Chaos At The Condo On The Seaside

Things here at the Condo are beginning to return to normal after several weeks of definite chaos and confusion .  Yeah !!!!!!! That stuff gets old real quick !

A few short minutes ago we got the phone lines repaired and working . Yippee !!! They were cut when we had the electrician over rewiring the Condo's building this past week . That was after we had gone with out electricity for a week , hum , maybe longer??? It just seems like forever to me . No phone ( can you believe I am COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT ???? LOL ) and no lights except sporadically . That means no laundry , no baths ,or showers ,no computer ( that was the worst !!! ) , no emails , no posting on the blog !Talk about living in a vacuum .No news , no gossip, no music .. just no anything . Ok in the daylight hours, but a real bore at night . And cold too since there isn't any heat either . We did have some great rain though one day last week .Loved that !

I have a confession to confess to you .I have given in and joined Facebook. Yes , I know what I said about it and that just goes to show you what a hypocrite I am .LOL ! I have no idea what I am doing there or even WHY , to tell you the truth. I have invited people to be my friends that I only have a vague recollection of from way back in High School, or even as far back as Jr. High. OMG !Does that look too desperate , or what? I don't know about me anymore . I am a little worried about me now . LOL ! Oh well , I am living on the EDGE now baby, hahahaha ! I can't wait to see what I do next .I am surprising myself .I will keep you updated on that and how it works out .

My baby will be 30 years old tomorrow . I really don't know where all those years went .I remember the doctors shocked voice telling me I had a baby girl . He was so sure I was having a boy . I kept telling him I wasn't but ,he wouldn't listen to me .I mean , what did I know about anything ? He was the DOCTOR , after all .Then he was almost speechless when it turned out she had red hair on top of it all , lol . He was Arab and I was speaking to him in Arabic while delivering the baby . The nurse thought I was delirious and wanted him to sedate me .The doctor told her I was just fine, but speaking to him in Arabic LOL ! I remember telling the labor nurse that I didn't want to have this baby after all , that I had changed my mind , when I went into hard labor . She just laughed at me and said it was a little too late for that! LOL !

So , this is what I have been up to this last few weeks . Typical chaos in the Condo By The Seaside , what else would you expect ? LOL ! Here's hoping your last couple of weeks have been much better than mine , OTE .

Thank You & News

I just wanted to thank all of you for the Happy Birthday wishes . It was a exciting day . A good friend came over with balloons , chips , beer ( non alchoalic kind ) and candles . No we didn't set the place on fire , lol ! We did have a lot of fun though with those balloons .

Ramadan has finally settled down into it's retuine now . I am abale to get more than a meal cooked these days .Have done some reading of the Quran that I had wanted to do . A little visiting , and managed not to burn or otherwise , destroy a meal .That's big progress because for a while there it was pretty touch and go whether or not any of these things would happen .

My daughters called me on my birthday and I didn't even have the time to really talk to them and that made me feel so bad . I miss them and look forward to their calls when they get the chance to call .

I kicked Moe out of the house after he had started to grow roots into the floor in front of the TV the other night . I told him it was Ramadan and he HAD to go outside after dinner and talk to the " Jahmah " ( the group) and have some "Joe " ( weather or your state of mind ) because I was tired of having him under my feet 24/7 .

Just read where the IMF ( International Monetary Fund) organization is suggesting that Libya slow down it's public spending and decide which programs are the most important to support because of possible rising inflation from government investments outside Libya .For more on that story go to this link by Reuters .

More on the new ambassador .....A US Senate committee has decided to postpone the diplomat Gene Cert's appointment as the new ambassador to Libya because of US concerns that Libya still hasn't deposited the funds agreed upon for the victims of terrorist acts. Libya admitted to set up a account set aside for that propose . Read the rest of that story here .

One last article I found reports Gaddafi LOVES Condoleeza Rice after her visit last week to Tripoli . How the American the oil companies want this settlement deal to be finalized and finished with so " business as usual " can continue on a more secure footing than now; with a more completive edge against the European oil companies .

Hell Has Finally Frozen Over

USA Secretary Of State Condoleeeza Rice is visiting Libya today to meet with Gaddafi , so reports Reuters news service . So , I guess this means that Hell has finally frozen over ! I am wondering where she will stay . There isn't an "Official" embassy here for America YET . I have even heard a rumor that Sheila Might be on call for her just in CASE !

There are all sorts of rumors of a embassy opening with a actual ambassador to go in it ... soon . That's the what we have been told . It will be a full service embassy , that means women like me , married to a Libyan national will be able to get service too , not just the mainland US citizens that are working here for American companies .

This will be a exciting improvement over the past , after the way we have been treated , like a step child hidden in the attic . If you can picture happy dancing , then you see many of the American women married to Libyans happy to know maybe now we be counted as a citizen again by our own country ... even though we live here in Libya .

Ramadan hasn't been going as smoothly as I thought it would this year. Our daughter in law , along with our grandson was staying with us all last week . That was a adjustment in it’s self since Haroun is into every little thing now , lol . They went back to their home last night and the house is sooo quite now . LOL ! Amazing how much life a toddler can infuse into a place !! He said his first real word the other day and it was the Libyan word " hickey " , which "means like that ". Like if he was into something he wasn't supposed to be doing , his mother would say to him ... hickey ? I guess he hears that word a lot , lol .

Tomorrow I will be a year older . I am getting into this being older thing . I am finding out that being a older person has it's own advantages , such as just doing whatever I want now . I speak my mind more often and voice my opinion to the dismay of many , lol . When there are protest , I smile and say , " hey I am old now and can say that ". People let me sit down in their seats . Allow me to go first through the door , and are patient when I am moving slowly through the check out line . Ah yes , old isn't so bad after all .

http://www.topix.net/content/reuters/2008/09/rice-to-visit-libya-in-landmark-trip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice