Circle of Life

As I walked into Hadi Hospital...I couldn't hear the noises of the people..all I heard was the pounding of my heart...my younger sister was having a baby and I was nervous like hell! I still don't get the circle of life thing...I remember her being the kid that hung out with me when I had friends over as a teenager...I remember putting on some music in my room and making up dances with her infront of the mirror..step one..step two..I mean we did Michael Jackson's Thriller with our eyes closed! I remember my Mom giving me her car and telling me to practice learning how to drive around the neighborhood and taking my very petite younger sister with me..I remember being scared as hell and this little kid sitting next to me encouraging me to relax..I remember pushing on the brakes too hard and the little kid bumping her head on the dashboard and laughing and telling me "I'm ok..I'm ok"...Now she was having a baby! She was gonna be a Mommy...I remember running after her as I threatened to sit on top of her and tickle her till she couldn't breath..

Now...suddenly..after hours of waiting and praying...I'm standing in front of this tiny baby who is the daughter of my baby sister...I'm now the Aunt of this tiny creature and as they take pictures..I fast forward to her being a teenager and me telling her how I blogged about her when was born as she looks at her baby pictures...will that teenager know how I couldn't breath out of worry the day she was born?!! I now have a whole new perspective when I look at my own baby pictures...life is truly strange...

The circle of Life...Truly amazing....

Female Bloggers Bragging

One of the greatest moments I recall is when we have our Female Blogger Meetings and have a brag session. If you're not familiar with the game, it's pretty simple. Basically we'd be sitting in the restaurant and each one of us tells the group a brag that happened to them lately that made them feel good. It could vary from "I recently got promoted" to "I past my exams" or "this guy I really like gave me the best compliment" or "I just got engaged". The point of the game is not only to share what's been happening in our lives but more importantly to celebrate with each other our achievements or good fortune. Thankfully, no envy exists in the Female Blogger Team (mashallah), on the contrary it's a wonderful support team that I miss when we're all too busy to get together and in need of a "picker upper".

Recently, I've been so busy with my new job that getting together with the ladies has been so hard to accomplish and I really miss it and them! Somehow, the group no longer represents just bloggers getting together, it's more like us ladies connecting together and celebrating life and I love it.

Ladies, wherever you are, here's my brag session for this week. I was recently asked by a producer to consider acting in one of the future Ramadhan episodes! HAAAAAA! Would you believe?!!!! He even asked me if my dimple was real!!! How's that for a brag! By the way, didn't realize there's good money in that...varies from KD 50 an episode to KD 3000 (only Abdulhussein Abdulritha gets paid that high though). So let's see 30 episodes X KD 50 = KD 1500...wow...for learning a few lines....not bad! Don't you think?

Anyway, that's my brag for this week, you're turn....