week has been a REALLY hard stress FILLED week at work and I had quite a few opportunities to exercise what I have learned. I am here to report:

I AM LEARNING!!!!!!

Old Chan would have torn peoples heads off, Screamed, and then told everyone where they could go (just not as polite as that). Then I would have had to pick up the pieces later and fix my NEW problems.

NEW CHAN IN ACTION: well I sat and thought about the situations as if it were a Chess Game. IF I...... THEN..... sort of thinking. I sat back and told myself JUST THINK... dont act THINK!
I did... and I was APPLAUDED at how I reacted to a particularly difficult situation that could have been REALLY ugly had I not sat back and THOUGHT how this should be resolved.

It was VERY hard to hold it all in .. But I did it.
So now I am going to take on even more difficult "disputes" because I can.
Think the UN is hiring?

tut tut sounds like rain

2007-04-02T03:23:00.000-04:00

Sometimes Aly can be so sweet.
He came home the other day and said hurry up lets go get some food. (He came home early and scared the crap out of me)
So I changed really quick and off we went. Driving driving driving and talking. He never said the dreaded "where do you want to go eat?" where I would reply " I dont care what are you in the mood for?" no no
he just drove to this hole in the wall place and we got some food to go.
Then we are driving driving driving ... I asked him where are we going ... he said the Galt House. I was like ummmmm we are going to bring our own food to the galt house? He said SURE.... they know me there. I was like ok *shrug*.
By this time I realise we are going in the opposite direction of the Galt House and actually going to the Park. Which was AWESOME. We found a cool spot and started to eat. Still chattin and havin a good time.
He finished his food in no time ... and I had barely touched my food. He then told me "huddy up huddy up before it rains" (that is Alyese for eat faster)
To which I replied ...."Aly it has looked like this all day ....what makes you think it is going to start now....besides its not nice to rush people when they are eating"

NOT EVEN A FULL MINUTE LATER:
plop plop right on my face. It started to rain.

UUUUUUUUUGH why do husbands have to be right all the time!

Kiss me I'm Irish

2007-03-18T09:34:00.000-04:00

Last night I had just gotten off the phone with my friend and we decided we would meet in 30 minutes at KOBE (Teppanyaki side not the sushi side). She had to 'jump in the showed for a quick rinse' which I was going to translate into I will see you in an Hour.
I hop on the phone with my mom and still continue watching tv. While I am on the phone with her. My hallway sirens are going off. I can hear it but I figured it would stop. Maybe someone was cooking something and opened their doors to let out the smoke (yes the kitchen is kind of far from the door but you never know).
So a few minutes go by and I am like 'mom the sirens are still going off' At this point I am looking for clothes so I can go out. I found these jeans I have not worn in AAAAAAAGES and they are sooooooo cute. Slide them on.... could not for the life of me find a cool scarf.
Sirens are still going off.
My mom was like are you dressed... open the door and see if you smell smoke.
GOOOD IDEA! so I did. YUP I smell ELECTRICAL smoke. Time to evacuate....yes it has only been going off about 10 minutes now.
STILL CANT FIND COOL SCARF! sooo I grabbed an OK scarf, my shoes, my purse and I walk out the door.
I opened the door grabbed my wedding album and walked back out the door (everything else we can replace not the album).
The fire doors in the hallway closed and my mother always taught me to feel the door before you open it. I feel it...nothing... I open it...nothing. So I am outside.
It is Saturday night on St. Patricks day.... not many cars in the parking lot. only 2 of my neighbors 4 cars there so they probably all jumped in another car to go out (they are 20-30ish mongolian couples that are always either working or hanging out).

But my Holiness neighbor's SON had 3 girls smoking out on the balcony. Parents were probably at church. Well some weekend retreat were they save poor mexicans and make them speak in tongues. I DUNNO BUT there are these girls on the balcony just smoking like no big deal.
So i said to them... did you hear the hallway alarm. "yeah we heard it"
(at this point I look around for TV cameras or Ashton Kutcher to come running out and yell how I have been punk`d) NOTHING
( I then realised why I never wore these Jeans as they had to be irregular or something because the waist was sooo loose it would always fall off ...life around your ankles loose and I didnt grab a belt)
so I said "well it kind of smells like smoke in the hallway (pause wait for concern to come across the young faces... but instead it was an OH WE ARE CAUGHT face because they are smoking) "like electrical smoke You might want to becareful.....do you know if they have called the emergency maintaince line?"
Lil brat one picks up her phone and calls boy inside "I think one of your neighbors called 911 man"
Neighbor boy peeks out of the window.
I just drive off. Called 911 ........they said they were on their way to reset the alarms and Hangs up. I am thinking you need to send someone to find the fire!

So I decide I am going to KOBE and off I went.
My friends showed up (LATE as they thought I would be on Muslim Standard Time)and I told them my apartment is on fire. And they were like OHHH yeah I saw all those trucks going down the street. Which building was it... I said MINE... I am the one who called 911... I have my wedding album in the car. (they know in case of emergencies first one out has to grab my wedding album)
So they were like well we need to leave and go save your stuff.
I was like HELL NO ... what can I do put out the fire myself? I am staying here.

My friend was like ....maaaaaaan that is a true muslim....someone who will just walk away from all her stuff and say MashaAllah Alhamdulillah.

Really I was thinking... Man I am hungry and what could I do ... NOTHING. Might as well go out.

I had the BEST TIME...ate myself SILLY....got made fun of THE MOST from Patrick our slice and dice guy because I am allergic to seafood.

When it was all over my friends came home with me to see what we could sift through and salvage.

And the fire trucks were gone. Everything was fine.

Where was Aly during all of this you ask.....calling me every few minutes asking me what is going on and what I am going to do. Like I could do ANYTHING? So I told him ... I am going out to dinner with Jenn.

Barak Obama

2007-03-12T09:42:00.000-04:00

I forgot to mention that I went to see Barack Obama a couple of weeks ago. Yup we got a discount on the tickets (mom has connections).

Ok so we waited 2 hours in the chilly weather. Bombarded with people shaking our hands and wanting our vote (little did they know ... I was from the other side of the river and could give a crap about them)

Mom attempted to sneak us in early... but our plans were thwarted by huge bubba sized body gaurds. And fellas with white wires comming out of their ears. HONESTLY that is soooooooo 15 years ago! GET WITH THE TIMES MAN!

So we got our little Decaf mocha latte and cider and waited outside again in the chilly cold weather with all the hopefuls attempting to gain our votes with a handshake.

Aly drove in from Cincinatti right about 10 minutes before it was time to go in. He stood 10 minutes outside and was complaining aobut the cold. I really did want to beat him. I told him how I did not want to hear his mouth because we saved this spot for him and waited for 2 hours!

We get INSIDE. We had a pretty nice spot...nope ...no chairs.....and we wait. Squished. And wait.
AAAAAAAAAND wait. most of us still have our jackets and stuff on. Then ... it starts to get warm. REALLY WARM. Then all of a sudden I have this feeling like I am going to rip my shirt off or else I will die. I get a bit woozy (yes I kept my shirt on... it was ok I had a shirt on underneath it and an undershirt under that). I Started to FAINT! First time in my LIIIIIIFE! I felt like such an old lady. Yeah I have medical stuff I am dealing with but DAAAAANG!
Aly pushed me to this open clearing in front of us... some random woman gave me a half a bottle of water and people all around me we faning me.
Security came up to me and told me I could not stay where I was. I was of course saying Im fine , Im fine and wanted to go back to my very nice spot.
I go back and I am not fine... but I kept telling everyone I was.
Then an older gentleman faints. And everyone starts fanning him.
At this point we hear OBAMA is delayed and they are going to play his speech from last time he was in Louisville. I knew that meant he was at least an HOUR delayed.
I was still really woozy feeling and figured I needed to sit down quick so I said I was going to go find a seat and for mom and Aly to stay there.
They wanted to come with me ... but I did not wait 2 hour in line for us to lose our spot. So I walked around... bought a shirt and some Pins....got some more water and sat on the floor.

