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Friday’s Five: Egyptian Women and Biographies

I am still researching Egyptian women but here are five I found interesting and would like to read more about.

Saheir al-Qalamawi
Rania Elwani
Shajarat El Dor
Doria Shafiq
Hoda Shaarawi

The moral of the story is …

In a land far far away in a time long long ago, there was a country. That country was beautiful and rich. The soils were rich, anything sown in the land would grow and be fruitful. They had one character flaw; someone should always be blamed. So instead of [...]

A trip into designing the perfect ipod case

I am a procrastinating perfectionist. That is a weird thing to say right?
Anyways, Chikapappi (check out her blog, she’s very interesting but not blogging as regularly as she used to or as I would like her to) said she wanted an ipod case. To be honest so did I. I [...]

Introspection

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” Bertrand RusselI went shopping today. Some people enjoy shopping, I am neutral. I do [...]

The Budget Clutch

Old way of doing things

I use the old fashioned tried and tested envelope method to keep our monthly finances in order.  Only problem was that the envelopes get pretty scruffy pretty fast and they kept getting caught on the zipper and I had to fold the money so they fit in the small [...]

Friday's Five: More things I would like to learn

Chop onions like a pro
Japanese
Juggling
Learn Japanese
Ventriloquism

Seven it is

I was tagged way back in February by Neisy but I was too busy/lazy to do it.  Today I’ve been staring at the screen for the last hour and going through my drafts but still came up blank, so I thought why not, it just might break the block inside my head

I like sitting in [...]

Buyology

Next time I shop I am going to cover my nose and use ear plugs, not sure what to do about visual advertising though.

Give a Book Away

{Note this was in my drafts folder dated February 10th, but totally forgot about it}

I was tidying up the bookshelves and saw the copy of The Alchemist which I gave to my husband when we were engaged. I asked my friends what book would they give to their significant other.  I got some interesting answers [...]

Monkey Cake

Exactly 2 years today I woke up at 9 am feeling tired and in pain.  I got ready to go out to breakfast.  I was in Egypt and my husband was on vacation with me and was going to take me out to breakfast then drop me off at work.  Instead I went to the [...]