Monsieur Le Owl

I finished this owl (even though it barely looks like one :P) two days ago, i've been trying to finish a  book, but i didn't. :)

Yesterday we had the first family feast at our house, instead of my grandparents', it was great, i still can't get over the food. I didn't make anything but the salad, and worked as the person who's pouring drinks for people the whole time.

An Awesome, lovely, productive day...

There might be a hint of sarcasm in there... no... there is sarcasm in there, today's event didn't have a whiff of calmness, and not in a good way, just pure misery and, filling every second, loud, LOUD voices. Around me were a series of problems that could fill a whole lame Turkish soap opera, yelling everywhere, not exactly in the same house.
It started yesterday, when our neighbors downstairs on the first floor started yelling at each other, a couple. and then, i think an hour before ftoor, the people next to us, still in the same building husband and wife, started fighting, she left and then he left, their poor son got his own load of pain trying to fix things.
And today, in the building BEHIND our building, women were shouting at each other, they didn't leave anything or anything out of it, not even god --istaghfara allah -- we can hear them from our kitchen balcony, so another soap opera, mostly guys would love that. Maybe.

And now to crochet, i made a little purple and gray pouch, it can't fit anything bigger than a handbook i think, but it's practical. It's the same amigurumi method, but instead of 6 sc in the first round in the ring, i put 10 sc.

Ramadan, Ramadan, Ramadan...

Haven't been here for a while, a week of Ramadan has passed, and it hasn't been that hard, last year the weather was hotter so it was harder, but this year is pretty good. and the BEST part is the food looks good every day!

Cinnamon Rolls made by my brother. i know, weird.

So, the camera's battery is empty, and the charger is somewhere else, not lost, just "misplaced", and i can't take decent pictures of my finished crochet stuff, I've made two amigurumi animals, a cat and a teddy bear, and i think that's a big achievement for a newbie. I've also finished a garland for my room, pink and green, and i am working on a set of cup coasters, maybe a gift for somebody. 

Have you been reading anything lately? Yeah, Girls of Riyadh , and i am about to finish it!!!

Unfinished Garland

First amigurumi finished projects 

One thing i want more than anything right now is to go somewhere other than where i am right now. i want to go to Italy, or France, or New York, you know the normal far away dream-lands for anyone who's never been on more than a 4-hour flight. 

Crochet Love ♥

This was a craft suggested in my school, to sort of finish off the year, i got addicted. I made this because i was bored, i really had no project in mind at all. I started off with motifs and braids, and really enjoyed it.
I learned nothing about crochet in school, i learned from a book called 150 Crochet Trims, it's REALLY awesome, it has practically everything for a beginner, there's a refresher course for the basic stitches and skills.

For the month that's left from summer, i'm taking on all kinds of crafts that i can finish, the things that i can actually get something useful out of, so i discovered Craft Gawker, i don't know if it's a website that has an iPhone app, or an iPhone app that has a website, but it's REALLY awesome. It sort of gets you to DIY tutorials for many different awesome things. I'll post anything i achieve here, i hope i do.

So far I've only made covers for phones and iPods and books, and small teeny-tiny bags, some gifts for my mom and friends and bookmarks, believe it or not, that was the thing i was excited about most, bookmarks, i love this whole crafts thing.

Back to Writing

I am re-writing the story I wrote for the first competition almost five months ago. The story was really bad, it has some sort of mystery, but it was too long, I mean it was 22 pages. I re-read it, and found in almost every paragraph something wrong and sort of out of place. Hope the new one turns out well.

This. Is. Amazing.

So i just saw this teaser for Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Trailer, and the one thing i pretty much freaked out about was the Dubai scenes, i am simply just doing to watch the movie because of the Burj, and everything else.

16!

I have a prediction that this will be the only thing interesting happening today, (well, that, and the fact that i'm going on a movie marathon tonight, alone), so i'm going write this.
I TURNED SIXTEEN TODAY!!! 
I am really not sure if that counts for something, but happy birthday to me.