So apparently we were close enough that mom and Aly shook his hand. So it was worth the wait in line.
I liked all what he was saying. And he definately has my vote. Aly is still unsure. He wants to hear more from other candidates before he decides who has his vote.
But it was fun. My first political rally. Mom wants to do that more often and wants to join his louisville team or whatever.

All in all it was worth it

why I love UPS

2007-03-01T18:21:00.000-05:00

After having a sister in the military for 8 years and half of that time spent deployed overseas. I have come to learn the sneaky tactics of the UPS guy/lady. My sister having nothing to do with her money except spend it ONLINE and no where else to ship it except our house, it was an almost daily event of hide and seek the package left by the UPS person.

I am SURE they have a class on hiding things in PLAIN sight! I had forgotten how good they were. Aly got a letter from Mauritania today and as I was putting the key in the door I noticed the floor mat looked strange and sure enough there was his package hiding right underneath.

I bet the UPS people are great at hiding eggs at easter.

The Fed Ex people I am not a fan... well there is this one guy I see everyday at work. He is ok.
But at home OH MAN they suck!
I havent had a home delivery of DHL but at work I am always chattin with the DHL lady she is ... well ... chatty.

Ok based on my dealings with the delivery people what have we learned?
Buy stock in UPS

FIN

Nouh is HERE

2007-02-24T18:12:00.000-05:00

Nouh was doin some for real gang signs and he looked so Gangsta in his hoodie so I was just showin mah props!

This is my new nephew Nouh Z. Benaly 6 lbs 14 oz 18 1/2 inches.

And this is me with the proud papa.

Aly was there EARLY this morning (like woke everyone up early) and is already going to spoil the little guy ROTTEN! looks like Aly is going to be my competition! Jennifer (aka Proud momma) doesnt have any brothers or sisters so its between Aly and I who is the coolest. She has tons of friends who have decided to call themselves Aunti but I am the only real mccoy.

She was pretty busy most of my visit so I didnt get to take any pictures with her but she was there. Though Proud Papa would have you believe he did everything himself.

Turns out that Lemrabott (aka Proud Papa) knows everything there is to know about babies, brest feeding and general care of said babies. As he has 4 older sisters who had tons of babies he used to watch them and take care of them so please forward any questions to him he will help you out.

I just got back from visiting him and he is a CUTIE! He likes me too.

Want to see the Video? Check it out

no nephew yet

2007-02-22T17:29:00.000-05:00

Well my nephew was supposed to be born today. My sister in law was supposed to go in last night to be induced BUUUT the hospital was busy last night and would not see her until 4am so she decided to go in tonight.
So tomorrow I should have a new nephew.

To me this is my first nephew and I am a brand new aunt even though Aly has tons of Nieces and Nephews (one of my nephews is the same age as I am and is a Doctor!) but I have never seen them so they don't count. This one I will get to see and touch and I will have to remeber his birthday and have him stay the night and crap like that.
OH wait... i am gonna have to friggin baby sit.
DANG IT! being an Aunt is HARD! Plus I dont know my competition so how am I going to know if I am the Cool aunt or not?

Anyway there has been questions of when is this baby going to have a cousin.... man and you thought there was pressure before... SHEEEESH!

You ready for some good news?

2007-02-15T22:21:00.000-05:00

I SAIIIIIIIIIID ... are you ready for some good news?

I CANT HEAR YOU!

Ok I will tell you anyway!

I went to the Doctor today ( the Kidney Doc) and my labs were WAAAAAAAAAY better!
I was all WOOOOOOO HOOOOO. Of course I am still sick and I need to see a Doctor about the LUPUS and getting that into remission buuuut my labs were greatly improved!

Ok so I really cut down on Protein but I never really did the Renal Diet right and the Doc said that it is pretty contriversial and for now not to worry about it so WOOOOO HOOOOO QDoba here I come!

I took Aly with me to the Doctor's office because last time I was all crying and freaked out and I know I seemed Crazy. So I am in the waiting room and it is all old people with Kidney problems and I am just looking at them thinking Oh my God is that how I am going to be. And I am just PRAYing with all my might. I turned to Aly and I told him I was worried i would end up like that and of course he is like "what if I end up like them first....you never know what is going to happen.... this is the life (sic).....it is up to the God (sic)"

He has a point.....so I'm gonna allow it.
Anyway I was glad he went because my Doctor is Arab and he was able to sneak in some questions he wanted to know....of course I know his hope was that the Doctor would answer totally in arabic and I would be none the wiser. But the Dr started answering in Arabic and then trailed off into english and I caught on to what the question was.
Its cool

anyway thought I would share the Great news to those who were worried

What did I tell ya ... I AM FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO

2007-01-28T18:33:00.000-05:00

I am reading
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists By Gideon Defoe
Plus School books Why We Fight (written by my prof David Churchman) and Conflict Resolution By James Schellenberg

I am listening to
Justin Timberlake
nope I am not in the least bit embarrassed to admit that!

I am looking at
A postcard from Mohammed Ali Mosque (no not named after my husband)

I am taking
A few meds...its all good

I am eating
Chicken Queso Burrito....my last food of choice till I start the evil RENAL DIET

I am wearing
Jeans and a hoodie my sister gave me for my bertday

My Pirate name

2007-01-27T18:05:00.000-05:00

Your Gideon Defoe Pirate Name is:
The Pirate who doesn't like ham
Get Your Gideon Defoe Pirate Name at Quizopolis.com
http://www.quizopolis.com/gideon_defoe_pirate_name.php

I am right now finishing The Pirates In an adventure with the Communist. I cant wait for the NEXT one. Gideon needs to get to WRITING faster!

Odds and ends

2007-01-25T18:28:00.000-05:00

Yes you are seeing what you think you are seeing. That is a NASCAR santa inflatable that I am sure you will only find in the Midwest. This year was horrible with all the inflatable crap on lawns.
I had this picture in my camera and I forgot about it so there you go.

Ok so this is my new monitor. remeber the old one Pretty small i know .. but the new one OH MY GOD is huge! I know what you are thinking ... O V E R K I L L but I watch alot of movies on it. Well I dunno .. I just got a real DVD player for the living room. PLus there is Aly's Computer we take in our room. So sometimes i will watch movies in here. WHATEVER
****Please note the Chaos you see on my desk is all a controlled mess that umm BEEEEEEP ... SCREEEECH... kkkkkkkksssssssshhh.... oh we are losing connection.... sorry....*********
Well remeber when Aly's Computer was the HUGE screen ... CHECK THAT OUT! yeah I know he is all Jealous but you know he shows it by going .. oh congratulations on your monitor and then goes back to watching Cspan or some old man show.
Also this was in my camera I forgot about. This is when He and I were playing games before a movie and the game felt sorry for him losing so bad they gave him another shot. Mine was so great they said ok ... you have had enough. So I took his picture.
He claims he won and that is why he got to play more but I think it is the other way around.

2007-01-21T19:20:00.000-05:00

FIRST: I am fine!!! no need to worry!!! I will be ok

I got some intresting news at the doctor so I have had an intresting past couple of days. Aly is one of those types of people who do not let you feel bad. He kind of lectures you into feeling better then he acts all silly until you laugh like crazy in public and people start to stare.

AGAIN: I am fine!!! no need to worry!!! I will be ok

But I really felt sorry for the doctor because last time I saw him we were all joking around and stuff and this time he was SOOO SERIOUS. I bet he was not looking forward to my appointment all day. You could kind of tell.

I know quite a few doctors ( and some soon to be doctors inshaAllah) and now I can see how sometimes it must be so hard to give people really bad news.

I didnt get really bad news... I got news ...something I have to deal with and I am going to be fine.
Seriously I am going to be ok ... I am FINE!!!

2007-01-18T18:16:00.000-05:00

Little Mosque On the Prairie

Pretty Funny!!!!!!!

Birthday bash 2007

2007-01-14T16:16:00.000-05:00

The Proper was to eat cake!

