Archive for July, 2006


1. I hid in the kitchen to eat a chocolate bar while the boys were occupied in the toy room.

2. I had no idea I could have so much patience with my children and then there are times when my lack of sabr scares me.

3. It scares my children, too.

4. I secretly hoped my son wouldn’t enjoy school so much so I could have an excuse to just take him out of school and teach him at home. Now he has a new teacher and he is miserable. I feel as though it’s my fault for wishing such a thing on him.

5. I didn’t cook today! Woohoo!

6. My vacuum cleaner has died (again) and I think it’s because I’m a slave driver.

7. I am purposely putting off toilet-training my 2 1/2 year old because I really don’t want to wash a urine or faeces soaked pair of undies again. Toilet training my first child was traumatic.

8. There are days when I wish I worked full-time so I wouldn’t have to deal with the daily emotional outbursts of the children and of this constant feeling of being NEEDED all the time. Do they have to NEED me all the time?

9. It’s nearly 11 pm and instead of sleeping I am blogging. I will complain tomorrow about how many times the little one woke up and how little sleep I managed to get, when all along it’s entirely my fault.

Well, well, well

The Emmy-winning series, which moves to Sundays in the fall, will feature 12 teams this time, up from the usual complement of 11. Racers include the show’s first-ever Muslim team — a pair of Browns-loving best friends from Cleveland — along with an Indian-American couple, an amputee (Sarah Reinertsen) who competes in triathlons and a father and his lesbian daughter.

This is going to be more exciting than my imaginary Muslim Amazing Race because…well because it isn’t imaginary!

Shall we take a vote on how the Muslim team will be Philiminated?:

a) One of them shares the name of a “suspected terrorist” with connections to Al-Qaeda. He will be taken into custody WITHOUT charge or legal aid and we will never hear from him again.

b) They miss the bus/plane/train/tuk-tuk/elephant ride because they have to pray Asr (just remember, it’s traveller’s salaah so it shouldn’t take too long!)- and if this happened, wouldn’t they STILL be winners in our eyes? :)

c) They keep getting delayed because they have to go through all those “random” security checks at airports. Random SCHMANDOM we say!

d) They’re guys.

Who are probably of Middle Eastern Appearance or at the very least, a tiny bit on the brown side. (Haven’t seen any pics)

They will be running.

Around popular tourist attractions.

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Need I say more?

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