I miss my journal

The last time i went to UAE was in February i think. when i was there i did A LOT of shopping, and not just for clothes, i got this journal that shows on the outside Barquq, Gates of Cairo. I started writing in it when i was there, i kept at it until i got to Jordan, there was just nothing that interesting going on because i got back to school, and really the only thing that was interesting at that time was either a quiz or a graded quiz, and i hated writing about those things, because it just brings out the worst memories of studying, and mostly the things the made me go crazy. i began writing again from time to time, every two weeks, or whenever something worth remembering happened. up until now, i haven;t written in it since June 3rd, which is very sad if you ask me. So hopefully, i'll get back to writing again, i have nothing else to do but eat, dance, and watch movies.

Kebabs in Jerash!

So yesterday was almost packed, we went to a restaurant in Jerash for lunch, it's called "Al-Wadi Al-Akhdar" (The Green Valley). It serves one of the tastiest grilled meals ever in Jordan, there are other places that maybe are a little better, but this one felt just most familiar. My grandfather usually takes us there every summer at least twice, and we absolutely love it.

Jerash, click on picture to know more!

I took some pictures with my iPod, the quality is not too good, but i tried to fix it,but i couldn't get any of the ruins, because the car was moving a bit too fast.

And that was pretty much it, when i got home i watched Salt, it was good, involved a lot of hitting, punching and running, but it was good, then late at night i watched something a  bit less extreme, Ramona and Beezus. even though i don't have a sister, i love the movie, i cried my eyes out yesterday (it's funny because i do that in every movie when someone is about to leave someone else, or when someone or something dies), mostly i cried because the cat died, i cry on animals in movies more that i do on people.

DONE with 10th grade!

Yes, my summer started last Sunday. I feel VERY relieved now that I’m done with 10th grade, that was pretty much the highlight of my whole week. How was my year? well, 10th grade was pretty much the worst year of my life, and it's not only because I was studying my ass off, it didn't have as many complications as any other year, but it did REALLY suck.

One of the reasons was because in 10th grade you feel like a lot of people just leave, it was the most time I missed some my friends, a lot of people transferred  to other school, which is really saying something, because my school is not that bad, there were new kids, my best friend was only with me for a semester and not even in the same classroom. but in advance I did make new friends, I got closer to people I never thought I’d be friends with, I found out who was real and who was just pure fake, and for the first time in my life I felt like I was part of a group.

I had a few not-too-bad experiences, I applied for 2 English writing competitions, the first one was really bad, I just went to school like it was any other day, and next thing you know is that my teacher’s telling me I have to go now for the competition. The “short story” wasn’t really short at all, my story was 22 pages long, my teacher hadn’t even finished editing it, there were more mistakes in it with coordination that grammar, so I went. But the day was fun, I spent the day with my friends, I didn’t take any classes at all that day, and I got to miss 2 quizzes (which apparently I was about to retake in two days after).

The second competition wasn’t as bad, it was actually really good. The story was 4 pages long, and that time the teacher did edit the thing and helped make it better, and in the end me and another girl who applied with a poem got to go to an honoring party or something like that, they chose the two of us which was very awesome, because the very person I hated applied for the competition but she didn’t go with us.

Other than competitions, nothing was really at all that interesting, I was supposed to be in an art gallery at school (for my crochet work, yeah it looks like it’s something only grandmas would do, but it was fun), but the teacher said I had to show up and work in front of the students. I didn’t have the time to go, we were preparing for the finals, and I really had a lot on my plate at the time.

Something else on the “paint things new and bright” list of my year was that I got a new iPod touch 4^th generation, which is awesome if you ask me, I just love it, and I’m getting obsessed with Apple more and more now.

Maybe 10^th grade wasn’t as bad as I said it was, the year wasn’t entirely good, but I survived, the crappy things were related to studying and a very, very, very bitchy friend, who is not a friend anymore. Ever thought about someone that just makes wanna beat the crap of something, or THEM?! When you hear their voice you just want to slit their throat open?! Well, in that whole year, only one person (shockingly!) got that honor.