Well I cant get the pictures to go in order so I will just explain the steps:
1. Get familiar with the cake ... take a long look (that is the cake picture ...pretty huh)
2. Find your weapon of choice.... preferably a knife ... see how Aly is a little impressed by my lack of fear of the cake.
3. You cannot really tell by I have SLAYED the cake ... my other hand I have my hand up like I am a swordsman attacking the enemy (the cake)
4 EAT SAID CAKE and show him who's boss (yes even tho the cake had Pnk flowers it was a boy cake because it was chocolate)

Oh man it was YUMMY!

I know I promised to put this up the night of my birthday but I was sore from dancing and partying. Yes it took me 3 days to get better ... ok ...so it didnt ... i was lazy and I forgot.

midwest breaking news

2007-01-10T21:14:00.000-05:00

Sunday night I am all set to watch the premier of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES. In fact I had my feet up and the show began. I was just getting into it and the local channel breaks in with BREAKING NEWS.....
Of course you start to panic ... oh no what is going on. (It must be huge because this is DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES..first show of the winter season)

what was????

Prepare yourselves folks... The Head coach of U of L football team BOBBY PETRINO has signed on with another team.
NO fire... no orphans drowning in the river...no Popes being teased in Rome..nope just Coach Petrino was leaving U of L. WHO GIVES A CRAP! I mean look at the audience they were speaking to .... the people watching Desperate Housewives...do they really give a crap if the coach left... The season was over ANYWAY!

But apparently these things are huge in the Midwest. No one has a clue where AFRICA is on the map but Coach Petrino leaving is breaking news.

Oh as I am sure most of you are on the edge of your seats now that U of L is without a Football Coach now that the season is finished... DONT PANIC....within 48 hours they had a new coach and they offered this coach more than what Petrino got from the other school.
hand ta God (as you Southern Belles in the Dirty Dirty South say)

Crazy Friday

2007-01-07T16:18:00.000-05:00

Usually I am tricked on Friday nights into watchin Ghost whisperer. How you ask? Well no one is home or available to go out on Friday nights as they are all working or have little kids. So I stay home and watch movies and TV and stuff. So Flipping around I run into Ghost whisperer (AN eVILE show). I try and change it...but I am hooked. I have tons of movies from my local Blockbuster or Mail in Blockbuster just sitting there begging me to watch....but no.....I have been sucked into Ghost Whisperer.
I watch the evil program and I always cry. CAUSE ITS SAD OK!
I hate it. Then I feel all stupid because it is a rediculous show! Anyway this Friday I was able to BEAT out the evil Ghost Whisperer....I was watching it and then a comercial came on and I flipped around and something else caught my eye... something stupid and then I gotbored with it and remeber I had my blockbuster stuff.
Popped in LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN (Great Movie) and TADAAAAAAAAAAA I had a great Friday night!

2006-12-30T15:01:00.000-05:00

EID MUBARAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah I know half of the world is divided and Eid should be tomrrow but one fanaticaly group wanted it today so TAAADAAAAA

anyway EID MUBARAK

the pix I promised

2006-12-11T10:41:00.000-05:00

This is mom doing her impression of a Local. This is actually Thanksgiving day (the day we arrived) and it was the coldest day they had something like 40 degrees. The very next day it was 65 degrees and the rest of the vacation was between 65-75 degrees! But the water temperature was always about 58 degrees so no swimming

This is where mom went upstairs to take our picture. I borrowed Drea's BUG eye sunglasses to make the picture "work"
This is the Living room..... came with TV DVD/VCR/ Stereo/ Books/ DVDS and nick nacks all beach related!

We asked Drea if her dog Boom Boom ( I call him Boom Boomerton Boomhousen the 4th but drea calls him Boom) would get in the water. She said NOOOO he is tooooooo big and tooooooo top heavy and NO he is not going to get in the water.

So we climb the stairs over the dune ($500 fine if you climb on their valuable... UGLY...dunes... but if you go down the street a little it is only a $50 fine). Before I can make it down the steps Boom has already raced into the water and it was a hard time getting him out!

We learned a very important lesson when renting beach houses. THIS is Ocean View.
This picture is when you stand on the front Deck (or look out of the Front windows or doors) and technically you can see the ocean (OHHH man you can really HEAR it too ohhhh it was so wonderful waking up to that sound!)

We saw a house up the street that probably says OCEAN FRONT but you cannot see the Ocean because the house cannot see over the Dune.

MORAL of this trip: Look for Ocean Front AAAANNNND Ocean View.

This is the View from the Front if you turn to the right a little. As you can kind of see there are chairs and there is a huge table with more chairs so you can eat outside (which we did for lunch one day) and you can see more ocean and more ugly Dunes (why do they care so much about those NASTY looking dunes ... they look like they need to be mowed!)

So all we had to do was cross the street and climb thoses stairs and there was the water. There were quite a few stair cases we could climb to get to the Ocean!

Here Drea is letting Boom take her for a walk to play in the ocean.
This was a great time to come down here. It was mostly just locals who own these houses there( and a few thanksgiving renters)
But the way these houses are spaced out I am sure during the summer high season the beach is not very crowded. Plus there is the Sound right behind us so you can swim and play in the sand on one side and boat or jet ski on the other.

All in all it was an AMAZING trip and I think Our new thing is going to be Renting beach houses for Thanksgiving!

OOOOOOh I completely forgot to tell you about the HOUSE. IT WAS HUUUUUGE 3 bedrooms 3 bathrooms HUGE fully stocked Kitchen, Huge Living room ... sitting area upstairs.... washer dryer upstairs. VERY VERY VERY VERY nice! Maybe I will put those pictures up

FWM

2006-12-05T23:43:00.000-05:00

I had a wonderful time in North Carolina. I will put up pictures later.
We flew down to NC mom and I were both wearing two shirts. One shirt and another shirt on top of that. So mom and I are split up to get thru security. My security person tells me I have to take my top shirt off and run it seperately. I said no this is a shirt (besides I only had a short sleeve shirt under it). She told me if I dont I will have to be searched. FINE. I go thru the metal detector ... NOTHING.. and I wait to be searched.
They never asked my mom to take off hers and they never searched her.

We all drove up to Indiana. THen Drea and I drove BACK down to NC. She drove the rental and I drove her new car (oh my GOD is it a sweet ride PLUS heated seats!! I love that car)

So I flew back from NC. I was the first one thru Security (its a small airport so they only open the security when the flight is about to take off).
This time ONLY one long sleeve shirt. Everything else was on the Xray machine.
My toothpaste .4 ounces over the limit. I said no biggie just dump it (even though it was the smallest one I could find at the store and I am sure .4 ounces have been used)
Then I go thru the metal detector... NOT A SOUND. but the guy had to STUDY my boarding passes for BOTH flights. Enough so that he was rearranging them and telling me that they were in the wrong order ... only to put them back in the order they were in that was correct the first time.
Have I mentioned the long line of people behind me at this point?
3 solid (no joke ) minutes later he gives me my ID and boarding pass.
FINISHED? not at all
The Xray guy says he needs to search my bag.
FINE I said And I waited. After about the 5th person passed me ... I decided to take a seat as the guy rub every item and scan it in the machine.
Finally I am finished.

Ladies and gentlemen I was convicted of FWM (flying while muslim)... the punishment..... having to wait and wait and wait and having to be super polite and smiling all the time and saying "no no thats fine" or "sure no big deal ... that is why I came early" in my most positive and sweet tone like it is no big deal and like I really thought I was a RANDOM search.

spouses say the darndest things

2006-11-21T22:31:00.000-05:00

(after a recent discovery on the scale at the doctors office)

Me: Hey Aly did you notice I lost weight?
Aly: Yeah ....But dont worry ...you're still beautiful.

2006-11-03T12:55:00.000-05:00

Official Graduation Photo

2006-10-30T17:25:00.000-05:00

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN... IT IS OFICIAL!
As you can see here I have my witnesses Mom and Aly to prove I did graduate!
Here you will see my graduation buddies (this time I made friends with the people graduating next to me... remeber what happened last time right!!! Besides we had a graduating class of like 1500 that is ALOT of names to sit thru!)
Ok so it is Chris on the Left and Stacy on the right. I had Macroeconomics with Stacy. So most of the graduation we talked about how that could have been US getting the President's Cup if we didnt get that stupid C in Macro (I am pretty sure the entire class got a C) Mom rocks you know because she was up ALL NIGHT at work and still sat through the WHOLE graduation!!! Sweet Aly gave me Flowers and an AWESOME Watch for graduation! He is SOOO proud of me (no not Broud... he can say the P)

Ah yess VICTORY IS MINE!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAANNNNND I graduated "with Praise" or CUM LAUDE!!!!!

Yeah I know last one was MAGNA cum laude but this was really hard ok (STUPID MACROOOO!!!)

ok so my masters ... I am gonna get SUMMA ok ..happy now?

2006-10-30T12:50:00.001-05:00

I watched an indian movie the other night and as I was watching Juhi Chawla was the leading lady. I could not stop thinking how she looked so much like Eva La Rue on CSI miami!

Check it out EVA vs. JUHI

wild huh.

Also I did Graduate ...more on that later!!!

2006-10-30T12:50:00.000-05:00

2006-10-27T18:03:00.000-04:00

I know you thought it would never happen BUT IT HAS!!!!

GRADUATION DAY!!! <--school colors

wooot woooooooot

OK so the people at work really surprised me with a card and a gift card for Olive Garden!!!
And now I am finding out People actually wanted to come to my graduation ... so I feel like a evil person not inviting anyone (well except Aly and Mom... I sort of felt like I was forcing them to come really)

So tomorrow is the walk. and I didnt even practice not tripping up the stairs!

STILL NO CAMERA so I borrowed my friends.
so I will have pics tomorrow ok ... the classic Me shaking Mr Sullivans hand and me standing with Aly and Mom with my Certificate.... me checking to make sure it is real .... mom checking to make sure it is real and not someone elses name scribbled out.

This is so weird because I am already in school for the masters and chuggin along very nicely at that!!! SO why have a Graduation MONTHS later????

BECAUSE I ALREADY PAID FOR IT!!! all Seniors are charged for it (the caps and gowns and stuff) so WHY NOT.

Plus I have to get the classic pictures. You know the ones so that if I die they show them at my memorial ( yes a memorial ... because I am so famous and they have a memorial servious with loads of crying people and the president and govoners and such.) ....right so yes at my memorial they have my graduation pictures ... ohhh and if I am ever Kidnapped they will have the pictures on TV.
What kind of Kidnapping coverage would ABC have if they dont have Graduation pictures of me looking so happy!!!!

Ok wish me luck!!!

2006-10-23T07:39:00.000-04:00

MABROOK AL EID

EID MUBARAK

HAPPY EID

Just wanted to wish everyone a wonderful Eid!

Ramadan hook ups

2006-10-16T02:43:00.000-04:00

OK so I had an intresting Iftar with one of my friends. I will keep her identity secret so that I can protect her (and myself) from the wrath of Chai.

We decided to have iftar together at a new Arabic resturant...one that surprisingly SHE knew of and I had never Heard of! Well we meet up ... find the place and it was still pretty bright out so I decide to show her the other resturant and grocery down the road. We find it ... we oooo and aaaaah and go back to the first place.
Its still bright out... but getting darker. Neither of us had bothered to find out the time of Iftar before we left ( I just wait for the Athan to go off while I am sitting there staring at our nicely laid out table when at home). We decide to go inside and check out the grocery part while waiting. PLUS I figured the people will probably give us free dates and juice as they are fasting too. SO we go inside ... and I must say I was very excited about the thought of our free juice (secret friend brought medjool dates ... my favorite...so I just wanted some JUICE! we always just have water at home)
Right so only one guy manning the store... so I am starting to think we are not going to get free juice. Unsure of the time ... we look outside and it still looks pretty bright. But I thought it was about this time yesterday I was drooling at the table and the Athan went off.
So we decide to ask the guy... the guy recognized my friend from a job she had back in 1999!!!! Um that was a bit unsettling! So he said NO NO NO the time is not for another 20 minutes. Now I am thinking he is CRAZY. (Well now I am just thinking maybe he is Shia... WHICH THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT because I just found out from my shia friend that they wait until the sun is completly gone to start eating)
So FINALLY it is the time and he offers us some dates ... boring dates... not cool medjool dates.
We order and then we go to the tables upstairs.
We are chatting ... having a good ole time ... and here comes the food.
We REALLY didnt order enough. I mean we ordered basically a light snack BUT MAN was it good!
Still chatting and having fun we are now thinking ... should we order more food or go to another place... WHile still saving room for Cheesecake factory for dessert.
The 'now starting to freak us out' owner comes up to check on us and says he is going to make some coffee or tea for himself ... would we like some. As it is FREEZING outside we say TEA PLEASE. and off he goes.
He comes back with this awesome spread puts the tea out for us (while asking my friend ... if I like hot tea. No he didnt ask me... and he just assumed I am some boring american who has never had Hot tea before ... little did he know right)
so he stands up here chatting with us about stuff he does ... places he owns .. and how he is a flight instructor. Maybe this is where I should mention he was Jordanian and one of the other places he owns is a liquor store! He finally leaves and we oooo and aaaah over the VERY good VERY hot tea...we also decide we have go go to another resturant for the entree.
Three cups of tea later the guy comes back. THIS time he pulls up a chair to our 2 seater table and decides to make small talk.
We repeatedly give each other that 'how are we going to get out of here' face as he tells us about how his cousin or nephew owns some club on 4th street and how he will give us free VIP passes if we promise we will dance. We just look at each other and laugh saying how we would just end up watching other people dance but thanks for the offer anyway.
A customer walks in and he races downstairs ... we decide this is the prefect time to make a break for it. We grab all the stuff so he doesnt have to make another trip up there and tell him we are ready to settle the bill.
He said he will not take any money from us. Because he remeber her from a few years ago that this was on him. We said NO WAY and you have to charge us. He said No this is his gift. SO we smiled and walked to the car. Fake smiles all the way to the car...Jumped in the car and took off!!!!
(wanted free juice ... got a free meal!!)

Ok so off to our next resturant. We will just call it SMOKEYS because it was FULL of smoke ... yeah right Louisville has a SMoking BAN! WHAT EVER!!!
Ok so we sit there talking and talking and looking over the pages and pages of choices and then I realized that no sever has taken our drink order. THis is nearly 20 minutes now. SO what had to be the manager must have noticed the same thing and comes up to our table takes our drink orders and brings us a free appetizer!

Yeah so that was my free Iftar/dinner

GOOD TIMES eh!

Spider bites

2006-10-05T00:58:00.000-04:00

So apparently spider bites are a big deal.
I had no clue... that is until I got one. My foot was crazy swollen (yeah that means more than regular swollen)

Aly was like "do you want me to take you to the hospital" and I thought he was just joking. So I am like NOOOO of course not.
I thought a spider bite was the same as a bee sting or a wasp sting. It swells up and then goes away.
SO he asked me a few times that night and I am thinking he is crazy.

Needless to say it took a WEEK for this thing to get sort of normal. And I have this big HOLE where the spider bite was. SHEEEEEEESH
NOW I KNOW!

(ok it is not that bad ... but there is a little hole and it looks ugly)

2006-09-23T13:32:00.000-04:00

RAMADAN MUBARAK

Ding dong the witch is dead

2006-09-21T22:29:00.000-04:00

After a long day of work ... Aly meets me at work to get Coffee. Of course he has his laptop with him... and with it an ulterior motive.
Aly: Oh Chan do you think we can find the battery for the laptop (meaning the extended life). Or the car charger.
Chan: Well ... there is a Best Buy right across the street from Panera.

Long story short I dont get home until 8:15 and I am FREAKED out because I couldnt remember when Grey's Anatomy started.

