Morning Weirdness...

Okay so you know how sometimes in the morning you're REALLY sleepy and grouchy and you don't want to deal with any crap but somehow you come across it and you have to? Well this was one of those mornings. All I wanted was a coffee from Tim Horton's to wake up on my way in. But there's this guy that works at the Tim's in the hospital who's really weird and I try to avoid him as much as I can. But today I couldn't. Here's what the conversation went like:

Me: "Hi, can I get a medium coffee, double milk no sugar please"
Guy: "No sugar?!? Whyyyyyyyyyyy?"
Me: *looks at him strange*"Because I need to wake up?"
Guy: "I know people think I'm "special"...I know because they roll their eyes at me, just like you did"
Me: "Huh? I didn't roll my eyes at you!"
Guy: "Yes you did"
Me: "No I didn't!"
Guy: "Sure, sure. That's $1.20"
Me: *Gives $10.20*
Guy: "Ok thanks bye see you next time!" *doesn't give change*
Me: *waiting for change confused...and grouchy*
Guy: "Just kidding, here you go" *hands over change, but as I go to take the change he pulls his hand back 3 or 4 times, thinking its hilarious each time. Finally I get my change and leave*

Had it lasted any longer I might have either left my coffee and taken off or thrown the coffee back at him. In any case, I wonder now if I go for my morning coffee whether he's going to remember me as the one who thinks he's "special". That'll really make my mornings. Lesson of the day: don't mess with me early in the morning...I just might bite.

True or False?

We are who others perceive us to be.

Happy Birthday Sabina!!!

Happy 23rd birthday Sabina!!! Don't worry, you don't look a day over 22. (Well, thats probably because you're not just yet). But anyways, I hope you have an awesome and successful year Insha'Allah. The rest of the birthday wishes are in the card...hehehe. And don't worry I'll still sing you the paki version of happy birthday. "Baar baar din yeh aaye...". Anyways, happy birthday!!!!!

Mariam Noor Shaikh with her Choti Khala and cousin Maliha 

Baby Mariam and Irfan Mamu 

The Weekend...

This weekend was crazy to say the least. I still have "weekend fatigue" and I think I need a good 12 hour nap to get over it. Oh wait, I don't have 12 hours to sleep.

Saturday...
Saturday was Iram and Ahmar's engagement...congrats guys! It was awesome Masha'Allah and as predicted, Iram looked gorgeous. (don't worry Ahmar you looked nice too =P) I picked Iram up in the morning and we went to get her hair done and I got some good shopping done in the meantime! After dropping Iram off for her makeup appointment we went back to Sabina's and I really wanted to sleep but her and Khadeeja wouldn't let me! I even made myself so comfortable in her bed. I'd say we made pretty good time though, we were pretty much on time considering the rush it was to get ready! Overall though the engagement went well. Even Faisal's pink actually looked good as did Rehan's choice of purple =P I'm still disappointed no one wore green though. Actually, Sameer did. Thanks Sameer. Poor Ahmar seemed to get the loads of mithai more than Iram and it looked like the glasses of water just weren't enough! The funniest was the "live entertainment" singers who were just standing beside the stage singing as everything was going on haha. But everytime we tried to request a song from them they didn't have it! We wanted to dedicate a song to Iram, but don't worry Iram we'll sing it to you later...that'll be your "live entertainment" =P

Sunday...
Had to get up early morning because my cousin Asma and Habib bhai were here from Chicago and they were coming over for breakfast with their little guriya, Mariam Noor Shaikh. Masha'Allah she's a cutie and a half!!! She actually looks like a doll too. She's so tiny. My brother who's not much of a kids person was holding her for the longest time. I had to leave them early because I had to go to work but then in the evening I went to Asma's Bhabi's house. Her bhabi had invited over her friends for a party in honor of little Mariam, and wow. I've never seen so many kids in one place at a time. All of her friends had at least three kids EACH and so there were kids EVERYWHERE. So I kept getting the occasional "how many kids do you have?" and I'd be like "umm none, I'm not married". I guess they just assumed because everyone does I would too haha. It was a nice party but all the girls there kept talking about pregnancy and their kids and I felt like I had more in common with her bhabi's 6 year old daughter Maliha. She's cute too masha'Allah but man does she talk. She remember's me as "Asma chachi's cousin" but yesterday she's like "I don't remember your name" so Asma told her its "Shazia auntie" and Maliha was like "that's too hard to remember, I'm going to call you nutjob auntie!" So now I'm nutjob auntie. She remembers a lot though, she remembered what I wore at Eid time and my cat's name and everything! By the end of the evening I had hogged Mariam for myself and I had a bazillion kids around me telling me they want to play with the doll. And I'd have to be like "no beta, its not a doll, she's real" I still don't think they believed me. I'm so glad I got to see her, and Asma too. I'll post pictures from the weekend when I get home but so that's pretty much my weekend in a nutshell. From a nutjob...

Friday Afternoon...

So I started my summer job on Monday back at Sunnybrook. I'm glad to be back here though, its fun. I like the people I work with, the work itself is interesting, and best of all Iram works right above me. So if I'm bored I'll run up to her office or we'll go for a walk or do something...like eat cake. What I DON'T enjoy though is the 2-hour commute each way. But I guess in the end it's worth it. I'm falling asleep right now though, I'm so bored. There's usually 5 people in my office but for some reason today there's only two of us so its quiet. And its a Friday afternoon, so with the weekend coming up come on, you know you don't feel like doing anything!! AND its perfect ice cream weather outside. I guess I have a pretty exciting weekend coming up so I'm looking forward to that, but I'll have to get through today though. Well at least I have internet now, and me being the MSN junkie that I am can stay connected with all you people who I know missed me when I wasn't online =P . The first two days that I didn't have internet I was going CRAZY out of boredom. But I did get a lot of work done. I guess its a trade-off... productivity but you're bored. I don't know which one is worth it. Maybe I should take a nap. Too bad I sit beside the door. Sigh okay fine, back to work...