Packing sucks!

O man there is soooo much work to do! When we bought our house almost four years ago I said to hubby that I would not move again for the next twenty years! Then almost two years later I packed everything, put our furniture in the basement and gave away hundreds of things and came to live (temporarily) in Saskatoon. Now almost two years later I am doing the same thing! Sheesh! Call me bint ba6oo6!

I have to take five bags with us to Toronto. Two bags for our winter clothes; two other bags will have our summer clothes and shoes. The last one is for all the toiletries and other stuff. When I am in Ontario I will be shopping some more, so I will need one more bag for all those extras that I cannot live without and do not want to risk not finding my brands in AmmanJ

I am clearing out my apartment so everything here is hubby’s. When he leaves Saskatoon who knows when he will have to give away everything we own here. Except for the camcorder, and the hundreds of books we have. Those will have to be shipped home.
I tried not to buy too many books here bas it is hard not to! O well!

I think everything has been de cluttered here. I just hope that everything I want to take with me will fit in the bags I still have to pack! I threw so many things away, and now I have 10 garbage bags and 3 huge boxes of things that will be picked up tomorrow by the Canadian diabetes association! Hubby is so going to hate me while going all those trips downstairs to leave the bags to be picked up! An early morning exercise!

I will officially start packing tomorrow! I really hate packing! I will have to do it all over again when we come back to Canada from Amman! Lovely! After that I will not move again! Never ever ever! Hubby can go wherever he wants to go, I am so sick of moving, packing and giving my stuff and the kids stuff away. If I ever gain weight again (god forbid) I will not have any fat clothes, you know how horrible it is shopping for fat clothes?! And if I lose more than 10lb I do not have any ultra skinny clothes left! Hmm although it is really no problem shopping for skinny clothes, it is actually fun! And I doubt I will lose more than 10lb. Ok yeh I do not want to lose more than 10lb, ewww! We do not want a too skinny Sam, now do we? So never mind! Besides all my too skinny clothes are from college days, I will not be wearing them now even if I still had them. I really need to end this paragraph eh?!

Zozo is having a hard letting go of his things! Today he cried his eyes out because I told him we have to throw the markers away! Most of them are dry anyways because the kids keep on forgetting to put the caps back on! But still! I will leave them in a box here and hubby can throw them out when we are gone!
Ok so that was my vent for today, back to preparing to pack! Two weeks from now I will be packing our stuff again to go to Amman. Did I mention that I hate packing?! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

More rambling from me

OMG 24 more days until we are in Amman!!! Should I start panicking yet??
Ok let’s talk about something else…hmmmmmmmm



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I finally bought my new laptop! Yippy! I went for an HP AMD Tarion, 1GB(will expand it to 2GB later), 160GB, 1.8GHz. Ok so I have no idea what they mean but hey it is a cute looking laptop. But it only has a French manual. I know some French, but not enough to read a whole freakin manual! Grrrrrr…I have put all my files, and favourites, downloaded messenger , it all ready to go.

This weekend I finally got my hair highlighted. Hubby is not too crazy about; he likes my hair dark. Bas I am sooooooo sick of the same colour, it is time for a change! I like it, and zozo likes it.

We went to pike lake yesterday and guess what? I still know how to swim! I even went down the water slide!!! I have never been down a waterslide! At the water parks I just stay in the pool because of my contacts! But now thanks to lazik I was able to go down the slide and not worry about losing my contacts when I hit the water. We went down four times. It was fuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnn!

I so have got to start packing! Have our winter clothes all packed. I am praying that our clothes and stuff we want to take with us will fit in the 3bags I still have to pack!

I cannot wait to see my family in Ontario. I have not seen them since Christmas time! That is 7months ago! The longest I have ever gone without seeing them! We will spend two weeks in Hamilton at my parents’ house. I have so many friends I have to go visit all over the GTA area, get our yearly physical exams (YIKES), shop for a dress for the wedding and few other things, check up on my cute house, and have a birthday party for my son! These two weeks will go by so fast! I may not even have time to blog!! Ah who am I kidding, I will find time!

Ok so that is enough rambling for today. It is a yucky rainy day and I have people coming to clean my carpet. Last time hubby did such a bad job, he is not allowed to shampoo the carpet anymore!

why living with a smoker sucks

Forget about the second hand smoke. The stinky clothes that I have to wash everyday. The constant worries you have about your loved one’s health. The added expense of cigarettes; they cost $12/pack now and hubby promises that he will not stop smoking even if it reaches $1000/pack. The burns on my carpet and car seat (I am so killing hubby for that), and the disgusting ashtray sitting on my balcony.

No none of the above are as annoying as hearing ween elwla3a? (where is the lighter?) at least 5x a day, more on weekends. I mean seriously hubby is the one who lit the cigarette with it, why should I know where he put in when he wants to smoke again. Sometimes I get asked this question in the morning while I am in bed AFTER he has smoked his first morning cigarette. He has at least 7 lighters at home, few in the car some at work and still he manages to lose them all! I am going to get him one of those latches, like the one used for babies on the pacifier, to put around his neck with a lighter stuck to it.

Random Rambles

Cleaning up is so overrated. You tidy up and few minutes later the mess is back, what the heck is the point?

I am so sick of doing the laundry! I have to do one load each day at least. Uggh! My laundry room is a mess! I am not going to do any laundry today! I need a break man!

I finally got my eyebrows waxed yesterday. I have been doing it myself and I screwed up bad. I started growing them and it was scary!! There has got to be a place in Amman that waxes eyebrows! I will not let anyone with a string near me! I do not get it. With waxing it is a couple of few ouches and you are done. With the string it s ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch a million times! And then the ingrown hairs! OMG those just look nasty! I never got those with waxing. The stupid thing is that when those girls are killing you with the string, they have the nerve to diss waxing! Never again!

My son is scared of a stupid fly!! He wants me to go after and kill it! I am not in a fly killing mood right now! This past weekend I came across those weird bugs. They look like an overgrown fly and they sting. Ouch! Those were nasty! They made regular flies look cute and harmless!

My carpet needs shampooing so bad! Someone was supposed to be coming but oops it collides with Friday prayer times so I had to cancel because hubby has became all religious all of the sudden and does not miss Friday prayers anymore. So I have to live with yucky carpet for a while longer! I am so getting hardwood the minute I move back to my house, no more carpet for me except in the bedrooms.

I have seven garbage bags and two boxes full of stuff to give away to the diabetes foundation. I need them to come and pick them up soon. I have packed our winter clothes so far. I have two bags full, and I will pack two bags with our summer clothes and one bag for our other stuff. I can take six bags all together. To Toronto I can only take five because I need to take the car seats as well. I will be doing a lot of shopping in Toronto so I will need one more bag. Six bags all together, we will look ridiculous at the airport! But he my friend went to Lebanon for few months last summer and for the four of them they had eight bags!

I will go and get my hair highlighted this weekend. I have not highlighted my hair for few years now, wish me luck. Hubby and the kids will go swimming while I am doing that, so I do not have to worry about coming home to a super messy house.

I am so going to miss while driving in Amman!

I still have not lost any weight! I have not been able to make it to the gym as much as I would have liked! Because of hubby and the car! I am never ever ever, ever not going to have my own car again, NEVER! If hubby ever whines about the extra $500 we pay for a second car I will remind him of these two past years in Saskatoon! It has been horrible! And I will not drive a van! Khalas I am so putting my foot down about this!

Ok I enough rambling for now! I have so much to do today!

Question to Ammani's

Can you beleive it? I will be an Ammani person soon!

Like I have mentioned before we have rented an apartment in Amman. It is close to the gardens and I want to say Talal El3ali?? Is that right, ok I am not sure but is close to Amman mall. The rent is 500Jd/mo. I have no idea what the rental prices are in Amman, since I have never lived there. Heck I have no idea how much they are in Lebanon in either. Everytime my husband talks to one of his Jordanian friends in Canada and Germany they tell him it is too much. What? are you renting a castle? they ask!
So these guys do not live in Amman right now, so how would they know what is a good rental and what is not. So do people living in Amman right now think paying 500JD a mo for a three bedroom spacious apartment an outrageous amount?

Waskesiu Lake

We did not spend Canada day in Saskatoon this year either, I guess I will never know what they do here for Canada day!

On Sunday morning we got up at 9am and started looking at what we would like to do for th day online. We read on the Saskatoon website that there is a thing going on at one of the parks and that you can take the bus there, and of course zozo really, really wanted to go on the bus. KIDS it is so hard to figure them out! It was a very hot day, so after a little while we decided to head to a place called Waskesiu Lake in Prince Albert national park; I am so glad I do not live there, because I cannot pronounce that! It is a 3hrs drive from here. By 11:30 am I had the house tidied up, the kids dressed, a hotel room reserved, all dressed, packed and ready to go. We got the only room left in the whole town. We bought some snacks for our car drive and for the beach at the grocery store while hubby got us breakfast from Tim Horton’s. I asked him to get me ice coffee! It sucked. But I had to pretend to like it, because hubby told me it would suck but I did not believe him!

We got there at about 3am, and were very disappointed with our hotel room! It was horrible! NO CABLE! And the window covering was a horizontal blind! It was clean though, so I guess it is what matters. I guess they have nicer rooms, but since we got the last room we had to settle for very basic. They did have a nice continantal breakfast, and a nice patio to have breakfast on. and the staff were mostly friendly, so it was not all bad.

The town was cute, and the beach was great, there were lot of people! I didn’t get to actually swim. The water was freezing cold! Well it was ok when you got used to it. But still we only stayed in knee deep. It was fun looking for fish, but they are so fast we could not get any in our net. We built few sand castles and mountains then squished them. Passed a football around, boy do I need to practice! After dinner we went back to the beach and played at the playground for a while. Watched the fire works and went to bed.

On Monday morning, we checked out of the hotel, went to the beach and stayed for few hours. We met few people, the kids played and we chitchatted with the adults. We played more on the sand and in the water, still didn’t swim because the water was even colder than the previous day, but it was fun still. Then at 2:00 we had lunch and came back home. We are all tanned now, finally! It is already July and we were all pale!

It was a fun weekend, I am so glad we didn’t stay home. We were bored out of our minds on Saturday morning. This is why on Sunday we decided to get away. We are very lazy when we stay at home, it takes us forever actually get out, but at the hotel we were all dressed and ready to go out by 9:30.
We did not get to eat a red and white cake though….and I really wanted to order a cheesecake after dinner. It looked sooo good! But hubby guilted me out of it! Annoying Rami, I still want that cheesecake! If I do good and make it to gym everyday from today until Saturday I am so having a cheesecake on Sunday! I will not share with Rami; he cannot even have one stinking bite!

Happy Canada Day...

yippy,awesome fire works, maybe a red and white cake??...yummy!!

My son woke up asking what do we get Canada for her birthday? hmmm I guess being a good citizen?? O well, lets see what they have planned for canada day in saskatoon. This is the first time I am here on July 01:)