I look in the tank and the very alive Crab has lost his claw. I mean the Claw is on the left and the crab is WAAAAAAAy over there on the right.
I go back to looking at Grey's (this is just the Season overview *Sigh-o-relief* I didnt miss it)
Then I look over at the tank and crabbykins is BELLY SIDE UP!

DEAD.... can you believe it. ... I am no crab doctor but seen that he ate all of the fish ... he must have starved to death ahahahaha

anotha one bites the dust

2006-09-07T18:02:00.000-04:00

SO Evil Crabbykins has struck again.

I am putting on my shoes and I look into the tank and the crab is eating the OTHER scavenger fish I had. (this one was the small docile version)

crabbykins is just ripping off peices of the fish and eating it! It was alive earlier today ...but not anymore!
They had a bit of a feud going... where the scavenger would attempt to eat food off of the crab and the crab would stay still and pretend like it was ok ... then it would try to snap at him. But the scavenger would always get away. WELL his luck just ran out.
Crabbykins is still King of the Mountain.
I did not have pictures because as I am a good samaritain I loaned out my camera....and have yet to get it back.

Trust me it is for the best that I dont have the photos for this murder.
(did that sound a little dramatic?)

my eight names

2006-08-28T08:45:00.000-04:00

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet and current street name)
Princess Beacon

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/grandmother on your mom's side, your favorite candy)
Gloria Louise Toblerone

3. YOUR "FLY GIRL/GUY" NAME: (first initial of first name, first two or three letters of your middle name)
M. Cha

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Green Panda

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Chantale Ft. Knox

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name, first 2 letters of mom's maiden name.)
Cal Ma St

7. Terrorist Name: (middle name spelled backwards, your mom's maiden name spelled backwarwards)
Elatnahc Eduorts

8. SUPERHERO NAME: (your favorite color, favorite soda)
Green Orangina

a lot on my plate

2006-08-21T23:48:00.000-04:00

so its pretty much my bed time and my brain is racing.
I am sort of in a phunk.

I am all these things I need to work out. And the only thing I want to do it GO. I want to move. Where you ask
Good question... I dont know. Aly is saying ... where we can move where ever you get a good job. And I am thinking... where should I even look.

Then there is the whole baby issue...the real pressure is on now. I mean Doctor pressure....friends pressure....husband pressure.
Kinda hard to travel with a baby. And the whole world has to go Silent at 7pm because the baby is sleeping (I am just waking up at 7)

So I think if I just move all of my problems will be solved. Well ok so that is not true. But it will be more fun.

Maybe I should join the peace corps. DO they take married people?

that George is a character

2006-08-10T18:04:00.000-04:00

This is a clip of George Galloway doing what he does best... tellin it like it is.

The reporter is having a hard time keeping her cool tee hee hee

http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-galloway_060806,00.html

You silly silly girl are you even paying attention
hahahahahahahaha

I love this guy

http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-galloway_060806,00.html

play with fire...you get eaten

2006-08-05T14:06:00.000-04:00

So the crab is king of the mountain... and dont you forget it

You would think that REPLACEMENT PLECOSTOMUS would have learned his lesson from the ORIGINAL PLECO. You dance with the devil.... ummmm.... he will eat you or how ever that saying goes. WHAT EVER IT IS.... the crab will eat you if you try and play king of the mountain with him.

Maybe I should just get snails. AND maaaaaaaybe I should clean the OUTSIDE of the tank once or twice a year! SHEEEESH ... nothing but water spots!

Job hunt continues

2006-07-25T01:04:00.000-04:00

I think I am just going to sit around and wait for a job to fall in my lap!

Yep, that is the plan... and I must say... it is a pretty good one.

I have my heart SET on one of three places (one of which you need a masters degree to be a secretary's assistant). But it is all about sellin yaself right?

Well I have been talkin to Spouse about it. Well sort of asking him about what he thinks about moving to NYC or DC and he is not really giving me answer. So I figure if I get a pretty cool job in the aforementioned locations he will have no choice but to pack up and move with me and be a house husband. (Dinner bess be ready when I get home!)

2006-07-13T17:27:00.000-04:00

so school is pretty demanding (and I only have one class... of course in this program you have to have permission from the dean to take 2 classes!!!)

I am taking plenty of breaks hanging out with the old crew. Doing old lady things. Good times

So Aly started talking about buying a house!!! after all of these years of me saying we need to stop wasting our money and buy a house .....he is saying the same thing. ONLY now I am saying we need to stay in apatments because we dont know where we will be in the next year even.

EEEEEKS what shall we do

Well I am hoping for a cool job... maybe in UTAH.... why Utah... I dunno .... why not

NOOOOOO wait ...NEVADA!!!! why? three words BO NAN ZA
I will be like the cartwrights.....I will get a ranch.... and a chinese cook and call him/her Chop Sing
I will wear the same clothes every single day ... no matter how many times I have been shot
And I will help out random strangers

yes Nevada it is

ok I am going to look for jobs now then ... do more homework

2006-07-05T20:11:00.000-04:00

SO I called up Toshiba and Roy this really cool Brit Bloke answers and I am like ROY, Help me out here. I have this laptop and my wireless is not working! SO he was like ..Do you have a router? And I am like ROY I am not gonna buy a router if this wireless is not going to work, so I attempted to test the waters on this wireless bad boy and its not working at any of the free wi-fi places.
SO he says on the right hand side of your computer there is a small switch do you see that switch ... and I am like ummm yeah .... you mean the one that is turned off?
then I said "Dont play around with me Roy and make me feel all stupid like all I had to do was flip the switch" HE was quick to tell me he gets lots of calls from people for the same thing. So I am like ROY that makes me just as much of a Dumbass as they are. He was rollin. And he was like no its not like that. And he was really cool and said for me to call when we get a router and he will make sure it is connected properly.
SO yeah .... apparently I dont need a router Because I am workin fine off someone elses!!
(Watch me think I am all slick like I am stealing it and the Apartment place has it for free or something ahahahahahahha)

2006-07-04T10:53:00.000-04:00

So a couple of friends and I went to watch a christian movie the other day.

I know what you're thinkin... A christian movie? Ummm WHY?

yeah that is what I was thinking a few minutes into SUPERMAN RETURNS!!!!!

YEAH ...... SUPERMAN is a Christian movie with lines like "We don't need a Savior....but we do need a Savior" and SUPERMAN can hear every single word on the planet ( I remeber he had good hearing but NOT LIKE THAT)
and of course the Jesus on the Cross pose that had to happen.

DOnt worry I have not given away the movie. Chai has some more really interesting therories as well!

SO GO see this 700 club movie! Produced/ written/ funded by the Christian Right!

how my brain works

2006-07-03T13:34:00.000-04:00

Ok so I was telling Aly about a program I was watching about the first man to step on the moon which went a little like this:

So ... what's his name again... OH MAN I just watched it.... BUZZ Lightyear... NOooo BUZZZ ALDRIN no that was the Sound barrier guy. OH YEAH his name was LANCE ARMSTRONG so Lance... no wait not LANCE ARMSTRONG.... NEIL!!!!!
NEIIILLLLLL ummm ............... NEIL LANCE?
I think it was Neil Lance.
*silent for a few seconds and concentrating... at this point Aly has completely lost interest and no longer cares*

then I yell
OH MY GOD IT WAS NEIL ARMSTRONG!!! what was I thinking

I HATE THIS THING!

2006-07-02T12:03:00.000-04:00

I just POURED my heart out to this EVIL BLOG and what do I get in return?

A BLANK SCREEN!

I am to upset to remeber what I said so ... SORRY BOUT CHOOR LUCK

3.52

2006-06-19T00:38:00.000-04:00

Yup it is offical. Got my LAST report card. It has my total cumulative credits so I am FINISHED. I have proof in BLACK and WHITE.
So now I just wait for the Certificate.
Whats that you say ... you didnt get an invitation to my graduation .... Now you KNOW that has to be a mistake because I have walked every single graduation since I was in Preschool! Our next Graduation 'walk' will be in October (dont ask) so send me your address and you will get an invitation (if your on the list ahahahahah)

Yeah so my grades.... yeah it was pretty bad as you can tell from the Title. All that Hard work in my legal classes. gettin good grades and it is just ruined YESSSSSSSSS RUINED by my stupid non legal classes. If only I needed more MATH or something... I am good at math! Accounting THAT IS NOT MATH!
Economics that is not REAL!

