Hey ! Just wanted to let you know I am back on line and in the chair again .Thank you so much for all the well wishes from everyone . I really appreciated them so much .
Even though I am just now starting to get out and about these last few,days , much has happened around the Condo recently . Many relatives came to visit , along with some friends and neighbors . It surprised me to tell you the truth . I knew that a couple of people will naturally come to visit , of course , but some of the others were a nice surprise to see . The visits were fun and so good to see different ones I hadn't seen in a while . Same thing for phone calls .
It made me realize how bad I am about these social visits . I have gotten out of the habit of visiting people these last few years . One excuse after another and I just stopped going , or calling . Now I feel so guilty that I have not keep up this nice social custom . I have made a note to myself to try to do better in the future .
While I was in Tripoli Medical Center and surrounded by all manner of student doctors , I would wonder to myself , which one of you bloggers that I know might be in a group I was watching ?How surprised you would be to know you were so close to me and not know it , lol .
I met all sorts of people in the hospital while I was there and made many a new friend too . Several nights we women wandered from ward to ward , visiting with each other . We discussed all topics we had in common and found this world to be very small indeed !I even ran into a friend who was caring for her mother in hospital , that I didn't know was there at the same time as I . Two floors up and one of Moe's Uncles was hospitalized as well , so many family members came to visit us both .
Actually the only really negative experience in the TMC I had were the bathrooms .So disgusting . The house keeping staff only came 2 times a day to clean them and no trash containers available in the bathrooms themselves . No soap either and many of the fixtures were non operating , no water , or no sanitary precautions taken for the patients .All the other moans an groans about the hospital and staff are normal ones you might find or have anywhere else in the world .
Our son and his wife stayed with us and cared for Moe and I these past 2 weeks . Haroun had his 2nd birthday party here .I am so grateful that they came and helped us out so much . I don't know what we would have done with out them .
Summer time is on it's way here in Tripoli . It is getting hotter day by day . The mosquito population is growing by leaps and bounds ! Have to close the Condo up way before sundown or else the darn things will fly off with us like the vampires they are , with us never to be seen again !
I hate the summertime here . It is just hot , humid , and buggy all summer long !!! Yucky !! Even with the air conditioner going full blast .Houston isn't much better either , but at least there you can wear " naked" clothes and no one has a heart attack ! Thank goodness I don't wear the Hajib , or I think I would just die from being smothered to death in all that fabric !
Showing posts with label summer time weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer time weather. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
37 Years & Hot Water
June 18, 1971 Moe and I married on a very hot sticky humid morning in Houston , Texas. My wedding flowers were magnolia and crepe myrtle . I was wearing a long simple white dress and Moe wore a brown suit .We had a simple civil ceremony in a wedding hall that was paid for by a stranger that was so kind to help two kids in love .We had several of our friends as wittinesses. Our best man played his harmonica off and on during the service . Later we had a religious ceremony also , but that is the day we consider our wedding day . That is the day we began our life adventure together .
It was stressful as all weddings tend to be , even the so called simple ones .We had our very first argument the night before .I was still upset that day as I walked down the isle toward Moe . I remember thinking all of the sudden , hey this is for real .We stood before the Justice of The Peace and took our vows . The enormity of what we were doing was almost over whelming . We made the pledge together before God/ Allah that from that day forward we would stay together for the rest of our lives , in sickness , health , richer , or poorer no matter WHAT !You can fake some things in life , tell your self and others lies , but when you SWEAR to GOD that you will definitely do something , well , that's a sacred promise.You don't want to be messing around with those .
We have had all the sickness , health , richer , or poorer tests as promised in the swearing to God service mentioned above , to the extremes sometimes .I don't think either one of us would have stuck some of the bumps in the road out if it hadn't been for those promises made to each other and God that day .
A Islamic wedding ceremony it isn't as serious to us westerners since you just recite the opening chapter of the Quran out loud in front of wittinesses . This is done separately , usually a woman has a man from her family to represent her during the ceremony , her father. She has been asked before hand does she want to marry the man and she says yes or no as she likes .It just doesn't have the same seriousness or enormousness feeling to it as a western religious / civil marriage ceremony , at least to me it doesn't . It is just as binding . It has had long negotiations agreed upon for a pre- nuptial contract between the two parties before hand so there won't be any problems if a divorce is wanted later on . It is hard to think of some thing as sacred if you start out with a divorce in mind first don't you think ?
