Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water,

Jack fell down and broke his crown,

But Jill didn’t come tumbling after.

Jill loved Jack

But didn’t want to feel the whack

of tumbling after.

[Something written out of boredom and reading a previous post, hope you enjoy it]

So I started off the year nicely, the day after its beginning (a.k.a Jan 2 2009) was spent mostly outside with my sisters and mom, going from Muhallab to Al Koot, shopping here and there and enjoying my time really.  It was fun, in the end of it I had a few sweets from Paul’s, the Strawberry Charlotte Cake was extremely delicious! So delicious I took a piece to go for my grandma so we would surprise her and sing Happy Birthday :)

The day after that (Jan 3) was our family gathering day and I was at Grandma’s house hanging out, I got the urge to play with the Nintendo Wii, therefore I set it up again and proceeded to play Tennis (for the first time I played a game without missing hitting the ball) it was extremely fun! My sisters Fee and Dee got a chance to use it hehe… They got excited about it as well.  Life is crazy like that :)

Today, the first day of work in the new year, was pretty uneventful, the past few days I’ve become over sensitive at work, where a few words here and there can move me, either to cry (which is something I am hating right now) or to get angry and pissed off.  But today I learned to lower that and deal with things.

Let’s hope this year would be great on my personal life as well as my work life.  I need good things to happen, I’ll try my hardest for them to happen!

And how was your first day of the year?

Mine was pretty wonderful, I spent it outside with family and friends (well not mine but they are close family friends).  As we all established a while back my two sisters Fee and Your Battlefield are back in Kuwait for Winter break and well they will leave soon, anyways so since today I’m not working I got a chance to spend most of it with them.  YBF wanted to meet up with a high school friend, so I told the rest of the siblings to invite a friend and we’d go to Chocolate Bar and enjoy the first day of the year.

So, Sister #4 invited her friend who happened to be the sister of Fee’s friend, and also the sister of Lulu’s friend (my younger sister).  So that entire family came along and Your Battlefield’s friend too, however they wanted to eat at Chilis while we wanted Chocolate!!! Mother decided last minute to join us, and so did father, however due to them not wanting some chocolate, I urged them to go have their anniversary dinner that they never had in Chilis.

So surrounded by laughter, good food, great weather, the year began beautifully for me.  It was also my Grandmother’s birthday and therefore at the stroke of midnight I had called her to wish her a Happy Birthday and as usual our chats lasted a short while.  I’m liking the beginning of the year already.  I hope it maintains a nice steady cheerful attitude and does not screw me up :)

Image Source: Moey’s Flickr Photostream

The time has come to say good bye to a year that has been one of the worst for me.  It started off badly, and well it’s ending off neutrally but in the end it was still a bad year.  I never wish to see any of what happened to me happen to someone else but life has to throw us some curve-balls to keep us on our feet.

In 2008 I experienced:

1. A nasty start to the year, where I was in a siatuation I did not want to find myself in.
2. I traveled to the States twice, once on my vacation time with my sisters and the other was when I accompanied Dad.
3. I was dealt with the shock of my life, when I discovered that Dad had a heart attack, it was good thinking getting him to the hospital as he never likes to go there.
4. I was in a rocky relationship with my job where I am doing the jobs of everyone else at the same time of maintaining the job I am initially in.
5. The ups and downs of everything else, losing touch with almost all of my friends, I think this year I was more of a loner than with others.
6. I waited in line for an Apple Product (iPhone 3G)
7. I was scammed on eBay.
8. I purchased the Macbook Air in the beginning of the year, and later on passed it on to Daddy and purchased the Macbook at the end of the year.
9. I started to look at things differently with different eyes and hoped to get positive results.
10. I wished for the arrival of 2009 with happy beginnings and memories to erase those of 2008.

I found out that throughout 2008, most of my real friends started showing their real skins, as in they were the ultimate friends whereas, those whom I thought were my real friends were in fact nothing to me at all just close relationships.  I don’t define friendship as being with one a thousand hours of a particular day but instead as a friend who stands there for you when you are at your lowest, or in the most urgent moment of need.  I thank those friends with all my heart, and wish they stay my friends until we age one day and start playing Bingo together.

I also found out that only when you lose a thing do you realize how precious it was to begin with and you fight your hardest to gain it back.

In short, 2008 was a crappy year, on everyone and not only myself.  However, it was one where I learned most of my lessons from.  Therefore, Goodbye Crappy 2008 and Hello Beautiful 2009 (please remain that way, please let my most inner wishes come true, it’s about time for them please!)

Happy New Year Everyone :)

Actually Merry Christmas and all that jazz hehe :)

My lovely sisters (yeah right) are back right now hehe and I’ve been pushed and pulled all over the place whether it’s from work or from wanting to spend time with them, I need some sleeping time which I can’t find.

Yesterday we had a Holiday’s dinner (not that we celebrate any of them religiously or anything) at my Aunt’s house and it was just a way of getting together and feeding ourselves before she leaves on a short vacation with her family.  My Uncle-in-law made the greatest turkey and my aunt made the most awesome vegetables, pasta, gravy, mashed potatoes, and so so so much more.  I’m sad that I didn’t take a picture of it all before we ate but then again I was starving myself all day for it.

It’s a good thing I got to take home some left-overs yaay!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, and Happy Holidays

P.S. 2008 is almost OUT the door, YAAY! Let’s hope things flow smoothly these last few days.