Anyway I doubt this gradutaion I will have any type of honors...well I might have CUM LAUDE I dunno ..... last one I got the Presidents Cup AND I was MAGNA CUM LAUDE (a mere .01 of a point away from Summa cum Laude! but I am not bitter... my friend/Rival Sabrina got Summa cum Laude and we were fighting with each other about it the whole time we were lined up for Graduation UP to the LAST minute).

Ok well at least I graduated right ... that is all that matters. I am looking for a Job now and I am looking into DC. Of course ALY on the other hand has some interesting things going on here... and so i dunno WHAT is going to happen.
SO Prayers would be appreciated thanks

GO T & T

2006-06-12T22:21:00.000-04:00

Ok so it was only a Draw against Sweden ... but to most Trinidadians it might as well been a win!
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT... neither could I ... GREAT MATCH!
Now .... TnT vs. England (can the Soca warriors take on Becks?)

Speaking of Trinidad.... I have a Refil package of Trinidadian Ketchup. I am sure I have mentioned the Ketchup many times. Well my Orginal bottle was thrown out a few months ago and so I have been ketchup deprived Ever since. I have resorted to Ketchup packets ONLY because I REFUSED to buy american ketchup when I have really good TnT ketchup. SO I have been Searching all of the stores for ketchup bottles. NONE!!! you know those red bottles you see in resturants ... NO you dont see them anymore because they all use Heinz bottles!
They no longer exsist.
So I finally Broke down and bought a bottle of ketchup.
Of course I dare not even tempt myself with it ... I opened the bottle and poured it down the drain. Of course the whole time I kept thinking about starving children in the Congo would would love to have that ketchup on their ummm ....Gruel? ANYWAY poured it out and ripped off the labels ( I dont want people to think I use RIFF RAFF ketchup!) and Filled the bottle with the good stuff

French fries anyone?

Funny thing is ... when I eat it I always think about Sitting at the table with my sister and my cousin Jody at Granny Glorias ...My sister and I could barely understand what Jody was saying he would talk sooo FAST! He was doing his A levels (or O levels ... I dunno one of them letters) and he would get home from class and she and I would still be asleep.
OR
eating Paylau (no I dont know how to spell it but that is how you say it pay-lau) and chicken at aunti Ann and Uncle Selwyns house with all my hundreds of cousins

OR KETCHUP on Aloo PIE at the beach OOOH MY GOD!!!!! that is good (yes I know you are supposed to put stuff like Kutchela or Chutney but Ketchup is way better!)

THE GRADUATE

2006-06-09T13:56:00.001-04:00

Well the day Finally Arrived! Chan has GRADUATED!!!!! Yup I No longer have to go to school.
Of course ... you will remeber I am already in the Masters Program so I am going to school still BUT.... now it is all ONLINE wooooooooo hoooooooooo.

I dont have to look at any more teachers snotty faces.....not that any of my teachers were snotty but still!

Ok so FINISHED.... I just cant believe it!
What am I going to do with myself... oh yeah get a better job for one! WOOO HOO

wish me luck

THE GRADUATE

2006-06-09T13:56:00.000-04:00

newest family member

2006-05-29T15:49:00.000-04:00

Ladies and gentlemen may I introduce our latest bundle of JOY Aly's Laptop. AWEEEEEEE look how cute!

Yes my computer

computer in the back is old news and is playing the whole jealous sibling trick. But this new bad boy is SWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEET! I can watch movies in WIDE SCREEEN ... How you like that Full Screen OLD computer? HUH?

OK so um I am prettu sure I have said to much.

Oh yeah about the desk mess.... It is a controlled mess. All of those pieces of paper that look like they are gargabe and should be tossed into the pretty much empty wastebasket in right next to the desk, have really important information on them.

JUST LEAVE IT ALONE its not garbage... they are my friends! Would you just throw away your friends! NO ... I didnt think so. Come here mister panera reciept... I will never leave you. Whats that Ms. Cable bill envelope.... no I wont let you live out the rest of your days in that empty wastebasket. Ill make Shakes for us! How do you like that???

Ok so I gotta go

Man I love this computer.... oh and turns out my stupid cheap neighbors dont have wireless internet.... YEAH I had to use the cord from my computer and attach it to ALY's! DO they take us for ANIMALS! we should not have to live like this. ......... whats that you say? Why dont we get wireless service..... WHAT..... and let our neighbors steal it from us? NEVER we will do what civilized people do ... go to starbucks! ( and panera)

it was a dark and stormy anniversary

2006-05-26T13:34:00.000-04:00

so the day started out really nice and beautiful and HOT!!! and where was I ... WORK! UUUUUGH! Then right after work .... YUP ... you guessed it SCHOOL!
TWICE ...yes I said twice, the electricity went out. And I was in an interior classroom ... so PITCH BLACK DARK. everyone was using their cell phones as flashlights.

OK so the second time the lights went out the prof said we could just go to break. Well my momma dint raze no phoolz so I high tailed it out of there. Running thru the rain to go me Aly.

I drove all over the world before we decieded where we were going to meet.
We had a lovely dinner and then came home.

All that with a wonderful light show in the sky. (our anniversary present from Allah...TOP that)

Ok back to work

ahhh US

2006-05-20T04:40:00.000-04:00

so apprently I have good credit! I fell victim to the evil credit card monsters that used to hang around colleges and say "hey there little girl(or boy) here is FREEEEE money!!!"
Well I learned my lesson and tadaaaaa 10 years later I can get rewards cards with huge limits. Of course little do they know I rarely use anything except my debit card and I always pay off my cards at the end of the month.
THAT WILL SHOW THEM those EEEEEEEEEvil credit card BEASTS!

So I am off to GA .... jealous.... yeah I know.
Aly and I needed a mini MINI vacation and thought we would check out the Fam away from fam. (kinda like the home away from home) its kinda like having a summer home. Its my summer family HEHEHEHEHEHE (yes I really was cracking up at that!)
So I am FOR real craving some panera baguette with butter!
IT MUST BE PANERA! why I dont know. They must use time released chemicals that make you crave their bread and NO others will suffice.
Sort of like what the a certain Col. Sanders used to do. OHHHHHH your gonna buy my Chick ken OOOOOOOOOh (So I married an Axe Murderer..... A MUST SEE)

Dawn at the Downs

2006-05-05T00:37:00.000-04:00

I am ashamed to say it but I had never seen actual horses on the track at churchill downs. I have been to the museum... I have toured the place... but this was my first actual time inside. So the fam and I went to Dawn at the Downs. You get to have breakfast in millionaires row and watch the horses practice. I must say I am HOOKED. I love the sound the horses made running on the track. I learned SOOOOOOO MUCH. The jockey from Alysheba was there answering questions (yes I did get my picture taken with him and man do I look tall!) SO needless to say I will be going back and this time for an ACTUAL race!

Chan/Aly Household dinner

2006-04-27T22:24:00.000-04:00

Aly and I are both full time workers/Students. What does that mean in plain english. Well that means very crappy dinners most of the time. And last night was NO exception!
What was dinner you ask ...... you are sitting down right?

Dinner = One plate of semi washed strawberries and grapes for the both of us to share and one bowl each of lettuce (mine with cheese and balsamic vinegrette and his with ranch dressing) and one bottle each of aquafina.

No we are not on diets.... we are tired and SICK of pizza.

We need some time off.
Dinner tonight you ask? Both of us are too tired to chew so dinner will be toothpaste from brushing our teeth before bed (I am to tired to brush... sorry Aly heheheh)

2006-04-20T23:25:00.000-04:00

You know how I am always being teased by that EVIL ChickFIL-a
WELLL it has happened!