When the service was over , all the congratulations were finished , we walked out of the hall to find that it had rained while we were marrying inside .It had just slowed down to a light sprinkling , the sun was peaking out of the clouds , and a huge rainbow stretched from one end of the sky to the other side .Every thing was fresh , shiny as only things can be after a wash down from cleansing rain . A bright new start to a new life together .
Yesterday and today are real summertime days . It is hot , hot , hot .It is soo hot that the water that comes out of the sanitary hose in the bathroom , the hose that we use to wash / rinse off after toilet use , is scalding !!! I had somehow forgotten that fact of life yesterday as I used the water hose the first time and the gushing hot water connected to some very sensitive areas of my anatomy .I am sitting on a soft pillow until I am forgiven by said parts , lol .
It is definitely beach weather today .The beach across the street from us looks like the city has rented it out for pay per-visit this year .That means loads of traffic on the main road in front of it. No parking , no side walks , no trash service, and no life guards either . Pedestrians that never think to look BOTH ways before they cross a very busy main road is a scary road to drive on .Most of the beaches on the road into town this year have been rented out in this same way . That's nice for people to have a beach available to them to swim and picnic on ,but not so nice for motorist that drive on the streets they are located . Have a safe summer this year and enjoy the beaches and pools.
It was stressful as all weddings tend to be , even the so called simple ones .We had our very first argument the night before .I was still upset that day as I walked down the isle toward Moe . I remember thinking all of the sudden , hey this is for real .We stood before the Justice of The Peace and took our vows . The enormity of what we were doing was almost over whelming . We made the pledge together before God/ Allah that from that day forward we would stay together for the rest of our lives , in sickness , health , richer , or poorer no matter WHAT !You can fake some things in life , tell your self and others lies , but when you SWEAR to GOD that you will definitely do something , well , that's a sacred promise.You don't want to be messing around with those .
We have had all the sickness , health , richer , or poorer tests as promised in the swearing to God service mentioned above , to the extremes sometimes .I don't think either one of us would have stuck some of the bumps in the road out if it hadn't been for those promises made to each other and God that day .
A Islamic wedding ceremony it isn't as serious to us westerners since you just recite the opening chapter of the Quran out loud in front of wittinesses . This is done separately , usually a woman has a man from her family to represent her during the ceremony , her father. She has been asked before hand does she want to marry the man and she says yes or no as she likes .It just doesn't have the same seriousness or enormousness feeling to it as a western religious / civil marriage ceremony , at least to me it doesn't . It is just as binding . It has had long negotiations agreed upon for a pre- nuptial contract between the two parties before hand so there won't be any problems if a divorce is wanted later on . It is hard to think of some thing as sacred if you start out with a divorce in mind first don't you think ?
When the service was over , all the congratulations were finished , we walked out of the hall to find that it had rained while we were marrying inside .It had just slowed down to a light sprinkling , the sun was peaking out of the clouds , and a huge rainbow stretched from one end of the sky to the other side .Every thing was fresh , shiny as only things can be after a wash down from cleansing rain . A bright new start to a new life together .
Yesterday and today are real summertime days . It is hot , hot , hot .It is soo hot that the water that comes out of the sanitary hose in the bathroom , the hose that we use to wash / rinse off after toilet use , is scalding !!! I had somehow forgotten that fact of life yesterday as I used the water hose the first time and the gushing hot water connected to some very sensitive areas of my anatomy .I am sitting on a soft pillow until I am forgiven by said parts , lol .
It is definitely beach weather today .The beach across the street from us looks like the city has rented it out for pay per-visit this year .That means loads of traffic on the main road in front of it. No parking , no side walks , no trash service, and no life guards either . Pedestrians that never think to look BOTH ways before they cross a very busy main road is a scary road to drive on .Most of the beaches on the road into town this year have been rented out in this same way . That's nice for people to have a beach available to them to swim and picnic on ,but not so nice for motorist that drive on the streets they are located . Have a safe summer this year and enjoy the beaches and pools.
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