THEY are building one not very far from here. INFACT they are building it next to our poor defenseless PANERA. Poor Panera... I will always love you!

Chick fil a just teases you with their wonderful chicken and lovely lemonade that you only crave on SUNDAYS ... the day they are CLOSED!

Oh speaking of Paneras The AMOUNT of times I told Aly how Panera has Awesome Baguettes and Decent Coffee = 1000 times. Ok so he wanted bread. Like really good "came from a bakery bread" and this is around 8 or 9 pm. I said well panera is still open ... go check them out.
He was in SHOCK how good the bread was. And they are only about 10 minutes away......... AND they are open super early in the morning.

you know what this means right
CHAN = brilliance

Just checkin to make sure you still knew that

2006-04-11T00:39:00.000-04:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DREA!!!!!!!!

2006-04-11T00:31:00.000-04:00

I hate when you walk into class and everyone has their notes out and no one is saying a word. It is kinda like you are in the twilight zone right... then you remeber OH YEAH ... YOU HAVE A TEST TODAY. then you panic and grab your notes and start to study.

I mean it has never happened to me personally.
But I would hate it if it did.... ya know.... happen that is. Cause ... it hasnt!
Especially not Thursday.

2006-04-02T16:33:00.000-04:00

There is this lady I work with that keeps saying "HIGH BIRD" instead of hybrid.
it is really driving me nuts.

She says tons of other stupid things and I just try not to laugh... but sometimes you cant help it.

Texas turning Muslim

2006-03-28T00:00:00.000-05:00

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9184353144432289069&q=islam

Lazy Monday Not so LAZY!

2006-03-27T12:36:00.000-05:00

Have you ever been in the mood for something and you are all excited about it right. So you go to the kitchen and make it. Dancin around in the kitchen as you prepare the magical dish. Then you get ready to bite... MOUTH drooling you are so excited. Then you take a bite and realize something doesnt taste right.
So now you are torn. Do you continue eating it and suffer. Or throw it out and forget about it.

So yeah I threw out my stupid sandwich... but I can still smell it! UGH

im just gonna get some Qdoba on the way.
*******ALY UPDATE**********
Ok so he is AS WE SPEAK (or read in your case) in Morocco... and yes this time he got a visa from the friendly embasy in Mauritania. He will be in the US tomorrow. InshaAllah
His mother is feeling much better and should be out of the hospital next week

2006-03-25T15:39:00.000-05:00

So talk about a BORING spring break! SHEESH!
Oh well ... I got my report card.... not bad my cummulative GPA is 3.58 which is good dont get me wrong but it was at one point a 3.79. (doood dont I know how to suck the joy out of stuff)
Ok so it is good... 3.58 is awesome. WOOO HOO .. yeah but now I gotta really watch myself for these next two classes. A`s ONLY GOT IT. You all have to pressure me.

Lets see what else................

Curry and rice girl

2006-03-20T00:48:00.000-05:00

ummm so this is funny (for those of you web junx fanz)

CURRY AND RICE GIRL

you like my biodata?
B-I-O-D-A-T-A

i survived

2006-03-17T17:01:00.000-05:00

I know what you're thinking!!! where has she beeen? Well I had some fun girls nights out and made a few friends. Meet Dulece and caramel, toblerone swiss almond, chocolate rasberry, and white chocolate truffle and peanut butter.

Of course I only had about 3 days of fun good time out at all hours ... and it took me two days to recoop.... does that make me an old lady?

Chaos part deux

2006-03-04T10:14:00.000-05:00

Wells AGAIN Aly has to zip off to Mauritania and AGAIN we had to get a Visa... this time EVIL MOROCCO is the cuplrit. Needless to say he did not get the visa for Morocco. SOOOOOOOO he shall be spending ALOT of quality time reading.

Anyway that is his brother who is driving him to the airport this time.

My Grandmother is in town, My sister is on her way here, we have a party to go to that is about 45miles away and I have 5 papers that I have not even started on. Two of my papers are due wednesday and the others are due next monday.

So it was nice knowing everyone.

OOOOOOOOh did I mention i am OFFICIALLY a masters student now. Signed SEALED and delivered!
WOOOOOOOOO HOOOOO

The Date

2006-02-27T10:31:00.000-05:00

Ok so I went on a date with my mom yesterday.
It was REALLY nice!!! NICE I SAID!
We had Brunch at the Flagship ( I called a 2 hours ahead of time and made reservations so that meant we got to sit in the revolving side.... wonderful view of the Ali Center).
So after we stuffed ourselves silly we went to see MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION OH my goodness that was a funny movie ( well and sad and MAD and shocked). A must see.
And OF COURSE the people sitting next to us brought their BABY to the movie. I KID YOU NOT! I was so into the movie I didnt notice it the baby made noise or not. But at the end of the movie Madea is talking to the audience and she is like WHY DID YOU BRING THE baby... DONT BRING the baby to the movies. I was ROLLIN! But they left early so they missed the message!

On our way out mom and I played.....

WAIT FOR IT...................

DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION <---you gotta see that link

yes ... I repeat my mother and I were hopping around playing Dance Dance revolution. IT WAS SO FUN!
Dude my mom is sooooooo cool! Of course she started off the game thinking that what she stepped on the guy would do ... then she was like "WHY is he stepping there I didnt touch that" then she realized she had to do the moves he made.
IT WAS AWESOME

Fun good times with mom

horrible news!!

2006-02-19T01:18:00.000-05:00

Ok so I have some pretty bad news.... Apparently one of my eyes is bigger than the other. NO... I DONT THINK IT IS BECAUSE I AM SLEEPY! I think it is because I am deformed and my parents tried to cover it up from when I was young by making me wear glasses!

Speaking of ... I need new glasses. These are quite dated and I know people can tell. But they are so awesome! Aly has stepped on them twice and they are still in good shape!

I also need a new phone... I was thinking about getting the SLVR but I dont really like motorola. I like MY pHoNE! I love my calendar, my alarms, ALL OF MY contacts, my cool rings. I LOVE YOU SAMSUNG!!!! But I think we are growing apart. You have become to Highmaintance I need to move on. NO NO its me... I just cant afford you anymore... sure you dropped a call or 20 and people would say they cant hear me ...but I know it was their fault not ours!
PLease SAMSUNG you are making this much harder than it has to be. We need a clean break................ NO ....... WAIT ...........I changed my mind! I NEED YOU.
Sure I would be saving $50 a month if I switch ... but I wouldnt have YOU!

Driving in Louisville... a Visitor's guide

2006-02-15T23:11:00.000-05:00

1. You must learn to pronounce the city name. It is "Loo-vull"

2. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Louisville has its own version of traffic rules....the truck with the loudest exhaust goes next at a 4-way stop. The truck with the biggest tires goes after that. (Note: Blue haired ladies driving anything have right of wayanytime.)

3. To find anything in Louisville it is required that you know where the "Old Sears Building" is... which is the Alpha and Omega. The beginning and the end.

4. The morning rush hour is from 6:00 to 10:00. The evening rush hour isfrom 3:00 to 7:00. Friday's rush hour starts Thursday morning.

5. If you actually stop at a yellow light, you will be rear ended, cussedout and possibly shot.

6. You must know that "Jefferson Freeway", "Gene Snyder Freeway", "I-265", and "State Road 841" are the same road.

7. Construction is a permanent fixture in Louisville. The barrels are moved around in the middle of the night to make the next days driving a bit more exciting. (that is real ...not a joke!!!)

8. Watch very carefully for road hazards such as deer, skunks, dogs, barrels, cones, cows, horses, pot holes, cats, pieces of other cars, opossum, truck tires, raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, and crows or vultures feeding on any of these items. (totally ran over some kind of something in the middle of the road JUST TODAY! I think it was part of a truck or a car....maybe a pedestrian?)

9. If someone actually has their turn signal on, wave them to the shoulder immediately to let them know it has been "accidentally activated".

10. The minimum acceptable speed on the "Gene Snyder Freeway (see above) is 85 mph. Anything less is considered downright sissy. This is Kentucky's version of NASCAR. (Trust me these people have guns YOU MUST drive 85... even if you are about to exit)

11. Never honk at anyone. Ever. Seriously. (see comment above)

12. If you are in the left lane, and only going 70 in a 55 zone... you are considered a road hazard, and will be "flipped off" accordingly.

13. Ground clearance of at least 12 inches is recommended for city driving.

14. If it's 100 degrees, Thanksgiving must be next weekend.

15. If it's 10 degrees and sleeting/snowing, the Kentucky Derby Festival is going on.

2006-02-12T02:57:00.000-05:00

Guess who needed a ride from the airport

YOU MUST WATCH!

2006-02-07T01:22:00.000-05:00

SOUP DU JOUR

it was hilarous!

Aly's Back

2006-02-04T11:58:00.000-05:00

Mohamed Aly is back and had a lovely trip. Except he crossed 3 continents with two huge pots. Metal ones tho. he checked in EVERYTHING else just stuffing his brief case in his suitcase because the pots were so heavy.
Some friends of his cousin picked him up during his layover in Paris so he could sleep and eat, you know freshen up. So when he came back to the airport to board security stopped him and held him forever asking him why he left, where did he go, how did he know the guys (yes the guys he had never met before!) What he did while he was gone. If they gave him anything.
POOR thing! so he nearly missed his flight. They said the doors were closed and he could not board. He being the charmer he is did make the flight.
He arrives in Cincinnati and AGAIN security interrogates him! Then he finds out that his bags are sitting in Paris and will not be in the US for another 28 hours!
But calm, cool , collected Aly says ok gets his claim number and is ready to go home.
Crazy, short tempered Chantale would have been LIVID and told the airline they needed to send it here now and give me a clothing allowance until my bags arrive (even though I was going home)!

Well 10 minutes ago we got all of the forms ready to be mailed off for Aly to get his citizenship. I cannot take these problems anymore!

SO you married a......

2006-01-30T00:58:00.000-05:00

So the party went pretty well!
I mean I had fun... but then again I always have fun!
it was a "So you are married to a Mauritanian" party

really cool chicks!

anyway I found out about my inna gangsta...peep dis fool:

Your Inner Gangsta by crash_and_burn
What is yo name? Chantale
Yo gangsta name be- Milk Chocolate Nuggets
You ride around in a- 2003 Land Rover Defender
Yo gang-The Yakuza
Yo shoes be-White high-top Air Force 1s
Yo dubs be dis big, fool-2,716
How much money you got?-$4.85436806461025e+26
How gangsta are you, bitch?: 32%

British drea

2006-01-21T13:21:00.000-05:00

SO did i mention Drea will be comming home soon ... about 3 weeks!!!!
She will not be in Louisville a little later. Anyway I forgot to put up her picture from when she had R&R in London.

This is Drea and her Twin Reece... what they dont look the same! Ok so they are not twins but they are super great mega friends and they work together. He's a Marine too.

I have pictures of Drea's Fella but I am not gonna share. Dont worry he's cute and taller than her HAHAHAHAHAH.

LOVE YA DREA... I jest... but I love! LOVE I SAY

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ... you ask

2006-01-17T23:08:00.000-05:00

Well all kinds of adventures.

First off Aly is in Mauritania and we had some problems getting his Visa for France (he has a layover in France)

Ok so we had to drive up to Chicago

WE left at 2 am SUNDAY... got there about 6:30am Monday the office opens at 9am

So we chill and get some Coffee.
Finally they office opens we are the First ones there and they say we needed to have the date on of the documents from Aly’s Job. (this was after they mailed it to us rejecting it saying they needed MY passport … and I am not even going PLUS I wouldn’t NEED A VISA … I’m AMERICAN!)

trouble

2006-01-17T23:05:00.000-05:00

OK so Aly’s Calls his supervisor and gets him to Fax another copy THIS time with the date

So we go back to the office and sit and wait, watching tons of people trying to get student visas and random other foreign people attempting to get visas. Finally they say MISTER OOOOO LED … MISTER OOOO LED ( no that is not even close to his name but what ever) so I was like HEY they mean you!

Sooo He gets his VISA

2006-01-17T23:04:00.000-05:00

and JUST IN TIME because his flight is in 26 hours!

Tuesday

2006-01-17T23:03:00.000-05:00

So the next day was Eid WOO HOOO!
Went for Eid Salaah then came home attempted to pack all the CRAP people wanted to send PLUS all the things his family wanted ( he has 4 sisters!!! 4 brothers TONS OF COUSINS!) so he had like 15 dressy shirts for the guys and about 6 purses 4 pairs of shoes and 5 COUNT THEM F I V E DVD players OH man it was wild
So we had some lunch and OFF we went to Cincinnati airport.

and...

2006-01-17T23:01:00.000-05:00

AWAY HE WENT

Well the day after that was my birthday

2006-01-17T22:58:00.000-05:00

This was a cake they gave me at work ( YUMMY)

I had to get one of the flowers so I cut it in the middle

THANKS ANGIE!

SO I got some cool Prezzies

2006-01-17T22:31:00.000-05:00

So I got some cool prezzies

First I got an aquarium from ALY

I also got this really cool wallet/notepad thing that has my name on it (thanks MAR)

And THIS from my mom OHHHHHHHHHH MAN I LOVE IT!!!!!
So I have been a busy lady!

2006-01-10T11:56:00.000-05:00

EID MUBARAK

Hope everyone has a wonderful Eid!!!

I am off to take Aly to the Airport in Cincy.

Which peanuts character are you?

2006-01-02T01:05:00.000-05:00

SO I took the quiz and I am a :

Which Peanuts Character are you?

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

www.chanc.blogspot.com

Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2005-12-31T11:34:00.000-05:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!
No this is not the picture a certain someone and I took in times square a few years back ... but it will have to do!
OHHHH man that was great! We fasted that day... then had iftaar on the train with a Coke and an Orange (we split the orange so we would have the other one for later). Then when we got to Penn Station we grabbed a Slice of pizza and made our way to Times Square. So we are walking around looking for spots with Bathrooms and we are waay in the front. A police officer was putting up a baracade and he said to us ... are we in or are we out... we cant come back once it is closed ... so we said IN! Turns out we were RIGHT next to the spot Dick Clark was doing his broadcast. Talk about right place....right time! Of course we were there from about 4:30 or 5pm to 11:50 shivering and chatting with the neighbors and from 11:51 to 2am yelling and screaming and being all excited. From about 3am - 6am

Better Pizza, Better ingredients

2005-12-17T22:43:00.000-05:00

I had lunch with Papa John today.
Ok so he sat at the table next to us at our local Buckhead Mountain Grill

I hope that was his daughter he was with cause the girl was young lookin.

I didnt have my camera... I could have sold some scandalous pictures huh

DANG IT!

NO DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES!!!

2005-12-11T23:47:00.000-05:00

Ok so seen that I have some time on my hands I will share with you the cake I made for Aly's Birthday. ( I left my camera at my moms and kept forgetting to get it)

Before you laugh KNOW THIS ... I HAVE LUPUS AND IT IS HARD FOR ME TO USE MY HANDS.... that and I am in no way shape or form artistic!

anyway he wanted a MANGO cake ... do you think you can go to the bakery and say yes can I get a mango cake use green and yellow colors on it. NO YOU CANT sooo I got creative and IT WAS A HIT... everyone LOVED it ... even tho it was scary looking:

Seee Drea was there too:

Then we ate cake and planned our BLACK FRIDAY shopping route:

Try the How much of a Yankee are you test:

2005-12-04T13:30:00.000-05:00

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

I'm
53% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line
(gimmie a break ... I was born in Kentucky!)

Happy Birthday Aly

2005-11-24T17:51:00.000-05:00

Awe... how nice opening presents!!!!

Happy Birthday Aly

2005-11-24T17:48:00.000-05:00

Show us what you got for your birthday.........